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From the Brie/ oj H is Holiness to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870.'

Vol. 44. No. 1797. London, S eptember 19, 1874.

P r ice 3d. B y P o st 5 ^ d

[ R eg i st e r e d a t th e G en e r a l P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper

•C h r o n ic l e o f t h e W e e k : —

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Rome.— Maine-et-Loire Election. — M. Guizot.— The Escape of Marshal Bazaine.— Personal Defence of Marshal Bazaine.— His .Military Defence.— His Political Defence.—The Carlist War.— Troubles at New Orleans.— The Czar and Don Carlos.— The Italian Persecution.— The Swiss Persecution.— Autumnal Celebrations.— History according to the “ Saturday Review " . . . . 353 X .EA DERS :

Serviceableness of the Kensington

College for Catholic Controversy 357 T h e Septennate and the French

E lectorate.. . . .. . . 358 The Irish Catholic University . . 358

L eaders (continued).

CONTENTS.

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C orrespondence :

Garibaldi .. .. . . . . 359 Old English Pilgrimages.— (IV.)

Walsingham .. . . . . 360 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C o n tem po r ar ie s :

Logic of Heresy and Unbelief . . 362 R e v ie w s :

Memoir of Thomas Ewing, of

Ohio................................... . . 363 The Life of Blessed Giovanni

A Suggestion....................... . The Pilgrim’s Progress Convent of the Faithful Virgin

Norwood, Surrey.. Corpus Christi Church.-

ponement o f the Opening St. Vincent’s Industrial School

Tanner’s Hill, S.E. R ome :

Colombini . . . . .. . . 364 Tales and Legends of the Tyrol . . 365 Little Lives and a Great Love . . 365 S hort N otices

The Two Guardians . . . . 366 The Revelations of St. Bridget .. 366 Old and New London .. .. 366 Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 366

Letter from our own Cor­

respondent

An Appeal The Pontigny Pilgrimage

The Archbishop of Wes

Sermon at Pontigny

Page • 367 D io ce san N e w s :■ Westminster .. ■ 367 Birmingham . . >» Beverley

367 Salford • 367 I r e l a n d : 1, Letter from our spondent ..

rForeign N ews :— France.. • 3% Prussia

Austria United States . 370 M em oranda :—

Educational .. 371 Gen e r a l N ews

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

ROME.

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T the Holy Father’s reception last week at the Vatican o f the students o f the Roman Seminary, according to a sum-

unary of the Allocution given in the Voce della Verità the Pope deplored the evils o f the time, and exhorted the rising generation o f the Catholic Clergy to preach penitence, and by their teaching and example to prepare the faithful to encounter fresh calamities. On Wednesday last the Holy Father gave a reception to about twenty French Parish Priests, who had come to Rome to express their devotion and loyalty to the person and office of the Sovereign Pontiff. M. de Corcelles, the French Ambassador to the Vatican, arrived at his post this week, v ia Marseilles and .Naples.

MAINE-ET .LOIRE ELEC­

TION.

No decisive result was arrived at on Sunday in the electoral contest which has attracted the eyes of all France— one might say o f Europe. The Republican candidate stands at the head o f the poll ; but the Imperialist and the Septennatist have polled together 6,6oo votes more than he. No candidate, therefore, being able to show an absolute majority o f the voters, the poll will have to be taken over again, and possibly with a very different result, for there were 50,800 abstentions on Sunday last. Possibly the Legitimists may pluck up heart of grace and defeat the Radical by giving support either to the Governmental or the Imperialist candidate. The latter gentleman seems to have reckoned so confidently on the recent successes of his party as to haveneglected the ordinary means of securing success in a contested election. The Republican party is remarkably jubilant over this, as yet, somewhat dubious victory, and the leading Republican journals of Paris, the Conservative Republican Débats, the infidel Republican S iede, and the Gambettisi République Erançaise unite in proclaiming a national reaction in favour of their principles and a collapse of the Imperialist cause. In this they are obviously premature, even as regards the Department o f Maine-et-Loire itself. A Bonapartist resurrection would probably be on the whole a calamity for France, but the angry terror with which it is regarded by the Radicals is grounded on the apprehension of possibilities, which, were they realized, would perhaps do something towards reconciling Catholics to the inevitable. Some particulars of the struggle and o f the share taken in it by the French Government appear in the letter o f our Paris Correspondent, who, writing from later information, gives the figures of the polling somewhat differently from those quoted in the Times. The second tour de scrutin takes place to-morrow (Sunday), and is looked forward to with breathless interest.

N ew Series. Vol. XII. No. 306.

O11 Saturday night M. Guizot, who had been ■ 0LIZ0T- for some time in an almost hopeless state, expired at his mansion o f Val Richer, Lisieux. He was o f all French statesmen perhaps the one most popular in England. He was a Protestant and moderate Conservative, and a Constitutionalist, and an admirer o f British institutions, and almost the only eminent Frenchman who attempted to acclimatize in France the uncongenial principle of political compromise, so dear to Englishmen, and which has worked so successfully amongst ourselves. As little as any of our own leading statesmen did he ever affect the virtue o f unbending consistency except in the one point o f an undying opposition to the Revolution, which he hated with a personal as well as with a public hatred ; his father having been guillotined as an “ aristocrat” at Nîmes under the Reign of Terror, and his mother with himself, then a child o f two years old, hunted into exile at Geneva. Under the Empire he held a professorship at Sorbonne ; under the Restoration he obtained the post o f Secretary-General at the Ministry o f the Interior, and subsequently at that of Public Instruction. In 1820 he resigned his Governmental posts, and in 1830 joined the Constitutional opposition to Prince Polignac. It was during that ten years of retirement that he produced the literary works upon which his fame as a writer chiefly rests. H e was absent from Paris during the Revolution of July, but after the fall o f Charles X. he was in his place in the Chamber, and there attempted to bring about a compromise between the K in g and the Revolution by advocating a return to those constitutional principles which the Polignac Administration with fatal effect had for a time subverted. The effort was in vain, and the smoke of the street-fighting had hardly cleared away when Guizot became a member of the Municipal Commission which undertook the provisional conduct o f affairs. After the accession of Louis Philippe, he held two successive high appointments under the brief Premiership o f Count Mole. From the Cabinet of Lafitte he held aloof. He supported the Casimir Périer Ministry, as also that o f the Duc de Broglie, which came to an end in 1836. His contest with Thiers, his former colleague, lasted until 1839, when he was appointed to succeed Marshal Sebastiani as Ambassador at London, and the year following he entered, as Minister o f Foreign Affairs, into the composition o f the Cabinet nominally presided over by Marshal Soult. From this time till the downfall o f Louis Philippe, the destinies o f France were practically in his hands. H e is responsible before the world and history for the worst acts of a bad reign, and especially for the infamous transaction o f the Spanish marriages, by which it was hoped 'to consolidate the dynasty of the Citizen-King, and to undo the work of the Peninsular War, by restoring the ancient