THE ABLET

A W eekly Newspaper and Revieiv.

I )U M VOBIS G R A TU LAM U R , AN IM O S ETIAM ADDIMUS U T IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER M ANEATIS.

From the B r ie f o j H is Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , Ju n e 4, 1870«

Voi. 39. No. 1657. L ondon, January 13, 1872.

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C h r o n i c l e o f t h e W e e k : Lord

Hartington’s Speech.— The Kerry Election.— The “ Social Movement.”— The Paris Election.— The Lesson of the Contest.— Mgr. Dupanloup and M. Littré.— The Academy and Mgr. Dupanloup.— The President and the Assembly. — Debate on the Budget.— The French Education Bill.— The Sorfbonne and the Council.— M. de Montalembert, the Abbé Gratry, and M. Loyson.—The Vatican and the Quirinal.— Diplomacy at Rome.— The “ Exequatur” and the “ Guarantees.”— Trials of the Murderers of the Hostages.— The Duc de Grammont’s Evidence.— The Catacazy Despatch.— The Search for Dr. Livingstone.— &c. .

C O N T

L e a d e r s :

Lord Derby on the Political

Situation . . . . - 3 3 The Paris Elections . . . • 33 Staff and Religious Instruction in

Irish Schools .... E n g l i s h A d m i n i s t r a t i o n s a n d

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C a t h o l i c I n t e r e s t s :

X L IX .— Liberals and the Holy

See.— The Irish Church Establishment.— Ultra-F cnianism Winter Exhibitions.—Society of

British Artists.................................... T h e A n g l i c a n M o v e m e n t :

The “ Church Review” R e v i e w s :

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Sermons on Ecclesiastical Sub­

jects . . .

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The Life of Charles Dickens. . 40

ENTS.

K f.v ie w s (continued):

Wise, Witty, and Tender Say­

ings, in Prose and Verse . Through the Looking Glass : and what Alice found there S h o r t N o t i c e s : The Student’s

Hebrew Lexicon.— A Journey Round my Room.— French Eggs in an English Basket.— Two Thousand Pounds Reward.—The Barnet Catholic Magazine. — The Catholic Truth Magazine.— History and Literature of the Israelites.— Dark Blue.— Review of Christian Education.— Children’s Books ...... C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Syrian Missions .... The Christianity of States . The Ammergau Play

R o m e :

Letter from Rome Peter’s Pence R e c o r d o f t h e C o u n c i l :

M. Loyson and the Abbé Gratry D io c e s a n N ew s :

Westminster .... Southwark .... Hexham and Newcastle Liverpool .... S a l fo rd ..................................... I r e l a n d :

Letter from our Dublin Corre spondent .... F o r e ig n N e w s : France. M e m o r a n d a :

Religious .... Literary ..... Political .... G e n e r a l N ew s

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CHRONICLE OF THE W EEK.

STEECH. L

I.ORD HARTINGTON’S

O RD H A R T IN G T O N ’S speech to his constituents o f the Radnor Boroughs is, in the main, moderate and sensible. That the Government had fallen into a certain amount o f disfavour he does not deny, but he questions whether its unpopularity is as great as its enemies would have us believe it to be. He has been converted to the Ballot since he first came to Radnorshire; and thinks that the opponents of the bill failed to make out that bribery and intimidation can be checked in any other way. On bribery he believes the Ballot will not have much effect— o f course it will not— but in putting a stop to intimidation it may do a great deal o f good — which is very possible. H e abstained with equally good taste and sense from criticizing the House o f Lords, and merely said that that House had “ always shown a wise “ deference to the firmly expressed washes o f the country,” and that when the Commons carried a complete measure early in the session, as he trusted they would in this instance, the Lords would usually pass it. Lord Hartington was also encouraging on the subject o f Army Reform. H e assured his hearers that, in the opinion o f his colleagues, the abolition o f purchase was merely a means to an end, and, while he declined to anticipate Mr. Cardwell’s statement, he implied that a complete scheme o f reorganization was ready or in course o f preparation. We hope this may prove to be the case. Nobody could justly ask for more than Lord Hartington admits to be required. “ Inva“ sion,” he said, “ o f this country should be rendered not “ only dangerous, but impossible. AVe ought never to be “ satisfied unless we were able to meet at least two naval “ powers on the seas. And with regard to our army, we must have a defensive force to secure us against inva“ sion, should by some unforeseen accident our navy be “ overwhelmed, and a standing army well organized, and “ capable o f striking a blow in any part o f the world.” Nothing more than this is expected from any Government, but nothing less will do. On the education question Lord Hartington thought that, as the new A ct was a compromise, it ought to have a fair trial, and regretted the agitation got up against it from members o f the Liberal party. As to Ireland the existence of some disaffection, some agrarian crime, and the Home Rule agitation were no proofs that the policy o f the Government had failed. Time should be allowed ; and animosities which had grown for centuries could not be extirpated in a day. But on the Irish Education question Lord Hartington was decidedly enigmatical. Government, he said, must be patient, but also firm, in showing the people o f Ireland that we did not mean to hand over the control of education entirely to them and to the priests— an acknow-

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ledgment by the way that the Irish people and “ thepriests” are at one in this matter— but he also declared that the University question would be found capable o f solution if the same spirit was brought to bear upon it which had been brought to bear on the Church and the Land. But this, and no more than this, is precisely what “ the priests ” and the Irish people ask for— namely, that an Irish question should be settled in accordance with the wishes and interests o f the Irish themselves.

THE KERRY ELECTION.

The election for County Kerry promises to be a severe contest. On the one hand, Mr. Dease, an opponent o f Home Rule and an advocate for denominational education, is supported by the Bishop of Kerry and the landlords, and especially by Lord Listowel and the Kenmare interest; while Mr. Blennerhassett has the popular demonstrations and the Home Rule organization on his side. The O ’Donoghue has written a very decided letter to the Cork E xam in er in support o f Mr. Dease’s candidature, in which he declares that O ’Connell, if he were now alive, would be opposed to the Home Rule movement, as the Imperial Parliament, as now constituted, has granted, or will grant, all which he desired to obtain through Repeal.

THE “ SOCIAL MOVEMENT.”

Mr. Scott-Russell has published a letter addressed to the “ Lords, gentlemen, and fellow“ workmen,” supposed to constitute the Council of Legislators and the Representative Council o f AA'orking Men, to which is to be intrusted the preparation o f the measures which are to give a definite form to the “ new “ Social Movement.” O f these measures Mr. Scott-Russell now supplies us with a sketch. I t should, he thinks, be stated in the preamble that in some countries lands round the towns are reserved for the common use o f the inhabitants— whereas in England the Legislature has taken away millions of acres o f common land which were the entailed property o f the people— and that the rearing o f healthy families is an object o f the highest public utility. Nobody, we presume, would dispute the latter proposition, but the commons being lost, Mr. Scott-Russell proceeds to ask that Parliament shall empower towns and villages to purchase outlying lands to supply the place of them, the quantity o f land to be purchased depending, in a sliding scale o f proportion, on the population. H a lf this land is to be appropriated to detached cottages in gardens, and the other half is . to be held as common land. There may also be schoolhouses with play-grounds, a town-hall, market-houses and places o f instruction and recreation for the people. The cost o f all this, over and above the rental of 50s. on which he calculates from each cottage, Mr. Scott-Russell proposes to raise by a property tax, to fall on the rich, who are by a con| venient fiction supposed to have deprived the poor of the