THE TABLET

A W eekly Newspaper and Review.

D u m v o b i s g r a t u l a m u r , a n i m o s e t i a m a d d i m u s u t i n i n c c e p t i s v e s t r i s c o n s t a n t e r m a n e a t i s .

From the Brief of H is Holiness to T he T a b let, June 4, 1870.

Vol. 47. No. 1883. L o n d o n , M a y 13, 1876.

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[R eg i st e r e d a t t h e G en e r a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper

«Ch r o n ic l e of the W e e k :—

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Return of the Prince of Wales.— Mr. Lowe’s Apology.— The Opposition and the Proclamation.— Russia and England in Asia.— Parliament and the Royal A cademy.— The Finances of Egypt.— The Troubles o f Turkey.— Massacre o f Consuls at Saloniki.— M. Gambetta and the Amnesty.— M. Ricard’s Circulars.— Opening o f the American Exhibition.— President Grant and the Democrats.— The Winslow Case.— Catholic Colony in Minnesota.— Affair in Samao.— The Strathclyde and the Franconia.— The Religious Question in Spain.— The Basque “ Fueros,” &c., &c. . . 609

CONTENTS .

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L e a d e r s :

The Khedive’s Difficulties .. 613 Convent Schools in Ireland .. 613 The Religious Condition of Bul­

garia . . . • •• •• 614 Sketches of the Reformation—

X I I . .................................... 615 P ic tures :

Exhibition of the Institute of

Painters in Water Colours, 53, Pall M a l l .................................... 617 Royal Academy .. . . . .6 18 R ev ie w :

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Picturesque Europe .. .. 620 Leaves from a Word-Hunter’s

Note Book.. . . . . .. 620 A Chronological and Geographical

Introduction to the

Christ .. .. . . . . 620 Nature, not the Church, our

Common Mother.. . . . . 6zo Tales by Canon Schmid . . .. 620 Magazines for M ay.. . . . . 620 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

The Works at St. David’s .. 621 Mgr. Fessler and the “ Dublin

Christian Pyschology.— Sweden­

borg on Influx .. .. .. 619 S hort N otices :

The Reign o f Louis X I . . . .. 619 Essays for Every Day Life, for

Old and Young . . . . . . 620

Review” .. . . . . . . 621 Mis-Translations of Prayers in

English .. .. .. .. 621 Anglican Administrations in Ca­

tholic Churches . . . . .. 622 The Anglican Seal o f Confession 622

Life of

Who Wrote the “ Imitation of

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Christ ” ? . . . . .. . . 622 The Protagoras of Plato . . . . 622 Outer Hebrides, Benbecula . . 622 Schools for Bedford _ . . . . 62e Difficulties of Ex-Anglican Clergy­

men not Taking Orders.. . . 623 Fareham, Hants . . .. . . 628 P a r l ia m e n t a r y S ummary . . 623 R ome :— Letter from our own Cor­

respondent . . .. . . 625 Peter’s Pence . . .. . . 627 D io ce san N e w s :—Westminster.. 627

Southwark . . . . . . . . 628 Beverley . . . . .. . . 628 Northampton— Plymouth-Salford 629 I reland . . . . . . . . 630 F oreign N ews . . . . . . 631 M emoranda & G en er a l N ew s . . 632

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

TH E Prince of Wales brought his great seven months’ journey to a close on w Thursday. The Serapis, with her con

01 »a1"” . Sorts, the Osborne and the Raleigh, was sighted off Portland at 8.30 a.m. At 7.20 the Princess of Wales, with the Royal children and the Duke o f Edinburgh, started in the Enchantress, commanded by the Prince of Leiningen, to meet the Prince near the Needles, and joined him on board the Serapis, which reached Portsmouth at 2 p.m. The Royal party immediately started by the Brighton Railway for Victoria Station, and passing round by Grosvenor-place, Piccadilly, and St. James’s-street, the Prince, after visiting the Queen at Buckingham Palace, reached his home. His reception both at Portsmouth and in London was most enthusiastic.

the subject to the House, and he finally retracted everything he had said, and “ if such a thing were proper from a subj e c t to his Sovereign, humbly offered to her Majesty his “ sincere apologies for the error he had committed.” H e was cheered by both sides, as any one who makes a manly acknowledgment o f a fault is sure to be in the British House of Commons, and when Mr. C. Lewis got up to express himself satisfied, and to declare that he had written to Mr. Lowe only to prevent the necessity of bringing the matter before Parliament, the House was not disposed to listen to him or to tolerate any further reference to the matter.

