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THE TABLET A IVeekly Newspaper and Review. D u m V O B IS G R A T U L A M U R , A N IM O S E T IA M ADD IM U S U T IN IN CCEPTIS V E S T R I S C O N S T A N T E R M A N E A T I S . Froi?i the B rief of H is Holiness to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870. Vol. 45. No. 1817. L o n d o n , F e b r u a r y 6 , 1875. P rice 3d. By Post 5 % d. [R egistered a t the General Post O ffice as a N ewspaper. C hronicle of the W eek Page The Leadership of the Opposition.— The French Constitutional Debate.— Rejection of M . Laboulaye’s Amendment.— M. Wallon’s Amendment. — Clauses Passed.— The President and the ■ Command o f the Army.— The Right o f Dissolution.— Virtual End of the Crisis.— The Right of Revision.— Vote of the Third Reading.— The Senate.--The Civil W ar in Spain.— Relief of Pamplona.— The War in Cuba.— The “ Daily Telegraph” and the Prussian Courts.— Ecclesiastical Legislation. —The Politics of Disestablishment.— Sacerdotalism. “ Anachronism,” &c., &c. .. 161 CONTENTS. L e a d e r s : _ ' The Archbishop o f Westminster Page on the Vatican Decrees.. .. 165 The New Spoliation Bills in Prussia .. .. . . . . 165 Garibaldi’s Entry into Rome .. 166 O ur Protestant Contemporaries : Promising Converts . . . . 167 R eviews : Quarterly Review . . . . . . 169 The Communistic Societies of th-- United States . . .. 17° A Theory About Sin in Relation C orrespondence : Grammar Schools— The Need of Them ....................................173 Nomenclature The Bishop of Birmingham am the “ Dublin Review ” .. Pagan and Christian Classics French Royalists .. The Appeal from Bayswater The Fathers of Charity in Centra London and the Church of St Etheldreda R ome :— Letter from our own C01 Page US to Some Facts of Daily Life . . 171 Days near Rome .. .. .. 171 Readings from the Old Testament 172 Short N otices : Afternoons with the Saints . . 172 Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 173 respondent Peter’s Pence D iocesan N ews :— Westminster . . Young Men’s Catholic Associa tion .. 179 179 D iocesan (continued) : Southwark.— Convent of the Faith­ Page ful Virgin, Norwood . . . . 179 Liverpool . . . . . . . . x8o I reland : Letter from our Dublin Corre­ spondent .. .......................... 180 Foreign N ews :— France ' . . . . . . . . i8x Austria . . . . . . . . 182 Germany . . . . . . . . 182 Memoranda :— Religious . . .......................... 183 St. Joseph’s Foreign Missionary College, Mill Hill . . . . 1 8 3 Educational . . . . . . . . 184 General N ews .. .. .. 184 CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK. THE LEADERSHIP OF THE OPPOSITION. T H E election o f a leader of the Liberal party in the House o f Commons was reduced to a mere formality by the letter from Mr. Forster to Mr. Adam, which we print elsewhere. It was already a moral certainty that th e choice would fall upon Lord Hartington, but when Mr. Forster had declared his conviction that he could not himself count on the general support o f the party, and that he, therefore, would not accept the post, even i f a vote were in his favour, there was but one possible candidate. So Mr. Bright was on Wednesday moved into the chair in the smoking-room at the Reform Club, and first Mr. Whitbread moved and Professor Fawcett seconded an acknowledgment -of Mr. Gladstone’s services to the party and the country; and then Mr. Villiers moved, Mr. Morley seconding the motion, that Lord Hartington should be leader in the Commons, which was carried. The Home Rulers, or some o f them, ■ were invited, but declined to a tten d ; Mr. Butt stating in reply that he and his friends intended to act independently ■ ofany party. We wonder whether Lord Cardwell regrets his removal to a serener sphere. H e would unquestionably have succeeded to Mr. Gladstone’s place in the Commons, but any annoyance which he might feel at having missed a prize which is the highest object o f a politician’s ambition ought to be greatly mitigated by a contemplation o f the condition of the party which he would have had to lead. There can be no plainer proof o f its disorganization than this elec­ tion ; necessitated as it was by Lord Granville’s prudent refusal to name a lieutenant in the House of Commons. He could not calculate upon any leader being followed, unless it were one whom the discordant fractions o f the party expressly agreed to recognize. •* THE FRENCH CONSTITU­ TIONAL DEBATE. The second debate on M. de Ventavon’s Constitutional Bill began on Thursday' the 28th, and, according to the French usage, the amendments were taken first. O f these the first, and apparently the most important, was “ the Republic,” and what additional information is conveyed by talking of a Republic with a President is beyond our powers to conceive. The fact is that beneath an utterly meaningless conflict of words was veiled a real struggle oí parties, and that the additional affirmation o f the Republic would be accepted as a victory o f the Republican party, and generally understood to mean something, whereas the previous mention of the Republic was for some mysterious reason supposed to mean nothing. According to M. Laboulaye and his friends, although the Constitution remained open to revision in 1880, the adoption o f his amendment would convert a de fa c to into a de j u r e Republic during the interval. His tone was eminently conciliatory, and, alluding probably to M. Jules Favre’s speech, he deprecated “ breaking into tombs in quest o f corpses for mem“ bers to throw at each other’s heads.” After stating the reasons why he considered any other form o f Government impossible, he enumerated the merits o f the Republic. I t had not upset the law o f property, for it had restored to the Orleans Princes their estates which the Empire had confiscated. Nor was it productive o f disorder ; on the contrary, it had put down the Commune. Nor was it dangerous to the sanctity o f family ties, for it had rejected the law o f divorce. Nor was it hostile to religion, for whereas there was at present in Europe “ a monomania for persecuting “ Catholics, even in a land o f traditional liberty,” where “ the military were called out to enforce persecution,” the victims o f this persecution found a refuge in Republican France. The speaker’s moderation and evident conviction had a great effect on the House, and the Republicans were very near carrying their point, when M. Louis Blanc got into the tribune and spoke against the amendment— to the great disgust o f his party in general— on the ground that a Second Chamber would be fatal to the Republic. He would prefer a single Assembly, and a Directory instead o f a single President. The only effect o f his speech was to undo what M. Laboulaye had done, and to enable the Right, some o f whose members were absent, to get the vote put off till the next day. the one introduced by M. Laboulaye, the object of which was to substitute fof the firs,t clause the first clause o f M. Dufaure’s Bill. \T f te li%i|would have commenced thus :— “ The GovernmenPof the FrencffiR^public Consists o f two “ Chambers and* a President.” whole virtue o f the proposal consisted in the first w o r d s A ^ k ^ Sefc^ament of “ the Frerf^h tA public,” and M. Laboul^ i^m ade a very able speech in its favour; though anybody who thinks about itfor two minutes muatackijowledge thatthe desiredch^fee of wording was, in realty, the most futile and the mos^%uperfluous thing imaginable. . A s we havdoften said, the existing law and the proposed Bill both speak o f “ the President o f New Series. V ol, X III . No. 326. 1 Ï f On Friday the vote was taken by the lengthy ™ ° oNüOF Process ° f each Deputy balloting at the tri- laye’s bune, a system adopted in very important diame.ndment. visions in order to prevent the votes of absent members being deposited in the urns by their friends. M. Louis Blanc and four “ incorruptibles” who agreed with him, having been well lectured in the interval by the Republican papers, came up in a body and voted for the , amendment which they were for opposing the day before, at which the Right laughed, and the Left fell on their necks and kissed them. But the amendment was lost by 359 votes to 335— a majority o f 24. >1 0 * • à

