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A W eekly Newspaper and Review.

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D um VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS e t ia m addim u s u t in in coeptis v e s t r is c o n s t a n t e r m a n e a t is .

From the Brief of His Holiness to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870,

Vol. 44 . No. 1 7 9 3 .

L o n d o n , A u g u s t 22, 18 74 .

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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 s t O f f i c e a s a N e w s p a p e r

' C h r o n i c l e o f t h e W e e k : —

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Mr. Fawcett on Mr. Gladstone.— Professor Tindall at Belfast — Marshal Bazaine’s Escape.— Madame Bazaine’s Account.— The Marshal’s Story.— Later Details.-The Semi-official Theory. The Extradition Question.— Marshal Bazaine and the Carlists.— Manifesto o f Don Carlos.— The Recognition o f the Spanish Government.— The Battle at Oteiza. Operations of Zabala and Moriones.— Second Engagement at Oteiza.— The Calvados Election. — Marshal Mac Mahon’s Progress. The New French Ambassador.—

l'he Reform o f Church Music.— The “ GEuvre de Saint Paul,” &c. 225

CONTENTS.

L e a d e r s :

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A House divided against Itself .. 229 The Progress o f Bonapartism . . 229 Queen’s College, Cork . . .. 230 The Irish National School

Teachers . . .. .. . .2 3 1 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C o n t e m p o r a r i e s :

A Form of Lunacy.. .. .. 232 R e v i e w s :

The “ Dublin Review ” . . .. 234 “ Three to One” .. . . . 235 History o f Christian Theology in the Apostolic Age .. . . 235 On Contemporary Prophecies .. 235 S h o r t N o t ic e s :

Woman’s Work in Modern Society 236 Madame Agnes— Perdita.. . .2 3 6 Summer Talks about Lourdes . . 236 Stories of the Saints for Children 236

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Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 236 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Romancing Historians .. . . 238 The “ Guardian ” and the Growth o f Catholicism in England .. 238 The Pilgrimage to Pontigny .. 239 A Brighton Pilgrimage .. .. 239 Open Churches . . .. . . 239 Somersetshire Saints . . .. 239 Great Grimsby Mission .. . . 239 R o m e :

Letter from our own Cor- .

respondent . . .. .. 241 R e c o r d o f G e r m a n P e r s e c u t io n ;

Diocese of Paderborn .. .. 242 Priest-hunting.— Vexatious Annoyance towards Nuns.-Dr. Dollinger. — The Catholic Congress at Mainz : Brief of the Holy Father .. . . 243

D io c e s a n N ew s :—

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Westminster . . . . .. . . 243 Southwark . . .. .. .. 244 Birmingham .. . . .. .. 244 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 244 Plymouth . . .. . . . . 244 Salford . . .. .. .. 244 Scotland . . . . . . . . 244 I r e l a n d . . . . . . .. 245 F o r e ig n N ew s :—

France . . . . .. .. 246 Prussia . . . . . . . . 246 Austria . . . . .. . . 247 Russia . . . . .. . . 247 Bavaria . . . . . . .. 247 Spain . . . . .. .. 247 Brazil . . . . .. .. 248 M e m o r a n d a :— Educational . . 249 G e n e r a l N ew s . . . . .. 249

