THE TABLET A IVeekly Newspaper and Review. D u m VOEIS G R A TU LAM U R , AN IM O S ETIARI ADDIMUS U T IN INCCEPTIS V E STR IS CONSTANTER M ANEATIS. F rom the B r ie / o; H t s Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , j/une 4 , 1870.' V o l . 39. N o . 16Ö0. L o n d o n , J u n e 22, 1872. . P r ic e 5d. Bv P ost 5%d* [R eg ister ed a t th e G en e r a l P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper. ^Ch ro n ic le o f t h e W e e k : The Page. Pope’s Anniversary. — The Murderers of the Pontifical Gendarmes. — The Holy See and Persecuting Powers. —The Prospects o f the Arbitration. — The Proceedings at Geneva.— The “ Daily News” and ■ the Lord Chancellor.— The Ballot Amendments.— Attendance of Catholic Members.— The Irish Bishops and the Galway Judgment.— M. Thiersand the Assembly.— The Recent Elections.— M. d’Haussonville on M. Thiers.— The French Protestant Synod.— The Situation in Spain.—-The Manifesto of the •Guipuzcoan Junta.— The Alleged Conspiracy against Civil Government, &c., &c. - 765 L eaders : C O N T Page. The Geneva Arbitration . . 769 The Perescution in Germany. . 769 “ Wholesale Bribery” of Catholics. 770 E nglish A dm in i s tr a t io n s an d C atholic I n t e r e s t s . — LXX. Trial o f Mr. Kirvvan. Speech of Burrowes. Lord Byron’s Speech on Catholic Claims .... 772 International Exhibition.— The Eng­ lish P i c t u r e s ...................................... 774 T he A nglican M ovem ent.— The “ Spectator” on the^Bennett Judg­ ment ............................................... 774 R e v iew s : The Church and the Age _ . . 775 Mankind: Their Origin and Destiny . . . . 776 ! The Contemporary Review . . 778 1 E N T S . S hort N otices : Experimental Che­ Page. mistry.— Stories of the Sierras.— The Life of Our Lord Commemorated in the Mass.—The Monitor of the Association of Prayer, &c. . 778 N ew M u s i c ....................................... 778 C orrespondence : Thoughts on the Recent Judgment o f tht»Judicial Committee of the * Privy Council .... 778 Superior Education for Catholics , 779 P a r l ia m e n t a r y S ummary . . 779 R ome : Letter from Rome .... 783 Reply of His Holiness to the Roman Catholic Union o f Ladies 784 Allocution to the Sacred College,&c. 784 Twenty-sixth Anniversary o f the Coronation o f Pius IX . . . 785 D io ce san N ews : Westminster . S o u t h w a r k .................................... B irm in gham .................................... Northampton.................................... I r eland : Page. . 785 . 785 • 785 • 785 Letter from our Dublin Corre­ spondent .... Mr. Justice Keogh's Report.. The London Celtic Society . F oreign N ews : Germany— United 785 786 . 786 S t a t e s .............................................787 M em o randa : Religious. — ¡Educational : Westminster Diocesan Education Fund. The Scotch Education Bill as regards Catholic Interests and Catholic Members of Parliament.— Literary.— Fine Arts— Legal . 7SS G en er a l N ews . . . . 790 ... CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK. VERSARY. O TH E .t o p e ’s A N N I ­ tN Sunday the Holy Father entered on the 27th year o f his illustrious and memorable Pontificate, and the unfavourable reports respecing his health, which 'the revolutionary papers are continually endeavouring to spread, ' are sufficiently disproved by the simple fact o f his being able without inconvenience to give audience to such enormous crowds as those which have been flocking to the Vatican to offer him their homage and congratulations ; an offering in which we, who are necessarily absent in body, desire most heartily to join. Private letters which we have this day received, state that the Holy Father “ was never so well or in better spirits.’’ . TH E MURDERERS OF TH E PONTIFICAL ■ GENDARMES. The issue of the trial o f the assassins o f De Luca has created an immense sensation in Rome, even among the more moderate Liberals. The Revolutionary press, o f course, congratulates itself on the acquittal o f its friends; it might also congratulate itself on the power o f its party, result o f the trial to which we have already alluded, and by the still more recent armed assault on persons connected with the Vatican, an account o f which we publish elsewhere— and directs Cardinal Antonelli to make the foreign representatives fully acquainted with the real state o f tilings, and to protest against acts which are a menace not only to the Holy See but