THE TABLET
A Weekly Newspaper and Review
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 CON STAN TER M ANEATIS.
From the Brief oj His Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870,
Vol. 43. No. 1781.
London, M a y 30, 1874.
Price 3d. Bvr Post
[Registered at the General Post Office as a Newspaper.
C hronicle of the Week : —
The New French Ministry.—The Last of the Crisis.— Marshal MacMahon’s Action.— Religion in the French Army.— M. Thiers and the Republic. —The Nievre Election. — The Duke of Connaught.— The Galway Judgment.— The Suffolk Lock-out.— Herr Lasker on the Prussian Bureaucracy.— The New Law concerning Vacant Benefices. — Emigration of German Catholics.— More Spoliation at Geneva. — The “ Patrie ” on “ Old Catholicism.”— The War in Spain.— The Chili and Guatamala Difficulties. — Classical Studies. — Old St. Pancras Churchyard
C O N T
Leaders :
Catholic Higher Studies in
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London .. .. .. .. 677 The Galway Election Judgments,
1872 and 1874 .. .. .. 677 St. Alphonsus on the Esquiline .. 679 Our Protestant Contemporaries: !
The “ Bouncing” Journal.— The
“ Liberal ” Journal .. . . 680 Pictures :
The Royal Academy . . . . 68r j Reviews :
The Quarterly Review . . . . 682 Lady Anna.. . . .. . . 683 Short Notice :
A Chequered Life .. .. . . 684 New Music . . . . . . .. 685! Literary, Artistic, and Scientific j
Gossip .. .. .. .. 685 [
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Correspondence:
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College of Higher Studies.. . . 685 The Lock-out in the Eastern
Counties .. .. .. .. 685 The Bellew Fund .. . . .. 686 St. Joseph’s Missionary College of the S. Heart, Mill Hill . . . . 686 The Senate of the College of
Higher Studies . . . . . . 686 ' An Appeal .. . . .. . . 686 j St. Edmund’s Church, Isle of
Dogs .................................... 686 1 An Appeal . . . . .. .. 687 ! The Second Supplementary Falck
Law .. .. .. .. . . 687 1 Rome :
Letter from our own Correspondent 689 ' Peter’s Pence .. . . . . 690 1
Record of German Persecution :
Efforts of the Old-Catholics to
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Supplant the Catholic Parish Priests.—A Stormy Debate at Baden.-Extract from the Bishop of Paderborn’s Pastoral.. .. 690 Diocesan News :— Westminster.. 691
Southwark.— Beverley .. . . 692 Hexham and Newcastle .. .. 693 Ireland:
Letter from our Dublin Correspondent .. Foreign News :— France . . .. 693 Memoranda :
Religious Educational .. Fine Arts ......................... General Nevvs ■ • 6955
CHRONICLE OF THE W EEK .
THE NEW FRENCH MINISTRY. F
F R A N C E has at last got a M in istry,
which is thus composed : General de Cissey, M inister o f War and V ice-President o f the Council or Prime
M in is te r ; the D u e Decazes, M inister for Foreign A f fa ir s ; M. de Fourtou, M inister o f the In te r io r ; M. Magne, M inister o f F in a n c e ; Admiral de Montaignac, Marine and C o lo n ie s ; M. Tailhand, Ju s t ic e ; the V icom te ■ de Cumont, Public Worship, Public Instruction, and Fine A r t s ; M . Caillaux, Public Works ; M . Grivart, Agriculture an d Commerce. General de C issey is a member o f the Moderate R ight, who is credited by some people with Bonapartist proclivities, much as Marshal M acM ahon him selfhas been, probably for no other reason than that he first came in to notice under the Empire, and that he has naturally some personal attachm ent to the dynasty which he served. H e gained his General’s commission by his brilliant services a t Inkermann, distinguished himself during the Franco-Prussian War, played a prominent part in the siege o f Paris durin g the Commune, and was M inister o f War under M. Thiers. T h e D u e Decazes, M. de Fourtou and M. Magne’s antecedents are well-known ; o f the rest, M. Tailhand is Vice-Chairm an o f the Moderate R ight, and a member o f the Commission o f T h i r t y ; M. Grivart belongs to the R igh t Centre and is an adherent o f M. de B rog l ie ; M. Caillau x was a member o f the L e ft Centre, but belongs to the T a rget groups which abandoned M. Thiers, and were the most important agents in his overthrow ; and M. de Cumont is one o f the Moderate R ight, a Parliam entary Legitim ist and Catholic o f the same shade as M. de Falloux, and a proprietor or principal editor o f the Union de I 'O uest o f Angers. T h e presence o f M . Caillaux in the new Cabinet is said to be owing to his close political connection with M . de Fourtou, the latter having declined to enter it unless M . Caillaux was also a Minister, and a messenger had to be sent to the railway station after the latter, who was just ■ starting for Paris ; Marshal M acM ahon declaring that he was resolved to complete the arrangements on that day, as -on the next he had to receive Prince von Hohenlohe, the new German Ambassador, and could scarcely do so without a M inistry ; so one was improvised,¿just, says the Constitutionnel, as one buys a ready-made coat, when, in some pressing emergency, his tailor has broken his word.
