THE TABLET

A IVeekly Newspaper and Review.

D u m VOBIS GRATULAM UR , ANIM OS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER M ANEATIS.

From the B r i e f o f H is Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, iS ;o .

WITH SUPPLEMENT.

Voi. 36. No. 1599. L o n d o n , D e c e m b e r 3, 1870.

P r ic e sd. B y P ost

[R eg ister ed a t th e G en er a l P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.

‘C hronicle of t h e W e e k : Meeting for the Pope in Dublin.— Meetings for the Pope in America.— Catholic Meeting in London.— Affairs in Italy.— Press Freedom in Italy.— Earthquakes in the Romagna.— The War.— Paiis.— The “ Reformation” and the Revolution.— The “ Spectator ” on the Temporal P o w e r .............................................7< ^Le a d e r s :

English Diplomacy tested by

R om e .............................................705 The War ..... 705 The School-Board Elections . . 706 Spain’s New King . . . , 707 Peter’s Pence. .... 708 •English A dm in istr a t io n s an d

C ath o l ic I n t e r e s t s :—The Rising of 1798 in Ireland . . . 708

CONTENTS.

T he A nglican M ovement :

Mr. Mackonochie and the Eccle­

siastical Courts .... 709 R eview s :

The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal o f I r e la n d ....................................7x0 Home Politics .... 712 S hort N otices : Macmillan. —

A Treatise on Modern Geography. —God ; Conferences delivered at Notre Dame in Paris by the Rev. P. Lacordaire.— The Hidden Life o f the Soul • 713 C orrespondence :

School Boards

The Nag’s Head .

Nelson and Horace

An Explanation

• 713

• 714

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C orrespondence (continued) :

Sisters of Good Help . . . 714 Poor Servants o f the Mother of

God ...... 715 Distress in France. . . . 715 Offering to the Holy Father . . 715 Association of the Propagation of the F a i t h ................................... 715 Circular ot his Eminence Cardinal

Antonelli to the Representatives of the Holy See at the Foreign C o u r t s ............................................ 717 R ome : Letter from our Roman

Correspondent . . . 718 Letter from our Italian Corre­

spondent ..... 720 The Property of British Religious

Orders in Rome . . . .7 2 1

R ome (continued): Affairs in Rome: The Plebiscite—

The Roman People—The Italian Robbers ...... 721 R ecord of th e C ouncil : The Re-

demptorists and the Definition . 721 D io cesan N ews :

Westminster...................................... 721 Southwark . . . . .7 2 2 L i v e r p o o l ' .......................................723 I reland :

Letter from our own Correspondent 723 Sympathy with the Pope.— Great

Meeting in Sligo . . . 723 T he W a r .......................................... 723 M em oranda :

E d u c a t io na l...................................... 724. Literary............................................... 724 Scientific. ..... 724 G en er a l N ews .... 724

CH RON IC LE OF THE W E E K .

DUBLIN. T

MEETING FOR. TH E POPE IN

H E most important Catholic event o f the week is the great meeting presided over by His Eminence Cardinal Cullen in Dublin on Wednesday last, in behalf o f the Sovereignty and independence o f the Holy Father. It took place in the Cathedral in Marlborough-street, and is described as having been “ most successful, the platform .having been inconveniently crowded, the church having •contained a large multitude during the whole d a y ; while the speeches were strong and outspoken, they contained .nothing that could be deservedly considered offensive; and the most perfect order prevailed throughout the entire pro•ceedings. The Cardinal briefly detailed the principal outrages that had been committed against the Holy See : Lord Granard and Mr. O ’Hagan brought forward several most •effective points, and Fr Burke’s eloquent speech was full o f telling arguments and o f quotations. We give in a supplement a full report o f the principal speeches at this national demonstration. They will be read with interest and .advantage far beyond the shores o f Ireland. Two addresses were unanimously adopted by the meeting; one to the ■ Sovereign Pontiff, proposed by Mr. Cogan, M.P., and another, proposed by Mr. O ’Neill Segrave, High Sheriff, to •the Right Hon. the Premier of her Majesty’s Government.

