The tablet A Weekly Newspaper and Review dum VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS. From the B r i e f o f His Holiness Pivs I X to The Tablet, f u n e 4, 1870 N o . 3 , 8 4 7 . L ondon, J a n u a r y 3 1 , 1914 . Price 5d., BY Post Registkrkd at thk General Post O ffice as a Newspaper CS * U op r S c ? BEw>ek Pa '-TaS'ntary U{, PartY “ "d its ‘Tl a,l,on 0f r KePresentatives The"',ROchstFapital >" France r® ana ¿ahem— Trial A Topics Wlth Strike » U p A !.S.h‘P ° f Other Com- : 19,3 aW .?nstit“ tions Order! CONTENTS. Page. No t e s ................................. ... 166 R eviews : The Foundress o f the Faithful Companions .............. ... 168 Folk o f the Furrow ... 169 The Theosophic Heresy— ... 169 The Pilgrim from Chicago ... 169 L iterary N otes ............ ... 170 Books o f the W e e k .............. ... 171 Catholic Trade Unionists and Socialist T a c t i c s .............. ... 172 E ducational N otes ... 173 D oings of L ocal A uthorities... 174 The London Committee and Catholic Student Teachers ... 175 Alderman Gilbert, K.S.S., L.C.C., Page. and London E ducation ................ 176 N ews from the D ioceses : Westminster ........................... 176 S ou thw a rk ...................................... 177 Birmingham ........................... 178 Leeds ...................................... 178 The Catholic Record Society ••• 178 Settlement o f the Holy Child Jesus at Tower Hill ................ 178 Correspondence : Rome—(From Our Own Corre­ spondent) ...................................... 181 N ews from Ireland ............... 182 L etters to the E ditor : Page. Towards Social Thinking - 183 The Gallican Chant ... 184 Catholics and Ulster ... 184 Archpriest Blackwell ... 185 Catholic Marriage R a t e ... 185 Mutilated Masses ... 185 “ Old Douai ” .............. ... 186 Macaulay up to Date ... 187 Catholic Deaf-Mutes ... 187 Et Ct e t e r a ...................... ... 188 In Capel Court ............ ... 190 Marriage ....................... ... 190 O bituary ... 190 The “ Annuario Pontificio ” ... 192 S ocial and P ersonal ... 193 NOTANDA r O,,0the sa , "dvowsons. How the traffic is carried on. . a curemp e advertisements. A Bishop’s lament that r°ve of ,?• Souls can be sold like a flock of sheep or a Is RQPl§:S ” (P- l62)hrang e °?e ^eretical ? The Church Times makes U°riati<!tc.1rCOvery- St. Augustine and the case of the The A l6°)Pree Ch^!'^t°Us statistics of the Establishment and the f ^ new p hes' The tale they tell (p. 163). £r a" Cath°r-*"aw Institutions Order. Its importance '» h n d ?*‘c Guardians and diocesan authorities in .. 0 , , , „a " d W * ' « (p. . 6 5 ). c ^ ^reviJTle Correspondent tells of the final reforms of °ntlectior, 7T~and then asks what is finality in such a Full ?.(p- l8 l )‘ ^°tllrnitPger>t’Cu^ars ° f the Cambridgeshire Education ath°Iic s refusal to sanction the appointment of a ‘ stress to a Council school (p. 174). ° n i c l e o f t h e w e e k cAB] O en h o r A r r ia g a , P r e s id e n t o f th O P o r tu gu e se R epublic, h PP ently ta ken s tro n g a c ‘ on . W * °* ending th e d ifficu lt s itu a tio n in e _nntinUe d i A W‘ th th e recent ra ilw a y s tr ik e and th e ____ ^ 1 A c t i o n which the CW - m : - : -— w Trv jett! *nt ----- - P resid er at . "* remove by i t s policy o f oppressio , t - ast determined to in terven e . H e t3Cvr,ressed th Cr . to Senhor C o s ta , in w h ich ae e x P a'.fferer j, ' erit ‘ °n o f su g g e s t in g to th e le ad e rs o f S r> t h a t , ^ — ’ • " • ,0 tn e le ad e rs o t 0 * d .tte rc . th a t a M in istry should be form e passion: f a v o u r to a lla y th e e x is t in g p o k t ic a P au ld tr K lS neW M in is try , th e P re s id en t a * B ud g e tp Securc from P arliam en t th e p a ss in g w ic Camendment o f th e law o f public w o rsh ip , an ^EWS— SERIEs- Vol- x c i . No. 3,246. amnesty for political offences. The new Cabinet, moreover, would be in power during the forthcoming General Elections. Regarding this communication as evidence of a diminution of confidence, and being in disagreement with Senhor Arriaga’s proposals, which they thought neither reflected Parliamentary opinion nor met the present needs of the Republic, the Cabinet tendered their resignations, which the President accepted. This took place on Saturday, though the news was not made public till Tuesday. Such is the semi-official account given of the situation. What else there may be behind is yet to be revealed. But at any rate the President has set to work to secure a new Ministry, the retiring Ministers meanwhile carrying on the work of their respective Departments. When the news of the fall of the Cabinet became known, a procession was organized in the streets of Lisbon in token of sympathy with Senhor Costa, during the passing of which a bomb was thrown, injuring several people. Nor has the President’s purpose been facilitated by Parliament, which on Monday adopted the following resolution :— “ Recognizing that there is no conflict between the Legislative power and the Executive power, since the present Government constitutes a legitimate delegation of the Parliamentary majority, Congress passes to the order of the day.” MR. REDMOND AND ULSTER. Speaking at a great meeting of his constituents at Water­ ford on Sunday, Mr. John Redmond said that Nationalists had fought and won on the Home Rule question, but they had yet to reap the fruits of victory. Their hopes were now high, for the British people remained unshaken in their support of Home Rule, and provided the Government remained in, and the opinion of the Commons remained the same, the Bill would become law automatically under the Parliament Act. Screams of civil war would not drive the Government to commit suicide, for the abandonment of the Bill would mean “ the betrayal of the democracy of Great Britain, and would condemn the Liberal party to utter dishonour and extinction.” The Prime Minister was as firm as a rock, and all the talk about civil war was at bottom absurd. Turning to the question whether the Bill would pass exactly