to the whole Catholic world. A t the same time the semi-official North German Gazette publishes an article pointing to the probability o f the violent interference o f civil Governments in a future Conclave :— “ Before Go“ vernments permit the exercise o f such rights”— that is, the • supreme Pastorate o f the Holy See— “ over their subjects, “ they must ask themselves whether the election o f the Pope “ an(I his personal character afford the guarantees which they “ are entitled and bound to demand against the abuse o f “ such arbitrary power.” We may safely trust to Divine Providence to bring to nought such designs; and when persecuting rulers have disappeared from the scene o f their transitory triumphs, the Church will still be there to sing the song o f which the Holy Father speaks : Cantemus Domino, gloriose enim magnificat us est: tquurn et ascensorem dcjecit in mare. fo r the verdict was clearly obtained by intimidation. The witnesses were hissed, and the liberated murderer was carried in triumph by the mob— a mob certainly not composed o f Romans. The Liberta stated some time ago that this would be the result o f the tr ia l; it suggested that the ■ murdered Pontifical gendarme and his companions must have worn white and yellow flowers in their coats, and spoken disrespectfully o f the uniform o f the National Guard. We hope to go more at length next week into the evidence on which the verdict was b a sed ; we will now only advert to two or three facts— first, that it was clearly proved that the National Guards were armed and that the Pontificals were not; secondly, that no provocation whatever was given by the ■ latter ; thirdly, that the murderers waited for them in the road for more than 20 minutes. The conclusion of the Italian jury from this is, that the Pontificals were the aggressors; and ■ the corollary, that it is all the Pope’s fault for having guards .at all. Such is the working o f the famous Law o f •Guarantees. TH E HOLY SEE AND PER- SECUTING POWERS. The Holy Father has just addressed to the Cardinal-Secretary o f State a letter for communication to the representatives o f foreign Powers accredited to the Vatican. It is dated on the 16th anniversary o f his election, and is a pro­ test against the threatened law suppressing Religious Orders ■ and corporations in Rome, which will be an act o f violence prejudicial to the interest o f the Church, and a breach of 'the international rights o f Catholic nations. His Holiness further protests against the so-called Guarantees, declaring that the Italian Government is unable even to administer justice— a statement only too fully justified by the scandalous TH E PROSPECTS OF THE ARBITRA­ TION. Since our last issue the principal incidents o f this wearisome affair have been the publication of the diplomatic correspondence, especially o f the text o f the Senate’s amendments, and the meeting o f the Court at Geneva. The first busi­ ness of the alterations introduced by the Senate, as published by the Daily Telegraph on Friday, was calculated to excite considerable astonishment, not at the Government having objected to it, but at the Senate having proposed it, and at the Washington Cabinet having stuck to it with a pertinacity somewhat less than courteous. It was, that neither Power was to be held responsible for the acts o f its citizens against the o th er; which would not only be open to the objection urged by the limes, viz., that the destruction o f Government property by filibusters would be protected, while attacks on private property would remain prohibited, but to this also, that all “ direct claims ” as well as “ indirect ” could , thus be barred. Any American citizens might organize an attack on a Canadian arsenal, or the Government establishments at Nassau or the Bermudas, and all claims on our part for compensation would be stopped. The alterations, however, were in reality not quite so extravagant as this. They consist in the substitution o f two new paragraphs for the last two paragraphs o f the preamble. The words objected to by Lord Granville being that “ whereas both “ Governments adopt for the future the principle that claims “ for remote or indirect losses should not be admitted as the “ result o f failure to observe neutral obligations so far as to “ declare that it will hereafter guide the conduct o f both “ Governments in their relations with each other.” It is N e w S e r i e s . Y o l . VIE. No. 189.