THE TABLET

A Weekly Newspaper and Review

WITH SUPPLEMENT.

D u m VOBIS G R A TU LAM U R , AN IM O S ET IAM ADDIM U S UT IN INCCEPTIS V E STR IS C O N S TAN TER M AN E A T IS .

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

Vol. 43. No. 1785.

L o n d o n , J u n e 27, 1874.

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[ R e g i s t e r e d 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 e w s p a p e r .

‘C h r o n i c l e o f t h e W e e k : —

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The Westminster Education Meeting.— The Story of the Fusion.— Marshal MacMahon, the Army, and the Flags.— Note of the Committee of Nine.— The Chances of a Dissolution.— The French Municipal Bill.— The Anglican Rubrics. — The Week’s Parliament.— Women’s Labour.— Election Law. — The Austrian War Ministry.—• The K ing of Bavaria and the Prussian Policy.— The “ Old-Catholics,” — The German Catholics and the Government.— The Persecution in the Jura.— The Venice Congress.— The War in Spain . . 801

CONTENTS.

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L e a d e r s :

The Anti-Monarchical Monarchists in France .. .. . . .. 805 The Coming Debate on Home

R u le ................................................805 The American Pilgrimage to Rome 806 An Italian Senator on the Pros­

pects of Italy .. . . .. 807 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C o n t e m p o r a r i e s :

American Pilgrims.— Dr. Fraser and Lord Selborne.-John Bunyan 808 P i c t u r e s :

The Royal Academy .. .. 809 R e v i e w s :

The Letter-Books of Sir Amias

Paulet .. .. .. .. 810 The Month and Catholic Review 812 S h o r t N o t i c e :

Won at Last .. .. . . . . 813

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Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 8x3 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Canon Liddon and the Popes .. 814 P a r l i a m e n t a r y I n t e l l i g e n c e .. 814 G e n e r a l N e w s ......................... 815 Rome :

Letter from our own Correspondent 817 Brief of His Holiness to the Congress'at Venice . . .. . . 820 R e c o r d o f G e r m a n P e r s e c u t io n :

Catholic Demonstrations .. .. 820 Herr von Mallinckrodt . . 820 The Bishop of Paderborn .. .. 820 Sale of Bishop Kubel’s Goods .. 820 1 “ Old-Catholic” Presumption .. 820 1 Catholic General Assembly at Mainz . . . . .. . . 820 i

D i o c e s a n N e w s :—

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Westminster .. . . .. . . 820 S o u t h w a r k .................................... 821 Beverley .. .. . . .. 821 Birmingham .. .. . . . .8 2 1 Liverpool . . .. .. .. 821 Salford .. . . .. . . 821

I r e l a n d :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent . . .. . . . . 822

F o r e ig n N ew s ;—

France

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Belgium . . . . .. . . 824 Austria . . . . .. . . 824 Bavaria .. . . . . . . 824

CHRONICLE OF THE W EEK.

the west- \ ~X 7 E have been obliged again to susm in ster V v pend our series of articles on the education * * History of Past Persecutions in conmeeting. sequence of the claims on our space possessed by the meeting in support of the Westminster Diocesan Education Fund. A full Report of the proceedings at that meeting will accordingly be found in a supplement to our present issue ; here we will merely summarize a few of the facts which His Grace the Archbishop laid before his numerous audience. In the first place, since the work was begun eight years ago, about a thousand children annually have been added to the schools of the Diocese, the attendance on inspection day at the beginning of that period having been 11,145, and being at the close of it more than 19,000. The Archbishop calculates the Catholic population of London at 200,000, and the children as not less than 33,000. There are now on the books 25,000, and of the remaining 8,000, 4,000 may be put down as children of higher classes, not educated in poor schools, and 1,200 are in Union schools; so that about 28,000 remain to be accounted for. The excess of this number over the 25,000 on the books leaves 3,000 altogether unaccounted for, and the difference between those on the books and those in actual attendance exhibits 6,300 more who have to be hunted up. This is the work which the Archbishop and his zealous clergy have set themselves to do, and exertions and sacrifices on the part of all will be necessary to enable them to do it. The Fund has lost during the year by the death of several annual benefactors, and its income will not suffice for its absolute needs without fresh assistance. The stoppage of the transfer of Catholic children from the Unions to Catholic schools entails the additional expense of providing two chaplains for the children in the Poor-Law schools at Ashford and Hanwell, an experiment about the result of which the Report declines to express an opinion. We are glad to find that the authorities of Ashford School at least have met the Catholic claims *• in a fair and kindly “ spirit and it is to be hoped that the Boards of Guardians who have not yet fulfilled their promise of providing religious instruction for the Catholic children within the walls of their schools, will be moved by that example to more equitable conduct. Still more earnestly do we hope that the prognostications of the Archbishop may be verified, and that the day will soon come “ when there is not a Cathol i c child in London but may find a Catholic school.” For many interesting details, especially respecting the infant school at Leyton House, and the industrial school at Walthamstow, we refer our readers to the report of his Grace’s speech.

New Series Vol. XI. No, 294.]

The Paris correspondent of the limes, who t h e s t o r y ¡s known t0 be in the confidence of the chiefs f u s io n .

die Right Gentre, has been publishing some curious information respecting the failure of the Monarchical Restoration in October last. The irritation of the Extreme Right at the vote on the Due de la Rochefoucauld’s motion has found expression in several bitter attacks on the Due d’Audiffret-Pasquier, accusing him of having done his best to prevent the visit of the Comte de Paris to Frohsdorff, of having worked against the fusion of the two parties, and of having been the cause of the disastrous collapse which followed the publication of the letter of the 27th October. The limes correspondent replies to these charges by a narrative which he divides under the following headings : “ Did the chiefs of the Orleanist party “ oppose the journey of the Comte de Paris to Frohsdorf, “ or did they not ? Did the Comte de Chambord, or did he “ not, lend himself with a good grace to the reconciliation “ of the two branches ? Was it, or was it not, the truth M. “ de Chesnelong spoke when he asserted that the Comte de “ Chambord accepted the maintenance of the Tricolor “ Flag?” The first question is, we think, satisfactorily answered in the negative. Before the Comte de Paris went to Vienna and Frohsdorf in August he consulted two dukes, leaders of the Right Centre party, and requested them to persuade his uncles to consent to the visit. They did so, arguing that there could not be a more propitious moment ; that the Legitimists, in consequence of a communication from the Comte de Chambord, to be mentioned presently, no longer held themselves entitled to exact the visit as the performance of the agreement made previous to the Orleans Princes, and that it would therefore be all the more meritorious and graceful, and so forth. This disposes of the alleged opposition of the leaders of the Orleanist to the fusion. But the answer to the second question is not quite so successfully supported. The limes Correspondent thinks that the Comte de Chambord did not lend himself with a good grace to the reconciliation. He grounds this opinion on a communication made by the Prince to the Comte de Paris at the time of his first visit to France after the return of the Orleans Princes. The Comte de Paris caused Henri V. to be informed of his intention to visit him, and the latter was made acquainted with the following expressions used by the younger Prince : “ It is a family visit that I pay, but it is “ well-known that in a family there is but one eldest son.” To this the Comte de Chambord replied by a request that the Comte de Paris would defer his visit ; stating that he thought it more loyal to tell him that in a few days he would have made France acquainted with the whole of his views (sapensée tonte altiere). In the meanwhile he did not think it advisable to stay any longer in Paris, and would accordingly beunable to receive the Comte de Paris there. Now