THE TABLET

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D u m VOBIS G R A TÜ LAM U R , AN IM O S ET IAM ADDIMUS U T IN INCCEPTIS V E STR IS CON STAN TER M AN EATIS.

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

Vol. 42. No. 1739. L ondon, A ugust 9, 1873.

PRiCE5d. ByPosTs^d.

[R e g is tered a t th e G e n e r a l P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew s pa p e r .

Page o n i c l e o f t h e W e e k : The Queen’s Speech.—The Greenwich Election.— Mr. Fitzjames Stephen

Dundee.— Mr. Baxter's Resignation.— The Law of ConspiracyBill.— The Wigan Accident.— The Provincial Council.— The Pilgrim-

ge to Paray-le-Monial. — The Comte de Chambord and the Fusion.— His Reception of the Orleans Princes. — The Results Realized. — The Evacuation of France.— The Civil War in Spain. — The Attitude of Foreign Powers. —The Carlists.— Situation of the Church n Germany. — Prosecutions and Other Measures . . 161

L e a d e r s :

CONTENTS

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S h ort N o t ic e s : Adamantia. The

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The S e s s io n .....................................165 The Session as regards Ireland . 105 The Persecution in Prussia.— De­

cision of the Supreme Court of Appeal ..... 166 Collapse of the Armenian Schism. 167 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C o n tem po r a r ie s :

Saul among the Prophets.— How the Next Pope will be Elected.— Relics.— Funerals.— The Bosom of the English Church . . .1 68 R e v ie w s :

Councils and Ecclesiastical Docu­

ments relating to Great Britain and Ireland .... 169 Calderon’s Dramas . . . 170 The Wrong Man .... 171

Truth about the South African Diamond Fields.— The Magazines for A u g u s t .......................................172 C orrespondence :

The New Article of Faith in the

Establishment . . . .1 7 3 R e g is t ra t io n ...................................... 173 Louise Lateau and France . . 173 The Annamite Christians and the

Slave Trade . . . .1 7 3 Pilgrimage from Great Britain to

Paray-le-Monial in Honour of the Sacred Heart. . . .1 7 4 The Homerton Mission . *174 P a r l ia m e n t a r y S ummary . . 174 R o m e .................................................... T77

D io c e sa n N ew s :

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W estm in ster.......................................177 Southwark . . . . . 1 7 7 Scotland— Western District . . 1 7 7

,, — Eastern District . .1 7 8 I r e l a n d :

Letter from our Dublin Corres p o n d e n t ....................................... 178 F oreign N ew s ;

France

M em o r an d a :

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Religious _ .......................................180 Catholic Union . . . . r8o E d u c a t io n a l ....................................... 180 Legal :—

The Trial of Castro, otherwise called Orton, otherwise Sir R. Tichborne, Bart. . . .1 8 1 Gen e r a l N ew s . . . . 182

CHRONICLE OF THE W EEK .

SPEECH. T

THE QUEEN'S

H E packet service between the Is le o f

W ight and the mainland, the unpopularity o f which was already extensive,

was probably never more heartily grumbled at than on Tuesday, when Parliam ent was kept waiting for two hours because the messenger bearing the R oyal Commission could not get across. When he did arrive, and the R o y a l Assent had been gtven to a bundle o f Bills, including the Duke o f Edinburgh’s Annuity B ill, the R o ya l Message, as it is becom ing the fashion to call it, gave as flattering an account as possible o f an inoffensive though not very fruitful session. Neither the approaching R oyal Marriage, nor the Zanzibar and Muscat Treaties, nor the renewal o f Free-trade relations with France, nor the Extradition Conventions, concluded or to be concluded, nor the prosecution o f British C la im s at Washington, nor the provision o f means to meet the Geneva award, are exactly matters for which Parliam ent can take any credit to itself, and after the one great achievement o f the Judicature A c t has been recited, there is nothing in the way o f legislation to be particularly proud of, and the Speech is reduced to chronicling such small blessings as the Education A c t Amendment A c t , the Endowed Schools A c t , the Railw ays and Canals A c t , and the M erch an t Shipping A c t . Still, i f the Session has not effected -much, it has not done any harm ;— we mean to the Statutebook ; for we could not give as good an account o f its effect either on the Government or on the Ministerial party.

