THE TABLET

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

D u m v o b i s g r a t u l a m u r , a n im o s e t i a m a d d im u s u t i n in c g e p t i s v e s t r i s c o n s t a n t e r m a n e a t i s .

From the Brief oj His Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 18 7 0 ,

Vol. 42. No. 1750. L o n d o n , O c t o b e r 25, 1873.

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[ R eg is t e r ed a t th e G en e r a l P ost Offic e a s a N ew spaper.

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

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Declarations of Henri V.—The Moderate Left Centre and the Left.—The Form of the Opposition and the Probable Majority.— Tone of the French Press.—The VacantSeats—Effect of Republican .Elections. — Marshal MacMahon and the Moderate Republicans.— -M. Grevy and M. Thiers.—M. Thiers on Appeals to the People.— The Definitive Plan of Campaign. — The Fusion of the Right and Right Centre.—M. Magne and the •Cabinet. — The “ Times” and

Standard ” on the German Persecution.—Carlist Successes.—The Intransigente Fleet. — The Pope and the Emperor, &c., &c., &c. . 513

CONTENTS

L e a d e r s :

Final Estimate of Dr. Nicholson’s

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Theology . . . . . 517 The Resolutions of the Irish

Hierarchy . . .

. 521

The “ Times” on the Archbishop . 521 Scarcity and Taxation in Italy . 522 Our P ro t e s t a n tContemporaries:

The Vicar of Christ and the Vicars of S a t a n ......................................... 523 R ev iew s :

The Light of the Holy Spirit in

C o r r e spo n d en c e :

Home Rule and Secularism at

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English Elections . . . 526 The Helpers of the Holy Souls . 527 The New Church, Bedford . . 527

D io cesan N ews : Westminster—

The Archbishop on the Pope and the Emperor William . . 529 Southwark ..... 530 Beverley—

the W o r ld .........................................524 The Parisians .... 525 S hort N o t ic e s : The Contemporary

Review.—Children of the Olden T i m e .................................................. 526

Catholic Association of Shef­

field -

Birmingham—

Opening of the New Church of

St. Mary, Brierley-hill . .530

530

D iocesan N ews (continued):

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Clifton .........................................5 31 Hexham and Newcastle . . 531 Salford 531 Sh rew sbu ry ..................................531 I r e land :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent .........................................5 31 Important Resolutions of the

Bishops of Ireland . . . 532 Memoranda :

R e l i g i o u s ................................. 532. Educational..................................533 G en e r a l N ew s :

The Oxford Union, &c. . . 533

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

THE DECLARATIONS OF HENRI V. T

H E deputies who have been to Salzburg,

MM. de Cazenove de Pradine, Chesnelong, and Lucien Brun, had their interview with the delegates o f the R ight and Right

«Centre on Friday week. These delegates, who are otherwise called the “ Commission d ’étude,” or the Committee of .N ine,and whose President is General Changarnier, expressed themselves thoroughly content with the understanding established between the K in g and themselves, and drew up a statement o f the bases on which they would recommend that the restoration should be proposed to the Assembly. These were communicated to the bureaux o f the R ight and] R ight Centre on Saturday, and are the following. The proclamation o f the Hereditary, National, and Constitutional Monarchy, with guarantees for equality before the law, liberty o f conscience, equal rights to offices and employments under the State, universal suffrage regulated by the Assembly and the Government, freedom o f the press in so far as is not adverse to public order and security, and the maintenance of the Tricolor ,flag ; it being reserved to the K in g to propose some modifications— such as the introduction o f the lilies on the white centre— should he wish to do so ; such modifications however to be introduced only in a constitutional manner by the Crown and Legislature. The K in g would then announce his acceptance o f the Crown, and would call on the Assembly to draw up a Constitution on the basis of that o f 18 14 . H e is reported to have said to the deputies that, as the Tricolor flag had become identified with the nation for so many years, he should o f course expect to see it everywhere on his return, and that any alteration in it which he might desire should not be effected in any other than a strictly Constitutional way.

THE MODERATE LEFT CENTRE

AND THE

LEFT.

The Right Centre were perfectly satisfied with this arrangement, and the votes o f deputies who were supposed to be wavering were thus secured. A great deal will depend on the conduct o f a large group o f deputies of the Left Centre, some o f whom under M. Target, now Minister at the Hague, played an important part in the overthrow of M . Thiers. Great pressure is accordingly put on them by the Republicans through those o f their constituents who are o f that political colour, and M. Target himself, M. Johnston, and Admiral Saisset, as well as the Marquis de Plœnc, have written in reply that they do not recognize the right o f any one to dictate their vote ; “ they will obey their own “ conscience.” Some sixty or eighty deputies have, it is reported, assumed this kind o f attitude, reserving the announcement of their intentions till ¡the last moment. The Republicans of course are busy, and at their ¡meetings express great confidence o f victory. M . Grévy published on

New Series. Vol, X. No. 259.

Saturday a pamphlet entitled The Necessary Government, in which he declares that “ France has been transformed, and “ has become a pure D em ocracy/’ that “ her first mistake was “ not to have founded a Constitutional Monarchy when “ she possessed the elements of one,” and that “ her “ second mistake would be to attempt to establish it when “ those elements no longer exist.” But as M. Thiers, in avowing not so long ago his preference for that form o f Government, declared that what rendered it impossible was the number o f claimants to the throne, and as this defect is now remedied by the reconciliation o f two o f them and the acknowledged impossibility o f the third, one does not exactly see how the elements o f a Constitutional Monarchy are more wanting now than at any previous time when M. Thiers, at least, was one o f its partizans. Statistics were produced at the meeting o f the Extreme Left on Monday, according to which it was clear that the Republicans would have a majority ; and it was announced that delegates from the departments were coming up to solicit the votes o f their deputies and to represent to Marshal MacMahon what they believe to be public opinion in the provinces. Such manoeuvres, however, will not have much influence on the result ; people are beginning to see that a few French R e publican elections, with a great many abstentions, do not necessarily mean that France is Republican, any more than a few English Conservative elections, with a great many abstentions, prove that England is Conservative. Accordingly, some o f our Liberal contemporaries are at present engaged in executing a movement which the French would describe as a “ quart de conversion k droite”— right half-face, as we should say.

Whether the Convocation o f the Assembly the form of should be hastened was left to be settled at a the opposi- meeting/ o f all the sections o f the R ight on the probable Wednesday. I t is not perhaps a matter o f majority. very great importance, as the difference be­

tween the date already fixed and the 27th or 28th inst., is one only of ten days. The correspondent o f the Times, who is known to draw his inspirations from the French Government, denies that Marshal MacMahon will be made Lieutenant-General o f the Kingdom, but affirms very positively that the majority may count on him to carry out its vote and to ensure the preservation o f order. H e adds that official news from all the departments confirm the impression that no rising is to be apprehended, and that the resolutions o f the Assembly will be received as legal decisions. I t is said, indeed, by some that the opposition o f the Republicans will take an indirect form, and will be confined to insisting on the discussion o f the future Constitution previously to any decisive vote. This is in itself a confession o f weakness. For the majority will first move their resolution that the