THE TABLET
A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
Dum vobis g r a tu lam u r , an im o s e t iam addimus u t in incceptis v e str is constanter m aneatis.
From the B r ie f oj H is Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
Vol. 39. No. 1667. London, March 23, 1872.
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C hronicle of th e W eek : The
Dublin University Bill.— Sir C. Dilke’s Collapse.—The Alabama Controversy.— Election Expenses. —Admiralty Reform.—Private Business.— Tactical Organization. —The Grant to Lord Mayo.— Denunciation of the Anglo-French Treaty.— The Press Bill.—A Republican on the International.— The Catholic Petitions.— Death of M. Cochin.—The Military Court of Enquiry.— M. Jules Mottu.— Reorganization of the French Army.—M. Thiers and the French Assembly.—The Prussians in Rome.—The Posen ‘ 'Plot."— The Bishop of Ermeland.—The Bulgarian Greeks.—The Persecution in J a p a n .............................................;
L eaders:
CONTENTS.
Short N otices : Reflections on
Present Phase of the American
Difficulty . . . . .353 German Socialists .... 353 Mr. Fawcett’sBill. . . . 354 E nglish A dministrations and
C atholic Interests :
LIX .—Grattan’s Advocacy of the Passion.—The Month of March. —Devotions for the Souls in Purgatory : and Twelve Visits to Our Lady and the Heavenly City.— Hints and Facts on the Origin of Man, and of his Intellectual F a c u l t i e s ...............................360 Correspondence :
Catholic Claims. — Keogh, Lord Clare, Duigenan, and Edmund Burke . . . 355 Winter Exhibitions.— “ New British
Institution” ....................................356 R eviews :
Conversion of the Teutonic Race . 357 Magdalen Wynyard . . . 358 The Debateable Land between this World and the next . . 359 The Contemporary Review . . 359
Charges of Doctrinal Error . . 360 The Illustrated Catholic Magazine 360 A “ Tichborne ” Prayer Book . 360 Mazzini and English Opinion . 361 P arliam entary Summary . . 361 Rome :
Letter from Rome .... 365 Peter’s Pence.............................. 366 D iocesan N ews :
Westminster...............................366 S o u th w a rk ...............................366
D iocesan N ews (continued) :
B e v e r l e y .................................... Newport and Menevia . Scotland.— Eastern District I reland :
Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent ................................... Speech of Mitchell Henry, Esq.,
M.P., on the Education Question Foreign N ews :
S y r i a ............................................ M emoranda :
Religious Educational . Literary . Scientific Fine Arts and Music Legal Political General N ews
366 367 367
367 367 368 369 369 371 371 371 371 372 372
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
AL T H O U G H the O ’D onoghue’s motion for the adjournment o f W ednesday’s mLi debate was lost by 281 against 24 votes, the c lo ck immediately afterwards stopped the discussion, and Mr. Fawcett’s B ill became, according to the rules o f the House, “ a dropped “ order," not lik e ly to be taken up again during th e present session. T h e principal feature o f the debate was that Mr. G ladstone expressed his intention to vote for th e second reading, in order to pass the abolition o f tests, but objected to that part o f the B ill which reconstituted the U n iversity— as “ a totally inadequate settlem ent o f the great l i University question in Ireland.” I t was not fair, he said, to argue from the results o f the opening o f Irish jud ic ia l appointm ents ; it had taken 45 years to put a Catholic majority on the Bench, and in order that the cases should be parallel, it would have been necessary that the appointments to vacant judgeships should have been in the hands o f the Protestant judges on the Bench. “ W e have enter“ ta ined,” said Mr. G ladstone, “ and continue to entertain “ the belief— we are p ledged to the belief— that it is an “ extrem e hardship on that portion o f the Irish population “ who do not choose to accept an education apart from “ religion, that they should have no University open to “ them in Ireland at which they may obtain degrees ; and “ we hold that this, call it what you like and disguise it as you “ may, is the infliction o f civil penalties on account o f reli“ gious opinions.” Mr. Synan’s amendment, seconded by T h e O ’C onor D on , was in the form o f a resolution declaring that nothing short o f a Governm ent measure would be satisfactory or could be permanent, and was supported by the obvious argument that it was scarcely worth while to vote the second reading o f a B ill in order to pass only a small fraction o f its contents. Mr. Butt made his first speech, since his election for Lim erick, in favour o f a Catholic C o llege within the Dublin U n iv e rsity ; and Captain Nolan spoke in favour o f a Catholic University, and Mr. Smyth against the m ixed system involved in Mr. Faw cett’s schem e as illu sory and utterly distasteful to Ireland.
