THE TABLET A Weekly N ew spaper a n d Review.
Dim VOBIS GRA.TULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCŒPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS. From the E r ie J oj B i s Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , Ju n e 4, 1870.
Vol. 37. No. 1622. L ondon, May 13, 1871.
P r ic e 3d. B y P o st 5 ^ d
[R eg iste r ed a t t h e G en er a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.
«Ch ro n ic le of t h e W e e k : The
Address from Great Britain to the Pope.— The English Clergy and the Jubilee.— The Continent and the Jubilee.—The Women of Ireland and the Youth of England, -f- Republicanism in Rome. — Transfer o f the Capital.— The Pope and the Sultan.— Conference on the Italian Question.— Mgr Franchi.— New way to Value old Pictures.— Paris.— Mazzini on the Commune.— Alsace and Lorraine. —M. Thiers and the Treaty of Peace.— The “ Reigning Scandal” in Paris —'Sisters of Picpus.— Women’s Rights.— The Dollinger Scandal.— Belgian Liberalism.— Chinese Justice. - Disestablishment. --Disestablishment by Blood.
C O N T
—UniversityTests Bill.— Sons (and Daughters) of the Clergy.— “ Come out of Her, My People ” . 573 Le a d e r s :
Disestablishment in England . 577 Associations Anti-Catholic and
C a t h o l i c .................................... 578 Women’s Rights .... 578 Peter’sPence. . . . . 579 A Discussion of the Principles of ’89,
by Mgr Nardi .... 579 R eview s :
Annals of Oxford .... 583 The Next Generation . . . 584 S hort N o t ic e s :
On Art Education.— The Men and
Women of the English Reformation.— My Personal Recollections o f Rome .... 585
C H R O N IC L E O F T H E W E E K .
THE POPE. o
THE ADDRESS 3?ROM GREAT BRITAIN TO
N Tuesday, the 4th instant, the Address of the Catholics of Great Britain, to which was attached an enormous roll of 5 0 4 , 5 5 2 signatures, was presented to the Holy Father by the Rev. A. W. Dolman, who was the bearer •of it to Rome, and Mgr Stonor. The Holy Father greatly admired the manner in which it had been illuminated, and asked Mgr Stonor to translate it for him. As it was read off in 'Italian the Holy Father kept up a running comment of approval upon its sentiments and the way they were expressed. The allusion to his being “ a prisoner for our sake ; ’’ the ■“ probability that the disregard by other nations of the Pope’s “ rights would turn to their ruin,” and that we could not suffer that our access to him should depend upon the permission of any present Kingdom or any prospective Republic, especially arrested his attention. The Holy Father expressed himself as particularly pleased with the Address, with the number of the signatures, and presented Mr. Dolman with two medals as a token of his approval of what he had •done.
THE ENGLISH ■ CLERGY AND THE JUBILEE.
We publish elsewhere a letter from the Rev. Edward Slaughter. The proposal it contains will be accepted, we are sure, by every priest in England with the greatest satisfaction and joy. It is a thought which must be in the mind of every priest— What can he do to celebrate the Jubilee of the Vicar of Christ? Nothing could be more appropriate than an Address, accompanied with a little offering made out of the poverty of the hard-worked clergy of England, and this ■ might be enriched by that gift of infinite value which each priest can offer— the Holy Sacrifice of the New Law. We trust that Fr Slaughter will himself hasten to carry out his proposal. Whatever he does, we know will be done with prudence and under the sanction of ecclesiastical authority. It would surely be easy to get up a Deputation of Priests, one or more from each Diocese, to carry the Address to Rome. They would have to start during the Octave of Corpus Christi, the 16th falling on the Friday after the Octave. The expense of a journey to Rome and back by Cook’s tickets can now be accomplished for ^ 1 8 10s. first ■ class, and £ 1 4 10s. second class, there and back.
THE CONTINENT
AND THE JUBILEE.
