THE TABLET
A W eekly Newspaper and Review
Dum VOBISGRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the Brief of His Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.'
Vol. 49. No, 1934. L ondon, M a y 5, 1877.
P r ic e 5d. B y P o s t 5& d
[ R e g is t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o s t O f f ic e a s a N ew s p a per
•Ch r o n ic l e o f t h e W e e k :—
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The Jubilee of Pius IX .—The French Catholic Petition.— The English Reply to the Russian Circular. — The Russians in Asiatic Turkey.—The War in Europe.— Hobart Pasha’s Escape.— The Hopes of Localisation.—The Russian Treaty with Roumania.— Mr. Gladstone’s Resolutions. — The Irish Tenant Right Debate.—The “ Bright ” Clauses.—The Fight over Mr. Biggar.— The Debate on the Burials Bill.— The Ceylon Scandal.— Count Von Moltke’s Explanation .. .. .. .. 545
CONTENTS
L e a d e r s :
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“ Lessons in Massacre ” .. . . 549 The New Gladstone Agitation .. 550 The Clerical Abuses Bill.. .. 550 Prospects of Improvement in
Germany .. .. _.. .. 551 The Debate on the Irish Land
Question .. .. .. .. 552 Ritualism.— III. .. .. .. 553 The Persecution in Prussia ** 554
R e v ie w :
The Nineteenth Century .. 555
S h o r t N o t ic e s :
Love the Leveller .. .. .. 557 Un Nonce du Pape à la Cour de
Catherine IL .. .. . . 557 Devotion to St. Joseph .. .. 557
S hort N o t ic es (continued) :
Ecclesiastical Handbook.. No vena to St. Philip Neri C hurch M u sic .............................. 557 C o r r e s p o n d en c e :
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557 557
Exiled German Nuns
Warwickshire An Old Custom Loans to Belligerents St. Joseph’s Society for Foreign
Missions P a r l ia m e n t a r y S ummary
R ome :— Letter from our own Cor
respondent .. .. .. 561 Offerings for the Jubilee of Our
Holy Father .. .. .. 562 The League of St. Sebastian .. 563
558 558 558 558 559
D io c e s a n N ew s
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Westminster.. . . . . .. 563 Beverley .......................................563 Birmingham.. .. . . . . 564 Nottingham.......................................564 P l ym o u th ......................... .. 5^5 Salford .. .. . . . . 565 I r e l a n d
Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent .......................................565 F o reign N ew s ;—
Germany
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M em o r a n d a :—
Religious .. .. . - .. 5^6 St. Michael’s Catholic Working
Men’s Club ......................... 566 G e n e r a l N ew s ...............................6 57
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
THE preparations for the celebration of the Episcopal Jubilee of his Holiness ...... — are being diligently pushed forward in every country of the Catholic world. Offerings •of great value and interest are being despatched, especially from France and Germany, and among the offerings of the latter country those from Munich are especially remarkable. From the extreme north of America comes a life size model of a missionary in a sledge drawn by dogs upon the frozen snow, and the bags which ought to contain his provisions and other necessaries are filled with sovereigns, the offering of distant Manitoba to the Chief Pastor who, in order to meet the calls made upon him by the administration and other pressing needs of the Church throughout the world, has to depend upon the filial charity and voluntary aid of his children. It would be impossible to enumerate the even the greater number of the addresses which are being prepared for presentation to his Holiness ; among those in which we in this country are more especially interested, besides the address of the hierarchy, the clergy, and the English Catholic laity, already mentioned, an address has been drawn up for the signature of the Catholic members of Parliament, and we have news of others from the most distant possessions of the British Crown in •either hemisphere. An admirable address has been sent by the Archbishop, clergy, and laity of the Diocese of St. Boniface, Manitoba, and the Indo-European Correspondence brings us an account held at the beginning of last month in the Town Hall of Calcutta, in which more than two thousand persons, under the presidency of the Archbishop Vicar Apostolic, after declaring their affectionate veneration for the person of Pius IX., and their loyal devotion to the H o ly See, resolved on the preparation of an address. The ■ offerings from the United States of America are said to amount to 300,000 dollars—-jQ60,000. The French pilgrimage has been on its way for some time, stopping at the principal cities of Italy to visit objects and institutions of interest to Catholics, and we have heard of it at Turin, Milan, and Padua. The main body of the English deputation started last night. It is impossible as yet to state with any accuracy the number of persons composing it, as the list of eighty-six names printed by the Catholic Union is necessarily very imperfect.
The Radicals and anti-Catholics of France th k f r e n c h a s w e q a s 0 f I t a l y are making a great deal of
CATHOLIC PETITION
capital out of the petition in favour of the spiritual independence of the Holy See, which is being circulated among the French Catholics. While in the Italian Senate, where the Clerical Abuses Bill is being debated, the Marquis Cadorna talks of the dicta-
tion of “ reactionary parties abroad,” and implores the Senate not to yield to it, the French Radicals try to persuade their countrymen that “ the priests” want to plunge them into war with Italy. And M. Jules Simon himself, in a circular to the prefects, announces that in his opinion “ the cir“ culation of these writings, the terms of which are so “ offensive to the public powers of a neighbouring and “ friendly country, cannot be covered by the immunities “ attaching to the legitimate exercise of the right of petition, “ and the Government cannot tolerate that citizens should “ be thus publicly provoked to mix themselves up in the “ domestic concerns of a foreign nation.” Accordingly every conceivable difficulty is thrown in the way of those who are collecting signatures, and in many places it is quite impossible to obtain the necessary official “ legalisa“ tion” of the signatures affixed. The wrath of the Minister of the Interior has been especially provoked by the Bishop of Nevers having sent the petition to all the mayors in his diocese requesting their co-operation in the legalisation of signatures. What effect the petition could possibly have, beyond that of a protest, is a question which might be argued, and about which a difference of opinion is possible, but the charge that it is a provocation to hostility is transparently disingenuous. What the petition asks for is diplomatic intervention, which may be couched in the most friendly terms, and as to its being an interference with the “ dcmestic concerns” of Italy, the Italian Legislature has in the most solemn manner, by one of its own statutes, decided that it is not a “ domestic concern ” at all. By the Law of Guarantees, as well as by the accompanying declarations of King Victor Emmanuel and his Cabinet, it has been laid down that the spiritual independence of the Pope, and of his administration as Head of the Church, is a matter which concerns not only Italy but the whole Christian world.
THE ENGLISH
REPLY TO THE RUSSIAN
CIRCULAR.
The English answer to the Russian Circular was sent off on Monday. Already, on the previous Friday, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs had replied to Lord Stratheden’s question whether the Russian statement that “ the Tsar represented the views of Europe” was true as far as England was concerned, Lord Derby naturally said that to answer by a simple “ Yes "o r “ N o ” might lead to very considerable difficulty, and that he preferred to say “ that we are in no way bound by the expression and “ opinion issued by the Russian Government, and that, as a “ matter of fact, we do not accept or admit the arguments “ and conclusions embodied in that document.” Of course we cannot as yet know the precise nature of the answer which our Government has sent. But a telegram of the Central Press states that after almost daily meetings of the Cabinet, in which there were at first some divergences of
N ew Se r ie s , V o l . XVII. No. 443.
