St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-27
His Ambition Is to Humiliate
Britain and Curb Its
Power.
English Catholics Actively
Preparing for Cardinal
Manning's Jubilee.
Arab Slave Traders Convert
an African Paradise Into
q Veritable Hades.
Special Cable to the Globe.

grave Interpretation is now placed on
the Morier incident-graver than at first
sight the facts might seem to warrant.
The mere personal aspect of the matter
is dismissed as unimportant. Lord Sal
isbury is credited with having spoken
very frankly with the Russian ambas-
sador in London on the subject, and
that is as far as he will probably con-
slider it necessary to 60. The fear is.
however, that this attack on Sir Rob-
ert Morier is only the beginning
of an anti-English movement which
may have serious national consequences.
Popular report in Berlin credits the
present emperor, not simply with vague
dreams of general aggrandizement, but
with special and particular hostility
to England aud an ambition to humili-
ate Great Britain and curb it's power.
The recent German naval maneuverS,
in which the emperor took an active
interest, were at the time openly
spoken of by German military, and
naval men as demonstration against
England, and the elaborate efforts
which are being made to place the
German navy on all effective footing
are regarded by them as being made
entirely with a view to posi- lie
rupture with Great Britain. Under
Emperor William III. anti-English preju-
dice appears to be developing into a
chronic craze, of which it is difficult to
Charles BereSford, in speaking to-day
on the naval resources of Germany, said:
"The African blockade and the conflict
in Samoa have acted as stimulus to the
German reichstag to support without
opposition the government plans for the
increase of the navy The German navy,
like that of Italy, is the creation of
recent years, but it has developed
upon very different lines, and has at
tracted less attention than it deserves
because its progress has been mainly in
a direction not easily perceived by the
general public. The Italians have con-
structed series of the finest irOn-clad
battle ships in the world. The Ger
mans have for years devoted their eff
forts to the creation Of skilled corps of
naval officers and sufficient body of
trained seamen for all emergencies.
The principle has been, first of all, to
found the
GROWTH OF NAVAL POWER
upon professional knowledge and char
acter. With this object in view the
German government has kept portion
of its fleet constantly occupied in long
cruises, giving to men OF all ranks that
experience in seamanShip which makes
the sailor the type of daring and of
made to render the position of an officer
in the navy no less honorable and at
tractive than that Of an officer of cor
responding rank in the army, and
the probability is that the German
navy is better manned and better Off
cered than that of any continental
power. The intellectual and moral
foundation having thus been laid.
1T is thought that the time
has come for a further development of
material strength. Accordingly, the
keels of no less than twenty-eight new
vessels of war are to be laid i'm the near
future. The German fleet will, upon
their completion, be much more formi-
dable than the mere statement of its
numerical strength will reveal, because,
as has been pointed out by Admiral
ColOmb, in case of war Germany can
carry on her commerce through neutral
ports, and, thus evading the necessity
for the protection of her mercantile ma
rine, concentrate her navy for active de-
fensive or offensive operations"
Some confusion seems to exist about
the forthcoming Jubilee" as it termed,
of Cardinal Manning. Ordinarily the
jubilee of an ecclesiastic means, as in
the pOpe'S case last year, the fiftieth an
1niversaTry Of his ordination to the priest
hood. But Cardinal Manning did not
become a Roman Catholic till period
of life so advanced as to render jubi-
lee of this kind nearly impossible.
What, however, the Roman community
of London are preparing to do is to cele
brate this spring the beginning of
HIS ''SILVER WEDDING"
with his diocese-insother words. the
twenty-fifth year of his archiepiscopate.
Henry Edward Manning was born at
Totteridge, Herts, on tine 18th of July,
1908. His father was merchant of
London. Harry" Manning, as he is
still termed by his few surviving con-
tempOrarieS, was educated at Harrow
(where he played for two years in the
cricket eleven) under DR.. George But
Ter, afterwards dean of Peterborough,
and father to the present master of
Trinity. From Harrow he went to
Balliol, and was subsequently elected to
a fellowship at Morton. He mar
ried one of the Misses Sergeant,
of Lavington, near Petworth. the
eldest OF whom was the wife
of Bishop Wilberforce. Mrs. Manning
died few years after her marriage,
while Mr.. Manning was rector of Law
ngton and archdeacOn of Chichester.
He seeded to the Church of Rome on
the occasion of the Gorham Judgment,
but he had long been dissatisfied with
the English church, where his singular
frif of a1, ni,,ic fra nj
never found their full scope. He joined
the society of the "Oblates of st.
Charles" resided for some years in
Rome, and became one of the most
trusted
COUNSELORS OF Pho MONO,
who OH the death of Cardinal Wisman in
1865 nominated him to the see of West
minister, though his was not included
among the three names-"Dignus, Dig
nior and Dignissimus''-s submitted by
the chapter of Westminster for the
pope's selection. He was consecrated
on the Sth of June, 1865, and elevated
to the cardinalate OH the 18th of March,
1875. Thus the tWenty-fifth year Of his
archiepiscopate begins next June, and
the so-calIed "jubilee" will happen
year later. Attention has been called
to the matter so far in advance by the
effort which Monsignor Moore, admins
traitor of the pro-eathedral at Kensing-
ton, is making to render that church by
the time of the 'jubilee" free from its
heavy mortgage debt, which, from pres
ent indications, he will probably sue
coed in doing.
The British foreign Office has received
a dispatch from Zanzibar stating that
the Arabs engaged in the slaughter of
Missionary Brooks and his sixteen fol-
lowers sent word that "the deed was
committed in revenge for England's
anti-slaye trade policy. and that mis-
sionary work in Central Africa was to
be exterminated." Speaking on the
subject this afternoon, an attache of the
office who has had considerable expert
ence in African affairs said: There is
fnn much reason to accent this declara-