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THE TAB LET A Weekly Newspaper and Review
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From the Brief oj His Holiness to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870.
Voi. 46. No. 1844.
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•C h r o n ic l e o f t h e W e e k :—
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The O’Connell Centenary.— The Lord Mayor’s Banquet.— The Procession.— The National Banquet.— Explanations.— Other Celebrations of the Centenary.— Brutal Assaults.-Lord Oranmore's ■ Question.— The Coburg Story.— Irish School Teachers.— Mr. Plimsoll and the Board of Trade.— Sunday Legislation.— The Work o f the Session.— The War in • Spain.— The Revolt in the Herzegovina.— The Bishop of Paderborn. — “ Mary Tudor.” — The French Protestants and the Establishment.— Mr. Gladstone’s L a s t ............................................... 193
CONTENTS.
L e a d e r s :
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O ’Connell . . . . .. . . 197 Syndic Venturi at the Guildhall .. 198 Half-Hour Speeches .. . . 199 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C ontem po r ar ie s :
Talk and Work .........................199 R e v ie w s :
“ Queen Mary ” and “ Mary
Tudor ” . . . . . . . . 201 “ The Month ” for August . . 202 S hort N otices :
The Great Dominion . . . . 204 The Bric-à-brac Hunter . . . . 204 C hurch M usic ;
St. Cecilia’s Society’s Catalogue.. 204 C o r r e spondence :
The Question about Catholic
Voting . . .. . . . . 205 The Mission to the Blacks . . 205
C orrespondence (continued) :
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Louise Lateau .. .. .. 205 The Late Crystal Palace Festival o f the League .. . . .. 206 Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, Ca
tholic Schools Demonstration . . 206 P a r l ia m en t a r y S ummary . . 206 R ome :— Letter from our own Cor
respondent . . . .
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D io c e sa n N ew s :—
The O ’Connell Centenary (con
tinued) : The Banquet at the Mansion
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House .. .. . . . . 212 The Procession on Friday . . 214 The Grand National Banquet . . 214 Sunday at the Cathedral— Sermon by Mgr. C a p e l ......................... 215 Congratulatory Telegrams, & c . . . 215 Cardinal Manning and the Cen
tenary .................................... 215
Westminster . . . . . . . . 210 S o u th w a r k .................................210 Salford .................................... 210 I r e l a n d .— The O’Connell nary :— High Mass at the
CenteCathedral,
Dublin
F oreign N ews
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210 G en er a l N ews
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CHRONICLE OF TH E W EEK.
THE O’CONNELL CENTENARY. T
kH E event o f the week— that is o f the week since we last went to press— has o f course been the celebration of the O ’Connell Centenary. The festival has certainly been kept in a grandiose style— we wish that we could add, altogether without disturbance. Friday, the anniversary o f O ’Connell’s birth, was reserved for the national celebration, the Catholic celebration being on the previous day. Accordingly on Thursday the large Catholic Pro-Cathedral in Marlborough-street was filled to overflowing at the High Mass celebrated by the Bishop •of Limerick in the presence o f the Cardinal Archbishop o f Dublin and many other Irish prelates ; and among the English and foreign guests the Bishops of Northampton, Liverpool, Nantes, and Bâle, Bishop Strain, Vicar-Apostolic ofEdinburgh, Mgr. Nardi, Mgr. Rinaldini, Mgr. Capel, at least three members o f the German Reichstag, and many other distinguished persons. Lord Granard and the members o f the Irish Catholic Union were also present. A remarkable sermon was preached by the new Archbishop o f Cashel, late Bishop of Auckland, in New Zealand, which proves that an important addition has been made /to the list o f the great pulpit orators of Ireland.
In the evening about 280 guests were
■= S D entertained by the Lord Mayor at the Mansion ban q u e t . House, and the assemblage being for the most part Catholic the Pope’s health was drunk in the usual manner. Knowing that this would be done some persons are said to have declined the invitation, through an objection to giving precedence to the toast o f his Holiness, founded, we believe, on a misconception, and rather inexplicable when it is urged by those who have been long accustomed to the toast o f “ Church and Queen.” When spirituals are introduced they come before temporals, otherwise they are left out altogether, as was the case at the national banquet on Friday.
On the second day, we regret to say, there th e was not quite the same harmony in the propRocEssioN. ceedings. The procession was most imposing,
but the advocates o f an amnesty for the con
demned Fenians insisted on parading with black flags and fetters attached to them, and as no place had been assigned to them in the procession, they placed themselves in front of it. Thus, it would seem,theycame into conflictwith a certain guild or company o f coal-porters, to whom, as great ■ supporters of O ’Connell on all occasions, the honour of tforming the van of the procession had been assigned. Some o f these men, it would appear, cut the traces of the car belonging to the Amnesty Confederation, and forced them
N ew Series, V ol. XIV. No. 353.
to drop behind. Bui the Amnesty people forced their way to the platform where the oration in honour o f O ’Connell was to be delivered, and an unseemly scrimmage took place, the platform being escaladed, and the black flags and fetters shaken in the face of the Lord Mayor and other gentlemen with expressions of feeling which were by no means complimentary.
THE NATIONAL BANQUET.
The same differences broke out again at the banquet that night. A ll went well till about one o’clock in the morning, when the toast o f “ the legislative independence o f Ireland ” was drank, and Sir Charles Gavan Duffy rose to acknowledge it as arranged by the committee, whereas a great part o f the assembly insisted on having Mr. Butt instead. Each o f those gentlemen was of course perfectly willing to give way to the other, but the Lord Mayor insisted on maintaining the programme, and some others o f the company were equally determined to have their own w a y ; so that at last the Lord Mayor and his guests left the hall, and the banquet ended in utter confusion, the gas being turned off just as Mr. Butt began to address the company. We have not the least intention o f entering into the merits o f the quarrel— we should not do so even if we understood it, which we do not— but it is really a pity that at a national celebration o f this kind everybody could not agree entirely to forget the politics and personalities o f the hour in consideration of the memory of him whom all agree to venerate. There were no such disorders at the great meetings in O ’Connell’s time.
A meeting of the Amnesty party was held e x p l a n a t io n s . on Saturday in a field near Glasnevin Cemetery, but was speedily put an end to by a deluge o f rain, and there was not time to make the necessary preparations for a meeting which it was at first intended to hold in lieu o f it in the Rotunda on Monday evening. But there have been copious explanations of the disturbances which had disfigured an otherwise harmonious demonstration both in the Irish papers, and at meetings of the Corporation on Monday, of the Centenary Committee on Tuesday, and o f the Amnesty Association on Tuesday evening. Mr. P. J. Smyth, M.P., who had been accused of ordering the traces o f the Amnesty car to be cut, has denied the charge. Mr. Butt, it is explained, only wanted to say at the banquet that he was quite willing that Sir Charles Duffy should speak. Mr. Sullivan explains that there was no objection whatever to the last-named gentleman being heard, but that it was not generally known who he was, and the Lord Mayor having in his speech interpreted the legislative independence o f Ireland as “ Repeal of the Union ” instead of “ Home Rule,” there was an impression that the speakers had been chosen so as to give countenance to this view. Sir Charles Duffy again is said to have given an assurance that he did not intend to i
