THE TABLET
A IVeekly Newspaper and Review.
D u m VO B IS G R A TU L AM U R , A N IM O S ET IAM ADDIM U S U T IN IN CCEPTIS V E S TR IS CON S TAN TER M AN E A T IS .
From the Brief of H is Holiness to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.
Vol. 45. No. 1821. L o n don , M arch 6 , 1875.
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C hronicle of the W e e k :—
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The Archbishop of Westminster.— The Archbishop of Westminster and Mr. Gladstone.— The Irish Coercion Acts.— Tenant Right.— The Judicature and Land Transfer Bill.— Coroners’ Inquests.-Report -on the Bonapartist Intrigues.— The New French Ministry.— The Threatened Resignation of the .Right.— Spanish News.— More "Fighting.— Spain and Turkey.— The Conflict in Germany.—The Persecution in Switzerland.— The ■ **Work of St. Paul.”— Excavations at Ephesus.— The Old Burying-grounds o f St. Pancras and St. Giles’s.— Anglican Church Patronage .. . . . . .. 289
CONTENTS
L e a d e r s :
The Russian Persecution o f the
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Polish Church . . .. . . 293 The Irish Church Surplus.. .. 293 Prisons and Churches in Italy .. 294 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C on tem po r a r ie s :
Our Own Times . . . . . . 295 R e v ie w s :
The Internal Mission of the Holy
Ghost .. . . . . .. 297 Bossuet and his Contemporaries.. 299 S hort N o t ic e :
Debrett’s House of Commons . . 300 N ew M usic :
See Here is the Rose.— Bright
Eyes .. .. . . . . 300 Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 300
C o r r e s pondence :
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Grammar Schools . . .. 301 Logic and Conscience .. . . 301 An Appeal for Starving Children 302 Distress in Monmouthshire . . 302 Distress in South Wales .. . . 302 P a r l ia m e n t a r y S ummary . . 302 R ome :— Letter from our own Cor
respondent . . . . . . 305 D io c e sa n N ew s :—Westminster—
Exposition o f the Blessed Sacra
ment for the Forty Hours’ Prayer, during Lent, 1875 . . 307 Southwark .. . . .. . . 307 Beverley .. .. . . . . 307
D iocesan (continued) :
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Clifton .. .. . . , . 307 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 307 Newport and Menevia . . . . 307 Shrewsbury .. .. . . . . 308 I r e l a n d :
Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent .................................... 308 The Cardinal-Archbishop.. . . 308 Mr. Bright on Home Rule . . 309 Foreign N ews
France............................................... 310 Germany .. . . . . . . 3 1 1 G en e r a l N ew s . . . . . . 312
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
THE ARCHBISHOP OF
WESTMINSTER.
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WE have to make an announcement which will give as much pleasure to the English Catholic public as we ourselves feel in making it. We have reason to believe that the Archbishop of Westminster be raised to the dignity o f Cardinal, and his London yesterday for Rome in order to be the Consisto.ry which will be held about the cniddle o f this month, and at which his formal elevation to the Cardinalate will take place. It is rumoured that Mgr. Deschamps, Archbishop of Malines and Primate o f Belgium, will be promoted to the Sacred College on the same •occasion.
We have hitherto abstained from taking any t h e a r c h - notice o f the concluding passage in the Appen= ,°F dices to Mr. Gladstone’s last pamphlet, feeling s t e r a n d m b . that it was open to misconstruction, and might Gl a d s t o n e , very possibly be corrected by the author in a subsequent edition. We are glad to see that
•this has been done. In the first edition Mr. Gladstone objected to the statement that his “ Expostulation ” was “ the “ first event which had overcast a friendship o f forty-five
‘ years ” between the Archbishop o f Westminster and himself— words which might have appeared to suggest the impression that some personal disagreement had divided them. In the second edition Mr. Gladstone substitutes the following paragraph :— “ Archbishop Manning has stated that a “ friendship of forty-five years between us had, for the first ■“ time, been overcast by the publication of my pamphlet on “ ‘ The Vatican Decrees.’ The Archbishop, however, has “ himself mentioned in print on a former occasion that the 4t intercourse o f this friendship was suspended for twelve “ years after 1851, the date o f his secession. I may add “ that he appeared to view my words and acts, in relation “ to the Temporal Power o f the Pope, in much the same ■“ light as the recent tract. From 1851 onwards the dictates “ o f conscience on either side were in conflict, and they
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led to public divergence, without any private variance.”
On Monday the Government announced their intentions with regard to the Irish Coercion acts. Acts, and the course which they have adopted is one which was sure to excite a strong oppo
sition from the representatives o f Ireland. They acknowledge that the state of that country is greatly improved, but as they think that they have reason to believe that improvement to be largely attributable to the fear inspired by the existing laws, they are not prepared to propose the entire repeal of them. But something they will do. The provisions giving the Lord-Lieutenant an arbitrary power over the press
New Series. V ol. XIII. No. 330.
are to be rescinded. As a matter o f fact, since the law came into operation, only five newspapers have been warned and J none have ever been suspended, so that its discontinuance will not be severely felt. But although during the last year there has been no arrest in Westmeath under the Crime and Out
rage Act, the Government has been informed by the paid and unpaid magistrates of that county that the Ribbon organization still exists, ready to spring into activity as scon as the check o f coercive legislation is removed, so that they intend | to continue that Act for the present— it expires at the end of | June, as does the Peace Preservation A c t— holding out hopes i that it may be possible gradually to drop all exceptional | legislation whatsoever. For the same reason, and because of j the continued existence of agrarian crime in one form or the other, they maintain the prohibition against the unlicensed carrying o f arms, but they diminish the penalty from two years’ imprisonment with hard labour to one year’s imprisonment without it. The opposition offered to this policy by the Irish Nationalist party is o f course unanimous, and will be stronger at the future stages o f the Bill than at the first reading. T o the argument based on the information derived from the magistrates, they reply that Irish magistrates are mostly stipendiaries drawn from a class hostile to the people, but the Government is apparently inclined to think that it must take the opinion o f such magistrates as it has got, until the need o f .exceptional institutions ceases and the justiciary organization of the whole United Kingdom can be rendered uniform. Lord Hartington, as might have been expected, gave a cordial support to the Bill, and it was perhaps natural that he should have been nevertheless unable to abstain from | twitting the Government with its seeming change of opinion, | or from quoting Mr. Disraeli’s electioneering statement, that i “ Ireland was at present governed by laws o f such stringent j “ severity as was unknown in any other quarter o f the | “ globe.” Lord Hartington’s reply to the comparison | frequently drawn between the amount o f crime in England [ and in Ireland will also be remembered— for him or against him. “ In England,” he said, “ crime is an attack on the j “ part o f an individual against other individuals, but in j “ Ireland it is an attack by a society, or by a large part of 1 “ society, on individuals.” But what does Lord Flartington Imake o f rattening and kindred crimes ? It does not always j answer to be too epigrammatic.
The deputation o f English tenant farmers and tenant their friends who were received by Mr. Disraeli r ight, on Tuesday were not told anything very defi
nite, but what they heard was enough to send them away, as Sir John St. Aubyn put it, “ with feelings o f “ considerable encouragement.” The Government have got a Bill which they mean to introduce in a few days, and which Mr. Disraeli believes “ will give great and general