THE GREENWICH ELECTION.

What has ju st occurred at G reenwich is an instructive example o f the disorganization in the L iberal ranks. T h e two bogus candidates on the Conservative side did not, as we anti­

c ip ated last week, interfere with the real champion o f their party, as they only polled 27 votes apiece-— -Mr. Coningsby, by-the-bye, has written to the papers to explain that he was the victim o f an accident or foul play, and that this figure does not represent the number of his real supporters. But the three L iberal candidates not only divided the L iberal votes in to groups o f 2,000 odd, 1,000 odd, and three hundred odd, but did not collectively, lumping all their votes together, achieve a total equalling the votes polled for Mr. Boord. These indeed exceeded all the votes recorded for the other five candidates. But on comparing the total number o f votes with those on the register, and particularly the L iberal votes with those polled for Sir D avid Salomons, it became evident that there had been extensive abstentions, which the L iberal papers at first attributed to the imminence o f a general e lection, and the consequent comparative unimportance o f the present occasion, but to which further inform ation imparted quite another complexion. A letter from “ a Greenwich E le c to r ” appeared in W ednesday’s D a i ly Telegraph, stating that “ upwards o f 3,000 Dissenters failed to present themselves “ at the poll, and that not a single Nonconform ist minister “ gave his v o t e ” for any one o f the six candidates. T h e reason assigned was, as m ight be expected, hostility to the 25th Clause, but the rest o f the explanation is not quite so easy to understand. M any meetings had been held, at which a strong desire for the abrogation o f the clause was expressed, and ju st before the election a delegate arrived from the Birm ingham L eague to make sure o f a candidate which would represent the view s of that body. H e found that both Mr. Baxter-Langley and Sir John Bennett were Leaguers, and therefore abstained from recommending either to the prejudice o f the other, which is in te llig ib le ; but why should the “ result ” be “ that the Dissenters, “ despairing o f returning a candidate holding their views, “ determ ined to abstain a ltogether from voting ? ” I f all the 3,000 had voted for Mr. Baxter-Langley, they would have returned him, and it is scarcely fair to say that the Dissenters “ are aware that by sim ply abstaining “ from voting they can prevent the e lection o f a supporter “ o f Mr. Forster’s A c t ,” inasmuch as the provision to which they object will certainly be maintained by the Conservatives. T h e true aim o f their policy— and another letter from a Greenwich Nonconform ist affirms that it will be adopted everywhere at the general e lection— is o f course to put the screw on the M inisterial section o f the L iberal party, and to force it, b y a course o f punishment, to .sacrifice its own convictions to theirs. I f this line o f action is persisted in— and there seems to be every reason for believing that it will be— we shall undoubtedly see a Conservative majority in the next House o f Commons.

A t Dundee there has been another check—

mr. fitzjames th ough not t0 the profit of the Conservatives— S1ddndekM for a ciieck the defeat of Mr. Fitzjames

Stephen must be allowed to be if it be true that it was intended to make him Solicitor-General. The local candidate, Mr. Yeaman, polled 5,297 votes; Mr. Jenkins (Ginx’s Baby), 4 ,0 10 ; while Mr. Stephen obtained only 1,086. It is true that he was late in the field, but it would seem as though here, as elsewhere, Government had lost that prestige and influence which enables a strong administration to impose its own candidate upon its party.

One would have imagined, after the assurMR- , ances given by Mr. Low e that the relations beresignation, tween the different departments and the T rea­

sury would henceforth be conducted with per­

fect regularity, that we had seen the last, at least for this session, o f squabbles o f this description. On Thursday, however, it

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