But it was not without additional difficulties,
lufii C risis F beyond those which we chronicled last week,
that this result, such as it is, was achieved.
When M . de Goulard had failed in consequence o f the deadlo ck a lready described, it was thought for a day that the Due d ’Audiffret Pasquier had succeeded. H e was to be , N ew Series V ol. X I . No. 290.]
; Prime Minister without portfolio ; the Due Decazes was to remain at the Foreign O ffice ; M. de Goulard was to be I Minister o f the In terio r; General de C issey o f War, M. de I Cumont, Public Worship— Public Instruction being given [ to M. Waddington o f the L e ft Centre, a Protestant and a Cambridge man— with Adm ira l de Montaignac, Marine ; M. de Cézanne, Moderate R ight, Public Works ; M. Tailhand, Ju s t ic e ; M. de Lavergne, C om m e r c e ; and, as the Due d’Audiffret will not endure a Bonapartist, not M. Magne, but M. Mathieu-Bodet o f the L e ft Centre as M in ister o f Finance. But this arrangement d id not last long. M. Bodet turned out to be too decidedly Republican to be willing to work with the others, and gave p lace to M. André, a great banker ; when a new hitch became apparent. M. de Cumont and M. de T a ilh and objected to M. Wadding-
ton’s appointment, and do not seem to have been quite pacified by the answer that the portfolio o f Public Instruction being held by a Protestant was not as objectionable as i f that o f Public Worship was also in the same hands. But as soon as the question o f “ personal” or “ impersonal ” Septennate cropped up, it became evident that the combination would not work, as the difference o f opinion was so great that both M. André, who belongs to the L e ft o f the R ight Centre, and M . de Cumont, who belongs to the R igh t o f the R igh t Centre, both refused to form part o f this Ministry.
Marshal M acM ahon then sent again for M.
marshal^ Buffet, but the latter observed that if he left m'“ NS t^le Presidential chair, M. Dufaure would pro
bably be elected to it, and that was out o f the question. In the meanwhile, M . d ’Audiffret Pasquier thought that he would try whether anything was to be done with the L e ft Centre, and got hold o f M. Magnin ; and the two jo in ed the D u e Decazes and M. d ’H arcourt, Marshal M acM ahon’s private secretary, at dinner at the H o te l des Réservoirs. A fte r dinner, they went to the Presidency, and there they met M. Lucien Brun and M . de Kerdrel, o f the Right, and M. de Goulard and M. Waddington, and to these auditors, according to the correspondent o f the D a ily lelegraph, Marshal M a cM ahon opened his mind. H e is alleged to have said that he was tired o f this prolonged imbroglio, and that the time was to act. I f nobody could form a Ministry with a political programme, they must get one which would carry on the business o f the different departments and leave the great questions o f the day to the Assembly. H e would therefore form a M in istry himself, and so he did, .and it is a significant feature in the new A d ministration that the Prim e M inister is a General and Minister o f War— not an absolutely new thing in France as some papers have alleged, but one which we think has not been witnessed since the days o f Marshal Soult. W e must
