THE TABLET

A IVeekly Newspaper and Review.

I )U M VOBIS GRA.TULAMUR, ANIM OS ET IAM ADDIMUS U T IN INCCEPTIS V E STR IS CONSTANTER M ANEATIS.

From the B r ie J o j H is Holiness to T he T ablet, Ju n e 4 , 1870.

Voi. 37. No. 1621. L o n d o n , M a y 6, 1871.

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«Ch ronicle ok t h e W e e k : The

Transfer of the Capital.— Rome.— French Bishops on the Temporal Power.— Protestantized Rome.— Deputations and Addresses.—• American Public Opinion on Italy. — Adhesions to Catholic Doctrine. —A Protestant on Dr. Dollinger. — The Archbishop of Paris.— The Freemasons.— Prince Bismark on the War. — Paris: Education.— Revolutionary “ Equality.”— The Empire.— Communist Impiety.— Mgr Laforet’s Discourse.— The Bishop o f Rottenburg.— Tien-Tsin Massacre.—Westmeath.— &c., &c. 541 ^Leaders :

The Position o f the Ministry . 545 Parties in Austria and her Future. 546 The Church in Germany . . 546

C O N T L eaders (continued) :

The International Exhibition . 548 Popular Education . . . 548 Peter’sPence. . . . . 549 T he A nglican M o v em en t :

The Purchas Case.— Appeal for • R ehearing....................................549 R eview s :

The Dublin Review . . . 550 The History of the Foundation of the Order of the Visitation. . 551 The Diplomatic Review . . 552 S hort N o t ic e s :— Paris Statues in

Debate.—The House of Argyll, from the year 420 to the present time.— L ’Armée de MacMahon et la Bataille de Beaumont.— The Rosarian. — Blackwood. — May Carols.— Macmillan.— The Dark B l u e .............................................552

E N T S . C orrespondence :

“ The Genesis of Species ” . . 553 Offering of the Youth of England to the Holy Father . . . 554 P a r l ia m en t a r y S ummary . . 554 R ome :

Dr. Pantaleoni.— Roumenia the

Friend of Italy.— The Disturbances at the Church o f the Gesu.— The Austrian Ambassador.— Heresy in Rome.— The Sects.— Italian Unity an Illusion. — Deputations.— The Transfer. — Brigandage. — Address to General Kanzler. . . . 557 R ecord of th e C ouncil :

Circular of Mgr Hefele, Bishop of

Rottenburg.— Address of the Clergy of Cologne.— The Very Rev. Dr. Newman and English

Catholics.— The Roman University.— The Bishop of Marseilles and his Grand Vicaire.— Diocese o f Regensburg. — Drs. Friedrich and Huber.— Dr. Döllinger’s Reply . • . • • 558 D io cesan N ews : Westminster.—

Southwark. — Nottingham. — Ecclesiastical Appointments . . 560 I reland :

Letter from our Dublin Correspondent . . . . 560 F oreign N ews :

France .

M em oranda ;

. 561

Religious . . . . 562 Educational . • 563 Literary . - 564 Scientific • 564 G en er a l N ews . 565

C H R O N IC L E O F T H E W E E K . THE TRANSFER OF THE

A N A Z IO NE ” has published two

CAPITAL. L TIOUS would to be letters, which have made a sensation at Florence. The author considers that the transfer o f the capital to Rome, prethe consolidation o f the Italian Kingdom, unwise haste. He confesses that Rome is, J a r excellence, the cosmopolitan c i t y ; but he adds, that the repugnance o f the Romans to have their city Italianized is accounted for by the fact that they do not wish their “ monuments” reduced to the average level o f those o f Florence or Milan. The Romans object, not unnaturally, “ to cut the skirts o f their togas, and to reduce them to modern frock-coats.” Hideous fatality— that 2000 years o f universal history should be effaced in one single d a y ! The Romans— continues the correspondent— may have “ good-will” enough; but it is unfair to expect them to throw open their gates to receive some 40,000 strangers, who, under pretext o f helping them to govern, will, in truth, become their tyrants. These letters have created a profound impression in Florence ; for the Government is persuaded that La Nazione could not have been so bold as to publish them, i f it had not been backed by members o f Parliam ent; who are perceiving that Europe, engaged as it is, can find time to discuss The Transfer. A correspondent affirms that the Florentine Government is much disquieted by the five very powerful Protests which Austria, France, Belgium, Prussia, and Bavaria are preparing to launch on this subject. No doubt the excitement is slightly exaggerated, for the Protests .are still but expected. Two only are sure : the rest may perhaps follow. Still, there is a sign that Europe is unwil­ ling to receive its last orders from F lorence; that it fully appreciates the importance of the question ; and that though the rescue may be long in coming, there is hope o f its coming at last.

