THE TABLET A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
I )U M VOBIS GRATULAM U R , ANIM OS ETIAM ADDIMUS U T IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the Brief of His Holiness to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870.
Voi. 37. No. 1608. London, February 4, 1871. PK,CEsd- by post 5k. [R eg ister ed a t th e General P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.
C hronicle of t h e W e e k : The
Pope and the United States.— Cardinal Schwartzenburg. — The .Bishop of Saint-Brieuc. — The Bishop of Strasburg.— The Capitulation.— Pondicherry.— The Terms o f Peace.— Rcvictualment of Paris. Charitable Efforts. — The Provinces. — The Surrender : An Emeute in Paris. — Gambetta : The Revolution. — Vive l’Empereur ! — The London SchoolBoard.— Higher Irish Education. —The German Emperor.'—The Conference..— Small-Pox. — Dr. Todd’s Orphanage.— M. Loyson and the Wounds of the Church . 125 ■ ¡Le aders :
The Pope and the War . . . .129 The Terms of Peace . . .1 2 9
C O N T E N T S . L eaders (continued) :
The New Armenian Schism . . 130 Lord Acton on the Pope . . 131 Higher Education in Ireland.— V.
tion from the days of Wolsey to the death of Cranmer.— Revue Catholique.— The “ Academy ” . 139 C orrespondence :
Trinity College. Dublin.— Royal Schools of the Ulster Plantation. — Their Utter Failure . . 132 The French Catholic Relief Fund. 134 Peter’s Pence....................................*35 E nglish A dm in is tr a t io n s an d
C atholic I n terests.— XX III . The Relief Bill of 18x3 . . . 135 R eview s :
Pontificate of Pius IX . . . 136 The Life and Labours of S. Thomas of Aquin ..... 136 Malta, Past and Present . .1 3 7 S hort N o t ic e s : The Men and
Women of the English Reforma
The Pope and the United States . 139 Protection for little States . . 139 The “ Dublin Review ” and
“ Mother Margaret’s Life ” . 139 R ome : Letter from our Roman
Correspondent .... 141 Letter from our Italian Corre
spondent ................................... 142 Basses Pyrénées .... 143 The King’s Visit .... 143 R ecord of th e C ouncil : The
Reception and Address of Archbishop Kenrick .... 144
D io cesan N ews :
Westminster...................................... 144 S o u t h w a r k ...................................... 145 Liverpool ..... 145 N o tt in gh am ...................................... 145 Sh rew sb u ry ...................................... 145 I reland :
Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent ...................................... 145 Sympathy with the Pope : Great
County Meeting at Tralee . . 145 F oreign N ews :
S p a i n ............................................... 146 T he Wa r ...................................... 146 M em oranda :
E ducational...................................... 146 G en er a l N ews . . . . 147
C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .
THE POPE AND THE UNITED STATES.
