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I )U M VOBIS G R A TU LAM U R , AN IM O S ET IAM ADDIMUS U T IN INCCEPTIS V E STR IS CON STAN TER M AN EA T IS .

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

Vol. 44. No. 1790. L o n d o n , A u g u s t i , 1874.

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

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The French Assembly.— Disolution or Prorogation.— Explanations.— The Carlists and France.— Germany and Spain.— Resuscitated Canards.— Spanish Recriminations.— Withdrawal of Bills.— The Public Worship Bill.— Its Probable Effects.— The Irish Coercion Acts.— Monastic Institutions.— The India Councils Bill.— The Fiji Islands.— The failure of the Labourers’ movemet.— The Brussels Congress.— The English Martyrs. — Case o f the Abbe Benard.— The Escape of Rochefort and his 'Companions .. .. .. . . 1 2 9

C O N T ENTS

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L e a d e r s :

Secularization of Trinity College,

Dublin ..

Germany and Spain * .. 133 Pauperism in Ireland . . _ 134 The Reform of Church Music in

Germany.— II .. . . •• 135 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C on tem po raries :

Spiritual and Temporal . . . . 1 3 6 R e v ie w s :

The Pillars of the House .. . . 138 Meditations of the Sisters of

Mercy before Renewal of Vows 139 Life and Doctrine o f St. Catherine of G e n o a ....................................... *39 S hort N otices :

Handbook for Australia and New

Zealand .. .. • • •• *39 The Strawcutter’s Daughter . . 139

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| Saint Peter at Rome .. . . 140

Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 140 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

“ Anglican Ultramontanes ” .. 140 i The Church of the Servite Fathers 140

The Mission at Great Grimsby . . 141 P a r l ia m en t a r y I n tellig en ce . . 141 R ome :

Letter from our own Cor­

respondent .. .. .. 145 Saint Boniface, Apostle o f Ger­

many ; and St. Justin, Martyr 146 R ecord of G erman P er secution :

Ladies’ Address to the Bishop of

Münster .. . . . . .. 146 The Kullmann Affair . . . . 140

D io ce san N ew s :—

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Westminster .. . . . . . . 147 Southwark . . . . . . . . 147 Beverley .. . . . . . . 147 I r e l a n d :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent .. . . . . . . 147 Consecration of the Cathedral,

Sligo .. . . . . . . 148 F oreign N ews :—

Germany . . .. . . .. 149 Austria.— Bavaria . . . . .. 150 Spain .. .. .. . . 150 Brazil . . .. .. . . 150 United States . . . . . . 151 M em oranda :—

Religious .. .. . . . . 151 Educational .. . . . . . . 1 5 1 G en er a l N ew s . . . . . . 152

C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .

ASSEMBLY. T

TH E FRENCH

H E French Assembly has decided that it can do nothing, and has made up its mind to break up for the holidays.

On Thursday week it rejected M. Casimir-Périer’s scheme, the main feature of which was the proclamation of the Republic, by 374 votes to 333. The principal incidents of the debate were speeches o f the Duc de Broglie and of ■ General de Cissey, the present Prime Minister. The Due de Broglie was strong against the Republic and in favour o f Monarchy ; and his speech may possibly help to heal some of the breaches in the majority, as he was much applauded by the Right. He advocated the maintenance o f the provisional régime, trusting to the loyalty o f the Marshal for protection from the dictatorship which was so much feared. General de Cissey, reading from a written paper, pronounced against the Casimir-Périer Bill, as the Marshal had already done privately in an interview with the Target group of deputies— stating that he conceived the proclamation of the Republic to be as inconsistent with the Septennate as the proclamation of the Monarchy would be. General de Cissey added, that what the Government expected from the Assembly was the organization of the Government for the seven years ; namely, “ a law creating an Upper Chamber, a law conferring on the Marshal the right of dissolution, and an electoral law.

The Republican scheme being rejected, M.

DIoSRLpRoION ^ on de Malleville immediately moved the rogation, dissolution of the Assembly, and urgency being demanded for the motion, it was refused by a majority of 29— 369 to 340. It was accordingly referred in the natural course to one o f the Committees o f Parliamentary Initiative. Then M. de Castellane put into words what a great many people were thinking, and suggested that, instead of dissolving, the Assembly should prorogue. This elicited a fresh motion for dissolution from M. Raoul Duval, who has recently broken with the Monarchists, and this was referred to another Committee of Parliamentary Initiative. Each of these two Committees, the majority of which happen to be Republican, reported in favour o f the motions, and when the first report was read, an attempt was made by M. Max Richard, the reporter of the other, to keep his report back, so to reserve materialforasecond debate, i f the first should prove unsatisfactory. The Assembly however would not stand this, and the debate on both motions was fixed for Wednesday. In the meantime, General Changarnier had been working hard in favour of the prorogation, and General Chabaud-Latour had stated on Friday that Government had ceased to hope for the passing of the Constitutional Bills, and would therefore defer to the wish for a prorogation, on the express condition that a vote should

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be taken on those Bills immediately after the re-assembling of the Chamber. There could, therefore, no longer be any doubt as to the result. The Assembly was only too glad not to be forced to pronounce on M. Ventavon’s report for the present, and on Wednesday, after speeches from M. Raoul Duval in favour of dissolution, and from M. Lorgeril and M. Depeyre against it, the Assembly refused to hear M. Jules Simon, and negatived M. de Malleville’s motion by 373 votes to 332. M. Raoul Duval’s motion was then withdrawn. The formal proposal for prorogation is made by M. Malartre, and the date chosen by him for the reassembling of the Legislature is the 5th of January, but it is generally felt that this would be too long a recess, and the day likely to be fixed is the 28th or 30th of November.

A t the nomination o f the Committee to report on the motion for prorogation, certain explanations passed between the Government and the Due de Bisaccia, representing the Extreme Right. Asked by M. Brisson, a Republican, whether during the recess attempts at a Monarchical restoration would be permitted, General Chabaud-Latour replied, that the Government would energetically maintain the Septennate and the powers of the Marshal against all attacks. The Due de Bisaccia thereupon observed that the Legitimists, like all other parties, had rights, and that he could not accept the Minister’s statement without reserve. The General replied that he perfectly understood the meaning of the reservation, which was that the Legitimists considered themselves free to defend their opinions whenever the Constitutional Bills were discussed by the Committee of Thirty or the Assembly. That, said the Duke, with all due respect for the Septennate, was his meaning. The Republicans then tried to obtain an answer to the question whether they might agitate for the appointment o f M. Thiers or M. Grevy as President o f the Republic, but failed in getting anything more out o f the Minister.

Lord Russell’s question whether any enquiry the carlists iiacj been ma(j e ¿nt0 the assistance alleged to be given by the French authorities to the Car-

lists, and whether any remonstrance had been addressed by our Government to France, was, o f course, merely intended as a text on which to hang an expression of opinion. Lord Derby was able to reply that he had received no complaint from the Spanish Government on the subject, and that as England was not concerned in the matter, any interference o f hers would be, in the popular as well as the diplomatic sense, officious; Lord Granville agreed, and stated that the accounts of the facts varied very much as they came from the French or the Spanish side. The Spaniards affirmed that assistance was given to the Carlists, the French said it was n o t ; 01 if any was given, it was contrary to instructions and o f a nature which it was difficult to prevent. It is now said that, in con-