THE TABLET

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

D u m VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the B r ie f o j H is Holiness to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870.'

Vol. 39. No. 1675. L o n d o n , M a y 18, 1872.

P r ic e 5d. B y P o st 5% d .

[R e g is t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew s p a pe r .

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C h r o n ic le o f t h e W e e k : Birth­

day of Pius IX .—The new Ambassadors to the Holy See.—Prince Bismarck on Cardinal Hohenlohe’s Appointment.— The German Idea o f Diplomacy at Rome.—An Italian View of the Incident.— The Official Version.—The Negotiations with America.—The Draft Article.— Its Chances in the Senate.—The Swiss Vote.—The Carlist Campaign.—General Chanzy and M. Gambetta.— The N egotiations with •Germany.—The Army Contracts. —The Capitulation of Paris.— Marshal Bazaine’s Case.—The Ballot Bill. — The Armenian Catholics . . . . . 605

CONTENTS

L e ad ers :

The Past, Present, and Future of

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Primary Education_ . . . 609 The Carlist Insurrection . . 609 Catholic Condemnation of the

Queen’s Colleges . . . 610 E nglish A dm in is t r a t io n s a n d

C a th o l ic I n t e r e s t s . — LXVI. Fox on the Union.—Grattan in Retreat.— Catholics Hopes Disappointed by Pitt and Discouraged by Addington. . . . . 6x2 The Royal Academy. . . .6 13 R e v iew s :

Sceur Eugenie : The Life and

Letters of a Sister of Charity . 614 The Month . . . . . . 615 Middlcmarch ..... 616 The Contemporary Review . . 617 S h o r t N o t ic e s : Parting Words

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to Boys leaving School.—Diamonds from the Waverley Mines. —Heart to Heart with Jesus.— The Bengal Reversion.—Aunt Margaret's Little Neighbours.— The Martyr Spirit. — Louise Lateau.—The Dark Blue . . 617 C o rrespondence :

Antichrist and the Church . . 617 The New Heretics. . . . 618 Compulsory Education . . . 618 The “ Dublin Review ” on Pri­

mary Education .... 6x8 Chester and O’Connell . . . 619 P a r l ia m e n t a r y S ummary . . 619 R ome :

Lettef from Rome . .

. 621

Appeal to the Catholics of the whole World .... 622

R ome (continued) :

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Discourse of the Holy Father . 622 D io c e san N ew s : Westminster................................ 623

S o u th w a rk ..................................... 623 Beverley......................................... 623 C l i f to n ..........................................623 L i v e r p o o l ........................................ 623 Newport and Menevia . . . 624 Northampton.....................................624 The Mission of Caithness and the

O r k n e y s .....................................624 I r e l an d :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent ......................................624 F oreign N ew s : Italy . . .6 2 5 M em o r a n d a :

Religious. — Educational. — Literary— Fine Arts—Legal—Political. 625 G e n e r a l N ew s . . . .6 27

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

PIUS IX. M

33IRTHDAY OF

O N D A Y , the 13th inst., was the 8oth,

or, according to some authorities, the 81 st, anniversary o f the day on which ih e H o ly Father first saw the ligh t in the ancient c ity o f ■ Sinigaglia. W e cannot let the date pass without record, or w ithout the expression o f our congratulations, sympathy, and prayers for the future, in doing which we are g iv in g utterance to the sentiments o f the whole Catholic world. S ince that birthday, through what vicissitudes have the Church and the H o ly See not p a s s ed ! Pius V I . was then sitting on the A postolic throne, soon to die in 'e x i le ; Pius V I I . was to be e lected against all human hope, and in his turn to be led into captivity and restored in triumph to his See. Three Pontificates, all comparatively short, were to fo llo w ; to be succeeded b y that, in the prolongation o f which, beyond the years of Peter, the world is now rejoicing. During this Pontificate the H o ly See has been tw ice dispossessed o f that temporal dominion which, in the present order o f Providence, is necessary fo r the complete and independent exercise o f its spiritual jurisdiction. I t is thought absurd by the world outside the Church to hope that this second dispossession will not be a final o n e ; but the Church and the world have seen stranger things than the deliverance for which we look. A n d the ¡remarkable prognostics which, although they have no authoritative claim to our belief, have hitherto been so singularly fulfilled, may yet receive their accomplishm ent at the' appointed time in the triumph o f the Church over her enemies •and persecutors ; a triumph' which we, in common with all •Catholics, most earnestly hope and pray that the aged Father o f the Christian world may be preserved to see.

