THE TABLET
A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
D u m VOBIS G R A TU LAM U R , AN IM O S ET IA M ADDIMUS U T IN INCCEPTIS V E STR IS CONSTANTER M ANEATIS.
From the Brief o] His Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4 , 1870.
Voi. 42. No. 1742. L o n d o n , A u g u s t 30, 1873.
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[ R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o s t O f f i c e a s a N e w s p a p e r .
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»Ch r o n i c l e o f t h e W e e k : The
Pilgrimage to Paray-le-Monial.— The Policy of the Comte de Paris. — Reported End of the Fusion.— Speech o f the Due de Broglie.— The League and the Government. — Intervention in Spain.— The CarJist Campaign. — The Insurgent Deputies. — “ The Canton of Murcia.’’-Señor Castelar’s Speech. — Germany and Denmark.-France and Italy.— Prosecutions of German Bishops.— The Ratibor Address.— The Case of Dr. Matzner. —The Persecutions in Switzerland. — The Boston Fire and the “ Nun of Konmare.”— Plain Speaking . 257
L e a d e r s :
C O N T E N T S
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S h o r t N o t i c e s : Notes of the Wan
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Pilgrimages and the Press . .2 6 1 Dedication of Armagh Cathedral. 261 The Possibility of Csesarism in the
United States .... 262 Archdeacon Denison and the Ang
dering Jew ; or, The Jesuits and their Opponents.-Revue du Monde Catholique.— Revue Catholique.— Etudes Religieuses, Philosophiques, Historiques, et Littéraires . . 269
lican Bishops .... 263 Brief of His Holiness Pius IX . on
Spiritual Pilgrimages . . . 264
O u r P r o t e s t a n t C o n t e m p o r a r i e s :
The Primitive Church.— A Stage beyond it.— A New Patriarch.—A Hint to the “ Saturday Review” . 265
C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :
Henri Cinq and Divine Right . 270 A Catholic Daily Newspaper. . 270 English Pilgrimage to Paray-le-
Monial ..... 271 The Bedford Mission . . . 271
R e v i e w s :
Historical Sketches . . . 266 The Life of Luisa de Carvajal . 267 The Pilgrimage o f the Tiber . . 269
D i o c e s a n N ew s : Westminster .
Birmingham . Salford
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Peter’s Pence.
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I r e l a n d :
Dedication of Armagh Cathedral—
(From our Special Correspondent) ............................................... 273
F o r e ig n N ew s :
The King o f Araucania . . 276
M e m o r a n d a :
E d u c a t io n a l ............................... 276 L i t e r a r y ............................... 276 Legal :—
The Trial of Castro, otherwise called Orton, otherwise Sir R. Tichborne, Bart. . . . 276
G e n e r a l N ew s
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C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .
MONIAL. T
THE PILGRIMAGE TO PARAY-LE-
HE final arrangements for the English
Pilgrimage to Paray-le-Monial will be found elsewhere. Our anticipations respecting the numbers who would join it have been fully justified, and the principal thing now to be desired is that those who have the time and means to .spare will proceed by earlier trains to Paris, so as to take as much as possible of the strain off the special trains and steamer. The pilgrims will arrive at Paris some time on Tuesday evening— not on Monday evening, as stated in some of the French papers— and will proceed to Paray by an early special train on Wednesday morning. Thursday will be given to devotions at the Sanctuary, and on Friday morning very early a special train will leave Paray, which will bring the pilgrims to Paris in time to return to England, i f they wish it, by the night service o f train and steamer, reaching London on Saturday morning.
THE POLICY OF THE COMTE DE
PARIS.
The Saturday Review is o f opinion that the recent act of the Comte de Paris can be explained in only two ways ; either he has completely accepted the theory of legitimate and hereditary right, or else he “ hopes in the end to bring “ France round to his opinion that a Constitutional u Monarchy is the best form of Government,” and thinks that this can best be done by a gradual transition through an absolute Monarchy. T o our mind the two views are by no means irreconcilable, and it seems to us most probable that the Comte de Paris would not repudiate either. The latter theory does not at all necessarily imply that the Orleanists “ are fully prepared to fight for their own hand il the moment that an opportunity presents itself,” in the sense that such a mode of asserting themselves forms any part of their plan. On the contrary, their interest obviously is to remain quiet and recognize the right of the Comte de Chambord as long as he may reign, because they have thus, and thus only, a chance of arriving at power, not only with their own adherents, but with the whole Legitimist party at their backs. But whenever they do obtain that advantageous position, there can be nothing to prevent the Comte de Paris from giving effect to his own opinions, should a majority in the Chambers be in favour of them. The Legitimists would scarcely offer the same kind of resistance to a hereditary sovereign with liberal hobbies, however distasteful to them, that they would oppose to a prince who might possibly turn into a Revolutionary Pretender. We are inclined, therefore, to think that the Comte de Paris is sincere in acknowledging the prior claims of the head of his house, at the same time that he does not renounce the hope of eventually realizing his own ideal. His remarks at the preliminary interview with the Comte de Chambord’s confidential agent seem to confirm this view. “ I ,” he said, “ have certain ideas ; the K ing has his. But into these “ matters it is not my business to enter, for I represent “ nobody ; it is between the K ing and the country that “ they will have to be settled.” And there can be no doubt that if the Comte de Paris wants to secure the acceptance of any particular form or theory o f Government, he would never find in any kind of revolution as favourable an opportunity as would be furnished by his peaceable succession, as King not only of the Orleanists but o f the Legitimists.
REPORTED END OF THE
FUSION.
A t the end of last week a statement appeared in the Opinion Nationale, and went the round of the French and foreign press, to the effect that the fusion had suddenly come to an end in consequence o f irreconcilable differences respecting the flag. But it was very improbable, as we have said before, that either the Princes or the leaders o f the two sections of Royalists should have raised at the present moment a question which cannot be satisfactorily settled until after the establishment o f a definitive form o f Government. And the Assemblée Nationale o f Saturday confirms our belief by the positive assertion that all these statements are inexact. “ The only true announcement is, that there is a complete “ and absolute union between the Princes of the House of “ France ; but otherwise no definitive plan has been agreed !- on, no decision has been taken, and no conference has “ been held with regard to their future line o f conduct.”
SPEECH OF THE DUC DE
BROGLIE.
A t such a moment any utterances o f the Government were sure to be listened to with more than ordinary interest, and the speech of the Duc de Broglie to the Council General of the Eure last week was eagerly seized upon and telegraphed throughout Europe. We must add that the telegraphic version entirely failed to reproduce its more delicate points. The Duke began by assuring his hearers that the struggle in which they were called upon to support the Government was not one directed “ against any institution or any political opinion,” but against principles destructive of social order. This struggle, he continued, would be a long one, and success would be impossible without the concurrence of all honest men. The Government could promise them “ a vigilant administration, “ devoted to the inflexible carrying out o f the laws,” but it could do nothing “ without them, without their courage, and “ above all their union.” This union of “ gens de bien,” forgetting their particular differences, had constituted hitherto the strength of the Assembly, and the country expected that it would be maintained. And when the time came for it to be the duty o f the Assembly to deal with grave
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