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D u m VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E STR IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the B r i e f o j H is Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.

V o l . 41. N o . 1716.

L o n d o n , M a r c h i , 1 8 7 3 .

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[ R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st Of f i c e a s a N ew s p a 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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Opposition to the Irish University Bill.—“ Home Rule” in Great Britain. —The Oxus Boundary and the Atrek.—The “ Saturday Review” on the Conflict at Geneva.—Protests of the Catholics, and of the Municipalities, against the Provposed Law. — Judgment of the French Press.—Proceedings in the Diocese of Bâle.—Addresses of the Belgian Bishops.—The Committee of Thirty and the Right. —The other Sections.— M. Gambetta's Programme.—Henry V. and the Bishop of Orleans.—The Prospects of Spain.—Development of the Revolution. — Portugal and the Great Powers, &c.,&c. . . 257

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CONTENTS

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S h o r t N o t ic e s : Revue du Monde

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The Irish University Question . 261 The Children of the Catholic Poor. 262 The Benefits of Persecution . . 262 Spoliation in Rome.—Attitude of

Catholique.—Protestant Orders.— The Life of S. Ignatius Loyola . 269 C o r r e s po n d e n c e :

England at the Time of the Invasion ...................................263 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C o n t em p o r a r ie s :

A Religious Newspaper.—The “ Saturday Review.”—Faith and Freedom.—Comfort for Mr. Newdegate. —Euthanasia .... 265 R e v i e w s :

The Life and Letters of S. Francis

Lord Lytton’s Religious Opinions . 269 Catholic Books . . . .270 Dedication of Ireland to the Sa­

cred Heart ..... 270 Communism in South Wales . . 270 The Distress in South Wales . 270 Help 1 Help ! Help ! . . . 271 P a r l ia m e n t a r y S um m a r y . . 271 R om e :

Xavier ..... 266 The “ Dublin Review” . * . 267 The Divine Sequence . . . 268 Wanderings in Spain . . . 269

Letter from our ownCorrespondent 273 R ecord o f G e r m a n P e r s e c u t io n ,

& c ................................................................ 275

D io c e s a n N ew s : Westminster

Southwark Beverley Birmingham Clifton Hexham and Newcastle Newport and Menevia . Salford Scotland—Northern District I r e l a n d .... F o r e ig n N ew s :

Russia . . , Switzerland M em o randa :

Catholic Union G e n e r a l N ew s

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CHRONICLE OF TH E W E EK .

WE are on the eve of the second reading of Mr. Gladstone’s Bill, and on Thursday the Irish Bishops were to meet university E order to consider its provisions. It will have b il l . been perceived that we have hitherto strictly confined ourselves to stating on the one hand the dangers of the scheme, and on the other its possible advantages, being desirous not to anticipate, by any express judgment on its merits as a whole, the decision at which the Irish Hierarchy may arrive, and which it should be left to ■ them to be the first to formulate. But the time is now ■ come when we can form an estimate of the nature and amount of opposition which the Bill will have to encounter from other quarters. In the first place, the Nonconformists have announced their intention to press for the removal from it in Committee of almost all those features which are intended by Government to render it less unpalatable to Catholics. At the end of last week the “ Protestant Dissenting ■“ deputies” held a meeting at the Cannon-street Hotel, at which it was stated by Mr. Reed, M.P., the chairman, that the proposed constitution of the governing body and the exclusion of the chairs of modern history and moral philosophy “ should be strenuously resisted in Committee.” On Saturday “ a Liberal M .P .” told us in the D a i ly News that the University would be “ obscurantist ” and the Board ■“ sectarian” ; that the “ gagging clauses ” were a falling away from the traditions of the Protestant Reformation,” and that Mr. Gladstone had much better have introduced a Bill for the endowment of the Catholic University. So too the Scotsman asks whether “ the Church or the State is to have “ the hold over the flower of the rising youth of the coun■“ try,” and contrasts the scope of the Bill with “ the aim of ■“ the Berlin legislators ’’ and “ the educational measure “ now before the Legislature of the German Empire ” (sic), by which all members of learned professions are to be ■ obliged to “ study at national Universities, where any sort “ of opinions, whether ‘ offensive ’ or not to religious con* ' viclions, may be taught and heard,” and “ in particular “ all intending theologians must pass preliminary Govern■“ ment examinations in those very subjects of philosophy “ and history.” Next we have a letter, also in the D a i ly N ew s, from Mr. Morrison, who asserts that the “ gagging “ clauses ” are “ almost universally condemned,” and that the Government will probably not “ insist on them ” ; and he urges that all Crown appointments to the Council, and all “ representation of the sectarian colleges as such, as “ well as of Trinity and the Queen’s Colleges, should ■“ be abolished,” and that the members should be nominated for the first time without any attempt at a “ balance of opinions,” and further vacancies filled up,

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one-fourth by the professors, and the rest by the graduates of the university. The same desire of excluding a possible —by no means a probable—influential Catholic minority, has evidently inspired the proposal of the Times, which is to leave the Queen’s University out of the scheme, so as to get rid of provincial colleges, and to enact that the university shall consist only of colleges established, or to be established, in Dublin. Then we have the opposition of Trinity College, which has rejected the draft petition against the Bill as “ too tame,” and which— though it threw out on Wednesday Dr. Haughton’s amendment that the Catholics “ have just “ cause of complaint,” but that this will not be remedied by the Bill, “ which provides no endowment for denominational “ colleges, while it lowers the standard of university educa“ tion”— yet seems to be actuated by a pretty general feeling that it would rather be left alone, though it be at the price of a charter or even an endowment to the Catholic University. The last-named body protests against the Bill on other grounds, which we have treated at greater length elsewhere; its objections are grave and weighty, and well worthy of the attentive consideration, not only of the Bishops to whom they are addressed, but also of the Government and Legislature. Mr. Bourke, seconded by Lord E. Fitzmaurice—so that it is not a party move—will oppose the second reading on the ground that the names of the members of Council have not yet been submitted to Parliament. It is understood, however, that no serious opposition at this stage will be offered either by the Conservatives or the Nonconformists ; but from different motives both parties are likely to unite in Committee to make the Bill worse for Catholics than it is at present. And this is the conclusion which forces itself upon us. Mr. Gladstone’s scheme falls of course far below the point of absolute justice to four out of five millions of the population of Ireland. Yet if it proves impossible to carry even this without the paring and chipping away of whatever is thought to be advantageous to Catholics, what hope remains that the just demands of the latter will ever be satisfied so long as the Legislative union endures ? The failure of the present Parliament to settle this question in an acceptable way will be an impulse to the Home Rule movement such, as it has never yet received.

‘ HOME RULE ’

IN GREAT BRITAIN.

On Monday a Conference was held at Birmingham of delegates from the various Home Rule associations in Great Britain, with a view to the formation of a general confederation of those associations, and six district councils, five for England and one for Scotland, which are to sit for the present at London, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, and Glasgow. A meeting was subsequently held, at which Mr. Butt made a remarkable speech ; for, having been told, as he complained, by the T im es that he