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D u m VO B IS G R A TU L AM U R , AN IM O S ET IAM ADDIM U S U T IN INCCEPTIS V E S TR IS CON STAN TER M AN EATIS.
From the Brie) o) H is Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
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L o n d o n , J a n u a r y 2 2 , 1 8 7 6 .
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[R e g is tered a t th e G en e r a l P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper
■ •Ch ro n ic le o f t h e W e e k :—
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Count Andrassy’s Note.—The French Crisis and the President’s Proclamation.— The Imperialist View of the Proclamation.— Election of Senatorial Delegates.— Programme of the Paris Radicals. — The Paris Conservatives.— ■ General Martinez Campos and ‘the Carlists.— Mobilisation and Localisation.— The Suez Canal.— The Anglicans and the Schis•matical Greeks.— The Anti-Catholic Agitation in the States.— Catholic Toleration in Maryland. — The American Amnesty Bill.— International Currency. — The Persecution at Geneva.— The German Railways, &c., &c. . . . . 96
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L e a d e r s :
The Senatorial Electors . . .. 101 Catholic Juvenile Paupers in
Workhouses .. . . . . io t Failures of Justice in Italy . . 102 Religious Contrasts .. . . 103 Count de Montalembert and Dr.
Dollinger . . . . .. .. 105 R e v iew s :
Steenkiste’s Commentary on St.
Matthew .. . . .. .. 106 Dr. Littledale on “ Ultramon-
■ tane ” Literature.. . . .. 106 Alfgar the Dane . . . . .. 108 S hort N otices :
The Month for January . . . . 108 A Trip to Music Land . . .. 109
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S hort N otices (continued) :
The Garden Oracle and Floricul
Page tural Year Book .. . . . . 109 Metropolitan Charities .. .. 109 Cyclopaedia of Costume .. .. 109I Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 109 C orrespondence :
The Letter “ Christianity or Eras-
tianism ? ” . . . . .. .. n o English Saints in Holland.. . . n o Great Wants in [Catholic Litera
ture
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Denominationalism and Heresy . . n o The _Catholic Union of Great
Britain . . . .
Church of the Assumption, War
.. m wick-street .. . . ..in R ome :— Letter from our own Cor
respondent . . . . . . i 13 1
D io c e s a n N ews :— Westminster .. . . . . . . 114
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Beverley . . . . . . . . 114 Clifton .. .. . . . . 115 Liverpool . . . . .. .. 115 Salford . . . . . . . . 115 I r e l a n d :
Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent . . ......................... 115 Foreign N ews
Germany . . . .
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Switzerland .. .. . . . . 117 M em oranda :—
Catholic Union . . . . . . 118 Educational . . . . .. 119 G en e r a l N ews ......................... 120
CHRONICLE OF THE W EEK.
NOTE. I
COUNT andrassy’s
T is known that the Cabinet Council,
held on Tuesday, decided to give a general support to Count Andrassy’s Note, reserving points of detail for further consideration. Better late than never. It might have proved a European calamity if the refusal o f England to associate itself with the action o f the other Powers had encouraged Turkey to resist the very moderate demands which Austria puts forward in their name. The nature o f these demands •we have already stated, and in order further to spare the susceptibilities o f the Porte it is understood that the Powers will content themselves with making identical proposals instead of a collective representation. The dissatisfaction at the postponement of the Cabinet Council from the 12th, •which we spoke of as existing in diplomatic circles, has since found strong expression in the Berlin papers, and great has been the anxiety in Paris, as well as in the Northern capitals, to know what the casting vote of England would be. “ I f England refuses its adhesion,” said “ a very cir11 cumspect and influential diplomatist ” to the Paris correspondent of the lim es, “ we are drifting towards an unknown “ full of obscurity. The first Power which will find it useful “ to do so will throw 5,000,000 o f matches into Servia, and “ as many into Montenegro, and these two combustibles “ will light up a flame which all the pumps in Europe will “ be unable to extinguish.” The relief at the intelligence that England does not stand aloof will be proportionately
The French Ministerial crisis is over, and M.
the french Buffet must be rather sorry that he provoked the'presi^ it, for M. Le'on Say is where he was, and has dent’s pro- triumphed all along the line. Not only has he CLAMAxioN. kept his place in the Cabinet, thanks to the staunchness of M. Dufaure and M. Walion in determining to stand or fall with him, but he maintains his candidature in conjunction with MM. Boucher and Feray. “ It is related,” says the lemps, “ that the President o f the ■“ Republic himself threw into the fire the resignation of M. “ Say, who then said, ‘ But there must no longer be an idea “ ‘ of my separating from my friends, MM. Feray and “ ‘ Gilbert Boucher.’ ‘ No,’ replied the President o f the “ Republic, ‘ MM. Feray and Boucher are two honourable u ‘ men.’ ’’ Nothing remains as a result of the whole affair but the Marshal’s proclamation, the substance of which we gave by anticipation last week. O f cpurse the Radicals do not like the descent o f the President himself into the contest, but his appeal to the people is couched in such general terms that none but those who wish to attack “ the sacred “ rights which survive all changes of Government ” can feel
N ew Series, V ol. X V . No. 376.
offended. And there is one passage which ought to please all Republicans— that in which the Marshal declares against revision of the Constitution until the Republic has been honestly tried. Five years ago, he says, you wanted order and peace, and you want them still. “ The senators and “ deputies you will elect will be bound with the President “ of the Republic to strive to maintain them. It will be “ our duty to apply together with sincerity the Constitu“ tional Laws, o f which, till 1880, I alone have the right o f “ proposing the revision. After so many agitations, strifes, “ and misfortunes, repose is necessary to our country, and “ I think our institutions ought not to be revised before “ having been loyally worked.” But that they may be so worked “ the Conservative and truly Liberal policy ” which the Marshal has constantly advocated is “ indispensable.” Therefore he invites all who place “ the defence of social “ order, respect for the laws, and devotion to the country ” above party memories, hopes, and engagements, to rally round a strong Government, which will protect all legitimate interests against those who would disturb them in the prepresent, or menace them in the future by their “ anti-social “ doctrines and revolutionary programmes.” “ France “ knows,” he concludes, “ that I neither sought nor desired “ the power with which I am invested, but she may rely on “ my exercising it without feebleness ; and in order that I “ may fulfil to the end the mission which is confided to me, “ I hope that God will help me, and that the co-operation “ o f the nation will not be wanting to me.” The document is posted all over France, and there is no country in which a personal appeal from the Chief of the State is wont to produce more effect. It is countersigned, as we have said before, by M. Buffet alone, and it seems to be understood that each Minister is, like M. Léon Say, to be at liberty to act as he likes at the elections, the right being reserved to the Vice-President o f the Council to indicate to the Prefects, as Minister of the Interior, the candidates who are most acceptable to the Government.
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But the sentence in the proclamation declar-
inS against a revision o f the Constitution is by of the pro- no means pleasing to the Imperialists. The cLAMATioN. Pays, in an article signed by M. de Cassagnac,
accepts indeed Marshal MacMahon’s pro
gramme, but with the following reservation :—-Our engagement to the President’s Government “ will only hold good so “ long as the Marshal himself keeps his own Conservative “ engagements. What has happened since the 24th o f May “ is a lesson to us to make this useful reservation. The Im“ perialist party contributed generously towards the elevation “ of the Marshal to power, and that party has been under “ his Government more hunted and persecuted than under “ M. Thiers himself. This must not occur again. Moreover,