THE TABLET

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W ITH S U P P L E JI E N T .

D u m VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS ET A CLEMENTISSIMO

D o m in o e n i x e p o s c im u s , u t l a b o r e s v e s t r o s s u a g r a t i a a d j u v a r e v e l i t , quo s a l u t a r e s e t u b k r e s e x i i s d e m FRUCTUS ET IN VESTROS CIVES ET IN OMNES QUI SCRIPTA VESTRA EXCIPIUNT DIMANARE POSSINT.

From the B r i e f o f H is Holiness to The T a b l e t , J u n e 4, 1870.

Voi. 37. No. 1577. L ondon, J u l y 2, 1870.

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C hronicle of the Week : M.

Ollivier and the Council —The French Government and the Nuncio — The Conscience of Bishops—The Armenian Schism—The Education Bill—The Catholic Education Crisis —The Lords in Committee—Scale of Compensation—The Conacre Clause—Assignment of Tenancies— Labourers’ Cottages—Leases barring Compensation—Limit of Compensation—Close of the Debate in Committee—The late Lord Clarendon—The Hammersmith Case— The Orleans Princes—The Abdication of Queen Isabel I I—Filibusters in Mexico—&c., &c. L eaders : Moral Unanimity ....

The Blunders of our Critics .

CONTENTS.

L eaders (continued) :

Democratic Views in France The Deaf and Dumb Peter's Pence . R eviews :

The Testimony of the Catacombs and of other Monuments of Christian Art . . . 8 Even Betting ; or, Which is the Winner? . . . . - . 10 S hort Notices : Mr. Cansick’s

Epitaphs of Saint Paneras—Mr. Tylor on the Early History of Man —Dr. van Lennep’s Travels in Asia Minor—Canon de Haerne On the Deaf and Dumb—The Fortnightly Review . . . . . . 1 0 M usic. . . . . . . it

, Correspondence:

Pope Honorius and the Greek

Forgers. The New Education I Proselytism and Trinity College | D ublin ..................................... 1 Memorial to the Bishop of South w a r k ..................................... j The Reunion Meeting j S. Andrew’s School, Barnet . j The Colony of Gambia . IParliamentary Summary Parliamentary Committee on Con ventual and Monastic Institutions L etter from R ome ; The Council —Funzione—The Revolution—The

Corps Diplomatique D iocesan News : W estm in ste r .....................................

D iocesan News (continued)

Southwark Birmingham Newport and Menevia . Salford .... Shrewsbury I reland .... Memoranda :

Religious ...... Educational: Royal Commission on Primary Education in Ireland —Cardinal Cullen’s Evidence.— S. Francis Xavier’s College, Liverpool— Speech Day Literary .... Scientific .... Fine Arts. . . . Weather .... General News

C H RO N IC LE

AND THE COUNCIL. T

M. OLLIVIER

r TH E W E E K . 'H E Augsburg Gazette professes to give the text of the *;ote which M. Ollivier, while holding theUiortfolio of Foreign Affairs a il interim , addresseclto M. de Banneville on the subject of the Council. It is, p course, impossible as yet to say whether or to what extent f ie document is genuine ; but it is sufficiently in harmony with what is already known to have been the tenour of the. despatch to make it worth noticing. It begins by saying that the Emperor’s Government has not claimed to De represented at the Council, ^though it had a right to be so represented as the organ of the laityAr, the Church. It relied on the wisdom of the Bishops and ihe prudence of t’ri|e Holy Father to prevent extreme opinions being converte\ into dogmas, and on the good sense of people in genera1 (he patriotism of French Catholics, and the “ ordinary mean’s of sanction” at its own disposal to defend the civil and political laws of the country against the encroachments of theocracy. Accordingly, struck “ with the august character of an assembly of Prelates met to decide on the interests of the soul and of faith,” the Government confined itself to one mission alone — that of assuring and protecting the complete liberty of tire Council. Warned by the rumours current in Europe of the dangers which certain imprudent proposals were about to bring upon the Church, and anxious not to see the organized attack on religious belief strengthened, it threw aside for a moment its reserve, in order to give advice and offer observations. These not having been listened to, “ we do not persist,” says the despatch, “ and we return to our attitude of abstention and await the result.” M. de Banneville is then instructed not to demand or accept any conversation with the Pope or Cardinal Antonelli on the affairs of the Council, and to keep the Government informed of what is going on. He is also to explain to the French Bishops (sic) that the abstention of the Government does not imply indifference, but respect for i,r|d confidence in them. The document concludes with a Phrase which, in the form in which we have it, is enigmatical enough. “ Their ” (the Bishops’) “ defeat would be indeed bitter, if, by iw intervention, the civil power had not prevented it, and then Hctory will be all the more valuable if they owe it only to then own efforts and the power of truth. Either this means that the irishops whom M. Ollivier believes to agree with him would be aaaiuooaiiy mortified at their failure, if the Government had tried to prevein it and had proved powerless— and we don’t quite think that likely— or else that the Government have actually prevented it, of which we were not aware.

New Series. No. 86.

THE FRENCH

GOVERNMENT AND THE NUNCIO.

A short time ago, as our readers are aware, a letter was written by Mgr Mercurelli, the Secretary of Briefs— who occupies a position somewhat analogous to that of the private secretaries of other sovereigns— to the Apostolic Nuncio in Paris, conveying the Pope’s acknowledgment of a number of addresses praying for the Definition of his Infallibility, which have now become so numerous in France that it was found impossible to reply to them individually. The French Government has availed itself of the publication of this letter in some of the papers to make a kind of counter-demonstration, and has published the following note in the J o u r n a l Offlciel : “ It appears from a recent publication that the Apostolic Nunciature has communicated to the editors of a French journal a letter from his Holiness’s Secretary of Briefs inviting his Excellency the Nuncio to reply to the addresses about the Council sent to the Holy Father from different parts of France. Our public law formally prohibiting within the interior of the Empire this kind of communication, and ^assimilating the Nuncio of the Holy See in every respect to a foreign Ambassador, the Minister of Foreign Affairs has been obliged to call Mgr Chigi’s attention to the irregularity. His explanations have proved that this publication was the result of an error. He has expressed his regret, declaring that a similar incident shall not occur again.” As the Nuncio is on the same footing with any other Ambassador, and as there is nothing whatever to prevent a letter or despatch received by an Ambassador from home being published in the papers, we cannot but think that the French Government would have taken no notice of the affair if it had not wished to trumpet its attachment to the Organic Articles. The only possible ground of objection could be the publication of the letter in the Nuncio’s own name. No paper could be prevented from publishing, a t i t r e d e r en sc ig nm e n t, a letter received by a Foreign Ambassador.

THE CONSCIENCE OF BISHOPS.

We desire to call the particular attention of our readers to the very remarkable treatise on this subject by the Pere Ramihre, which is published in the full edition of the Vatican of this date. We wish that it could be universally read. It will be extremely useful to many as a clear and succinct exposition of the motives upon which the Bishops will pronounce their decision.

The period of grace allowed to the Armenian schismatics by the Pope’s Letters of the 22nd ARMENIAN ‘ . . .

s c h i s m . May is rapidly approaching its termination.

Their attitude, therefore, at the present moment is a matter of considerable interest. A correspondenceiioip Constantinople in the M on d e supplies us with freufi f^ctS“

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