THE TABLET

A W eekly Newspaper and Review.

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

From the Brief oj H is Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1S70.

Vol. 41. No. 1714. L o n d o n , F e b r u a r y 15, 1873.

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[R eg i st e r e d a t t h e G en e r a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew s pa p e r .

C h r o n ic l e o f t h e W e e k : The

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Irish University Bill.— Abdication o f King Amadeus.— His Message. — The New Republic and Ministry. — The Immediate Future of Spain. The Three Rules.— The Ratification of Treaties.— Russia and the Atrek Valley.— The Murillo, Extradition, and the Law of Collisions.— Catholic Children in Workhouse Schools.— The New Park Regulations.— The Revision of the French Constitution.— The Persecution in the Diocese of Bâle—and in the Vicariate of Geneva.— Nature of the Struggle in Prussia.— British Establishments in Rome.— The Distress in South Wales. . 199 1

CONTENTS.

L e a d e r s :

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The Education Bill. . . . 1^3 The “ Spectator” on Fear of Death 193 The Irish College in Paris . . 195 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C o n tem po r ar ie s :

Quare Fremuerunt Gentes? . . 196

C o rrespondence :

Mr. Lecky and “ My Clerical

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Friends” . . . . . 201 Society of the Holy Childhood . 201 Industrial Schools, Tanner’s-hill . 202 The Distress in South Wales . 202 P a r l ia m e n t a r y S ummary . . 202

R e v ie w s :

Historical Sketches . . . 198 A List of the Roman Catholics in the County of York in 1604 . 199 The Contemporary Review . . 200

R ome :

Letter from our own Correspondent 205 Letter from an Occasional Corre­

spondent ....................................206

S h ort N o t i c e s : Register, Register,

Register.— Peter’s Journey, See.— The Complete Works o f Bret Harte.—The Magazines for February .............................................200

R ecord of G erm an P er secution ,

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207

D io c e s a n N ew s :

W estm in ster.......................................208 Salford 208

I r e l a n d :

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Letter from our Dublin Corres p o n d e n t .................................... 208 The Galway Prosecutions . . 209 F oreign N ew s :

France ....................................210 M em o randa :

Religious— The Archbishop of Mu­

nich at Kiefersfelden . . . 211 Catholic Union— Memorial of the

Catholic Union o f Ireland to Lord Granville . . . .212 Educational . • . . . .212 Literary . . . . . 212 G en e r a l N ew s . . . . 212

THE IRISH UNIVERSITY

BILL. a

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

N Thursday evening Mr. Gladstone made his statement on the Irish Education question. He began by acknowledging the great necessity for legislation on intermediate schools, but declined to mix up that subject with the University question. He repudiated the charge of yielding to ■“ Ultramontane influence,” asserting that Government had held no communications “ with any of the great bodies in■“ terested in Irish education.” The Government had long admitted that there was a religious grievance, and as to the plea that the social position of Irish Catholics was such that ■“ the provision for them was not so very bad,” he maintained that it was “ miserably bad”— nay, “ scandalously bad.” And this is what he proposes as the remedy. The University of Dublin, hitherto practically a synonym for Trinity College, is to be detached from that institution, enlarged and reorganized, and in it are to be incorporated Trinity College, two Queen’s Colleges, Belfast and Cork— Galway being sentenced to be wound up by January 1876— the Catholic University and the Magee College. About one-fourth of the present revenues of Trinity College, which already contributes about that amount to University purposes, are to be handed over to the new University, and with this and some of the surplus arising from the Disestablished Church, ten university fellowships of ^200 a year, tenable for five years, fifty-five University scholarships of ,£50 a year, tenable for four years; and 100 burses of ¿£25 a year are to be founded. These prizes may be competed for by members of any of the Colleges in the University, and the successful candidates will take them with them to their own colleges. The new university is not to teach theology, mental and moral philosophy, or modern history; and though it will examine in philosophy and modern history, no student need take up these subjects for his degree unless he chooses to do so. The new University is to be thus governed : It is to have a Chancellor, an “ orna“ mental officer,” named by the Lord-Lieutenant, and a Vice-Chancellor, elected by the governing body ; this body is to consist of twenty-eight ordinary members, who are to form the principal portion of the council, and are to be selected for the first time by the Government without distinction of creed ; and the Senate of the Queen’s University is to be absorbed into the Senate of the Dublin University. These are the principal features of the measure, the second reading of which is fixed for Monday fortnight. Catholics gain the chance of obtaining University degrees and University emoluments afterstudying in their own institution, and degrees are also thrown open to those who can show that they have attended the courses of the Catholic University at any time during the last ten years. The Colleges

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are left full liberty, not only of internal organization and discipline, but to avail themselves or not to avail themselves of the University lectures on the subjects for which chairs are to be founded ; instruction on the subjects already specified being altogether excluded from the University curriculum and confined to that of the Colleges. But we must reserve further comment on the measure for another part of our columns.

King Amadeus has resigned the crown of a b d i c a t io n gpain anci n0 reader of this paper can ex-

a m a d e u s . Pect us t0 express any surprise. It has long been plain that sooner or later this would be the only course open to a Prince endowed with any self-respect, and the Duke of Aosta is not deficient in that quality. In Revolutionary Spain each party and section of a party looks to its own tenure or chances of power as the one paramount consideration, and Don Amadeo having been obliged to dispense with the services of each in turn, has thereby disgusted all. He has had about sixteen Ministries, and each party, as it has joined the ranks of the “ outs” without any hope of a fresh innings, has successively gone into sulks, not only with the Government but with the dynasty from which it had nothing more to expect. The last and most prominent example of this has been Serrano, who, when the King refused to take his advice and suspend the Constitution, gave him up altogether, has never since appeared at Court ceremonies, and, it is believed, prevented his wife from performing her duty as “ Camerera “ Mayor ” at the official presentation and baptism of the last-born Prince. Only two ladies were present— one the widow of Marshal Prim, who was obliged to break through, Spanish etiquette and come in spite of her mourning. The King must have seen, not only that it was impossible for him to pacify and win over the districts which are in insurrection, but that his own supporters were leaving him as rats leave a falling house, and it is said that the Queen has been long anxious that he should abdicate. The quarrel about General Hidalgo and the Artillery officers— in which the Senate took the part of the Ministers and Hidalgo against the King and military discipline— is said to haye been the last straw whtch broke the back of his patience. On Saturday he told Señor Zorrilla of his intention, and in reply to the remonstraces of the Cabinet agreed to take twenty-four hours to think of it. On Monday the Cortes insisted on the Ministers being sent for, and Señor Zorrilla stated the facts, without attempting todenythegravity of the situation; whereupon the Congress, on the motion of the Republican deputy, Figueras, appointed a permanent committee, consisting of the President and fifty members, and the Senate appointed a similar committee of twenty members. On Tuesday efforts were made by the French Government to induce the King to change his resolution, but in