THE TABLET
A Weekly Newspaper and Review;
D um VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCGEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r ie f o j 1 1 is Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , Ju n e 4, 1870.
Voi. 39. No. 1673.
London, May 4, 1872.
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‘C hronicle of th e W eek : The
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Insurgents in Spain.— Eruption of Vesuvius.—The “ Univers” and the • Roman Question.— Prison Ministers Bill.—The County Franchise. —The Canada Guarantee.—The Ballot and Corrupt Practices Bills. — The Court of Appeal.—Steam v. Sails. — Women’s Disabilities.— France and Germany.—The Policy of M. Gambetta.— The Report on 'the Capitulations.—-Excommunication and the Prussian Law.— Electoral Abstentions.—The Revision of the Swiss Constitution . . 541 «Leaders :
The Reported Settlement of the
Alabama Controversy. . .545 The Carlist Insurrection . . 545
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L eaders (continued):
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Catholics in Trinity College . . 546 E nglish A dm in istrations and
C atholic I nterests.— LXIV. Catholics Divided on the Union!— Grattan Re-enters Parliament.— His Duel with Corry . . . 548 T he A nglican Movem e n t :
tR eviews (continued) :
''Lectures on the History of the
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Church of Scotland . . . 551 S hort N otices : The Inheritance ■ of Lynch Morgan’s Heir ; or, the
Peace of Crickhowell.— The Month of M a y ..........................................553 C orrespondence :
While the “ Church Review”
The “ Dublin Review” on Primary
Evades the Question, “ What are the Criteria by which a Catholic Church is Distinguished from a Sect?” some of his own Writers are so little satisfied' that they give up the Claim of the Anglican Communion to be a Church at all .... 549 R eviews :
Lives of the Last Four Princesses of the Royal House of Stuart . 550
Education _ Easter Alleluias Syrian Missions S. Saviour’s, Leeds Our Lady of Lourdes . P arliam entary S ummary R ome :
Letter from Rome .
Discourse of his Holiness at the
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Audience on the 21st April. . 558
D iocesan N ews :
Westminsttr . Southwark Beverley. Liverpool Menevia and Newport . Scotland.— Eastern District . I reland :
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Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent . . . . . Foreign N ews :
G e r m a n y .................................... France ............................................. S p a i n ..................................... Italy .... M emoranda :
Religious .... Literary.— Fine Arts and Music L e g a l ..................................... G eneral N ews
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
SPAIN. T M adrid ,
the insur. section in
'H E intelligence respecting the Carlist insurrection is evidently untrustworthy, for the accounts contradict each other. According as the news comes from Paris or the rising is sure to be successful, or is utterly insignificant. We do not attempt to conceal our own belief that it will be a failure, but we do not give much more credence to the triumphant bulletins from Madrid which appear in the English papers than we do to the enthusiastic auguries of success published by the partizans of Don Carlos. The latter tell us that the movement is spreading into all the provinces ; that the Duke of Madrid is in Spain, and will soon put himself at the head of his troops, surrounded by several generals and other important personages ; that he has settled his future Cabinet, and that M. Bravo Murillo, Minister of Queen Isabella, is to be his Minister of Finance ; that the Carlists in the field amount to 15,000 or 20,000 already, and are well armed ; that the Cabinet of Madrid has lost its head, and has neither confidence nor any unity of action, •and is obliged to accept the services of Alfonsist Generals, and others not properly belonging to its party. The fact that officers of different political sympathies are being employed against the insurgents is one which it would be possible, one would think, to look at in another light ; but however that may be, it seems pretty certain that no general officer of any great importance has taken the field against the Government. Whether Don Carlos really is in Spain ’»s, at least, extremely doubtful. The proclamation purporting V) be his, and generally taken to mean that he has entered Spain— he says, “ I thank God for having permitted me to kiss the sacred soil of my country”— was published in Madrid on the 26th. Telegrams said to have been received lu Paris from his wife, the Princess Dona Margarita, confirm intelligence. On the other hand, a telegram from the _____ . . . . . VJ111CI I i a u u , I t i v - g i 0-111 11^111 Geneva in the Times positively asserts that he, as well as his brother, was seen in Geneva on the 27th. Don Alfonso was, it appears, on his way back from Oran when he was arrested, us we mentioned last week, at Marseilles, and sent back to Geneva. It is of course possible that at the date specified Don Carlos may have really left Geneva ; the Union positively reaffirms that he had. Another telegram represents him as waiting at Bayonne for the proper motttent to cross the frontier, and another asserts that both the French and Spanish Governments know exactly where he is. The last intelligence from this side is, that he is ■ certainly in Navarre ; that General Morriones has sent word that lie cannot hold that province without reinforcements ; that General Sallazar, commanding in the Basque provinces, has also sent an urgent demand for help; that the insurrec-
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tion now extends “ more or less completely” to thirty provinces, and that the Staff-Commandant Ibarrola is in command of a division of Carlists. From the other side we learn that Marshal Serrano, who has taken the field as generalissimo, having established his head-quarters at Tudela, is advancing in Navarre ; that the Carlists have been defeated near Tudela with a loss of 300 dead and wounded ; that the insurgents under Rada are falling back, that troops have left S. Sebastian to cut them off from their retreat into the province of Guipúzcoa, and that Don Carlos has returned to Geneva. We hear of isolated bands in various parts of the country. The one which has attacked the train to Andalusia, at the pass of Despeñaperros, turns out to be the same band of brigands which stopped a train at Manzanares some time ago— and other bands are reported either to be insignificant, or to be in full flight, or to be making their submission. These are the exaggerations on the Government side. It is quite impossible to judge with any certainty how much truth there is in each account, but it seems tolerably clear that whatever actual fighting there may be will be for the most part confined to the Northern provinces. General Elio, indeed, the CaptainGeneral of Grenada, an old Carlist, has taken the field, but in Navarre, and as yet there are no signs of any rising in the South. There is no doubt that the insurrection is considered a very serious one, and we fear that it will be very mercilessly repressed.
Vesuvius has been in great activity during
Evesuvius0F tlle-week>the eruption being described as more serious than any since that of 1631. For some days Naples has been covered with a rain of ashes which must have reminded its inhabitants of the fate of Pompeii, and the burning scoriae are said to have been carried by the wind as far as Salerno, where it was found necessary to flood the powder magazine. One of the principal features of the eruption was the opening of the crust of the mountain near the base of the cone under the feet of a large number of spectators, many of whom were either killed or injured. Further particulars will be found in another part of our columns. Professor Palmieri, to his great credit, has stood by his post at the Observatory throughout, and now reports that his instruments are becoming quiet and that the volcanic action is probably about to cease.
It will be recollected that the indefinite ad-
“ univers” journment, on the 22nd of March, of the petiand the tions concerning the Roman question, the roman Univers prepared an address for presentation question. t0 tiie Holy Father. To this address numerous signatures have been attached; but the Univers has suppressed it in consequence of the following statement, which has appeared in the last number of the Correspondant: “ Two “ of the representatives accused of betraying the cause of
