THE TABLET
A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
D u m VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the Brief of His Holiness to The Tablet, Junt 4, 1870.
Vol. 45. No. 1828. L o n d o n , A p r i l 24, 1875.
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'C hronicle of th e W e e k :—
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Germany and Belgium.--Germany, Belgium, and England.—Prince Bismarck on the Church Laws.— The Crusade against the Catholic •Church.— “ Privilege ” in Select Committees.— Special Report of the Select Committee.—The Orton-Kenealy Debates. — Dr. Kenealy’s Motion.— Mr. Whalley —Dr. Kenealy—the fl English.man.”— Mr. Whalley and the Lord Chief Justice.—The Re
fusals to Present Petitions.—The Budget.—Army Organization.— The Burials Bill.— Spanish Reprisals.— Resumption of Hostilities ................................................513
CONTENTS.
L e a d e r s :
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Irish and Scotch Universities . . 517 Garibaldi and the New Port of
Rome .. .. .. .. 517 The Reform of Church Music .. 518 Our P rotestant C ontemporaries :
The Last Word of Anglicanism .. 520 R eview s :
The Last Journals of David
Livingstone in Central Africa from 1865 to his Death .. .. 521 Dr. Kavanagh’s Reply to “ Vati
canism ” .. .. .. .. 523 Short N otices :
Catechism made Easy .. . . 524 The Life of St. Paul o f the Cross 524 On the Wing.. .. .. .. 524 Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 524
C orrespondence :
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Irish College Education .. .. 525 Church Music .. .. .. 525 Church of the Holy Child and St.
Joseph, Bedford .. .. .. 526 Church of Corpus Christi.. .. 526 The Bishop of Paderborn.. .. 526 Clandestimty .. .. .. 526 Catholics and the Seamen’s Hos
pital, Greenwich .. .. . . 526 The Lock-out in South Wales .. 526 P arliam entary Summary . . 527 R ome :— Letter from our own Cor
respondent .. .. .. 529 D io cesan N ews :—
Westminster—Addresses to the
Cardinal Archbishop .. • • 531
D iocesan (continued) :
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Southwark .. . . .. . . 533 Beverley .. .. . . .. 533 Newport and Menevia .. . . 534 &dford 534 I reland :
Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent ..
534
M emoranda :—
Catholic Union—Catholic Union of Great Britain .. .. .. 534 Educational—Catholic University
College, Kensington .. . . 534 General N ews .............................. 536
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
GERMANY
AND BELGIUM.
\ S we stated last week, the correspondence between Belgium and Germany respecting the duties o f neutrals is not at an end. T h e Berlin Cabinet have replied to Count d ’A spre-
m onl-Lynden’s note in a despatch dated the 15 th inst., which g iv e s a more general turn to the subject, stating, according to the Journal d 'Anvers, that “ in v iew o f the progress o f “ civilization the old rules o f international law are no longer “ sufficient, and that it would be desirable to la y down new “ regulations, so that each State may more effectually pro“ tect the Governm ents o f other countries.” A nd, accordin g to a R euter’s telegram , the despatch further states that the Im perial Chancellor has actually submitted to the proper authorities proposals for rem edying these defects in G ermany’s own laws. Belgium is requested to follow the example, and it is declared to be desirable that all other States which have an interest in the question should com e to an understanding about it by means of a Congress. T h is is probably the point up to which Prince B ism arck has been working a ll along, and it would doubtless be as convenient to put a check by means o f a Congress on the criticism o f the press and o f individuals as it would be to hamper by the same means the defence o f a non-military or weaker nation. W e have now the text o f the Belgian note, to which this is an answer, and one paragraph which it contains looks as i f it had furnished Prince B ism arck with a starting-point for the line which he has follow ed out in his rejoinder. “ Assuredly,” wrote Count d ’A sprem ont, “ i f the
“ majority o f the nations o f Europe, or at least some o f “ them, were to modify their penal laws so as to reach and “ punish the offence o f making a verbal or written proposal, “ with the v iew o f finding an accom p lice in an intended “ crime or misdemeanour, even when this proposal, instead “ o f being accepted, was rejected with indignation, then “ Belgium would have to examine this grave problem o f “ crim inal law, and would probably follow a movement, in “ which it cannot be her place, as it would appear, to take “ the lead.” A s to this particular proposal o f the tinker Duchesne, Count d ’A sprem ont observes that the German Legation at Brussels suggested no measure which was not immediately taken, and made no demand which was not forthwith satisfied. There was indeed one exception ; this was a proposal o f the German Legation that an answer from the A rchbishop o f Paris should be forged, with a v iew , it m ay be supposed, o f leading to further action on Duchesne’s part. T h is the Belgian Governm ent set aside, and no wonder— but as when H err von Balan returned to the Legation he also “ energetically condemned it,” this could scarcely be made a ground o f complaint against the Belgians.
New Series. V ol. X III. No. 337.
On M onday a question was asked in each belgiumNand H ouse Parliam ent respecting the diplom atic
England, correspondence between Germany and B e l
gium. Lord Russell o f course dropped the first h a lf o f his question— whether Lord D erby considered that correspondence to be term inated— as he had learnt that a further note had been sent by Germany to Belgium , but he inquired whether the incident inspired the Foreign Secretary with any fears for the peace o f Europe. H e stated his own v iew to be that la id down b y Lord H awkesbury in 1802, when v io lent libels against the F irst Council were being published in this country. T h a t M in ister, while “ je a lo u s ly “ upholding the liberty o f the press,” maintained, on the authority o f “ eminent lawyers,” that “ the country would “ be guilty o f a breach of am ity ” i f it d id not proceed against the publishers o f such libels. T h e A tto rney d id prosecute, and, in spite o f a defence b y Sir James M a c kintosh, those persons would have been punished i f it had not been ior the outbreak o f the war in Egypt. T h e application o f these principles, Lord Russell thought, was all that Germany had asked for, and to carry them out no interference with the existing law o f nations would be necessary. Lord D erby’s answer was that the first German note had been correctly described by the Prim e M inister as a friendly remonstrance rather than a menace ; the second had only reached him that afternoon, and he had not had tim e for more than a superficial examination o f it, but he was authorized b y the German Ambassador to say that it was “ conceived in an entirely friendly spirit,” and he had heard a similar description o f it from other quarters. When the in tended reply has been made known to the Belgian Chamber, and the whole correspondence is in Lord D erby’s hands, he will la y it before Parliam ent. N o formal reference to the English Governm ent has been made by either p a r ty ; i f it is made— and Lord D erby “ will not pretend to “ say that it may not be ”— it will be made, not to England alone, but to all the Guaranteeing Powers. European opinion has, in Lord D e rby’s opinion, considerably exaggerated the im portance o f the incident, and he has “ no un“ easiness about the in tegrity and independence o f Belgium .” In the other House M a jo r O ’R e i lly asked whether Germany had in 1874, and also after the accession o f the present G o vernment to office, proposed to England to address Belgium on the subject o f “ the U ltram ontane a g ita t io n ” there, and Mr. D israeli replied that in January, 1874, Prince B ism arck had made a strong representation to the Belgian Government, and had suggested that the English Governm ent should support those representations. T o this Lord G ranv ille replied, in conversation with the German Ambassador,
that Belgium had always shown itself exceedingly careful not to to g ive offence to its neighbours, and he expressed