THE TABLET
A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
D u m VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the Brief oj His Holiness to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.
Vol. 42. No. 1745. L o n d o n , S e p t e m b e r 20, 1873.
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C hronicle of th e W e e k : The
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Visit to Berlin.—Prussia, Italy, and Napoleon III.—The Pastoral of the Archbishop of Paris.— The Five Years’ Presidency.— Three Conversations. — The Evacuation of France.—The French Protestants and the Monarchy.—The Cholera. —The Ashantee Disaster.— Mixed Marriages.—The “ Guardian” and the Archbishop of Westminster.— The Siege of Cartagena.— The Battle of Tolosa.—The Republican Army.— The Religious Prosecutions in Prussia.— The Congress at Constance.— Constitutional Persecution in Switzerland.— The Conservative Gains.—The British Association, &c., &c. . . . 353
CONTENTS
L e a d e r s :
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The Press and the Vision . . 357 The Object of King Victor Em
manuel’s Journey . . . 358 The “ Spectator” on System” . 359 O ur P rotestant C ontemporaries:
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Sonnets on the Late Pilgrimage . 367 D io cesan N ews : Westminster...................................... 368
S o u th w a r k ...................................... 368 Hexham and Newcastle . . 369 Scotland : Solemn Opening of the
God and Caesar.— The Conversion of England.—A Bishop at Bay.— Roma Periclitans .... 360 R eview s :
Jest and Earnest .... 361 A Simpleton .... 363 The Mon?h .... 363 Pastoral Letter of the Archbishop and Bishops af the Province of Westminster in Provincial Council Assembled ..... 364
Church of Glenfinnan . . 371 I reland :
Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent ..... 371 Lord Southwell to the “ Daily
News” ...................................... 372 F oreign N ews :
France
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C orrespondence : The Pilgrimage to Paray-le-Monial 373
Correspondence (continued) :
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The Cathedral of Westminster . 373 The Foreign Missionary College and German Vocation . . 373 The Greenwich Election. — Mr.
Callan, M.P., and Mr. Keyes O’Clery . . . . . 373 The Bedford Mission . . . 373 The Accident to Mrs. Snape . . 373 A Catholic Almanack . . 374 M emoranda :
Religious Educational Literary Fine Arts Legal .
374 374 375 375 376
General N ews
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C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .
Ki n g v i c t o r E m m a n u e l has started on his excursion to V ienna and Berlin, and has taken with him the Prime M in ister and the M in ister o f Foreign Affairs, and a suite numbering in all about fifty persons. I t is reported that the K in g was personally somewhat averse to this interruption o f the usual routine o f his life, but that the jou rn ey was considered necessary as a demonstration in reply to the fusion, and for other reasons as well, to which we refer at length elsewhere. T h e overburthened condition o f the Italian finances in particular has com pelled S ignor M inghetti to urge his master to take some step by which the disproportionate size o f the Italian army may be reduced in tim e to avoid a financial catastrophe. Italy, instead o f being a support to Germany, is going to be a hindrance, and would g ladly be a pensioner. I t will be rem embered that the A rchbishop o f Paris, in his recent Pastoral, stated that the m ilitary preparations o f I ta ly would be soon found to be too much for that country to bear. T h e Italians were furious with Monsignor Guibert for the statem ent, but they have now to make the avowal them selves. Lastly, the semi-official Prussian press, which is very wrath at the publication o f General L a Marmora’s book, is polite enough to inform the world that if the K in g o f I ta ly is coming, it is not because he was asked, or wanted. H e was invited, it is true, and the form al invitation was conveyed to him by H err von K eudell, but that was because he had h im self asked for the invitation. This is the delicate and hospitable announcement with which the Prov in sia l Correspondenz prepares to greet the com ing guest ; but the Spencrsche Zeitung, the Vossische Zeitung, and the rest are a ll equally indignant with General L a Marmora, and want to know what is to happen i f M in isters can make this use o f State archives. T h e fashion o f such disclosures has however a lready been set, and after the revelations o f M. Benedetti, M. Jules Favre, the D u c de Gramont, and Prince v. B ism arck himself, it would be affectation to express extraordinary surprise at the indiscretion o f G eneral L a Marmora.
One thing that is c learly established by
Prussia, Italy, qlese revelations is the completeness with MAPOLEON in . which the Emperor N apoleon was taken in. General Govone asked Count Bismarck whether there was any district on the left bank o f the Rhine where a plébiscite could be had for annexation for France, and on receiving a negative reply, backed by the further remark that the French agents who had been through the country had come to the same conclusion, he next sounded
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him as to whether nothing could be done on another principle, that o f “ natural f ro n t ie r s ;” adding that he by no means meant to propose the cession o f the whole left bank, but wished to know whether another frontier line m ight not be proposed. “ Y e s ,” replied Count B ism arck, “ there is the M o s e l le ; and we m ight cede the Palatinate, “ the neighbouring O ld enburg territory, and a bit o f “ Prussia— the country between the Rhine and the Mo“ s e l le ; but the K in g would be difficult to manage, and “ would only y ie ld at a decisive moment, when it was a “ question o f winning or losing all. A n d it would be “ necessary, in order to bring him to an arrangement, to “ know the m in imum pretensions o f France, for i f she “ wanted all the left bank, with M ayence, Coblenz, and “ Cologne, it would be more to our interest to com e to an “ arrangement with Austria, and g ive up the E lb e Duchies “ and many other things as well.” A l l this speedily came to the knowledge o f the Emperor N apoleon, without Count B ism arck being d irectly bound to him in any way ; and when the Emperor heard o f the conclusion o f the treaty on the same evening that it was signed, he probably looked forward to a profitable in terference in the quarrel, and to no serious resistance on the part o f Prussia to his own desires. H ow his overtures were received after the battle o f Sadowa is now a matter o f history.
T h e Pastoral Letter o f the A rchbishop of the Paris, d irecting prayers to be offered for the pastoral Church under persecution, and specially for the archbishop H o ly See, which has been despoiled of its rights of paris. and independence, has not, it appears, as originally reported, been made the subject o f diplom atic remonstrance by Italy, but it has been fiercely a ttacked by the L e ft in the Perm anent Committee at V e rsailles. M . Noel Parfait declared that it was directed against a Governm ent friendly to France, and that the authorities at Rom e had been obliged to forbid its publication in Italy. H e wished to know whether the Governm ent were prepared to express their condemnation o f it. T o this the D ue de Broglie replied : Certainly n o t ; for with episcopal documents it had nothing to do. T h e Governm ent had its policy, which was laid down in the message and in the diplom atic circular, and these were the only documents for which it considered itself responsible. T h is policy was one o f peace, and he and his colleagues had no intention o f departing from it. T h is seemed to satisfy the Left, who attem pted to pin the Governm ent to a repudiation o f the A rchbishop’s Pastoral, to which, however, the D ue de la Rochefoucauld declared that they had not committed them selves ; and after a little excitem ent caused by M . Batbie’s ju st and well-founded statem ent that the B ishops “ were not functionaries,” the subject dropped.
