A Weekly Newspaper and R eview .
DUM VOBIS G R A TU LAM U R , ANIM OS E T IA M ADD IM U S UT IN INCCEPTIS V E S TR IS CON S TAN TER M AN E A T IS .
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX. to T he T ablet June 4, 1S70.
V ol. 78. No. 2680. L ondon, S eptember 19, 1891. P r ic e sd ., b y P o st 5% d .
[R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a i P o s t O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r .
C h ro n ic le o f t h e W e e k :
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The State of Chili— The Government Forces— Escape of Balma-ceda— Murder of English by American Indians — Trades Union Congress : Female and Child Labour—The Age Limit — Railway Traffic— The Rajah of Manipur— The Chinese Riots — The Mitylene Affair— A Year’s Shipping Disasters— Funeral of M. Gr6vy— “ Lohengrin” in Paris— Sir M. FI. Beach on Agriculture— A Russian and his Grievance— The Canadian Scandals — The Queen of Roumania— The Marlowe Memorial .........................441 L e a d e r s :
Post-Mortem upon the Plan of
Campaign . . . . . . _.. 445 The Mahatmas and their Votaries 446 Dantzig and the Centre Party . . 447
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L e a d e r s (Continued) :
German Catholic Congress at
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Dantzig . . . . . . . . 448 ; N o t e s ..................................................... 449 R e v ie w s :
Life of St. Aloysius Gonzaga . . 451 Life of the Blessed John Juvenal
Ancina . . . .
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F rom a Protestant Standpoint . . 452 “ The Irish Ecclesiastical Record” 452 ! The Congress at Malines . . .. 453 Aspects of Anglicanism . . . . 454
C orrespon d e n c e :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) .................................... 457 Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) ......................... . ■ 458
L e t t e r s t o t i -ie E d it or :
Can Railway Passenger Fares be
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Lowered ? . . . . . . . . 461 Notes upon the Catholic Church in Wales Blue Vestments The Oldest Stonyhurst Student. The Encyclical on Itself . . Christian Brothers at Baltimore . Catholics Abroad The Abduction of a Nun .. Newman House The Marist Brothers Some Publications of the Week S o c ia l a n d P o l it i c a l
F rom E v e r y w h e r e . .
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SU P P L EM E N T . N ew s from t h e Sc h o o l s :
Catholics and School Board E lec
tions The Results of Free Education New Schools at Heaton Norris Catholic Higher Grade School for
Salford Election by Parents of School
Managers Greenock Educational Trust A Catholic Child Removed to
Canada About Education N ew s from t h e D io ce se s :
Westminster Southwark Clifton Hexham and Newcastle .. Leeds Middlesbrough St. Andrews and Edinburgh Glasgow Aberdeen
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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Í '"' OR accurate information on the sub■4 ject of Chili, it seems that we must still fall back upon the enterprising correspondent of The H era ld . From him we learn that there was long no trace of Balmaceda, and a telegram from Buenos Ayres states that he has not reached that city. Troops were watching the mountain passes to prevent his escape. On Sunday a batch of Balmacedan officials, Señores Aníbal San Hueza, Judge of the San Fernando District, Alejandrino Trujillo, Governor of the Providence of Cachapoal, and Roberto Bermudez, were arrested while attempting to escape through the Pass of Planchón, in the Andes. All the passes are blocked with snow, and every route across the Andes is thereby rendered almost impassable, a fact which confirmed the impression that Balmaceda had not tried to leave the country, and was hiding in a monastery. Meanwhile Señor Errazuriz,the Ministerof Justice,has orderedtheProcuratores Fiscales to arrest all those implicated in the killing of Isadore Ossa, and also all persons suspected of sacking and robbery, and all who have been engaged in flogging and torturing the partieswho favoured the Junta. The Minister has also directed that all those who may have violated the correspondence of the Foreign. Ministers shall be imprisoned, and that every one concerned in the shooting of Señor Ricardo (Humming and his two companions for an alleged attempt to blow up the war vessels A lm iran te Lynch and A lm iran te Conde/l with dynamite shall be arrested. The Procuratores have been ordered to use every effort to apprehend the persons implicated in killing all the other victims belonging to the Congressional Party, and particularly to hunt for those guilty o f the massacre at Loscanos, on August 18, of the 42 youths held by Balmaceda as hostages. The victorious party are resolved not to be idle.
The reasons for Balmaceda’s most sudden —the defeat seem to centre in the incapacity o f
* his Generals. Two Colonels, Wood and
Ruiz, of Balmaceda’s army have been interviewed in prison, and both have made statements which have been confirmed by documents found in the Moneda, to the effect that both Balmaceda’s Generals, Barbosa and '
Azerreca, were utterly incapable, and that they flagrantly disobeyed the ex-President’s orders, a course which immediately resulted in the overthrow of his Government. His explicit instructions were that they were not to engage the Junta’s troops with less than .4,000 men, but should draw the enemy inland. General Barbosa, it seems, so utterly despised his adversaries that he acted in an exactly contrary sense, with the consequence of the disastrous defeat at Concon. The defeat of the Balmacedists was also largely due to the issue of the contrary orders. The interviewed officers also declare that there was no ardour or spirit among Balmaceda’s troops, and the representations made to the President that his soldiers were loyal and enthusiastic were untre ; so much so that at the most critical point of the first engagement, two regiments turned the butts of their rifles up as a sign of surrender. The Junta’s troops, on the other hand, were full of vigour and patriotism. General Barbosa expressed contempt for the tactics o f his opponents, and when reminded of Balmaceda’s orders, is said to have replied to the effect that the men opposite were like so many cats for a dog to catch. Colonel Ruiz, who commanded the right wing at Concon, says he was left unsupported, the consequence being that the enemy with the greatest ease swept his men aside. The Government troops never wished to fight, and what little they did was owing to the excitement of the moment.
It appears, so far as can be learned, that
— e s c a p e o f Balmaceda has really escaped, and is now safe b a l m a c e d a . 0n the high seas on board Admiral Brown’s flagship the San Francisco. According to the correspondent of The Herald, Balmaceda threw himself on the mercy of the United States Admiral, and begged to be saved from the revenge of his enemies. As a drunken American sailor— a part which it is said Balmaceda swaggered to perfection— the ex-President was taken on board, Admiral Brown having previously sent the necessary clothes ashore. In the evening, feeling that upon his acting his neck depended— a stimulus, if ever there has been one, to the stage— he lurched along the shore and pitched with a final stumble into the boat that lay awaiting him. Once safe in a cabin of the flagship he did not again show his face on deck till the ship sailed. Meanwhile, the Junta has despatched officials to Europe for the purpose of bringing over the warships Presidente P in to and Presidente E r ra zu r iz . Some adherents of the Junta,.while returning from Montevideo on board the British steamer John E ld e r , were threatened with arrest at Punta Arenas by Balmaceda’s
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