THE TABLET

A IVeekly Newspaper and Review

D um VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAYIS.

from the Brief of His Holiness Pins IX. to T he T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.'

Vol. 54. No. 2022. London, January i i , 1879.

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C h ronicle o f t h e W e e k —

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The French Senatorial Elections. •— The French Government and the Chambers.— The French Authorities and Religious Teachers in Schools.,— Health of the Prime Minister. — General Kaufmann and Shir Ali.— Yakoub Khan and his Army —The Advance on Candahar. —The Occupation of Khost. — The Accident on Board the Thunderer.— Mr, W . E. Forster at Bradford.— Strike o f Railway Servants.— Statement on Behalf of the Company —The Distress in Cornwall.— The Archbishop of Tuam and Mr. M. Henry on Home Rule.— Gclcien Wedding Of the German Emperor, & c. . . 33

CONTENTS.

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L e a d e r s : P e t e r ’s P en c e ........................... 37

The French Senatorial Elections 37 Russian Officials and the Berlin

Treaty . . ......................... 37 General Grant in Ireland . . . . 38 Railway Economy . . ^ . . . . 39 The Second Latin Literature—

The Prayers . . . . . . 40 R e v iew s :

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S hort N otices :

Passing Away . . . . . . 45 Little Sufferings .. . . . . 45 Sayings and Prayers . . . . 45 The Educational Year-Book . . 45 Catholic Directory for Scotland.. 45 Cupid's Curse, and other Tales.. 45 ’ Twixt Will and Fate, &c. .. 45 Magazines for January . . . . 45 C o rrespondence :

Asiatic Turkey . . . . ..41 The Dublin Review . . . . 42 The Nineteenth Century'1.. . . 43 The Manners and Customs of the

Ancient Egyptians . . . . 44

Twenty Years’ PracticalExperience of Catholic Literature . . .. 46 Faith of our Fathers.— X X III. . . 46 Secular Emblems in Churches .. 47 “ Gloria, Laus, et Honor.” . . 47

Correspondent . . ., PrfP

R ome : — Letter from our own

D io ce san N ew s Westminster.................................... 50

Clifton .. . . . . ..50 I r e l a n d :—

Letter from our own Corre­

spondent ......................... „ F oreign N ew s ;—

Germany . . . . M em o randa :—

R e l i g i o u s .................................... Scientific .................................... G en er a l N ews : ...........................

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

THE FRENCH SENATORIAL ELECTIONS. T

'H E French Senatorial elections have resulted, as everybody anticipated, in a decisive victory for the Moderate Republic. And the blow inflicted on the partisans of Monarchy in its different forms has been even more crushing than it was expected to be. Of eighty seats of retiring Senators which have been filled up— nearly sixty of which have till now been occupied by Monarchists,— only sixteen have been secured by those parties, the remaining sixty-six being won by Republicans. The Senate has now become an assembly of genuinely Republican instead of Monarchical tendencies, and consists of 177 Republicans and only 121 Monarchists, of whom sixty are Legitimists, thirty-five Orleanists and twenty-six Bonapartists. This momentous change in the composition of the Upper House is what the Republicans have been long waiting for, with a view to putting their full programme into execution, and the effect of it will be seen, not only in the Bills which will probably be introduced next session, but in the election of the next President and the constitutional changes to be proposed at the termination of the Septennate. Bat as the recent elections have indicated a general aversion from extreme Radicalism as well as from Monarchical reaction, it is to be hoped that the violent changes which figure in the programme of the more advanced Republicans will find no support in the new Senate. Sober members of the party, at least, who wish for the stability of their favourite institutions, must do all in their power to discourage the enterprises of M. Gambetta’s tail.” For if the Republic does fall it will be by the excesses of its own adherents, and by the evocation of the “ Red Spectre” to terrify the steady going and money getting middle classes, commercial and agricultural. At three years from this date there will be another election of a third of the Senators subject to retirement— -if the Senate still exists— and the Republicans will no doubt receive a further reinforcement. It is to be hoped that then also moderate counsels rather than extreme Radicalism will be in the ascendant.

\ t the opening of the Session, next Tues-

the french ¿ay, ¡s expecte(j that a Republican, M.

And th e Duclerc, who was originally “ reader in a c h am b e r s , newspaper printing-office, and was Minister of

Finance under General Cavaignac in 1848, will be elected President in the place of the Due d’AudifiretPasquier, who, by the bye, has just been chosen successor to Mgr. Dupanloup in the Academy. The Government is

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expected to communicate to the Chambers a legislative programme, on which the Marshal-President, M. Dufaure, and M. Gambetta are reported to have come to a complete agreement. There is to be another amnesty, but not an indiscriminate amnesty ; the question about the Ministers of War and Marine being as subject to the control of the Chambers as their colleagues is to be settled as the Constitutionalists desire, and General Borel’s resignation is expected from day to day.

One of the greatest impediments to the the french reconciliation ot the French Catholics with a S H eligious ^ e ^ RepU “ C _ ®° mUCh .deS‘ red ^ th e teachers in Moderate Republicans— is the determination schools. shown by the local authorities throughout the country to suppress all elementary schools conducted by Religious teachers; all, in fact, except those in immediate dependence on themselves and on the State. The French Catholic papers have been for a long time past full of details of the persistent war carried on by the Prefects of Departments and the mayors of communes and their subordinates against the schools taught by the Christian Brothers and Religious women, who, in a great number of instances, have been violently and illegally expelled from their schools by an arbitrary stretch of power, and against the wish of the inhabitants. And any hope of redress by the Government would seem to be illusory. M. Bardoux, the Minister of Public Instruction, has hitherto turned a deaf ear to all remonstrances from, and on behalf, of the Religious Congregations, and one day last week that Minister gave audience to a deputation from the Municipal Council of Paris, who came to him to ask for the total exclusion of the Religious element from all the schools in the Capital. This proposition, which is, by the way, at present completely illegal, was so far entertained by M. Bardoux that he promised to refer it to the Council of Ministers, and to communicate the decision to the Municipality on or before the 14th inst.

Alarming reports concerning the health of the

THELpim°J Prime Minister have been in circulation, the m in is t e r . Standard and the Globe representing him as seriously i l l ; but the Central Press, reproduced by the Times, D a i ly Telegraph and D a i ly Neivs, flatly contradicted them. At the end of die controversy the truth appeared to be that Lord Beaconsfield had had an attack of gout, but not a bad one ; that as a precaution he had kept his rooms without coming down stairs, but that he had not sent for a doctor. We may confidently hope therefore that there is no real cause for alarm respecting a life which is at the present moment one of the most important, if not the most important in Europe.