A W e e k ly N ew sp a p e r a n d R e v ie w .
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADD1MUS UT IN INCOEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r ie f o j H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870.
V ol. 90. No. 2996.
L ondon, O c t o b e r 9, 1897.
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[R e g is t e r ed a t t h e G e n e r a l P o s t O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.
C hronicle of t h e Week !
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The Ameer and the Frontier Tribes — The Greek Ministry— Political Changes in Spain—The Political Situation in Germany— A French View o f Egypt— The T)eath of a Great Prohibitionist The Fight With Rinderpest— The Great Strike : No Prospect of Peace—The Sugar Commisrsion—The Merits of the House of Commons — The Government •and Education— Mr. Asquith a “. Kilmarnock— Is a Bicycle Personal Luggage? — Torture of a Traveller in Tibet— An Expensive Colony 557 L e a d e r s : Mr. Diggle's Achievement . . 561
A New Arctic Trade Route . . 562 The Second City in the World . . 563 The Attitude of Catholics Towards
Pentateuch Criticism . . . . 564
CONTENTS.
L eaders (Continued) :
T h e Convulsionnaires o f
M e d a r d .........................
N otes
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5«5 566
R e v ie w s :
Psychology o f the Crowd . . 568 The Rise of the Empire . . .. 563 The Narrative of Captain Coignet 569
A Fairy Tale The Mutable Many ^ _ ... The Priest on the Mission Bijou A Child’s Funeral in Flanders How to get to Paris for the 17th 571 C orrespondence :
57057°57157*571
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . ... -. — 573 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :
The Ornaments Rubric . . . . 575 Bimetallism and Just Money . . 575
L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor (Con
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tinued : A Lancashire Cardinal The Latin o f Pope Pelagius Canterbury and the Pallium A Remarkable Omission Catholic Lads Who Have Left
S c h o o l ....................... St. Gordon . . Attempt to Murder a French Priest 577 Failure of the Potato Crop in Ii
576 576 576 576 577 577
land .. How I Went to the “ Vendange ” Archbishop Langevin and the
Ojibways Missionary Work in Alaska The Irish Vote and the Barnsley
Election The Registrar-General and Irish
Morality N ew s from th e D io ceses :
Westminster . . S o u th w a rk .........................
577 577 578 578 579 579
580 581
N ew s F rom th e D io ceses (Con
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tinued-! Birmingham.. .. . . . . 582 Nottingham.......................................582 Salford ....................................... 582 N e w p o r t ....................................... 583 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 384 Books of the Week . . . . . . 583 O b it u a r y ............................ s 86 M a rr ia g e s . . „ . . . . 586 Social a n d Po l it ic a i ......................... 586
S GPP CEM ENT. Cardinal Perraud’s Sermon at the
Oratory . . ......................... 58, N ew« from t h e Schools:
An Educational Retrospect . . 592 Do Cutlasses Corrupt as Well as
A rt? .................................... 594 The Bolton School Board . . 5*4 St. Cuthbert’s College, Ushaw . . 595 Prize Day at Oscott College . . 580 Notre Dame Training College,
G la s g o w .................................... 580 Hammersmith Training College 580
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
THE FRONTIER TRIBES. A
THE AMEER AND
SU FFICIEN TLY extraordinary document is published by The Times in the form of a letter to the deputations from the Afridi
tribesmen who were recently turned back from Jellalabad. The Ameer begins by saying that he has considered the petitions forwarded to him asking for help and tendering allegiance to him as King of Islam. The Ameer points out that he has been eighteen years on the throne of Cabul, during which time the Afridis have never approached him with the complaints which they now make against the British Government. Again, when the Durand Mission went to Cabul and the frontier was laid down nothing was said, though all the tribesmen knew what was happening. The Ameer continues : “ At that time you all remained silent, and silence indicates consent. I do not know on what account a breach has now taken place between you and the English. Now, after you have fought with them and displeased them, you inform me. I have entered into an alliance with the British Government in regard to matters of State, and up to the present no breach of the agreement has occurred on the side of the British, notwithstanding that they are Christians and we are Mohammedans and followers of the religion of the Prophet. How, then, can we commit a breach of the agreement?” His Highness quotes a verse of the Koran imposing the sacred duty of fulfilling a promise upon all Mohammedans, and then adds : “ On the Day of Resurrection the first question will be about the observance of agreements. Infidels and Mohammedans will be distinguished by this test. You will see that the matter of the agreement is of great importance. I will never without cause or occasion swerve from an agreement, because the English up to the present have in no way departed from the line of the boundary laid down on the map which they have agreed upon with me.” Finally, he explains to them that what they have done with their own hands they must carry out with their own necks. The Ameer has also published a long declaration issued by way of warning to all Afghans. He taunts the tribesmen with having taken subsidies from the British Government and then gone back upon their salt. In the time of their pros-
perity they had frequently repudiated their allegiance to him and set themselves up even as kings. He complains that it is absurd to talk of the present rising as a jehad, seeing that the first condition of a je had is the co-operation of the King of Islam. He finally declares that the present disturbances have nothing to do with relig'OD, and can receive no countenance from him. They are not, therefore, to say in their hearts and their villages that he has sold them to the British Government. He has kept his promises and they have broken theirs. Meanwhile Sir William Lockhart and his staff have arrived at Kohat, and to-day (Saturday) Colonel Ian Hamilton was timed to leave Peshawur at the head of the first of three columns and advance through the Kohat Pass, a distance of 40 miles.
The Ministerial crisis at Athens was happily
t h e g r e e k of short duration. The President of the m i n i s t r y . Chamber, M. Zaïmis, at the King’s desire,
founded a Cabinet of which the most important members are General Smolensk!, Minister of War ; M. Streit, Minister of Finance; and M. Toman, Minister of Justice. The new Premier is not new to office, as he has twice served under M. Delyannis, once as Minister of Justice and once as Minister of the Interior. He has a high reputation for integrity. M. Streit, who is not a Deputy, is Director of the National Bank, and thought well qualified to carry out the negotiations for the new Loan and the arrangements with the old creditors. General Smolenski, as the only General who was not absolutely routed in the late war, brings an element of popularity to the new combination. It is interesting to note that M. Toman, the Minister of Justice, is the first Catholic who has held a Ministerial portfolio. It is stated that a complete rupture has taken place between M. Zaimis and M. Delayannis. The conduct of the latter is the subject of strong strictures on the part of the Continental press. The Débat speaks of his desire of office under the present circumstances as a senile ambition, and wonders whether his desire at any price to put his name at the bottom of the Treaty disastrous to his country is due to a wish to make public expiation for the past.
POLITICAL CHANGES IN
SPAIN.
To those familiar with Parliamentary institutions as they are worked in the English lands, it will seem passing strange that a new Cabinet, pledged to a revolutionary change in policy, should have come into power in Spain without an appeal to the people. It appears to be assumed, however, that the Chamber, which has so long supported the policy identified with the name of General Weyler, will be equally ready to
N e w S e r i e s . V o i . LVIII., No. 2.305.
