THE TABLET
A Weekly Newspaper and Review
D u m VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
Prom the Brief of His Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
Vol. 49. No. 1935. London, May 12, 1877.
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C hronicle of the Week :—
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The Deputations to Rome.—The Anti-Catholic Outbreak in France. —M. de Mun—Indecent Profanity of the Left.— Hostile Order o f the P a y .—Effect Produced at Rome.—Defeat of the Clerical Abuses Bill.— Mr. Carlyle’s Revelation.— Lord Derby’s Reply to Prince Gortchakoff.— Mr. Cross on “ British Interests.” — Mr. Gladstone’s Resolutions. — His Speech and Tactics.— The Second Night of the Debate.—The War. — Mr. Whalley and the Jesuits. —The Annexation of the Transvaal .. .. . . . . .. 577
CONTENTS.
L eaders:
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British Policy and the Gladstone Resolutions ......................... 581 Annexation of the Transvaal .. 581 Tipperary Election . . .. 582 Russia’s Bribe to Roumania .. 582 Ritualism.— IV. .. . . . . 583 A rt :
The Royal Academy . . . . 585 The Grosvenor Gallery . . . . 585 R eview :
The Dublin Review . . .. 587 Short* N otices :
Is Ritualism Honest? . . . . 588 Marriage and Married Life .. 588
Short N otices (continued) :
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Vie du P. Marc Folloppe.. .. 588 Magazines for May .. .. 588 C orrespondence :
Faith of our Fathers.—VI. .. 589 Connemara and Religious L i
berty ........................ .. 589 Convent Schools, Wellington,
New Zealand .. .. .. 590 Parliam entary Summary .. 590 R ome :— Letter from our own Cor
respondent .. .. .. 593 Address of the Catholic Union of Great Britain to the Pope .. 594 The English Offerings to the
Holy Father . . .. . . 595
The Jubilee.. «.
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D iocesan N ews
Westminster.. Southwark .. B e v e r l e y ....................... . •• 595
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Letter from our Dublin spondent . . .. Corre- ... 596 Foreign N ews
F rance G e r m a n y .......................... Austria . . .. •• 597
M emoranda :—
Religious .. .. . General N ews
.. 599
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
TO ROME. T
THE DEPUTATIONS
HOSE who represent this country on the occasion of the celebration of the Episcopal Jubilee of the Holy Father were received by his Holiness on Thursday, the Feast of the Ascension, and consequently too late for us to give this week any account of the audience. The main body of the deputation, about eighty in number, reached Rome on Tuesday morning, but many have travelled thither independently, arriving either before or after that day. It is still impossible to furnish a complete list of names, and we prefer to wait until we receive accurate details from Rome. The number of signatures to the general address from the Catholics of England and Wales is given by the Voce della Verità as 466,158. It is estimated that the English offerings will exceed the sum of ;£io,ooo. The French pilgrims were received by his Holiness in the Sala Ducale of the Vatican on the 5th, the Feast of St. Pius V., Mass having been said for them on the previous day, at the altar of the Chair of St. Peter in the Vatican Basilica, by Mgr. Macchi, Maestro di Camera, on which occasion an eloquent discourse was delivered by the Père d’Alzon. The address to the Holy Father at the audience was read by the Vicomte de Damas, and the delegates from Clermont, Blois, Belley, Angoulême, and Amjens laid the offerings from those dioceses on the steps of the throne, that of Amiens consisting of 63,000 francs. Cardinal Borromeo, the Archpriest of St. Peter’s, will celebrate Pontifical High Mass on the 21st of June at the Papal Altar of the Basilica, and the necessary Bull— which, as is probably known to most of our readers, is required to enable anyone besides the Pope to say Mass there— has been already prepared.
THE ANTICATHOLIC •OUTBREAK IN
FRANCE.
The misrepresentation of the objects which the Catholic petitioners in favour of the liberty of the Holy See have had in view— a misrepresentation on which we have already commented — has produced a deplorable anti-Catholic agitation which has, it must be hoped, reached its greatest height in the scene which the French Assembly offered on Friday the 4th. Already on the previous day M. Jules Simon had spoken strongly of his resolution to put the law in force against the clergy whenever, according to his view, they encroached on the domain of the Civil Power. The occasion was an interpellation brought forward by MM. Leblond, Lausselat, and de Marcère, as to the measures taken by the Government “ to repress Ultramontane machinations.” M. Leblond, who was the real supporter of the interpellation, had attacked in his speech the whole system of Catholic education, primary, secondary, and superior, and the Catholic
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clubs and committees, as part of one vast conspiracy organised for political ends by a party perfectly distinct from and disapproved by the great mass of the French clergy. And to prove that those whom he called Ultramontanes wished to plunge France into a war with Italy, he made several quotations from episcopal letters and newspapers which did not in the least bear out that meaning, although one or two provincial papers seem to have indulged in rather imprudent rhetoric on the subject. And the authority which M. Leblond cited as conclusive— that of the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster— was unfortunate for his case, for his Eminence never said that the restoration of the independence of the Pope was to be sought by force of arms, and would, we are persuaded, say just the contrary. This somewhat vague attack on the French Catholics was practically supported by M. Jules Simon, with many protestations of his “ profound admiration ” for religion. The Catholics were, he said, more free than they ever were before ; the Bishops could meet in Synod, go to Rome, possess property, and found universities. They also published Bulls and Briefs without Government permission, but that was illegal. M. Jules Simon declared that the Bull appointing a Chancellor of the new University of Lille was null, that anyone taking the title, or attempting to confer degrees, would render himself amenable to the law, as would also any professors who assisted in the conferring of degrees, and that this law would be put in force. M. Simon then proceeded to prove in the usual manner that the Pope was perfectly free. He read a summary of the Law of Guarantees, and declared that everything that was said aoout “ the captivity of the Holy Father’’ was “ a lying allegation.” It was indeed asserted that the Mancini Law would restrict his liberty, but this was false. It did not affect the relations between the Court of Italy and the Court of Rome, but only those between the Bishops and the State, and was therefore purely a domestic and internal affair. The Italian Parliament, however, would probably not pass the law, as the Committee of the Senate is of opinion that the existing laws are sufficient and that it will not be required. Then M. Simon went into the history of the Bishop of Nevers’ affair, and again affirmed at length the sovereignty of the law. All this, however, was not enough for the Left, from whom cries were heard during the Minister’s speech demanding the closing of the Catholic Universities, and a Mancini Law for France, and M. Gambetta proposed the adjournment of the debate.
The next day the full fury of the Radicals
M’in d e c e n t ~ f o u n d v e n t - .Ic is said that a deputation from profanity the Left had in the interval been to M. Jules of the left. Simon, to tell him that what he said was not half strong enough, and whether this be true or not, the Minister was much more energetic than he was on