T H E T A B L E T

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Dum VOBIS GRA.TULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the B r i e f o j H is Holiness to T he T a b let , June 4, 1870.

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[R eg is t er ed a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st Offic e a s a N ew spaper.

‘C h ronicle of t h e W e e k : The

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Arbitration. — The Present Conjuncture.—The Proposed Term of Adjournment.—The other Proceedings under the Treaty.—The Appli* 'cation to the Arbitrators.—The Two Platforms.—The Galway Election.

The Licensing Bill.—The Ballot Sill.—Its Opponents.—The Danger •of Personation.—The French Army Bill. —M. Thiers’s Threat. —M. Rouher and the March to Sedan.— The Processions in France.—Cosas

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L e a d e r s :

Mr. Justice Keogh and the Irish

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Clergy ..... 737 The End of the Arbitration . . 737 The Judgment in the Bennett Case 738 “ Wholesale Bribery” . E nglish A dm in ist ratio n s and

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C atholic I n t e r e s t s . —■ LX IX . Colonel Macdonell and all the Talents. — The Perceval or No Popery Administration. —Grattan and the V e to .................................. R e v iew s :

The Russian Clergy Middlemarch................................... The Book of the Holy Rosary S hort N o t ic e s : The Art of Ex­

temporary Preaching.—Our Poor Law System : What it is, and What

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it ought to be.—The Art of E x tempore Speaking. — A Sermon preached at the Catholic Church, D e a l ...........................................745 C orrespondence : Want of Dogmatic Teaching in the Establishment . . . 746 The Tower-hill Mission . . 746 P a r l ia m e n t a r y S ummary . . 746 R ome :

Letter from Rome .... 749 The Pope and the Roman Youth . 749 The Assault on Mgr. Angelini D io cesan N ew s : Westminster .

Southwark Birmingham . Clifton .

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D iocesan N ews (continued):

Liverpool Salford . . . Scotland—Eastern District I r e l a n d :

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Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent . . . . . 751 Protest of the Cardinal Archbishop and Clergy of the Diocese of Dublin gainst the Galway Judgment ........................................... - - 1 The Feni 1 Convicts London 1 sh Home Rule Associa t i o n .................................. F oreign N ews : Germany M em o randa :

Religious.—Educational G e n e r a l N ew s . * .

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CHRONICLE O F T H E W E E K .

THE Ar b it r a t io n . I

F Mr. Greeley himself has retired from the field o f journalism, his organ the Tribune keeps up the attack on the conduct of the Alabama negotiations savagely enough. It says that

‘ at every stage of the wretched business the Government has given new proofs of its incapacity, and incurred the “ distrust and contempt of the British Government. Last “ week’s debate in the House of Lords showed that “ the members misunderstood the people of the United “ States, but understood Mr. Fish and President Grant “ better than the Americans themselves.” This is the kind of thing to which, as Lord Granville said on Tuesday, all Governments are subject, and our own is now getting its full dose o f criticism. On Monday Mr. Bruce announced that the next day at two o’clock Mr. Gladstone would make a statement. In the meanwhile the D a i ly N ew s appeared ■ on 1 uesday morning with a telegram from New York, first stating that Mr. Fish had telegraphed on Sunday that it “ was ■“ useless to discuss amendments (to the Supplementary ■“ Treaty) as the United States Government had no sugges-

tions to offer or to en te r ta in an d secondly, giving the text 'of Lord Granville’s answer to that telegram. This despatch proposed on the part of England a joint application to be made to the arbitrators on the 15th for an adjournment of eight months. I f the United States concurred in this application, we should put in our summary of arguments accompanied by a declaration, the copy of which was subjoined. This declaration recites that the final summary Is only delivered conditionally on the adjournment taking eftect, and subject to the notice now given that, unless the difference is adjusted before the close of the term of adjournment, England will cancel the appointment of the British arbitrator and withdraw from the arbitration. But when Mr. ■ Gladstone rose to make his statement on Tuesday, he said nothing whatever about this particular despatch. It was an nnfortunate omission, because it gave a handle to Mr. Gsborne and Mr. Disraeli for a charge of want of frankness, ns Mr. Gladstone had to admit that the despatch as published )yas substantially correct, though he protested against its 'being supposed that he had the “ insane fatuity” to attempt t0 suppress the information. Lord Granville subsequently stated in the other House that he had written to General Schenck for an explanation of the publication of the despatcli ln America, and that it appeared that it could only be attributed to its having been sent en c la ir instead of in cypher,and lts having been got at, we suppose, by “ literary enterprise.” j

But there was a further statement contained

* C O S E S " in the D a i ly ^ TeWS teleSram' 1 1 was. that M r

Tu r k . " Fish had refused to join in the application, being o f opinion that the adjournment could only be N ew Ser ie s . V ol. V II. No. 188.

effected by a new treaty ; but that he will give his subsequent assent, if the tribunal accedes to it on our separate application. The Lord Chancellor, indeed, affirmed that Mr. Fish had never said that an agreement to adjourn could only be made by a treaty, adding that he should be surprised if he had ; but the rest of the statement remains uncontradicted. Moreover, a subsequent telegram brought us the news on Wednesday that the American Government would, under no circumstances, admit any such reservation of our rights as is contained in the proposed declaration ; would strenuously resist it at Geneva, and consider it a bar to all further negotiations. We are then in this position : the English Government objects to the amendments of the Senate to the Supplemental Treaty, which, it must be remembered, concern, not the withdrawal of the Indirect Claims, but the definition of the claims to be barred in the future. The American Government refuses even to discuss any further modifications in the the Article. The negotiations therefore for a settlement by the 15 th have obviously failed. We then return to the charge with a proposal to make a joint application for an adjournment of eight months ; the Americans refuse to join in the application, but do not refuse their consent to its being granted, if the arbitrators are willing to listen to our humble request. We can scarcely imagine a more undignified position for a great country to be placed in ; it is all the harder, as we maintain that the Americans and not we are the party interested in the success of the arbitration. It is clear, however, that they are not disposed to make any effort whatever to smooth the difficulties out of the w a y ; trusting perhaps too much to their belief—-which is also that of Mr. Osborne—that we are “ anxious to make the Treaty “ at any price.” Sir Alexander Cockburn, Lord Tenterden, and Sir Roundell Palmer, have started for Geneva with full instructions in either alternative, and we may presume thus much that, if, as seems tolerably certain since Mr. Fish’s last despatch, the adjournment is not settled on Saturday, Lord Tenterden will notify our withdrawal from the arbitration, and Sir Alexander Cockburn will retire from the tribunal.

The term of eight months proposed for the t h e pro po sed adjournment is open to considerable ob-

,'o u r n m k n t . jection. It looks too like waiting for the termination of the Presidential contest to be a very dignified proceeding. The explanation given by Mr. Gladstone and Lord Granville is that by that time both the Senate and Parliament will have reassembled, and perhaps they are not uninfluenced by the idea that, the struggle once over, it may be more easy to get the Americans to listen to reason. But tfiere is a counter-consideration which must not be passed over, and which lay at the bottom of Mr. Disraeli’s, Lord Derby’s, and Lord Cairns’s criticisms ; namely, how far eight months of electioneering agitation