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D u m v o b i s g r a t u l a m u r , a n i m o s e t i a m a d d i m u s u t i n i n c c e p t i s v e s t r i s c o n s t a n t e r m a n e a t i s .
From the B r ie J o) H is Holiness to T he T ablet, Jun e 4, 1870.
Voi. 38. No. 1631. London, July 15, 1871.
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C hronicle of t h e W e e k : Victor
■ Emmanuel at Rome.— M. Thiers and the Pope.— Catholic Diplomacy at Rome.— The Double Embassies.— The Belgian Ministry.— The Royal Manifesto.— The White ■ Flag. —Leaders of the Commune. — The Dôllinger Movement.— Prussian Intolerance.— The recent Disturbances in Prussian Silesia.— The Army Bill in the Lords.— The Ballot Bill.— England v. Irish Education. — The Birmingham League and the Cumulative Vote. ^Leaders : 65
Communism in England.— The
International Association of Working-men . . . . 6 9 Pius IX iind Liberalism. . . 70
L eaders (continued):
C O N
Anti-Test Movement in the Dublin
University ..... Catholic Unions.— VI International Exhibition.— The
Indian Court T he A nglican M ovem ent :
Disestablishment and Disendowm e n t ............................................. R eview s :
Conversations on War and General
Culture ..... In that State of Life The M o n t h .................................... The Contemporary Review . S hort N otices : The Innocents
Abroad, and The New Pilgrim’s Progress.— The Life of Father Pallotti.— O f Adoration in Spirit
T E N T S . and in Truth.— The Men and
Women of the English Reformation.— Home Rule.—The State of Parties in Ireland.— Immaculata. — Perpetual Intercession to the Agonizing Heart of Jesus for the Eighty Thousand who die each Day.— The Lost Found. C o rrespondence:
The “ John Bull” on the Döllinger
Movement .... The Education of Girls . A Warning to Priests The Barnet Schools Completion of S. John’s Church
Islington .... P a r l ia m en t a r y Summary . R ome :
Letter from Rome The Address of the Irish Deputa tion to the Pope, and the Holy Father’s Reply .... Peter’s Pence .... R ecord of th e Council :
The Dôllinger Party D io cesan N ews : Westminster.—
Southwark.— Salford I r eland :
Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent .................................... F oreign N ews :
France : Manifesto of the Count de Chambord .... M em oranda :
Religious : The Passion Play at
Ammergau . Educational . Literary . Scientific G en eral N ews
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C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .
VICTOR EMMANUEL AT ROME. T
'E L E G R A P H I C communication with
Rome having been suspended for some days as regarded the transmission of intelligence on the part of the Pope’s friends •(whether by order of the Government, or the zeal of the telegraphic authorities, is not explained), we had to wait for postal letters before we could learn true details about the f e t e of the 2nd instant. Of course there was plenty of shouting and enthusiasm ; people were paid to do it, and they earned their money. 50,000 Italians conveyed to Rome per rail at mere nominal fares were of themselves enough to supply the semblance of a grateful populace to follow and cheer the King wheresoever he went, and to overwhelm him with their v iv a s when he appeared, as he did twice, on the balcony of the Quirinal. There was great feeding too : as a letter from Rome says, the King’s kitchens established in the basement storey of the Quirinal sent forth a steam which told to all passers by that it was no Barmecide feast that was preparing. The Royal kitchens occupied a space of 80 metres in length, and through the air-holes could be seen the culinary ministers in the white vestments of their profession actively at work. This is the King to succeed Pius IX, whose breakfast, dinner, and supper cost him 5 francs a day ! His predecessor, Gregory XVI, spent little more on his table. As for Leo XII, he fasted continually, and seldom dined on anything but vegetables. Another letter describes the appearance of Victor Emmanuel on the Loggia of the Benediction : I remember seeing Pius IX there in 1846 in his white robes ; the Romans were struck by his noble appearance. They said, “ Q u a n t ’ e bello ! Q u a n t ' e hello / ” There was but one cry, the unbought cheers mingled with the shout, “ S an to
P a d r e , l a B en ed iz io t ie ! " How great the contrast in the apparition of to-day ! A correspondent writes :— “ I heard “ people saying around me, ‘ Q u a n t ' e b ru tto ! Q u a n t ’ e “ ‘ b r u t t o l ’ He appeared twice on the balcony, and “ saluted the people with his plumed hat. He did it awkwardly. His son stood behind him, looking “ stolid and stony.” The shouts and cheering seemed to have no exhilarating effect, either on him or on his father, who was remarked to turn repeatedly an uneasy glance towards the Vatican Palace. Did he think on the holy sufferer still imprisoned behind those walls— or did he regard them with secret fear as the rock on which he himself must one day suffer shipwreck, with his schemes of ambition, and his Godless throne and dynasty ? As for the plaudits of the mob, although loud enough, they came fitfully : they seemed anything but unanimous or sustained ; and they too evidently proceeded from separate groups of men stationed here and there amongst the crowd.
New Series. Y ol. VI. No. 140.
M. Jules Favre, in denying the authenticity M i r RS ^le ^etter from M. Thiers to Rome which has th e pope. t>een go in g the round of the English papers,
observes that he was quite unable to understand how anybody could have been taken in by so clumsy a forgery. Yet the T im es has published an elaborate article, assuming it to be genuine. Such is the greediness of our English Protestant public opinion for anything which will tell for Italy against the Pope, that it was apparently never even doubted that M. Thiers could insult the Pope by telling him that the Guarantees, which he had just formally declared to be worthless, gave him a far better position in Italy than he could hope form France. To produce this impression was, of course, the sole object of the forgery.
CATHOLIC DIPLOMACY AT ROME.
Count von Beust has been acting in a curiously vacillating manner about the Austrian Legation to Rome. One day he orders the Baron von Kubeck, the Austrian Minister at Florence, to remain there, and not to accompany the King to the f e s t a of the installation at the Quirinal. Another day he is announced to have arranged that the Minister shall continue to make Florence the seat of the Embassy, and repair to Rome only from time to time as occasion may require. Thirdly, and lastly, we learn that the Baron is, after all, to make his diplomatic residence in Rome, lest his remaining at Florence should create difficulties for the Italian Government. Trimmers generally contrive to displease all parties. “ Austria’s gravedigger,” as Prince v Bismark once called him, seldom fails in the achievement. The Catholics of Austria have as great reason to complain of the latest of his three arrangements as Prince von Bismark has of the first. By it the German embassy seems to have been placed in an awkward, not to say a ridiculous, position at Rome. We take the facts from the Correspondance de Geneve. The Cabinet of Berlin at first adopted the policy of a masterly inaction on the subject of the transfer of the legations. Count Brassier de St. Simon was at first left without instructions. But after Count von Beust had made before the Austro-Hungarian deputations his professions of servility to Italian unification, Prince von Bismark thought he might fairly shelter his intended action under the example of Austria. I f Austria, a Catholic power, sent, as he felt assured she would do, her ambassador to Rome— that would be a good answer to the Prussian Ultramontanes when they complained of the conduct of their own Government. So M. Brassier de St. Simon received orders at the last moment to repair to Rome. His Excellency, not wishing to do things by halves, (and wishing perhaps makes up for previous hesitation,) went in the most ostentatious manner, travelling in company with Prince Humbert. He fully expected to find
