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D u m VOBIS G R A TU LAM U R , AN IM O S ET IAM ADDIM U S U T IN INCOEPTIS V E STR IS CON STAN TER M AN E A T IS .

From the Brief of His Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.'

Vol. 43. No. 1769. L o n d o n , M arch 7, 1874.

P r ice 5d. B y P o s t s ^ d .

[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 ew spaper

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

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The Opening of Parliament.— The New Writs.— Ministerial Appointments.— The Royal Household.— "New Peers : the Title of Carlingford.— The Bengal Famine.—The Central Chamber of Agriculture.— The Malt-tax.— The Orton Imposture : the Summing-up.— The Verdict and Sentence.— Writ o f Error. — Another Claimant.— The Elections in France.— The Prince Imperial.— M. Ollivier and the Academy.— The Government of Alsace-Lorraine.— Supplementary Falck Laws.— The Situation in Spain.— The Armenian Catholics. —Agitation in China and Japan . 289

CONTENTS

L e a d e r s :

Spanish Affairs Dangers in Irish Policy .. The Conservative Government

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and Italy . . •. •• •• 294 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C o n t e m p o r a r ie s :

Religious “ Bunkum” . . . . 295 R e v ie w s :

The Folk-Lore of Rome .. .. 297 Count de Montalembert’s Letters to a Schoolfellow . . .. .. 298 The Oxford Undergraduate of

Twenty Years Ago .. .. 299 S h o r t N o t i c e :

Sketches of the Rites and Customs of the Greco-Russian Church.. 300 Literary, Artistic, and Scientific

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C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

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The Poor Sehool Committee . 301 The Catholic University . . .. 301 Catholics and the Two Parties . . 301 The late Right Rev. Dr. Grant,

First Bishop of Southwark .. 302 The late M.P. for Dungarvan .. 302 Consecration of St. Joseph’s Me­

morial Church, Mill Hill .. 302 The Review of “ Man and Apes” 302 Circular Letter of the Bishops, &c. 303 R ome :

Letter from our own Correspondent 305 R ecord of G erm an P er secution :

Catholic Meeting in Berlin and the Centre Party .. .. . 306 The Old Catholics in Berlin .. 307 The Lantag and the Civil Mar­

riage B i l l .................................... 207

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II The New Press Law . . . . 307

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Social Dangers . . .. . . 307 Confiscations.. .. .. .. 307 D io c e s a n N ew s :

Westminster.. . . .. .. 307 Beverley —Birmingham—Clifton—

Liverpool— Scotland : Northern District .. .. .. .. 308 I r e l a n d : 1 Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent .. .. . . .. 308 F oreign N ews :

France . . .. .. .. 309 Russia . . .. .. . . 310 United States .. .. . . 310 I M em o r a n d a :

Legal .................................... 311 1 G en er a l N ew s ........................... 311

parliament.

CHRONICLE OF T H E W E E K .

------------ ♦ -------N Thursday the two Houses assembled to get through the necessary business,

which, in a new Parliament, must precede the delivery of the Queen’s Speech. There being no Speaker, “ Gentlemen” were summoned generally by the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod to the Upper House to hear the Royal Commission read. Thither they went, headed by their clerk, Sir Erskine May, and were requested to elect a Speaker. On their return, Mr. Chaplin, from the Ministerial benches, moved the election of Mr. Brand, who sat below the gangway on the Opposition side, mentioning the reasons connected with the business of the House and the personal qualifications of the late Speaker for departing from the usual rule of electing a Speaker from the ranks of the majority. Lord G. Cavendish followed in the same strain from the Opposition side, complimenting Mr. Brand and the House that no party considerations were allowed to interfere with his election, and the Speaker-Elect, after a modest speech, placing his services at the disposal of the House, was conducted by his mover and seconder to the chair, returned thanks, and was congratulated by Sir Percy Herbert for the Government, and by Mr. Gladstone ; after which the House adjourned to obtain the approval of the election by the Crown on the following day.

