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From the Brief o] His Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870,

Voi. 40. No. 1697. London, October 19, 1872.

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Catholic Union of Ireland.— The Fulda Memorandum and the Catholic Associations.— The Church .in Switzerland.— M. Thiers on the Nantes Riots.— M. Thiers on the Grenoble Speech.— The Republican Press on M. Thiers.— The Emperors and M. Gambetta.— M. Thiers and Prince Napoleon.— The Republican Press on the Prince’s Expulsion.— M. Louis Blanc.— The “ Hymn” at Lourdes.— Minor Political Incidents. —The Last Rising in Spain. — Count Andrassy on Peace and War.— Mgr. Howard and his Antagonists.— Italy and the Metric Congress.— The Armenian Persecution, &c., &c..................................481

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The Queen’s University Comedy . 485 The Leeds Congress . . . 486 Japan .................................... 487 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C ontem po raries:

Lourdes— Rome— Father O’Keeffe

— Leeds Congress . . . 488 R e v ie w s :

Sequel to the Conversion of the

Teutonic Race . . . 489 Lectures and Sermons . . . 490 Ivan the Terrible : or, Russia in the 16th Century . . . 492 S h ort N o t i c e s : The Contemporary

Review.— Le Possumus Liberal.— David Copperfield.— London Charities. — Concrete Arithmetic. — Chateau Morville.— Septem . 492

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C orrespondence :

Anglican Orders.— Dr. Matthew

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Parker and his Consecration . 493 Talleyrand and Anglican Orders . 494 “ A Protestant Bothered” . . 494 The Catholic Union o f Ireland . 494 The Catholic Association o f the

Western District of Scotland . 494 Church Music .... 495 The Late Father Hodgson . . 495 Plome for Governesses . . 495 R ome :

Letter from Rome .... 497 R ecord of th e G erm an P ersecu­

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The Catholic Congress at Cologne. 498 Protest of the Jesuits at Cologne . 498 Memorandum of the Archbishops and Bishops assembled at the Tomb of S. Boniface . . 499

D io c e sa n N ew s : Westminster .

Southwark Liverpool Salford J. I r e l a n d :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

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Russia .................................... France M em o randa :

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•imperfectly, W 1 must add been our to unite

THE CATHOLIC UNION OF IRELAND.

E willingly publish a letter of objec­

tions to our article on the Catholic Union of Ireland, but we a few words oi comment. It has constant aim to labour, however in common bonds of friendship the Catholics of Ireland and England. We feel too bitterly the injustice which has been for centuries meted out to Ireland by this country, not to wish to throw our weight into every scale which seems destined to repair that injustice. We say emphatically, we love Ireland ; and we .hope that we have given some proof of this in the series of articles which we publish week by week. I f we have incidentally alluded to the fact of political factions in Ireland, and to the disorder which has often taken place at political elections, we surely were within the truth, and might refer to the Irish papers themselves for the proof. It is no more an act of hostility to Ireland to allude to such facts than to show up the political corruption practised at English elections, or to advert to other patent faults of this country, is a proof of want of patriotism towards England. As to the other point raised by our reverend correspondent, of course in one sense the Catholic Union must be political, in so far as it must use the political rights of Catholics to secure or gain the rights of conscience and religion. But it is not political, in this sense ; that men of all political parties may join and work with it. Imperialists and Home Rulers may perfectly well unite in the defence of Catholic rights without at all compromising their respective principles.

THE FULDA MEMORANDUM

AND THE CATHOLIC ASSOCIATIONS.

We publish this week two very weighty documents from Germany ; one of these consisting of the resolutions passed at the great Congress of the Catholic Associations at Cologne. The importance of this meeting, held in the great municipal hall which wit­

nessed the conciliabulum of the Dôllingerists, can scarcely be overrated. It represents all the outraged feelings of the 17 millions of peaceful Catholics whom it is attempted to force into disaffection against their will. But still more important is the masterly and temperate memorandum issued by the German Bishops assembled at ’Fulda, which want of space compels us to divide into two parts, the first of which will be found in another part of our columns.

The municipal councillors of the country parjshes composing the canton of Geneva have land". signed a protest against the suppression by the

Government of the teaching Religious Orders, and Mgr. Mermillod has received addresses of sympathy from the Central Committee, of the Œuvres Pontificales in Belgium and from the pilgrims at Lourdes, from the clergy

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of the pays de Gex, and from their Bishop, the Bishop of Belley. The subscriptions for the Church of Geneva, collected by the Univers, the B ien Public of Ghent, and the Courrier de Bruxelles, amount, together, to three times the sum hitherto allotted by the State. The elections for the National Council are to take place throughout Switzerland on Sunday the 27 th, and at these it will be decided whether the project of federal revision can be reintroduced by the Radicals.

M. THIERS ON THE NANTES

RIOTS.

On Thursday last week, too late for comment in our last issue, there was a noteworthy colloquy between M. Thiers and the Permanent Committee. President Grévy had already, before M. Thiers arrived, notified to thé Committee the reception of the petition from Nantes about the riots ; and on the motion of the Duc de Bisaccia it was read, M. Grévy having first ruled that the Committee could not of itself come to any resolution on the prayer of the petitioners, which demanded an enquiry and the dismissal of .the mayor should he be found to have been negligent. After some discussion as to whether the petition should be treated as intended to enlighten the Permanent Committee and go no further, or should be referred to the Assembly as M. Grévy recommended, M. Thiers himself arrived. M. Cornells de Witt, who is a Protestant, formally asked the President “ what “ measures the Government meant to take for the protec“ tion of the religious liberty of Catholics,” and called on it “ to repudiate or punish the odious acts committed at “ Nantes.” M. Thiers stated in reply that the Government condemned these disorders as strongly as anybody, that a judicial enquiry had been already set on foot, that the guilty would be punished, but that 74 witnesses had been heard, and as yet there was no evidence of any particular act of violence. The affair appeared to be the result rather of accident than of any criminal premeditation. The Duc de Broglie brought the debate back to the real question by observing that the courts might deal with the rioters, but that it was the business of Government to judge whether the authorities had done their duty. M. Thiers replied that it would be difficult to say that the mayor and prefect ought to have foreseen the riot which took place on the arrival of the third train ; at any rate, their intention was good, for the military authorities had taken precautions. Moreover that the Bishop had acknowledged that the authorities had not been so improvident as was at first supposed. This the Duc de Bisaccia answered by reading a letter from Nantes written by a deputy, in which it was asserted that the departmental and municipal authorities had not interfered, and had proved either their great weakness or their complicity. Other information, he said, went to establish the same conclusion, and the subsequent correspondence of the prefect confirmed it. He told the Bishop that the announcement of a second