A Weekly Newspaper and Review

Dun v o b i s g r a t u l a m u r , a n i m o s e t i a m a d d i m u s u t i n i n c c e p t i s v e s t r i s c o n s t a n t e r m a n e a t i s .

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

Vol. 47. No. 187/. L o n d o n , F e b r u a r y z 6 , 1876.

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•Ch r o n i c l e o f t h e W e e k :—

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TheJFrench Elections.— Resignation of M. Buffet.— Important Victories in Spain.— The Carlist Telegrams.— Movements of the King.—The Cariist Retreat.— The Suez Canal Shares Debate.— The Fugitive Slave Circular.— The Royal Style and Titles.— The Porte and its Reforms.— Attitude of the Insurgents and their Friends.— Cardinal Ledochowski. —The “ Convent Law” in Austria.The Prince of Wales’s Progress— Nepaul.—The Loss of the Strathclyde.— Mr. Orby Shipley and Dr. Pusey.—The Roumanians and the “ Alt Catholics.”— The Canal T a r i f f ................................................257

CONTENTS.

L e a d e r s :

The Crisis o f the Struggle in

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S h o r t N o t ic e s (continued) :

Debrett’s Illustrated Peerage and

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Spain . . .. .. .. 261 The Suez Canal Debate . . . . 2 6 1 Irish Judicial Reforms .. .. 262 The Austrian Episcopate and the

“ Convent Law ” .. .. .. 263 Sketches of the Reformation .. 264

Baronetage . . . . . . 268 Picturesque Europe . . . . 268 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

The “ Disclaimer” of Mr.

Mackonochie and Others .. 268 Mr. Sullivan, M .P ., and the

R e v i e w s :

Fragments of Ethical Subjects .. 265 Quarterly Review .. . . . . 266 Contemporary Review .. . . 267

S h o r t N o t i c e s :

The Lives o f the First Religious of the Visitation of Holy Mary 268 Mr. Gladstone himself Reviewed and Analysed .. . . . . 268

O’Connell Centenary . . . . 268 The “ Paroissien Romain ” . . 269 Missal for the Laity . . . . 269 “ Difficulties” of Anglicans . . 269 The Public Worship Regulation

Act . . . . .. . . . . 269 New Church in Connemara .. 269 St. Bridget’s Poor Schools . . 270 Acknowledgment .. . . , . 270 P a r l i a m e n t a r y S u m m a r y .. 270

R o m e :— Letter from our own Cor

Page respondent . . .. . . 273. i D i o c e s a n N e w s :—

Westminster . . . . . . . . 274 Southwark . . . . . . . . 275 Plymouth . . . . . . . . 275 Salford . . . . . . . . 275 Shrewsbury . . . . . . . . 275 Scotland— Western District . . 275 I r e l a n d :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent . . ......................... 275 F o r e ig n N ew s

Germany .. . . . . . . 277 M e m o r a n d a :—

Religious . . . . . . . . 278 Educational .. . . . . 280 General N ews . . . . . . 280

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

AL TH O U G H all the returns from the country were not received, and in several cases a second ballot will be necessary, enough is known o f the

French elections held last Sunday to show that not only the Republicans, but the Advanced Republicans, have gained a decided victory. M. Buffet has been beaten at three places in the Vosges and at Bourges ; the Due Decazes is elected for Villefranche, and is at the head o f the poll in the 8th Arrondissement of Paris, where a second ballot is required ; M. Thiers is elected in the 9th Arrondissement, M. Louis Blanc in the 5 th and 13th and at St. Denis; and M. Gambetta in the 20th (Belleville), as well as at Lille and Bordeaux— he has also beaten M. Naquet at Marseilles by a large majority. M. Dufaure has been elected at Marennes, M. Routier at Bastia and at Riom — at Ajaccio a second ballot will have to decide between him and Prince Napoleon. M. Louis Renault, the late Prefect of Police, who resigned as too Republican for M. Buffet, has beaten the Prince de Wagram at Corbeil ; M. Jules Ferry has been elected in the Vosges ; M. de Pressensé has been beaten by a Bonapartist at Pontoise, and the two MM. de Cassagnac have been elected in the Gers ; but M. Ollivier has been beaten by a Republican at Brignolles and at Draguignan, and M. Haussmann is so badly beaten by M. Tirard, Moderate Republican, in the 1st Arrondissement of Paris, that he declines to offer himself at the second ballot. The general result o f the elections is given by the Paris correspondent of the Times as— “ Republicans, 273, “ of whom 75 describe themselves as Conservative Republ i c a n s ; 17 Radicals ; 20 Constitutionalists ; 26 Legitimists ; “ 64 Bonapartists ; and 24 Conservatives ; second ballots “ necessary, 106— total, 530.’’

