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TH A E TABLET Weekly Newspaper and Review. DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS. From the B rief of His Holiness Pius IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1S70. V o l . 62. No. 2255. London, July 7, 1883. P rice sd., by P ost, sJ^d. [R egistered a t th e G eneral P ost O ffice as a N ewspaper. C hronicle ok th e W eek :— Page The Comte de Chambord—Death of the Metropolitan of Scotland— The Death of Father Burke—The Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill—The Monaghan ^Election—The Hastings Election—A New Department for Scotland—The Ministry and New Guinea—The Cobden •Club Dinner— Mr. Benjamin's Farewell — The Banquet — The Prospects of the Belt Case—The Manchester Ship Canal—The Cholera in Egypt—The Tonquin "Expedition — The Church and Political Party in Spain—The “ Martyrs Fund ” in New York— Disaster on the Clyde . . .. 1 L e a d e r s : Without God, No Commonwealth 5 .Supernaturalism, Medieval and Classical .. .. .. . . 6 “ The Daring Duckling . .. 7 CONTENTS. L eaders (continued): Page The Last “ Surprise " at Plymouth 8 The Catholic Union aud its Critics .. .. . . . . 8 Leo X III. and France .. .. 8 N o t e s .....................................................9 R eviews : Across Chryse .. . . ..12 Organ Cases and Organs of the Middle Ages and Renaissan ce.. 13 The Nineteenth Century.. .. 13 The Contemporary Review .. 13 The Fortnightly Review .. .. 14 Arnoldo da Brescia.. .. .. 14 Catholic Progress .. .. ..14 Magazines for July . . .. 14 United States (From our American Correspondent) .. .. .. 15 Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister . .. .. .. ..15 Correspondence :— Rome : — (From Our Own Corre­ Page spondent) . . .. .. ..17 Paris :—(From Our Own Corre­ spondent) . . .. .. .. 20 Dublin (From Our Own Corres­ pondent) . . .. .. ..20 L etters to th e E d itor :— The Mosaic History of the Creation .. .. .. The New Archbishop of Seville.. 22 The Mission at Hertford ... .. 22 Unanimity of Opinion Necessary .. 21 for Public Action .. .. 22 The Bastilles of England.. .. 22 The Expenditure of the Catholic Union .. .. .. ..23 The Mission on the Gold Coast.. 23 The Operations of the New Code 23 E ngland :— Westminster . . . . «.24 Page Southwark .. . . Birmingham.. .. .. ..24 .. 24 Hexham and Newcastle . , .. 25 Liverpool .. . . .. .. 25 Middlesbrough .. . . ..25 Newport and Menevia . . . . 25 Salford . . ......................... 25 Shrewsbury .. .. .. ..25 Scotland Glasgow .. .. . . ..26 Obituary .........................................26 Social and Political . . . . 26 SUPPLEMENT. Decisions of Roman Congregations 33 N ews from the Schools.. . . 33 CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK. THE COMTE DE CHAMBORD. I T is with great regret that we have to announce that the rumours of the very serious illness of the Comte de Chambord, which were current during the early part of the week, have been since confirmed, and the condition of the illustrious patient is now most critical, in fact the last telegram from Paris states that all hope of saving the life of the heir of the Kings of France is despaired of and the end is momentarily expected. The Papal Nuncio, Mgr. Vannutelli, paid a visit to Frohsdorf on Tuesday, to convey to the Prince the blessing of the Holy Father. The will of the Comte de Chambord is in the possession of his Holiness. It is significant, in connection with this most serious turn which the illness of the Comte de Chambord has taken, that the French Republican Government seems, through its organs, anxious to compromise the Comte de Paris and the other Princes of theHouse of Orleans, so as to secure a pretext for expelling them all from France. We feel confident, however, that, whatever happens, the Orleanist Princes will not fall into this trap, and that, neither by manifestoes or otherwise, will they play into the hands of the present Government of France. The most recent information concerning the Comte de Chambord’s state up to the time of our going to press will be found in our “ Latest Intelligence.” On the eve of the day appointed for his jubilee, the Archbishop of St. Andrews Sc o t l a n d . and Edinburgh passed away to his reward, and, as the Edinburgh Courant remarks, a gloom has been cast over, not only Edinburgh, but all Scotland. And, if this is the view of the secular press in a land so determinedly Protestant, who can rightly gauge the loss felt by our fellow Catholics across the silver Tweed? In the late Metropolitan of Scotland the Church has lost not only a most devoted servant, but one who, by the force and beauty of his own character, his piety and exceptional ability in administering the important duties of his high office, not only endeared himself beyond expression to the members of the household of faith, but secured the respectful sympathy,nay even the vffectionate regard, of many outside the pale. We have referred to the Courant, but the other leading papers of Scotland speak in no measured terms of the virtues and work of the great-hearted prelate whose loss we have to record to-day. To the beloved late N ew S e r ie s , Vol. XXIX, No. 7S3. Metropolitan of Scotland we owe much of this improved feeling on the part of our Protestant contemporaries, and in thanking them for their kindly words in an hour of great sorrow for British Catholics, we feel we are only paying another tribute to the memory of one who, humanly speaking, made the peaceful restoration of the Catholic Hierarchy in Scotland possible by his sterling worth. In another column will be found a bri t h e d e a th re c o r ( j 0 f q i e ] j fe 0 f tR e great Dominican, b u r k e . Father Burke— a life that in its every stage was the quiet record of the faith that was in him. He has gone from us now, but the many who are grieving for him may feel that the story of his life is left to us, and beyond the reach of death, stands as a golden link binding English and Irish Catholics by the common bond of a loving memory. His eloquent lips are now cold and still, but his voice still finds lingering echoes in the hearts of men. and there are some who will carry with them till they die the thought, that what is best in them was first stirred by the words of Father Burke. As an orator, Father Burke must rank with the first of his time ; gifted with a fine flexible voice, and with a strange power of human sympathy, his winning personality seemed to charge his simplest words with some special meaning that sent them straight to the hearts of his hearers. A humour that lit up the dullest subject, and the pervading and passionate earnestness which excluded the insincerity which is often the bane of public speech, may be taken as the leading characteristics of his oratory. Born in and living for Ireland, the musical voice of the great preacher told till the last on the people and the land that he loved. And indeed there never was a truer patriot or one whose heart pulsed more warmly for the sorrows and the sufferings and the hopes of Ireland. It is no secret that the closing years of his life were saddened by the sight of men, with whom he could have worked, turning their backs upon the teaching of the Church and treading the paths of the Revolution. But he accepted the inevitable estrangement and misunderstanding willingly and in silence, for he knew that the good of Ireland will not be won, either by crime, or by the deeds that bring the hardness that leads to crime. But the warm-hearted man— priest and patriot— turned only the more readily to the work which has brought balm to so many— the work of saving suffering. His heart was wrung with the stories that reached him of the want and starvation that were laying waste the west of Ireland ; and even when his last illness was upon him, lie rose, and as from his death.

