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D u m v o b i s g r a t u l a m u r , a n im o s e t i a m a d d im u s u t i n i n c c e p t i s v e s t r i s c o n s t a n t e r m a n e a t i s .

From the Brie] of His Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.

Vol. 46. No. 1849. L o n d o n , S e p t e m b e r 18, 1875.

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C hronicle of the Week :—

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The Consistory.— The Pope and the French Pilgrims.-The “ Times’" and the Bishop of Kerry.— Servia and the Insurrection,— Plans of the Insurgents.—The la test Prognostics respecting the Insurrection. —Ministerial Crisis in Spain.—The ■ Carlists.—Admiral la Ronciere.— The Orleanists on the Letters to the Comte de Chambord.— Failure of the Transcaspian Expedition.— The New Indian Tariffs.—The ¿Prince’s Visit to India.—A Japanese Parliament.— Mill-Hill Missionary College. — An Address at Hawarden.—The Whitechapel Murder ............................................... 353

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L eaders:

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Secret Societies in Russia .. .. 357 The Congress at Freiburg.. .. 357 A Vienna Anniversary .. .. 359 The German Pilgrimage .. .. 359 Organs of Public Opinion .. .. 360 j The Report of the Westminster

Education Fund .. .. .. 360 Speech of the Pope to the French

Pilgrims from Laval .. .. 361 Mr. Gladstone on Mental Culture 362 Reviews :

Rational Philosophy .. .. 363 White’s Selborne .. .. .. 364 Molesworth’s History of England 365 Anglicanism, Old Catholicism, and the Union of the Episcopal Churches .. .. .. .. 3^5

Short Notices :

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Shakespeare . . .. .. .. 366 Shakespearian Dictionary.. .. 366 Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 366 C ORRESPONDENCE:

St. Edmund’s, Mill Wall .. .. 367 The English Reformation and

Foreign Mercenaries ..........367 Society and Crime .. . . .. 367 Rome :—Letter from our own Cor­

respondent .. ., .. 369

D iocesan N ews :—

Westminster ..

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D iocesan (continued);

Birmingham .. Hexham and Newcastle .. Liverpool Nottingham .. Salford Ireland:

The Maynooth Synod

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Foreign N ews

F ranee.................................... Germany Austria The Gratwein Catastrophe •• 375 Memoranda :—

Religious ......................... General News

C H R O N IC L E O F T H E W E E K .

THE CONSISTORY

A C C O R D IN G to the latest in telligence the

A Consistory at which Cardinal MacCiosk ey was to receive his “ title ” and ring,

and the other Cardinals were to be proclaim ed, was fixed for yesterday, the 17 th, and as certain form alities concerning "the appointments o f some o f the B ishops who were to have been preconized on the same occasion could not be com p leted by that day, the p ieconizations were to be postponed till the next Consistory, to be held p robably in November. Cardinal M acC lo skey has chosen as his title the Church o f Sta. M aria sopra Minervam.

THE POPE AND THE

FRENCH PILGRIMS.

A summary o f the reply o f his Holiness to the French pilgrim s will be found in another part o f our columns, and we desire here to direct special attention to it, not only because it is an utterance o f the H o ly Father, but also on account o f the wide range o f subjects embraced by it, and its general view o f the persecution o f the Church in so many ■ countries o f the world.

T h e lim e s is very severe on the B ishop o f t h e “ t im e s ” ]£erry. j n his sermon before the Irish National ihshop^of Synod at Maynooth the B ishop denounced k e r r y . “ the wickedness and immorality o f the world.”

T h e Times admits that “ there is abundant

•“ room for amendment in every quarter," but it protests against the idea that the spirit o f the present day is “ a “ w icked A theism seeking to upset a ll belief, not merely in “ God, but in morality and virtue.” “ I f there be one dis■“ tinctive peculiarity o f the present time it is that attacks “ against specific religious creeds are not simultaneously 41 d irected against morality and virtue.” W e are not prepared to deny that, in this country at least, this is a feature o f the time, but we do deny that it is a distinctive peculiarity o f it. T h e French philosophers o f the eighteenth century were quite as strong upon morality and virtue as any nonChristian moralist o f the present day, and we know what their negations o f religion and affirmations o f morality developed into. Moreover, however true the statem ent of the l im e s may be with regard to the generality o f English writers, it is not applicable to a certain class o f thinkers even in this country, nor to a far larger number o f anti-religious people on the Continent. A Russian or German infidel will avow, what an English unbeliever is often shy o f saying, that in his opinion right and wrong, moral good and evil, are purely relative terms, and mean nothing but that one course o f action is in the long run beneficial to society, and the other injurious to it. I f this is what the l im es meant by enthusiasm on behalf o f morality and virtue we have nothing more to say. But the fact is that the Continental antago

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n ist o f Christianity has merely fallen a little further than his English brother down a slope on which it is impossible for either to arrest his descent. W ithout religious sanctions morality soon becomes nothing more than the fear o f detection. But this is not the only exception which we have to take to the criticism o f the lim es. I t complains that B ishop Moriarty declaim s, perhaps “ by force of professional habit,” about the persecutions in Germany, and states, as its own view o f the matter, that the clergy “ are not the only persons “ in Germany who are fined and imprisoned,” and that “ the “ Press o f that country is at this moment in quite as evil “ case. Putting their condition at its worst,” continues the Times, “ it is sim ply that their claim s are not taken for “ granted, that they have to defend them by reason instead “ o f by authority, and that the law assures their opponents “ as fair a hearing as them selves.” T h is is the way in which facts are made pleasant for the English public, which does not like persecution, and is very glad to be assured that the German Catholics are not ill-treated after all. But on the very day on which this article appeared in the l im es we had occasion to publish certain facts. We shall refer to them again in order that it may be seen whether the lim e s ' account o f the position of the Church, which might be not unfairly applied to it in England, is an adequate statem ent of what it has to endure in Germany. When the c lergy o f a parish are dismissed, the people have, o f course, to go without Mass and the Sacraments, unless another priest is put in tem porarily by the B ishop to perform the duties ; and as we stated last week, at T ill, in the district o f C leve, a notice has ju s t been served upon H err Selders, a priest who has been officiating temporarily under these circum stances, that he “ must “ cease from exercising spiritual functions in a parish which “ has net been permanently conferred upon him.” The laity, therefore, will have to go without the rites of their religion ; is this merely that the clergy “ have to defend their claim s “ by reason instead o f by authority ” i Next, in the diocese o f Posen, the Cardinal Archbishop being in prison— to which he has been committed for two years for the perform ance o f episcopal and strictly spiritual acts— his two auxiliary Bishops, Mgrs. Janiszewski and Cybichowski, have been banished, the former for having administered the Sacrament o f Confirmation, the latter for having blessed the holy oils on M aundy Thursday without having received permission from the Governor o f the Province. T h e la ity, therefore, have to go without Confirmation, and in the end without extrem e unction. Is this merely that the clergy “ have to defend their claim s by reason instead o f by “ authority ”? Moreover, in the same diocese “ thirty-two “ parishes are without priests, twenty-one other parishes “ were destitute o f proper spiritual assistance (owing to the “ imprisonment o f their clergymen) during the great festivals