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D u m VOBIS G R A TU LAM U R , AN IM O S ET I AM ADDIM U S U T IN INCGEPTIS V E STR IS CONST AN TER M AN EA T IS .

From the Brief oj His Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.

Vol. 43. No. 1784.

L o n d o n , J u n e 2 0 , 1874.

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[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.

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

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Defeat of the French Monarchists, — Victory of the Left Centre.— The Due de BisacciaV Motion.— Re■ ■ fiignation.-Parliamentary Courtesy. — The Incidents at the St. Lazare Station.— Challenges and Suspension of Newspapers.— The “ Interpellation” Debate.—The Municipal Bill.— The 16th and 21st of jjrine.— Mr. Newdegate’s Motion. — Mr. Hardy’s Reply,— The Division.— The “ Times ” on the Vote. —And the “ Pall Mall Gazette.”— The Public Worship Bill.— Election Petitions.-The North Durham and the Galway Judgments.—The Westminster Education Fund.— The German Empire, &c. . . 769

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The Situation in France . . . . 773 Irish Fisheries .. . . . . 773 The Irish College of Santa Maria in Posterola . . .. .. 774 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C o n t e m po r a r ie s :

The Chaos of Anglicanism . . 775 P ic tu r e s :

The Royal Academy . . . . 776 R e v ie w s :

Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque 777 The Contemporary Review . . 778 Joannis Coleti Enarratio . . .. 779 Higher Schools and Universities in Germany .. . . . . 779 The English Peasantry . . .. 780 S hort N otices :

Lyrics from a Country Lane .. 780 Monseigneur Mermillod on the

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Supernatural Life . . . . 780 Dame Dolores and other Tales .. 781 The Child of Mary .. .. .. 781 A Hand-book of Travel-Talk .. 781 Twelve Scotch Songs .. .. 781 Verses for Children, &c. .. .. 781 Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 781 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Neutral Christianity . . .. 781 The 0 Timrs ” on the American

Pilgrimage.. , . .. . . 782 St. Peter, Non-Roman . . .. 782 Miniature Painting .. .. 782 P a r l ia m en t a r y I n t e l l ig en c e .. 782 R ome :

Letter from our own Correspondent 785 Peter’s Pence .. .. . . 787 R ecord of G erman P er secution :

The Bishop of Limburg . . .. 787

Posen and Paderborn

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Catholic Meeting at Treves . . 788 Liability in Wurtemburg . . . . 788 D io c e sa n N ew s :—

Westminster..

Southwark

Beverley

Birmingham ..

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Scotland—Western District . . 789 I r e l a n d :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent . . ......................... 789 F oreign N ews :—

Germany.— Austria .. . . .. 790 Brazil.. . . . . . . . . 791 M em o r a n d a :— Religious . . . . 7 9 1

Educational .. . . . . . . 792 Cricket .. . . . . . . 792 Gen e r a l N ews . . . . . . 792

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

TH E French Monarchists have allowed their hand to be forced, and the effect m o n a r c h i s t s . has been disastrous to their cause. The success of a motion attributing urgency to in consequence of three members who voted— General de Cissey being one— having been counted amongst the abstentions, and also in consequence o f the votes o f seven members absent on leave having been recorded, was overruled by M. Buffet.

The effect o f the vote was of course not to t h e Due d e procia;m the Republic, but to empower the

M. Casimir Pdrier’s Bill, which definitely proclaims the R e public, though a power o f reviving the constitution is reserved, seems to have convinced the Right that they would be giving up their case if they did not submit a Monarchical counter-motion to the Assembly. Such a motion was, as we have said before, certain to be defeated, and it has been defeated, and no other motive besides that which we have ju st suggested can explain so imprudent a step as that taken by the Due de la Rochefoucauld-Bisaccia. But we must first return to the Left Centre motion which led up to it.

This motion, introduced by M. Casimir

V1CT°he ° F Berier, proposes the definitive organization of l e f t c i n t r e . t'le Republic, under the Presidency of Marshal

MacMahon; a power, as we have said, being reserved to the Assembly to revise the Constitution after a fresh appeal to the constituencies. The Bill was supported by the whole Left and Left Centre, and its success depended on the number o f adherents which could be obtained from the Right Centre also. The Due d’Audiffret-Pasquier, the President o f that section, warmly supported it, though eventually he abstained from voting, but on Monday morning 120 members o f the Right Centre deliberated on a counter-motion calling on the Chamber to organize the Septennate. They could not agree, and it was at last decided that M. Lambert de Ste. Croix should make the motion on his own responsibility. An attempt was made in the Cabinet, especially by General de Cissey, to induce Marshal MacMahon himself to back up this motion by a message, but the idea was given up as compromising the President too much. When M. Casimir Perier, then, had demanded urgency for his bill, M. L. de Ste. Croix moved that the Marshal’s powers should be confirmed, with the title o f President of the Republic; that a second Chamber should be organized, and that a power o f dissolving the Lower Chamber should be conferred on it conjointly with the President. The vote was then taken by ballot on the urgency of M. Perier’s motion. About twenty-four of the Right Centre voted for it, and the consequence was that it was carried against the Right, the rest o f the Right Centre, and the Bonapartists, by a majority o f four, 345 being for it, and 341 against i t ; but as the absolute majority requisite was 344, it was in effect carried only by a majority of one. The Bill was then referred to the Committee o f Thirty, together with M. L. de Ste Croix’s motion. An attempt made the next day to annul the vote m o t io n . Committee to draw up a project of law in that sense; but the victory of Republican princi­

ples involved in it was sufficient to induce the Due de la Rochefoucauld-Bisaccia to propose the following motion : “ 1. The Government of France is a Monarchy, having at “ its head the Chief of the House o f France. 2. Marshal “ MacMahon is appointed Lieutenant-General o f the King“ dom. 3. The Monarchical institutions shall be settled “ between the Nation and the K in g.” This motion, after a first division by rising and sitting, was rejected at the ballot by a majority o f about sixty, and was shelved by being referred in the ordinary course to the Committee o f Parliamentary Initiative. The inevitable result o f this unfortunate attempt is that the Monarchical solution is definitely put aside for the present.

A violent remonstrance against such a motion r e s ig n a t io n , ^eing made by the French Ambassador in London was threatened, but was stopped by the announcement that the Due de la Rochefoucauld-Bisaccia had resigned his post after the division, and that his resignation had been accepted. It is much to be regretted that the prominent part in home politics taken by French diplomatists necessitates such frequent changes in the representation of the country at foreign Courts. The system is a bad one, and a nation cannot be properly served abroad if its ambassadors do not remain long enough at their posts to acquire a thorough knowledge of the business to be transacted with the country to which they are accredited, and of its leading statesmen. The changes at Albert Gate have been unusually rapid and numerous o f late, and the Due de la Rochefoucauld will be especially regretted in London, as he has been the first, after a long interval, to resume the splendid hospitalities for which the French Embassy used to be distinguished.

The events o f the last week in France have pARLiA- afforded ample proof, if proof were needed, o f c o u r t e s y , t'ie necessity of those rules o f Parliamentary decorum, in enforcing which the Speaker o f the

British House of Commons receives an unmeasured and unconditional support, both from the House itself, and from the public opinion of the country. I f M. Gambetta had not sinned outrageously against the courtesies o f debate, there would have been none of the disgraceful street rows, equally disgraceful newspaper articles, or the general smell

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