THE TABLET A W eekly Newspaper and Review
D um VOBIS G R A TU L AM U R , A N IM O S ETIAM ADDIMUS U T IN INCCEPTIS V E S TR IS CONSTAN TER M AN E A T IS .
From the Brief of H is Holiness to T he T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
Vol. 47. No. 1881. L o n d o n , A p r i l 29, 1876.
P rice sd. B y P o st 5& d .
[R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G en er a l P o st O f f i c e a s a N ew spaper.
''C h ro n ic le of the Week:—
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The Indian Title— Mr. Fawcett’s Motion.— Mr. Disraeli’s Final Answer.-The Riots in Barbadoes.Official Account of the Matter.— The Shipping Bill-Grain Cargoes. — Deck Loading.— Women’s Suffrage.— The Riot at Limerick.— The Eastern Question.—Return of the Queen.—The Catholics of Malta.— The Prince of Wales in 'Spain.— The Amnesty Question in France.— The Yunnan Mission.— The French Embassy to the Holy See.— Cardinal Antonelli.— The N ew Italian Government.— The Infanta Donna Isabella of Portugal.— The Last Ritualist Sensation ................................................545
CONTENTS.
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L ea d e r s :
American Scandal . . .. .- 549 The Rejoinder o f “ Presbyter An-
glicanus . . . . . . . 549 , Anglican Ministrations in Ca
X .
tholic Churches .. . . . . 550 Sketches o f the Reformation—
.. . . . . • •551
P ictures :
Gallery o f French Pictures, 168,
New Bond-street.— Twelfth ! Exhibition .. . . .. .. 553 R e v iew s :
S hort N otices :
A Pilgrimage to the
C i d ....................... The Life of Our
Christ
Page Land o f the
•• -557 Lord Jesus
••557
C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :
The Bristol Iconoclasts .. . . 357 Who Wrote the “ Imitation of
Christ” ? .. .. . . . . 538 The Appeal for Clifden, County
Galway . . . . : .. 558 The Penang Mission .. . . 558 P a r l ia m e n t a r y S ummary .. 558 R ome :— Letter from our own Cor
The Human Tragedy . . . . 554 I Songs in the N igh t .. . . . . 555! Argo, or the Quest of the Golden 1
Fleece . . .. .. . . 556!
respondent . . . . . . 5 6 1 The Address of Cardinal I.edo-
chowski to the Holy Father .. 563 Peter’s Pence . . . . . . 563
Pag
D io cesan N e w s :— Westminster.. . . . . . . 563
Southwark . . . . . . . . 563 Beverley .. .. .. . . 564 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 564 Liverpool . . .. .. . . 564 Newport and Menevia .. . . 564 Northampton . . . . .. 564 Plymouth .. . . . . .. 564 Scotland— Western District . . 564 I r e lan d :
Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent . . . . . . . . 565 From an Occasional Cor
respondent.. , ,
M emoranda :
. . 565'
Religious . . . . . . . . 566 Catholic Union .. . . . . 567 G en er a l N ews ............................568
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
TH E House o f Commons met again on
Monday, and Mr. Fawcett instantly re, 3 turned to his attack on the Royal Titles motion. Bill. He began by asking the Prime Minister title, and announced that, as he could do no more, he should keep his motion on the paper till the Proclamation was issued, and “ thereby leave it in the hands o f more influential “ persons for their future consideration.” So the subject was shelved with a laugh, and will soon, we venture to predict, be forgotten.
