THE TABLET

A Weekly Newspaper and Review

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

From the Brief of His Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.

Vol. 40. No. 1694. L ondon, S eptember 28, 1872.

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•Geneva Arbitrators.— The Catholic Congress of Breslau.-Anti-Catholic Sympathizers at Cologne.— S. Bo-niface and Dr. Browne.— Representatives of Anglicanism.— The Programme o f the New Sect.— Its Two Parties. — Prosecution of Bishops.— The Persecution at Geneva.— A Scandal at Naples.— M. About’s Case. — The September Banquets.— M. Thiers in Paris.— ’T he Indemnity. — Anglo-French Commercial Treaty.— The Spanish

■ State Trials.— The Affair at Pisa.— Garibaldi on Universal Suffrage.— MM. Guicheteau and Renaud.— Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen o f S c o ts ............................................ 385

CONTENTS.

L ea d e r s :

The Dollingerite Convention at

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Cologne . . . . 389 Bond of Union among Catholic

C orrespondence :

Catholic Provident Societies.

No. I l l ............................... Protestant Orders. — Lambe

Associations . . . . 390 Ineffectual Attempts to Charter the

Catholic University . . . 390 The Roman Municipal Elections . 392 R e v ie w s :

Chapel, December 17, 1559 A Church in Danger R ome :

Letter from Rome . Peter’s Pence R ecord of th e Germ an P eksecu

Memoir o f Count de Montalembert 393 Pekin, Yeddo, and San Francisco . 395 Anglicanism and the Fathers . 396 S h ort N o t i c e s : TheHistoryofthe

Sacred Passion. — Father Burke’s Lectures.— The Insidious Thief.— The Theology o f Thomas exCharmes.— Le Origini della Sovranità Temporale dei Papa . . 396

t io n : Prince Bismarck's R the English Address.— A Protes tant Professor of Theology’s View o f the Case.— The Bishop of Erme land.— German Sympathy vv J esuits.— Miscellaneous D io ce san N ew s :

Westminster . Southwark

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Beverley. . . . . Birmingham . . . . Liverpool . . . . •4O3 • 397 •4O3 h •403 •398 Northampton • 4O3 • 399 Salford . . . . •4O3

I r elan d ....................................... -4O4 .400 F oreign N ew s : .401 Germany . . . . .4O4 1Russia . . . . .4O4 0 Switzerland . . . . •4O5

Belgium . . . . •4O5 V M em oranda :

Religious . . . . .406 e Educational . . . . .408 .401 Literary . . . . .408

f ine Arts . . . . .408 .402 Political . . . . .408 .402 Gen e r a l N ews . 408

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

THE GENEVA ARBITRATORS. T

HE public is now in possession of the se­

parate judgments of each of the Geneva Arbitrators, the most important of which is unquestionably Sir Alexander Cockburn’s, a masterly and exhaustive statement of the case, which occupies 253 pages, and in a summarized form fills nearly three pages of the Times. It is impossible for us to touch upon a tithe of the important points raised, but we may mention that the Chief Justice gives a common-sense definition of “ due diligence ; ” namely, that a government should act in good faith, availing itself of the means at its disposal. On this view of our liability we could not have been condemned ; but the extraordinary concession made at Washington, by which we consented that it should be tried whether we had acted upon rules not existent at the time, and by which, consequently, we could not have guided our actions, rendered our condemnation a foregone conclusion. Sir Alexander Cockburn also administers a very well-earned castigation to the conductors o f the American Case, who endeavoured to raise a cloud of prejudice by unfounded allegations of studied unfriendlinesson the part of England ; and by an attempt, utterly unwarranted by facts, to place English neutrality in an unfavourable contrast to that of America in other wars. Mr. Adams’s judgment is quiet and reasonable compared with M. Staempfli’s — whom Sir Alexander Cockburn is constantly obliged to correct— and who in 'one of his allegations concerning the Florida is decidedly wrong in point of fact. It is to be observed that this arbitrator, though he belongs to a country always neutral, is the most severe on neutrals, and the most unpractical in his idea of their duties ; a fact which the Daily News attempts to explain by remarking that Switzerland has no seaboard. Baron d’ltajubh is far more reasonable, and his acquittal of the Melbourne authorities, in the case of the Shenandoah, is grounded on the fact that their failure to prevent the recruiting was “ the “ consequence of the violation by the commander of the “ Shenandoah of his word of honour, and the exceptional diffi“ culties of surveillance presented by the conformation of the “ portand that the subsequent refusal of hospitality to the ship disengaged the responsibility of the Government. In Count Sclopis’s judgment we confess that we are somewhat disappointed ; it is amiable and gentlemanlike, but not judicial, and however good his conclusions may be, his reasons scarcely bear them out.

THE CATHOLIC

CONGRESS OF BRESLAU.

Nearly two thousand delegates from the Catholic Associations of Germany have been assembled in Congress at Breslau, under the presidency of Baron von Frankenstein o f Bavaria. We published last week a great part of the Prince Bishop’s address, but it is worth noticing, in illustration of the changed attitude of the Prussian Government,

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that Mgr. Forster alluded to the authority given by the Government for the first meeting of the Association in 1848— “ A permission which was accompanied by the wish that the “ whole city could be present at it, so well was it then “ understood that the Church, better than any other power, “ knows how to cause the rights of the State to be respected.” •‘ If since then,” said the Bishop, “ religious peace has been “ disturbed in Prussia, it is not the fault of the Catholics, on “ whom crushing burdens have been inflicted, and from “ whom a valued Religious Order has been taken away be“ cause it proved itself the best support of the authority of “ the Church and of the State.” The Assembly passed a series of resolutions : a protest against the occupation of the religious houses in Rome ; against the law concerning the Jesuits, which it declares to be an attack on liberty of consciences and the rights of the Catholic Church ; against the State monopoly of schools, as a violation of the rights of peasants, of the Commune, and of the Church ; a protest in advance against the proposed introduction of obligatory civil marriage ; another against the claim of the Civil Government to interfere with the exercise of the ecclesiastical discipline ; another against all attempts of the Civil Powers to interfere in the election of a Pope with a view to their own interests, and other resolutions, calling on the Catholics of Germany to come forward energetically in defence of the Church, whose rights are threatened ; and to labour by every means in their power, in concert with the State and with private charity, to ameliorate the position of the working classes ; and further recommending to their support the Catholic press, as the sole antidote to the errors propagated by heretical and corrupt journals. The Abbé Majunke, editor of the Germania, pointed out in reply to the criticisms of the Schlesische Zeitung, that the Congress was in no sense political, that it had no connection with the Mainz Association, which was a political organization, and into which Government had by a general circular forbidden all functionaries to enter ; that the Catholics who are now opposing the existing Government are in no sense the enemies of the German Empire ; that it is a calumny to say so ; and that the Liberals have less right than anybody to say it, as in i860 they were themselves engaged in a violent struggle with the Government. Nor is it true to say, as the Kreuz Zeilung has done, that the Catholics are perpetuating religious warfare, and the struggle between the Confessions which has so long divided and weakened Germany. On the contrary, all polemics are banished from these meetings, and only questions affecting Catholics are brought under discussion.

In strong contrast with this numerous and sympathizers0 un?nj mous representation of real Catholic at cologne, opinion in Germany appears the Congress of the Protestant-Catholics at Cologne, whose delegates, after foreign sympathizers of various sects have