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D u m VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

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

V o l . 5 0 , N o . 1 9 5 9 .

L o n d o n , O c t o b e r 2 7 , 1 8 7 7 .

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C h ro n ic le o f t h e Week

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The Health o f the Pope.— The 'Cardinal's Visit to Rome.—The French Departmental Elections. — Suggestions of Compromise.— The Present and Future Balance o f Parties.— The Question of the Supplies.— Advice of the Constitutionalists.— The Military Situation in Armenia.- The Campaign in Europe. — Suleiman Pasha’s Strategical Movement.— Russian Officers and English Correspondents.— Mr. Gladstone in Ireland. — A Successful Workhouse School.— Free-trade and Reciprocity.— Decline of English Trade. — The Strike of the Masons.— Cleopatra’s Needle, &c. . . . 513

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The French Crisis . . . . . 517 The “ German Union ” in Prussia 517 Poor Law Union Amalgamation,

Ireland .. . . . . . . 5*8 The Future of Pauper Children.. 519 The Late Archbishop of Baltimore 520 The Late Cardinal Riario-Slorza 521 R e v iew s :

The Contemporary Review . . 521 A Guide to St. Chad’s . . . . 522 Letters on M u s i c ......................... 5*3 S h ort N otices :

Britannia . . . . . . . . 523 Multum-in-Parvo Gardening . . 523 Repertorium Oratoris Sacri . . 523 To Rome and Back . . . . 523

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Endowments for Higher Studies 524 The “ Godless Colleges ” . . .. 524 The Just Limits of Evolution . . 524 The Queen v. Bishop Bonner .. 524 Young Men’s Society, Poplar . . 525 St. Anselm’s Society .. . . 525 Critics and Controversialists .. 525 Indian Famine . . . . . . 525 The Catholics of A lbania.. . . 525 I r e l a n d :

Letter from our own Corre­

spondent ....................... .. « 526 R ome :— Letter from our own Cor­

respondent ......................... 529

D io ce san N ews

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Westminster......................... Southwark .. Clifton Hexham and Newcastle . . Liverpool Salford ......................... •• 532

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Germany ......................... United States •• 533 •• 534 M em oranda :—

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CH RON IC LE O F TH E W EEK .

OUR private information from Rome is that the health of Pius IX. continues to

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be generally good, and that audiences are given as usual. But, though there is no reason to apprehend any immediate danger, the appearance o f the Pope is considerably changed, and his features begin to exhibit more marked indications of the advanced age to which his Holiness’s life has been prolonged.

THE c a r d i n a l ’s v i s i t t o

ROME.

A contemporary thinks it significant that the Cardinal Archbishop should have been summoned to Rome since the death of Cardinal Riario-Sforza “ to take counsel on the existing situation.” It is an ungrateful task to destroy illusions, but we may as well at once say that his Eminence has not been summoned to Rome since the death of Cardinal Riario, nor is the object of his visit exactly what our contemporary supposes it to be. The summons was originally for the last Consistory, in the summer, and was therefore sent long before there was any question of Cardinal Riario’s death ; and that the Cardinal is going now instead of then is simply owing to the fact that his Eminence suffers from the extreme heat of a Roman summer, and requested to be permitted to wait for the next Consistory in cooler weather. The object of his visit is simply that he may receive the Cardinalitial Hat, which has not yet been conferred upon him. Before 1870 the Hat was conveyed with great public ceremony to a new Cardinal, either on his creation, or on his visit to Rome for the purpose of receiving it, and this being found impracticable, or difficult, after the change of government, the Hats were not given at all. Recently, however, it was thought desirable that all the Cardinals should receive their Hats, and it will be recollected that they were conferred last summer on several Cardinals of some years standing, such as the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris. The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster is about to receive his next month ; that is all. His Eminence starts, we believe, on the 5th of November.

After the failure of its attempt to obtain a

F r e n c h d e frienc^y Chamber of Deputies, the French Got a r t m e n t a l vernment is at present working hard to preserve e l e c t i o n s , its majority in the Senate, by preparing for the elections on which the future compositions of that body must depend. We have on a former occasion mentioned the extreme importance of the deparmental elections which are to be held on the 4th of next month. At these elections one half of the members of the Councils General and Councils of Arrondissement throughout France are to be renewed. And the electoral college which in each department chooses the Senator representing that depart

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ment in the Upper House consists of the deputies for the department, the members of the Council General, the members of the Councils of Arrondissement, and the members of the Municipal Councils. The Senators thus elected— as distinguished from the seventy-five Life Senators who were chosen by the National Assembly and whose vacancies as they occur are filled up by the Senate itself— are supposed to sit for nine years, one-third of them retiring every three years. But as in 1879 and 1882, the third and sixth year of the Senate’s existence, no Senator will have sat for his full term, it had to be decided by lot which seats— amounting in each case to a third of the nine years’ seats— should be renewed on each of those occasions. This being settled, it is known who is to go out in January 1879, and who in January 1882, and both those elections will be influenced by the departmental elections of the 4th of November. It must, therefore, be obvious to everybody that success at these elections is to the Conservative party, represented by the Marshal and his present advisers, a matter of life or death. And the rumour that the Cabinet would resign immediately and give place to a Ministry of conciliation, never very probable, has been effectually disposed of by the positive and authoritative contradictions of the semi-official papers. Whatever they may do subsequently, the Ministers will certainly not leave their post before the 5th of November.

On the 7th the Chambers are to assemble,

SUof Ecom°NS anci ^ *s understood that the Ministers are promise, pledged to meet them, and not to flinch from the great fight which is sure to arise on the verification of the elections. And if we are to believe what we hear about the temper of the Opposition, it is not probable that any change of Ministry which would be of the nature of a compromise would succeed in averting the impending conflict between the Chamber and the Executive Power. The more advanced papers of the party are urging the majority to get rid of the Marshal, and even of the Senate, and nothing short of the Marshal’s resignation at the least will satisfy them. But if the Republicans will not wait for the constitutional triumph which awaits them in 1880, they ought not to be surprised if they are met by the strong arm of force, supporting the strict letter of the law. And the more moderate are convinced of the necessity of some sort of compromise. M. Guyot Montpayroux, an intimate friend of M. Grevy, and editor of the Courrier de France, has written an article in that paper advising the immediate formation of a Cabinet of conciliation, which could hold the departmental elections on the 4th, meet the Senate on the 7th, and obtain an immediate vote of confidence, and then appeal to the Chamber to adopt a conciliatory attitude and keep the peace, under the assurance that “ the men of the 16th of M ay” will not come back till 1880, when the con