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 T h e T a b l e t , Jnnt 4, 1870.

Vol. 46. No. 1857. London, November 13, 1875.

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[R egistered a t the General P ost O ffice as a N ewspaper

C hronicle of th e W e e k :—

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The Prince’s Arrival in India.— The Fugitive Slave Circular.— The Speeches at Guildhall.— Mr. Disraeli’s Review of the Situation. —Mr. Forster on our Colonial Empire.—The Controversy on Communion.—The Cathedral of New York.—The Pope and Freemasonry.— The French Assembly. — T h e “ Scrutin” and the Dissolution.—The Turkish Problem.— The Outbreak in the Straits of Malacca.—The United States and Cuba.—The War in the North of •Spain.—The Cortes and the Sagasta Party.—The Sources of the Nile .. .. .. .. .. 609

CONTENTS

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L e a d e r s :

The Situation in France .. . . 613 The National Society and Unfair

Rating ....................................613 The Visit of Cardinal MacCloskey 614 Ministerial Plan of Campaign against the Church in Italy .. 614 Fictitious Appeals to a General

Council.— II. .. •• •• 615 R eviews :

The Dublin Review.. .. .. 617 The Sacrifice of the Eucharist .. 618 Textile Fabrics .........................619 Short N otices :

Missions des Oblats de Marie .. 620 The Province of Psychology .. 620 Vivisection .. .. .. .. 620

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Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 620 C orrespondence :

Parker at Stoke .. .. ... 621 Freemasonry as It Is .. .. 622 Dr. Johnson on Communion in

One Kind .. .. .. .. 623 Secularism— education .. .. 623 An A p p e a l ....................................623 R ome :— Letter from our own Cor­

respondent .........................625 Peter’s Pence D io cesan N ews :—

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Westminster ..

D iocesan (continued) ;

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Beverley .. .. .. .. 627 Birmingham .. .. .. .. 627 Clifton.. .. .. .. .. 627 Newport and Menevia .. .. 627 I reland :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent .. ........................ 628 Foreign N ews :—

Germany .. .. .. .. 628 Bavaria .. .. .. .. 629 Poland .. .. .. .. 629 Memoranda :—

Religious .. .. .. .. 630 Educational .. .. .. ..6 3 1 General N ews . . .. .. 631

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

THE PRINCE’S ARRIVAL IN

INDIA.

Asun was afforded by the news o f the Prince o f W ales’s arrival in India. On

S T R I K IN G instance o f the way in which the telegraph outstrips the

M onday morning at about six o’clock an early riser m ight have purchased a copy o f the Standard containing the in telligence that at eleven minutes past nine on that very morning the Serapis was entering the harbour o f Bombay amid the salute o f all the batteries. A fter receiving the V iceroy and the Governor of Bombay on board the Prince landed with the V ice roy at about four in the afternoon, and all the forts and cantonments throughout the vast Empire, warned b y telegraph o f the fact, jo in ed Bombay in saluting his arrival in India. On disembarking the Prince was received b y about seventy Princes and Sirdars, among whom were the young Gaikwar o f Baroda, and the M aharajah o f Mysore, with Sir Salar Jung and a company of Hyderabad nobles who were there to represent the N izam ; and after the great feudatories had been presented to him he proceeded in an imposing procession for five miles through the second largest c ity in the Queen’s dominions to Government House at Parell. T h e route was sumptuously adorned, and the preparations for the festivities were -on a colossal scale. T h e Prince o f Wales has received and visited the great native Princes and held a levee at which 800 were present. T h e illum inations were such as Bombay has never seen ; the sailors and the school-children have been feasted ; and the Prince’s courtesy and affability has produced the best possible impression. Both he and the Indians seem to be thoroughly well pleased with each other.

T h e obnoxious Fugitive Slave C ircular has

T ivr slave been at last, not only suspended, as Lord circular. D erby announced, but absolutely withdrawn—

a decision probably taken at the Cabinet

Council held last week. Whether it was the Adm ualty or, a s has been whispered, the Foreign O ffice, which was responsible for this unfortunate document, after the amount o f reprobation which it provoked, there was no course possible but to withdraw it. W e are told, however, probably to save appearances, that new instructions to naval commanders are to be drawn up. One does not see why any such instructions are needed beyond the obvious warning that they are not to enter on a Quixotic crusade against slavery, or invite runaway slaves on board ; but, if the subject cannot be left alone, let us at least hope that Mr. D israeli’s new A ttorney and Solicitor-General may give him advice more in consonance with other authorities than that supplied to the Foreign Office from the “ highest 41 legal ” sources. Lord Derby’s statem ent that the Circular

N ew S e r ie s , V o l . X IV . No. 366.

embodied the law o f the matter calls for some official and weighty corrective.

H aving made up their minds to say nothing speeches AT a^out fugitive slaves, M inisters had an easy g u i l d h a l l . and pleasant task at the Guildhall on Tuesday.

T o be sure Mr. Ward H unt was a little too airy in his comments on the loss o f the Vanguard. “ There “ may have been one or two blunders,” he said, “ and a “ splendid ship had gone to the bottom ,” but no lives had been lost, and if one ironclad had been proved to be destructible, another had been proved to be extrem ely destructive. T h e popular inferences respecting the efficiency o f the N a vy were quite unfair, and as to the Admiralty minute he reserved the defence o f his adjudication till its ju stice was challenged in Parliament. Mr. Cross, in reply to a compliment on his sanitary legislation, congratulated the C ity on the good which his A c t would enable it to do, and the Lord Chancellor dwelt on the expedition with which the civil cases o f London would be disposed o f under the new arrangement o f the Courts; whereas the Lord Chief Justice could not see that there was “ much difference,” and was disposed to agree with “ the commander who said to his battalions ‘ When I “ said ‘A s you are,’ I meant ‘A s you was.’” And while admitting that the change may make the administration o f justice easier and more rapid, Sir A lexander Cockburn warned his hearers against supposing that the work o f law reform was complete. N o t only had ju stice to be brought to every man’s door, but the law had to be brought to every man’s knowledge— a matter in which other countries have taken the lead of us, and a defect which it remained for the Lord Chancellor, as a younger man than himself, to remedy.

MR. DISRAHLl’S

REVIEW OF THE SITUATION.

But the speech o f the evening was o f course Mr. D israeli’s, and, as might have been expected, it was to a great extent composed o f comments on the Chinese and Turkish questions. N o one will take exception to the tone in which the Prime M in ister dealt with these subjects. Last year there seemed to be a danger o f war in Europe, and Mr. Disraeli expressed his hopes that it would be averted ; it was averted, and “ as to any share her Ma“ je s ty ’s M inisters may have had in the prevention o f that “ evil, it was one o f which they were not ashamed.” I f he had had to spe.ak a month ago he might have had to announce a probable war with China, a war which, though it must have been successful, “ would scarcely be trium phant.” This, too, had happily been averted, thanks to the “ good “ sense ” o f the Chinese Government, and “ in a great de“ gree ” to “ the energy and resource ” o f Mr. Wade ; and Mr. Disraeli adverted with great felicity to the value which an expression o f sympathy in this country has for men who are “ toiling thousands and thousands o f miles