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THE TABLET

A IVeekly Newspaper and Review.

D u m V O B IS G R A T U L A M U R , A N IM O S E T IA M ADD IM U S U T IN IN CCEPTIS V E S T R I S C O N S T A N T E R M A N E A T I S .

Froi?i the B rief of H is Holiness to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870.

Vol. 45. No. 1817. L o n d o n , F e b r u a r y 6 , 1875.

P rice 3d. By Post 5 % d.

[R egistered a t the General Post O ffice as a N ewspaper.

C hronicle of the W eek

Page

The Leadership of the Opposition.— The French Constitutional Debate.— Rejection of M . Laboulaye’s Amendment.— M. Wallon’s Amendment. — Clauses Passed.— The President and the ■ Command o f the Army.— The Right o f Dissolution.— Virtual End of the Crisis.— The Right of Revision.— Vote of the Third Reading.— The Senate.--The Civil W ar in Spain.— Relief of Pamplona.— The War in Cuba.— The “ Daily Telegraph” and the Prussian Courts.— Ecclesiastical Legislation. —The Politics of Disestablishment.— Sacerdotalism.

“ Anachronism,” &c., &c. .. 161

CONTENTS.

L e a d e r s :

_ '

The Archbishop o f Westminster

Page on the Vatican Decrees.. .. 165 The New Spoliation Bills in

Prussia .. .. . . . . 165 Garibaldi’s Entry into Rome .. 166 O ur Protestant Contemporaries :

Promising Converts . . . . 167 R eviews :

Quarterly Review . . . . . . 169 The Communistic Societies of th--

United States . . .. 17° A Theory About Sin in Relation

C orrespondence :

Grammar Schools— The Need of

Them ....................................173 Nomenclature The Bishop of Birmingham am the “ Dublin Review ” .. Pagan and Christian Classics French Royalists .. The Appeal from Bayswater The Fathers of Charity in Centra

London and the Church of St Etheldreda R ome :— Letter from our own C01

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to Some Facts of Daily Life . . 171 Days near Rome .. .. .. 171 Readings from the Old Testament 172 Short N otices :

Afternoons with the Saints . . 172 Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 173

respondent Peter’s Pence D iocesan N ews :—

Westminster . . Young Men’s Catholic Associa tion ..

