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A IVeekly Newspaper and Review.
D u m VOBIS G R A TU LAM U R , AN IM O S ET IAM ADDIMUS UT IN IN CCEPTIS V E S TR IS CON STAN TER M ANEATIS.
From the Brief oj H is Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870»
Vol. 42. No. 1748. L ondon, O c t o b e r i i , 1873.
Pr i c e 5<I. B y P ost s K d .
[R e g i s t e r e d a t th e G e n e r a l P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew s pa p e r .
'C h r o n ic l e o f t h e W e e k : Letter
Page o f M. Thiers.— M. Léon Say and the Left Centre.— M. Gambetta’s Speech.— Minor Manifestoes.— Fusion of the Lefts.— Division among ih e Bonapartists.— The Duc de Broglie on the Restoration.— Progress of the Royalist Movement.— The Royal Family o f France.— Marshal Bazaine’s Trial. — The Duty o f Catholics at Elections.— Home Rule and the Irish Clergy. — The Bath Election.— Mgr. Le<lochowski— The Future of the Church in Prussia.— The Elections — The Nature of the Struggle.— Fresh Penal Legislation. — The Oath of Bishop Reinkens.— The Civil Wars in Spain, &c., &c. . 449
CONTENTS.
L e a d e r s :
Is the Sacred Humanity to be Wor
Page
C orrespondence :
The Pilgrimage to Paray-le-Monial
Page shipped with Latria ? . . 453 The Return o f M. Thiers . . 455 Irish Prosperity.— Y I . . . 455 Rome and Civil Society . . 456 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C o n tem po r ar ie s :
“ The Blessed Reformation.” — Unity in Discord. . . . 457 R e v ie w s :
Life of St. Bernardine of Siena . 459 Monsieur Maurice, &c. . . 459 S h ort N o t ic e s : Lives of the Saints.
— Eagle and Dove.— The Popular Use of the Bible encouraged by the Catholic Church.— The Magazines for O c t o b e r ....................................460
and the Church of Corpus Christi 461 Shrines in England.— The Church of the Ever Faithful Virgin at Norwood ..... 461 The Pilgrimage of Lough Derg . 461 Irish Prosperity .... 461 Lodgers or Joint Occupiers . . 462 The Recent Greenwich Election.
— Mr. Callan, M .P ., and “ One of the Greenwich Priests ” . 462 R o m e ............................................. 465 D io c e sa n N ew s : Westminster .
Southwark Birmingham .
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D io cesan N ews (continued) Page
Liverpool
Plym outh
Shrewsbury .
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I r e l a n d :
Letter from our Dublin Correspondent
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F oreign N ew s :
France
Switzerland
M em o randa :
Religious
Catholic Union
Educational .
L i terary
G en e r a l N ews
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
LETTER OF [M . TH IERS. T
VHE great event of the week has been the manifesto of M. Thiers, who has come back from Switzerland to assume the command of the combined forces of the Opposition. Writing to the Mayor of Nancy to excuse himself from visiting that town at present, he attacks the Majority for “ negotiating” with the Comte de Chambord without a mandate from the Assembly, and for wishing to settle the future of France without a fresh appeal to the country. He recommends at the same time a careful abstention from ail •appearance of agitation in the interest of the Republic, ■“ the only form of Government capable of rallying the “ widely divided political parties, which can alone speak “ authoritatively to the Democracy, which has re-established •“ everything in France, order as well as the army, which 41 has_redeemed the territory, and healed, with the excep41 tion of one, all the wounds caused by the war.” Lastly, M. Thiers takes his stand on the principles of the Revolution. “ We shall have,” he says, “ to defend not only 41 the Republic, but all the rights of France,” the principles o f 1789, the tricolor, and not only that flag alone, but the reality of the things which it signifies, for the flag, “ if re41 maining only to mask the counter-revolution, would be 41 the most odious and revolting of lies.” The ex-President is thus committed to a policy of active resistance— resistance ■“ not by means which it would be easy to distort, but by 41 cold and solid reason.” He will no doubt make a firstrate speech, but his power over the Assembly departed, never to return, when his resignation, so often threatened, was at last given in and accepted.
While the commander-in-chief of all the
M"and°theAY ^efts promulgates this general order, the leaders l e f t c e n t r e , commanding divisions are not idle. M. Léon
Say, the President of the Left Centre, convokes his followers by a circular letter, in which they are earnestly exhorted not only to be present at the opening of the Assembly, but also to come back in time for certain meetings of their party, the first of which is to be held on the 23rd. The Left Centre, writes M. Léon Say, has no positive objection to a Constitutional Monarchy which should have for its basis the principles of 1789, but the Conservative Republic is, he maintains, the only Government for France at present. The reconciliation in the Royal Family concerns nobody but themselves, “ there is an Orleanist the “ less, or rather Orleanism disappears, leaving in its place 41 the Liberal party.” “ Before and after the fusion there “ are opposed to each other the sons of the Revolution and 41 its adversaries— adversaries who may be ready to forgive “ us and treat us kindly, but who deny the very principles “ to which we are attached— adversaries who may even
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“ wear our colours, but who do not wear them as a “ symbol.” By which reasoning M. Léon Say is doing, it seems to us, the work of the Fusionists, for if “ the sons “ of the Revolution ” admit that the tricolor, as adopted by the Monarchy, would not be a symbol of principles, the last scruples about accepting it would probably disappear.
Forming our opinion from the telegraphic M- , summaries, we described M. Gambetta’s speech ° AspeechAS at Térigueux as “ carefully moderate,” but the more detailed reports of it do not justify this estimate. As the occasion of the gathering was the inauguration of a monument to General Daumesnil, who defended Vincennes against the Allies in 1814, M. Gambetta found an easy transition to the resistance offered in 1870, and the peace of 1871, which he declared to be “ ignominious,” ventilating again his old nonsense about the defence “ à “ outrance,” and accusing “ political parties ” of having made peace in their own interest and not in that of France. The conclusion to be drawn was that his dictatorship and the party which he represented were the only disinterested defenders of their country, and the speaker did his best to justify the prohibition by which officers were forbidden to be present. The substitute of the Mayor has been suspended from his functions for two months for not having protested against the speech, and the République Française, M. Gambetta’s own organ, has had the prudence not to print it. A local paper, which was less cautious, and also the Siècle have had their public sale in the streets stopped for publishing it. The sentence quoted in the decree is as follows : “ The defeat came. I f the efforts and sacrifices “ made were not rewarded by victory, we must have the “ courage to say that it was because there were men and “ political parties who, building on the reverses of France, “ weakened and stopped every effort, preferring capitulation, “ defeat, and the abasement of their country to the renun“ ciation of their own selfish desires.” This is certainly anything but conciliatory, but it is also entirely untrue. The danger of the speech lies not so much in M. Gambetta’s ardent exhortation to defend the Republic, as in his pandering to one of the most mischievous delusions that has ever been current in France.
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Minor manifestoes are not wanting ; M.
0f tiie Seine et Oise— who uses the lEsroEs. faiiaCy about “ three families disputing the “ throne”— and M. de Salvandy take care to let their constituents know that they have not allied themselves to the Monarchists, and M. Naquet has published an article in the Bordeaux Tribune, which has brought down on that journal a prohibition of its sale in the streets, and which concludes as follows : “ Together we will defend it (the “ Republic) against its enemies, by the voting ticket first, “ and by the musket also, if necessary.” M. Garnier Pagès