THE TABLET A W eek ly Newspaper and Review.

D u m VO B IS G R A T U L AM U R , AN IM O S ET IAM ADDIM U S U T IN INCGEPTIS V E S TR IS C O N S TAN TER M AN EA T IS .

Fro77i the Brief of H is Holiness to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870

Vol. 46. No. 1854. L o n d o n , O c t o b e r 23, 1875.

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C h ro n ic le of the W e e k :—

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T h e Bavarian Crisis and Debate on the Address.— The Point o f Order. — The King o f Bavaria’s Reply.— The Oggersheim Affair.— Prince Bismarck.— Death o f Cardinal Vitelleschi.— German and Austrian •Conjectures.— The German Emperor at Milan.— The Prince of Wales at Athens.— The Turkish Finances.— The Porte and Mr. Gladstone.— The French Governanent and the Electoral Law.— M. Thiers's Programme.— Settlement •of the Chinese Difficulty.— The Carlist Commanders.— Conflicting

Intelligence.— Spam and the Holy S e e ................................................ 513

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L e a d e r s :

Protestant Marriages in Catholic

Countries . . . . . . 5r7 Mr. Gladstone on the Church in

I ta ly . . . .... . . 518 j The Irish Land Question.. . . 519 j Two Churches.— No. I l l ................ 519 * R e v ie w s :

The Life o f St. John o f God,

Founder of the the Order of Hospitallers . . . . .. 521 Cook’s Tourist Handbook for

Southern Italy .. . . •• 522 The Contemporary Review . . 523 S hort N otices :

Cyclopaedia of Costume . • •• 523 Some of the Magazines for October 524

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C hurch M usic :

Notes on Plain Chant and the

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Ratisbon “ Graduale ” . . . . 524 Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 525 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Secularism in Elementary Education .. .. . . . . . . 526 “ The Month” and the Mar­

riage Case . . ......................... 526 Ratisbon . . .. . . . . 527 Protestant Kidnapping . . . . 527 St. Dominic’s Permanent Benefit

Building Society . . . . . . 527 R ome :— Letter from our own Cor­

respondent . . . . . . 529 Speech of the Pope to the French

Pilgrims from Besançon.. . . 530

D io ce san N ews :—

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Westminster .. .. .. . . 530 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 532 Liverpool . . .. .. . . 532 Shrewsbury .. .. . . . . 533 Scotland— Northern District .. 533 I r e l a n d :

The Maynooth College Church . . 533 F oreign N ews :—

France...................................................534 Austria ....................................... 534 Germany ....................................... 535 Bavaria ....................................... 535 The N e th e r la n d s ............................535 M em oranda :—

Religious ....................................... 535 G en er a l N ew s ...............................536

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

THE BAVARIAN CRISIS AND DEBATE

ON THE address.

"T T J H EN we went to press last week VV Bie bavarian Chamber o f Depu-

* * . ties had just passed the Address to the King, demanding the dismissal of the Ministry by a majority o f three. The numbers were 79 to 76, and the increase of the Conservative majority from two to three was caused by the death o f one o f the Liberal members, which was announced by the President at the opening o f that sitting. The consequence of the vote is that the Ministers resigned, but it was then uncertain whether the K ing would accept their resignation. The King, however, was missing. I t is his Majesty’s wont, whenever there is any political bother, to go, like Jeptha’s daughter, “ upon the mountains,” to bewail his hard fate in being a King. His lamentations, however, are not shared, as were those of that heroine, by a troop o f companions; he disappears accompanied by a single valet. Accordingly the Address of the Chamber had to be left at a Government office for transmission to the King, and the Cabinet Council which was held in consequence was presided over by Prince Luitpold. The debate which preceded the vote was decidedly lively. Herr Russwurm denounced in warm language the changes introduced for party purposes into the electoral districts, and Herr Schels rather imprudently accused the Liberal party of a desire to sink Bavaria in a single German State. This gave the minority an excuse for leaving the house, declaring as they went that a charge o f treason against the country had been brought against them, and Herr von Pfretzchner, the President of the Council, said that the Ministers would also have left the house if their duty had permitted them to do so. Eventually Herr Schels was called to order, and the Liberals returned to their places. The sentiments o f the “ patriotic ” party are beginning to manifest themselves with considerable force, and the Ministers were attacked for allowing themselves to be domineered over in the Federal Council, where, if they had shown a little moral courage, they would easily have found allies in resisting the encroachments of “ the leading “ State.” Herr von Lutz, however, reproached the majority with having advocated a still greater limitation of the rights o f the minor States, “ when they hoped to place the Catholic “ Emperor o f Austria at the head of Germany.’’

This is the account o f the debate which we received through the telegraphic agencies. But the Correspondent of the Times at Berlin so far corrects it as to state that what was objected to in Herr Schell’s speech, and that for which he was eventually called to order was the quotation of certain improper satires and caricatures directed against the K ing of Bavaria. Here, how

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ever, as usual, we have only the clever perversion o f the fact which is countenanced by the Berlin Press Bureau. These caricatures, which are undoubted offences against decency as well as against K ing Ludwig, have been published and circulated in Prussia without the slightest attempt to repress them being made by the authorities. You, said Herr Schell in effect, addressing the National-Liberals, are working as hard as you can in the interests o f a Government which allows these disgusting attacks upon our Sovereign to be published with perfect impunity, while it prosecutes even an unfortunate washerwoman who in a public-house speaks disrespectfully o f Prince Bismarck. The National-Liberals, thereupon, cry out that the speaker is quoting improper attacks upon the King. But which is worse— to hold up to public indignation such villainous publications, or to be hand and glove with those who by their tacit connivance are responsible for their circulation ? As to the version of these matters given by most of the English papers, the P a l l M a l l Gazette is quite justified in saying that “ a fair account o f “ the Bavarian domestic question might be given on the “ principle of turning nearly all the affirmatives recently “ uttered here upon it into corresponding negatives and “ vice verscL." We are glad to see so honest an exposure o f that “ model institution for smuggling official Prussian read“ ings of current events into the German and European “ newspapers— the Berlin Reptile Bureau ”— as that contained in the P a l l M a l l 's leading article on Monday.

The view taken by that paper respecting the . L L L possible formation of what would be called an reply. Ultramontane Cabinet was perfectly cor­

rect. Herr von Gasser, whom the K ing sum­

moned at the last crisis, is not a man whom anybody need be afraid of, and, as the P a l l M a l l Gazette concludes, there is no reason why such a Cabinet as would be formed by him “ should not keep on good working terms with “ Berlin, although Prince Bismarck might not be pleased “ to see the establishment o f so vile a precedent as the “ obedience o f a German K in g to a parliamentary ma“ jority.” K ing Ludwig, however, has not acted in accordance with this opinion. His solitary meditations have led him to the conclusion that there is more danger in offending Prince Bismarck than in inflicting a direct snub on the majority in his own Legislature, and the much larger majority o f the electors. H e has refused to accept the resignation o f the Ministers, expressed to them his approval of their conduct, and has declined to give audience to the deputation from the Chamber, or to receive the Address. I f the Chamber outlives this crisis the next thing will probably be that it will squash some of the Liberal returns obtained by electioneering jobbery, and the Conserv a t iv e majority will be further reinforced; but the Ministry