THE TABLET

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

WITH SUPPLEMENT.

D u m VOBIS GRATULAM U R , AN IM O S ETIAM ADDIMUS U T IN INCCEPTIS V E STR IS CONSTANTER M AN EATIS.

From the Brief oj His Holiness to The T ablet, June 4, 1870,

Vol. 42. No. 1743. London, S eptember 6, 1873.

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

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English Pilgrimage.— Notre Dame dè Boulogne.— Ministers and the League.— Rumours of Reconstruction.— The Lhft Centre and the Restoration.— The “ Débats” and the Comte de Paris.-—“ The Dauphin.”— Cartagena.— The Carlists, 'Republicans and Socialists.— Sentences on German Bishops.— Duke Charles of BruTiswick and the 'Duchy.— Reported Destruction of Khiva.— The Ashantee Expedition. — Chinese Condescension.— .French War Indemnity.— Unveiling the Column o f Victory.— Paris Rums.— Indian Census.— Our Female Population.— Too Sanguine. &c., & c . ....................................289

L e a d e r s :

C 0 N T

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The Archbishop’s Letter to the

Irish Primate .... 293 Temporal and Spiritual . . 293 The Position o f the Jews in

Europe ..... 294 Irish Prosperity .... 295 Montalembert in Ireland . . 296 Salvation According to Spiri­

tualism ................................... 297 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C ontem po r ar ie s :

The Millennium. — The Truth about Ddllingerism.— Bishops and R i t u a l i s t s ....................................298 R e v ie w s :

The Patriarch and the Tsar . . 300 The New Magdalen . . . 301

ENTS.

R eview s (continued) :

The Life of Blessed Alphonsus

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Rodriguez . _ . . . . 302 Ecclesia Christi .... 303 S h ort N o t i c e s : Thought of St.

Francis de Sales.— The' Trial of Sir Jasper.— One of the Thirty . 303 C orrespondence :

The Bishop o f Kerry and the

R i t u a l i s t s .................................. 303 A W a r n i n g .................................. 303 D io ce san N ew s :

Birmingham ..... 304 Hexham and Newcastle . . 305 Newport and Menevia . . . 305 N o t t in gh am ..................................305

D io cesan N ews (continued) : '

Salford

S h r ew s b u r y ...............................305 I r e lan d :

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305

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent ...................................... 305 F oreign N ews :

Russia

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M em oranda :

Religious—The Departure of the

Pilgrimage to Paray-le-Monial . 306 Catholic Union .... 310 E du c a t io n a l ............................... 310 G en e r a l N ew s .... 311 S u pplem ent :—

Letter of the Archbishop o f West­

minster to the Archbishop of Armagh

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

THE ENGLISH PILGRIMAGE. C

ONSIDERABLE interest has been exhi­

bited by the press in the pilgrimage to Paray-le-Monial. The sentiments are such as we might reasonably have expected, and the facts are not inaccurately given. The provincial papers are for the most part respectful; notably the papers of Manchester ; and, barring the ignorance and prejudice of non-Catholics, there is really very little to complain of. All the London daily papers and several of the Manchester papers have sent special correspondents to Paray. We learn from telegrams, and from general sources, that the pilgrims satisfactorily encountered the material difficulties of the journey; but as we propose next week to give a full account, by one who has been present throughout, we will content ourselves to-day with such initiatory information as will be found in another part of the paper.

NOTRE DAME DE BOULOGNE.

Accounts have reached us of the very successful pilgrimage which has only this week been concluded at the church of Notre Dame at Boulogne. “ Impossible to express in “ words,” says a priest who was present at Boulogne, “ what “ the heart felt in beholding that sight. Protestants them“ selves could not help giving utterance to their admiration “ of those public and solemn manifestations of Christian “ faith and piety.” It is the more gratifying that this pilgrimage should have immediately preceded another of very similar import, because the significance of the “ two “ may be well compared, so as to bring out the harmonies “ of both.” The Times said last Tuesday, when speaking o f the pilgrimage which is now being conducted from England, “ Why this new revelation ” (to the Blessed Marie Alacoque), “ except that so many have become obsolete “ and forgotten, passing first out of fashion, then out of “ memory altogether, as this, it can hardly be doubted, will “ in due time.” Yet here we have a pilgrimage which is but the repetition of a devotion that has been going on for twelve hundred years, which has never varied in object or faith, and which at one time was essentially English. Moreover, the origin of this devotion is at least as supernatural as the origin of the devotion to the Sacred Heart. The belief in both— whether in the devotions or their origin— is no more than the belief in the sovereignty of God, in His empire over all He has made. The crowds which have just left Boulogne, like the few thousands now at Paray-le-Monial, prove that devotion to Our Lord and to His Mother have always gone together in the Church, and that the faith and practice of true Christians is the same in all places and times.

New Series. Vol. X. No, 252.

MINISTERS AND THE

LEAGUE.

Ministers are unfortunate in their reporters and interpreters just now. The other day Mr. Gladstone made a speech which was taken to be a profession of faith on the Education question, and it turned out to refer only to the local requirements of Hawarden ; and Lord Frederick Cavendish has since then addressed his constituents in terms which were understood to imply concession to the Dissenters, and has informed the newspapers that his words were incorrectly reported. It seems certain, however, that he acknowledged to the Yorkshire Council of the Liberation Society that there might still be defects in the Education A c t ; that a Dissenter ought to be placed on the Endowed Schools’ Commission ; and that if his reply was not so clear as it might have been it was because, as they knew, he was obliged to speak guardedly. “ This much he might say, he was nearer “ them in opinion than they might t.V.ik, and he could “ assure them that he would be at all tiihes glad to confer “ with them on these matters, so that he might better under“ stand them.” Morever, he added, that he was authorized by Mr. Gladstone to say that he had no intention in speaking as he did of stifling the debate 011 Mr. Miail’s motion, and “ regretted the effect which it “ had produced.” All this is, we confess, sufficiently alarming. I f there is anybody who may be considered Mr. Gladstone’s alter ego, it is Lord Frederick, who has just left the position of a superior kind of private secretary to the Premier to enter on that of a superior kind of Lord of the Treasury. And however much or however little his conciliatory expressions may have really meant, it is obvious that he is anxious to hold out a hand to the Leaguers, and to come to an understanding with them if possible. This, taken in connection with the sudden renunciation by the latter of their hostile policy, with the retirement of Lord Ripon— which may or may not be occasioned by purely private reasons— and with the fresh rumours of a further reconstruction of the Ministry, is calculated to make one think. The announcement made by the Times, and as yet uncontradicted, that Mr. Monsell is about to retire from the Post Office in October— a step for which the very inadequate reason is assigned that Mr. Lowe insisted on doing business with Mr. Scudamore over his head— may perhaps prove to be not altogether unconnected with the future attitude of the Cabinet on the Education question. We hope it is not so, but we shall probably know more about it when Mr. Forster returns from abroad. It may be that some compromise may yet be effected ; but if it is it will involve an increase in the Parliamentary grants.

Perhaps because they have little else to write r u m o u r s ok about, the papers- are suddenly convinced that r e c o n s t r u c - ., 1 1 - - . * , , . . .

t i o n . they have a mission to remodel the whole

Cabinet. Neither Lord Aberdare nor Mr.