THE TABLET:

A IVeekly Newspaper and Review.

D U M VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the Brief of H is Holiness to T he T ablet, J uju 4, 1870

Voi. 44. No. 1802. L ondon, October 24, 1874.

P r ice 3d. By P o st 5%d

[R e g is t e r ed a t th e G e n e r a l P ost O f f i c e a s a N ew s pa p e r

•C h r o n ic l e o f t h e W e e k : —

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The Prince o f Wales in France.— The French Answer to the Spanish Note. — The Orenoque. — The iFrench Elections.— The Duke of Padua and Marshal MacMahon.— The Attempted Nationalization of the German Church.— The German Government and the “ Old Catholic s .”— Count von Arnim.— Mgr. Dupanloup on the Spoliation of Rome.—The Armenians and the Turkish Government.— Cession of the Fiji Islands.— Our Special •Correspondent in Spain.— Capture ■ of Nana Sahib.— The Pope and the Freemasons.— The Laws of War.— Church Music.— Dr. New.man and the Jesuits, &c. . . .. 513

CONTENTS.

L e a d e r s :

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Count Arnim’s Arrest .. .. 517 The Catholic and other Universi

, ties . . ........................................ 517 The Ministerial Programme for

Ita ly .. .. . . . . .. 519 The Reform of Church Music in

Germany—V I I I . . . .. .. 520 Old English Pilgrimages. V I II .—

Lesser Sanctuaries o f Our Blessed Lady in England . . 521 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C ontem po r ar ie s :

Sacerdotalism ......................... 522 R e v ie w s :

The Contemporary Review .. 324 On the Science of Sensibility, &c. 525 Jesus Christ the Model of the

Priest . . .. „ . . 525

S hort N otice :

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Hymns of the Church .. . . 526 Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 526 C orrespondence :

Southwark

Beverley Salford I r e lan d :

Ecclesiastical Music . . . . 526 The Hospital Society and St.

Letter from our Dublin Corre

Vincent’s Orphanage . . . . 527 R ome :— Letter from our own Cor­

respondent . . . . .. 529 Christianity and Legislation in

Germany .. .. .. . . 530 Mr. Gladstone and Bonn . . . . 532 D io c e sa n N ew s :—

The Catholic University College,

spondent Opening of the Session o f the

Catholic University

F oreign N ews :

Prussia Austria The Civil War in Spain . .

Kensington . . . . . . 533 Westminster.................................... 534! G en e r a l N ews

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

FRANCE. T

THE PRINCE •OF WALES IN

H E P R IN C E OF WALES has been ful­

filling a promise made in London by visiting the Duc de la Rochefoucauld Bisaccia athischâteauin France, andhas taken the •opportunity to make himself acquainted with some of the principle great houses in the neighbourhood. The l im e s has been careful to point out— what everybody in this country (knew— that the visit has no political significance whatever, and his Royal Highness was equally careful to pay a visit of ■ courteous explanation to Marshal MacMahon on his way. But] the anti-Royalists papers in France have been talking nonsense about an alliance between England and the French Legitimists, and the visit which Marshal MacMahon paid to ■ the Duc de Broglie, in Normandy, on the day of the Prince’s arrival at Esclimont, has been interpreted as a device by which the President avoided an invitation to meet the Prince at a ■ gathering almost entirely composed of Legitimists. It is not altogether improbable, however, that the Marshal may bave been very well pleased that his long-standing promise to his ex-Minister saved him from the dilemma o f either refusing an invitation to meet the heir o f the English Crown, o r of joining a party of ladies and gentlemen whose relations ■ with his Government are just now not o f the most cordial description, and his presence amongst whom would infallibly be used as a weapon against him by the other fractions o f the Opposition. It would have been •rather awkward, moreover, for the President o f the French Republic to have found himself in such a society where there, was a rival guest of such importance. The Prince reached the Château d’Esclimont on Thursday week, and was received with great magnificence ; among the company invited to meet him were the Duc de Chartres, and the representatives o f many great names— Arenbergs, Crouys, Tremoïlles, Rochefoucauld-Doudeauvilles, Polignacs— and General Baron de Charette. The next day there was a great shooting party, and on Sunday the Prince visited the widowed Duchesse de Luynes, the daughter o f the Duc de Bisaccia by his first marriage, whose husband was killed at Patay, at her famous château o f Dampierre, and dined with the Due de la Tremouille at his equally famous château of Rambouillet ■ in the evening. Such a brilliant gathering has, perhaps, scarcely been seen there since “ Madame ” held there her court of “ Précieuses ” in the days of the Grand Monarque. ■ On Monday there was another great shooting party at Rambouillet, in spite of the pouring rain, and the Prince on both occasions proved to be by far the best shot. On Wednesday his Royal Highness joined the Duc de Aumale’s ■ hunting party at Chantilly, where Marshal MacMahon was ■ one of the guests, as were also the Comte de Paris, the Due

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de Montpensier, and the Due de Chartres. The visit to Chantilly will, probably, prevent any more grumbling about Royal civilities to the Extreme Right.

THE FRENCH ANSWER TO THE SPANISH

NOTE.

A ll kinds of rumours are current about th e affair of the Spanish Note. One— obviously incredible— is that the Marquis de Vega de Armijo presented it on his own responsibility, and that the Ministers at Madrid had no cog­

nizance of it. I f they say so now, it must be taken as a disavowal of a step which they are not prepared to defend. Another— far more probable— is that the Due Decazes has got a very good answer to the allegations respecting the supply o f arms and uniforms to the Carlists, and— what is a little less probable— that the Spanish Envoy has expressed himself satisfied with the explanation. It is said that the equipments o f the Garde Mobile, which remained in private hands after the termination o f the Franco-Prussian war, were bought on speculation by traders at Liege and in Germany, and, being re-sold by them to the Carlists, were shipped for the most part at the ports o f Antwerp and Hamburg. It would be amusing if it were established that the remonstrances of the Spanish Government ought to be addressed, at least in part, to Berlin instead o f to Versailles. It is scarcely likely, however, that the formal reply of the French Government has yet been prepared, though some points o f it may have been communicated to the Spanish Minister in the course of conversation. As to the transference o f M. de Nadailhac from the Prefecture of the Basses Pyrenees, and of M. de Villeneuve Bargemont from that of the A lpes Maritimes— the former for his supposed sympathies with the Carlists, the latter for his support o f a candidate believed to be favourable to the restitution of N ice to Ita ly— it is incredible that the first-named official can be removed immediately after the reception o f such a document as the Marquis de Vega de Armijo’s Note. I t would be too evidently a yielding to intimidation, and it is far more probable that the move, already resolved upon, will be effected at the next batch of promotions and transfers. M. de Nadailhac, as M. Emile de Girardin has very wittily said, is “ the “ Ordnoque of Spain,” and may be recalled from his present position when there is no longer the same appearance o f foreign pressure.

THE ORÉNOQUE.

A t the last meeting o f the French Permanent Committee a question was, of course, put about the recall of the Orenoque from Civith

Vecchia. It was M. de la Bouillerie, a member o f the late Cabinet, who protested both against this measure and against the recent recognition o f the Spanish Government. The answer of the Due Decazes in the matter o f the Orenoque was that, if M. de la Bouillerie thought that the duty o f the Government towards the Holy Father obliged it to main