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

ON MR. GLADSTONE. I

MR. FAWCETT

T is the season for provincial speeches. Mr. Goschenopened it last week at Frome, and this week Mr. Fawcett has played his part at Brighton, and Mr. Forster, Mr. Roebuck, and Mr. Mundella at Sheffield. Of all these lastnamed orators Mr. Fawcett is the one who deserves the most particular notice, for he was the one who dealt most •directly with the question of parties, and the position which he has made for himself in the Liberal camp is so entirely unlike that of any one else that his view of Conservative performances and of Liberal prospects is peculiarly worthy o f attention. After congratulating his hearers on the secularization of the University of Dublin, and promising fresh efforts to transfer the expenses of elections to the constituencies, he told them that when the present Government came into power his attachment to party was not strong enough to make him regard the change as a serious misfortune. But his views have been totally changed by the “ reactionary policy ” displayed by the Government in the matter of the Endowed Schools Bill, and he throws himself heart and soul into active opposition. He is thus led to consider the position of Mr. Gladstone, end the result of the last Session is that that statesman “ never stood higher in the confidence of the Liberal party, “ and that, so far as leadership is concerned, his qualifications “ were never more generally recognized, and his claims never tl more undisputed.” His temporary absence proved “ be“ yond all possibility of dispute that as political leader no one “ else is to be compared with him.” He never spoke so well as during this Session, and gave the highest proof of statesmanship by his calmness of judgment in a time of panic. For Mr. Fawcett sees in the Public Worship Bill a parallel to the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, and told his audience that nothing entitled Mr. Gladstone to their confidence more than the fact that he, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Bright, Sir W. Moles worth, “ and a “ mere handful of others,” were the only English Liberals who had the “ courage and sagacity ” to vote against the lastnamed measure, which would always be “ an instructive me“ morial of the folly that may be committed by Parliament “ when it gives way to Protestant panic.” It is true enough that Mr. Gladstone has gained immensely in the short period since his return to Parliamentary life. He has only proved his unrivalled superiority in debate, but he haswon backa considerable section of the clergybyhisattitude towards thePublic Worship Bill, and has at the same timeconciliatedtheNonconformists by his fierce attack on the Endowed Schools Bill.

PROFESSOR TVNDALL AT

BELFAST.

Professor Tyndall’s eloquent but dreary exposition of pure Materialism at Belfast must have disappointed those who expected from him anything like a review of the progress of science. New Series V ol. X II. No.

302.

The new President.of the British Association preferred delivering an elaborate confession of his belief in Matter as the self-existent Mother of all that is. He seems, indeed, to allow, with Lucretius, that there is something more in her than they have hitherto discovered, and that in a certain sense “ mens agitat molêm.” As, when a magnet is broken, its two parts reproduce the double polarity of the whole, and so on after each fresh division, till we arrive at “ polar “ molecules,” Mr. Tyndall is disposed to believe with the heathen poet that “ nature is seen to do all things spontan e o u s ly of herself, without the meddling of the gods.” But unfortunately self-existent Matter, containing molecules, which by “ play between organization and environment” I produce intelligent and moral beings, is quite as great an [ intellectual difficulty as a self-existent God. But if anybody prefers to believe in the latter, Professor Tyndall maintains that they can only do so on condition of recognizing “ that “ ultimate fixity of conception is here unattainable.” But here the Professor slips. This freedom of perpetual scepticism is, he tells us, “ a right.” But what is the meaning of right if Matter is the great first cause, and there is no moral standard to appeal to beyond that created by the “ play ” of molecules ? There are some people, fortunately, who still believe that there is another, and there will be such long after Professor Tyndal has “ melted,” as he prettily predicts, “ like a streak of morning cloud, into the infinite azure “ of the past.”

The rope story seems to be the true one marshal after an Marshal Bazaine, with his wife and "escape.^ her nephew, M. Alvarez de Rul, have turned up at Cologne, and Madame Bazaine, hearing of the hunt after supposed accomplices, has written to the French Minister of the Interior, General Chabaud-Latour, to say that there were no accomplices at all. But first the Marshal’s brother had written to the Figaro to contradict the assertion that the prisoner had given his parole not to escape. The contradiction was scarcely necessary. The Gaulois had already pointed out that when you lock up a prisoner every evening, and allow him only a apace of thirty square yards to take exercise in, and when you give the sentries strict orders to fire upon upon him if he attempts to get away, you do not ask him to give his word of honour to stay where he is. It is the business of the State to see that a prisoner does not escape, and the prisoner’s to escape if he can. The story of the parole, to which its publication in the Débats gave an importance which it would not otherwise have gained, seems to have originated from the fact that when Madame Bazaine made her application to the President, she undertook that her husband should give such a pledge on certain conditions. She asked first for commutation of the sentence into banishment for life, and Marshal MacMahon refused, on the ground that he was a