THE TABLET

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

D um VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

F rom th e B r ie f o f H is H oliness to The Tablet, J u n e 4, 1870.

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'C hronicle of the Week : Bir­

mingham and the Pope.—Gibraltar and the Pope.—Parliament and the Cabinet.—Is Limerick to be Contested?—An Irish Statesman.— The Conference.—News from Versailles.—Emperor of Germany.— “ The Empire is Peace.”—Russiah 'Policy.—The Dark Future.— Henri V.—The Bombardment.— 'The Provinces.—Garibaldian Outrages.—The “ Daily Telegraph” and Distress in France.—Count Bismark and the Provisional Government ..... ¡Leaders :

Mr. Monsell’s Appointment . The “ Spectator” on England and

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C O N T ENTS

L eaders (continued) :

Higher Education in Ireland.—III.

The Education Question before the Reformation.—Since the Reformation.—Educational Institutions.—The Protestant System, Religious and Political.— Failure of the National System . . 6 6 The French Catholic Relief Fund. 68 Peter’s Pence. . . . . 6 8 E nglish Administrations and

Catholic Interests. — XXI. Ireland since the Union. — The Veto Question . . . . 6 8 The Anglican Movement; Whence do Anglican Bishops in Foreign Parts derive their Spiritual Jurisdiction ?—The Madagascar Case . 69

R eviews :

Saint Clement, Pope and Martyr,

and his Basilica in Rome . Mr. Froude’s History of England. The Directorium Asceticum ; or,

Guide to the Spiritual Life. Fair France ..... Short Notices : The Canoness.—

A Lamentation on Republican France.—The Sabbatine Felicitation of Mary Immaculate . . 74 Correspondence :

School Boards Our Colonial Policy : Canada In England and in Rome Dyspeptic Theologians . The Papal Defence Committee

R ome : Letter from our Roman

Correspondent .... Letter from our Italian Corre­

spondent ..................................... Diocesan News : Westminster.....................................

Ecclesiastical Appointments . The Birmingham Annual Catholic

Re-union ..... I reland :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent ..................................... The War :

The Charges of Inhumanity against

Germany.—Reply of Count Bismark .............................................. Memoranda ;

Educational : School Boards General News ....

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C H R O N IC L E O F T H E W E E K .

BIRMINGHAM

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E have more than once noted with satisfaction the way in which the Catholic youth are coming forward. Lord Campden has taken the chair at the annual Catholic Reunion at Birmingham, and delivered his maiden speech in defence of the Catholic Church. “ The “ Italians,” he said, “ had professed themselves ready to be “ the friends of the Pope when they saw that he was pro-

tected ; but they turned against him when they saw that “ that protection was lost.” His lordship made a good speech, and gives promise of great future usefulness. The speech of the evening, however, was that of the Bishop. He claimed, he said, like S. Paul, the privilege of being a Roman citizen— having received that privilege some years •ago from the Roman municipality, and in order that his present act might be as solemn and deliberate, and at the ■ .same time as accurate as possible, he read an impressive address, for which we must refer to another column. It was resolved that copies of the resolutions with which it concluded, should be sent to the Sovereign Pontiff, to Victor Emmanuel, and to the Prime Minister of this country. We congratulate the Catholics of Birmingham and its neighbourhood upon this their public expression of Catholic feeling. It is, we believe, the first provincial public meeting that has been held in England in behalf of the Temporal Power of the Pope ; and it may be taken as a fair sample of the sentiment prevalent throughout the Catholic Church in Great .Britain.

Ever since the appointment of Mgr Scandella to the Vicariate of Gibraltar, the Catholics on pope. the rock have always been to the fore in all general Catholic movements. The B o le t in , a

■ useful and spirited little weekly publication of the Vicariate, gives a full account, in its number for Dec. 3 1 , of the great meeting held there in favour of the Pope. It has been described as “ the most numerously attended and most “ earnest of any that has been held by the Catholics of “ Gibraltar,” and it was remarked upon by the Bishop with hearty satisfaction that the movement had received its initiative and its success from the zeal of his flock. An excellent and telling speech was delivered by the Bishop. He made a good point out of the relation of Gibraltar to Spain, and asked with indignation what answer would her Majesty’s devoted Catholic subjects there present give to a claim by the Spanish Government to Gibraltar on the ground of “ national aspirations.” Italian “ aspirations,” he contended had no better claim than Spanish “ aspirations.” Seven resolutions were passed; among which one by the VicarGeneral to consolidate the Association of Peter’s Pence,

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proving the practical turn of the meeting; another by Dr. MacAuliffe, protesting, before God and man, against the Italian project of the so-called guarantees of the liberty and independence of the Pope, as “ supremely iniquitous and in“ suiting, and such as neither the Pope nor 200,000,000 of “ Catholics can ever consent to”; and another resolution, proposed by Don Pablo Larios, adopted an address, which has been sent straight to her Majesty the Queen by his Lordship the Bishop. The Address urges that—

England has placed herself at the head of the Powers to prevent the infraction of the engagements of 1856 by Russia, to the prejudice of the Turkish Empire. And if the British Cabinet does this on behalf of the Sultan, the chief of Islamism to which not one of your Majesty’s subjects belongs, what should not said Cabinet do in favour of the Sovereign Pontiff, the head of Catholicism, the religion of so many millions of your Majesty’s subjects ? Again, further on, it is represented to her Majesty that—

The King of Prussia did not hesitate to confess that “ H is Catholic subjects have a j u s t c la im on th e so lic itu d e o f H is Government f o r the lib erty a n d independence o f th e Supretne Chief o f th e ir Church. ” With how much greater reason do we not confide that England, which stands at the head of all civilized nations in defence of the right of liberty of conscience, and whose Government and Legislature have but recently given such clear, unequivocal proofs of their determination to uphold said right, will vindicate and secure the liberty of our Supreme Pastor and the independence of the Holy See.

Another consideration is also pressed, in the following terms;— Unquestionably, if Victor Emmanuel can lawfully and tranquilly annex the Pontifical States to his kingdom, and constitute Rome the capital of Italy, there can be no reason why Alexander may not aggregate the Ottoman States to his empire and declare Constantinople the capital of Russia ; or, in like manner, why the Fenians, aided (it maybe) by the United States, may not wrest Ireland from your Majesty’s Crown and make Dublin the capital of a Republic, though both spoliations would entail the greatest calamities on the world, and especially on your Majesty’s subjects.

There is no lack of Catholic spirit and loyalty in the little Vicariate of Gibraltar.

Tuesday’s Gazette fixes Thursday the 9th of parliament February for the meeting of Parliament “ for cabinet. “ the despatch of business.” On Thursday the

Times came out with a leader on the resignation by Mr. Childers of the post of first Lord of the Admiralty. The evening papers of the same day asserted the announcement to be premature. Mr. Childers is known to have suffered seriously in health by his close application to official business, and probably also from the severe affliction he has had to undergo in the loss of his son who was drowned in H. M. S. Captain. There is no doubt that Mr. Childers has written to Mr. Gladstone offering his resignation which the Premier has been, for reasons not difficult to divine, extremely loth to accept. It must be most inconvenient to unsettle the whole framework of the Ministry just on the eve of their meeting Parliament, when they will