THE TABLET A IVeekly Newspaper and Review
D u m VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAYIS.
Prom the B r ie f o f His Holiness Pius IX . to The Tablet, June 4, 187a'
Vol. 53. No. 203S. L o n d o n , M a y 3 , 1879.
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C hronicle of t h e W e e k :—
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The Future Cardinals. — Dr. Newman’s First Audience of the Holy Father.— The “ Standard” -at the Vatican.— Terror for Terror in Russia.- Rumours and Alarms. —The Emperor’s Journey.—Death o f the Princess Christina.— Mr. Rylands’s Resolutions.— Second Night of the Debate.— The French Education Bills.— General Gari»baldi and the League of the Democracy.— The Holy See and the “ Vaterland. *— Free Trade and Reciprocity— The Zulu War.— The Afghan War.--Lord Salisbury on the Situation.— Election of the Prince of Bulgaria.........................545
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P e t e r s P ence ........................... 549 L e a d e r s :
The Catholic Union 01 Great Bri
tain and the Belgian Central Catholic Committee .. .. 549 The Budget Debate . - .. 550 The Silver Wedding of the Aus
trian Sovereigns . . . . .. 551 The Failure of the Catholic Party in Italy.— II ........................ 552 The Servite Fathers . . •• 553 R e v ie w :
The Contemporary Review . . 553 S hort N otices :
Two Bibles . . . . .. .. 554 The True Church of the Bible .. 554
E N T S .
A r t :—The Institute of Painters in
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Water Colours . . . . . . 555 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :
Secular Emblems in Churches . . 556 Catholics and School Boards .. 557 English Liberalism.. . . . . 557 Trusts and Trustees . . . . 557 Postulates of English Liberalism 558 An Eirenicon of the Eighteenth
Century . . . . . . . . 559 Apostolical School, Cork . . . . 559 Another Case for Charity.. .. 559 The Jubilee Fast .. . . . . 559 P a r l ia m en t a r y S ummary : . . 559 R ome :— Letter from our own
Correspondent......................... 561
D io ce san N ews
Westminster.. Southwark .. Clifton Northampton Salford Shrewsbury ..
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Letter from our own Corre
spondent ......................... _ 565 Foreign N ews
Austria . . . . . . , , 567 M em o r a n d a :
R e l i g i o u s .................................... 567 G en e r a l N ews : ............................ 563
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
THE FUTURE CARDINALS. D
, R. NEWMAN, who reached Rome on the afternoon of Thursday week, has been staying at the new Hotel Bristol, in the Piazza Barberini, and had his audience of the Holy Father on Sunday. He was accompanied to the Vatican by Fathers Neville, Pope, and Eagleshim. O f the new Cardinals to be created and proclaimed at the approaching Consistory, the Bishops— namely, Archbishops von Fiirstemberg, Haynald, and Desprez, and Bishops Pie and Alimonda— and Dr. Newman will be named Cardinal Priests, and we believe that Padre Zigliara, O.P., and Professor Hergenrother. will be made Cardinal Deacons. It is probable that the Title assigned to Dr. Newman will be the church of St. Stephen on the Caelian, popularly known as Santo Stefano Rotondo. I f our venerable and illustrious countryman is appointed to this Title, all our English Cardinals, curiously enough, will be located on the Ctelian Hill,— Cardinal Manning’s Title being S.S. Andrew and Gregory on the Cselian, Cardinal Howard’s S.S. John and Paul on the Coelian, and the future Cardinal Newman’s St. Stephen on the Cmlian. Mgr. Alimonda and Dr. Hergenrother, when created Cardinals, will come to reside in Rome. Mgr. Alimonda, who has not long been Bishop o f Albenga, is better known as formerly Provost of the Cathedral Chapter of Genoa, and as the author o f several works treating of the relations between Christianity and modern civilisation, a subject in which Leo X I I I . has proved that he takes a peculiar interest by the two Pastorals issued by his Holiness when Cardinal Bishop of Perugia, and published in our columns shortly after his elevation to the Pontificate. Padre Zigliara has been long resident in Rome as Dominican Professor o f Theology, and will continue to reside there.
We have received the following details e r . n e w m a n s respecting Dr. Newman’s first audience at the o f th k h o l y Vatican. Dr. Newman arrived at Rome on f a t h e r . the evening of Thursday, the 24th. Having travelled without stopping from Folkestone to Turin, he was quite knocked up when he reached Pisa, and had to rest two days there before continuing his journey, but was recovering after his arrival at Rome. The Holy Father, through Cardinal Nina, expressed a wish to see him first of all the new creations. The audience took place on Sunday, when Fr. Newman passed half an hour with the Pope alone. Upon the introduction of his companions Fr. Newinan seemed overcome with emotion. As they expressed to the Pope the joy they felt to be able to thank him for the honour he had done to them all, in the person of one to whom, under God, they owed that they could call themselves sons of his Holiness, the Pope, holding the hand of the speaker, and looking on them with great
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affection, replied, “ Convertiti del Padre Newman e figli.” After conversing for some time the Pope said, “ I leave him to be with you your superior, father and guide, to be a light in England where many are looking towards the light.” On parting the Holy Father said, “ I must give the new Cardinal a proof of my most particular esteem and affection, ’ ’ and having taken Fr. Newman’s arm in his own, he walked out of his own room through the ante-chamber to the general sa lle d ’attente, an honour, we believe, very rarely given. Fr. Newman was lowered in the lift, the Pope’s servants rushing to kiss his hand, as feeling “ This is the man the K ing delights to honour.” Dr. Newman was then received most kindly by Cardinal Nina, who kissed him on both cheeks, saying, ‘ ‘ In a few days I can call you brother,” and turning to the attendant Fathers said, “ the glory and honour o f the Sacred College.” This is but part o f what passed at the interview with the Holy Father, but no words, it is said, could express the benignity of his manner. “ We have a Father certainly,” says the narrator.
Absurd news from Rome has long been a
“ s t a n d a r d ” “ speciality ” of the Standard. It is really a t t h e extraordinary that that paper should so Va t i c a n . patiently continue to admit the canards which are telegraphed to it by the most imaginative of “ our correspondents.” Last Wednesday that gentleman informed the readers of the S tandard that Dr. Newman had had “ long conferences with the Pope, in which the general conditions of the Church were discussed at large,” and that “ Dr. Newman particularly informed his Holiness o f the conditions and prospects of Catholics in England, and o f the mental attitude of the population;” which, as regards England, seems very probable, although no one was present at the audience but the Pope and Dr. Newman himself. The Correspondent, however, goes on to say that Dr. Newman spoke “ of the considerable accession to the Catholic ranks to be expected from certain suggested modifications of the attitude of the Church,” and that “ it is thought at the Vatican that some important innovations may be made in the arrangements for the government of the Church in England.” We are almost tired of contradicting such stories, but as there are some people— probably not Catholics— who may bemisled by them, we may as well say that the statements about the suggested and possible innovations in the government o f the Church in England have no more solid foundation than the lively imagination of the Correspondent or his informant or informants.
The Revolutionary Committee in Russia has not been at a11 cowe<i by the measures o f in R u s s ia , repression which we mentioned last week.
General Gourko has succeeded in getting porters with big sticks stationed on stools in front of the houses— although the Secret Committee threatened every one who should accept the employment with death— but a