THE TABLET

A IVeekly Newspaper and Review.

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

From, the B r ief o j His Holiness to The Tablet, J u n e 4, 1870.

Vol. 38. No. 1639. L ondon, S eptember 9, 1871.

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¿Chronicle of the Week : Rome and the Liberal Press.—The Truth about Rome.—The Government, the Guarantees, and the Mob.— The “ Diplomatic Review ” on M. Thiers —Sentences on the Communist Leaders.—Other Sentences. —Prince Bismarck again.—The Austro-Hungarian Crisis. —The Gastein Conferences.—Mr. Gladstone at Whitby.—Lord Derby on the Land Question.—Mr. Jenkins on the Liberal Party.—Mr. Jenkins at Truro.—The Stampedes.—The Manœuvres and our Invitations to them.—The Dublin Reprisals.— M. Thiers and his Ministry . . 321 X eaders :

Scotch Members and Irish Edu­

cation . . .

. . 325

L eaders (continued) :

C O N T

Arbitration instead of War—V . 326 Light Literature ; What Books are fit to Read ?

E nglish Administrations and

327

Catholic Interests :

XXXII—The Catholic Associa­

tion.—Death of the Cardinal of York ..... 328 The Passion Play at Ammergau . 329 The Anglican Movement:

Anglicans, when they call the

Church the Body of Christ, do not mean what the Holy Fathers and Modern Catholics mean : Illustrated in the Case of Mr. Keble ...... 331 R eviews :

Contributions to the Theory of

Natural Selection . . . 332

ENTS. Reviews (continued) :—

Marion Howard . . . .*333 The Four Great Evils of the Day. 334 Short Notices : Macmillan’s

Magazine. — Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine .... 335 R ome :

Letter from Rome . . . 336 Extract from the Letters Apostolic of July 7th, relative to the Mass and Office of S. Joseph . . 338 Official Impartiality . . . 338 The Roman Pontificate in History 339 Record-of the Council:

The 4’ German Schism ” . . 341 Diocesan News : Westminster.—

Beverley. — Birmingham. — Hexham and Newcastle.—Shrewsbury. —Scotland—Western District . 341

Ireland:

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent ..... 343 Foreign News :

France :

Reparation in Paris . . . 343 Frightful Railway Accident . 343 Memoranda :

Religious : The Relics of S. Am­

brose—Letter of Signor Cesare Cantu...................................... 3 4 3 Educational : Public Education in

Switzerland.—Primary Schools, Geneva ..... 344 Literary............................................345 Medical : Parochial Medical Re-

lief ......345 General News . . . . 346

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

PRESS. T

ROME AND THE LIBERAL

H E sympathizers with the Revolution in Italy, who have it all their own way in the English Press, have o f course been trying to prove that the recent d istu rbances in Rom e were entirely the fault o f the Catholics. A man waved a white hat as he cam e out o f the Church o f the Minerva, and cried “ Viva “ P io IX ! ” After this what result could b e expected ? The generous b lood o f the Roman people could not o f course stand such an outrage. The “ highly-respectable” by.standers began immediately to operate, and the National Guard had to interfere. So too at S John Lateran. The pretext there was that som ebody had insulted a p lacard bearing the K ing's name by touching it with his stick. This in its turn received the usual embellishment from the corresspondent o f an English paper, who had “ heard ” that the K in g ’s proclam ations had been “ torn down by dozens.” The conclusion is, no wonder that the populace should get excited. But if the “ L iberals,” as we are told, had none but the most pacific intentions, we should like to know what took a mob o f them to such a very out of the way p lace as S John Lateran at the particular hour when there was a religious service there in honour o f the P ope’s Jubilee ? We say nothing about the crowd at the Minerva, because it is a central part o f the city, though the collection o f such a large body o f people in one particular small square does not look very much as if they were there without a p u rp o se ; but what took M. Tognetti and his friends all the way to S John Lateran from his butcher’s shop in the Trastevere ? And why d id they prom enade the streets in a cart with flags, if they d id not mean to get up a row ? The tactics o f the party are well illustrated by another incident o f the same day, reported from Frascati. A similar disorderly procession of roughs went round the town to frighten the Catholics, an d passing the shop o f a druggist well known for his fidelity to the Pope, they fired at him as he s to o d at his door, and throwing the revolver into his shop, had him arrested for having fired on them. Facts like this, however, seldom or never appear in the English papers. I t is not very creditable to our national honesty that it should have to be admitted that, unless facts are arranged for the English palate, the correspondents would be neither read nor paid. Yet this is the upshot o f the anecdote recounted at a meeting held last Sunday at Kensington, a report o f which appears in our columns.

The truth is that, as the Voce d e l la V erità

THabout™ saFs> t^le so'ca^ e<3 L iberal party in Rom e is a rome. small fraction o f the population, and not the most select one. I t is, therefore, obliged to m ake a great detfl o f noise, and to exercise as much

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terrorism as it can ; and it would not make the show it does if it were not substantially backed up by the resources o f the invading Government. Another point pretty well established by the events o f the last year is that the Catholics of Rom e are unable to frequent the churches for any extraordinary religious solemnity without having to run the gauntlet o f every kind o f foul insult, to which their wives and daughters are exposed as well as themselves. The third fact which has been incontestably proved is that the large majority o f the Roman people, in spite o f all this, have the courage to assert their fidelity. The churches are crowded, the members o f the deputations to the Vatican are counted by hundreds and by thousands, and represent all classes, from the greatest nobles to the humblest inhabitants o f the Trastevere. The invaders, says the Italian paper, must make up their minds to there being two Romes, as, according to Jacini, there are two Italies ; only the official, legal, liberal, anti-Catholic, and Atheistic Rom e is a small minority, and it will be im possible to prevent the remaining ninetenths o f the inhabitants, the true Rom e , from asserting itself from time to time. I f such manifestations are to b e regarded as a political offence, the only result will be that it will be demonstrated that the Italian Government cannot exist in Rom e on normal terms with the population.

Without taking into consideration the lavish the govern- payments to noisy demonstrators, the kind o f mext, the morai support which the Government gives to and the outrages against the P ope is exemplified by mob. facts contained in a letter which we print this week from a correspondent in whose veracity we have implicit confidence. The roughs, as a provocation to the Catholics, hastily stuck up pieces o f paper bearing the arms o f Savoy. For detaching one o f these with his stick a young gentlem an of 16 was arrested, and for crying “ Long live Pius IX ! ” was kept in prison amongst thieves and pickpockets during five days. It is true that when his mother, the wife o f an Italian ju dge, applied to the magistrate for news o f her son, she was assured that he would be liberated immediately, as it was probably “ only some trifle, “ such as crying Death to Pius IX ,” for which he was taken, up. The next morning, however, she was told by the same magistrate that the affair was far more serious. “ I find,” he said, “ that it is not a case o f merely crying Death to “ Pius IX ; your son was seen to tear down the arms o f the “ Sovereign, and was heard to shout ‘ Long live Pius IX ! ’ “ H e cannot be liberated so easily.” We have heard a good deal o f the effect o f the guarantees in repressing outrages against the person o f the Supreme Pontiff. We have heard also o f the right to “ Sovereignty,” and “ preem inence among “ Sovereigns ” which they secure to him. Yet we find the cry o f “ Death to the P o p e ” “ punished” by almost immediate liberation, and that o f “ Long live the P ope ” by the im­