THE TABLET

A W eekly Newspaper and Review.

D u m VO B IS G R A T U L A M U R , A N IM O S E T IA M ADD IM U S U T IN IN CCEPTIS V E S TR IS CO N S T AN T E R M A N E A T IS .

From the Brief of H is Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.

Vol. 49. No. 1939. London, June 9, 1877.

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[R eg i st 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 spaper

C h ro n ic le o f t h e W e e k :—

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The Celebration o f the Jubilee at -Rome.—The Polish Pilgrims— Russia and the Holy See.— Observance of the Jubilee in other Countries.— The Festival o f the “ Statuto.”— Arrest of the President of the Paris Municipaltiy.— Press Prosecutions.— The Marshal, the Chamber, and the Budget.— Ardahan — Defeat of Turkish Cavalry.— The Campaign dn Europe.— Rumours o f Peace .and its Conditions.— Mr. Gladstone and the Radicals.— England and the Suez Canal.— Egypt and the Porte.— The Payment of the French Clergy.— The New Cardinals. .. ......................... 705

CONTENTS.

L ea d e r s :

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Last Sunday in Rome . . . . 709 The Suez Canal and the Govern­

ment . . .. •• •• 71(> The Apostolic Delegate in

Canada . . . . . . . . 7x0 National Education in Ireland .. 711 Ritualism.— V I I I . . . . . . . 712 R e v ie w s :

The Nineteenth Century.. .. 714 Fénelon, Archbishop o f Cambrai. 715 S hort N otices :

Catechism made Easy . . . . 7 1 6 The Children’s own Book of

French Composition . . . . 716 Magazines for June . . . . 716 Messenger of the Sacred H eart.. 717

C o rrespondence :

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Faith o f our Fathers— IX . .. 717 Convent o f the Faithful Virgin, >|

Norwood, Surrey . . . . 718 Masters in Catholic Primary

Schools . . . . . . . . 718 “ Save the Boy.” . . . . . . 719 St. Alban . . . . . . .. 719 Emigration to New Zealand . . 719 P a r l ia m e n t a r y S ummary . . 719 R ome :— Letter from our own Cor­

respondent . . . . . . 721 Exhibtion of Jubilee Presents . . 723 I The Reply of the Holy Father to the Address of the English B i s h o p s ................................. 723 I Celebration o f the Jubilee in !

Rome ....................................... 724

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D io c e sa n N ews Westminster.......................................725

Beverley . . . . .. . . 725 Birmingham.. . . . . . . 726 Nottingham . . .. . . 726 Scotland—Western District 725 I r e l a n d

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent ....................... . ... 726 F oreign N ews

Canada .......................................727 M em oranda :—

R e l i g i o u s ....................................... 727 Gen e r a l N ew s ...............................728

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

THE CELEBRATION OF THE JUBILEE AT

ROME.

THE celebration of the Pope’s Epis­

copal Jubilee culminated in the rejoicings of last Sunday, the actual anniversary of his consecration. On Saturday his Holiness received the College o f Cardinals, the lay Chamberlains of his household, the Neapolitan deputation, and one from the Young Men’s Association of that city, the civilians in the Pontifical service, the Apostolic Protonotaries, and the Privy Chaplains. The address of the Cardinals was read by the Sub-Dean of the Sacred College, Cardinal Di-Pietro, and was accompanied by two specimens in gold, two in silver, and two in bronze of a magnificent medal struck by the Sacred College in commemoration of the day. The Neapolitan address was presented by Cardinal Riario Sforza together with a splendid cope of Byzantine design in cloth of silver with gold embroidery, executed by the inmates of the asylum directed by the Sisters of Charity at .Naples. The Chamberlains, headed by Cavaliere Datti, the senior Privy Chamberlain, and Count de Witten, the senior Chamberlain of Honour, offered a magnificent jewelled Pax with appropriate inscription; the Civil officers a silver statue o f St. Agnes, also enriched with jewels, and bearing the inscription “ Servat-Reducit,” in allusion to the preservation •of the Pope at Sant’ Agnese and his return from Gaeta; the Protonotaries a jewelled pectoral cross ; and the Pontifical Chaplains an altar furniture of silver embroidery on a gold ground. Sunday was reserved for the great celebration of the anniversary and for the reception of the Italians. The Holy Father said Mass in the Sistine, surrounded by the Cardinals and the principal members of the deputations present in Rome, while in the Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli, the scene of the Pope’s consecration fifty years ago, which was “ crowded to suffoca“ tion,” Cardinal Simeoni, whose Title the church is, -celebrated Pontifical High Mass with great splendour and magnificence, in the presence of 190 Bishops, the Ambassadors of France and Austria, and the Ministers of Portugal, Belgium, Bavaria, and Brazil accredited to the Holy Sec, and the representatives of Russia and Paraguay. Then more than 3,000 Italian pilgrims went up to the Vatican, and presented their address without reading it, as the Holy Father must have been already much fatigued. But he spoke to them with his usual vigour, and with even exceptional tenderness, telling them of his joy at being surrounded by his own countrymen, and adding that while as Pope he blessed with all his heart the faithful of the whole world, as an Italian he blessed his fellow-countrymen with the blessing with which Jacob blessed Joseph. After this, which was perhaps the

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crowning satisfaction to his paternal and patriotic heart, Pius IX. gave no more audiences that day. On the following day he received the deputation from Bologna and 8,000 more Italian pilgrims, divided according to their dioceses; and on Tuesday others from the Cistercians of France and Italy, and from the dioceses of Viterbo, Udine, Lugo, and Vigevano ; from La Rochelle, and from Corfu.

We give elsewhere an account, extracted the polish from the Univers, of the splendid function at russ^a T nd San P*etro in Vnicoli, and the first reception of the the Italian pilgrims. On Wednesday the Holy holy see. Father gave audience to 700 pilgrims from

Poland, who brought an offering of 150,000 francs, and many gifts of great value and beauty. Their address was read by Cardinal Ledochowski, who, as Archbishop of Gnesen and Posen, is Primate of ancient Poland, and his Holiness replied that of all the pilgrimages of these days this was one of the most pleasing to him, on account of the persecutions which the Catholics of Poland have so long and so bravely endured. The Cologne Gazette states— with what amount of accuracy we know not— that Prince Urosoff, the diplomatic agent accredited by Russia to the Vatican, has laid before the Cardinal Secretary of State a statement of concessions offered by the Russian Government on the points in debate with the Holy See concerning the Church in Poland, and that Cardinal Simeoni, accepting these concessions, has at the same time declared that the Holy See will continue to protest as long as the violence to which the Church in that country is subjected still endures. Nothing, in fact, which is likely to have to have been conceded can be in any way a compensation for the persecu tion by which the Catholic Uniats have been forced into conformity with Schism.

The great day. was celebrated with the

0 ° - ™ greatest solemnity and enthusiasm throughout l e e in other both hemispheres. In this country it was obcountries. served with Exposition of the Blessed Sacra­

ment after Solemn Mass until the evening, and with a Procession wherever that was possible, and in the United States also with public illuminations in many places. In France the festival coincided with the solemnity of Corpus Christi, which is kept on the Sunday in the octave of that Feast, and the public processions appear to have been even more numerous than usual, and were attended by the chief civil and military authorities. That at Bordeaux seems to have been especially magnificent, as was the great procession at Marseilles, which, though the Radical Municipality refused to take its traditional part in it, was attended by the ancient guilds and trade corporations, as well as by the Prefect and all the Government officials, and by the General and the troops of his command. It would be quite impossible even to mention all the cities