179 179

D iocesan (continued) :

Southwark.— Convent of the Faith­

Page ful Virgin, Norwood . . . . 179 Liverpool . . . . . . . . x8o I reland :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent .. .......................... 180 Foreign N ews :—

France ' . . . . . . . . i8x Austria . . . . . . . . 182 Germany . . . . . . . . 182 Memoranda :—

Religious . . .......................... 183 St. Joseph’s Foreign Missionary

College, Mill Hill . . . . 1 8 3 Educational . . . . . . . . 184 General N ews .. .. .. 184

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

THE LEADERSHIP OF THE OPPOSITION. T

H E election o f a leader of the Liberal party in the House o f Commons was reduced to a mere formality by the letter from Mr. Forster to Mr. Adam, which we print elsewhere. It was already a moral certainty that th e choice would fall upon Lord Hartington, but when Mr. Forster had declared his conviction that he could not himself count on the general support o f the party, and that he, therefore, would not accept the post, even i f a vote were in his favour, there was but one possible candidate. So Mr. Bright was on Wednesday moved into the chair in the smoking-room at the Reform Club, and first Mr. Whitbread moved and Professor Fawcett seconded an acknowledgment -of Mr. Gladstone’s services to the party and the country; and then Mr. Villiers moved, Mr. Morley seconding the motion, that Lord Hartington should be leader in the Commons, which was carried. The Home Rulers, or some o f them, ■ were invited, but declined to a tten d ; Mr. Butt stating in reply that he and his friends intended to act independently ■ ofany party. We wonder whether Lord Cardwell regrets his removal to a serener sphere. H e would unquestionably have succeeded to Mr. Gladstone’s place in the Commons, but any annoyance which he might feel at having missed a prize which is the highest object o f a politician’s ambition ought to be greatly mitigated by a contemplation o f the condition of the party which he would have had to lead. There can be no plainer proof o f its disorganization than this elec­

tion ; necessitated as it was by Lord Granville’s prudent refusal to name a lieutenant in the House of Commons. He could not calculate upon any leader being followed, unless it were one whom the discordant fractions o f the party expressly agreed to recognize. •*

THE FRENCH CONSTITU­

TIONAL DEBATE.

The second debate on M. de Ventavon’s Constitutional Bill began on Thursday' the 28th, and, according to the French usage, the amendments were taken first. O f these the first, and apparently the most important, was

“ the Republic,” and what additional information is conveyed by talking of a Republic with a President is beyond our powers to conceive. The fact is that beneath an utterly meaningless conflict of words was veiled a real struggle oí parties, and that the additional affirmation o f the Republic would be accepted as a victory o f the Republican party, and generally understood to mean something, whereas the previous mention of the Republic was for some mysterious reason supposed to mean nothing. According to M. Laboulaye and his friends, although the Constitution remained open to revision in 1880, the adoption o f his amendment would convert a de fa c to into a de j u r e Republic during the interval. His tone was eminently conciliatory, and, alluding probably to M. Jules Favre’s speech, he deprecated “ breaking into tombs in quest o f corpses for mem“ bers to throw at each other’s heads.” After stating the reasons why he considered any other form o f Government impossible, he enumerated the merits o f the Republic. I t had not upset the law o f property, for it had restored to the Orleans Princes their estates which the Empire had confiscated. Nor was it productive o f disorder ; on the contrary, it had put down the Commune. Nor was it dangerous to the sanctity o f family ties, for it had rejected the law o f divorce. Nor was it hostile to religion, for whereas there was at present in Europe “ a monomania for persecuting “ Catholics, even in a land o f traditional liberty,” where “ the military were called out to enforce persecution,” the victims o f this persecution found a refuge in Republican France. The speaker’s moderation and evident conviction had a great effect on the House, and the Republicans were very near carrying their point, when M. Louis Blanc got into the tribune and spoke against the amendment— to the great disgust o f his party in general— on the ground that a Second Chamber would be fatal to the Republic. He would prefer a single Assembly, and a Directory instead o f a single President. The only effect o f his speech was to undo what M. Laboulaye had done, and to enable the Right, some o f whose members were absent, to get the vote put off till the next day.

the one introduced by M. Laboulaye, the object of which was to substitute fof the firs,t clause the first clause o f M. Dufaure’s Bill. \T f te li%i|would have commenced thus :— “ The GovernmenPof the FrencffiR^public Consists o f two “ Chambers and* a President.” whole virtue o f the proposal consisted in the first w o r d s A ^ k ^ Sefc^ament of “ the Frerf^h tA public,” and M. Laboul^ i^m ade a very able speech in its favour; though anybody who thinks about itfor two minutes muatackijowledge thatthe desiredch^fee of wording was, in realty, the most futile and the mos^%uperfluous thing imaginable. . A s we havdoften said, the existing law and the proposed Bill both speak o f “ the President o f

New Series. V ol, X III . No. 326.

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f On Friday the vote was taken by the lengthy ™ ° oNüOF Process ° f each Deputy balloting at the tri-

laye’s bune, a system adopted in very important diame.ndment. visions in order to prevent the votes of absent members being deposited in the urns by their friends. M. Louis Blanc and four “ incorruptibles” who agreed with him, having been well lectured in the interval by the Republican papers, came up in a body and voted for the , amendment which they were for opposing the day before, at which the Right laughed, and the Left fell on their necks and kissed them. But the amendment was lost by 359 votes to 335— a majority o f 24.

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