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D u m VOBIS G R A TU LAM U R , AN IM O S ET IA M ADDIM U S U T IN INCCEPTIS V E S TR IS CON S TAN TER M A N EA T IS .

From the Brief of H is Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.

Vol. 46. No. 1847. London, S eptember 4, 1875.

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C hronicle of the W eek :—

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'The I nsurrection in Turkey.— Lord Russell and the Insurgents. —The New Servian Ministry— Attitude of the Insurgents.—The New Grand Vizier,— The King of •Bavaria at Rheims.— The German Pilgrimage to Lourdes.— Fall of Seo de Urgel.— Its effect on the Carlist Cause.— Alleged Outrage a t Puerto Rico.— China and Kashgar.— England and China.— Outrages in China.— The revolt in Khokand.— Progress of the Persecution in Geneva.— The Church in Westphalia.— The Collision in ¡the Solent.-The Expedition to the Congo.—The Homerton Nuns at Derby, &c., & c................... . . 289

CONTENTS.

L e a d e r s :

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European Combinations . . . . 293 The Rising in Turkey . . . . 294 The Arctic Expedition . . .. 294 R e v ie w s :

The Quarterly Review . . . . 295 Glimpses o f the Supernatural . . 296 The Public Life of Our Lord .. 297 Readings from the Old Testament 298 Observations on Mr. Gladstone’s

Pamphlets .. . . .. •• 298 The Pope of Rome and the Eastern

Popes . . . . . . . • 299 S hort N otices :

The Victims of the Mamertine .. 299 The Angel of the Altar . . . . 300 The Holy Ways of the Cross .. 300 Illustrated Games of Patience . . 300 Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 300

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C orrespondence :

P.onn and Protestant Orders Victoria Docks Turberville's “ Manual of Contro­

versy ” The London Poor .. The O’Connell Centenary.. Old St. Paneras Churchyard .. ___ The Isle of D o g s .........................303 R ome :— Letter from our own Cor­

302 302 302 302 302

respondent . . . . . . 305 Prize Day at the Propaganda . . 306 Address of the Catholics of New |

York to the Pope.. . . . . 307 ^ D io c e s a n N ews

Westminster.. . . . . . . 307 Birmingham .. .........................307

D io cesan (continued) ;

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Hexham and Newcastle . . .. 307 Liverpool . . . . .. . . 307 Newport and Mcnevia . . . . 30S Salford .. . . . . . . 308 Shrewsbury .. .. . . . . 308 I r e lan d The Synod of the Irish

Bishops at Maynooth . . . . 308 F oreign N ews :—

Spain . . . . .. . . . . 310 Germany . . . . . . . . 3 1 0 Austria .................................... 310 M em oranda :—

Religious.— New Church o f the

Sacred Heart and Schools at Gibraltar .. . . . . 311 G en e r a l N ews ........................... 311

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

TURKEY. I

THE INSURRECTION IN

T is as yet anything but certain that the “ good offices ” of the Powers will put an end to the insurrection in Turkey. It is said, indeed, that the junction of the two Turkish forces which have entered the Herzegovina by sea and by the land route has •cut the rebel bands asunder, but at the same time the movement is spreading in Bosnia every day, and the insurgents in the Herzegovina have declared that they will not lay down their arms on any condition short of the detachment of the province from Turkey— though we suppose that they would be satisfied with a venis-independent position like that of Servia. Moreover the Russian Consul was dll, and could not play his part in the joint Consular Mission, and a rumour was of course set about that he was ill by order. The insurgents and those who sympathise with them will not believe that Russia can really intend to throw over the Slavs, and their belief in covert support from that ■ quarter will render them very averse to yielding. Austria for her part is in an embarrassing position. She cannot afford to allow the formation of a new independent or semi­

independent Sclavonic State, the influence of which would materially strengthen the Slavs at home, who give her— ■ especially in the Hungarian Kingdom— so much trouble already. And a Paris letter in the Kolnische Zeitung states that in 1854, when Russia demanded that Bosnia and Herzegovina should be made independent, Austria replied that, rather than allow the realization of a scheme threatening the integrity of her own territory, she would annex those provinces. A t the same time she naturally does not wish to fan the flame of discontent among her own Sclavonic subjects by open hostility to their kinsmen over the border. As for Prince Milan his difficulties are still greater. The Powers tell him that he must not move under pain of their displeasure, and the Servians threaten to depose him if he does not. He has had twice to refuse to receive an address from the town of Sabaez pressing him to declare war, and he can scarcely keep his Conservative Ministry in office in face of the hostile majority in the Skuptchina. The first attempt at forming a coalition Ministry under a Conservative leader failed, and all that stands in the way of the accession to power of a thoroughly Radical, Nationalist, and War Cabinet is the opposition of the great Powers. I f when the Skuptchina meets it breaks loose from foreign control the whole of Servia will throw itself heart and soul into the struggle ; and that may be the beginning of the end. But it will be unfair to blame Prince Milan for what he cannot help, and what he seems to have loyally done his best to prevent.

N e w S e r i e s , V o l . X IV , No. 356.

Statesmen who have passed half their life in the trammels of official proprieties seem to in s u r g e n t s . suuer from a peculiar reaction in their extreme old age. This, at least, is the only theory on which we can explain Lord Russell’s direct advocacy of the insurrection in the Turkish provinces, and his offer of „£50 in aid of the “ victims of Turkish misrule.” He refers to the active sympathy formerly shown for the Greeks in their struggle for independence, and seems to think that England can now give a like support to the Christian populations in the north of European Turkey. It is, however, scarcely a matter of doubt that if Lord Russell was still in a position of responsibility as leader of a party— even of the Opposition— he would think twice before he committed himself to such a position. But an ex-Prime Minister who can never again be Prime Minister experiences a certain pleasure in running off the lines ; a sense of liberty which may also account for the ardour of Mr. Gladstone’s sidelong plunges into polemical thickets and brambles which lead nowhere.

THE NEW

SERVIAN MINISTRY— ATTITUDE OF THE IN SURGENTS.

The new Servian Cabinet has been at length formed. Its President is M. Steftscha, and its general composition is supposed to be warlike, as its members belong to the Oniladina, or Young Servian party, whose aim is to render Servia completely independent of Turkey. Perhaps we should say “ most of its members,” for a BudaPesth despatch describes it as a coalition Ministry. These Hungarian telegrams, however, are very hostile to the Slav movement, and represent the insurrection as completely put down in Bosnia, “ all the insurgents who have not fled to “ Austria” having “ submitted to the Pasha of Banjaluka.” But it is said on the other hand that the fugitives are really for the most part old men, women and children, and that the whole of Northern Bosnia along the banks of the Save is up. It is also denied that the Turkish force in Klek, where 5,000 men have been landed, has effected any real junction with the force in Mostar, though a reinforcement has been thrown into Trebinje, and the siege raised. A fortiori it may be assumed that there has been no junction with the force in Bosnia, which is burning the forests along the Bosnian frontier on the Servian side “ for strategical reasons”— probably to prevent the passage of Servian volunteers under cover of the woods. The latest accounts represent the insurgents in the Herzegovina as determined not to accept the mediation or listen to the advice of the foreign Consuls, a resolution in which, it is said, they have been confirmed by hearing Lord Russell’s letter read to them. The meeting in the city with that statesman in the chair will, if they evsrhearof it, tend to increase their belief that they have effectual backers abroad. Russia, however, has done her best to destroy the delusion respecting herself by instructing her Consul-General