THE TABLET

A W eekly Newspaper and Review

D u m VO B IS G R A T U L A M U R , A N IM O S ET IA M ADD IM U S U T IN IN CCEPTIS V E S TR IS CO N S T AN T E R M A N E A T IS .

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

Vol. 50. No. 1950. London, August 25, 1877.

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C h ro n ic le o f t h e W e e k :—

A Hierarchy for Scotland.— The War. — Mr. Gladstone on last Year's Agitation.— And on the Evidence o f “ Partisans.”— Mr. Gladstone on Nature, and on “ Sentiment.”— Mr. Gladstone on the County Franchise.— The Home Rule Party.— “ Belligerent” Policy. — Marshal MacMahon’s Tour.— The Indian Famine. — The Civil War in Japan. — The Italian Children Trade.— The Eddystone Lighthouse. .. . . . . . . 225

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L ea d e r s :

The Lull in the War . . . . 229 The Two Sides of the IrishlPar-

liamentary Question . . . . 229 The Growth of London . . . . 230 Queen’s College, Belfast . . . .2 3 1 R e v ie w s :

The Suppression of the Society of

Jesus in the Portuguese Dominions . . . . . . . . 233 The Life of Count Cavour . . 233 The Month for August . . . . 234 The Dublin Review . . . • 235 S hort N o t ic e s :

Scepticism in Geology . . . . 236 Suggestions for House Decora­

tion in Painting, Woodwork, and Furniture .. . . . . 236

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S hort N otices (continued)

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Miniature Lives of the Saints . . 236 Magazines . . .. . . . . 236 C orrespondence r

The Faculty o f Truth set by

Bacon as the First Fountain of Error . . . . . . . . 237 The Monthyon Prizes and St.

Mary’s Home, Brook-Green .. 237 “ The Legislative Action o f the

Irish Party.” ......................... 239 St. Albans . . .. . . . . 239 Lake-Land . . .. . . . . 239 R ome :— Letter from our own Cor­

respondent . . . . . . 241 D io c e sa n N ew s

Westminster.................................... 243

D io cesan N ews (continued) ,

Birmingham.. . . . . . . 243 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 243 Nottingham.. . . . . . . 244 Salford .. . . . . .. 245 Shrewsbury.. . . .. 245 I r e lan d ....................................... 245 F oreign N ews ;—

Germany ......................... . . 246 Austria . . ......................... 247 M em oranda :—

Educational.. . . . . 248 Religious . . . . . . . . 248 Political . . . . . . . . 248 G en e r a l N ews ...............................249

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

WE learn that his Holiness intends within a short period to restore the Hierarchy to Scotland, and that the

SLU11' 1!' ” ' Vicars Apostolic in that country have been requested to deliberate upon the subject and to report to the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda. Nothing more than this has been done ; neither the number of Sees nor the names of their future occupants have been as yet determined. We know of nothing more calculated to insure the spread of the observance of their religion among the Catholics spread so widely over Scotland— native and Irish Catholics— than the perfecting of the organisation of the Church and the increase of ecclesiastical centres. As an instance o f the material blessings flowing from the re-establishment of the hierarchical order in a country, we may refer to the results and figures published in England in 1875, upon the occasion of the “ Half-Jubilee” of the English Hierarchy; and we may add that the Dutch, the Australian, and the American Hierarchies have produced similar results. In England the increase from 1851 to 1875, according to the return forwarded to the Holy See, consisted of five Bishops, 888 priests, 501 churches, 245 communities of men and women, 10 colleges, 1,055 poor-schools, and 1 13,455 additional Catholic children receiving a Catholic education. Who seven and twenty years ago would have predicted this wonderful increase out of the poverty of the Catholic community in England ? The fact is that the increase of Bishops multiplies the centres of activity, and that from these centres the rings of various kinds have been continually widening— priests, churches, communities, colleges, and poor schools. Some of the English dioceses in which the Bishop began under a burden of debt, and literally without a vestment or a house or lodging of his own, are among those which have made the greatest proportionate progress. The poverty of Catholic Scotland will no more check the increase of Bishops and of the works which must grow up around them, than it checked the action of the Apostles and their successors in the first centuries of the Church. A desire for the re-establishment of the Hierarchy has been expressed or felt in all parts of Scotland and among all classes of Catholics, and not only in Scotland, for more than once that desire has found a voice at the foot of the Pontifical throne. We have no doubt but that with the advice of the Vicars-Apostolic the Holy See will now plant again in Scotland a Hierarchy with a number of centres sufficient to quicken and multiply all over the country every kind of religious activity.

There is little positive information respect-

t h e w a r . ing the campaign in Bulgaria. The Russians are gathering up their strength for another N e w S e r i e s , V o l . X V I I I . No. 459.

blow, and the Turks are cautiously feeling their way forward to compress them, ifit may be, in a three-sided vice. Suleiman Pasha is stated in the Russian despatches to have made an unsuccessful attack on the Hain Burghaz Pass, but correspondents at Pera and at Bucharest telegraph that the Russians have evacuated it and that he has occupied it, and pushed his advanced posts through the mountains in the direction of Tirnova. This, however, requires confirmation. What seems certain is that Rassim Pasha, advancing from Kalofer, has taken, not the Shipka Pass, but the village of Shipka at its mouth, the pass itself being strongly held by the Russians. During the fight at Shipka Osman Pasha threw forward some troops from Loftcha in the direction of Seloi, and engaged the Russian advanced guard ; and Mehemet Ali is moving slowly with a view to a junction with Suleiman Pasha as soon as the latter arrives in a position north of the Balkans. In Asia the Russians have suffered another repulse. They attacked Mukhtar Pasha’s camp on Sunday morning in five columns, and after a battle gallantly fought on both sides till dusk, had to beat a retreat, which they accomplished in perfect order.

Where the Bolton Liberals failed the Libe-

stonT on" ra^s of Salford have achieved at least a partial l a s t y e a r ’s success. About 2,000 of these gentlemen have a g i t a t io n , made an excursion to Hawarden at the invitation of Mr. Gladstone, and have been regaled with a speech from which the politics of the hour were not as carefully excluded as from the one delivered in the character of a woodman. Mr. Gladstone, it appears, hopes for “ a quiet “ autumn,” in contrast to the excitement of last autumn, which, however, in his opinion— one which is shared by few— “ was kept in due subordination to the influence of a “ sober judgment.” He admits that “ the mistake is when “ people allow their feelings to go ahead of their judgment,” but he does not think that this fault was committed in the autumn. It certainly is not committed either by Mr. Gladstone or his friends in regard of all the “ atrocities ” which are even now in course of perpetration. It is very easy to dispose of inconvenient facts by saying that they are inventions of the D a ily Telegraph— and though Mr. Gladstone has not said this, it has been said— but it must not be forgotten that the correspondents of other journals, notably the Times, confirm to a great extent the charges brought against the Russian irregulars and the Bulgarians, and the correspondent of the Telegraph appeals on Monday to the testimony in one case of Captain Fife, the British military Attaché, and in another of Consul Blunt and Mr. Black, the manager of the Ottoman Bank. The special correspondent was accompanied by Captain Fife and two other correspondents when at Tanti in the Balkans he saw “ more than “ twenty bodies of Turkish women being eaten by dogs.”