THE TABLET
A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
D u m VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E STR IS CONSTANTER M ANEATIS.
From the B r ie f o] H is Holiness to The Tablet, Ju n e 4, 1870.
Vol. 39. No. 1669. L o n d o n , A p r i l 6 , 1872.
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[R eg is t e r ed Sa t th e G en e r a l P ost Offic e a s a N ew spaper.
C hronicle of t h e W e e k : The
Volunteer Review.—Mr. Disraeli at Manchester.—The Warwickshire Strike.—Private Bill Legislation.—The American Claims.—The 'Trochu Trial.—French Finance.— The Permanent Committee.—M. Thiers’s Speeches.—Germany and Italy.—Rome and the Catholic Petitions. — Passports. —Associations c f Catholic Workmen.—The Bordeaux Scandal.—The Bonn Professors. — Excommunication and Prussian Law.—Nationality in Alsace.—The Italian Ministry. —The Exequatur Difficulty.— Outrages in Rome .... 413 L e a d e r s :
The Present Attitude of Parties . 417 The Warwickshire Labourers . 4x7
L ead ers (continued) :
C O N T
The Church in Germany and its
English Assailants . . , 418 E nglish A dm in istratio n s and
Catholic I n t e r e st s :
L X I .—Grattan’s Style o f Ora
tory.—Consequences }£ Earl Fitzwilliam’s Recall.—Lords Moira and Carhampton . . 419 Spring Exhibitions.—Old Bondstreet Gallery . . . .4 2 1 T h e A nglican M ovement :
The “ Church Herald ” refuses to
Answer the Question.—What is it that makes one Community a Church and another a Sect ? .4 2 1 R ev iew s :
The History of the Norman Con
quest of England . . . 423 Muriel, the Sea-King’s Daughter. 424
E N T S . R eview s (continued).:
The Story of a Shower . . . 424 Odds and Ends .... 425 Short N o t ic es : Paul Seigneret. —Revue du Monde Catholique.—
Macmillan’s Magazine —The Lambeth Review. — Old Merry’s Monthly.—Catholic Progress.— Some Observations respecting Easter-tide.—National Education and Parental Rights . . . 426 Correspondence :
Dr. Ddllinger as a Historian. . 426 The Catholic Union . , . 427 The Easter Alleluia . . . 427 P a r l iam en t a r y S ummary . . 427 R ome :
Letter from Rome .... 429 D io cesan N ews : Westminster...................................... 430
D iocesan N ews (continued) :
S o u th w a rk .......................................430 Northampton........................................430 P l y m o u t h ........................................430 I r e land :
Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent ......................................... 430 Mr. Maguire, M .P., on Irish
University Education . . 431 M emoranda :
R e l i g i o u s ........................................ 431 L iterary............................................... 43 e S c i e n t i f i c ........................................ 431 Fine A r t s ...................................... 432 ... L e g a l ................................................. 432 The Easter Monday Review.—The
Battle of Warren Farm . . . 433 Speech of Mr. Disraeli in the Free
Trade Hall, Manchester . . 435 G en e r a l N ew s .... 437
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
AS far as home news are concerned, the week has been a dreary blank. The r e v i e w . only events worth mentioning are the Volunteer Review on Easter Monday, and Mr. D israeli’s ovation in Lancashire. The Review deserves a word o f notice as being the first attempt to turn these annual excursions to practical use. Hitherto the regiments which took part in the display have been under the command o f volunteer officers as brigadiers ; the movements— usually too difficult for the men to execute— have been all arranged beforehand, and neither officers or men have learnt anything whatever from the day. The result has been an unfavourable criticism from competent military authorities, and a discontented sense o f failure on the part o f the most intelligent volunteers. A ll this, however, is , we hope, in a fair way to be changed. This time the volunteers were put under brigadiers from the regular army, and divided into an attacking and defending force under Sir A . Horsford and General Lysons respectively, without any preconcerted plan whatever, except that each was to wait for the signal to begin. Sir A . Horsford, who was supposed to have landed near Shoreham and to have taken up a position on the downs, waited for the attack o f the defenders ; and General Lysons, by making a demonstration o f force on the left o f his own line, induced Sir Alfred to weaken his centre, and succeeded in piercing it, though Parke’s brigade contrived to turn, or nearly turn, General Lysons’ left. The decision o f the umpires was that, although General Lysons’ left was turned, Sir Alfred Horsman’s right centre was pierced, and his communications with Brighton cut o f f ; which would oblige him to fall back and take up a new position. This ended the fight, and a march past upon the race-course followed. With the exception o f some o f the usual defects as regards skirmishing and use o f cover, everything seems to have gone off w e l l ; and it has been proved to be practicable to get 10 ,000 or
1 1 ,0 0 0 Volunteers on each side into position, and to manoeuvre them according to a comprehensive plan without a breakdown being the result. They have still o f course much to learn, but they are in the way to learn it.
