THE TABLET

A Weekly Newspaper and Review

I)UM v o b i s g r a t u l a m u r , a n i m o s e t i a m a d d i m u s u t i n i n c c e p t i s v e s t r i s c o n s t a n t e r m a n e a t i s .

From the B r ie f o f I B s Holiness to The Tablet, Ju n e 4, 1870.

V o i . 37. No. 1604. L ondon, J a n u a r y 7 , 1871.

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[ R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew s p a p e r .

•C h ro n ic l e o f t h e W e e k : Sym, pathy with the Pope.—Ireland and England. — Our Catholic Youth. — Address of Catholic Ladies to the Pope.—Catholic Colleges.—The Vatican not the •Pope's.—The Reign o f Pius I X .— Rome.—The Italian Government. —Roma Capitale.—Belgium and Ita ly .—Condition for a Plebiscite. —Modern Civilization.—The War: the Winter.—The War: France. —Paris.—New Year’s D ay: Versailles. — New Year’s Day : Bordeaux. — Spain. — Lord R. Montagu and Mr. Gladstone.— The Ministry.—Meath Election.— The Conference .

CONTENTS.

L e a d e r s :

The Papal Policy demanded by

Ireland of England . Higher Education in Ireland.—I.

The Demand of the Irish People The Past Year .... A Prophecy of 10 Years’ Standing. The Catholic Strike at Rome The French Catholic Relief Fund. Peter’s Pence...................................... R e v iew s :

Saint Clement, Pope and Martyr,

and his Basilica in Rome . Other Worlds than Ours L ilja (the Lily) .... S hort N o t ic e s : The Pictorial

Life of Jesus Christ, from the Words of the Evangelists.—The

Villages around Metz.—Blackwood . . . . • . 1 2 5 C o rrespo ndence :

Mr. MaskeU’s last Pamphlet 6 Sympathy with the Pope 7 The late Dr. Coghlan o f Notting8 hill—R . I .P ....................................... 9 9 R o m e : Letter from our Italian 9 Correspondent ....

The Attempt on the Vatican Italy, the Pope, and the English

C a t h o l i c s ...................................... 9 R ecord o f t h e C ouncil : j j Mr. Maskell's Pamphlet # .

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15 16 17 17

D io c esan N ew s : W estm inster...................................... 18

S o u t h w a r k ...................................... 18

D io cesan N ew s (continued)

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

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent ...................................... T h e W a r :

Diary o f the War M em o randa ;

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

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CHRONICLE OF TH E W E E K .

POPE. M

SYMPATHY 'W ITH THE

E ET IN G S , Protests, and Addresses, in behalf of the violated rights of the Sovereign Pontiff are becoming so numerous throughout Christendom, that our foreign contemporaries are beginning to confine themselves to their simple enumeration. For instance, the Cor:rcspondance dc Geneve gives long lists, filling pages, of places where such demonstrations have been made. This week we have to chronicle six in various parts of Austria and Hungary. We have also before us the Protest of the .Bishops and People of the Lower Provinces of British America; the Address of the Bishop, Clergy, and People of the Diocese o f Newark, U .S . ; and we are glad to record public meetings ¿held by some of the principal Catholic Colleges in the U.S. The most important Meeting lately held is that which we reported last week to have taken place in Limerick. The argument which ran through all the addresses then delivered we have transferred to bur leading columns in the very words of the venerable and lgarned Bishop, and of the Dean. The full report is given'in the Freem an's J o u r n a l of Dec. 27, as also a summary of the very forcible speeches of Mr. Synan, M.P., Mr. Blockall, Mr. Aubrey de Vere, and Mr. Richard O’Shaughnessy, a young barrister of great promise.

The Prussian official journal of Versailles,

.Ir e l a n d a n d speaking 0f England in the event of her being

En g l a n d . d r a w n jnt0 war> describes her as altogether unready, and declares that she must become a cypher in European politics. All her colonies, including her Indian Empire, are open to attack, and there is danger of dissensions at home. Why will not the English Government listen to the voice of the Irish people ? They claim two measures of justice ; the one is pointed out by the Bishop of Limerick in a speech we report under a leading article : the other is Denominational Education, which we similarly refer to. I f England persists in refusing to grant these two claims, she will do so simply in obedience to English and Scotch Protestant bigotry. It will be a repetition of the history of the last three centuries, that Catholic Ireland must be governed according to the Protestant fe e lin g of England ; Eng­

land’s weakness will be Ireland, if she refuse to make her her strength. We grieve to hear from all quarters how Mr. Gladstone is losing the confidence of Ireland. And yet he need not forfeit it, unless he w i ll: the people are asking only for justice.

Among the encouraging signs in the present

°u R CATU°- conflict between the Church and the World is e youth. t ji c num]jer 0f young men who have voluntarily unlisted in the active service of the former. The “ Society

New Series. Voe. V. No. 113.

“ of the Catholic Youth of Italy,” the “ Young Men’s “ Societies” in America, England, and Ireland are instances of what we mean. All our great public Catholic meetings have heard their voices : in Dublin, in London, and now in Limerick, where Mr. Michael O’Shaughnessy, a rising young barrister, came forward upon the shortest notice and spoke with great effect. It is a sign of future strength when the youth of the Church are filled with an intelligent zeal, and are ready and able to fight her battles. From Italy the “ Society of Catholic Youth” have sent a circular to the youth of every country, in which they say : “ Together with “ prayer we make the proposal of an offering of Peter’s “ Pence. Unworthy sons have stripped the Church’s “ treasury—worthy and reverent sons must refill it.” Not only they g ive , but they also b eg ; “ We have begged from “ our mothers anci sisters a jewel, a necklace, a pair of ear“ rings to be devoted to Peter’s Pence.” We are glad to know that the Catholic youth of this country are not behind those of other lands, but are actively engaged on the same good work.

The Catholic ladies of England are following

A“ ic tlie example of the ladies in Vienna, who are lad ie s to signing an address to the Pope, which has obth e tope, tained many thousand signatures. Thirty prin­

cesses and other members of the aristocracy, under the title of “ Ladies who have had the happiness of kissing the feet of the Holy Father,” are getting up a similar address. All the addresses presented to the Holy Father are accompanied with a contribution in Peter's Pence. The Osservatore Cattolico says that, among other gilts from Austria, the Empress Mary Anne of Austria has given 100,000 florins (a florin is equivalent to 2s. ) ; the Archduke Francis Charles, 5,000 ; the Archduke Charles Lewis, 5,000 ; the Empress Caroline, 5,000, to the Holy lather.

I f the youth of Italy have set us an example catholic one particular, the Catholic youth of colleges. America have done so in another. The great J e s u i t C o l le g e of Georgetown has held a meeting and has delivered its speeches; and other Colleges are following the example. Can there be a better training for public life, or a surer way of awakening a sense of Catholic interest and public responsibility in our youth, than by encouraging them ■ betimes to think and to speak on subjects of such vital Catholic topics? This example, we hope, will be emulated elsewhere.

u Por>the authority of the Roman Correspon-

ti™ ke c|ent oi the Osservatore Cattolico we learn that

' pope’s. “ after long and patient studies ” the Italians have come to the conclusion that the Museums of the Vatican belong not to the Pope but to the Italian Government. So that the only part of the Vatican that the