THE TABLET
A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
D u m VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS U T IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the Brief oj His Holiness to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.
Voi. 45. No. 1820. London, F e b r u a r y 27, 1875.
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[R egistered a t the G eneral P ost O ffice as a N ewspaper.
'C hronicle of th e W eek-:—
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Mr. Gladstone’s Rejoinder.—The Wallon Senate Bill.— Summary of the Bill.— The Public Powers Bill. — The Vote on Mr. Mitchel’s Status.— Effect of his Possible Reelection.— Dr. Kenealy’s First Appearance.—The Judicature Bill. —The Land Titles and Transfer ¿Bill.— Foreign Loans.—The War in Spain.— General Moriones.— Discouragement at Madrid.— .Abolition of Compulsory Civil Marriage.—The Spanish Dynastic ■ Controversy.— The Treatment of
.Facts.—Army Exchanges.—The Anglican Episcopate. — Irish Church Missions to Roman Catholics .. .. .. .. 257
CONTENTS
L e a d e r s :
The Conservative-Radical Re
Page public .. .. .. .. 261 Lessons from the Irish Census,
1871 .. .. .. .. .. 261 The Callan Libel Case .. .. 262 Anti-Catholic Slanders, Oral and
Pictorial, in Rome .. .. 262 Our P rotestant C ontemporaries :
The Church of England .. .. 263 R eview s :
Manual of Universal Church
History .. .. .. .. 265 The Month .. .. .. .. 267 The Contemporary Review .. 267 Forty Years of American
Life .. .. .. .. .. 268 Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 269
C orrespondence:
Dr. Ne.vmans Letter to the Duke of Norfolk.. .. .. .. 269 Grammar Schools. — For Whom
Available .. .. .. .. 269 An Uncrowned King .. .. 270 Pilgrimage to Rome .. .. 270 Starvation on the Hills of Mon
mouthshire.. .. .. .. 270 P arliam entary Summary .. 270 R ome :— Letter from our own Cor
respondent .. .. .. 273 Peter’s Pence .. .. .. 274 Encyclical of His Holiness to the
Prussian Episcopate .. .. 274 D io cesan N ews :—Westminster—
Exposition of the Blessed Sacra
ment for the Forty Hours’ Prayer, during Lent, 1875 •• 275
D iocesan (continued) :
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Southwark .. .. .. .. 276 Beverley .. .. .. .. 276 Clifton .. .. .. .. 276 Hexham and Newcastle .. .. 276 Salford .. .. .. .. 276 I reland :
Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent .. .........................276 The Bishop of Ossory on the
Vatican Decrees .. .. .. 276 Foreign N ews
Germany .. . . .. .. 277 Poland .. .. .. .. 278 General N ews ........................... 279
C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .
REJOINDER. w
MR. •Gladstone’s
E have only been able to g ive a cursory glance to the rejoinder which Mr. G ladstone has put forth under the title o f “ Vaticanism .” But this glance suffices to ascertain that Mr. G ladstone not only maintains, but accentuates and intensifies his charges. And in his eagerness to d iscover discrepancies between Catholic divines he is led either to invent or exaggerate them, a process in which he w ill be largely assisted by his Protestant readers’ ignorance o f Catholic term inology. Nor will he fail for want o f slashin g assertions. W e find, for instance, the astounding statement that the settlem ent o f “ the tremendous controversies *'■ relating to the Godhead ” in the earlier ages o f the Church was effected “ without the infallible utterances o f the Pope, “ nay at three several times in opposition to Papal judgments “ now determ ined to have been heretical.” H e argues that •the absence o f any express “ distinction o f countries” in A rticle LX X V I I . o f the Syllabus proves that the maintenance o f an exclusive establishm ent o f the •Catholic religion is in tended to apply to all possible circum stances— a mistake which no Catholic -could possibly make— supporting his v iew by the singular •argument that F . Schrader had quoted Spain as a case in point. And he treats the observation made by Dr. Newman and others that “ in fallibility is not in sp iratio n ” as an -utterance made on the strength o f private judgm ent which they may very possibly have to retract, entirely ignoring the fact that this is a distinction which has been drawn by a lm ost every writer on the Catholic side. Moreover, he seem s to us entirely to lose sight o f the difference between the changing language o f men and the immutable ideas o f the Church. I t never seems to occur to him that some at least o f those English and Irish Catholics who at the end o f th e last century, or at the beginning o f this, repudiated the “ in fallibility ” o f the Pope, may have used the word in that ivide and loose sense in which it has not been affirmed by th e V a tican Council.
