THE TABLET

A IVeekly Newspaper and Review

D um v o b i s g r a t u l a m u r , a n im o s e t i a m a d d im u s u t i n in c c e p t i s 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 .

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

Vol. 45. No. 1829. L ondon, May i , 1875.

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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 st O f f i c e a s a N ew spaper.

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

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The German and English Episcopates.— France and Germany.— The German Press on Belgium -and Italy.— Church Legislation in I ta ly .— Rome and Germany.— The Persecution.— Complete Re­

ligious Freedom.— The Peace Preservation Bill.-Reporters in the ./House.— Exclusion o f Strangers. — The Judicature Bill.— Dr. Kenealy’s Motion.— Contradictions. — The Deposition o f the Guikwar. The French Radicals and the New Republic.— Monastic and ■ Conventual Institutions . . .. 545

C O N T

L e a d e r s :

Freedom of Speech and Diplo­

Page macy ....................................... 549 Pending Irish Educational

C h a n g e s ....................................... 549 Beautiful Language.. . . .. 550 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C o n t em po r a r ie s :

The Wisdom of the World . . 551 R e v ie w s :

Green’s History o f the English

People ....................................... 553 Sketches and Studies . . . . 554 An Exposition o f the Church . . 555 New Paganism ............................555 S hort N o t ic e s :

Cyclopaedia o f Costume . . . . 556 Shakespeare . . .. . . . . 556

E N T S .

C o rrespondence :

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Necessary T r u t h ............................556 Catholic Missions . . . . . . 556 St. George’s D a y ............................557 Irish College Education . . .. 557 The “ Quarterly Review ” on

Mental Reservation . . . . 557 The Lock-out in South Wales . . 557 Catholics and the Seamen’s Hos­

pital, Greenwich . . .. . . 557 The New Church at Tower H i l l . . 558 P a r l ia m e n t a r y S ummary . . 558 R ome :— Letter from our own Cor­

respondent ............................561 D io c e sa n N ew s :—

Westminster—Addresses to the

Cardinal Archbishop . , . . 562

D iocesan (continued) :

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Beverley . . . . . . 564. Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 564 Liverpool . . . . . . . . 564 Nottingham . . . . . . .. 564 Salford . . . . .. .. 565 I r e l a n d :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent .................................... 565 F oreign N ews

France.. . . . . .. . . 565 Germany . . . . .. .. 567 M em oranda :—

Religious . . .. . . . . 568 Gen e r a l N ew s ............................569

CH RON IC LE O F TH E W E EK .

ABerlin Correspondent of the P a l l M a ll

Gazette has telegraphed to that paper that English “ the German Bishops have been informed

■e p is c o p a t e s , “ by Cardinal Manning of his full concurrence

Bishops of England to the German Episcopate, as well as of another which his Eminence and their lordships have addressed to the Swiss Bishops.

A telegram from the Berlin Correspondent of

*= NAr Hmes tends to favour the belief that there

“ in the views set forth by them in their joint declaration to the Crown on the subject of the next Papal election, which was called forth by the publication of Prince Bismarck’s despatch.’’ The telegram proceeds to state that the Cardinal has at the same time apprised the German Episcopate of a resolution come to by the Catholic Bishops of England “ on the occasion of the “ opening of the Kensington University,” to order the above-mentioned joint declaration to be read at Mass in all the Churches of England. The informant of the P a l l M a ll Gazette is, as will be seen, perfectly accurate, except in his statement that this resolution was taken by the Bishops “ on was lately some real danger of a quarrel between France and Germany about the reorganization of the French army. The Emperor is reported to have said to Prince Polignac, the Military Attache to the French Embassy, at a ball given last week by the Countess von Hatsfeldt, “ There has been an attempt to create a rupture “ between us ; but all that is now over, and I make a point “ of telling you so.” Whether the Emperor referred to the officious misrepresentations of an over-zealous press, or to the intrigues of statesmen, does not appear ; the main point is that the danger is for the present at an end. But the satisfaction which the information must naturally produce is somewhat tempered by this illustration of the extreme facility with which such a misunderstanding can be got up.

the occasion of the opening of Kensington University.” It was taken at their regular annual meeting, which was .held in the same week as the opening of the University College, and amounts simply to this, that they are about to issue a joint Pastoral, in which the admirable declaration of the German Bishops, exhaustively confuting Prince Bismarck’s despatch respecting a future conclave is quoted at length. This, happily, is a free country, and when unfounded statements are circulated it is possible here to publish a refutation of them. But this freedom does not please everybody, for the telegram in the P a l l M a ll Gazette has sent the Hour into fits. It asks:— “ Can or ought “ English statesmen to overlook the volunteered ac“ quiescence in the claims and pretensions of Papal absolutism?” We do not quite see what “ Papal “ absolutism ” has to do with the denial of false statements about a future conclave, or even with the imprisonment and subsequent confinement for life of Prussian prelates who have done nothing but perform the ordinary functions o f a Bishop. But the Hour is good enough to inform us. The offence of the English Bishops is that they are “ forward to proffer sympathy and approval to those who “ find themselves placed by these (the Vatican) decrees ■“ under the obligation of contesting and denying the “ supremacy of the State whenever it comes into collision “ with the policy of the Vatican.” By which words the Hour manifestly implies that the German Bishops have been contesting and denying something which they would not have been obliged to contest and deny if the Vatican decrees had not been passed ; a proposition which the writer of the article, if he reflects for a moment, must see to be most utterly untrue. We publish elsewhere a translation of the letter of the Cardinal-Archbishop and the

The reception which the German Notes

T“ r ^ave met with abroad has apparently induced Belgium and the Belgian Foreign Office to change its tone

It a l y . to no inconsiderable extent, and one of the semi-official papers has declared that the Government abandons the idea of a collective action of the Powers with respect to the Holy See, maintaining the right of each nation to resist “ aggression ” in its own way. But some of the newspapers which had eagerly taken the matter up have been indisposed to drop it, and unmistakably betray their ill humour at the present turn of affairs. The Kölnische Zeitung in particular published at the end of last week two articles, one no “ Germany and Belgium,’’ and the other on “ Germany and Italy,” in which this irritation is very apparent, and exceeds the limits of prudence. With regard to Belgium what the writer has to say is in effect this. The diplomatic controversy is virtually over, but Germany feels and nurses her disappointment. Belgium has not treated her well. She has been French instead of German in her policy. And as in time of need Germany alone can help Belgium— for England lacks the power to do so— Belgium will suffer for her conduct. Therefore what can we Germans believe but that, “ while Ultramon“ tane and commercial interests irresistibly attract the Bel“ gians towards France, their love of independence is “ simply feigned ? Should Belgium persist in thus ignoring “ its own natural interests it is by no means impossible that “ the same century may have witnessed both the rise and “ fall of the Belgian State.” This is being outspoken with a vengeance The Belgians cannot really value their independence, because they do not adopt the only means of securing it— which is to follow in the wake of the Ger-

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