THE TABLET

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

D u m VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCOEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the B r ie f o f H is Holiness to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870.

Vol. 43. No. 1780.

L o n d o n , M a y 23, 1874.

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C hronicle of th e W e e k : —

Past Persecutions.—The Visit of ¡the Tsar.—Canards.— Kashgar.— The Court of Final Appeal.— Home Rule.-Whitsun-Monday.— The Fiji Islands.— Black and White in Queensland.— Canon Toole on Board Schools.— The Defeat of the French Government. —Resignation of the Ministry.— The Difficulties of the Crisis.— Break-up of the Majority.—The Spanish Ministry.— The End of a Coalition.— Marshal Concha and the Carlists.— The Greatness of Catholic Spain.— Elections .. 641

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L eaders :

The College of Higher Studies in

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London ......................... .. 645 Debate in the Senate of Dublin

University.. .. .. .. 645 St. Clement's in Rome .. .. 647 O ur P rotestant C ontemporaries:

Reformers, Conservatives, De­

fenders of the Establishment .. 648 R eview s :

A Comparison between the History of the Church and the Prophecies of the Apocalypse .. 649 A Brief Memoir of the Princess

Charlotte of Wales .. .. 650 The Dublin Review .. . .6 5 1 Short N otices :

Illustrations of Art Manufactures 652 Brick & Marble in the Middle Ages 652

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New Music .. .. .. .. 652 Literary, Artistic, and Scientific

G o s s ip .............................................652 C orrespondence:

The Lock-out in the Eastern

Counties .. .. .. .. 653 The Rosary .. .. .. .. 654 Orphanage of the Sacred Heart,

Wigton, Cumberland .. .. 654 The Catholic Deaf and Dumb

Institute .. .. .. .. 654 St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Brook

Green .. .. .. .. 654 The Society of Nazareth .. _.. 654 Indian Civil Service Examination 654 “ Ex-Cathedra” .. .. .. 634 Parliamentary I ntelligence .. 654 R ome :

Letterfromour ownCorrespondent 657

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Peter’s Pence . . .. .. 658 R ecord of G erman P ersecution :

The Landtag and the New Eccle­

siastical Legislation .. .. 658 D io cesan N ews :

Westminster .. .. .. . . 659 Southwark .. . . .. .. 659 Beverley .. .. .. .. 660 Hexham and Newcastle .. .. 660 I reland :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent .. .. . . .. 660 F oreign N ews :—

India.— Australia .. .. .. 661 M emoranda :

Religious .. .. .. . . 66r Educational .. .. .. .. 663» General N ews .........................663

CHRONICLE OF THE W EEK.

PAST PERSECUTIONS.

T'H E outbreak in so many parts o f the world o f persecution in one shape or another, and the general spread o f the warfare waged by the Secular Power against the Church, have suggested to us that a retrospective v iew o f past persecutions would not be without its use. H istory repeats itself, and the fortunes and results o f former attempts to bring the Christian Church into servitude to the C iv il Power will be ¡specially instructive at the present moment. W e intend, therefore, to publish, in the form o f supplements to the T a b let, a series o f articles on this subject, the first o f which will appear at the beginn ing o f June.

T h e T sar’s v isit to London term inated on

T thetsar° F Thursday > when, after attending H igh Mass with his daughter and son at the chapel o f the

Russian Embassy— i t being Ascension D a y according to the Russian computation— H is Im perial M ajesty started by train for Gravesend at 12.30 on his homeward journey. H is visit has been well filled up with sight-seeing and festivity. A fter partaking o f the royal hospitalities o f W indsor and Marlborough House, he visited on Saturday the Im perial widow o f Chislehurst; returning, he first lionized the Palace and A bbey o f Westminster, and then attended a f e t e at the C rystal Palace. On Sunday the T sar heard Mass, lunched with the Queen at W indsor, and dined with the Prince o f W ales at Chiswick ; M onday was occupied by the inevitable banquet at Guildhall and a concert at Kensington. On Tuesday, the T sa r was shown our 15,000 troops at A idershot, and on W ednesday our great guns in construction, and our field artillery in exercise at Woolwich.

ju s t nowcanards have been unusually plentiful,

canards. or> we should rather say, the papers have been unusually ready to admit them into their columns. W e have had gossip about a question o f precedence between R oyal personages, a question which we have reason to believe was satisfactorily settled, in accordance with usage and regulation, before the recent R o yal marriage 3 we have had the statem ent o f a contemporary which we noticed last week, with regard to the Speaker’s supposed criticism on the tone o f the debates, a statem ent which Mr. B rand completely contradicted on M onday in reply to a complaint o f Mr. H erbert that the paragraph in question was a breach o f privilege 3 and, lastly, most im portant o f all, we have had a leading article in the T im es on words a lleged to have been uttered b y the Emperor o f Russia at his reception o f the D ip lom atic B ody on Friday week. H is Majesty, it was asserted, “ took the opportunity o f saying something on the “ subject which the world has most at heart,” “ declared

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“ that to preserve the peace o f the Continent was the policy “ o f Russia,” and “ expressed a hope that the principal “ Governments o f Europe would be found united for this “ common purpose.” T h e news was immediately “ officially ” telegraphed to Berlin, where, as the D a i ly Telegraph Correspondent informs us, it produced a “ p ro foundly satisfactory “ impression.” Unfortunately, it was not long before a doubt arose whether the Emperor ever made the speech at all. T h e M o rn in g P o s t has “ reason to believe ” that he never did, and that he “ d id not make any declaration to “ the Ambassadors and Ministers co lle c t iv e ly ." W e are not told, however, that he did not say something o f the k ind to one o f them in d iv id u a lly ; but, if he did, we may be quite certain that it was only one o f those commonplaces which mean no more than that the speaker desires to be on good terms with everybody. On such an occasion anything more would have been out o f place, and the attem pt to make anything more o f it was sure to be met with a contradiction.

S ince our last issue S ir Charles D ilk e has k a sh g a r . again called attention to the desirability o f recognizing the independence o f the Ameer o f

Kashgar, and o f defining the lim its o f his territory. H is former question was put aside on the ground that the treaty negotiated by Mr. Forsyth had not then com e to h a n d 3 but this tim e Lord G eorge Hamilton was able to g ive a more satisfactory answer. Sir Charles D ilk e ’s point was that the Ameer was not recognized by Russia, and that as there were 8.000 Russian troops within distances varying from three to ten days’ march from Y a k o o b K h an ’s capital, Russia m ight at any tim e occupy the country on behalf o f China, which lays claim to i t 3 and that a mere commercial treaty such as ours would not be considered in the East as a recognition by England o f its independence, or as any bar to an invasion o f it. T o this Lord George Hamilton was able to reply that the preamble o f the new treaty, which he would lay on the table, contained a most d istinct recognition o f the Ameer, as it was there stated that the engagements were entered in to with him, his heirs, and successors. Prince G ortschakoff had to ld S ir Andrew Buchanan, in 1869, that he had said to Mr. Forsyth that though the A ta lik Ghazee, as he was then called, had established a de fa c to Government, Russia, which had treaties with China, could not enter into diplom atic relations with a successful insurgent against the authority o f the Chinese Emperor 3 and on Sir Andrew’s combating this view, had empowered him to tell the A ta lik Ghazee on his, Prince G ortschakoff’s authority, that “ Russia had no hostile intentions towards him, or any desire to make conquests in his territories ” ; and a despatch from Mr. Forsyth o f the same date transmits the account o f an interview with the Russian Chancellor, in which the la tter stated that “ i f Y a koob B ey proved a good neighbour, the