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D u m VO B IS G R A T U L AM U R , A N IM O S ET IAM ADD IM U S U T IN IN CCEPTIS V E S TR IS CON S TAN TER M A N E A T IS .

From the Brief of His Holiness to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870.

Vol. 49. No. 1924. L o n d o n , F e b r u a r y 24, 1877.

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C hronicle of th e Week

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The New English Cardinal.— Our Treaty Engagements.— Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Chaplin.— The Great Debate in the Lords— The Duke of Argyll— Lord Derby— Lord Salisbury.— Lord Beaconsfield and Lord Granville.— The Russian Circular.— The Prisons Bill.— Business in the House of Lords.— The American Committee of Fifteen. — The Attitude of the Democrats.— Release of Mr. Tooth.— The Case o f Mr. Bodington.— Sir Edmund Antrobus and the Liberals.— The German Emperor on the Eastern Question.. . . 225

CONTENTS.

L e a d e r s î

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Irish University Education . . 229 The Address of Pius IX to the

Lent P reach e rs ......................... 229 The Irish Church Surplus . . 230 Freedom o f Education in Prussia 231 The Protestant Tradition.— X I I . 231 R e v iew s :

The Dublin Review . . . . 233 Why are we Roman Catholics ?.. 234 Speeches on Irish Questions . . 235 S h ort N otices :

G eography.....................................235 The Policy o f England in Re­

lation to India and the East . . 235 Revue de l'Enseignement

Chrétien . . . . . . . . 236 Revue Catholique......................... 236

C orrespondence :

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The Irish University Question . . 236 Stoke-upon-Trent Union . . . . 237 The Catholic Blind . . . . 237 Ufton Court ....................... 237 Home for Young People engaged in Business, & c............................237 Calling Names . . . . . . 238 Aberdare and Mountain Ash

M i s s io n s ................................ 238 Fixity of Rent . . . . . . 238 Prayers for Father Rinolfi . . 238 P a r l ia m e n t a r y Summary . . 238 R ome :— Letter from our own Cor­

respondent . . . . . . 241 Speech of the Pope to the Parish

Priests and Lenten Preachers in Rome............................................ 242

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D io cesan N ews Westminster.. . . . . . . 243

S o u th w a r k ....................................... 243 Beverley .......................................243 Birmingham.. . . . . . . 243 Clifton . . . . . . . . 243 Hexham and Newcastle .. . . 243 Liverpool . . 243 Nottingham .......................................243 Salford . . . . . . . . 243 Scotland— Northern District . . 244 I r eland ........................................... 244 F oreign N ew s ;—

France ....................................... 245 Germany ....................................... 245 M em o randa :—

Religious . . . .

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Educational......................... 247 General N ews ........................... 247

