THE TABLET

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

WITH SUPPLE MENT.

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

From the B r ie ) o j H is Holiness to T he Tablet, Ju n e 4, 1S70.

Vol. 39. No. 1658. London, J anuary 20, 1872.

P r ic e sd . B y P ost sJ^d.

[R e g is t e r e d a t th e G e n e r a l P ost Offic e a s a N ew s pa p e r .

■ Ch ronicle of t h e W e e k : The

Prince of Wales.—Professor Fawcett at Brighton.—Mr. Harcourt •on unnecessary Defence. —Mr. Roebuck at Sheffield.- Dilkites and Anti-Dilkites.—The two Sentences of Death.—Paris and Versailles.—M. Thiers's Speech.—A Radical Deputy.—M. de Falloux’s Compromise.—The French Education Bill.—The Abbé Loyson of the ■ Sorbonne. — The Archbishop of JParis.—The Murderers of the Hos­

tages.—The Duc de Persigny.— The “ Guarantees ” again.—The Contest in Bavaria.—Protestantism in Madrid.—The Linz Scandal 61 L ead ers :

Irish ^Questions and English

O p i n i o n ................................... 65

L ead e r s (continued) :

C O N T

The American Case . . . 6 6 Trades Union Congress . . . 66 Review of Facts connected with the Irish Educational Failure . 68 The Dublin Diocesan Meeting . 69 E nglish A dm in ist ratio n s and

C atholic I n t e r e st s :

L .—Legislative Disunion.—The two Premiers.—Pamphlets in 1868............................................69 T he A nglican Movement . . 70 R ev iew s :

The Patriarch and the Tsar : The

Replies of Nicon. . . . 7 1 Views of the Deity, Traditional and Scientific . . . . 7 2 The Poetical Works of Thomas

Chatterton . . . - 7 3 The Contemporary Review . . 74

ENTS. S hort N o t ic es : Psychic Force and Modern Spiritualism.—The Month.—Louise Lateau. C orrespondence :

Fathers Campion and Southwell . Milton and M. Taine Père Gratry . . . . Lord Derby on the Irish Land

L a w ............................................ R ome :

Letter from Rome D io cesan N ews : Westminster . . . .

Scotland.—Western District . I r e l a n d :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent..... Irish Education.—Great Meeting in the Pro-Cathedral, Marlborough-street, Dublin

74 74 75 75 75 76 78 79

79

79

I r e land («ontinued):

The Bishop of Kerry on Home

R u l e ................................. .......... 79 Address to Lord Kenmare . . 80 The late Lord Kenmare. . . 80 M emoranda :

Literary . . . . . . 8 1 S c i e n t i f i c ................................ 81Statistics ........................................81 Legal :

The Tichborne Case.—The De­

fence ........................................81 G en e r a l N ew s . . . . 84

S u p plem ent :

Great Educational Meeting in

Dublin.—Speech of the Cardinal Archbishop.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

TH E progress o f the Prince towards reco­

very continues to be satisfactory, and it was announced on Saturday last that the bulletins would be discontinued. The latest report respecting the national acknowledgment o f the physicians’ services is that Sir William Jenner, who is already a baronet, is to be made a C iv il Knight Commander o f the Bath, and that Dr. Gull is to be made a Baronet.

Every week “ Parliam ent out o f Session ”

rA\\°cETT° at m a^ es itself heard by some constituency, and Brighton, through the press by the country at large, and this week it is the turn o f Professor Fawcett.

