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Chronicle of the Week : The

Policy of Complicity—The French Assembly and Rome—Outrages at Rome—The Guarantees—Victor .Emmanuel and the Jubilee—The Transfer of the Capital—Deputations—Replies to the Sacred College and the Italians—The French Deputation—The Irish Deputation—The Jubilee at Florence— Genoa—Padua—The Jubilee at Florence—The Catholics of Holland—The French Loan—The French Government and the English Press—The “ Atrocities” at .S. Laurent—Education in Ireland Irish Church Temporalities—Report of the Convent Committee— C h i n a ..............................................1

Leaders:

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Communism in England.—The

Communistic Clubs . . . 5 Catholic Unions.—IV . . . 5 The Ballot ..... 6 English Policy towards Ireland . 6 Conventual and Monastic Institu­

tions...... 7 International Exhibition—The Eng­

lish Picture Gallery . . . 9 The Anglican Movement . . 10 R eviews :

At Last ...... 10 The Modes of Origin of Lowest Organisms............................xi Lothaw ; or, The Adventures of a

Young Gentleman in search of a Religion . . . . . 1 3 Short Notices : The Lamp—■

Catholic Glories of the 19th Cen

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tury-rtThe Story of Alsace and Lorraine.—Le Correspondent Correspondence :

University Tests .... Education of Girls Worldliness in Dress The Purehas Judgment The Baron de Bode and the Irish

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Syria ..................................... Rome :

Letter from Rome Reply of the Bloly Father to the

French Deputation headed by Mgr de Forcade The Answer to the English Clergy The Answer to the Youth of Great

Britain

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The Answer to the Sacred College

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R ecord of the Council :

Pastoral of the German Episcopate to their Dioceses touching the Decrees of the Vatican Council 18 Diocesan News : Westminster.—

Southwark— Beverley— Salford— Scotland : Eastern District .19 Ireland :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent ......................................... 21 Foreign News :

France ......................................... 21 Memoranda ;

Religious : Catholic Deaf and

Dumb Institution for England and Scotland . . . 2 2 Legal : The Tichborne Case . .23 General News . . . 2 4 Parliamentary Summary . . 25

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THE POLICY

gratulating been preparing fresh affront, an always been so.

H E present moment is a very critical one, not for the Church but for the Governments o f the world. The kings, princes, and presidents who have been conthe P ope on his 2 5 th anniversary have for him at the very sam e time a additional drop o f bitterness. It has

After the triumph has come the kiss o f treachery, the insults and the bonds. After the Centenary •the Garibaldian raid. After the Definition the invasion o f Rom e . After the Jubilee the installation o f the usurping Government. We are scarcely surprised that a non-Catholic Minister like Mr. Gladstone should, in apologizing for an act o f courtesy, speak o f the P ope as no longer a Sovereign, and o f the capital o f the Christian world as having becom e “ part o f the dominions o f the K in g o f Italy;” nor are we much more surprised when the Protestant Minister o f a quasi-Catholic Emperor “ refuses interference in the ques“ tions betw een Italy and R om e ,” and by way o f proving it directs his am bassador to Italy, by taking up his residence in Rom e , to recognize it as the capital o f the country to which he is accredited. But when it is a question o f France and Belgium, where not only the rulers are p ledged to a more honourable policy, but where public opinion is eager to -support them, truckling to Italy becom es simply incredible. This is especially true with respect to France, where the Sovereign authority is vested in an Assembly— the majority in which can enforce its views if it chooses. But let us listen to M. d ’A nethan, the present Prim e Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in Belgium. Only nine years ago this statesman declared with reference to the prelim inary spoliations of the Rom an territory : “ Belgium ought to be the last power “ to recognize a state o f things which consecrates the princiXl p ie of annexations effected by cunning, by violence, and by “ a contem pt for treaties and the most solemn engagem ents.” Yet we hear that the Belgian Minister at F lo rence has received instructions to follow M. Lanza’s Governm enttoRom e. Much depends on the conduct o f F rance in this matter. France, after all, is not M. Ju le s Favre, though she has the misfortune to possess him for her Foreign Minister. France is not even M . Thiers, though M. Thiers has said enough, one would have thought, to commit him to the side o f ju s tice and national honour. The real executive power o f F rance is the majority o f the National Assembly. We wait to see whether it will use its p ow e r ; but we must first learn whether M. Thiers has forgotten that the annexation o f Rom e is an act “ which no ruler o f F rance could or would “ sanction.” In the meantime M. Nigra is far from idle. H is tactics are to persuade the F rench Government— M. Favre, we should imagine, does not want persuading— that

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the transfer o f the French Ambassador from F lo rence to Rom e sanctions nothing, but is simply the most convenient mode o f transacting business. But, as the B i e n P u b l i c v z t y justlyobserves, Victor Emmanuel is about to enter Rom e for the purpose o f affirming his sovereignty there, and the opening o f the Parliam ent there will be the official consecration o f the bombardment o f Rom e , the recognition o f might victorious over right, the condemnation of right crushed by might. When Louis XVI was sentenced by the French Convention, the Sovereigns o f Europe shuddered and protested ; a far more venerable monarch is being now deposed by “ an Areopagus o f K ings ” in the sanction which they give to the violent neighbour who has robbed him o f his territory, his capital, and his freedom, and taken personal possession o f his very palace. Even in

18 4 8 , as our contemporary remarks, no Government acknowledged the Mazzinian triumvirate ; even when in exile at Gaeta, Pius IX was still the Sovereign o f the Rom an States. But we have got further on the L iberal road since then, we have had Count de Cavour and P rince v. B ismark to teach us that there is no act o f in justice for which the sanction o f the world cannot be got— if only the doer is strong enough to do it. “ Accomplished facts ” are always to b e applauded, the stronger is always in the right, and the weaker always in the wrong. The only quarter from which we can look for a protest against this official brigandage is the French Assembly. Not only French Catholics, but we also— all Catholics throughout the world, look to it not to abd icate its functions. The occasion is furnished it, for the Government will have immediately to decide on its course o f action. The subject is brought before it,fo rthe Bishops and many deputies have petitioned. Christendom is watching to see w'hether it is equal to the emergency ; whether it will affirm the principles o f right and justice, and declare itself on the side o f God, or whether it will imitate the complaisance o f the Empire, abandon the defence o f religion, and draw down, upon itself fresh judgm ents.

Another petition for a protest in favour o f the Holy See has been received by the Assembly and Rome. fr°m the Archbishop o f A lgiers; and the deputies o f the departm ents forming the ancient p ro­

vince o f Brittany have laid before the b u r e a u in their own names a warm and eloquent address to the same effect. Their example has been, or is about to be, followed by the departm ents o f la Mayenne, la Vendee, Maine-et-Loire, la Sarthe, la Seine, le Jura, les Pyrenees Orientales, le Rhône, le Lot et Garonne, l ’Indre-et-Loire, le Calvados, la Manche, la Nièvre, l ’A ilier and others.

The T im es is good enough to inform us that at <t qle only disturbance ” at Rom e “ was one

“ purely local and personal. Lord Gains-

“ borough and his son, after a wnangle with casual passengers