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THE TABLET

A IVeekly Newspaper and Review

W I T I - I SUPPLEMENT.

D um VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

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

Vol. 45. No. 1837. L o n d o n , J u n e 26, 1875.

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«Chronicle of the Week :—

The 21st of June.— The Austrian Press on the English Intervention. — Russia and Austria.— Higher ^Education in France.— The C6tesDu-Nord Inquiry.— The Public Powers Bill.— A Disorderly Debate.— Belgium and Germany.— The German Priests and the Hunger Law.— The Seyyid ofZanzibar. — The Negotiations with Burmah. — Messrs. Moody and Sankey at Eton.— The Carlist War.— Notre Dame at Geneva.— Count Arnim’s Appeal .. .. .. • • 801

CONTENTS.

Leaders :

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England, Burmah, and China .. 805 Eton “ Revived ” .. .. .. 805 i Revelations Concerning Sicily _.. 806 I Compulsory Primary Education in Germany .. .. .. 807 Our Protestant Contemporaries :

Reformers and their Work .. 807 Reviews :

Les Lois de la Société Chrétienne 809 The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine,

and the Holy Land .. .. 810 Report of the Proceedings at the

Re-union Conference held at Bonn in 1874 .. .. .. 811 Short Notices:

The Life of the Rev. H. Mont­

gomery, L .L .D . .. .. .. 812 The Skeleton at the Plough .. 8t2

Short Notices (continued) :

The Temperance Reformation, &c. 812 Education Acts Manual .. 812 II Papato ......................................812 Shakespeare...................................... 812 Cyclopaedia of Costume .. .. 812 Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 812 Correspondence :

Jnbilees ...................................... 813 The Missions to the Blacks .. 813 “ Obsolete Statutes” .. .. 813 A New Phase of Teetotalism .. 814 “ Intoxicating Liquors (Sundays)

B ill” ........................ .. 814 Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Homerton .. .. 814 Parliamentary Summary .. 814 Rome :— Letter from our own Cor­

respondent . . .. .. 817

D iocesan N ews

Westminster .. Beverley Birmingham .. Liverpool Salford Shrewsbury ..

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Ireland :

Letter from our Dublin Correspondent .. Foreign News

Germany Belgium

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Memoranda :—

Cricket General News 77.’ ...................... 823

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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HE anniversary of the Pope’s coronation,

t h e 21 st o f I which fell on Monday, has been marked by the usual audiences and addresses of congratulation. The receptions have been going on since the i6th, the anniversary of his Holiness’s election to the Supreme Pontificate, and on Saturday the Knights of Malta, with the Bailli of the Order at their head, and Princes Barberini and Altieri, the Captains of the Noble Guard, were admitted to present their congratulations. The Holy Father also received the whole of the Noble Guard in the Hall of Tapestry, and the Throne Room was filled with Bishops, prelates, and laity of all nations and tongues, among them a Jewish family, who had been that day baptized. On Monday his Holiness admitted to audience the faithful Roman nobles, to whom he declared that the loyalty manifested towards him of the Romans in 1870 had never been falsified. He spoke of the fidelity of the Pontifical army, and observed that at the present time “ many clear“ sighted persons make comparisons not unfavourable to •“ the Vatican.” As to the rumours of a reconciliation between Italy and the Holy See, his Holiness declared them to be “ not worthy of mention,” an observation at which no one can be surprised who considers the recent action of the Italian Government and Legislature. By the law on Conscription, which has been just passed, not only all priests, but even the Bishops who may be under thirty-five years of age, are liable to service in the ranks.

THE AUSTRIAN PRESS ON THE ENGLISH IN TERVENTION.

It is hard to see what motive the Vienna papers can have in keeping up such a constant fire of articles against England on account of our intervention in the interests of peace. They do not abuse Prince Gortschakoff, why should they be so fierce against Lord Derby ? The course adopted by the two statesmen was identical; indeedit is now alleged that the English Government was set in motion by a communication from the Russian Chancellor. Yet the Austrian Liberal papers, with the exception of those which receive a direct inspiration from official sources, have devoted themselves to the task of convincing their readers that the action of England in this matter is a grievous injury to Austria. The lagespresse points out that even such Prussian papers as are at all independent do not take this line. The conclusion is that the Austrian papers which do take it must have received from the “ Reptile” organization at Berlin some substantial reasons for adopting this view. The Austrians have, indeed, just this amount of ground for annoyance ; •that the security of Austria to a great extent depends on the maintenance of the tripartite alliance, which keeps each of her great neighbours equally bound to her, and prevents

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both the one and the other from adopting separately a policy hostile to her interests. If the bond is broken up, she is at the mercy of either. But Austria will, in reality, lose nothing by a modification of alliances, which is the surest guarantee of the general peace. The astute statesman at the head of the Russian Foreign Office has not failed to perceive that when one of the Powers to which the maintenance of peace was entrusted was, at the same time, one of the parties to a possible quarrel, another combination of completely disinterested outsiders was a necessity. It is not anybody else’s fault that Austria did not join that combination. She was asked to do so and declined, through fear of offending Germany. But if she had complied with the request it could not have done her so very much harm after all, for it is an understanding rather than an alliance which exists between England and Russia. That it should become a cordial one is most desirable in the interest of the peace of Europe. Whether it will must of course depend on the nature of the assurances which Russia is prepared to give respecting the direction of her expansion in Asia.

The Emperor of Russia is to return home

RAustria ° frorn Ems by way of Bohemia on purpose to meet the Emperor of Austria. It is arranged that the interview shall take place at Eger on the northwestern frontier of the kingdom, and it is ostentatiously stated by the Austrian semi-official journals that the reason for the meeting is one exclusively connected with the private affairs of the two Sovereigns. This is possible, though nobody seems to know what those private affairs can be ; but it is also not improbable that Austria may wish to explain her abstention from the recent intervention, and to guard against any idea that the tripartite alliance had been weakened. The Berlin Provinzial Correspondcnz evidently takes this view, and informs us that this meeting is to be followed by another between the Emperors of Austria and Germany.

The amendment of M. Paris, which was e d u c a t io n carried in the French Assembly last week, conns' FRANCE. s'sts of tvv0 Clauses ; the 13th and 14th of the

Bill. Clause 13 provides that the pupils of independent or free faculties may present themselves for degrees before the State faculties on the production of a certificate that they have followed the courses of the faculty under which they have been studying to the extent required by the regulations. The alternative is also open to them of being examined, if they prefer it, by a special jury constituted according to the conditions determined by Clause 14. But if they have been sent back after examination by the State faculty they cannot present themselves before the special jury, nor, if they have been sent back by the special jury, before the State faculty, without the express permission of the Minister of Public Instruction, otherwise the diploma