THE TABLET
A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
D u m V O B IS G R A TU L AM U R , AN IM O S E T IAM ADDIMUS U T IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER M ANEATIS.
From the Brief of His Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
Voi. 46. No. 1845. L o n d o n , A u g u s t 21, 1875.
P rice sd. B y P ost
[R egistered a t the G eneral P ost O ffice as a N ewspaper
C hronicle of th e W e e k :—
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The Revolt in European Turkey.-Spread of the Insurrection.—The Statue of Arminius.—The Bonn Conference.—The “ Procession of the Holy Spirit ”—Articles of Agreement.—The Doctrine of Purgatory.—The Anglicans at the Conference. — Spanish News.— The Burmese Difficulty.—The New Russian Expedition.— Dr. Kenealy and Magna Charla.— The Prince and Princess of Wales .at Sheffield.—The Order of the Fetes.— Fatal Collision with the Royal Yacht.—The Loss of the Boyne.—Brief on Classical Studies.'—Congress of Geographical Science .. .. .. .. 225
CONTENTS.
L e a d e r s :
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Legitimate Poisoning .. .. 229 Sunday Newspapers . . .. 230 “ Morose ” Tax-Payers .. . . 231 R eview s :
“ Queen Mary” and “ Mary
Tudor ” .................................... 232 Lessius on the Divine Perfections 233 Preludes .. .. •• •• 233 The Dublin Review .. .. 234 Short N otices :
The Principles of the Reformation 235 Theses de Sacra Scriptura, &c. . . 236 Shakespeare .. .. .. •• 236 Cyclopaedia of Costume .. •. 236 Warne’s Shilling Atlas .. . . 236 Church Music :
St. Cecilia’s Society’s Catalogue.. 236
C orrespondence:
Civil Allegiance, Arius, and Glad
Page stone .. Religious Statistics of India and
Ceylon The Industrial School for Boys Mr. Gladstone and the “ Morning
Advertiser ” “ Old-Catholics ” and the Pro
testant Dissenters Schools of Compassion An A p p e a l .................................... P arliam entary Summary R ome :— Letter from our own Cor
respondent D iocesan N ews :—
237 238 238 238 239 239 239 239 241
Westminster .. .. .. . . 242 Southwark . . .. .. .. 242 Salford .. .. .. .. 242
D iocesan (continued) ;
Shrewsbury Scotland— Northern District
,, Western District I r e land.................................................... 243 Foreign N ews :—
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242 243 243
France.. Germany Austria Bavaria Switzerland .. . . .. M emoranda :—
245 246 246 247 247
Religious.—The “ School of the
Cross” Catholic Union. — The Catholic
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Registration Society .. .. 248 General N ews ............................248
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
TURKEY. T
THE REVOLT IN EUROPEAN
'H E struggle in the H erzegovina shows no signs o f abatement. T h e Turkish troops have not been able to do much, for they have been matched, i f not outnumbered, by the insurgents, thanks to the reinforcem ents which the latter have received from the neighbouring provinces. A n d now an insurrection seem s to have actually broken out in Bosnia. An Agram paper reports that on Sunday some insurgents in that province surprised the guard-house at Johowo, killed tw o Turkish soldiers, and carried away a quantity o f arms, ■ while a telegram from Ragusa dated M onday announces that th e tort o f Goransko, near P iva, in Bosnia has been stormed b y the rebels, and that the town o f M etochia has fallen into their hands. There are also news o f “ severe engagements ” on Thursday and Friday week near Jasen in the H erzegovina, and “ heavy cannonading ” is said to have been heard on Saturday in the neighbourhood o f T rebinje. U p to the present tim e the Turkish Governm ent has had a special difficulty in dealing with the insurrection, arising from the im possibility o f sending reinforcem ents by sea, the best road from the Turkish harbour o f K le k , which is the maritime outlet o f the Herzegovina, being crossed by an enclave o f Austrian territory. But a Turkish transport has been sent a t length to that port, and a telegram , dated Saturday, brings the news that the V ienna Governm ent has consented to a llow the troops which may be landed there to pass through