THE TABLET
A Weekly Newspaper ancl Review.
WITH SU P P L EM EN T .
D um VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
F rom th e B r i e f o f H is H oliness to T h e Tablet, J u n e 4, 1870.
Vol. 3 6 . No. 1578. London, J uly g, 1870.
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•Chronicle of the Week : New
Bishops. — Passionist Order.— Catholic Victory in France.—Belgian Ministry.—Austrian Elections. —Spanish King. — Attitude of France.—Massacre in China.— Greek Brigandage.—Lord Clarendon—Marquis of Lothian—Princess Alice.—English Ministry.—Parliament. —Naval Chaplains. —Convent Committee.—Education Bill—Land Bill.—University Tests Repeal.— Sale of Benefices.—Appellate Jurisdiction.—Repeal of Ecclesiastical Titles Act.—Government Bills L eaders :
The Catholic Education Crisis The Wrong Side .... The Committee on Convents . Peter's Pence .....
CONTENTS.
L eaders (continued) :
Objections to Infallibility The Anglican Movement R eviews :
Life of J. Theophane Venard . Mr. Marsham Adams’s “ Zenobia ”. Ignatius Loyola and the Early
J e su i t s ..................................... Put Yourself in His Place Short Notices : Contemporary
Annals of Rome. — Tales and Sketches for Fireside Reading.-Macmillan’s Magazine. — Edwin Drood ...... Correspondence : j The late Bishop of Southwark P arliamentary Summary j Parliamentary Committee on ConI ventual and Monastic Institutions .
L etter from R ome ; The Jubilee on Pius IX. — Functions. — The Council.—The Debates.—The Definition.—The Archbishop of Westminster.—The Clergy of Westminster.—The late Dr. Grant.—The Primate of Ireland.—The Armenian Church.—The Revolution.—Military.—Alarm of Invasion.—The Bourbons ...... Functions at S. Peter’s Diocesan News : Westminster . . . . . 5 0
Southwark . . . . , 5 2 Beverley . ..................................52 Hexham and Newcastle . . . 52 Liverpool . .• . . 5 2 S a l f o r d ......................................... 53
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F oreign News :
Russia : Imperial Marriage.—•
Russian Cotton.—Russian Gold. —Prayer Books in Russian.— Rome and Russia.—Propagandism.—A Church in Fetters . . 53 J a p a n .............................................. 54 Memoranda :
Religious. . . . . . 5 4 Educational : The Catholic Educa
tion Crisis : What it is, and. how it is to be met Literary . Cricket Weather . Fine Arts . ’T‘' . General News
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
THE NEW BISHOPS. F
'H E following are the names of the new
Bishops of the sees, which (amongst others), as mentioned in the Vatican of last week, were preconized as filled up by his Holiness in the secret Consistory of the 27th ultimo:— Lyons and Vienne (France), Mgr Ginoulhiac, late Bishop of Grenoble ; Port-au-Prince (Havti), Mgr Guilloux ; Luxembourg, Mgr Adames; Tarbes (France), R.D., Pichenot; Nantes (France), R.I)., Fournier; Grenoble (France), R.D., Paulinier; Evreux /France), R.D., Grolleau ; S. John (Newfoundland), Rev. T. Power, Diocese of Dublin; Auckland (New Zealand), Rev. T. Crocke, Diocese of Cloyne; Springfield (New York), Rev. Patrick O'Reilly, Diocese of Boston ; HarbourGrace (Newfoundland), R.P., Carfagnini, O.F.M.
THE PASSIONIST
ORDER.
In the Vatican of to-day we report an address of tiie holy religious of S. John of the Cross to the Pope, giving their unqualified adhesion to the dogma of the personal infallibility. The document is signed by the Provincial-General •of the Order.
EDUCATION IN FRANCE.
This is a time of Catholic victories : Belgium, Austria, Rome, and lastly France, are at the present time the scene of some important triumphs. Not the least of these successes for the cause of Church, of truth, and of justice, has just been won in France. For many years the battle of Catholic education, or (as it is called there) liberty of instruction, has been fought inch by inch. Public school education is divided by our neighbours into three grades, “ instruction primary,instruction secondary, and instruction superior.” The battle for freedom began with primary education in the reign of Charles X and the citizen-king, and it has now all but culminated in a triumph by the admission, on the part of the Senate, of the principle o f freedom of superior education. A commission has been appointed, and several p ro je ts de lo i are before the House. Discussion and mature deliberation will of course be required as to details, but the effect of the change of policy is certain to have the blessed result of depriving the Godless University, henceforward of the exclusive control and monopoly it has hitherto possessed over the higher education of young Frenchmen. Henceforward, there will be a .clear stage and no favour for Christianity as well as for infidelity. Henceforward, there is hope that the rising generation in France will have some chance of receiving an education worthy the name, not merely an apprenticeship to this or that profession. Heretofore, men have been made lawyers, doctors, engineers, officers, &c., by a process similar to that by which they are initiated into the ait and mystery of carpentry or of bootmaking. But this is not education, and Frenchmen are beginning to find it out. The bitter fruits
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of those portes d ’en fer, as M. Cormenin used to call the government lyce'es, is but too evident in the existing state of French society. All that (there is reason to hope) is now on the eve of a radical reformation, and not a moment too soon. It is needless to say that success has not been won without a struggle. The education question has been the battle-ground of Christians, that is Catholics, and infidels, in France for the last half century. Liberalism has died hard, and has yielded only bit by bit. There is nothing your foreign Liberal liâtes and fears like liberty, when it is liberty for others besides himself and his party ; most of all, when it is liberty for the Church. With him liberty is not so much a principle, as a tool ora weapon with which to work out his own ends or to crush opposition.
THE BELGIAN CABINET.
The resignations of the old, and the appointments of the new, Ministry are gazetted in the Brussels M oniteur of Sunday. The constitution of the Cabinet is as follows :— Foreign Affairs, Senator Baron d’Ane than ; Justice, M. Prosper Cornesse ; Interior, Baron Kervyn de Lettenhove ; Finance, M. Pierre Tack; Public Works, M. Victor Jacobs; War, MajorGeneral Guillaume. The L ib éraux are of course loudtongued against these appointments, but the worse that can be said of the men is that in most cases they are wanting in official experience— an unavoidable defect, considering the long years that the infidel party (thanks to Catholic supine| ness) have rioted in place and power. From all that reaches us, there seems every reason to believe that the new Minis
ters of King Leopold are Catholics of unimpeachable moral character, of conciliatory manners, of high professional eminence and social position. Nobody regrets the loss of Frère Orban and his confrères. Even papers like L 'I ndépendance and L e Progrès are found testifying that “ the termination of the reign of doctrinaires has been received with a universal feeling of relief.” Doctrinairism is, in fact, not an indigenous product of Belgium. It was introduced in ’89 by the propagandist bayonets of Dumouriez. For centuries, indeed, the Flemish have been staunch votaries of freedom, but not the freedom to blaspheme Almighty God and oppress and plunder His Church.
In Austria the result of the elections hitherto election seems to promise a Catholic victory parallel to rfichsrath that just won in Belgium. A letter dated
Vienna, July 1, says that serious alarm has seized on the minds of the Liberals. The Morgen P o s t says that “ the successes of the blacks (i.e., the Catholics) are disquieting ; and that there is danger of their obtaining, if not a majority in the Reichsrath, yet at least such a strength as will form the nucleus of an ultramontane party there.” As the Catholic peoples become educate: * their due share in the working of representativjjji; N
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