THE TABLET

A W eekly Newspaper and Review.

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From the Brief oj H is Holiness to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870.

Vol. 41. No. 1719. London, March 22, 1873.

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

Page ration of the Ministry and Explanations.— The German Press on the English Crisis.— Catholics and Per-secution.— The “ Times” and the Persecutors.— Persecution in Canton Berne. — A Nesv Form of Church Government. — “ Liberal Catholics” at Geneva.— Attitude of th e Genevese Catholics. -T h e Prussian Ecclesiastical Laws. — The Archbishop of Posen.—The Military Chaplain-Generalship.— The Prussian Government and the “ Spectator.’’-T h e “ Daily News” on Germany and Switzerland.— The Evacuation of France.— Reception of the News by the As­

sembly, &c., &c., &c. . . . 353

L e a d e r s :

CONTENTS.

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C o rrespondence :

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Radicals and Liberals . . . 357 The Gladstone Ministry and the

Irish Vote . . . . . 357 The International Deputation . 358 Spoliation in Rome.— Pledges of

•the Italian Government . . 359 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C on tem po r a r ie s :

The Wolf and the Lamb.— Declaration of W a r .................................... 36° R e v ie w s :

The Gallican Church . . . 362 Irish Wits and Worthies . . 363 S h ort N o t i c e s : A Catechism of the Holy Rosary.—Les Stigma* tisees.— Christ in the Prophets . 364

Employers and Labourers . . 365 I Legitimacy in Spain . . .365 Our Lady of Lourdes . . . 366 ! Protestant Orders .... 366 I English Ordinations . . . 366 ■ Irish National Model Schools . 366 The Distress in South Wales . 366 j P a r l ia m e n t a r y S ummary . . 366 Encyclical Letter o f His Holiness

Pope Pius IX . on the Affairs of the Armenian Church . . .369 R ome :

Letter from our own Correspondent 373 The Pope and the Catholic Asso­

ciation at Mainz . . . 375|

DrocESAN N ews :

Westminster . Hexham and Newcastle Liverpool Northampton

I r e l a n d :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

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spondent ..... 377 London Irish Home Rule Asso­

ciation ....................................378 F oreign N ew s :

S w i tz e r la n d ....................................378 M em o r an d a :

Religious Educational . Literary

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• 379

G en e r a l N ews

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

“ Prussian Government for striking a blow at their old anta“ gonists, the ‘ Ultramontane’ party ; but the motive o f the “ act is, that Catholics have dared to be as remonstrant, “ almost as rebellious, as the Radicals whom K ing William, “ then Prince, helped to crush in ’48 and ’49.” This we may say by the way is not correct; the Catholics have shown no symptoms whatever o f rebellion, and did not begin even to remonstrate till the internal spiritual discipline o f their Church was interfered with. “ When we have deported Mr. “ Odger to the Falkland islands,” continues the Telegraph, “ and sent Sir Charles Dilke to the Tower, suppressed two or “ three Radical newspapers, put down four or five meetings, “ and arrested the leaders o f all strikes— then we may feel “ competent to rise to the true heights of Continental states“ manship against Popery.”

MR. G LAD STONE announced on

Thursday the continued existence of m in is tr y his Ministry as before. The apparent and exfla- discrepancy between the statements which nations, he and Mr. Disraeli made on Monday was

Disraeli’s Thursday informed explained by the fact that although Mr. refusal to accept office on the previous was unconditional, and Mr. Gladstone was of this by the Queen on Friday evening, the last-named gentleman submitted a statement to her Majesty on Saturday, containing his reasons for believing that the leader o f the Opposition should not refuse to form a Government, after the communication of which statement to Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Gladstone finally learnt on Sunday evening that he must abandon all hopes o f the formation o f a Conservative Government. Mr, Disraeli’s reasons for refusing seem to us very good on e s ; they will be found at length in our Parliamentary Summary. The most important feature o f Thursday’s explanations is that Air. Disraeli, as well as Mr. Gladstone, has now pledged himself against “ the foundation o f a Roman Catjiolic University,’ and that he has declared that between him and “ the Irish “ Roman Catholic interest ” there is “ no common bond of u union.”

THE GERMAN PRESS ON THE

ENGLISH CRISIS.

Ministerial semi-official organs such as the Spener Zeitung and the Nord-Deutsche Zeitung exult over the defeat of Mr. Gladstone because his Bill was professedly an attempt to meet the Catholic demands. They seize the opportunity to raise a fresh cry against what they call “ Ultramontanes,” whom they represent as the common enemies o f every conceivable Government. We hope we shall not be doing a disservice to the D a i ly Telegraph by alluding to a very sensible article in reply to these incitements to persecution which appeared in its columns on Tuesday. Perhaps, however, the German press will take warning, and as it is to be prosecuted for quoting the language o f one of Air. Gladstone’s supporters in the English press, will refrain from quoting that o f another. “ Why,” asks the Telegraph, “ do such States as Prussia keep down the ‘ Ultramontanes’ “ with an iron hand ? Because they have always repressed “ every ebullition of opinion or sentiment or feeling against “ the State, and Prince Bismarck who now persecutes Jesuits, “ was, a few years ago, the oppressor o f every Liberal in “ Germany ; to day it is the turn o f the recalcitrant priests, “ yesterday German patriots were under his iron heel. The “ traditions of foreign monarchies favour the exaltation of “ the State ; that alone must be the source of initiative and “ power. The Liberals o f the Fatherland now applaud the

New Seri; Y ol. IX. No. 228.

But in the article to which we refer the c~ cs D a i ly Telegraph puts into the mouth o f persecution. Popery-hating Liberals ’’ arguments contain­

ing certain statements which it does not attempt to contradict, and which it appears to consider truisms, though it does not admit the practical conclusions drawn from them. They are these : “ Why should “ we allow Roman Catholics to obtain the advantage of “ equal laws when their own dogmas preach persecution “ o f heretics ? ” “ Why should we concede the liberty o f “ the press to men who use it for the purpose o f preaching “ up the interests of despotism ?” “ Why should we tole“ rate public meetings o f Catholics, when, if they had the “ upper hand they would, according to their theories, im“ prison Protestants for exercising the same rights ? ’’ Now we may as well again put on record what we have often said before. Our dogmas do not “ preach persecution o f “ heretics,” nor do they warrant it except under circumstances quite different from any which now exist, or, as far as we can see, ever can exist again. Secondly, we Catholics do not “ preach up the interests of despotism,” but are the loudest protesters against it, whether it proceeds from king, bureaucracy, or mob. And thirdly, if we had the upperhand, we should most certainly not “ imprison Protestants “ for exercising the same rights” which we enjoy. Having said this, our answer to the Popery-hating Liberals ” is even more complete than that furnished by the D a i ly Telegraph.

„ „ The Tim es, as usual, blows the coals o f ret - d theS ^gi0115 strife- It replies to its German coun persecutors, sellors thus : Fhere is nobody to take the advice ; no power which has “ any continuity”

except public opinion. But it does not fail to endorse the recommendation to the address o f that potentate. The counsel is “ excellent if not immediately available.” “ Lor the present, the Irish Bishops must have their