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«Chronicle o f t h e W e e k : The

Pastoral o f the Irish Bishops.— Professor Kavanagii and the “ Times.”— The London School Board.— The Result of the Debate.— Catholics on the Board.— M. Jules Simon on France.— French Losses from Invasion.— The March from Chalons.— Italy and the French Legation.— The Pontifical Currency.— Conversion -of the Roman Debt.— Reform in Turkey.—The Mission of Mgr. Franchi.— The Consistorial Meetin g .—The Jesuits in Germany.— Geneva and the Religious Congregations.— The Canadian Zouaves. — The Raid on Manitoba.— Spanish Finance.— The Royal Warrant.— Fire-risks in London.— &c. . . 577

C O N T L eaders :

Mr. Gladstone at Greenwich. . 581 Professor Huxley.—A Warning to

I r e l a n d ....................................582 Arbitration Instead of War. —X I I . 583 E nglish A dm in istr at io n s an d

C atholic I n t er e sts :

XXXIX . Trial and Release of

O’Connell. — Tenant-right. — Maynooth and the “ Godless Colleges ” ' . . . . 584 T he A nglican M o v e m e n t :

The “ Church Review” in Answer to T h e T a b l e t .... 585 R ev iew s :

History o f the Councils. (Con­

cluding notice) .... 586 Angleterre et France . . . 587 The Coming Race . . . 588 S hort N otices : The Works of

E N T S .

Charles Dickens.— Light in Darkness. — Dictionnaire Encyclopédique de la Théologie Catholique. — The Apparition at Portmain.— The Passion Play at Ammergau . 589 C o rrespondence:

Catholic Education . . . 590 The Roman Debt .... 590 A Pilgrimage to Lourdes . . 590 The Chichester Mission. . . 591 S. Mary’s Orphanage, Blackheath 591 Information Wanted . . . 591 R ome :

Letter from Rome . . . 593 Alllocution of our Most Holy Lord,

Pius IX . . . . . .593 List of Archbishops and Bishops

Preconized on the 27th ult. . 594 R ecord of th e C ouncil : The

States, the Church, and the Schism 595

D io cesan N ews :—Westminster.—

Southwark.— Birmingham. — Hexham and Newcastle.— Liverpool. — Shrewsbury.— Scotland F oreign N ews : • 597

France : Letter from our Paris

Correspondent .

M em oranda :

Religious

Educational .

Political ....

Legal .... . .600 G en er a l N ews . .601 S u pplem ent :

Pastoral Address of the Catholic

Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland, to the Clergy, Secular and Regular, and the Laity of their Flocks.

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C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .

W

E print as a Supplement to our present number the remarkable Pastoral Letter nut iKisti iR which the Catholic Hierarchy of bishops. Ireland state the claims of their Church and country in the matter of Education. The document is remarkable alike for its force, its straightforwardness, and its simplicity. And backed as it will be by the unmistakable adhesion of the whole mass of Irish Catholics, it imperatively demands a favourable consideration at the hands of the Imperial Government and the British people. But, while the present Government has expressed its desire •to redress admitted grievances, the avowed opponents of 'Catholicism, “ determined,” as the Bishops say, “ to resist “ every concession to their just demands, and clamouring “ for a settlement of the Irish Education question, are endeavouring to force upon them godless systems, which, xi as Catholics and Irishmen, they must condemn.” The ■ disingenuous argument that the existing system of education is a mixed one, and must not be disturbed, is beginning to be loudly heard, and the part which Archbishop Murray took in the establishment of the National system is quoted as a proof that Irish Catholic Bishops were not always averse to that which they now condemn. Such writers carefully avoid alluding to the fact that the Queen’s Colleges did not then exist, and that Archbishop Whately had not as yet avowed that the real object and tendency of the National system was to wean the Irish from their faith. That the system is practically no longer denominational, is the result ■ of circumstances, not of the will of its authors. We cannot ■ doubt that the venerable prelates on whose authority the Times relies, would, if they were now alive, take precisely the same view of the emergency as their successors do. To argue, as the Times does, that the issue is not between godless and religious education, but between education controlled by the State and education controlled by the priesthood, is surely somewhat of a quibble. Religious education for Catholics over which their clergy have no control is for them no religious education at all. And the Times must be very anxious to encourage the agitation for Home Rule when it “ warns” the authors and readers of the Pastoral that, “ come what may, the educational interests of Ireland “ will never be left by this country in the sole charge of “ priests.” In other words English and Scotch Protestants and Secularists know better than Irish Catholics what is good for them, and a British Legislature will at any risk refuse to grant to Ireland vvliat Ireland most justly demands.

In a letter published in the Times of Tuesday kavanagh '— 'w^ ch vve wish our space would permit us to and the transfer to our columns— Professor Kavanagh, -‘ times.1’ of the Catholic University of Ireland, points cation in Ireland, whether primary, intermediate, or superior. He shows that the creed distribution of the population is such, that the national schools are “ openly, avowedly, “ glaringly denominational, the fallacy of alleged mixture de“ pending on extreme minorities of ones, twos, and threes;” that in the intermediate schools there is no pretence whatever of mixed education, “ the Diocesan, Royal, Erasmus Smith, and “ Endowed Schools being Protestant, while Catholic, Presby-

terian, Methodist, and other Colleges and grammar-schools “ cover the country.” As regards University education, while the Catholic University is openly denominational, Trinity College is really so ; and the Queen’s University is sparingly mixed. As far as Catholics are concerned, the statistics produced by Professor Kavanagh go to prove that in 1869-70 it took 23,270 Catholics to supply one student to the Queen’s Colleges. To this the Times replies in a leading article on Thursday, that the phenomenon is accounted for by the great preponderance of Protestants in the class whence University students are drawn. The preponderance must indeed be great to produce such a result, but the very existence of the Catholic University destroys the completeness of the theory. I f the amount of Catholic students at the Queen’s Colleges be really equal to what it would be if those institutions were acceptable to Irish Catholics, how comes it that the Catholic University and its students exist? And if the temporal advantages enjoyed by the Queen’s University and its graduates were extended to the Catholic University and its graduates, we contend that the comparison would for the first time be fair, and that the practical result of the experiment would be, that, as far as Catholics are concerned, the popularity of the latter institution and the unpopularity of the former would be still more strongly marked. The Irish Catholics would have got the education they want, and be no longer forced by their consciences to buy it at the price of temporal disadvantages.

SCHOOL BOARD.

The proceedings at the London School THE„L.0ND0N Board furnish a valuable illustration of the na­

ture of the Secularist movement. The cry for universal education has assumed the form of a virtual admission that no education at all is better than education in denominational schools. The two points left to the discretion of the local authorities have just come on for settlement at the London Board. The one is, whether any or what amount of compulsion shall be used to force parents to send their children to school. The other, whether, when they cannot pay the fees, the fees shall be paid for them to the denominational school which their conscience leads them to select. Now on both these points the secularists— under which term we include for convenience sake the antidenominationalists and the secularists proper— have always taken a decided line. They have as a general rule been strongly in favour of compulsory education, and equally opposed to the payment of fees to denominational schools.

out the impossibility of a genuine mixed eduNew Series. V o l . V I . No. 156.