A writer from Rome to the Correspondence de rome. Geneve affirms that the Communists might die o f envy at the spectacle o f the Revolution in Rome. They (the Communists) are pigmies in crime compared to the tyrants o f Rome. Brigandage is practised in Paris; but in Rome it is erected into law. M. Thiers is reported to have said— by an Italian journal, the Universo— “ The work which “ has been accomplished at Rome, the spoliation o f the “ Pope, is a graver fact for Europe than even the fratricidal “ war which we are compelled to wage on Paris.” Whether M. Thiers said this or not, the truth is transparent enough. Material interests are compromised in P a r is ; but the seizure o f Rome is the professed subjection of justice to revolutionary force. It is crowned injustice which is enthroned in the Quirinal; it is un-crowned force which reigns

Paris. Our hope is— in the language o f Joseph de N ew Series. Vol. V, No. 130. in

Maistre— that “ Revolution which begins by proclaiming the “ rights o f man must end by proclaiming the rights of God.”

French We reac^ in t^le Univers that— bishops ON The Bishops of France are preparing a petition on THE TEM- the Roman Question, which they will present to the PoRALPOWER. Assembly; praying that, in the exercise of its Sovereign

Power, it will pronounce, by a Legislative Act, against the violence and injury done by Piedmont to the Pontiff.

A Methodist chapel is about to be opened in Rome. This will be the 16th heretical temple which has been started bv the Revolutionary party, under the eyes o f the Chief of Catholicism. “ A Free Church in a Free State,” was an excellent motto to begin w ith ; but the freedom is only the State’s ; the Church has none whatever.

The number of Addresses forwarded to Rome ™ I0!is during the last few weeks, from various parts addresses. ° f the Catholic world, has been so large that we have been compelled to omit all attempt at distinct enumeration. The best proof of their number and importance is found in the fact that the Revolutionary Government has seriously considered whether such “ ovations” should be constantly permitted.

American F'he New York Herald, in commenting upon public the Kingdom of Italy, says, that “ Italy desires to opinion on “ loot the property spoils which have accumu-

it a l y . 11 la^ed t]le Catholic centre from offerings of “ the faithful during very many centuries. The first Napo“ leon desired the same thing. The great French soldier “ accomplished his purpose. A stranger government found “ him a solitary grave. H e took nothing with him. The “ gold and silver of the temple remained after him. The “ tapers of the Church when all was ended, were used to “ light the gloom o f the tomb o f S. Helena, through the “ charitable absolution o f the clergy o f Rome.” Such is the public opinion formed by non-Catholics in the free and enlightened States of America. A curious contrast with the tone of the Times in England.

The Catholic clergy o f Mayence, Bamberg, adhesions to p er]¡n Potsdam, Breslau, Tornovitz, Schrau,

doctrine. Oppeln,Neustadt, Palnisch-Wartemberg, Lühn,

and Cologne, have adhered to the declaration of the clergy of Munich, in the matter of the excommunication.

The well-known Protestant Schuselka writes a proteS)Tant tQ tjle journal, £ a Reforme:— “ Now that a dollinger. “ crushing majority o f a legitimately consti-

“ tuted Council has determined the Dogma o f “ Infallibility, it is idle to oppose to it a private opinion “ founded upon (fluctuating) science.” The Professor argues, says the writer, as though his private ideas upon what he considers to be science were immutable laws for all ages o f the Church ; and sets up himself to judge an institution which, he acknowledged, had the right to judge him. Now,