THE TABLET
A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
I)UM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMGS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r ie f o j H is Holiness to The Tablet, J u n e 4, 1870.
Vol. 38. No. 1641. L ondon, S e pt em b e r 23, 1871.
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C hronicle of the Week : The
Mont CenisTunnel.—The Limerick Election.—The Three Days’ Campaign.—Ou,r Happy Security.— The Roman Convents.—“ Internationalism” in Rome.—The 20th September.—Nomination to Italian 'Sees.—The Congress at Mainz.— A Statesman on Modern Liberal’ism.—The Evacuation Treaty.— 'The State of Siege.-- Deportation of the Communists.—The Week’s Trials.—A Dinner at the President's.—M. Jules Simon and the
International. — Disaffection in ‘Savoy.—The Elections in AustroHungary.—The March of the C h o l e r a .....................................385
C O N T
Leaders :
The Syrian Converts and the
British Protectorate . . . 389 The Tynemouth Strikes. . . 389 Arbitration Instead of War.—VII. 390 English Administrations and
Catholic Interests :
XXXIV.—Lord Goderich.—The
Duke of Wellington.— Clare Election................................. 391 The International Exhibition.—The
German Pictures .... 393 The Anglican Movement:
Do Anglicans Believe in the Holy
Catholic Church?—Dr. Forbes, of Brechin, &c...........................394 Reviews :
The Bells of the Sanctuary.—
No. 2. Agnes .... 395 The Contemporary Review . . 395
E N T S . R eviews (continued) :
Curious Facts of old Colonial • Days . \ . . . . 396 Baltimore Catholic Press . . 397 Short Notice : Christian Instruc
tions for Youth .... 397 Correspondence :
Syrian Missions .... 397 The Passion-Play .... 398 Lord Shaftesbury on the Franco-t
German War
. . . 398
Young Men's Catholic Association 398 The Estatica.......................................399 Rome :
Letter from Rome . . . 400 Reply of the Pope to the Address of the Catholic Students of Rome................................................ 401 Peter’s Pence.......................................401
Record of the Council:
Dr. Dollinger’s “Thousands among the Clergy think as I do ” . . 4or Diocesan News : Westminster.—
Southwark. — Beverley. — Liverpool.—Newport and Menevia.— Nottingham.—Salford.—Plymouth. —Shrewsbury. . . . . . 402 Ireland:
Letter from our Dublin Correspondent .... •403 Foreign News:
Germany.—Italy.—Syria
Memoranda :
Literary. . . . .
. 403
.407
Statistics . . . . •407 Legal . . . . . . 407 Military. . . . . 407 Agricultural . . . . .408 General News .409
CHRONICLE O F TH E W E E K .
TUNNEL. O
THE MONT CENIS
N Sunday the great Mont Cenis Tunnel was solemnly opened. Three Italian Ministers, those of Foreign Affairs, Public Works, and F inance, started in the train from Bardonnecchia at half-past ten, and reached Modane at eleven, the run through the tunnel itself having been accom plished in 20 minntes. There they met M. Lefranc, the French Minister o f the Interior, with other French officials, and all returned a t noon to Bardonnecchia, where the visitors, 10 0 0 in number, sat down to a sumptuous banquet at three o ’c lock, in a pavilion erected on the summit o f the d e b r is which has b een blown out o f the tunnel. In the evening another banquet was given at Turin by the Bank and Municipality, .at which M. de Rémusat also was present, and made the usual obligatory speech about the Latin race and the union between its members, which scarcely appears at present to b e very cordial as far as France and Italy are concerned. T h e tunnel pierces the A lps beneath the Col de Fréjus, where they are only seven miles in thickness. Entering above the hamlet o f Fourneaux near Modane, at an elevation o f 1 1 9 0 mètres above the level o f the sea, it continues to ascend to an altitude o f 1 3 3 5 metres, which is the culm inating point, from which it slopes down to the Italian open
ing near Bardonnecchia, which has an elevation o f 1 3 2 4 metres, the opening on the Italian side being thus 1 3 4 mètres higher than that on the French side. In order to reach the height o f the French opening the route passes the hamlet o f Fourneaux on the other side o f the valley, and a scending all the way, sweeps on round the village o f Modane, returning in the form o f a horse-shoe to the arch o f the tunnel. The last 1 0 miles on the French side are still unfinished, and this is the only gap between Calais and Brind isi ; though not the only delay, as the French Company, in the interest o f Marseilles, persist in running nothing but •ommibus trains between Mâcon and Mont Cenis, spending nine hours on a distance which might b e accom plished in five. The works o f the tunnel were begun on the 3 1 s t o f August, 1 8 5 7 , and have occupied 1 3 years and nearly three months.
