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From the Brief of His Holiness to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870,'

Vol. 44. No. 1794. L ondon, A u g u s t 29, 1874.

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C hronicle of th e W e e k : —

The “ Times” on Catholic Liber•ties.— Political Judgments of the Holy See.—The Recognition of the Spanish Government.— France and Spain.—The Last Massacre.-The Carlists’ Apology for it.—The Carlist Circular. -Tristany’s Operations.— Marshal Bazaine’s Story.— The Right of Signature.— The Marseilles Arrests.— Newspapers and Photographs.— The Persecution in Tongking.—The Maine-etLoire Election. — The Brussels «Congress.— The Cost of War.— The Next Presidential Election.— Royal Visitors .. .. .. 257

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L e a d e r s :

The Synodal Letter on Higher

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Education in England .. .. 261 The Dogmatism of a Materialist.. 262 Queen’s College, Cork.— II .. 262 The Sale of the Propaganda Pro­

perty .. .. ... .. 264 British and Irish Pilgrimages in the Olden Time.— I .. .. 265 O ur P rotestant C ontemporaries :

Catholic Powers and “ New

Ideas.” .. .. .. .. 266 R eview s :

The Lives of St. Veronica Giuliani and Blessed Battista Varani .. 268 The Sisters Lawless.. .. .. 269 Verses on Various Occasions .. 270 Short N otice :

The Life of St. Edmund of Can­

terbury .. .. .. .. 270

E N T S .

C orrespondence :

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Spoliation of the Propaganda .. 271 Bishop Milner’s Grave .. .. 271 Measures of Catholic Progress .. 271 R ome :

Letter from our own Cor­

respondent .. .. .. 273 Peter’s Pence .. .. .. 274 R ecord of G erman P ersecution ;

The Priest Leusch again .. .. 274 Participation in “ Crime” .. 274 Indirect Kidnapping .. .. 274 Mistake or Lie ? .. .. .. 274 Bismarck’s Majority .. .. 275 D io cesan N ews :—

Synodal Letter of the Archbishop and Bishops of the Province of Westminster Assembled.. .. 275

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Westminster .. . . .. .. 277 Southwark .. .. .. .. 279 Beverley .. .. .. .. 279 Liverpool .. .. .. .. 279 Plymouth .. .. .. .. 279 Salford .. .. .. .. 279 I reland :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent .. .. . . .. 279 Foreign N ews :—

Prussia .. .. .. .. 280 Austria .. .. .. .. 280 Memoranda :—

Religious .. .. .. .. 281 Educational .. .. .. .. 281 Literary .. .. .. .. 281 General N ews ........................... 282

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

WE publish elsewhere a letter from the

Archbishop o f Westminster to the catholic lim e s , in answer to the comments o f liberties, that paper on his G race’s sermon about the P i l­

grim age to Pontigny. T o this letter the Times replies, that i f the liberty possessed at this day by the C a th o lic Church in England, with the loss o f endowments and revenues, “ is the liberty the Roman Catholics want, they “ may no doubt have it at once, not merely in England, but “ in Germany, in Italy, in France, and in Spain.” What St. Edm und and his contemporaries demanded, says the lim es, “ was to use national authority and national funds in the

POLITICAL JUDGMENTS OF THE HOLY

SEE.

T h e lim e s also travesties history in the usual manner. I t is not the fact that either Pius IX . or Innocent I I I . ever asserted or hinted that “ all form was form less, order orderless, but “ that which was subm itted to their control.”

From these and sim ilar expressions one would be inclined j o infer that the Popes were always thrusting themselves into domestic and in ternational disputes ; the real fact being that th ey never volunteered such a decision. W hat Pope ever claim ed the right to arrange the constitution o f any European State ? D id any Pope ever interfere in such arrangement unless appealed to by either or both the contending parties ? Innocent I I I . expressly declared on one occasion :— “ We do not arrogate to ourselves the right o f “ judgm ent as to the fen dum ; that belongs to the K in g o f “ F rance.” In the case o f the disputes betw een John and the barons both parties had appealed to him. T h e barons to ld the Pope that John had not becom e a vassal o f the H o ly See o f his own free will, bul under compulsion from them , and they asked, therefore, for a decision in their favour upon the points at issue between them and their sovereign. But then, almost immediately, without waiting for the decision which they them selves had called for, the majority o f barons took up arms, and extorted the Great Charter from John. T h is conduct it was that brought down upon them, and, for the moment, on their cause, the condemnation o f the Pope. T h e liberties o f Englishmen, however, were so far from being condemned, that the G reat Charter was confirm ed by Innocent’s own legate, who proclaim ed sentence o f excommunication against all violators o f it. T h is was a sentence which had been invoked, and not a spontaneous in tervention in the internal affairs o f England.

T h e approaching recognition o f the Spanish the recog- Governm ent was o f course not a llow ed to pass the Spanish without remonstrances, o f which the D u e de government. B isaccia was the mouthpiece. T h e position taken up by the D ue Decazes was th is— that

France would not have accorded an isolated recognition to the Serrano Government, but that to hold a loof from a collective recognition would have looked like an act o f hostility. This, however, is what Russia has done. She declines to jo in in the recognition, and M. Dahirel, the Legitim ist D eputy for Morbihan, has written to the Union arguing that the recognition o f a foreign Power is a sovereign act, which the Governm ent has no right to perform without consulting the Assem b ly , and expressing his conviction that no previous Governm ent would have ventured to take such a step on its own responsibility. T h e Governm ent, he observed, which it was proposed to recognize was the offspring “ not so much o f a coup d ’R at as “ o f a coup de main.’' T h e recognition by the Austro-H ungarian Governm ent has been officially announced at V ienna, and notified at Madrid ; the Spanish M in ister has been invited to present his credentials, and Count Ludolf is on his w ay to Spain. Sweden also has signified its in tention to recognize Marshal Serrano’s Government. T h e other Powers do not seem to have executed any form al act o f recognition, and

New Series V ol. X II. No. 303.