THE TABLET

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

From the B r ie f oj H is Holiness to T he Tablet, June 4, 1870,

Vol. 40. No. 1683. L ondon, J u l y 13, 1872.

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C hronicle of th e W e ek : The

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Lords on the Optional Ballot.— The Independent Peers.—The Remaining Amendments. — The Galway Election Case. — Mr. Justice Keogh’s Effigy.— Lord Granard’s Letter.— Governor Eyre’s Case.— The Building Strike.— The English .'Summary.— The Presidential Election.—Germany and the Future Conclave.—The Semi-Official An■ swer to the Pope. —Protestant Excommunications. — The “ Holy Roman Empire.”—The Persecution an Germany.— “ Touting” for Heresy. — The “ Archbishop of Utrecht.”— M. de Larcy and the 2R.ight.-The Imaginary Conspiracy. —The French Budget, &c., &c. . 33

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L eaders :

The Italian Catholics and the Mu­

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nicipal Franchise . . . 37 The Queen’s Colleges.— Dangers from the Teachers and the Subjects Taught . . . -37 Protestant Ritualists.— No. 3. .39 The Reichstag and the Jesuit

F a t h e r s ........................................ 40 R eview s :

Tradition, Principally with Refer­

ence to the Mythology and the Law of Nations . . . 41 Red Cross Operations in the North of France. 1870-1872. . . 42 The Contemporary Review . .43 The Magazines . . . 43 S hort N otices : The Vicar ofChrist

—Mediaeval Holiness. — Law of

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Husband and Wife.—Indian Philosophy.— Margarethe Verflassen . 44 Mass Mu s i c ....................................44 Correspondence :

Superior Education and Competi­

tive Examinations . . -45 Dr. Newman’s Catholicity . . 45 Mysterious Crosses in Baden. . 45 A Sad Case of Distress . . . 4 5 Parliam entary Summary . . 46 R ome :

Letter from Rome . . . . 4 8 Reception of Foreign Priests . 49 Audience of the Foreign Colleges . 49 A Small German Critic of the Pope 50 The Armenian Catholics . . 50

D iocesan N ews :

Westminster .

Southwark

Beverley.

Plymouth

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Scotland—Eastern District • 5i Scotland— Western District • 51 I reland :

Letter from our Dublin Correspondent

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F oreign N ews : Switzerland. —Germany ....

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M emoranda :

Religious. — Educational — Lite­

rary. — Scientific. — Political. — Fine Arts and Music.— Cricket . 53 G eneral N ews . • • 55

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

IT is satisfactory to know that we have heard nearly the last o f the B a llo t B ill. On M onday the H ouse o f Lords ballot. adopted a sensible course in abandoning the amendment which opened the door to the accusation that the B ill was a sham, and m aintaining the one— Lord Beaucham p ’s— which gave it a tentative and experim ental character. T h e D uke o f R ichm ond called on the H ouse to insist on their am endment which made secrecy optional, and was supported by the D u k e o f Marlborough and Lord H arrowby, but neither Lord Cairns nor Lord Salisbury spoke, which was perhaps an indication o f what was going to happen. T h e ir p lace was, however, supplied by Lord Russell, who made a liv e ly and aggressive speech, which would have been more in its p lace on the second reading o f the Bill. H e quoted the authority o f Lord G rey, who in 1831 had insisted on striking out o f the Reform B ill the ballot clauses, to the insertion o f which by the Committee in the draft he, Lord Russell, had unwillingly consented. H e also recalled the strong opposition which S ir R obert P eel had offered to the ballot, and the argum entative speech by which he ob ta ined its rejection by a majority o f 1 17 . H e mentioned its exclusion from Canada and V ic to r ia— as to which last he was wrong in h is fact— and quoted a law in one o f the N ew England S tates empowering a voter to ask for an envelope in which to enclose his vote as an instance o f an optional ballot, add in g that few , i f any, o f the electors had availed them selves o f the provision. A t the time o f the reform o f our crim inal legislation or o f the abolition o f slavery a voter would naturally have said, “ I will vote for Sir Samuel R om i l ly ” or “ for Mr. W ilberforce,” and for saying, “ I have voted for Lord En“ field or Lord G eorge H am ilto n ,” he would be liable to six months’ im prisonm ent, in which Lord Russell was again wrong, for there is nothing in the B ill to prevent a voter from saying “ I w ill vote,” “ I am voting,” or “ I have voted ” in such or such a way. A l l that it prohibits is the furnishing documentary p roof o f it. Lord Russell wound up by prophesying that the ballot would inevitably bring in universal suffrage, and b y contrasting the expressions used by Mr. G ladstone at B lackheath with regard to changes in the Constitution, with the fiercer language o f the late Lord Grey.