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TH

A E TABLET Weekly Newspaper and Review.

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

From the B rief of His Holiness Pius IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1S70.

V o l . 62. No. 2255.

London, July 7, 1883.

P rice sd., by P ost, sJ^d.

[R egistered a t th e G eneral P ost O ffice as a N ewspaper.

C hronicle ok th e W eek :—

Page

The Comte de Chambord—Death of the Metropolitan of Scotland— The Death of Father Burke—The Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill—The Monaghan ^Election—The Hastings Election—A New Department for Scotland—The Ministry and New Guinea—The Cobden •Club Dinner— Mr. Benjamin's Farewell — The Banquet — The Prospects of the Belt Case—The Manchester Ship Canal—The Cholera in Egypt—The Tonquin "Expedition — The Church and Political Party in Spain—The “ Martyrs Fund ” in New York— Disaster on the Clyde . . .. 1 L e a d e r s :

Without God, No Commonwealth 5 .Supernaturalism, Medieval and

Classical .. .. .. . . 6 “ The Daring Duckling . .. 7

CONTENTS.

L eaders (continued):

Page

The Last “ Surprise " at Plymouth 8 The Catholic Union aud its

Critics .. .. . . . . 8 Leo X III. and France .. .. 8 N o t e s .....................................................9 R eviews :

Across Chryse .. . . ..12 Organ Cases and Organs of the

Middle Ages and Renaissan ce.. 13 The Nineteenth Century.. .. 13 The Contemporary Review .. 13 The Fortnightly Review .. .. 14 Arnoldo da Brescia.. .. .. 14 Catholic Progress .. .. ..14 Magazines for July . . .. 14 United States (From our American

Correspondent) .. .. .. 15 Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s

Sister . .. .. .. ..15

Correspondence :— Rome : — (From Our Own Corre­

Page spondent) . . .. .. ..17 Paris :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . .. .. .. 20 Dublin (From Our Own Corres­

pondent) . . .. .. ..20 L etters to th e E d itor :—

The Mosaic History of the

Creation .. .. ..

The New Archbishop of Seville.. 22 The Mission at Hertford ... .. 22 Unanimity of Opinion Necessary

.. 21

for Public Action .. .. 22 The Bastilles of England.. .. 22 The Expenditure of the Catholic

Union .. .. .. ..23 The Mission on the Gold Coast.. 23 The Operations of the New Code 23 E ngland :—

Westminster . . . . «.24

Page

Southwark .. . .

