THE TABLET

A IVeekly Newspaper and Review\

D u m VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the Brief of His Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.

Vol. 41. No. 1721. L o n d o n , A p r i l 5, 1873.

P r ic e sd . B y P ost s^d.

[R egistered a t th e General P ost O ffice a s a N ew spaper.

C h ronicle of t h e W e e k : First

Page

Withdrawal of Mr. Fawcett’s Bill. —Attitude of Mr. Gladstone.— Second Alteration of the Bill.—The Bill, No. 3.—A Catholic Grievance the Germ of Concurrent Endowment.—Collisions at Sea.— Representative Peers.— Irish Juries.— The Supreme Court of Judicature Bill.—The Indian Budget.—The Vacant Seat for Paris.— Repression in the South.— Charity and the Church.— Prince Napoleon’s Petition.—The Recess, and the Lyons Municipality.— Resignation of M. Grévy.— Marshal Bazaine. — The ** Trans-Continental” Trial.— Sentence on Felix Pyat.— “ Mémoires Secrets” of Napoleon III., &c.,&c. 425

CONTENTS

L eaders :

The “ Spectator ” on “ Ultramon-

Page tanism” ..... 429 Concurrent Endowment . . 429 Spoliation in Rome.— The Reli­

gious Orders and Ecclesiastical Properties Bill .... 430 Our P rotestantContemporaries:

Catholicism and Republicanism.—

American and English Journalism .... - 432 R eview s :

Correspondence :

Page

Protestant Orders .... 436 The Irish University Question . 437 Catholic Books .... 437 Legitimacy in Spain . . . 437 Mission at Homerton . . . 438 The Queen’s Colleges . . . 438 Election of Guardians . . . 438 S. George’s Union . . . 438 Parliam entary Summary . . 438 R ome :

The Gallican Church . . . 433 Old-fashioned Ethics and Common-

Sense Metaphysics . . . 434 S hort N o t ic e s : The Christian

Vagabond.-Suéma.-Bubbles Light as A i r .............................................435

Letter from our own Correspondent 441 R ecord of German Persecution,

......................................................441 D io cesan N ews :

Westminster .....443

Diocesan News (continued):

Pace

Scotland—Eastern District . • 443 Ireland :

Letter from our Dublin Correspondent . . . . .444 Foreign News :

1 France .... . 444 Russia .... •445 Switzerland .... . 446 Brief of His Holiness Pius IX. to the Clergy of Geneva.

• 447

Memoranda :

Religious .... •447 Catholic Union • 447 Educational . . . . •448 General News . 448

CH R O N IC L E O F TH E W E E K .

SFIRST W ITH­

DRAWAL OF MR. FAW•CETT’s BILL.

MR. F A W C E T T ’S BUI has expe­

rienced several adventures since our last issue. T h e second readin g was at length fixed for the 2nd, W ednesday, not the 7 th, as we stated last week, but in the meanwhile it had become generally known th a t extensive alterations had been made in the B ill since its «first reading. Mr. Faw cett— to do him ju s tice— had made no secret o f the fact, for when asked about three weeks a g o why the B ill, which had been read for the first tim e at the beginning o f the Session, was not yet in the hands o f members, he replied that he and his friends whose names were on the back had been con.-sidering whether they could not modify it so as to meet the objections raised against it in its original form during the •debate on Mr. G ladstone’s measure. T h is they did, and the B ill in its amended shape was printed and circulated only .about a fortnight ago. Therefore Mr. Caban pointed out that in one of its main features, relating to the governing body— the provisional council to prepare schemes for sub.m ission to Parliam ent— it was virtually a new B ill, and that .it was not com petent for its proposer to move the second .reading. H e quoted a decision o f Mr. Shaw Lefevre’s in i8 60 by which Mr. S tuart W ortley was prevented from proceeding with an a ltered B ill on marriage with a deceased w ife ’s sister. Mr. Faw cett at once acknowledged that he and his friends had, quite unintentionally, infringed a technical ..rule o f the House, and asked leave to withdraw the B ill, introduce another, and have the second reading fixed on the .same night as that a llotted to the form er one. On the .■ second question being put, “ that leave be given to present another B ill,” a fresh point was started— could he intro'd uce a new B ill without g iv in g notice ? Mr. G ladstone was o f opinion that he could not— and Sir J. Esmonde, Mr. Goldney, Mr. H eron, Mr. Synan, and Mr. Downing followed on the same side, but Mr. Dodson and Mr. Bouverie— both authorities on Parliam entary usage— maintained that the original leave to bring in a B ill was still in force, and that no notice was required. T h e Speaker ruled that a B ill may be altered in any way not inconsistent with the original leave, till it is laid on the table, but that after that it must not be a ltered in any essential particulars. I f it is desired so to a lter it, leave must b e asked to withdraw it and bring in another B ill, but this may be done without notice, a proceeding of which there are several instances on record. Mr. G ladstone then proposed, as it would be hard on Mr. Synan that he should be prevented from opposing the first reading, that Mr. Faw cett should move the first reading on M onday, and the second, as before, on Wednesday. Colonel

N ew S e r ie s . V o l , IX. No. 230.

Wilson Patten objected to this as inconsistent with the Speaker's ruling, and M r. Bouverie pointed out that, a c cording to a standing order o f 1852, the question o f first reading must be decided “ without amendment or debate.” But Mr. Dodson and Mr. Cardwell observed that any member might take a division on the present question that the member for Brighton b e a llow ed to present a new B ill. However, when the question was put no division was called for, and Mr. Fawcett in troduced his B ill, which was read a first tim e.

T h e result o f this first change was that the

Aqf mrDE B ill, which was originally second on the list for Gl a d s t o n e . W ednesday, becam e seventh, having to be p laced next after the orders a lready on the paper at the tim e o f its re-introduction. I t becam e obvious that the chances o f its arriving at a second reading before six o ’c lo ck were small indeed, and the disposition evinced by Mr. G ladstone on Friday showed that Governm ent were not lik e ly to provide any extraordinary facilities for the resumption o f the debate. W e must say, b y the way, that we th ink the attitude o f the Prim e M in ister towards Mr. Faw cett’s measure most h ighly creditable to him. Instead o f believing that attitude, as the P a l l M a l l Gazette does, to be inspired by bitterness towards the L iberals, to whom, rather than to the Irish members, the defeat o f his own measure was owing, we think he showed that, having from the first objected to Mr. Faw cett’s B ill as inadequate, he would not be tempted by irritation a t his own offer being refused, to jo in in forcing upon the Irish a still more unsatisfactory settlement. This is a dignified consistency, which deserves our respect, however much we may lam ent the insufficiency o f Mr. G ladstone’s own proposal.

Mr. G ladstone incidentally indicated, in his alteration sPeech last week at the M ansion House, what of the' bill. the Point was in which he considers Mr.

Faw cett’s B ill inadequate. “ We fell,” he said, “ in the attem pt to emancipate a great historic uni“ versity, now in servitude to a single though distinguished “ college.” H e will evidently still insist that any attem pt at a final settlem ent must so separate the university from the college as to leave room for other colleges. Such being the dispositions o f Governm ent towards his measure, Mr. Fawcett, meditating between Friday and Wednesday on its slender chances o f success, resolved to “ square ” the leaders o f his party by cutting down the B ill to the proportions o f a mere partial reform, and rem oving from it everything but the simple abolition o f tests. In this shape it m ight be considered an instalm ent o f future legislation, and might be accepted by Ministers with the reservation o f their right to deal hereafter with the question in a more comprehensive manner.