THE TABLET

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

D um VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the B r ie f o f H is Holiness to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870,

Vol. 43. No. 1768. L o n d o n , F e b r u a r y 28, 1874.

P r ice 5d. B y P o s t s f 4d .

[ R e g is t e r ed a t t h e G e n e r a l P o s t O f f i c e a s a N ew spaper

»■ Ch r o n ic l e o f t h e W e e k : —

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The New Cabinet.—Extra-Cabinet Offices.— The Irish Appointments. — The English Law Appointments. Sir John Pakington.— Mr, Gladstone’s Creations.— Other Dignities.— “ In s” and “ Outs” at Windsor.— The War Office and the Officers.— Domestic Legislation.— The New Colonial Secretary.— The Triumvirate.— The Ashantee Campaign.— Battle near Coomassie.-Capture of Coomassie. — The Persecution.- The Emperor William’s Letter.— Catholic Meeting at Berlin.— The Deputies from .Alsace and Lorraine.— The Due dc Broglie and the Bonapartists. — The Catholic Armenians, &c. .. 257

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L e a d e r s :

The Difficulties o f the New Go­

Page vernment . . .. .. .. 261 Balaam’s Ass .. . . .. 261 The Carnival in Rome . . .. 262 The Present Ministry and Irish

Questions . . . . . . .. 263 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C o n t e m p o r a r ie s :

Nebulous Christianity . . .. 265 R e v ie w s :

De Divinitate et Canonicitate

Sacrorum Bibliorum . . . . 266 Thomas Grant, First Bishop of

Southwark.. . . . . .. 267 The Contemporary Review .. 268 Man and Apes . . . . .. 268 The Dublin Review . . . . 269

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. S h ort N o t i c e :

Lost Beauties of the English

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Language .. .. .. .. 269 Literary, Artistic, and Scientific

Gossip ...... z6g C orrespondence :

Lord Howard of Glossop’s Re­

marks borne out by Facts .. 270 The Catholic University .. .. 270 Number of Home Rule Members 271 The Cambridge Undergraduates and Bismarck’s Policy . . . . 271 Servants Out of Place .. . . 271 Harrow-on-the-Hill .. . . 271 R ome :

Letter from our own Correspondent 273 R ecord of G erm an P ersecution :

The Alsatian Deputies . . . . 275 The Army Question .. .. 275

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The Persecution to Become Imperial 275

The Civil Marriage Bill . . .. 275 Further Confiscations .. . . 275 Archbishop Ledochowski .. .. 276 Circular Letter of the Bishops, &c. 276 D io c e s a n N ew s :

Westminster — Southwark — Be­

verley— Clifton— Liverpool — Newport and Menevia— Plymouth— Salford— Stonyhurst .. 277 I r e l a n d :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent . . . . . . . . 278 F oreign N ews :

France . . .. . . . . 278 Russia .. . . . . .. 279 M em o r a n d a :

Religious .................................... 279 G en er a l N ew s . . . . . . 280

CHRONICLE OF THE W EEK .

THE NEW CABINET. O ’

,U R conjectures respecting the constitu­

tion o f the new Cabinet have been falsified by the selection o f Mr. Gathom e

H a rd y for the War Office, instead o f the Duke o f R ich mond, who was believed by nearly everybody to have been definitively fixed upon for that post. T h e substitution o f a Commoner for a Peer o f course made room for the return o f Lord Carnarvon to his natural p lace— that o f Secretary o f State for the Colonies— and Sir Stafford Northcote being appointed Chancellor o f the Exchequer, Mr. Ward Hunt goes to the Adm iralty, as, failing the Colonial Office, we supposed he would. T h e only new Cabinet M in ister is .Mr. Cross, who there is every reason to hope will make a very good H om e Secretary. T h e Cabinet therefore consists o f the follow ing Ministers :— F irst Lord o f the Treasury L o rd Chancellor Lord President o f the Council L o rd Privy Seal -Secretary o f State for the Home

Mr. Disraeli. Lord Cairns. D u ke o f R ichm ond. Earl of. Malmesbury.

Departm ent Secretary o f State for Foreign

Mr. Cross.

