A W eek ly N ew spaper a n d Review .

WITH SUPPLEMENT.

D u m VOBIS G R A TU LAM U R , AN IM O S ETIAM ADDIMUS U T IN INCCEPTIS V E S TR IS CONSTAN TER M AN EA T IS .

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

Voi. 42. No. 1759. L o n d o n , D e c e m b e r 6 , 1873-

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Prussia and the English Press.— The Persecution in Posen.—The Newspaper Stamp in Prussia.— The “ Standard ” and “ Catholicus.”— Sympathizers with Oppression.— The Ashantee Campaign.— The Virginius Settlement. — President Grant’s Message.— French Diplomatic Appointments.-The Definite Provisorium.— The Committee of Thirty.—Tactics of the Left.—The Municipalities Bill, &c.— Military awd Naval Deputies.— The Bom•bardment o f Cartagena. — The Collision in the Atlantic.— The Bazaine T r ia l.— The Tichborne Trial.— Catholicity in Spain 7

CONTENTS.

L f.a d e r s :

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The Uncertainty in France . . 709 Signor Grassi ..... 709 Irish Prosperity— Manufactures.—

X II.

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S h ort N o t ic e s :

Eason’s Almanack for Ireland The Rosary Magazine .

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• 7T7 . 717

O ur P r o t e s t a n t C o n tem po r ar ie s :

Authority and the Theory of An­

glicanism ..... 712 Mr. Holman Hunt’s Picture . . 713 R e v ie w s :

The Divine Glory of the Sacred

H e a r t ....................................714 The Catholic World . . »715 Resurgens . . . . .7 1 6 Christmas Books .... 716

C orrespondence :

Italy, Bethlehem,

minster M. Louis Veuillot’i and West

. 717 Ideas on

America . . ... 7x8 British Love of “ Fair-Play ” . 718 What Does Home Rule Mean ? . 719 Letter of the Holy Father to Mon­

signor Ledochowski, £Archbishop of Posen . . . . . 7x9

R ome :

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Letterfrom our own Correspondent 721 Abbey of St. .Scholastica, Subiaco 723 D io c e sa n N ew s :

Westm inster.................................... 723 Shrewsbury . . . . 724 I r e lan d :

Letter from our spondent Foreign N ews :

Dublin Corre

United States M e m o r a n d a :

Religious Educational . Literary G en er a l N ew s

725 720 726

CHRONICLE OF THE W EEK.

verity upon T

(PRUSSIA AND TH E ENGLISH

TRESS.

HE Pall Mall Gazette of Monday last has done a good and timely service in behalf of the honour of English journalists. It has commented with just sea passage from the North German Gazette,

which has happily found its way to London. “ As re“ gards the support given to Germany in her struggle

N ew S eries V o l . X . No. 265.

other day. Whether it be the influence of Prince von Bismarck’s press department which has caused this change of front and face we cannot yet say, but we shall watch closely the utterances of certain Germans, and, with the information we possess, we shall not be at a loss to form a judgment. We thank the Pall Mall Gazette for writing the following words “ What does concern us and every news“ paper of respectability in England is to know, which are “ the journals that derive their inspiration from the Berlin “ Press-department. It would be interesting too to hear how “ it is communicated and on what terms.”

THE PERSECUTION

IN POSEN.

The Brief of the Holy Father to the persecuted Archbishop of Posen will be found in another part of our columns. Fines are falling in showers upon Mgr, Ledochowski’s head, and the summons to appear before the “ Spiritual ” Court at Berlin for the purpose of being “ deposed” has probably been served on him by this time. It is expected that similar proceedings will soon be taken against the Bishop of Paderborn, and other Bishops in their turn. Meanwhile, the excitement in the Duchy of Posen is naturally very great, and there is talk of a state of siege, in consequence of the “ dis“ affection which the priests are believed to be exciting.’’ Thischarge is an epitome of the moregeneral accusation. The Catholic clergy are placed between a denial of the essential constitution of the Church on one hand, and fine and imprisonment on the other; they of course choose the latter ; and then the laity, thus deprived of their pastors, are naturally indignant, and their indignation is used by the Government as a justification of the penal measures which have excited it. We have no doubt that we shall hear that the disloyal sentiments of the inhabitants of the Duchy of Posen is a sufficient explanation of the energy with which the Berlin Government is carrying on the struggle.

TH E NEWSPAPER STAMP

IN PRUSSIA.

The motion of the Centre or Catholic party in the Prussian Diet for the abolition of the newspaper stamp was brought in by Herr Barnard on Wednesday, and the National Liberals and Progressists could not decently help voting for it, though it went rather against the grain to support an “ Ultramontane ” resolution. The result was that, although Herr Camphausen, in the name of the Government, declared his opposition to the measure, only six members were found to vote against it, two out of these being Ministers. The ostensible ground of the Government’s opposition was that the subject had been already referred to the administration of the Empire.

TH E “ s t a n d a r d ”

AND 11 CATHOLICUS.’

We print elsewhere a letter, which the Very Rev. Canon Browne has addressed to the Standard, with reference to its assertion that there were many dioceses and parishes in England where the decrees of the Vatican