THE TABLET

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

D u m VOBIS G R A TU LAM U R , AN IM O S ETIAM ADDIMUS U T IN INCCEPTIS V E STR IS CONSTANTER M AN EA T IS .

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

Vol, 45. No. 1831. London, May 15, 1875.

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C h ro n ic le o f t h e W e e k :—

Peace and War.— Motives o f the War Party.— The Bavarian Elections.— The Influence of Russia.— End of the Panic.—Another Conspiracy.— Germany and the Belgian Note.—Attitude of the Belgian Liberals.— Public Business and “ Strangers.” — The Budget.—The Peace Preservation Bill.— Close of the Debate.— The Artisans’ Dwellings Bill.— The Wreck on the Scilly Isles.— Climbing Boys. — Crimes of Violence.— “ The Convict Castro.” Church and State in Italy.— The Bishop of Breslau.— Outlaws from Charity.— The French Assembly 609

CONTENTS.

L e a d e r s :

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The War Rumours .. . . . . 613 The Irish Education Question . . 613 Diplomatic Motives . . .. 614 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C on tem po raries :

An Anglican View of Infallibility 615 R e v iew s :

Professor Jungmann’s Dogmatic

Theology .. . . . . .. 617 The Spirit of Faith.. . . .. 618 The Quarterly Review .. .. 618 S hort N o t ic e :

C orrespondence :

Catholics and the Seamen’s Hos­

Page p ita l.. . . . . . . . . 620 Irish College Education . . . . 621 Jubilees .. .. .. .. 622 Holidays for Boys and Girls . . 622 St. Moritz .. .. .. .. 622 The Lock-out in South Wales . . 622 Distress in Monmouthshire . . 622 P a r l ia m en t a r y Summary . . 622 R ome :— Letter from our own Cor­

Extracts from Aristotle’s Works.. 619 C hurch M usic :

Vesperale Romanum .. . . 620 Motets for the Year _ .. .. 620 Grammar of Gregorian or Plain

Chant . . .. . . . . 620

respondent . . . . . . 625 Pastoral Letter o f the Cardinal

Archbishops and Bishops o f the Province of Westminster . . 626 D io ce san N ew s :—

Westminster . . .........................627

D iocesan (continued) :

Clifton Liverpool Nottingham ....................... Shrew sbury....................... I r e l a n d :

Letter from our Dublin Correspondent . .

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F oreign N ews :—

France.. Germany ....................... Italy .. . . 630 M emoranda :—

Literary . . . . . . . . 631 Gen er a l N ew s .......................... 631

C H R O N IC L E OF T H E W E E K .

THE war panic was in full operation at the beginning of this week, and was not diminished by a very sharply acidulated

■ article in the Berlin National Zeitung. This paper ■ does not make itself the direct advocate of the war party; it begins by expressing its bitter disappointment •at the shock given to its hopes of some years at least of peace. It does not profess to know for what reason the war signal has been sounded, but supposes that the Government meant that it should be sounded.

But supposing— as there seems to be too motives of muc]1 reason for believing— that a strong pres-

party. sure has been brought to bear on public opinion,

if not directly on the Emperor, with a view to getting up a war with France which it is hoped will finally cripple that country and prevent her ever becoming a danger for Germany, even the D a ily Telegraph denounces such a policy as “ inequitable, illogical, ignoble, and im“ moral.” To cut down the enemy with whom you have just made a treaty of peace, because he seems to be recovering from his wounds, is neither chivalrous nor decently honest. We were loth to believe that Prince Bismarck would brave the opinion of Europe so far as actually to make the attempt. Some indeed assigned a domestic reason for expecting that war was imminent. The elections to the Bavarian Parliament are near at hand, and it seems pretty certain that the opponents of Prince Bismarck’s policy will be in a large majority in the new Chamber. It was thought then that, if war there was to be, it would be much more convenient to force it on and have it over before a less docile Parliament and Government came into power in Bavaria.

Hew Series. V ol. X III. No. 340.

That an apprehension of such a result of bavarian the e*ection.s is very keenly felt in Bavaria elections, itself is plain from a violent and calumnious electioneering article which the P a l l M a l l Gazette has extracted from a Liberal Wurzburg paper. In this intemperate production Bavaria is said to be in similar condition to that of the conquered provinces of ancient Rome, for “ the Nuncio is as independent of the laws as “ any prefect could be,” and the priest of every village has absolute control over the elections. “ Nor is it the lower “ class alone that thus follows with fear and trembling “ the commands of Rome. As in the time of Herman the “ Cheruscan ”— the writer has evidently an unusually keen scent for historical parallels— “ a portion of the old nobility “ have conspired against their own flesh and blood, each wish“ ing to be King of the country even as a vassal of Rome.” The nation is throwing itself “ into the arms of a foreign “ Italian ruler,” “ makes itself the slave of a foreign “ tyrant,” “ sends millions abroad instead of supporting “ its own schools and hospitals and displays, in short, “ a mockery of self-government,” which “ almost makes one “ think that the Bavarians are not more fitted for liberal “ institutions than Russians or Turks.” All this means that the Bavarians are Catholics, and do not wish to see the spiritual government of their Church and their communion with the Holy See interfered with. The foreign tyrant whose despotism so much resembles that of the ancient Roman Empire is the Pope, who has such a formidable temporal resource at his disposal that it would appear that he is about to assume the sovereignty over Bavaria; his “ tyranny ” we suppose consisting in his protests against the persecution; for that is about the amount of his intervention in German affairs. But all this dishonest balderdash proves that the partisans of the Bismarck policy are seriously alarmed about their prospects in Bavaria.

But Russia holds the key of the situation ;

the influence first, because of her long friendship with and of Russia. influence over Prussia; secondly, because it is to her that Germany must look for the pro­

tection of her rear; and thirdly, because one of the three Emperors who have leagued themselves to keep the peace of Europe can scarcely break that peace with decency if both the others are of opinion that it is a wanton aggression which he is committing. And it cannot be without authority that the Nord indignantly denies the possibility of Russia being bought over by any offer of aggrandizement in the East. “ Not only,” says the Russo-Belgium organ, “ would “ Russia repel any such temptations, but they would not “ even be placed before her, because to do so would be to “ offer her an insult. After the loyal policy pursued by her “ for the last twenty years Russia will never make the ques ^