Earl o f Derby. Earl o f Carnarvon. Mr. Gathorne H ardy. Marquis o f Salisbury. Sir Stafford Northcote. Mr. Ward Hunt. Lord J. Manners, as the Duke o f Marl

Affairs ..... Secretary o f State for the Colonies Secretary o f State for War Secretary o f State for India Chancellor o f the Exchequer F irst Lord o f the Adm ira lty Postmaster-General '1 he Duke o f Buckingham , as well borough, is believed to have expressed his desire not to take office. I t must be acknowledged at once that the new ■ Cabinet is strong in its composition, and Mr. D israeli has probably added to its strength by cutting it down to the old numbers. There is less chance o f d iv ided counsels in a body composed o f twelve than in one o f fifteen ; the number to which Mr. G ladstone’s Cabinet had grown. The new Prime M inister has also returned to the old lines, and has replaced the Postmaster-General in the Cabinet, exclud in g the President o f the Board o f T rade, the Chancellor o f the Duchy o f Lancaster, the Ch ie f Secretary for Ireland, and the President o f the L ocal Government B o a r d ; offices which were filled in the late M inistry by Mr. Chichester Fortescue, Mr. Bright, Lord Hartington, and Mr. Stansfeld respectively, and which have, at different times, been taken into the Cabinet as the exigencies o f party required an additional seat for some important or useful Minister.

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O f the minor places, the Vice-Presidentship cabinet ^le Oouncil for Education has been given to offices. Lord Sandon, formerly member o f the London

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ment which w ill be particularly disagreeable to the Secularists— Mr. R . Bourke has been chosen by Lord Derby for the Under-Secretaryship o f the Foreign O ffice— he was his colleague in the representation o f K in g ’s Lynn, which may have something to do with it, as the India Office would have been a more natural p lace for him— Lord George Hamilton is to be Under-Secretary for In d ia ; Mr. James Lowther for the Colonies ; and Sir H . Selwin Ibbetson for the H om e Department, where he will have an opportunity o f a iring his views on the licensing question. T h e Ch ie f Commissionership o f AVorks, which used to be one o f the twelve Cabinet offices, when there were only three instead o f five Secretaries o f State, has been allotted to Lord H enry Lennox, whose suavity o f manner and fairly cultivated taste will be very welcome to those connected « ith or brought into contact with that office after their experiences o f its penultimate occupant. T h e post which Mr. W . H . Smith is to have is the F inancial Secretaryship to the Treasury, and Mr. H a rt D yk e is to be the Parliam entary Secretary. Sir Charles A dderley is to be the President o f the Board o f T rade ; Mr. SclaterBooth, President o f the L o ca l Government B o a rd ; Colonel Taylor, Chancellor o f the D u chy o f L an caster; Mr. Cave, Judge A d v o c a t e ; the Hon. A . Egerton, Secretary to the A dm ira lty ; Mr. C lare Read, Secretary to the L o c a l Government Board, and Sir Massey Lopez, whose speciality is local taxation, C iv il Lord o f the Admiralty. H e re is another apparent insertion o f a square man into a round hole.

T h e Duke o f Abercorn was reported to have THE i declined the Lord L ieu tenancy for private poiNTMENfs. reasons>and Lord Beauchamp was talked o f for the post. But the Duke o f Abercon is ap ­

pointed after 'a ll, and the C h ie f Secretaryship is conferred on Sir M ichael H ick s Beach, a rising statesman o f great ability, who will doubtless succeed very well i f he keeps clear o f Orange advisers, and does not attempt to “ manage ” Ireland in the fashion described b y the late “ Cornelius O ’D owd.” Mr. Brewster is reported to be the new L o rd Chancellor— the only doubt was whether his health would allow o f his accepting the office— and Dr. Ball is to be Attorney-General. There are rumours o f a peerage for Lord C h ie f Justice AVhiteside.

I t has been known for a long time that the the English L ord Ch ie f Baron has been meditating retire-

menti and the opportunity is a good one fo r Sir J. Karslake, whose health would be equal to that post, though scarcely to the severer labours o f an A ttorney-General— at least for any length o f time. I t is rumoured accordingly that Sir F itzroy K e l ly is shortly to have a peerage, and that Sir J. Karslake is then to succeed him. Meanwhile the latter takes the Attorney-Generalship, and Sir R . Baggallay is Solicitor-General.