But the Opposition was resolved not to drop THE the subject of the Proclamation, and Sir Henry and the pro- James had already given notice o f a resolution clamation. involving a distinct censure upon the Govern­

ment. He proposed to put the motion on the

Mr. Lowe has made the apology which must mr. low e ’s jiave been expected from him by both sides of apologv.

j j ouse^ancj be has made it frankly and fully. It would have been better perhaps if he had offered it on Tuesday week, as soon as the statement which he had made at Retford had been contradicted on the Queen’s authority, and better still if he had recognised the impropriety o f that statement, whether true or false, as soon as it was brought under the notice of the House. But he thought it would be more respectful to her Majesty, and more likely to insure his conducting himself with due propriety in the matter, that he should take forty-eight hours to consider in what manner he should deal with “ so very new and un“ expected an event.” Having done so, he frankly admitted that his statement, although he believed it to be true at the time he made it, was one which he ought not to have made. ■“ I acknowledge, he said, “ that it was wrong to have made ■“ it, because no one has a right— and no one looking at the 4‘ thing calmly and dispassionately feels this more strongly “ than I do— to drag the name of the Sovereign, even in“ directly, into our disputes in this House. I sincerely re“ gret that I did not remember the fact that in the whole o f the Queen’s dominions her Majesty is, by reason of “ her Sovereign dignity, the only person upon whom is im“ posed the disability o f not being able to say anything in “ personal defence. That alone, if there was no other “ reason, ought to have closed my mouth, and I hope the “ House will consider my acknowledgment both full and “ ample.” Mr. Lowe further expressed his “ sincere and “ extreme regret,” as one who was “ wholly and heartily a “ dutiful and loyal subject o f her Majesty,” that by his fault— a fault which he admitted— he had put the Queen to the disagreeable necessity, which “ ought never to have “ been imposed upon her,” of making a communication on paper on going into Committee of Supply the next day, in order that Mr. Disraeli and Lord Harrington might come to an agreement as to a day, but Mr. Disraeli at once took up the challenge, and placed Thursday at Sir Henry James’s disposal, as the notice o f morion was, in his opinion, one involving, not merely censure, but a vote o f want of confidence. The proposed resolution was couched in the following terms : “ That, having regard to the declarations made “ by her Majesty’s Ministers during the progress of the Royal “ Titles Act through Parliament, this House is of opinion “ that the Proclamation issued by virtue of that A c t does “ not make adequate provision for restraining and prevent“ ing the use o f the title of Empress in relation to the inter“ nal affairs of her Majesty’s dominions other than India.” It may be questioned, even from the Opposition point o f view, what possible good could be effected by reopening the question, and Sir Henry James would have acted more in the spirit of Lord Harrington’s speech on the subject of Mr. Fawcett’s motion if he had let the matter sleep. One of the most sensible things we have seen on the subject is a letter signed “ J. F .” in the lim es of Monday, in which the writer observes that “ were Parliament as a whole to accept the “ unalterable decision arrived at by a large majority, and “ to rely upon the pledges of Ministers, not given in such a “ matter without authority, as binding upon the Crown and “ Government beyond the duration and accidents of a “ Ministry, it might be hoped that a new era in the history “ of the Indian Empire might be commenced without “ lessened prestige and clouded auspices. But it must be “ feared that if any wide-spread feeling be aroused in India “ that some invidious and sinister aspect rests upon the Im“ perial title— that all the subjects o f the Crown possessing “ representative institutions reject and detest the sym“ bol o f supremacy which the Queen has assumed

N e w S e r i e s , V o l . XV.JNo. 392.