THE TABLET
A W eekly Newspaper and Review
D um VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
Prom the B r ie f of His Holiness Puts IX . to T h e Tablet, June 4, 1870.'
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L o n d o n , M a r ch 1 5 , 1 8 7 9 .
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G en e r a l P ost Offic e a s a N ew spaper.
CONTENTS.
C hronicle of th e Week
Testimonial to Dr. Newman.—
The New Cardinals.—Marriage o f the Duke of Connaught.—Victory of Colonel Pearson.—Lieutenant Chard’s Report. — Lord
Chelmsford’s Precautions. —
Afghanistan and the Indian
Frontier. — The Impeachment
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P e t e r s P ence ............................ 325 S hort N otices ;
L e a d e r s :
Who is St. Joseph ?
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D io cesan N ews
Westminster.. . .
•• 332 Southwark ..
Liberty and Liberalism ..
The Impeachment of the Two
French Ministries
Modifications in the Irish Inter
325
Magazines for March ,, . . 332 Birmingham..
Clifton
C o rrespo n d en c e :
Hexham and Newcastle
326 Testimonial to Dr. Newman •• 333 Liverpool .........................
The Jubilee Fasting Day •• 333 Salford . . . .
mediate Education Rules 326 The Dominican Nuns at Perugia 333 S cotland :
Question. — The Amnesty. —
Women’s Suffrage.— The Navy
‘ •'As by Law Established.”
Leo X I II . and the Scholastic
327 Faith of our Fathers.—X X IV . •• 333 Galloway
The Late Rev. Mr. Minster, of
Estimates.- The Liquor Traffic.
—Army Discipline Regulation
Bill.— Ihe Queen’s Bench and
. the Bishop of Oxford.—L eoX I II .
and the Temporal Princedom.—
Trial of Passanante.—The Re
Philosophy
The Failure of the Catholic Party
327
Leeds
The Aberdare Mission
I reland
•• 334 Letter from our own Corre
R ev iew s :
An Eirenicon of the Eighteenth in I t a l y ....................................... 329 Secular Schools in Germany •• 335 spondent ..
Irish Catholics in Galloway •• 335 F oreign N ews ;—
“The Liturgical Year.” . . •• 335 France
M emoranda :
pression Bill in the Reichstag.—
Century
The New Spanish Cabinet, &c. 321 Arabia, Egypt, and India
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330 R ome : — Letter from our own
Correspondent............... •• 337 G en e r a l N ews :
Religious
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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WE desire to call attention to a letter from the Duke of Norfolk, with accompanying Resolutions, inwhich a movement is set on foot for the preparation of a testimonial to Dr. Newman on the occasion of his approaching elevation to the dignity of Cardinal. Anything which we ourselves could add in recommendation of this appeal might perhaps be considered superfluous, but we cannot refrain from expressing our warm and cordial sympathy with its object. We doubt not that it will elicit a ready response. We have already dwelt at length on some of the considerations which render the name of Dr. Newman dear to all the Catholics of the British Empire, and venerable wherever the knowledge of the English tongue extends. And we are convinced that there is no sincere Catholic in the country, able to co-operate in this undertaking, who will not gladly avail himself of the opportunity to record his reverence for Dr. Newman’s character, his admiration of his genius, and his sense of the exceptionally eminent services which he has rendered to the Catholic Faith.
It is now stated that the difficulty about t h e n ew removing the Nuncios will be met by the c a r d in a l s , postponement of the Consistory till Whit
suntide, and that on the elevation at that time of Mgrs. Sanguigni and Meglia to the Sacred College, Mgr. Vannutelli will be removed from Brussels to Lisbon, and Mgr. Roncetti from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. Mgr. Capri, from the Hague, is to succeed Mgr. Vannutelli at Brussels, and a new appointment is to be made to the Hague. It is further reported that Mgr. Cattani, the Nuncio at Madrid, is also to be created a Cardinal at the approaching Consistory, and named Bishop of Ancona. The following prelates moreover will, it has been rumoured, receive the Cardinalitial dignity at the same time: Mgr. Haynald, Archbishop of Kalocs in Hungary, who was for some time resident in Rome, and was well known to all foreign visitors ; Mgr. Sanfelice, the new Archbishop of Naples; and the Bishop of Albenga. These, with the Archbishop of Toulouse, the Bishop of Poitiers, Dr. Newman, and Dr. Hergenrother, would make a total of ten new Cardinals; five Italians and five foreigners, of whom two are French, one is English, one German, and one Hungarian.
The marriage of His Royal Highness the thkdukeof Duke of Connaught and Strathearn with Co n n a u gh t . l ^ e Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia was celebrated on Thursday in the Royal Chapel at Windsor. Although the ceremony was, in consequence
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of the recent sad event in the Royal family, comparatively private, a goodly number of Royal and noble guests of the Queen graced the nuptials with their presence. Among them were the King and Queen of the Belgians, the Crown Prince and Princess of Germany, and Prince and Princess Frederic Charles of Prussia, the father and mother of the bride. The marriage is probably not one of any political significance, though its natural effect will be to draw closer the ties of good will between the English and German nations. It is as a domestic event affecting the family of the Queen, who has secured so firm a hold upon the respect and affection of her subjects, that it will be regarded with most interest by Englishmen. The Duke of Connaught is a very popular member of the Royal family, and has by his own merits won the esteem and good will of those with whom he has come in contact in every part of the United Kingdom which his professional duties have caused him to visit. The wishes for his happiness and that of his Royal bride will be hearty and universal.
News reached England on Sunday, by tele-
v ic to r y o f graph from Madeira, that Colonel Pearson had pearson. fought the Zulus on the 13th February and obtained a decided victory. According to the accounts received at Krantzkop (Qu. Eland’s Kop ?), and brought by Zulus across the river, Colonel Pearson’s posisition at Ekowe, or Etchowa, was attacked by a large force of the enemy, who, after a severe fight, were repulsed with heavy loss, and the British commander, sallying out of his intrenchments, pursued them as far as Entumeni, near which he burnt one of their military kraals. It is to be supposed that the news is trustworthy, for it was communicated by the High Commissioner on the 18th in a despatch to the Colonial Secretary at Cape Town. Lord Chelmsford was at Fort Pearson, on the Tugela, on the i2tb, the day before the action, on his way to Ekowe.
Lieutenant Chard’s modest report of the l i e u t e n a n t 5 , - i i i ia n t defence of Rorke’s Drift has at length report. appeared—backed by a warm acknowledgment in the shape of a General Order from Lord Chelmsford—and it furnishes a most graphic narrative of the incidents of that terrible night. Lieutenant Chard mentions with special commendation, not only the conduct of Lieutenant Bromhead and “ the splendid behaviour of his company,” but also Surgeon Reynolds for his attendance on the wounded under fire “ where they fell,” two officers of the Commissariat, Dunne and Dalton, who materially helped in preparing the defences, and ten non-commissioned officers and privates, one of whom, Corporal Schiess, of the Natal ,Native Contingent, is mentioned as having “ greatly dis
