THE TABLE

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

F ro m the B r i e f o f H i s H o lin e s s P iu s I X . to The T ablet, June 4, 1870,

Vol. 1 16. No. 3,675- London, October 15, 1910. p*.ce 5d., *vpost 5k

R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o s t O f f i c e a s a N e w s p a p e r ,

Chronicle of the W eek : Page

Railway btrike in France— Measures o f the Government— The Revolution in Portugal— Decree Against the Religious Orders — Contributory Old-Age Pensions — The Trade Boom Continues— The New Home Rule — The Change in our Drinking Habits —Canada and Protection— “ Wonder Wheat ”— The Opening o f a Spanish Convent in London—The Cotton Lock-Out Ended—Shipyard Dispute : Piobable Settlement— The Constitutional Conference ......................... . . 5g7 T o p ic s o p t h e D a y :

The Portuguese Republic at Work 6oi Peterhouse and the Thirteenth

C e n t u r y .................................... 602

CONTENTS.

T o p ic s (Continued):

Westminster Cathedral— Electric

Lighting . . ....................... 604 The Cause o f a Thunderstorm at

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Edinburgh . . . . . . 604 The Millenary of Cluny . . . . 605 N o t e s .............................................608 R e v ie w s :

The Reconstruction o f the Eng­

lish Church .. . . . . 609 Stoic and Epicurean . . . . 609 Vocation . . . . . . . . 619 The Divine Story . . . . . . 620 The Lectionary . . . . . . 620 Intertribal Relations in Australia 621 St. Clare of A s s i s i ....................... 621 Literary Notes . . . . . . 610 C orrespondence :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .......................................612

C orrespondence (Continued) : Page I

News from Ireland......................... 613 News from France.. . . . . 614 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :

The Revolution in Portugal . . 614 The Catholic Association.. . . 614 Journalistic Enterprise . . . . 615 Catholic Reference Library and

Reading Room . . . . . . 615 Interest and Profits . . . . 6 1 5 The Mantilla . . — . . 615 The Canon o f the Mass . . . . 6 1 6 Catholic Loan Funds . . . . 616 Father Howarth’s Appeals to

Catholics . . . . . . . . 616 E t Caetera . . . . . . 616 Association of Perpetual Adoration 619 Books of the Week . . . . . . 622 ' Catholic Women s League . . . . 623

Father Bernard Vaughan and

B -ge

Canada O b itu ar y M a r r i a g e s ............................ S ocial an d P o l it ic a l ». 625

SU PPLEM ENT. The Administrative Removal of

Parish Priests from their Office and Benefice.. Educational Notes . . . . 632 Doings of Local Authorities . . 633 Catholic Action N ews from t h e D ioceses : . . 634

Westminster......................... Southwark . . Birmingham.. Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 618 Liverpool

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NOTANDA. -----------♦ ---------The Portuguese Republic at work. An uncensored message. What happened when the victorious troops took the Jesuit house by storm. Some astonishing statistics (p. 601).

The flowing tide— two more Anglican clergymen make their submission to the Holy See (p. 608).

How far the new Consistorial Decree gives fixity of tenure to the clergy. The text of the decree. The circumstances which justify removal from office and benefice (p. 629).

How Sta. Sophia was lighted— a comparison with the methods now in use in Westminster Cathedral. Instead of the lighting of “ a thousand lamps ” the pressing of a button. Why the button is not pressed (p. 604).

Spanish nuns in I.ondon. The opening of a new convent (p. 600).

Peterhouse, Cambridge, and the Ultramontanism of the Thirteenth Century. What Archbishop Walter Giffard said (p. 602).

How Father Henry, the Superior of St. Joseph’s College, Mill Hill, saw three baskets of human heads hanging in the smoke to dry. Why the Dyaks prefer heads with hair to skulls (p. 619).

N e w S e r i e s . Voi. LXXXIV. No. 3 ,0 74.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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H ERE is fresh trouble in France Its the railway world which quickly made ... itself felt throughout the country. A strike of the men of all classes on the Northern Railway broke out with surprising suddenness on Monday. There had been a partial strike affecting some three or four hundred men on the previous day, but it was thought that there was no danger of its spreading. On Monday, however, a meeting of some of the employees of the railway was held in Paris to discuss certain rearrangements in regard to wages which had been made by the Company in the interests of the men. On Saturday a notice was posted up in the Company’s workshops at La Chapelle and St. Denis granting a minimum of 4s. a day to all workmen. Other categories earning from 5s. 6d. to 7s. a day at once demanded a rise of iod. The Company refused. Thereupon the whole of the men, including those who had received an increase, went out on strike. The National Syndicate rebuked the strikers for acting without orders. Besides the demand for an increase in wages the men also insist on a weekly rest day and employment by the month. Strike orders were distributed by motor-car and cyclists. Nor is the Northern Railway the only or.e affected. Some 8,000 men of the Western State Railway on Tuesday declared in favour of a general strike on the system, and it was regarded as certain that the employees of the Eastern railway would follow suit. Telegraph lines were cut, the price of food in Paris rose immediately, and though the authorities did what was possible to forward the mails by motor-car service, letters to this country were delayed. In Wednesday’s paper the Paris correspondent of The Morning Post said : “ It is only the suddenness of the strike which has taken people by surprise here, for it is notorious that the more restless elements of the National Syndicate of French Railwaymen have long been clamouring for a general strike on all the lines. The magnitude of such a venture, added to the fear of failure, has alone caused the leaders to hesitate. Now, however, the agitation they themselves created has grown beyond their control, and the general strike with which they have been daily threaten­