the slip o f Austrian ground into the interior. T h e Porte has now got about 20,000 men employed in combating the insurrection, and has appointed N ed jib Pasha to the com m and o f the force. Another Constantinople telegram o f Tuesday’s date speaks o f an offer made to Hussein A vn i Pasha o f “ an important post in the H erzegovina,” with the title o f Grand Marshal. On the other side, M. Lynbobratich, the leader o f the insurgents, seems to find no difficulty in getting volunteers from the neighbouring States. And a s the Austrians, whom nobody suspects o f com p licity in th e movement, are visibly unable to prevent the Dalm atians from jo in ing it, it will be difficult to make out a case against the Princes of Servia and Montenegro, who are equally powerless to keep their more adventurous subjects at home. O f the Montenegrins a t least 2,000 are said to have jo in ed the rebels. There, as well as in Spain, the resource o f forged in telligence has already been employed. A proclamation purporting to be, it is said, by Dervish Pasha gave to every Musulmann most extensive and arbitrary power over the lives and property o f all who a ided or harboured the insurgents, and the Christians were proportion
N ew Ser ie s , V ol. X IV . No. 354.
ately exasperated; but the Turkish authorities have denounced the document as a forgery.
T h e latest news from the seat o f insurrec-
spread t-lon j s ^ a t over a thousand Turks have been 017 Tup t surrection. landed at K le k , and that the Pasha o f Mos-
ta r jia s sent 1,500 men, with two guns, and 100
cavalry to jo in them. But between K le k and Mostar the insurgents are very strongly posted in the mountain gorges, and will g ive the Turks no little trouble. T h e engagem ent near T rebinje was occasioned by a sortie o f the garrison, who were driven back by the rebels, and in the course o f the fight several villages were burnt by the latter. A despatch from Constantinople further states that a serious insurrection has broken out in northern Bosnia, near Gradiska, and a letter from Dalmatia reports that in that province 10,000 men under Stratinirovich, and 5,000 under V la jco r ich and Zarko, are in readiness to enter Bosnia and jo in the insu-gents. And this in spite o f a proclamation by the M ilit* y Governor o f Dalmatia forbidding Austrian subjects to take part in the contest. T h e movement is evidently spreading among a ll the Slavonic provinces, and the letter ju s t referred to states that S lavs are arriving from all parts o f Europe “ to fight for their independence and their religion.” And as almost a ll the landowners in Bosnia are Musulmans there is every chance o f the struggle developing into a c iv il war o f religion.
T h e Germans have been inaugurating the s t a tu e or statue t'le ‘ r g reat typical hero, Hermann or arm in iu s . Arm in, whom the Romans called Arm inius.
H e is typical, because around his memory have grouped themselves all the ideas o f national g lo ry and resistance to a foreign invader, and it is quite useless to inquire how far the real warrior o f the Cherusci answered to the conception which his modern relatives have chosen him to represent. Whatever legendary g lo ry may have been thrown around him by German pens the fact remains that he was the destroyer, in the tangled wilds o f the H ercynian forest, o f those Roman legions which Augustus vainly called on their dead general to restore. H e was afterwards, it is true, worsted in his turn by Germanicus, his wife and child figured as captives in a Roman triumph, and the latter became a Roman gladiator : but he him self remained the most prominent figure among the champions o f German independence, and came by his death because, like Julius, he was believed to be aim ing at a crown. But it was that first great success— that ambush and slaughter o f 40,000 Romans in the Teutoburger W a ld— which broke the wave of conquest, and won for Arminius the testim ony o f T acitu s that he was “ without doubt the liberator o f Germany," and that he had prevailed against Rome, not lik e other kings and generals in the in fancy o f her power, but in the most flourishing epoch o f her greatness— being “ unconquered