With such a verdict from the country M.

r esignation Buffet could not do otherwise than quit office, o e m . bu ffet, and on Monday evening his resignation was placed in the hands of the Marshal President,

who, it was said, requested him to remain in office till the meeting of the new Chambers, when some expected that M. Dufaure would form a new Cabinet, of which M. Léon Say, the Due Decazes, General de Cissey, and M. Caillaux would be members. Marshal MacMahon will not be at all disposed to go further towards the left than that ; there will always be a great difficulty in getting so Conservative a President to work with so Republican a majority. And although the Marshal’s sense of duty may lead him to maintain the existing regime for the remainder of his term of office in the face of all embarrassments, yet the difficulty which we have just mentioned is not only a difficulty, but a real danger to the Republic; for if the advanced Republican party get in the least degree the upper hand, and if the Republic is not most conspicuously moderate and Conservative, a reaction towards the Empire is inevitable. And I this is the consummation to which all the probabilities point. But if the Marshal President desired for a moment j to postpone for a time the change necessitated by the j elections, he thought better of it. The failure o f the Prime Minister to secure a seat in either Chamber was so strong I an indication of his unpopularity that on Wednesday night I his resignation was accepted, and M. Dufaure was apI pointed to both his posts— to that of Vice-President o f the Council and provisionally to that o f Minister o f the I Interior. The Vicomte de Meaux, who has also been re| jected at the poll, has also resigned, but will remain as I Minister of Agriculture till his successor can be appointed. IAdmiral’de Montaignac, as well as the Ministers already men; tioned, will, it is said, remain in office, and for the eventual occupation of the Ministry of the Interior, M. Léon Renault, whom M. Buffet drove out of the Prefecture o f Police, M. Casimir Périer, M. Waddington, M. Victor Lefranc, M. Picard, and M. Duclerc are spoken of.

Saturday last was a momentous day in the

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annals of the Carlist war. On that day, at s p a in . eight m the morning, Estella surrendered to

General Primo de Rivera, who had taken by j assault the highest fort on Monte Jurra, commanding the town, and on that day also Martinez Campos defeated the j Count of Caserta and Perula, and took and occupied all the heights surrounding and commanding Vera, "which he j entered, so that Señor Cánovas del Castillo was able to announce officially in the Cortes at the same time the capture of Estella and the complete defeat of the Carlists at j Vera and Peña Plata, the strong fortress and arsenal which I the Carlists have constructed on a peak close to the fron­

tier. Peña Plata was taken after a severe engagement, and the garrisons of that fort and o f Vera are said to have retreated into France. The combined movements have been well timed, and so far thoroughly successful. Generals Quesada and Loma have advanced eastwards through the province of Biscay, Quesada to the south by Durango, and Loma more to the north by Guernica. Quesada, after gaining the battle o f Elgueta on Sunday week, entered Guipúzcoa and reached Vergara, while Moriones, advancing inland and southwards from the neighbourhood o f Zaraus on the sea coast of Guipúzcoa, joined Loma’s column, which by this time had entered that province, and fell upon Azpeitia, an important Carlist arsenal, and well known as the town close to the old castle convent o f Loyola. In the meanwhile, still further to the east, in the extreme north of Navarre, Martinez Campos was engaged in getting

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