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DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPXIS VESTRI3 CONSTANT ER MANEATIS.

From the B r i e f o f H is Holiness P iu s I X . to T he T a blet, f it n e 4, i S jo .

V ol. 68. No. 2415. L ondon, A ugust 21, 1886.

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[R eg is t er ed a t t h e G e n e r a l P ost Of f i c e a s a N ew spaper .

C hronicle of t h e W e e k :—

The State of Belfast : Another Fatal Riot—The Origin o f the Disturbances—A Royal Commission—Order Restored : Legal Proceedings—Cabinet Committee cn Ireland — The Re-Elections — Lancashire : Newton, Blackpool— The Leith Burghs—King’s Lynn —The New Peers—Privy Council at Osborne—The Queen at Edinburgh—Programme of the Session —Burma—The Afghan Boundary Commission—The Chicago Convention—Opening of the Proceedings—The Concordat with Portugal—The Holy See and China —Centenary o f Frederick the Great—Australia and the New Hebrides—Fearful Colliery Accident—Mr. Bradlaugh Opens Par­

liament . . .. •• •• 277

CONTENTS.

L e a d er s :—

The Bishop of Nottingham’s Ques­

Page tions .. . . . . •• 281 The Rev. Mr. Leys . . . . 2 8 2 The Fate of Herr Bebel .. . . 283 A Hundred Years o f Mont Blanc 284 E arly Evidences of Christianity in

Lancashire.—I I I . . . . . . . 285 N o t e s . . . . . . 287 R e v iew s :—

Nature and the Bible . . . . 289 H is Presence . . . . . . 289 A History of the Jew ish People in the Time of Jesus Christ . . 290 Mathias and other Poems . ; 290 Notes and Sketches o f an Archi­

tect .............................. . . . .2 9 0 An Account of the Minster of Frei­

burg in Baden . . . . _ . . 290 The “ English Historical Review” 291 The Owls of Olynn Belfry . . 291 Missale Romanum.. . . . . 291 The Crown o f Life : Verses for

Holy Seasons . . . . . . 291

C orrespondence :—

Rome : —(From Our Own Corre­

Page spondent) . . . . . . 293 Paris :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . . . 295 Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . . . 296 L e t t e r s to t h e E ditor :—

What would the “ T ab le t” give to Ireland? . . . . . . 297 The Seamy Side of the Land

Question . . . . . . . . 297 “ Ritualists do not ape Romanism” 298 The Catholic Union and the

Catholic Truth Society.. . . 298 “ How to Reach the People ” . . 298 St. George . . . . . . 298 The Archbishop of Dublin and the

Irish Landlords . . . . . . 298 The Archbishop o f Dublin upon

“ A Fair P r ic e ” . . . . . . 300 The_ Controversial Methods of

Ritualism . . . . . . . . 301

Mr. Wilfrid Blunt on Burma . . 301 A Catholic Candidate in Lancashire 301 Scotch Opinion and the Home

Secretary . . . . . . . . 302 S ocial a nd P o l it ic a l . . . . 302 O b it u a r y ........................................ 302 P o s t s c r i p t ........................................ 303

SUPPLEMENT. P rechs J ussu P a p a e L e o n i sX I I I . 309 N ew s from th e S chools . . 309 N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s :—

Westminster.. . . . . . . 310 Southwark .. . . . . . . 3 1 1 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 3 1 1 Newport and Menevia . . . . 312 Portsmouth . . . . . . . . 313 Salford . . . . . . . . 3 13 Glasgow . . . . . . . . 3 13 National Provincial Council of Scot

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* * The E d i t o r cannot undertake to retu rn M anuscript, in any case.

C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .

AT the end of last week Belfast was tolerably quiet. Some Catholic workmen who have AiNuiiitK habitually been employed together with street and Ash bourne-street was riddled with about fifty bullets, to the mortal terror of the inmates. The assailants seem to have taken up regular positions as skirmishers behind the corners of the streets, and kept up a fire along the streets towards the enemy’s quarter. Whether there were any persons killed on the Catholic side was not quite clear. Marks of bullets were shown in the Falls-road district, but according to the S ta n da rd 's correspondent most o f them did not seem to be genuine.

f a t a l r io t , the Queen’s Island men in Sir E. Harland’s

On Monday tranquillity was restored, and

T™ r people had leisure to reflect and ask themd i s t u r b a n c e s . selves what it was all about. The excitement on both sides produced by Mr. Gladstone’s shipbuilding yard, had thought it prudent to stay away during the week till the feelings of their Protestant fallow-workmen had had time to subside. On Friday one of these men, a smith, thoughthe might venture to return. Butat the breakfast hour he was set upon outside the works, kicked, beaten, covered with tar, and driven away from the Island. At the dinner hour an attempt was made to duck another Catholic workman in a graving dock, and he and several others were driven from the works. The superintendent got the foremen together, and reprimanded them for not preventing these outrages, but the sectarian animosity was found to be so violent that it was judged best to pay off all the Catholics obnoxious to the majority. It was feared that the “ Islandmen ” would meet with retaliation on their way through the Catholic quarters to their homes, and additional precautions were taken. But they were only saluted by cries and groans from women with children in their arms, some of whom shouted “ the soldiers and police won’t be always here.” Then a Catholic boy cried, “ Sexton for ever,” and a still younger Protestant boy threw a rivet at him and struck him on the leg, but the crowd of “ Islandmen ” were hurried on by a Resident Magistrate who was with them, and reached their homes in safety. On other occasions the Catholic processions on the Feast of the Assumption have frequently irritated the Orangemen and been the occasion of violence, but this time the Bishop of Down and Connor and the Catholic clergy prudently forbade all outdoor processions, and this risk of collision svas avoided. But the fighting element on both sides was not to be baulked, and on Sunday morning, about one a.m., free shooting began in the streets and lasted between four and five hours. About four hundred shots were fired, and on the Protestant side one man was killed and two wounded ; one of them, in an attempt to remove the man, mortally wounded. One public-house at the corner of Conwayschemes—the hopes of the Nationalists and the fears of the Orangemen—had heated men’s minds almost to the explosive point. Then came the boycotting by the Catholic quay labourers of a Protestant fellow workmen, who, when he resisted, was subjected to physical ill-treatment. This led to retaliation on the part of the Protestant shipwrights, who drove a Catholic lad into the water, where he was drowned, and committed various other outrages. Then came the quarrel between the Protestant mobs and the Constabulary, who, at an affair with the workmen of Combe’s foundry, are alleged to have used their firearms unnecessarily, and excited burning indignation. The Constabulary had to retreat to the neighbouring Bowers-hill Barracks, where they were besieged by a furious mob, on whom they opened fire, killing six or seven persons. Then came the riot at the tramway depot, the origin of which is very obscure, and in which a man was mortally wounded by a pitchfork. The feeling against the Constabulary among the Protestants had by this time become so strong that the force had to be withdrawn from duty in the town, and its place supplied by military. And when it was attempted on Saturday to re-introduce them, small parties of police were deliberately fired at from behind buildings and other points of vantage which afforded concealment to their enemies.

Such being the state of things in the town, a r o y a l it was as yet impossible for the Commisc o m m i s s io n . sioners appointed by Mr. Morley just before his resignation to enter on the inquiry which they were to hold. And, as a more searching and extended investigation has now obviously become necessary, the Government, it was reported had resolved upon the appointment of a Royal Commission, which had been asked for by

N e w S e r i e s , V o l . XXXVI., No. 924.