lame apology for his misstatem ent about the Queen’s nonpayment o f income tax, and a series o f allegations about the present c iv il list, which were one after another victoriously pulled to pieces by Mr. G ladstone. T h e present civil list, said Sir Charles D ilk e , exceeded that o f W illiam IV . by ,£ 10,000 ; Mr. G ladstone showed that it falls short o f it by ¿£20,000. Burke and Dunning, it was true, had urged an enquiry into the expenses o f the c iv il list, but that was when very large additional sums had had to be voted to pay the debts o f the sovereign. And it is during a reign under which no such deficits have occurred, that R oyalty is accused o f being expensive, and small savings o f ¿ 1 5 ,0 0 0 or ¿£20,000 talked o f as if their accum u la tion was dangerous to the authority o f Parliam ent. Mr. G lad stone very properly said that he had no authority to give, and he was sure the H ouse would not wish to receive, any explanation as to the savings paid in to the account o f the P r ivy Purse. But he pointed out that if they d id amount to ¿£20,000 a year, that would only suffice to meet the expense o f personal pensions unguaranteed by Parliam ent which the Sovereign has to pay, and in the fixing o f three-fifths o f which the Queen has had no voice, as they were granted before her accession. T h e whole o f S ir Charles D i lk e ’s assertions, except that the annuities to the Princesses in G eorge I I I . ’s tim e— not their dowries— were paid out o f the c iv il list, were shown by Mr. G ladstone to be what he happily term ed “ wanton “ errors.” But he based his opposition to the motion on the still stronger ground that to consent to the enquiry would involve a sort o f implied approval o f the agitation by which it had been preceded, and with which it was inseparab ly connected. Mr. Auberon Herbert— who is resolved to earn fairly his sobriquet o f “ D ilke-and-water ”— threw him se lf into the breach, stood his ground against the concert o f noises which are the traditional expressions o f extreme disapproval, spoke on through and after the departure o f nearly the whole House en masse, and through three attempts at a count-out, and an expulsion o f strangers ; after which Mr. Faw cett read his honourable friends a lecture on the im propriety o f making republicanism “ a miserable haggle “ over a few pounds,” and on the m ischievousness o f a speech like that at Newcastle, which gave rise to the delusion that the expenses o f the Court have something to do with pauperism. T h e division left Sir Charles D ilk e and his friend Mr. Herbert in a m inority o f 2 against 276.
A s far as Mr. D ilk e and his friends— we s ir c . d ilkes shoui(j rather say his friend— are concerned,
collapse.
L iddell was not far wrong when he said that the proceedings connected with the debate o f Tuesday were a com edy o f errors. Lord Bury made a useless attem pt to stop S ir Charles D ilke, by appealing to the oath o f a llegiance, and calling on the Speaker to summon Sir Charles to declare whether his profession o f Republicanism at N ew castle had been accurately rep o r ted ; and on this failing, S ir Charles opened his budget. I t consisted o f a
On Tuesday Lord Granville and Mr. Glad-
aiabama stone stated that the rejoinder o f this Governcontroversy. ment t0 tlie American despatch was to be p laced in General Schenk’s hands in tim e for it to be sent off on Thursday. Both M in isters, o f course, abstained from giving any information as to its contents, and Mr. G ladstone appealed to the example o f the American
N ew Series. V oi.. VII. No. 176.