THE NEW ^AMBASSADORS

TO THE HOLY SEE.

T h e Com te d ’H arcourt has appeared at R om e to present his letters o f recall, and has received the Grand Cross o f the Order o f Pius ; and, according to the arrangem ent upon which he, so greatly to his credit, insisted, his successor,

M . de Bourgoing, has already arrived in the H o ly C ity. T h e ¿Baron von K iib eck has also arrived as Ambassador from Austro-H ungary. A t the tim e o f the transfer o f the Italian Governm ent to Rome, H err von K iib eck was accredited as Austrian M in ister to Florence, and at his own desire was relieved o f his functions. T h e Italian M in ister for Foreign Affairs, being very desirous o f rem oving the lin e o f separat io n between the Quirinal and the diplom atic corps accredited to the H o ly See, and knowing that M. de K u b e ck was already on terms o f personal intercourse with the Italian Court, is ■ said to have conceived and expressed a strong desire for his appointm ent to the Embassy vacated by Count Trauttmannsdorff. This wish has now been fulfilled, but those who are acquainted with the sentiments and character o f the new

New Series. Vol. VII. No. 184.

Austrian Ambassador seem to be convinced that no advances on the part o f the Quirinal will succeed in inducing him to depart from a line o f conduct, prescribed alike by every consideration o f propriety, and by an express understanding between the H o ly See and the Governments with which it is in relation.

PRINCE BISMARCK ON CARDINAL hohenlohe’s APPOINTMENT.

T h e N eu e F r e ie P r e s s e acknowledges that the petition drawn up by the Austrian Bishops a t their conference is decidedly indicative o f a conciliatory attitude towards the Government, but we look as yet in vain for any acknowledgment from Berlin that the explanations and statements o f the Prussian B ishops are satisfactory, as th ey certainly are. W e see no reason, however, for disbelieving absolutely the assertion that the selection o f Cardinal von H ohenlohe for the post o f German Ambassador to Rom e was an attem pt— although a somewhat clum sy one— to arrive at an understanding. So it is represented by Prince von B ism arck, and it would appear from his speech on Tuesday that he does not in tend to use the failure with regard to this appointment as a pretext for not making another. T h e debate arose in this manner. On the estim ates for the Foreign Office, .Herr von Benningsen moved that a Consulate-General shpuld be established in Rome, in consequence o f the refusal o f “ the Roman “ C u r ia ” to accept Cardinal Prince von Hohenlohe as Ambassador. T o this Prince B ism arck is said to have replied, that the la te transaction had proved the difficulty o f effecting an understanding through an E n voy with the Roman Curia— a singular statem ent, to say the le a s t ; as, if Prince von B ism arck had chosen any other individual than the one he did choose, the difficulty would probably not have arisen. I t must have occurred to every one beforehand that the Pope m ight hesitate about permitting one o f the Cardinals to act as the representative o f a foreign Power. T h e German correspondent o f the S ta n d a r d has some sensible remarks on this subject, which we print elsewhere. But Prince von B ism arck goes on to tell us what the work which he expected from his Ambassador was. T h e la test dogmas promulgated by the H o ly See rendered it, he says, impossible to act in harmony with “ the Curia ” ; and, therefore, as the only way o f restoring peace among the religious denominations, it would be necessary to enact a law securing com plete liberty o f conscience. (Whether the liberty o f conscience desired is liberty for a Catholic priest to retain his position, while he denies the Catholic faith, we are not told — from the past action o f the Berlin Governm ent we m ight infer that it is.) I t was under these c ircum stances that Cardinal von Hohenlohe was selected, and Prince B ism arck regretted his rejection, “ as he appeared “ fitted to bring about a conciliatory feeling,” and as it was