Mr. Butt has been returned for Lim erick iiMERicr without opposition. H e was unable to be preelection. sent at the nomination. A letter from him appeared in the T im e s o f Saturday last, by
•way o f answer to the appeal made to him to state more precisely the views and wishes o f the Home R u le party. H e quotes the resolutions adopted at the meeting which inaugurated the movement, to prove that its object is lim ited to the restoration o f an Irish Parliament, com posed o f the Sovereign and the Irish Lords and Commons, who are to legislate for
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all matters relating to the internal affairs o f Ireland, and to control all Irish revenue, subject to the obligation o f contributing a ju st proportion to the Imperial expenditure. T o the Imperial Parliam ent is to be left the power o f dealing with all “ questions affecting the Imperial Crown and Government,” legislation regarding the Colonies and other dependencies, foreign relations, and Imperial questions generally. Further, that this adjustm ent is to be arrived a t without any interference with the prerogatives o f the Crown, and in a strictly Constitutional manner. For further details he refers to a tract entitled, “ Irish Federation ; its Objects and its H opes,” which he published more than a year ago. The reply o f the T im es is scarcely a satisfactory one. One o f its argum ents rests on a confusion between R epeal and Secession. “ Mr. “ Butt,” it says, “ denies that he contem plates either a “ Communistic Republic, or a disruption o f the Empire, “ and nevertheless we could find nothing in his address “ but the old cry for R epeal feebly disguised, if disguised “ at all.” “ Would Home R u le ,” asks the T im es, “ in “ the end be anything but R epeal, or worse ? ” Of course it would not (the “ worse ” is beside the question). R epeal o f the Union is exactly what the movement avowedly aims at, but that is not in itself “ disruption o f the Empire,” unless the Empire was in a state o f disruption before the Union, and fell into it again with the first Colonial Parliam ent. iVhether Mr. Butt’s schem e is workable, is quite another question, but to attempt to upset it by an argument like this is simply p r o ta n to to give it strength. The main position o f the T im e s , however, is that Ireland is a less source o f weakness to England under the present Constitution than she would b e under any other.
The special correspondent o f the T im es says that there are three ways o f attem pting to de-
campaign. scribe a battle, the enthusiastic, the success o f which depends on the enthusiasm of the readers;
the topographical, which requires maps and lucid o rd e r ; and the hopeless, which deals largely in military phraseology. Despairing o f satisfying any o f these conditions, we will merely sum up the military events o f the week by saying that Sir Hope Grant, in command o f the 1s t Division, representing the defenders o f London, was assum ed on Saturday to have failed in preventing the junction o f the two corps o f the invading army, represented by the 3 rd and 2nd Divisions, under Sir Charles Staveley and General Carey, and to have taken up a strong position on the Hog’s B ack. This position was attacked by Sir Charles Staveley, and Sir Hope Grant retired, Sir Charles following in the direction o f Pirbright Common. Bnt when the invading force arrived under Fox Hill, it was received by a crushing fire, which, in real war, would have nearly annihilated it. Sir H ope Grant had made a rally there, which was not in the programme, and Sir Charles Staveley was pursuing with only one B r i