THE WALLON SENATE BILL.
T h e French A ssem b ly has found a way out o f what seemed to be a hopeless dead-lock, and a Senate B ill has been at length passed.
T h e fact is that the Left have been struck by the same panic about the Empire which drove the R igh t Centre into their arms, and they have been making important concessions in their turn. T h e y have no lik ing for a Senate o f any kind, but they would rather have a R epublic with a Senate than no R epublic at all. T h e new B ill indeed, as it was lik e ly to •come out— and eventually did come out— o f the hands of the Committee o f Thirty, they could not bring themselves to accept, for the nomination for life o f one-third o f the Senators
N ew S e r ie s . V o l . X III. No. 329.
by the President of the R epublic was in their opinion quite insufficiently balanced b y the election o f the rest by the Councils-General and Councils o f arrondissements and by the delegates from each M unicipal Council. Moreover, the votes of the delegates from the rural communes would enormously outnumber those o f the urban councils, and they would have preferred that the whole Senate should be e lected b y the Councils and delegates, and that an increase o f representation should be given to the towns. But when M. Wallon, who belongs to that group o f th eLeftCentre which approaches nearest to the R ig h t Centre, proposed an amendment tranferring the nomination for life o f nearly a third of the Senate from the President to the Assembly, first the L e ft Centre and then the Left began to consider seriously whether they should not accept it. T h e first step taken was a meeting between delegates from the R igh t and Left Centres, and the Left Centre requested those o f the R igh t Centre to ascertain whether Marshal M acM ahon was inexorably resolved to maintain his claim to nominate a third o f the Senators. T h e D ue d ’Audiffret Pasquier and M. Bocher were sent on this mission, and they went to two of the M in isters, who got a Cabinet Council immediately summoned a t the Elysée. T h e result o f its deliberations was that Marshal M acM ahon conceded the point, and the Left Centre were 3b pleased that they forthwith resolved to support the W allon amendment through th ick and thin. Soon afterwards the Left follow ed their example, influenced to a great extent by the arguments o f M. Gambetta and M. Bethmont, M. G révy being the only strong opponent o f this policy. So when on M onday M . Antonin Lefèvre-Pontalis brought up the report o f the Committee in its original shape, the whole o f the R ig h t Centre (except the D u c de Broglie) and all the sections o f the Left voted for urgency, and carried it. F irst W ednesday and then Tuesday (the anniversary o f the R epublic o f 1848) were then proposed for the discussion, but the H ouse decided to proceed to it at once. T h e R igh t then went out in a mass, and the sitting was suspended. On its resumption M. de Castellane declared that i f such votes were passed the R igh t would resign their seats, and not a single member o f that party would remain in the Assem b ly . T h e discussion o f the amendments then began. T h e resolve taken by the Left to reject all amendments but M . W a llon ’s, even though they should be in them selves pleasing to them, was immediately put to the test, for M . R aoul Duval attem pted to detach them from the coalition by moving again M . Pascal Dupral’s amendment for the election o f all Senators by universal suffrage. T h e Left, however, only laughed, and nobody voted for the amendment but the Bonapartists. Then came a motion for adjournment, which was rejected, as well as an amendment givin g th e Presidentarightto appoint one-third o fth eSenatefrom