THE TABLET
A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
I)UM VOBIS GRATULAM U R , ANIM OS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTTS VESTRIS CONSTANTER M ANEATIS.
From the Brief o f I l l s Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
V o l . 3 6 . N o . 1 6 0 3 . L o n d o n , D e c e m b e r 3 1 , 1 8 7 0 .
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[R eg iste r ed a t th e Gen er a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.
^Chronicle of th e W eek : The
Pope and the English Government.— Mr. Gladstone not a Catholic. — Catholic Education Crisis Fund Committee.— Christ,mas Morning.— The Collegio Romano.—The Archbishop of Posen. — France and Rome. — Official Veracity.— Paris.— Amiens and the North.— The Loire.— Horrors of War.— Prince Amedeo’s Outfit and Prospects.— Public Instruction in
Italy.— &c., &c.................................829 ^Leaders :
British Government and the
Italian Invasion .... 833 Should Catholics sit on School-
Boards ? . . .
• 833
The Republic and Prussia . . 834 Catholic Education Crisis . ’ 835
CONTENTS.
L eaders (continued):
The French Catholic Relief Fund. 839 Peter’s Pence....................................836 E nglish A dm in istr a t io n s and
C atholic I n t e r e s t s : X IX — The Union, and by what means it was Carried ..... 836 Cardinal Antonelli’s Reply to Signor
Visconti-Venosta’s Circular on alleged Concessions by the Holy See to Italian Claims . . . 837 T he A nglican M ovement : Mr.
Baring-Gould’s Lectures at Cambridge on Luther .... 838 R eview s :
Colonial Questions . . . 839 The Apostleship of Suffering. . 840 John ...... 841 The Province o f Quebec and
European Emigration . . 841
S hort N otices : The Catholic
Directory.— Deborah's Drawer.— The Cat’s Pilgrimage.— Macmillan. —Whitaker’s Almanack. — Flannay’s Royal Almanack . . . 842 C orrespondence :
The Patronage et S. Joseph . . 843 The Norway and Lapland Mission 843 R ome : Letter from our Roman
Correspondent .... 844 Letter from our Italian Corre
spondent ................................... 846 Circular of Cardinal Antonelli to the Nuncios Apostolic at the Foreign Courts .... 846 A Short Flistory of the Roman
College >................................... 847 Sympathy with the Pope.— Meet
ing in Brompton .... 849
D io cesan N ew s : Westminster .
Southwark
Beverley
Liverpool
. 849
. 850
• 850
• . 850
I reland :
Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent ................................... 850 Sympathy with the Pope.— Great
Meeting in Limerick . . . 850 T he W a r :
The Siege of Orleans . . . 851
Educational: Catholic Education
Crisis Fund . . . .8 5 1 Scientific ..... 852 Gen e r a l N ews .... 852
C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .
the pope H T H E Italian Government are doing all and the I they can to induce the Pope to leave English Rome. His attitude of passive resis' government. f-ance f0iis their plans. We trust that the Holy Father will remain firm, and will not move until he is actually forced to leave. Humanly speaking, there is no present hope of restoring him to his rights but in his own unwavering attitude and in the constant agitation of Christendom in his behalf. We have shown in another column from theItalian Green Book that the English Government has done as »much as it dared to favour the Italian usurpation of Rome.
It had a grand opportunity to say— “ Respect your engage•“ ments : keep faith even with the Pope: We are a great 41 Power, and we have moreover 7,000,000 of Catholics in “ our Kingdom, whose rights and consciences are interested ■“ in your observance of your pledges. We cannot, therefore,
approve or allow you to tear up treaties, and the plea of •“ 1Italian aspiration’ is no more sacred than that of ‘ Irish “ aspirations.’ ” England has had a traditionary policy in favour of the territorial Independence of the Holy See, since “ the time of Pitt, and she put her hand to the Treaty of ■“ Vienna.” Our Government has thrown away this opportunity, and we now have the proofs of what we pointed at in ‘T h e T a b l e t of the 12th of last month. We then gauged the policy of Mr. Gladstone by a cynical and immoral article •which had appeared in the Edinburgh Review, by the reports which we received from Florence as to the action of the English Cabinet, and by the line taken up by Lord Granville’s stepson, Lord Acton; a line, we need not say, of hostility to the Holy See. What we then said on the 12th Nov. has been justified. We could wish it had been otherwise. The English Government has connected itself with the policy of the Florentine Government. We gave Lord Granville large ■ credit for his first note to Prince Gortschakoff-— his indignation was based simply upon a high sense of the value of international pledges; for the sanctity of these he was prepared to go to war. It now appears that this appeal to a principle was but a phrase-— he had already thrown that principle overboard in the case of Italy. We are lost in wonder how the principles of international right and justice could be the mainspring of the policy of a British Minister to-day, who yesterday praised and fraternized with men engaged in trampling those principles underfoot. We are left to the unwilling conviction that, after all, the real mainspring of our foreign policy is what it has often been said to be— hatred of the Catholic Church, and commercial aggrandizement. We commend the conduct of the English Cabinet to the reflections of our Irish and English readers.
New Series. Vol. IV. No. 112.
By way of commentary on the foregoing, we stone^ ota n\l0te elsewhere, from the daily papers a letter catholic. " '¡’ ■ gned by Mr. Gladstone’s private secretary,
and dated Christmas Eve. In reply to what the writer calls die “ foolish and insulting imputations ” made by a journal cal ed The Rock, that Mr. Gladstone had been received into the Catholic Church, he says :— “ I f his (Mr.
Gladstone’s) acts do not confute such imputations, he is “ convinced that his words will not do so.” Truly the Editor of The Rock must be purblind if he cannot interpret Mr. Gladstone’s “ acts ” towards the Pope.
catholic We publish in another page a statement from education the Catholic Education Crisis Fund Committee crisis fund of the provisional allocation of a very large committee, portion of the sum promised to them, accompanied by the rules which are the condition of obtaining the grant thus awarded to each Diocese. It appears that the whole sum promised to them amounts to ^46,648 ; the sum at present awarded to .£41,388. Large as this sum in itself is ; unexampled, we believe, as to any single effort hitherto made by our community in Great Britain ; it is little enough, discouragingly little, if we look to the needs which are to be supplied. The educational returns now sent in to the Committee show, that if we reckon one-sixth of the population as requiring accommodation in primary schools, which is the calculation of the Government, in that case at least 100,000 Catholic children are without such accommodation. As the experience of the Privy Council shows that it costs, on the average, rather more than ,£5 a-head to build schools ; and as these children are mostly in great cities where the cost is above that average, it would require at least £800,000 to meet fully our educational wants. Let every Catholic consider what is involved in this. It demands that sum to secure to the children of the working man the inestimable privilege of being brought up and grounded in that religious faith, which ought to be his inheritance. The sum promised to the Crisis Fund supplies only 9s. a-head for this number. As by one of its rules the Diocese must contribute at least as much as what is given by the Fund, we have here about one-fifth of what is needed. It is also obvious that every pound given to the Crisis Fund secures the expenditure of another pound under the last regulations for its good employment, in the work of primary Education. The Committee, by making a grant en bloc to each Diocese, on the condition of its expenditure according to certain defined rules, secure the self-interest and the local knowledge of the Diocesan Committee in favour of each application being well sifted, and each grant duly apportioned. We think that besides the sum thus expended, and the schools which in consequence will be provided, the union of clergy and laity in Diocesan Boards, under the