ELSEW H ERE will be found a letter which we have received from a friend at Washington, on the state o f American feeling about Rome. His views are corroborated by the New York Correspondent -of the Times, who assures us that in that metropolis the K ing o f Italy is considerably less popular than the Pope. This fact has quite recently been put to the te s t :—
In New York they find no trouble in getting money or distinguished men for the Fenian reception, but when it was recently proposed there to hold a meeting in favour of Italian unity, and consequently against the Pope’s Temporal Power, while the money was forthcoming the proper kind of orator was not. The religion of New York city is strongly in favour of the Pope, and the sympathy for him there is wellnigh universal. When the committee having charge of the proposed 'meeting, therefore, invited prominent politicians to attend, there was a general disinclination. No Catholics— the class especially desired— would take part in it. The consequence was, that the meeting was exclusively taken part in by Protestants, and, notwithstanding the efforts made to disguise it, the demonstration assumed more or less of the character of a No Popery meeting. It was held at the Academy of Music, last evening, General Dix presiding. Henry Ward Beecher, Horace Greeley, Henry W. Bellows, and others made speeches, and a congratulatory telegram was sent to the King of Italy. Sympathetic letters were sent by the Secretary of State and Vice-President Colfax. I t is almost unnecessary for us to remark that Messrs. Dix, Greeley, Beecher, and Bellows, although, no doubt, prominent men and leaders o f certain sub-sections of American parties, by no means represent the most influential, or even the most respectable, schools o f Protestant opinion. Ward Beecher and Whitney Bellows are political parsons, Horace Greeley is a journalist, and old General D ix was once Ambassador at Paris, but has passed into the back ranks of public life ever since he was Military Commandant of New York in the riots which followed on President Lincoln’s order for the Draft. The total abstention o f American Catholics from this congratulatory movement is not a little significant, when it is considered that in point o f merely political Liberalism, they are certainly not behind the rest o f Americans. In connection ■ with this subject, it is observable that even the Dublin address of sympathy with France, which is, in other words, with the French Republic, published last week, has words o f reprobation for the conduct of Italy. It says o f that Government, that, “ unmindful o f Magenta and Solferino, “ it takes advantage of your (France’s) troubles to march “ upon Rome.” The address in which this passage occurs was agreed to at a meeting presided over by Mr. P. J. Smyth, a Nationalist and a Protestant.
The Ecclesiastical journal o f Prague has s™wjLRT™*r- Published in its columns the Decrees o f the burg. 1 H I and IV Sess. o f the GEcumenical Vatican
Council. The journal in question is known to N e w S e r i e s . V ol. V. No. 117.
be the exclusive property o f the Cardinal Archbishop of Prague, Mgr Schwartzenburg, and under his own immediate direction, so that the publication o f the Decrees may be taken as amounting to an official announcement of adhesion and submission on the part o f his Eminence.
L a Sem aine Religieuse publishes a letter, writTof saint-P tel) by the Hol>' Fatber t° the Bishop o f Saint-
brieuc. Brieuc, congratulating that Prelate on having addressed to his Holiness a letter in which he gives his hearty and unqualified adhesion to the Dogmatic Constitution o f the Council of the 18th of July.
We have been favoured with the sight o f a ™ SH° P Pastoral recently issued by his lordship the s t r a s b u r g . Bishop of Strasburg, who* we are glad to know has survived the dangers and horrors o f the siege o f his episcopal city, and the alarming illness which was the consequence of the labours and sufferings undergone by the good Bishop at that terrible time o f trial. The purport of the present Pastoral is to unite the Diocese of Strasburg in the general Catholic protest against the sacrilegious invasion of Rome, and to announce to the faithful the promulgation o f the dogmatic decrees of the Council o f the Vatican, of which copies are appended, as are also the protest o f the clergy in Latin, and that o f the laity in French against the Italian aggression.
The p o u rp a r le rs o f M. Jules Favre with Count Bismark have had the result which was anticipated from them. The fire o f the Prussian batteries ceased at midnight on the 26-27th ult. On Saturday Paris capitulated ; and the world’s metropolis is now in the hands o f the Germans. We place on record the chief features in the terms of surrender :— The armistice is to begin in Paris at once, and in the Departments in three days, and is to expire on the 19th o f February at noon. A decision as to the armistice relative to the Cote d’Or, Doubs, Jura, and Belfort is reserved. Up to that time, the military operations in that part of France, including the siege of Belfort, will be continued. Sea forces are to be included in the armistice. Elections for an Assembly to decide upon war or peace shall be held, Bordeaux being fixed as the place of meeting. A ll the forts around Paris are to surrender at once. The enceinte shall be disarmed. The Line, Marines, and Mobile Guards are prisoners of war, except 12,000 men for maintaining public order. The prisoners o f war shall remain during the armistice within the walls o f the Capital, after they have laid down their arms. The National Guards and gendarmes are to keep their arms for the preservation o f order, and all corps o f Franc-tireurs to be disbanded. The Germans shall, as much as lies in their power, facilitate the task o f the French commissariat for revictualling Paris. In order to leave Paris, the permission of the French authorities must necessarily be accompanied