THE TABLET A W eekly Newspaper and Review.

D u m VOBIS G R A TU LAM U R , AN IM O S ET IAM ADDIMUS U T IN INCGEPTIS V E S TR IS CONSTAN TER M AN EA T IS .

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

Vol. 46. No. 1838. L o n d o n , J u l y 3, 1875.

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[R eg is tered a t the G en e r a l P o st O f f i c e a s a N ew spaper.

C h r o n i c l e o f t h e W e e k :—

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The Floods in Southern France.— Further Grant and Subscriptions. — Escape of the President.— Danger of Pestilence.— Earthquake in South America.— Hail Storm in Hungary.—The Côtes Du Nord Election.— Intolerance o f French Liberals in Religion.— Their Policy in Secular Matters.— Royal Residence in Ireland.— Convocation and the Rubrics— Mr. Gladstone on Symbolism.— The Employers and Workmen Bill.— Treaty with Burmah. -T h e Jesuits and the English Press.— The Judgment •on Count Arnim.— The Jura Exiles— The Carlist War.— The Italian Public Security Bill, & c . .. i

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The Bavarian Elections . . . . 5 Irish Education in the House of

Lords . . . . •• •• 5 Ecclesiastical Curiosities . . . . 6 The Sicilian Scandals . . . . 7 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C on tem po r ar ie s :

Religious Strife . . . . . . 8 R e v ie w s :

The Troubles o f our Catholic

Forefathers . . . . . . io The History of the Italian Revo­

lution . . . . .- . . 10 S hort N otices :

The Story of St. Stanislaus

Kostka . . . . . . . . 11 Travels in Portugal.. _ . . . . 11 The Philosophy of Voice . . . . 12

E N T S .

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Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 12 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Canon Liddon and Dr. Newman 12 The.Missions to the Blacks . . 12 West African Missions . . . . 13 “ What is Truth ? ” . . . . 13 The Hospital Society . . . . 13 P a r l ia m en t a r y S ummary . . 14 R ome :— Letter from our own Cor­

respondent . . . . . . 17 Peter’s Pence .........................18 D io c e s a n N ew s :—

Westminster.— Restoration of the

Church o f the Assumption, Warwick-street . . . . . . iS

D io cesan (continued) ;

Southwark . . . . . .

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Clifton.. .. .. . . ..20 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 20 Liverpool . . .. . . . . 20 Shrewsbury . . .. . . ..21 I r e l a n d :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent .. ......................... 2r F oreign N ews

Germany .. . . . .

Belgium . . . . . . . . 23 M em oranda :—

Religious . . . . . .

Educational . . . . . . . . 24 Fine Arts . . . . . . ..24 G en e r a l N ew s . . . . ..24

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C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .

FRANCE. X 1

THE FLOODS IN SOUTHERN

HE news received in Paris respecting the inundations in the South was so serious as to induce Marshal MacMahon to set out on Friday evening for Toulouse, accompanied by the Prime Minister, the Minister of War, and two aides-de-camp. At Toulouse only one bridge is left undamaged, and a whole faubourg— that of St. Cyprien— is destroyed, more than eight hundred houses have fallen, and over a hundred •corpses have been found in those left standing. The town was in darkness, the water having got into the gas-pipes, and all the surrounding country was one vast lake, under which the whole harvest is submerged. Several villages also are under water, and at Fenouillet, six kilomètres from Toulouse, only three houses are left standing out of 400. The Garonne is much swollen throughout its course, and is at one place four miles wide, but at Bordeaux there has been as yet no damage done. In the department of the Aude the waters have entirely destroyed the crops, and in the Pyrenees the mischief is still worse. At Bagnères de Bigorre the Adour has carried away bridges and cottages, and at Tarbes it has broken down the seven-arched bridge. At Verdun in the Arriège more than 50 houses have fallen, and •So persons and 500 head of cattle have been drowned, at Montauban, Auch, and Pienefitte—-where the railway service is stopped— the damage is very great, and the floods prevail more or less extensively throughout the eight departments of the Aude, Arriège, Haute Garonne, Tarn et Garonne, Tarn, Lot et Garonne, Gers, and Hautes Pyrénées. The Assembly voted 100,000 francs (£4,000) as a first contribution to the relief of the sufferers. By Saturday the corpses removed from the Faubourg St. Cyprien amounted to 215. On the afternoon of that day Marshal MacMahon •arrived, and after visiting the Cathedral, where he was received by the clergy, he went over the scene of disaster and •thanked the Municipality at the Capitole for their exertions. Local suhscriptions have been opened, and the Marshal, in informing the Municipality of the grant voted by the Assembly, announced that its amount would be increased as soon as the extent of the disaster was better known. All kinds of strange and pathetic episodes come to light day by day. At one time it is a child floated in its cradle down to Bordeaux and saved, at another it is the death of brave men like the Marquis de Hautpoul who were attempting to save life and were carried off by the current or engulfed in the falling ruins, or we hear of a convent school of young girls going up from one story to another as the floods gained on them and passing the dreadful night in prayer, expecting every moment to be their last ; or of a lady who was

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drowned in the confessional as the flood swept into the Carmelite Church, while her confessor escaped ; or of a whole family found dead in each other’s arms, and of another two members of which were found just alive and were able to receive the last Sacraments before they expired. The Paris Correspondent of the Times stales that when the waters began to subside in the Faubourg St. Cyprien between five and six thousand poor people had to be taken either on foot or in vehicles to the military hospital, that 600 houses have been swept away in the town of Toulouse, and 2,000 in the environs, that goo persons are known to have perished and many more have been carried away by the river, some [ bodies having been recovered at Toulouse in the costume of districts twenty leagues distant from that city. About 25,000 are homeless. A curious fact has been noticed, that great inundations have occurred ai Toulouse at regular intervals of twenty years; in 1815, 1835, 1855, and now in 1875

As soon as further information had revealed g r a n t ^ nd tlle magnitude of the casastrophe, M. Depeyre subscrip- moved on Saturday a further grant of two mil-

TioNs. lions of francs (¿80 ,000). At first some of the Left were disposed to cavil at the motion being made by a Legitimist Deputy, and a voice was heard to ask whether it was in the name of the Government that he was speaking, but M. Depeyre’s cool answer— that he spoke in the name of all his colleagues who, like himself, represented the inundated departments—-checked all opposition, and the Budget Committee supported the proposal. Other motions were brought forward, one by M. Corbon, for a grant of 10,000 francs out of the personal budget of the Assembly— the allowances of the members— and another by M. de St. Pierre, that each Deputy should give fifteen days’ salary, but the President, Duke Pasquier, having announced that a voluntary subscription had been opened among the members of the Assembly this scheme was preferred and adopted. In connection with the committee of which Madame de MacMahon is the President, the “ Exe“ cutive Commtttee of the Universal Alliance ” has opened a subscription in England at the National Bank, Charing Cross. A subscription has also been opened at the Mansion House, and the French Benevolent Society in Pan ton-street, Haymarket, of which M. Eugène Rimmel is chairman, has expressed through that gentleman its willingness to receive and forward contributions. The French dramatic artists in London are also about to move in the matter, and intend to organize a theatrical representation for the benefit of the sufferers. According to the Paris Correspondent of the Times Madame de Mac Mahon’s subscription list had on Wednesday reached the sum of 282,000 francs (,£11,280). The Holy Father has sent a donation of 20,000 francs (£800.)