We say Professor Fawcett, when we ought perhaps to say the members for Brighton, because Mr. White’s speech was •much shorter, dealt more in generalities, and was almost entirely occupied with the redistribution o f electoral districts, and a promise to vote against denominational education in Ireland as well as in England. Mr. Fawcett opened his programme by advocating the application to England of Church disestablishm ent and land legislation. The general reasons for disestablishment were, he said, the same in both countries— which we fail to see— and the great cause o f the misery o f our rural population was, that capital for improvements was locked up by the insecurity o f the tenant’s tenure, and by the settlements and entails o f the landlord. From -this and the desirability o f an easier conveyance o f land, Mr. Fawcett arrived at the subject o f law reform in general. The T ichborne case would, he thought, b e useful in proving the monstrous injustice o f the ex■ pensiveness o f law, and the incompatibility o f the »public duties ar.d the private practice o f the law officers ■ of the Crown, and he dwelt on the hardship to inventors of the fees which the law officers derive from patents, while after all this expenditure, we are short o f a public prosecutor. These points Professor Fawcett leaves to Mr. Harcourt, and hopes that he will succeed in his task. On S ir Robert ■ Collier’s appointment he rose to the level o f Cato : “ it was better,” he said, “ that a dozen administrations should fall ■“ than that Parliam ent should sanction the act o f lawlessness “ involved in the colourable evasion o f a positive legal en“ actment.” We do not say it is n o t ; only we wait to hear what Lord Hatherly and Mr. Gladstone have to say in their own defence. On the subject o f education Mr. Fawcett tells us three things ; first that he is going to bring in his Dublin University B ill again, and that he hopes Government will not assist in talking it o u t ; secondly, that the Nonconformists have an inconceivably bitter feeling about the payment o f fees to denominational schools, and that without their j

N ew S e r ie s . You. V II. No. 167.

support a Liberal Government is a house built on s an d ; and, thirdly, that there is nothing so absurd as “ perm issive com“ pulsion,” and that, as school-boards are only established where school accommodation is inadequate, those districts which have provided adequate accommodation cannot com pel attendance. On the L icensing question Mr. Fawcett took the same line as Lord D erby— open competition in the trade, but stricter regulations as to management. H e then, after a personal eulogium on Sir Charles Dilke, expressed the opinion that it would be unwise to raise the question o f Republicanism at present, and deprecated any language which could be taken to imply a personal attack on the Queen, as well as the treatment o f the question on the ground o f expense instead o f on the issue embodied in the maxim, “ merit, not birth.” The Ballot, he said, is s a fe ; but there is much more to win— household suffrage in the counties, polls open till 8 in the evening, election expenses taken off the backs o f the candidates, and some kind o f proportional representation, which does not mean, added Mr. Fawcett, that the legitim ate influence o f majorities should be curtailed. We do not often agree with Mr. Fawcett, but on this point we have before now expressed a sim ilar opinion, and that, amongst other reasons, for the very reason which Mr. Fawcett adduces. “ Two millions,” he said, “ o f “ English and Scotch Roman Catholics are unable to “ return a single member to the House o f Commons. No one “ will suspect me o f undue sympathy with Catholicism ; but, “ objecting to their doctrines and their policy, 1 not the less “ feel that it is unjust and unwise that opinions from which “ we disagree should not have a fair chance o f being heard “ and debated in an assembly which ought to be a reflex o f “ the whole nation.” How the end can be most easily attained is an exceedingly difficult question, but in his recognition o f the principle Mr. Fawcett is ju ster than the great majority o f English Liberals. The rest o f his speech was occupied with the affairs o f India, where he asserts that we are piling up a public debt which, if we go on at the same rate, will soon necessitate an additional taxation o f five or ten millions. Professor Fawcett is informed by his friends that he has not a ghost o f a chance o f being re-elected, and has heard “ a Government official ’’ say that a general election “ would bring with it this advantage, that it would exclude “ him from the new Parliam ent.” But lie means to try, and we are sorry to see that his audience specially thanked him for his vote against Princess Louise’s dowry. The D a i ly N e w s states that a Treasury Minute has already abolished the fees to the law-officers for patents; fixing the salary o f the Attorney-General for his “ non-contentious ” duties at ^ 7 ,0 0 0 a year, and that o f the Solicitor-General at ^ 6 ,0 0 0 . In the case o f the latter, the Minute will come into operation at once, Sir G. Jess^l Jwving accepted office on those terms.