THE TABLET A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

D u m VOBIS G RATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E ST R IS CONSTANTER M ANEATIS.

From the B r i e f o] H is Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , Ju n e 4, 1870.

Vol. 46. No. 1862. L o n d o n , D e c e m b e r 18, 1875.

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[R e g is t e r ed a t th e G en e r a l P ost Offic e a s a N ew spaper

C hronicle of the W e e k :—

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Election of Senators in the French Assembly.—The French Government and the Press.—A Russian Nationalist on the Suez Canal Affair.—Russian Aspirations.— The Scheme of Reforms for Turkey.—The Catholics in Bosnia and Herzegovina.—The Emperor o f Russia on the Pacific Alliance. —Distorted Views of English Policy.—The Duke of Cambridge ■ on Army Reform.—Mr. Clare Read’s Resignation.—The South African Question.—The Redesdale Correspondence.—Irish Studies in the Catholic University.— Incidents of the Spanish Struggle. The Prussian Convent Law, &c. 769

CONTENTS.

L e a d e r s :

The Senatorial Elections in the

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French Assembly .. .. 773 Irish University Education .. 773 Criminal Statistics . . . . .. 774 C h r is tm a s ...................................... 775 i Religious Contrasts . . . . 776 j R ev iew s :

Surius’s Lives of the Saints . . 778 1 Sir Aubrey De Vere's Sonnets . . 778 S hort N otices :

Officium in die Nativitatis.. . . 779 Musical Instruments . . .. 779 1 The Poetical Works of Thomas

Hood ...................................... 779 The Holiday Task . . . . •• 779 j Prince and Saviour.. . . .. 779 Necessary Things as Declared by Christ Himself .. -• 779 1

S hort N otices (continued) :

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Manual of the Sisters of Charity 780 The Christian Instructed in the

Nature and Use of Indulgences 780 The Cardinal Archbishop’s Ser­

mon at Oxford . . .. .. 780 Eason’s Almanac . . . . .. 780 Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 780 C o rrespo ndence:

Dagon at Home .. .. . . 781 Mr. Matthew Arnold and the

“ Dublin Review” . . . . 782 A Remarkable Parallel.—The

Wreck of the Deutschland .. 782 Funeral of the Franciscan Nuns 783 The Agricultural Children’s Act.. 783 Indian Missions . . . . . . 783 The Barnet Schools.. .. .. 783 The Bedford Mission .. . . 783

R ome :—Letter from our own Cor­

Page respondent . . . . . .7 8 5 D io cesan N e w s :— Westminster.. . . . . . . 786

Southwark . . . . . . . . 787 Clifton . . .......................... 787 Northampton . . . . .. 787 Nottingham . . . . .. . . 787 Salford .. .. .. . . 787 Scotland—Western District .. 788 I reland :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent . . . . . . . . 788 F oreign N ews

Germany .......................... .. 789 Poland .. . . . . . . 789 M emoranda :—

Religious .. . . . . . . 790 G en e r a l N ews . . . . . . 790

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

fended by M. de la Rochette in a letter to the Union. He says in effect that as the Right Centre coalesced with the Left to found the Republic and keep out the Legitimate Monarchy they ought not to be shocked at the Right coalescing with the Left to keep out the Orleanists and the Monarchy of July. By their act the Right Centre sacrificed their Monarchical principles; while by their temporary coalition the Extreme Right sacrifice no principle whatever; which is true enough, but it would have been far more satisfactory if the parties had agreed to nominate a due proportion of eminent names from each section of the Chamber. M. Wallon too is of this opinion, and in consequence of the turn matters have taken has withdrawn his name from the list of the Left. He would have “ considered it an honour