Mr. Cecil Raikes will, it is reported, be the new proposed by Government as successor in the Chairmanship of Committees to Mr. Benham Carter, who has lost his seat. And now that the Speaker has been elected and approved by the Crown the new writs for vacant seats will be issued. These will be for Buckinghamshire (Mr. Disraeli), South-West Lancashire (Mr. Cross), Oxford City (Mr. Gathorne Hardy), North Devon (Sir Stafford Northcote), North Northamptonshire (Mr. Ward Hunt), North Leicestershire (Lord John Manners), Liverpool (Lord Sandon), Chichester (Lord Henry Lennox), Dublin County (Colonel Taylor), North Staffordshire (Sir Charles Adderley), North Hampshire (Mr. Sclater-Booth), Shoreham (Mr. Cave), East Suffolk (Lord Mahon), North Lincolnshire (Mr. R. Winn), Portsmouth (Sir J. Elphinstone), South Devon (Sir Massey Lopes), Huntingdon (Sir J. Karslake), Mid Surrey (Sir R. Baggallay), Dublin University (Dr. Ball), Eye (Viscount Barrington), North Northumberland (Earl Percy), Monmouthshire (Lord Henry Somerset). These are the vacancies caused by the new appointments which are made directly by the Crown. The Under-Secretaryships which are in the gift of the Secretaries of State, and the Secretaryships to which other great officials appoint do not vacate seats in Parliament. In addition to these, writs will have to be

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moved for the city of Oxford in consequence of Mr. Cardwell’s elevation to thepeerage— he is to be Viscount Cardwell, not Viscount Rivington, of Ellerbeck— and for North Lancashire, for a similar reason, for Colonel Wilson-Patten is also to be made a peer as Baron Wyresdale, or Winmarleigh. Besides these another writ will be required in consequence of the double return of Mr. Callan for Dundalk and County Louth— probably for County Louth, as it is reported that Mr. Callan will elect to sit for the borough, and Mr. John Mitchell is talked o f as a candidate— and another for the borough of Galway, Viscount St. Lawrence having succeeded the day after his election, by the death of his father, to the Irish earldom of Howth. Parliament is to meet for the despatch of business on the 19th inst.

Mr. Disraeli has been taking his time about

MIAPPomT^L UP tbe Subordinate appointments, and it ments. ' s understood that the delay has been partly caused by the number and nearly equal claims of the candidates for office. The remaining Under-Secretaryship of State, that for the War Department, is given to Lord Pembroke; Lord Eustace Cecil is to succeed Sir Henry Storks as Surveyor-General of the Ordnance and head of the Control Department. The nomination of the Financial Secretary to the War Office will complete the staff of the five Secretaries of State’s offices. Lord Mahon, Mr. Rowland Winn, and Sir James Elphinstone, are the new Lords who together with the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer make up the Treasury, and we may note the absence of the Junior Lord from the sister island hitherto accustomed to act as Irish Whip. The Irish portion of the pack is, however, so considerably diminished as scarcely to require a special assistant to Mr. Hart Dyke. Lastly, the irrepressible Mr. G. C. Bentinck is made Secretary to the Board of Trade. In Ireland, the Lord Chancellorship is to be put in Commission, pending the settlement of the question of Irish Appeals in connection with the new Judicature A c t ; Dr. Ball is, as already mentioned, AttorneyGeneral, and a telegram from Dublin designates Mr. Ormsby, Q.C., as Solicitor General, and Mr. George May as law-adviser to the Castle.

The Household offices have been filled up royal H tbe nomination of Earl Beauchamp as Lord household. Steward, the Marquis of Hertford as Lord

Chamberlain— probably the best appointment which could have been made— and the Earl of Bradford as Master of the Horse; of Viscount Barrington as ViceChamberlain, Earl Percy as Treasurer, and Lord Henry Somerset as Controller of the Household; of the Earl of Hardwicke as Master of the Buckhounds, the Marquis of Exeter as Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms, and Lord