THE TABLET

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

D u m VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the Brief of His Holiness to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.

Voi. 41. No. 1709. L o n d o n , J a n u a r y i i , 1873.

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'Ci-ironicle of the Week : Death

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•of the Emperor Napoleon.—M. de Cassagnac at Chislehurst.— The Priesthood in Irish Politics.— Protestant Pleas against Authority.— The Campaign against the 25th Clause. — Reconstruction of the Cabinet.— The Strike in South Wales.— French Diplomacy and the Holy See.—The Origin of the Imbroglio.— Discussion of it in the Assembly.—M. Thiers on his Roman Policy.— Schemes of Consti tutions.— Primary Education Bill Higher Education.— The Allocu ition and the German Liberal Press. The Change in the Prussian Cabinet.— Russia and England in Asia. The “ Daily Telegraph’' in Assyria 33

CONTENTS

Leaders:

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The Political Position of Catholics 37 Papal Utterances . . - 3 8 Our Protestant Contemporaries:

Two Bishops . . . . 3 9 The Anglican Movement :

Mr. Bevan’s Tests of Catholicity . 41 Reviews :

My Clerical Friends and their Re­

lations to Modern Thought . 41 Geronimo the Martyr . . . 4 3 “ The Month” . . . . 4 4 Short Notices : Magazines for

January.— Unlikely Tales . . 45

New Music ;

He giveth His Beloved Sleep.—

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The Old Sweet Story.— A Rose in Heaven.—You ask me for a S o n g ................................................. 45 Rome:

Audiences . . . . - 4 7 Reception of Roman Patricians . 47 Blessed Benedict Joseph Labre . 48 Milan ...... 48 Peter’s Pence........................................ 48 Record of German Persecution,

& c . ................................................. 48 Address of the Catholic Union of

Great Britain to Mgr. Mermillod, Bishop of Hebron and Auxiliary of Geneva . . . . . 4 9

Diocesan News :

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Westminster . . . . . 4 9 Salford .... 50 Scotland—Eastern District. . 50 Ireland:

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent .................................... 50 Foreign News :

Russia . . . . . s t Memoranda:

Educational Literary Scientific Fine Arts Statistics General News

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

WE regret to have to record the death of the Emperor Napoleon, which took emperor place at Chislehurst at a quarter benapolkon. fore 11 on. Thursday morning. The malady under which the Emperor had been so long the Emperor himself, was that he would be assassinated, stabbed, we believe, in Fleet-street; the other was, that great misfortunes for France would be heralded by the Emperor’s landing there with a view to regaining his throne. The fulfilment of such prophecies, when it occurs, is always carefully recorded, and it is only fair that the non-fulfilment of others should be noted.

M. de Cassagnac publishes an account of a

■ suffering was necessarily aggravated by the enforced cessation •of his annual visits to Vichy, and the symptoms recently became so severe that Sir Henry Thompson and Sir William ■ Gull were sent for in addition to his usual medical advisers. It was resolved to attack the calculus by lithotrity, and Sir Henry Thompson, the first operator of the day in this branch -of surgery, and the inventor of the latest instruments in use, operated for the first time on Thursday week, and a second time on Monday. Chloroform was used in each case, and after the second operation the Imperial patient obtained considerable relief and some sleep, and, as he had evidently .great strength of constitution, it was hoped that he might be able to endure a sufficient number of operations to remove the rest of the calculus, about half of which had been crushed. The report, however, in Thursday morning’s papers did not conceal the fact that the case was a grave one, and that the local symptoms were such as to cause considerable anxiety. The irritation which follows such operations is sometimes sufficient to cause extreme agony, which cannot of course be met, as the pain of the operation can, by chloroform. Still the late King of the Belgians underwent the same operation more than once at a much greater age, and when the news arrived that the Emperor had succumbed to the consequences of it, the general feeling was surprise at a catastrophe for which not even his immediate attendants could have been prepared, as, little more than an hour before the end, arrangements were made •for a third operation on that very day. It must be satisfactory to the Emperor’s personal friends— and they were numerous— to know that he has had the best scientific -skill in Europe at his command, and the sympathy which will be expressed in all quarters cannot but be very grateful to his bereaved family. Certain Continental papers, not French ones, affected during his illness to be much surprised that as much sympathy was shown as though the Emperor was still at the Tuileries. In England, however, we flatter ourselves that our compassion for misfortune and suffering is not influenced by political considerations, and that a downfall like that which befel the Emperor Napoleon, if it has any effect upon our sympathy, tends rather to increase than to diminish it. Another reflection occurs to us, which is, perhaps, worth mentioning. The event puts an extinguisher on two current prophecies— one, supposed to be based on a prediction to m. de cas- visit to Chislehurst, and indulges in sanguine chislehukst. augune's of an Imperial restoration which read strangely enough by the side of the melancholy bulletins. One remark made to him by the Empress specially deserves notice. Her Majesty expressed strong disapprobation of the encouragements held out by lady patronesses and committees to the Alsatians and Lorrainers to elect for French nationality. “ The intention,” said the Empress, “ is praiseworthy, but the result is disastrous.” “ Every French family that emigrates is replaced by a Ger“ man family; the provinces will become entirely German, “ and then how will you get them back ? Will the trees or “ the rocks vote for us ? Those who have remained should “ be consoled, and told that they have a painful but patriotic “ duty to perform— that of maintaining French traditions “ and love fir France— so that when the mother country “ shall recall her two fair daughters, Alsace and Lorraine, “ they may not reply with a cold and astonished air—-But “ we do not know you.” There is a great deal in this consideration, and it is on this that the German calculations are based.

It is almost unnecessary to say the priest- our recent articles on the right irish1 Priesthood to interfere in politics ronrics. per occasions, we did not affect that in of the on proto pass any opinion which might be supposed to defend or condone the notorious judgment of Mr. Justice Keogh. In reference to an able article in the Dublin Review, and in reply to the objections of a correspondent, we developed at some length the rational and unassailable theory of priestly interference in the political arena. We should be more than sorry to have it supposed that we could feel any lukewarmness in regard to the particular case of the Galway priesthood. We may say with perfect truth that we have compared with anxious care the leading features of Mr. Justice Keogh’s judgment with the evidence produced, and that our painful and indignant surprise at the first perusal of the Judge’s intemperate harangue was only deepened and intensified by the perusal of the evidence. It was necessary for the soundness of theoretical argumentation to entertain many hypotheses, but no hypothesis could be meant to hurt the outraged sentiments of the clergy and laity of Galway. We sincerely hope that

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