THE TABLET

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

Dum vobis gratulamur, animos etiam addimus ut in incceptis vestris constanter maneatis.

From the Brief of His Holiness to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.

Vol. 47. No. 1874. London, March i i , 1876.

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C hronicle of th e W e e k :—

Viscount St. Asaph on the Carlist Enterprise. — Don Carlos in England.—The Pacification in Spain.— The Burials Resolution. —A Catholic View of the Question.— Attitude of the Government and Division.—The Suez Canal Debate.—The Fugitive Slave •Question.—The Army Estimates. —The American Scandal.—Congress and the Courts.— The French Elections.—The New Ministry.—The New French Legislature. — The Austrian Negotiations and the Insurgents .. .. .. .. . . 321

L eaders :

CONTENTS.

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C orrespondence :

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Prospects of the Church in the

United States

Deak’s Successor ..

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.. 326

Sketches of the Reformation— III 327 The Reform of Church Music in

America—I. R eview s :

Daniel Deronda The Dublin Revie\V . .

The Month for March

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•• 331

Short N otices :

The Carlist Enterprise .. .. 232 The Denominational and Common

School Systems .. .. .. 333 The Children of the Better-Class

Poor .. .. .. .. .. 334 Mr. P. P. McSwiney and Mr. A.

M. Sullivan .. .. .. 334 Home Heathens .. .. .. 334 The Forty Hours Prayer and

Corpus Christi Church .. . . 334 P arliam entary S ummary . . 334 R ome :— Letter from our own Cor­

School Board Directory .. • • 332 Epitaphs of Middlesex •• 332 Bessy .. Magazines for March •• 332

respondent

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D iocesan N ews

Westminster.. . . .. .. 339

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Southwark .. . . .. . . 339 Beverley .. . . .. . . 340 Clifton.. . . . . . . . . 340 Plymouth . . . . . . . . 340 Salford . . . . . . . . 340 Scotland—Western District .. 340 I reland :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent .. .. . . . . 340 From an Occasional Cor­

respondent..

F oreign N ews :—

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Russia.. .. . . . . . . 342 Germany .. . . .. .. 342 Austria .. ..........................343 M emoranda :—

Religious .. .......................... 343 Educational .. . . .. . . 343 General N ews ................................343

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

th e carlist

WE w illin gly print a letter from Lord St.

Asaph, containing reasons which ap-

Pear t0 t^ie wr'ter t0 militate against

"enterprise, our v iew that the Carlist rising was from the first a hopeless adventure. Lord St. Asaph,

however, seems to us not entirely to appreciate the grounds on which this opinion o f ours was based. H e reminds us that the “ 32 peasants,’’ “ armed only with sticks,” who welcomed D on Carlos at his entry in to Spain grew within four years “ in to an army o f 100,000 men,” and that “ the provinces “ occupied by them enjoyed all the advantages o f a regu“ larly organised administration, and possessed two military “ schools, several manufactories of arms, and a mint for u coining money.” Lord St. Asaph infers from this rapid progress that the enterprise could not fairly be described as hopeless. T o our m ind it does not affect the question. N o body doubts that the rural population o f the provinces occup ied b y D on Carlos had strong sympathies with his cause — sympathies strongly evidenced, we admit, by the collection within four years o f so large a force, and such considerable resources. But le t us lo ok at the facts from another point o f view. T h e population o f these provinces amounts to 700,000. From this figure we have to deduct the population o f the towns, which were bitterly hostile to D on Carlos — say, at a rough guess, 200,000— -and we have half a m illion left as the number o f the population from which the C a r lis t strength was mainly drawn. N ow the population o f Spain is sixteen m illions, and we have never seen the slightest reason to suppose that there was any real probability that the 500,000 would be able to impose their will on the sixteen millions, or that the sixteen millions would ever be converted to the dynastic theory supported by the half million. Our space w ill not permit us to notice at length all our correspondent’s arguments, but we will endeavour to reply to one or two o f them as briefly as possible. A s to the a lleged passage o f General Martinez Campos’s troops over French territory, it seems to be a rather doubtful matter, as the fact has been officially denied at Paris; but i f it should turn out to be true, it can scarcely be ju s tly considered as the efficient cause o f Don Carlos’s defeat. I t may have helped to accelerate it, but no more. T h e Carlist force was already in a trap, and it is not even alleged, so far as we know, that the main body o f Martinez Campos’s division operated on French territory. N ext, with regard to the line which this paper has taken. W e cannot shelter ourselves under the courteous suggestion o f Lord St. A saphthatit i s “ the result o f a m isapprehension,” o r adm it that fidelity to our motto “ Pro- E cclesia D e i, pro

New Series, V ol. XV. No. 383.

| “ R ege, et Patria ” ought to make us range ourselves under D on Carlos’s banner. I t must first be understood what is I the country, who is the K in g , and what true loyalty to the

Church demands. First, Spain is not our country, and as Englishm en we have no direct call to interfere in the matter at all. Secondly, we do not believe D on Carlos to be the legitim ate K in g o f Spain. Thirdly, we desire to show our loyalty to the Church by follow ing strictly in such a matter the line adopted by the H o ly See. W e have done so. W e have been much criticised for not jo in in g in a chorus o f assertion that Catholic principles were bound up with an advocacy o f Carlism , and in denunciations o f the restored Spanish Monarchy as one with which no Catholic can remain on friendly terms. I t has seemed to us that neither would be consistent with true docility to the H o ly See. T h e H o ly See has never encouraged or approved the Carlist enterprise, it cannot therefore be necessary that other Catholics should encourage or approve it. T h e H o ly See has recognised and is in friendly diplom atic intercourse with the existing G o vernment, it cannot therefore be necessary that C atholics should altogether break with it. I t would, moreover, be very im politic to do so, as it is the only possible Governm ent from which the Church has anything to hope in Spain. T h is Governm ent has a lready done something since the R estoration in repealing the law o f compulsory c iv il marriage. Doubtless there are other matters in which Liberalism has, since 1836, done a great deal o f harm in Spain. But the H o ly See is at this moment engaged in delicate negotiations with the Spanish Governm ent with a v iew to the adjustm ent o f the relations o f Church and State, and there is every appearance o f a disposition on both sides to arrive by these negotiations at an am icable agreement, whereby the questions at issue may be settled in as satisfactory a manner as the circum stances o f the tim e and country will permit. I t seems to us then on ly becom ing that a Catholic journal should recognise what the H o ly See recognises, and should not identify the interests o f the C a tholic Church with a cause w ith which the H o ly See has deliberately abstained from identifying them. Lastly, we must deprecate the confusion into which Lord St. A saph falls between our present attitude and the “ cry o f jubiJa“ tion ” which, he says, the Revolutionary Press has raised. Our satisfaction is inspired by to tally different considerations. W e rejoice in the possible re-union o f the d iv ided Catholic interest in Spain, and still more in the cessation o f a useless, bloody, and fratricidal contest. Nor do we th ink that we can be m isunderstood as applauding a “ heavy blow “ to the C h u r ch ” i f we jo in in spirit in the “ T e D eum ” which is to be sung to-morrow at St. James’s, Spanish-place, for the term ination o f that contest and the restoration o f peace to Spain.