On Wednesday, Mr. D israeli, who has been mr. msRAELi most enthusiastically received in Lancashire, Man c h e s t e r . made his great speech in the Free T rade H a ll at Manchester to an audience o f about 7,000
persons, among whom were all the representatives o f every constituency within the county. The speech was bright, amusing, and not a little instructive, but not quite satisfying : very much what people expected, but not all that they hoped for. Mr. Disraeli anticipated the expression of this feeling by alluding at the outset to the accusation I
that his party had no programme. H e contended that it had : and that its programme was “ to maintain the Consti“ tution o f the country.” And he went on to explain that the Constitution to be maintained consisted o f Queen, Lords, and Commons, and the union o f Church and State. But in defence o f all this he would find many on the opposite benches quite as eager as h im self; while in his criticism on the proposal for life peerages, he had to acknowledge that his colleague, Lord Derby, had given in his adhesion to a limited application o f the principle. The fact is, that it is extremely difficult in these days, i f not impossible, to make the line between the political parties rest upon the vantage-ground o f principle; and though Mr. Disraeli declared that the occupants o f the Treasury Bench reminded him o f “ a range o f extinct volcanoes,” and professed to consider the situation still dangerous, it will be observed that when he delivers his attack, it is usually directed against a mistake in policy rather than against unconstitutional change. Indeed, in spite o f all the reforms which have been accomplished, he appears to consider the present state o f things, as far as the Constitution is concerned, very nearly perfect. With much that he said we cordially agree. H e proved satisfactorily that the Monarchical Government o f England was much less expensive, not only than the Government o f any first-class European State, but than the Sovereignty o f the American Republic. Putting the income o f the President against that o f the Prime Minister here, and taking into acount the ,£ 1 ,0 0 0 a year paid to each o f the 359 Congressmen, and the ,£ 30 ,0 00 which is about the aggregate o f their mileage, we have a sum o f ,£ 389,000, almost the exact amount o f our C iv il List. Add the salaries o f the members o f the 37 State Legislatures, and we have an additional expenditure o f .£ 350 ,7 0 0 , bringing the total cost o f Sovereignty in the American Republic up to between ,¿£700,000 and ¿£800,000 a year. The calculation is not n ew ; but it is well worth repeating. And we are inclined fully to admit the force o f Mr. D israeli’s remark that the holder o f a non-hereditary peerage would be relieved o f the check supplied by the knowledge that constant collision with public opinion might be injurious to his family interests, and that he would be less likely to study that opinion, and yield to it when just. H e did not touch upon the loss to the independent character o f the House, which even a limited system o f nomination would en ta i l ; a point well worth consideration, and one on which the conduct o f our own bench o f Bishops as well as o f continental senators may well serve as a warning. Mr. Disraeli made two curious revelations. T o his certain knowledge the Crimean War would never have taken place if Lord Derby had not been turned out; nor would the Alabama difficulties now exist, i f Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright had not come in ; for the Reverdy-Johnson T reaty
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