THE TABLET

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

D u m VOBIS G R A TU LAM U R , AN IM O S ET IAM ADDIMUS U T IN INCCEPTIS V E STR IS CONSTAN TER M AN EATIS.

From the Brief o] His Holiness to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870.

Voi. 41. No. 1730. L o n d o n , J u n e 7, 1873.

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C h r o n i c l e o f t h e W e e k : The

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Germans and PresidentMacMahon. — Prince Bismarck on Irish Catholics. — ‘ ‘ Ecclesiastical Organization ” in Berne.—Administrative Changes in France.— The French Budget.-The Army.—The Foreign Policy of France.— M. Beule’s Circular to the Prefects.—The Orleanists and the New Government. —Attitude o f M. Thiers.— The Trades Demonstration.-The International at.Manchester.-Mr. Bradlaugh at Madrid.—The International at Rome.— Collective Protest of the Prussian Bishops.— Comments o f the German Official Press.— Election of Dr. Reinkens. —The Schism at Geneva, &c., &c. 713

CONTENTS

L ea d e r s :

The Order for a New Trial in the

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Callan Case . . . - 7*7 The Trades Demonstration . . 717 The “ Saturday Review” on the

Fulda Pastoral .

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Eccentricities of Genius . . 719 The Vansittart Trial in Rome . 720 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C o n t em po r a r ie s :

Excommunications.— Pilgrimages. Natural Explanations of the Supernatural.— Conservative Radicalism 721 R e v ie w s :

The Prophet o f Carmel . . 722 The Life of the Baron de Renty . 724 Rituale Romanum . . . 725 Rambles.............................................725

IS h ort N o t ic e s : The Church of

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England and its Defenders.— Novena to the Sacred Heart.— Record | o f Draught of Water of Sea-going I S h i p s .............................................726 C orrespondence :

Registration of Catholics . . 726 The Memorial Church o f S. Jo­

seph, Mill Hill .... 726 Certificated School-mistresses . 726 The Shrine of S. Francis de Sales 727 P r a g u e .............................................727 P a r l ia m e n t a r y S ummary . . 727 R om e :

Letter from our own Correspondent 729 The Discovery of the Bodies of

SS. Philip and James the Less, A p o s t l e s ....................................730 Peter’s Pence. . . . . 731

D io c e s a n N ew s :

'Westminster . Beverley Birmingham . I r e l a n d :

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Letter from our Dublin Correspondent F oreign N ew s :

France ..... Switzerland ..... M e m o r a n d a :

Catholic Union .... Music and Fine Arts L e g a l:—

The Trial o f Castro, otherwise called Orton, otherwise Sir R. Tichborne, Bart. . . .7 3 5 G e n e r a l N ew s .... 735

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CHRONICLE OF THE W EEK .

THE GERMANS AND PRESIDENT MACMAHON. S‘

O great is the disgust excited in German governmental regions by the fact that the Catholic religion is more or less represented in the new French Government, that the semi-official organs affect to doubt the pacific character of the foreign policy of the latter; and some people have sought in the language of Marshal MacMahon’s Message a pretext for suspending recognition of the new Government until that language is explained. But in the first place no such recognition is required. It is not, technically speaking, a revolution which has occurred in France, but a mere change of Government. And the sovereign, which is the Assembly, remaining unmoved, there would have been no need, one would have imagined, for new credentials on either side. Next, the expressions of the Message have been laboriously misinterpreted. Marshal MacMahon is represented as saying that he trusted to the army for the liberation of its territory, which is interpreted as a menace of war. What he really said was, that, “ with the aid of God, the devotion of the army, which ■“ will always be the army of the law, and the support of all ■“ honest men, we will continue together the work of libera41 ting the territory, and restoring order throughout the “ couiltry.” The task of the President and the Assembly is said to be to complete the liberation of the territory and to restore order, and it is in the pertormance of this task that •the President looks to the army to support him. The very phrase, “ which will always be the army of the law,” proves that it is as a safeguard against internal violence and against resistance to the sovereign legislative power of the Assembly, and not as an aggressive and reconquering force, that the President counts on the army to help in the liberation of the soil. That work is not spoken of as a new one, or one to be accomplished in a new way ; it is a work in which the present Government and the Assembly are to “ continue ” to co-operate. Nothing can be more unfounded than the fears which a certain portion of the German press affects to entertain. The alarm is evidently raised for the purposes of the anti-Catholic agitation. Among the devices for arousing a feeling against the new Government in Germany was a report industriously circulated that the Pope had received the first notification of the change of Government, and that the other powers were left without official intimation of it. On Tuesday, however, the Havas agency telegraphed from Versailles a contradiction of this story, as well as of that concerning a delay in the recognition of the new Government by foreign powers. The notification was sent to the Pope and all the other powers in a circular couched in identical terms and despatched to each on the same day. As to the suspended recognition, several heads of embassies

N ew Ser ie s . V ol, IX . No. 239.

have already been received by the President: “ offi“ ciously,” however, for it seems that the three Northern powers, considering that there is a virtual change of Government, have preferred that fresh credentials should be interchanged, and this formality will be completed immediately.

PRINCE BISMARCK ON

IRISH CATHOLICS.

in France.

It is probably the consciousness of the unjust oppression to which it is subjecting the Catholic religion in its own country which renders German officialism so very ready to take umbrage at the rise of a Catholic Government It has just promulgated the four ecclesiastical laws, and temporarily seized the Germania for publishing the Bishop’s protest against them ; and Prince Bismarck, in a speech in which he showed signs of unusual excitement, adduced the Irish Catholics as an example justifying exceptional repression of Catholics everywhere. “ The “ report on Irish relations,” said the Chancellor, “ contains “ the following :— ‘ Although the Ultramontanes do not “ ‘ exactly preach insurrection, yet their demeanour is in“ ‘ jurious to the welfare of the land. The leaders know “ ‘ very well that an open raising of the standard would lead “ ‘ to no result, except a complete defeat of the insurrec“ ‘ tionary and Ultramontane party. A reconciliation and “ ‘ pacification of the people suits their plans even less than “ ‘ open insurrection. The organs of the Ultramontanes “ ‘ stir the fire, and excite to animosity against the Pro“ ‘ testant part of the people.’ ” This is about as true as that the Catholics in Germany were conspirators against the new Empire— the pretext on which the present persecution was set on foot; and the idea of Cardinal Cullen— who we suppose would be called the leader of the Irish Ultramontanes— being “ insurrectionary ” and revolutionary at heart, is especially ludicrous. The Spectator suggests that somebody should ask Lord Enfield whether this is extracted from the despatch of any British diplomatist. We should rather take it for the report of a German agent in this country charged to get up a case in support of the exceptional legislation against Catholics.

“ ECCLESIAS

TICAL ORGANIZATION

IN BERNE.

In Switzerland, too, all kinds of similar rumours are rife. The adherents of the party in power profess uneasiness, announce the approaching recall of M. Lanfrey, and actually go so far as to state that the Federal Government has declared that it will not receive a Minister of “ clerical ” opinions in his place. It might certainly be inconvenient to have an official Catholic witness of what is going on in Canton Berne, and specially in the Jura district, annexed to it under such strict stipulations for the freedom of the Catholic religion. There the Executive Council has just laid before the Grand Council of the Canton its new law on the “ organization of cultes.” First, the Executive