Great preparations are being made in every country to celebrate the Jubilee of the Holy Father. In Italy several of the Bishops have issued instructions for the occasion : in Holland a Central Committee has been formed to arrange for a splendid demonstration of faith and love in honour of the Prisoner of the Vatican. The papers of Amsterdam .speak of the enthusiasm of the people. At the suggestion
N e w S e r i e s . V o l . V . N o . 13 1 .
E N T S . C orrespondence:
The Holy Father’s Jubilee . . 586 “ The Genesis of Species ” . . 586 P a r l ia m e n t a r y S ummary . . 586 R ome :
England, Italy, and the Holy
See : The Guarantees.— Pilgrimage in Italy for the Pope.— Styrian Deputation. —Transfer of the Capital of Italy . . 589 R ecord of th e C ouncil :
Dr. Dollinger’s Heresy.— Incon
sistencies of the Dollinger Party. — Letter from the Papal Nuncio, at Munich, to the Bishop of Rottenburg................................... 590 D io cesan N ews : Westminster.— Southwark. — Nottingham.— Plymouth.— Salford. —Shrewsbury . . . .5 9 1 I r elan d :
Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent.— The Bishop of Meath on the Westmeath Bill.— The Irish College at Paris. . . 592 F oreign N ews :
France ; The Convent of Picpus.
—The Church o f S. Roch and the Clergy of Paris . . . 593 M e m o r a n d a :
Religious: Arrest and Imprison
ment of Fr Hogan.—Anglican Confession and Jurisdiction . 594 Educational : Higher Education in I r e la n d ....................................595 G en er a l N ews . . . . 597
of the Abbé Brouwers of Amsterdam the Priests of Holland are composing poems in honour of God and of his Vicar, and music and paintings are being also collected to be laid at the feet of the Sovereign Pontiff. In Italy an appeal has been made to the Catholic musicians to compose an album of hymns for the 16th of June. In Vienna the Society of Catholic Youth, and the Committee of the Austrian Catholic Conferences, are determined to celebrate with great rejoicings the auspicious event.
In Ireland the Catholic women have been the women invited to send their names to an address to be °F, presented to the Holy Father. Their signatures youth of an(3 their subscriptions will be received up to England, the 20th of May; by— among others— Miss
Murphy, at 5, Belvedere-place, Dublin, or by the Lady Mayoress, Mansion House, Dublin. The gross sum will be acknowledged in the papers when the lists are closed. And in England the Catholic Youth, under the leadership of Lord Campden, Lord Beaumont, and Mr. R. B. Woodward, are sending in their names in thousands, and their offerings have already exceeded ^1400.
The Roman Correspondent of the London republican- Qi0})e ;s 0f opinion that the Government did well to stop the demonstration which was arranged for Sunday (April 30). It would have been a purely Republican and Socialistic gathering, under pretext of honouring Brunetti. Moreover, the selection of the anniversary of a French defeat, on which to celebrate the memory of Brunetti, “ showed evidently a fixed purpose on the part 11 of the promoters of the demonstration to foment the bitter “ feeling already existing among the Italian Republicans “ against the Versailles Government, and notably against “ Monsieur Thiers; who, it is surmised, will intervene for the “ protection of the Pontiff, as soon as he has conquered the “ Communists of Paris.” The correspondent adds that the tone of many articles in some of the leading journals has latterly been most contemptuous towards /France ; and offensive comments were lately made upon the arrival in Rome of the new French Ambassador, who has had several interviews with the Pope and with Cardinal Antonelli. He— the correspondent— writes as if he considered that Rome were chiefly divided into two broad classes : Republicans, and those who still are devoted to the Government of Pius IX. It must be remembered, he says— when speaking of the noisy manifestations of fete days— that “ many Romans who hang out flags, and illuminate in “ honour of Victor Emmanuel, cordially detest him neverthe“ less ; and would as soon take a snake as an Italian employè “ into their houses and he asserts thatnothing could surpass the rancour and animosity which were occasioned by the recent edict— to force Italian lodgers on the Romans.
