THE TABLET
A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
D um v o b is gratulamur, animos etiam addimus ut in incgeptis vestris constanter maneatis.
F r om th e B r ie J o j H is H oliness to The Tablet, J u n e 4, 1870.
Vol. 37. No. 1625. London, June 3, 1871.
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[Registered at the General Post Office as a Newspaper.
«Chronicle of the Week : The
Encyclical.— Murder of the Hostages.— Fire of Paris.— Executions. — Fate of the Insurgent Leaders. —The Prisoners. — The Outcome of “ Civilization.’’—Extradition.—Reparation to God.— Disarmament of Paris. — The .French Government.—Rome and Italy. — Home Rule. — Catholic Demonstration at Cavan.—University Education . . ' . 669 X eaders :
Encyclical Epistle of our Most
Holy Lord Pius IX, by Divine Providence Pope . . . 673 M. Thiers and the Crisis in France 674 The Last Admissions of Free
masonry .................................... 675
CONTENTS.
Leaders (continued)
Irish College, Paris . . . 676 International Exhibition. — The
English Pictures.
. 677
Reviews :
Dr. McCorry on Iona .
My Little Lady
Pictura Picturse . #.
. 678
• 679
. 680
Short Notices :
The Dark Blue.—A Chronological
Sketch of the Kings of England and France. — Three Plays : Scriptural and Historical.—The School Board Guide and Teachers’ Manual . . . 6 8 1 Correspondence :
The Catholics of England and the
Holy Father’s Jubilee. . . 68x
Correspondence (continued)
The Devastation of Paris and its
Lesson. . . . . . 6 8 1 The Profession of an English Matron * .....................................682 The Home Rule Movement in
I r e l a n d ................................... 682
1 Parliamentary Summary . . 683 Rome :
Letter from Rome . . . 685 Address of the Pope to the Catho
lics of Yorkshire . . . . 686 Preparations in England for Cele
brating the Jubilee . . . 687 Address of the English Clergy, to be presented to the Holy Father on his Jubilee , 687 Peter’s Pence.................................... 687
R ecord of the Council :
Pastoral of the German Bishops . 688 The Neapolitan Priests and Dr.
Dbllinger ..... 688 Diocesan News : Westminster: Pastoral Letter of the Archbishop and Bishops of the Province of Westminster assembled ..... 688 Southwark. —Beverley.— N c wport and Menevia.—Scotland . . 690 Ireland:
Letter from our Dublin Correspondent Memoranda ;
. . 690
Religious
Literary ....
Fine Arts and Music
. . 691
.691
. 691
Legal . . . . . .691 General News ■ 693
C H RO N IC L E O F T H E W E E K .
THE Pope’s recent Encyclical, magnifi
cently setting forth upon the highest principles the reasons why he can never accept any so-called Guarantees, will be found in our leading columns. It should be read and studied with care. It will ■ enlighten those whose eyes are dim as to the conduct of the Italian Government, and will provide with the true answer those who are tempted to believe that the Pope had better accept “ accomplished facts.” It is said that the Italian Government is about to send, if it has not already done so, a letter to all the Governments of Europe, couched in those fine phrases of moderation, and mock honesty, ■ best calculated to deceive the statesmen and diplomatists ■ who would gladly support a compromise rather than fearlessly declare themselves for justice and right. Of one thing we may be certain. Pius IX will make no pact with iniquity. We hear from Rome that a Florentine Minister sent a messenger to his Holiness bearing a handsomely bound copy of the Guarantees. The Pope received him, opened the volume, and placing on the first page a protestation against them, closed it, and, returning it to the messenger, said: “ Go, sir; take this back to those who sent you.” An effort will be made to force the Guarantees upon the Pope. It will be the last effort of the Kingdom of Italy to cajole Europe into an approval of its effort to make the Pope the Archbishop of Victor Emmanuel.
This week’s record is a long list of horrors.
MI,Rthe °F On Wednesday the Commune, hunted almost hostages. «nt0 «ts last intrenchments, began to butcher those whom it had declared to be hostages. Sixty-
'four had been shot when the Marines took the prison of La Roquette on Sunday morning, and delivered 169, who, if they had not resisted, were to have been massacred on the previous afternoon. At seven o’clock on Wednesday evening—-according to the correspondent of the S tandard—one Lefrangais, the governor of the prison, who had qualified for the post by six years at the hulks, entered the part of the prison where the hostages were confined at the head of 50 National Guards. The Archbishop, M. Bonjean, President o f the Court of Cassation, the Abbé Deguerry, Curé of the Madeleine, and the Jesuit Fathers Allard, Clair, .and du Coud ray were called out and marched down to the •circular road which divides the building from the outer wall of the prison. They were driven between a double line of National Guards, who heaped upon them every species of insult. Their bearing was courageous and serene. “ Do “ not utter the name of liberty,” said the Archbishop to his murderers; “ it is for us alone to do so, for we are about to die for liberty and God.” Arrived at the place of slaughter he advanced towards the firing party, and
New Series. Yol. V. No. 134.
spoke to them so feelingly of his forgiveness and compassion, that two of them actually knelt down and implored his pardon, for which they were kicked and cuffed by the rest, who began to insult the prisoners so fearfully that even their commander reproved them, saying, “ You are here to shoot “ these people, and not to blackguard them.” The victims were then shot one at a time — Père Allard first, the Archbishop next, and the Abbé Deguerry last. Their bodies were thrown into a railway goods waggon and taken to Charonne, or, according to another account, to Père la Chaise, and there thrown naked into a trench without even a handful of earth to cover them. The bodies of the Archbishop and the Abbe Deguerry have been since embalmed, and lie in state, the one at the Archevêché, and the other at the Madeleine. . The next day it was the turn of the Dominicans of Arcueil. Six of these religious with other professors and servants, 24 in all, who had been confined in the fort of Bicêtre, were taken to the Gobelins when the fort was evacuated on the promise of being set at liberty. Instead of this they were driven to work on the barricades, and then turned into a prison in the Avenue d’Italie. Thither at four in the afternoon arrived a M. Cerisier with a company of the rorst battalion of National Guards who deliberately loaded in the presence of the prisoners. They were then ordered to leave the courtyard one by one. As each passed out he was shot outside. The Prior, P. Captier, went out first reciting a prayer. When struck, he exclaimed, “ Souffrons pour le bon Dieu !” Twelve bodies have been found, amongst which are five fathers— the sixth had escaped on the way thither ; some were missed or only slightly wounded, to one of whom these details are owing. On the night between Friday and Saturday 16 others, the Jesuit Fathers Olivain, Benzy and Gaubert ; the Abbés Sabatier, vicaire of N. Dame de la Lorette, and Polanchin ; Houillen and Perny, missionaries ; MM. Gard and Seignelay, seminary students of S. Sulpice ; Jecker, believed to be the well-known banker, and 38 gendarmes were taken to Père la Chaise a-nd shot there. On Saturday, while the Versaillese were attacking the battery at Père la Chaise, Ferré, member of the Commune and head of the department of Public Safety, installed himself at the prison, liberated all the convicts, and supplied them with arms for an indiscriminate massacre of the hostages. One criminal who was himself awaiting execution was peculiarly cynical and ferocious. Some of the turnkeys could not stand this any longer, and behaved very well at the risk of their own lives. One name 1 Langevin opened some of the cells and advised the prisoners to run for it, which they did, and escaped. Another, M. Pinet opened all the cells, and declaring that it was awful that honest men should be butchered by such ignoble brigands, proposed that they shorn 1 barricade themselves in. This was done both on
