THE TABLET A IVeekly Newspaper and Review.

B u m VOBIS G R A T U L AM U R , AN IM O S ET IAM ADDIM U S U T IN INCCEPTIS V E S TR IS CON S TAN TER M AN EA T IS .

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

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•Ch ro n ic le o f t h e W e e k :—

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The Andrâsy Note.—The Insurrection in Turkey— Its Condition and Prospects.— Conspiracy in Servia.— The Trappists in Bosnia. — The Senatorial Elections.— The Khedive and his Financial Advisers.— The War in Spain.— The American Presidency.— Mr. Fish on the Monroe Doctrine.— The Anglicans and the Bonn Conference.— The Appeal for_ the •German Clergy.— Mr. Plimsojl on Compulsory Survey.— Francis Déak. —The Church and Civil Marriage.— M. Thiers and the French Radicals.— The Consistory.— Persecution of the Catholic Ruthenians, &c.................... . . 161

L e a d e r s :

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Good Taste in Politics .. ..165 The Senatorial Elections .. .. 166 Irish Measures for the Coming

Session . . . . .. ..166 The Gorres Centenary .. .. 167 R e v ie w s :

Authority and Anarchy . . .. 168 The History of the Suez Canal . . 169 The Chaldean Account of Genesis 169 Ceremonial for the Use of the

Catholic Church in the United States of America .. .. 170 Genesis and Science, or the First

Leaves o f the Bible . . ..170 S hort N otices :

Life of the Apostle St. John . . 171 Cours Abrégé de Religion .. 171

E N T S .

C hurch M usic :

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New Cecilian Masses .. . . 171 Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 172 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Ecclesiastics and Roman Hotels.. 173 The “ Dublin Review ” and Dr.

Newman’s View of the Rights of Conscience . . .. . . 173 “ Christianity or Erastianism ? ”

and the “ Church Times ” . . 174 “ The Letter of ‘ Presbyter Angli-

canus ’ to Cardinal Manning ” . . 174 The Missal for the Laity .. . . 174 The League of St. Sebastian . . 175 The Persecuted Armenians . . 175 St. Joseph’s Missionary College of the S. Heart, Mill Hill . . 175

R ome :— Letter from our own Correspondent

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D io cesan N e w s :—

Westminster . .

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Birmingham .. Clifton Hexham and Newcastle . . .. 180 Plymouth Salford I r e lan d :

Letter from our Dublin Correspondent .. F oreign N ews

Germany

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M em oranda :—

Educational .. G en er a l N ews

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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

NOTE

N Monday Count Zichy, the Austrian

Ambassador to the Porte, read to

Raschid Pasha, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Note of Count Andrfisy, leaving a ■ copy, with a request for a written reply. Immediately afterwards the Russian and German Ambassadors did the same, and subsequently the Ambassadors of England and France and the Italian Minister, supported the scheme of reforms, declaring that their Governments saw in it nothing inconsistent with the Treaty of Paris. Raschid Pasha replied to Count Zichy that he hoped to give the answer o f the Porte in a few days, and on Wednesday the Turkish Council of Ministers was engaged in deliberation on Count Andrasy’s project.

THE INSURRECTION IN •¡TURKEY— ITS

CONDITION

AND PROSPECTS.

The inroads of the insurgents across the Austrian frontier into Bosnia has led to conferences between General Baron Molinary, commanding at Agram, the capital of Croatia, a dependency of the Kingdom of Hungary, and the Hungarian Ministers, including the Minister of War.

The Magyars are, as is well known, strongly opposed to the insurrection, as to everything Slavonic, and the result of the ■ conferences has been that General Molinary has prohibited the formation of insurgent bands in Croatia, and ordered the disarmament and internment o f all insurgents who enter that territory from the Turkish side. The same measures •are to be applied to Dalmatia, the other member o f the “ Three-fold Kingdom,” but this cannot be done as yet, for there is a scarcity o f Austrian troops in the province, and •no quarters for more. But the insurrection is low in its fortunes at present, for the Turks gained a considerable victory last week. The insurgents who had won the day in the previous engagement already mentioned had fortified themselves in the positions which they had gained, and on Wednesday, the 26th, Ahmed Mukhtar Pasha attacked them. The insurgents commenced the engagement by opening fire on the right and left of the defile, but the Ottoman troops cut through their lines, and after “ most severe ” fighting, which lasted five hours, defeated and utterly routed them. The Ragusa and Constantinople telegrams both agree as to the discomfiture of the insurgents, but the Ragusa account makes the insurgents number only 2,000, and the Turks 8,000; while the Constantinople despatch gives the number o f the insurgents as from 7,000 to 10,000, and that of the Imperial troops as 1,200 directly engaged, with 1,800 more suoporting them on both wings.

The Servian sympathisers with the insurrec-

coNsriRAcv [¡on are likely n0w that the Powers have come IN SERVIA. . ' . . . to an agreement, to De too late, but they are

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playing their game in the most lively manner, and in several towns committees have been formed which “ openly agi“ tate ” for the dethronement of Prince Milan, with the intention o f substituting for him Prince Karageorgiovics, who has already overtly espoused the cause o f the insurgents in the Turkish provinces.

An interesting account of the labours of the the Trappist monks in Bosnia has been forwarded

IN to the Times by M. Montgelas. It is drawn up by Father Francis Pfanner, the Superior of the

Trappist Monastery near Banjaluka, who has come to this country to solicit help for the construction o f an Orphanage, which has been arrested in consequence o f the insurrection and the stoppage of the usual contributions from Germany and Austria. It is now six years since these Trappist monks emigrated to Bosnia with pickaxe and spade. They had to clear the forest, make roads, and build a house, and bring the land into cultivation. The three monks have now increased to fifty, and this, in M. Montgelas’s words, is what the community has done :— “ A comparative wilderness near “ the town of Banjaluka has been turned into fields, grazing “ lands, and vineyards ; a convent large enough to contain “ about 100 brethren . . . has been built, as well as exten“ sive farm buildings. The Verbas river has been dammed “ up, and two mills erected, which are in full swing ; several “ bridges have been constructed, and miles o f bridle-path “ converted into roads fit for heavy traffic. Two houses “ and a garden have been bought in Banjaluka, where a “ school has been established under the direction of Sisters “ of Charity. An orphanage foi the reception o f unclaimed “ waifs and strays o f infant humanity, so numerous in those “ provinces, is in process of construction adjoining the Trap“ pists’ house. . . . The site for a second Trappist estab“ lishment had been purchased before the present outbreak “ in the very heart of Bosnia, and its construction will be “ pushed vigorously as soon as circumstances will permit.” The benefits conferred by the Fathers upon the country are such, and the civilising, impulse given by their labours is so great, that they are looked upon with favour not only by the Bosniak population, Moslem as well as Christian, but by the Turkish authorities both at Constantinople and in the Vilayet. We heartily wish success to Father Pfanner and his companions in this brave enterprise. The field for their humanising labours is immense, for the Bosniaks seem to be still ignorant of some o f the most elementary arts o f life— they could not make bread, for instance, till the Fathers taught them— but the country is immensely productive, and the scenery as fine as any in Europe.

THE SENATORIAL ELECTIONS.

When most o f tba papers last week declared that the elections for the Senate were a triumph for the Conservatives and a complete defeat for the Republicans we felt confident that they