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

' THE NEW

ENGLISH CARDINAL. W1 rE are going to have a new English Cardinal, Archbishop Howard having received intimation of his elevation to the Sacred College at the Consistory to be held in the second week of next month. Mgr. Edward Henry Howard was born on the 13th Feb., 1829. He is grandson of Lord Edward Charles Howard, brother to Bernard Edward, 12 th Duke of Norfolk, and son of Edward Giles Howard, Esq., by Frances Anne, eldest daughter of George Robert Heneage, Esq., of Hainton Hall, Lincolnshire. He became in early life an officer in the 2nd Life Guards, and headed the procession at the funeral of the Duke of Wellington. Leaving the army for the service of the Church in 1853, he entered the Accademia dei Nobili Ecclesiastici in Rome, and was ordained sub-deacon by his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman on the 8th of December, 1854, the day on which the Definition of the Immaculate Conception was proclaimed. He was ordained deacon in the following year, and priest on Trinity Sunday in the same year, 1855, by Cardinal Patrizi, the Cardinal Vicar of Rome, at St. John Lateran. He was soon distinguished for his services and prudence, and for his remarkable aptitude for acquiring languages, and the Holy See selected him as a fit person to send to India to take part in arranging the settlement of the Goa schism. On his return from this employment, he was appointed a Domestic Prelate by Pius IX. In August, 1870, Mgr. Howard was chosen by Cardinal Mattei, then Dean of the Sacred College, to be his Vicar or Deputy in the office of Archpriest of the Basilica of St. Peter. Cardinal Mattei died in the following October, but his successor, Cardinal Clarelli, confirmed or continued Mgr. Howard in the place of Vicar of the Vatican Basilica, which he has retained under Cardinal Borromeo, the successor of Cardinal Clarelli, and the present Archpriest of St. Peter’s. Cardinal Clarelli was also Bishop of Frascati, and a few months before his death solicited from the Holy See a coadjutor or auxiliary Bishop for Frascati, naming Mgr. Howard for the office. This request was granted, and Mgr. Howard was appointed on the 22nd of June, 1871, and consecrated in St. Peter’s on the 30th of June as Archbishop of Neo-Caesarea in partibus by Cardinal Sacconi, assisted by the late Archbishops Vitelleschi (afterwards Cardinal) and de Merode. On the 7th of the following July Cardinal Clarelli died, and, Cardinal Guidi succeeding to the see of Frascati, the duties of Archbishop Howard in that diocese came to an end. His name, however, still appears in the Gerarchia Cattolica as Suffragan of Frascati. Archbishop Howard is well and favourably known in Rome as an exemplary ecclesiastic of distinguished presence and studious life. He speaks flu-

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ently French, Italian, Russian, and Arabic, with the kindred langagues. He frequently takes part in the great ecclesiastical functions, and he has long served as confessor to some of the ecclesiastical colleges in Rome. The news of his elevation to the purple will be received with great pleasure and satisfaction by his numerous friends in England and in Rome. There will now be three Cardinals subjects of her Majesty, namely, Cardinals Cullen, Manning, and Howard; and four English-speaking Cardinals when Cardinal MacCloskey is taken into account. The family of Howard, which has given so many distinguished ecclesiastics to the Church, has furnished but two Cardinals— Philip Howard, son of Henry Frederick, Earl of Arundel, Lord Almoner to Queen Catherine of Braganza, Consort of Charles II., and Cardinal from 1675 to 1694, and Edward Henry, now about to be created.

The attack in either House on the policy of our treaty Government in the Eastern question has m k n t s . n°t come t0 very much after all. Since our last issue Mr. Gladstone has led the assault in the Commons, and the Duke of Argyll in the Lords. Yesterday week Mr. Gladstone fastened upon Lord Derby’s despatch of the 5th of September to Sir Henry Elliot, instructing him to represent as forcibly as possible to the Turkish Government that the recent atrocities had raised such a feeling of indignation in England that it would be useless for Turkey, in case of a war with Russia, to look for any support from this country. “ Such an event”— by which was meant a declaration of war by Russia— •“ by “ which the sympathies of the nation would be brought into “ direct opposition to its Treaty engagements,” would, said Lord Derby, “ place England in a most unsatisfactory and “ even humiliatingposition.’’ Takingthis as his text, Mr. Gladstone proceeded to argue that we had no treaty engagements whatever towards Turkey, that Power having put itself out of the pale of treaties by its conduct towards its own subjects. But this position was easily and completely demolished by Mr. Hardy, who showed that the obligations of a treaty must always be reciprocal, and that obligations imply rights. We could not treat Turkey as though she were bound towards us without acknowledging that we were bound towards her. We could not say that she had lost' her rights, but was still fettered by her engagements. Still less could we, one of the parties to a treaty, declare of our own authority that the other party to it was to be excluded from its advantages— the very mode of procedure against which the treaty of 18 7 1— concluded by Mr. Gladstone’s Government— was intended to protest. Moreover, it was not to our engagements with Turkey alone that Lord Derby alluded in this despatch. It was conceivable— though not probable— that we might be called upon by France and Austria to fulfil our obligations under the Tripartite Treaty,