“ T H E ADDRESS TO T H E H O L Y F A TH ER . “ We, the Catholics of the Diocese of Dublin, in public “ meeting assembled, profoundly afflicted by the recent events that have made your Holiness a prisoner in the “ hands o f your enemies, humbly approach your sacred “ person to declare the deep and unchanging veneration we entertain for you as the Vicar o f Jesus Christ on earth, “ infallible teacher and true pastor of our souls.

“ We wish, also, to declare to you, Most Holy Father, “ that though imprisoned in the Vatican, your Holiness is ■“ to us the Sovereign o f each and every part o f the Ponti-

fical States, as fully as on the first day on which you took “ possession o f the throne o f your predecessors, supported by all the sanctions that legitimate title, the love of ■“ Christendom, the faith o f treaties, could confer. Brute “ force has indeed succeeded for a little in consummating “ the iniquitous spoliation which it commenced some years •“ ago ; but it has not touched, nor can it touch, Most Holy “ Father, the sacred rights o f property on which, as on a “ deepset foundation o f justice, all men admit the temporal “ sovereignty o f the Holy See to be based. And, there“ fore, in the face o f the recent usurpation, we proclaim, “ in union with all the Catholics of the world, that to “ your Holiness alone belongs full and entire sovereignty ■“ over each and every portion o f the provinces that have 4‘ been overrun since the earliest hour o f the invasion, and

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“ that to you alone belongs the allegiance o f their in“ habitants, in whose hearts, we know, you rule with un“ disputed sway.

“ We remember also, Most Holy Father, that as this “ sovereignty was created for the common weal o f Christen“ dom, so also has it been upheld for centuries by the united “ sacrifices of the same. Catholic nations have given their “ gold to sustain it, and their blood to defend it, and when“ ever internal dissensions or foreign invasions brought it into “ peril, Catholic Princes have drawn the sword to proteet “ the interests o f their Catholic subjects, of whose moral “ and religions liberty it is the safeguard and the pledge. “ We cannot, and we will not allow, Most, Holy Father, “ the common property o f Christendom, thus created and “ sustained by the loving toil o f faithful generations, to be“ come the prey o f brutal and impious revolutionists, no “ matter how insidious their professions, nor how specious “ the hypocrisy under cover o f which they advance to grasp “ their plunder. Nor will we ever acknowledge that any “ Power can rightfully claim sovereignty over you, Most “ Holy Father, whose independent action is necessary for “ the due government o f our souls, and on whose liberty “ depends the liberty of the Church o f God.

“ We declare, therefore, to your Holiness, and to the “ world, that we hold the violent usurpation of the States o f “ the Church, perpetrated by the Florentine Government, to “ be null and void, and we resolve never to desist from our “ exertions until the full and unconditional restitution o f all “ the States o f the Church shall have restored the Holy See “ to the sovereign independence that is its due. Nothing “ short of this can satisfy justice and honour, and nothing “ short o f this shall satisfy us.

“ It is also the desire of our hearts, Most Holy Father, to “ make atonement, by redoubled love on our part, for the “ outrages of which your Holiness has been made the victim. “ We ask you, therefore, to accept the expression o f the “ sympathy with which we have witnessed and yet witness “ your manifold sufferings. That trials so dark and heavy “ should have come, in the evening o f his days, upon a “ Pontiff whose white hairs tell o f a long life spent in good, “ whose heart has ever been the seat o f benevolence, whose “ personal qualities have made his name the delight of man“ kind, has aroused the regret even of those who have not the “ happiness o f being numbered among your children. But “ how much more bitter is the grief which the sight o f your “ sufferings excites in us, who know that the heart thus out“ raged is the heart o f our most loving Father, bearing “ cheerfully the smart o f his afflictions because they have “ come upon him for our sakes, for the freedom o f our con“ sciences, for the liberty o f our souls ! Accept, then, the “ grateful sympathy of your children, who bless you for the “ courage which you have sacrificed in the service o f the