Birmingham.. .. ..

..24

.. 24

Hexham and Newcastle . , .. 25 Liverpool .. . . .. .. 25 Middlesbrough .. . . ..25 Newport and Menevia . . . . 25 Salford . . ......................... 25 Shrewsbury .. .. .. ..25 Scotland

Glasgow .. .. . . ..26 Obituary .........................................26 Social and Political . . . . 26

SUPPLEMENT.

Decisions of Roman Congregations 33 N ews from the Schools.. . . 33

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

THE COMTE DE CHAMBORD. I

T is with great regret that we have to announce that the rumours of the very serious illness of the Comte de Chambord, which were current during the early part of the week, have been since confirmed, and the condition of the illustrious patient is now most critical, in fact the last telegram from Paris states that all hope of saving the life of the heir of the Kings of France is despaired of and the end is momentarily expected. The Papal Nuncio, Mgr. Vannutelli, paid a visit to Frohsdorf on Tuesday, to convey to the Prince the blessing of the Holy Father. The will of the Comte de Chambord is in the possession of his Holiness. It is significant, in connection with this most serious turn which the illness of the Comte de Chambord has taken, that the French Republican Government seems, through its organs, anxious to compromise the Comte de Paris and the other Princes of theHouse of Orleans, so as to secure a pretext for expelling them all from France. We feel confident, however, that, whatever happens, the Orleanist Princes will not fall into this trap, and that, neither by manifestoes or otherwise, will they play into the hands of the present Government of France. The most recent information concerning the Comte de Chambord’s state up to the time of our going to press will be found in our “ Latest Intelligence.”

On the eve of the day appointed for his jubilee, the Archbishop of St. Andrews

Sc o t l a n d . and Edinburgh passed away to his reward, and, as the Edinburgh Courant remarks, a gloom has been cast over, not only Edinburgh, but all Scotland. And, if this is the view of the secular press in a land so determinedly Protestant, who can rightly gauge the loss felt by our fellow Catholics across the silver Tweed? In the late Metropolitan of Scotland the Church has lost not only a most devoted servant, but one who, by the force and beauty of his own character, his piety and exceptional ability in administering the important duties of his high office, not only endeared himself beyond expression to the members of the household of faith, but secured the respectful sympathy,nay even the vffectionate regard, of many outside the pale. We have referred to the Courant, but the other leading papers of Scotland speak in no measured terms of the virtues and work of the great-hearted prelate whose loss we have to record to-day. To the beloved late

N ew S e r ie s , Vol. XXIX, No. 7S3.

Metropolitan of Scotland we owe much of this improved feeling on the part of our Protestant contemporaries, and in thanking them for their kindly words in an hour of great sorrow for British Catholics, we feel we are only paying another tribute to the memory of one who, humanly speaking, made the peaceful restoration of the Catholic Hierarchy in Scotland possible by his sterling worth.

In another column will be found a bri t h e d e a th re c o r ( j 0 f q i e ] j fe 0 f tR e great Dominican,

b u r k e . Father Burke— a life that in its every stage was the quiet record of the faith that was in him. He has gone from us now, but the many who are grieving for him may feel that the story of his life is left to us, and beyond the reach of death, stands as a golden link binding English and Irish Catholics by the common bond of a loving memory. His eloquent lips are now cold and still, but his voice still finds lingering echoes in the hearts of men. and there are some who will carry with them till they die the thought, that what is best in them was first stirred by the words of Father Burke. As an orator, Father Burke must rank with the first of his time ; gifted with a fine flexible voice, and with a strange power of human sympathy, his winning personality seemed to charge his simplest words with some special meaning that sent them straight to the hearts of his hearers. A humour that lit up the dullest subject, and the pervading and passionate earnestness which excluded the insincerity which is often the bane of public speech, may be taken as the leading characteristics of his oratory. Born in and living for Ireland, the musical voice of the great preacher told till the last on the people and the land that he loved. And indeed there never was a truer patriot or one whose heart pulsed more warmly for the sorrows and the sufferings and the hopes of Ireland. It is no secret that the closing years of his life were saddened by the sight of men, with whom he could have worked, turning their backs upon the teaching of the Church and treading the paths of the Revolution. But he accepted the inevitable estrangement and misunderstanding willingly and in silence, for he knew that the good of Ireland will not be won, either by crime, or by the deeds that bring the hardness that leads to crime. But the warm-hearted man— priest and patriot— turned only the more readily to the work which has brought balm to so many— the work of saving suffering. His heart was wrung with the stories that reached him of the want and starvation that were laying waste the west of Ireland ; and even when his last illness was upon him, lie rose, and as from his death.

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