T h e D uke o f Northumberland was the independent sPokes“ an o f the Conservative, and Lord G rey peers. o f th e independent peers who contributed to the v ictory o f the Governm ent on this question.

T h e D u k e expressed a strong dislike o f the Ballot itself, as destructive o f the sense o f responsibility, and lik e ly to throw the constituencies into the hands o f agents. But he thought it was a necessary consequence o f the extension o f the suffrage,1and that the optional Ballot would subject the voter

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to a great deal o f moral torture, and very possibly, when a confession had been wrung from him, to violence. H e thought, therefore, that the Lords should acknow ledge their error and retreat from an untenable position. But Lord G rey’s argument was the most telling o f a l l ; if, he said, they were to maintain the amendment which made the B ill a tem porary one, they must take care that the experim ent is tried in such a form as will satisfy its advocates. T h e amendment was eventually abandoned by a majority o f 19 in a H ouse o f 295 members.

T h e Lords conceded the point as to the

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use ° f schools as polling-places, but in troduced amendments. a n der o f Lord Salisbury s enacting that the managers should be indemnified by the return­

ing officers for “ any loss from fees or Parliam entary grant,” which was carried by a majority o f 30 ; Lord R ipon having refused to give a positive understanding that any such loss should be made up out o f the parliam entary grant, and rem inding the H ouse that the privileges o f the Commons would be infringed by an amendment im posing a charge on the revenue. T h e Commons, however, are scarcely lik e ly to take much notice o f this under the circum stances ; particularly as there is no substantial charge on the revenue in volved in saying that what is saved out o f the Parliam entary grant shall be paid by the returning officers. T h e Lords, however, maintained their amendment perm itting illiterate voters to make their declaration before the returning officer instead o f before a magistrate b y 88 votes to 5 7— a point which the Commons will probably not th ink worth fighting — and the far more important amendment o f Lord B eauchamp’s, lim iting the operation o f the A c t to the next eight years by 117 to 58.

T h e Galway election affair has com e up again the galway eacj1 House. On M onday Mr. V ance gave case. notice o f a question respecting the suspension o f Mr. Walsh, at C a s t le b a r ; he wanted to know i f he was the same priest who gave evidence on behalf o f Captain Trench, and “ stated that he was credibly informed “ that he would be suspended in consequence o f having “ refused to support Captain N o lan .” W e do not know what answer the A ttorney-G eneral for Ireland may g ive Mr. V ance on Monday, but from Mr. W alsh’s evidence it appears that his fear o f suspension was caused by a charge— which he stated to be unfounded— that he had “ lam pooned ” his B ishop in an anonymous letter to the G a lw a y E x p r e s s . H e had, he admitted, written a letter to that paper, which is a v io lently Orange organ, but not the particular letter obje c ted to.

On the same day S ir T . Bateson asked

MR'eogh’sCE Mr. G ladstone whether he was aware that effigy. the I risk Governm ent annually interfered to prevent “ the effigy o f the traitor

“ Lundy ” being burnt at Derry, and whether it