whether he would give a day for the discussion o f his motion for an Address before the Proclamation was 'issued which would give effect to the Bill. Mr. Disraeli re' plied that, considering Mr. Fawcett’s motion to be one for a vote of censure, he had, at great inconvenience to the ■ Government, allotted a day for the discussion of it before the recess, an arrangement with which Mr. Fawcett then ■ expressed himself entirely satisfied. However, for some reasons with which he (Mr. Disraeli) was “ unacquainted,” Mr. Fawcett had not availed himself of that opportunity, and now, after the House had voted on the matter with a full knowledge of the advice which Ministers intended to give to the Crown, he did not think he would be justified in interrupting public business by giving Mr. Fawcett one o f the two days which Government has at its disposal in each week. Then Mr. Fawcett, in order to force Mr. Disraeli to accept battle, announced that he would change the form of ■ his resolution, and make it a direct vote o f censure— that •“ this House disapproves of the advice which, as announced ■“ by the Prime Minister, will be given to her Majesty by “ her Majesty’s Ministers to assume the title of Empress of “ India.”
MR. DISRAELI S
FINAL ANSWER.
Returning to the charge on Tuesday, and asking for a day for his new resolution, Mr. Fawcett did not take much by his question. First, Lord Hartington virtually disconnected the Opposition from Mr. Fawcett by saying that Mr. Disraeli was “ under a misapprehension” in stating that “ the “ motion o f censure was in any way adopted by the leader of “ the Opposition,” and that although, if the Prime Minister gave a day, he should “ personally” support that motion, yet that Mr. Fawcett had acted without consultation with “ us,” and it was “ altogether a different question whether “ any practical object was to be gained by raising another “ discussion at this stage.” After which Mr. Disraeli said, as he might have been expected to say, that there was a great difference between a vote of censure adopted by the leader o f the Opposition and one proposed by a private member unprepared to incur the responsibility which would attend success ; that Mr. Fawcett’s motion was to all intents and purposes a vote of censure, not on Ministers, but on the House of Commons, asit sought to revive a question already decided by a very large majority, and that he should not give him any facilities at all. Mr. Fawcett contended in reply that the House had not voted on the question o f the particular
The news from Barbadoes is very serious,
THEi - 0TS but it must be remembered that almost all barbadoes. ^ came to us through the West India
Committee, and originally from the party in the island which is in active opposition to the Governor. The first telegram|was one received on Saturday, and sent by the Secretary of the Committee to the papers. It was couched in the following terms. “ Barbadoes, April 21. Very serious “ disturbances throughout St. Joseph, St. Thomas, St. John, “ St. George, St. Michael parishes. Ives River and other “ estates pillaged. Provision fields plundered. Fires frequent. “ Condition perilous.” Thereupon a deputation from the West India Committee, accompanied by the delegates who have just arrived from Barbadoes, namely, Mr. Phillips, member of the House o f Assembly, and the Rev. P. Bruce Austin, rector of St. Philips, Barbadoes, immediately went to Lord Carnarvon, and gave him the telegram, in order that the Government “ might take the necessary steps to restore “ order in the Colony.” On the same day, Saturday, a second, still more alarming, telegram was despatched from Barbadoes. The “ Defence Association ” telegraphed to the West India Committee as follows : “ Riots throughout “ island. Plantation houses sacked. Animals destroyed. “ Enormous destruction o f property. Over forty rioters “ shot. Troops actively employed. City threatened. Busi“ ness suspended. Families seeking shipping. Rioters repeat “ they have Governor’s sanction. Hennessy’s immediate re“ call requisite to save Colony." This despatch is evidently coloured to a certain extent by partisan animosity, but although the Colonial Office had, as it appears, at this time received no official confirmation of this private intelligence, there was, it seemed, no reason to doubt that very serious disturbances had broken out. The strange thing is that Governor Pope Hennessy should be so persistently charged with fomenting them. As early as the beginning of April Lord Carnarvon stated to another deputation that he had twice telegraphed to Mr. Hennessy “ to exercise the utmost caution in recommending the pro“ ject o f Confederation, which was the ostensible occasion “ of this agitation, and above all things to abstain from “ pressing the measure at the cost of popular discontent or “ dissatisfaction” ; and the Governor, as we know, did give assurances to the local Legislature and the planters that the scheme would not be so pressed. Yet the blacks, who outnumber the whites in the island in the proportion o f ten to
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