THE TABLET

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

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

From the B r i e f o] H is Holiness to T he T ablet, Ju n e 4, 1870.

Vol. 40. No. 1691. L ondon, S eptem ber 7, 1872.

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League of S. Sebastian in Ireland. T lie G eneva Arbitration.— The abour Q uestion and the Speaker. —S. Bartholomew.—The French Commercial Policy.—M. Thiers in Vacation.—M. Alphonse Karr on Over-Repression. — The Belfort Affair.—Traces o f the Commune.— The Christian Education Congress. Working Men’s Associations.—The Option in Alsace-Lorraine.—Particularism in Germany.—The Proscription of the Jesuits.— “ Kindred ” Congregations of Women.— Spanish Elections and the Ballot.— The Bishop of Tarasona and the Government.-The Split in the International.—Pre-Historic Science, &c. 289

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CONTENTS.

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S hort N o t ic e s (continued):

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Catholic Associations.-The Church and the Peoples . . . 293 Sedan and the Berlin Interview . 293 Pilgrimages and their Critics ^ . 294 E arly General Support o f the Ca­

tholic University . . . 295 The Life and Character of Arch­

bishop Howard . . . 297 R e v ie w s :

The Troubles o f Our Catholic

Forefathers related by Themselves ...................................... 297 Treasures Lost and Found , . 299 Journal d’un Pelerin de Terre

Germany, Italy, and the Jesuits . 301 The Catholic World . . . 301 C o rr e s po n d en c e :

Protestant Orders.—Neale . . 301 English Lions .... 302 The Catholic Association . . 302 Catholic Electors .... 302 The Ballot and the Future . . 302 Patron Saints . . , ■ . 303 “ Tolerance”—of Cacography . 303 “ Connexion and Prospects” . . 303 Barnet and Watford . . . 303 A Mission at Tenby . . . 303 R ome :

Sainte . . . . . 299 Lord Dacre of Gilsland . . . 300 S h o r t N o t i c e s :

God in Hi» Works . . . 300

Letter from Rome .... 304 R ecord of t h e G erm a n P e r s e c u ­

t io n : The Execution of the Law against the Jesuits . . . 304

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D io c e sa n N ew s : W estm in ster...................................... 305 •

Beverley............................................... 305 Clifton ..... 305 Northampton .... 30$ Plymouth ..... 306 Scotland—Eastern District . . 306 I r e l a n d :

Letter from our Dublin. Corre­

spondent ..... 306 F o r e ig n N ew s :

Russia ..... 307 France . ..... 307 Germany ..... 308 M em o randa :

Religious—Catholic Union—Edu­

cational —Literary — Scientific— Fine Arts—Military . . 308 G e n e r a l N ew s . . . . 3x3

CHRONICLE OF TH E W EEK .

TJLAJN IIS

NE X T Friday week, being the 20th

September, and the second anniversary of the bombardment and

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Ireland, forcible occupation of Rome, the League of S. Sebastian will hold its half-yearly general meeting in the Rotunda at Dublin. We publish, under the head of Ireland, the notice put forth by the League in its official organ, the Crusader, as •containing all necessary information for those who may ■ desire to be present. It is to be hoped that the attendance will be very numerous, as the object of the meeting is to protest in Ireland, as the English Catholics have already protested at their meeting in Willis’s Rooms, against the continued occupation of Rome by the usurping Government, and against the threatened destruction of the Religious Orders in Italy. I t is believed that the chair will be taken by an Irish nobleman, and that most, we should hope all, of the Catholic members of Parliament will be present. It will be essentially a lay meeting, as the English meeting was, though there, as here, it will be held with the sanction and approval o f the highest ecclesiastical authority. Of course, in the face of facts, we shall be told that it was entirely a.clerical demonstration; and already one of our contemporaries has been amusingly struck by what it considers a most important indication, namely that the requiem for those who fell in the defence of the Supreme Pontiff should be announced as about to be celebrated in the Jesuits’ Church. Our contemporary is perhaps not aware that it is in size and situation one of the most important and convenient churches in Dublin, but we do not mean to deny that there is a special propriety at the present moment in the selection of this church for a religious service connected with a protest against the persecution of the Religious Orders.

It is believed that the arbitrators at Geneva geneva

^lave f i s h e d their work by next week,

a r b it r a t io n . and to-day a great banquet is to be given to them by the Genevese Council of State.

Secresy has been very strictly observed, to the credit of all persons concerned, who were placed by the Tribunal upon their honour not to divulge any part of the proceedings,— except indeed in the case of the arguments of the American counsel, which were originally communicated to a New York paper, and subsequently published in a Swiss journal, stated by the Tim es correspondent to be to a considerable extent in American hands. The statements circulated in the United States, that England would have to pay damages, have been put to an obvious use with reference to the Presidential contest; but it may also perhaps be imagined that a widely spread belief of and acquiescence in the report might facilitate its conversion into a fact. 111-

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natured politicians have indeed asserted that the concoction and subsequent rejection of the indirect claims was also arranged to smoothe the way for the admission of the direct ones. /

After Lord Derby’s speech at Bury— remind-

the labour ;ng labourers that it does not follow because andSTthe they can make their own terms at harvest time, srEAKER. that they will • therefore be able to do so in the winter; and the farmers, who set their faces against unions, that every man within recognized limits has a perfect right to struggle for his own success even to the inconvenience of others—comes the Speaker’s very practical address to the labourers on his Sussex property. He started from the principle that the question would never be satisfactorily settled till all labour becomes in some shape and in some decree cooperative. He therefore offers to invest his labourers’ money, if they will advance it to him, on the farm ; giving them at least 2y i per cent.—the interest paid by the savings banks—and if the profits of the farm amount to more, he will give them rateably precisely the same interest on their capital which he derives from his. He thinks that the labourers who earn 15 s. a-week may perhaps be able to lay by 2s., and if they pay to him that sum weekly, he will repay them the amount at the end of the year if they desire it, plus 2 y i per cent., or more if the profits are larger. The bargain is an unquestionably good one for the labourers, but the system is scarcely one which could be applied universally. Supposing that for one or more years a landlord made no profits, but lost, by his farming; the labourers could not be expected to bear their share of loss; they would expect, on the contrary, their 2 y i per cent. It is “ heads “ you win, tails I lose.”

We noticed last week the absurd statement s. BARTHOLO- pUj j^y t|le rep0rters into Dean Stanley’s sermon at Edinburgh to the effect that the Feast of S. Bartholomew was observed by Catholics in commemoration of the massacre. Since then a more correct report of the sermon has appeared, but in this also we have to notice a grave misstatement, namely, that the massacre took place with the “ sanction and approval” of the Pope. The natural inference which would be drawn from such an assertion would be that the previous sanction of the Holy See had been obtained. Now it is only necessary, in order to correct this impression, to refer to impartial non-Catholic writers. In a review by M. Maury in the J o u r n a l des Savants, (certainly not a Catholic periodical,) of a work on this subject by Mr. Henry White, published in 1868, after enumerating some of the atrocities committed by the Huguenots, the reviewer states that the facts collected by Mr. White will remove all doubt which may possibly remain in the mind of any one that the massacre, instead of being planned beforehand,