THE TABLET
A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
D u m VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INGCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the Brie] oj H is Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
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Belfast Riots.— A New Religious Legislator.— The Bishopric of Geneva. — The Expulsion o f the Teaching Orders.— The “ DailyNews" and the Vatican.— La Salette and Lourdes.— The Trouville Conspirators.— M. Gambetta . and the Assembly.— The Appointment to French Sees.— The Belfort Fortifications.— General Uhrich’s Defence.— Routes to India. — Mr. Stanley at Brighton.— The Geneva and Washington Tribunals.— The Presidential Contest. — The Carpenters' Strike. — The Labourers and Dr. Ellicott.— Dr. Wordsworth and the German Heretics.— Prince Bismarck and the Jesuits, &c., &c. 225
CONTENTS
L e a d e r s :
The Catholics o f London Or
Page ganizing ....................................229 The Truth about the French Loan. 229 Faculties o f the Catholic Uni
S h ort N o t ic e s :
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Advice to Irish Girls in America . 238 The Following of Christ . . 238 C orrespondence :
versity. ..... 230 The Meat Question . . .2 3 1 Mr. Stanley and the Geographers. 232 The Supposed Right of Veto in the Election of Popes . . 233 T he A n glican M ovem ent :
Happy Apostates .... 234 R e v iew s :
Unexplored Syria . . . .235 Fleurange , . . . . 236 The Tale of Frithiof . . . 237 Guide for Catholic Young Women . 237
Protestant Orders— Barlow . . 238 Dr. Von Dôllinger . . . 239 R ome :
Letter from Rome ^
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The Italian Elections . . . 241 Rome and Napoleon III. . . 241 D io ce san N ew s : •
Westminster ..... 241 Beverley. ..... 242 B irm in gham ................................... 242 Hexham and Newcastle. . . 242 Menevia and Newport . . . 243
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Letter from our Dublin Corre
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spondent ....................................243 F oreign N ews :
Germany and Hanover— Letter of the King of Hanover . . 243 Italy— Manifesto by Garibaldi . 243 M em oranda :
Religious— F. Humphrey on the
Heathen” in De
“ English Church DefenceTracts" — Catholic Missions to the Indians— The fence Educational Literary Scientific Fine Arts G en er a l N ews
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CHRONICLE OF THE W EEK.
THE state of things in Belfast is described by the correspondents as civil war. And certainly when rioters “ dispense with stones and brickbats,” and take to the use of fire-arms and swords, one scarcely knows what else to call it. In spite of the large force of military and police-—-400 soldiers arrived from Dublin on Sunday— in spite of the division of the town into four military districts, and a reinforcement of stipendiary .magistrates, so that they may sit enpermanence, the fighting has been going almost over the heads of the troops, who •charge into the mob which re-forms elsewhere ; houses have been wrecked, people killed, and the persons suffering from gun-shot and other wounds, admitted into the hospital on -Saturday and Sunday, were 28 in number. There is a regular -exodus of the more peaceable inhabitants from the disturbed districts, and the Catholics living in the Protestant quarter, and the Protestants living in the Catholic quarter, have been obliged to change their abode. All these horrors have been caused by the fact that the Belfast Orangemen cannot endure ■ to see their Catholic fellow-citizens do what they have been bullying the Legislature to be allowed to do themselves. We do not for a moment defend the wild and lawless passion which their onslaught has roused among the Catholics, nor do we defend the wisdom of the processions at all. But it must be remembered that the Party Processions Act being repealed, the Catholics did not attempt to interfere with the Orange processions on the 12 th July, and seem to have calculated on the like forbearance towards themselves. But while the Derry apprentices had sense enough to see that what they claimed as a right themselves must be conceded to their political opponents, the sight of a Catholic procession on the Feast of the Assumption was too much for the bigots of Belfast. Their only idea of political liberty is evidently that they should be allowed the maintenance of an insulting ascendency. They are to assert their own superiority by playing inflammatory and seditious tunes— for they are nothing else— and then stoning and shooting their rivals when they dare to do the like. Mr. Johnston’s arguments for the repeal of the Party Processions Act could not have been more completely refuted than they -have been by the conduct of his own followers.
At the end of last week arrived the sensa-
religious t*ona^intelligence that the Mikado of Japan is legislator, at*0111 to promulgate a new religion, to which as it is to be “ enlightened, simple, and adapted “ to common sense,” “ everybody will be compelled to con“ form.” The creed will avowedly be a compromise, for it is to be prepared “ after careful consultation with the expo■“ nents of each sect,” that is, we suppose, of the Buddhist,
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Confucian, and other native religions. The Mikado has, in fact, undertaken much the same work as that carried to a successful issue by his late Majesty King Frederick William IV. But whereas the rival Prussian communions had to be coaxed, and the official compromise, as Heine wittily put it, “ flew from steeple to steeple on the wings of the Red “ Eagle (fourth class),” the Mikado will be able to carry out his ideas in a more summary fashion. And it is much to be feared lest this device of a brand-new “ enlightened” State religion may not be an expedient for obtaining the connivance of the Western Powers to the forcible suppression of native Christianity. The latest report is that the Mikado is himself coming westward. He will begin with Paris and London, so as gradually to prepare himself for the more startling greetings of an American levee.
The Pall Mall Gazette of Saturday last, conTHE tains, with respect to the pretendednewBishopric g e n e v a . ° f Geneva, the most curious bit of (no doubt unintentional) misrepresentation. It had been alleged that the Bishopric of Geneva was now about to be re-established as an independent Bishopric under that title, and we had contradicted the statement, which was being made use of as a pretext for vexatious measures against Mgr. Mermillod. “ Their contradictions turn out to be unwarranted,” says the Pall Mall Gazette, and then proceeds to give its own version of the case, a version which in the space of eight lines contains six flagrant errors as to facts. “ Geneva,” it says, “ (1) was made a Bishopric, and Monsignor Mer“ millod, (2) formerly in partibus, and a flaming zealot of “ Infallibility, (3) was appointed Bishop. (4) Since Geneva “ is almost exclusively Protestant or Calvinist, it is natural “ the Government of the canton should be anxious to pre“ vent it becoming the centre of religious discords and “ agitations. (5) It has not, of course, recognized the “ authority of the new Bishop, and on a recent occasion, “ when some appointments of Cures to vacant parishes had “ to be made, the Government requested the Bishop of “ Fribourg to nominate as (6) usual. This was designed by “ the civil powers to bring matters to a crisis.” Now (1) . Geneva has not been made a Bishopric. The Bishop whom our contemporary calls Bishop of Fribourg is styled Bishop of Lausanne and Geneva, though he resides at Fribourg, which is in the diocese of Lausanne. Geneva has always been a Bishopric, though its Bishop in ordinary has not resided in the city since the Reformation. Monsignor Mermillod, “ (2) formerly in partibus’’ (3) has not now been appointed anything. He was appointed Bishop of Hebron in partibus, and coadjutor or “ auxiliary ” for the diocese of Geneva to the Bishop of Lausanne and Geneva, in 1864. His position has been in no degree altered since then. (4.) Instead of Geneva being “ almost exclusively Protestant or “ Calvinist,” the Catholics, taking town and canton together,