THE parties in the French Assembly seem to have shown great want of judgment in iiii.j-Kc.nun. the management of the elections to the a s s em b l y , seventy-five seats in the Senate. These seats are an object of ambition to many, as they are to be held for life, and personal interests and animosities have been allowed too free a play in the transaction. The Left, indeed, though numerically weaker than the Right, has succeeded so far in consequence of its superior discipline, but the Right sections have failed in carrying some of their best men ; and the Orleanists of the Right Centre are likely to verify the proverb concerning the danger of attempting to sit on two stools at once. After mortally offending the Right by coalescing with the Left to found the definitive and revisable Republic, they have now mortally offended the Left by refusing to vote for any of their candidates. Having so refused they turned to the Right and attempted to combine with them, but many of the Royalists had too good a memory, and would not forgive. The consequence of all the cross purposes was that on the first day two deputies only obtained the requisite number of votes—the Due d’Audiffret Pasquier, the President, and M. Martel, Vice-President of the Assembly. Each of the three principal divisions of the Chamber was paralysed by the hostility of the two others. So before the next ballot the Left concluded an alliance for the nonce with the extreme Right, striking out of their list seventeen of their own men, and substituting seventeen deputies of the Right. Several of these mounted the tribune to protest against the use of their names as candidates of the Left. But the result of the combination was that on the second day of the ballot -eighteen Senators were elected, all of whom, with the exception of Generals Changarnier and d'Aurelle de Paladines, belonged to the Left or Left Centre. On the third day the combination came into full play, the Left carrying ten seats out of eleven which were filled, and seven of the ten being members of the extreme Right—namely, M. de la Rochette, M. de Franclieu, M. de Cornulier-Luciniere, M. Théry, M. Dumon, M. de Fréville, and M. Pajot. Three others were members of the Left, and the remaining successful candidate was M. Kolb-Bernard, of the Right, well known as a Catholic member of the Corps Législatif under the Empire. On the following day nine more senators—all on the list of the Left—were elected, one of them being M. de Lavergne, the head of the well-known group which bears his name, and another, M. du Motier de la Fayette, grandson of the famous General. M.de Ploeuc resented so deeply the inscription of his name on the list of the Left that he has resigned his seat in the Assembly. But the compromise with the Left has been de

1 to have been placed on a list formed by agreement between 1 all those who founded or accepted the Constitution,” but ‘ this agreement not having occurred, and not seeming likely 1 to come about,” he does not wish “ to appear any longer ‘ in the struggle which has arisen between the two sides of ‘ the Assembly.” On the second day M. Buffet just missed being elected, being the first of the unsuccessful candidates, with six votes short; but after the coalition of the Extreme Right and the Left he also had his name removed from the list of the Right. On Tuesday there was a fresh shifting of groups. The Left Centre had found out that they too jvere going to the wall, and they immediately broke with the Left proper, and struck all the names from the Extreme Left out of their lists. The consequence was that the deadlock of the first day came back, and only one candidate, M. Fourcand, obtained an absolute majority. Nine deputies of the Extreme Right are protesting against the alliance of M. de la Rochette and his friends with the Left, and the reunion of the Chevaux Legers has accepted M. de la Rochette’s resignation of its presidency, and elected M. de la Monneraye President, and MM. Lucien Brun, de Carayon-la-Tour, and the Due de Bisaccia Vice-Presidents. The Union, however, defends the compromise. On Wednesday eighteen senators were elected—one only, M. de Lorgeril, from the Right. Two Radicals, MM. Carnot and Littré (the lexicographer) ; M. Lanfrey, the historian ; M. Cremieux ; and M. Scherer, of the Temps and D a ily News, were among the remaining seventeen. By this time sixty out of the seventyfive have been elected, and the Right Centre have got nobody but the Due d’Audiffret Pasquier.

THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT

AND THE

PRESS.

The committee on the Press Bill has reported dead against it, as one of its members told M. Dufaure that it would. The report declares that the principles consecrated by the great laws of the Monarchy, the Republic, and the present Assembly, are entirely disregarded by the Bill which is worse than the legislation of the Empire. ThI

N ew S e r i e s , V ol. X IV . No. 371.