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

From the B r ie f of H is Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4> 1870,

Vol. 44. No. 1795. London, Septembers, 1874.

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‘C hronicle of th e W e e k : —

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The Orénoque.—The Recognition of Serrano’s Government.— Carlist .Movements.— The Prussian Measures for Spain.—Prussian Measures for France. — Relative Strength of the Belligerents in Spain.—Carlist Atrocities.--Maineet-Loire and other Elections.— Brittany and the President.— Various French Topics.— Falck Law Operations.— The Bengal Famine and the “ Soupers.” .. 289 L eaders :

The New Scheme of Catholic

Higher Education .. .. 293 The Pilgrimage to Pontigny .. 294 The Census of Ireland .. .. 294

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L eaders (continued).

Sales of Church Property in

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Italy ......................... .. 295 The Reform of Church Music in

Germany.— IV. .. .. .. 296 British and Irish Pilgrimages in the Olden Time.— II .. .. 297 O ur Protestant C ontemporaries : 1

Newspaper Theology .. .. 299 R eview s :

Judaism Surveyed .. .. .. 300 Mark Brandon’s Wife .. .. 301 Centulle ; a Tale of Pau .. ,. 302 j Short N otices :

Ironopolis .. .. .. .. 303 I Flora Cheviot .. .. .. 303 Barnaby Rudge .. .. .. 303

C orrespondence :

Kensington and the Abbey of

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Abingdon .. .. .. .. 303 Modern Pilgrimages to Durham.. 303 A Tomb for Bishop Milner .. 303 Society of St. Cecilia .. .. 303 Training Ship in the Thames for

Catholic Boys .. .. .. 303 R ome :

Letter from our own Cor­

respondent .. .. .. 305 R ecord of German P ersecution :

Prospects of the next Reichstag .. 306 Catholic Meeting at Neisse .. 306 Bishop Reinkens and Unity .. 306 Prosecution of Priests .. .. 307 Refusal of Catholic Bishops to take part in the Sedan Celebrations.. 307

D io cesan N ews

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Nottingham .. .........................SO? Liverpool Salford I reland :

Letter from our Dublin Correspondent .. Foreign N ews :—

Germany

Austria Russia

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Bavaria.— Brazil.-West Indies .. 310 M emoranda :—

Religious.— Catholic Union .. 310 Literary .. .. .. .. 311 G eneral N ews . . . . . . 311 The Pilgrimage to Pontigny .. 313

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

FR A N C E , i f we may trust to a statem ent in the. Moniteur Universel o f Tuesday— has

--------p lu cked up heart o f grace to refuse the urgent instances— not, it is stated— o f the Italian

•Cabinet— bu t o f the K in g him self— for the removal o f the frigate that keeps guard at C iv ità V e c ch ia for the H o ly Father’s safety. T h e Orbioque, it is asserted, is not to be rem oved. I t must, however, be added that the Univers relu ctantly avows its d isbelief o f the news, and mentions that it had been informed by a member o f the present M in istry that the war ship would positively be ordered from the coast o f I ta ly on the 15th o f November. W ill this fresh desertion o f the Pope signalize the arrival o f new calam ities to France •like those which follow ed so quickly on the removal o f the F rench garrison from Rome.

I t is announced from M adrid that the recognition o f Marshal Serrano’s Governm ent by the serrano’s Powers has arrived at such a degree o f ma•g overnment. turity that the representatives o f the several foreign Governments resident at the Spanish

■ capital have received their credentials, and great preparations were being made for the reception at which the foreign representatives were to present those credentials. Marshal Serrano’s Governm ent is an em inently revolutionary one, inasm uch as it displaced an Administration which came in to power not by any usurpation o f its own, but by the voluntary abdication o f a K in g . I t may not have been en titled to much respect, but Señor Castelar’s Cabinet was the ■ last that professed any regard for law and constitutional principles, whereas the regime that has grown up out o f G eneral Pavia’s coup d'état has concerned itself very little about either. H ence, the Revolutionary elem ent throughout Europe is jo y fu lly affected at the recognition o f that régime by the Powers. T h e ir action, however, need not be taken as im p ly ing any particular sym pathy with the present order of things at Madrid. I t is, perhaps, capable o f suffic ien t explanation on the ground of the urgent need felt on th e part o f foreign Governm ents o f p lacing them selves in a better position as regards the protection o f their own subje c t s and the interests o f foreign trade in Spain ; while it is to lerably certain that not one o f them wishes well to the C a r lis t cause, or would be sorry to see it stam ped out tomorrow. R ecognition by all its neighbours o f the Madrid G overnm ent is the most effectual way short o f active intervention o f aiding in putting down that movement. T h e ■ existence, however, o f a Royalist struggle need not, in th e case o f any Government, be taken as furnishing the m o tive for the recognition o f Marshal Serrano’s Administration. A s the Débats has pointed out, it is not the form or the right o f the Spanish Governm ent that is

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recognized, but the existence o f some de facto authority representing the nation, and, to some extent at least, speaking and acting in its name, and, at all events, carrying on its affairs ad interim until the e lection o f a Parliam ent, or until the possibility o f such election shall make itse lf apparent. In a word, it is an escape from the inconveniences o f the situation in which an im portant member of the European fam ily had neither an official ear that could be addressed nor an official utterance that could reply. I f Russia has for the present refused to jo in in such recognition it is, perhaps, because from her position in the outside orbit o f the European system she has no acute perception o f those in conveniences, and can therefore afford to g ive free p la y to her traditional dislike o f upstart administrations. T h e reasons which she has given are, at all events, plausible. She declines to recognize a Spanish Governm ent not yet recognized by Spain— a Governm ent which can hardly be said to have recognized itself, inasmuch as it has no answer to g ive to those who enquire its name, whether Constitutional or Despotic, M onarchical or Republican. T o recognize such a Governm ent would be to intervene in the domestic affairs o f Spain, inasm uch as it would be in favour o f a party in the country.

T h e battle o f M onte Muro was the last event carlist ;n Spa¡n tha t the Governm ent at Madrid could movements, have learnt with anything approaching to satisfaction. S in ce then the course o f the war can scarcely be said to have been, on the whole, anything but untoward. W hatever amount o f couleur de rose may have been infused into the current reports o f operations in the field by an Administration that sternly forbids the publication o f any war-news but its own— the facts that have continually oozed out are such as to show that all is not prospering at the seat o f war. T h e fall o f Cuenca, the capture o f Laguardia, and the attem pt at its re lie f by that rem arkable m ilitary promenade from Logroño o f 12,000 men, whose movement took so innocuously retrograde a direction that th ey found them selves back again at Logroño without the loss o f a man, but without effecting anything towards the accom p lishm ent o f the purpose for which they had started. Then M iranda and V ittoria were menaced, and, as we mentioned last w eek— L a Seo de U rgel was taken, it is said, by treachery, though not without sharp fighting. S ince those events we have news authenticated by G eneral Caballos o f the capture o f 11 iro by G eneral M o ñ o n e s ; the garrison having been surprised by some volunteers, who swam across the E b ro and, attacking the town from the rear, succeeded in opening its gates to the reserve o f A lv a re z ’s division, which had crossed the E b ro near Logroño. T h e n ext Carlist su ccess that we hear o f is the storm ing o f the town o f A lcan iz b y Don A lphonso. These events had, as is natural, p roduced great rejoicin gs in the K in g ’s own country o f Navarre.