THE TABLET

A IVeekly Newspaper and Review.

D um VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

Fro??i the Brief of His Holiness to The Tablet, June 4, 1S70

Vol. 44. No. 1801. London, October 17, 1874.

P rice 5d. B y P ost s ^ d

[R egistered a t the General P ost O ffice as a N ewspaper

'¡Ch ronicle of th e W e e k : —

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The Spanish Note.—The Real Weakness which it Covers.— French Prefects and Spanish Consuls.— The Carlist War.— The Orenoque.— England at the Vati•can.—The Case of Count Arnim.— German Church Legislation from a Protestant Stand-point.—The Prussian Laws in Hesse Darm­

stadt.—The Queen of Bavaria.— The See of Freiburg.— Trial of Kullmann.— Freemasonry and Catholicism. — The Schismatical Elections in the Jura.— Church Music.—Processes of Beatification.—The “ Migration” of the Irish Clergy.—Cremation.— The Duchess of Edinburgh, &c. .. 481

CONTENTS.

L e a d e r s :

The German Persecution of

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Christianity .. .. .. 485 The Irish Catholic University .. 485 I The late Parliament in Monte

Citorio .. .. .. .. 486 Old English Pilgrimages.— Note on Pontigny .. .. .. 487 O ur P rotestant Contemporaries :

The Writing on the Wall .. .. 488 R eview s :

Protestant Journalism .. .. 489 The Architecture of the Cister­

cians .. .. .. .. .. 490 The “ Month ” for October .. 491 C orrespondence :

Dr. Dollinger .. .. .. 493

The Gregorian or Plain Chant

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Controversy—What is the Real Point to be Gained ? .. .. 493 The Franciscans at Bethlehem .. 494 Landed Proprietors and Catholic

Interests. — What Might be Done ? .. .. .. .. 4Q4 The Opening of Corpus Christi

Church, Maiden-lane .. .. 495 The Night Home for Poor Girls.. 495 R ome :— Letter from our own Cor­

respondent .. .. .. 497 Christianity and Legislation in

Germany .. .. .. .. 498 Cologne .. .. .. .. 500 Miinster .. .. .. .. 500 Liberation of the Archbishop of

Cologne .. .. .. .. 500

D io cesan N ews :—

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Westminster .. .. .. .. 500 Hexham and Newcastle .. .. 501 I reland :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent .. .........................501 Foreign N ews :

France.. .. .. .. . . 502 The Civil War in Spain .. .. 503 Prussia .. .. .. .. 504 M emoranda :—

Educational .. .........................504 Literary .. .. . . .. 504 G eneral N ews . . . . . . 505

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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NE I T H E R the explanations contained in the D ue D ecazes’s recent Note, nor the still more recent recognition o f Marshal Serrano’s Government, have sufficed to extricate

F rancefrom the embarrassments which the charges o f com p lic i ty with the Carlists have woven around her. Scarcely had M . de Chaudordy pronounced his measured expressions o f ■com p lim ent and goodwill when the Marquis de la V ega de A rm ijo presented a fresh N o te o f remonstrance, couched in term s the peremptoriness o f which is scarcely veiled by the usual forms o f diplom atic reserve. T h e blame is pro­

fessedly thrown upon the subordinate agents who will not execute the orders which the Spanish Governm ent knows th a t the D u e D ecazes has given, but the latter is g iven p lainly enough to understand that, i f he had meant those orders to be carried out, he ought to have adopted other means to th a t end. H e should have removed the Prefects and SubPrefects who, as the M adrid Governm ent firm ly believes, -connive at tire doings o f the Carlists on French territory, and should take active steps to prevent the transmission of horses and munitions o f war from the French side o f the frontier line through those passes which are in the hands o f the Carlists. A n d to the p lea that the contraband traffic was not carried on across the frontier but b y sea and the B idassoa, whither the supplies are conveyed by vessels bearing the flag o f another Power, the Marquis de la V ega de A rm ijo replies he “ has no intention o f accusing or “ defending that nation,” but that there is a great difference betw een supplies obtained in this manner at the risks o f a long voyage and those obtained from a neighbouring country between which and Spain there are so many channels o f communication. T h e question o f course is whether these supplies are conveyed across the frontier, and here the ■ Spanish Envoy’s complaint seems to be again wanting in precision. H e says indeed that there are French ships stationed in the B idassoa river which serve as entrepots for a ll k in d o f merchandise and for contraband o f war, but the ■ charges respecting the supply o f munitions o f war go back as far as the outbreak o f hostilities and the close o f the Franco-Prussian War, after which muskets and equipments which remained in the hands o f private persons in France a re said to have been bought b y traders and sold to the Carlists— a fact which is supported by the assertion that the buttons on the Carlist uniforms sometimes bear the initials G . M . (Garde Mobile.) But for this the present Governm ent o f France can scarcely be held responsible, and it is th e presence o f Carlist partizans, especially in uniform, or with their unifoim scarcely concealed, in the departments bordering on the frontier, on which the Spanish Envoy

New S e r ie s . Vol. XII. No. 310.

seems principally to re ly in his attem pt to establish a charge o f breach o f neutrality. H e re too he goes back to what is now alm ost ancient history, the residence o f Don Carlos in the neighbourhood o f Bayonne and o f Pau in 1872, and the meetings o f his partizans which he held previously to his entry into Spain ; the passage through F rench territory o f General L izarraga with twenty-nine followers, fifteen horses, and twenty-two packages— for not preventing which, it must be remembered, the French Governm ent has already v irtu a lly apologized ; the “ ostentatious ” entry into Spain and return to France o f D oña M a rgarita; and the way in which the order for the internm ent o f Carlists has been evaded under different pretexts by the lo cal authorities. In conclusion, the Ambassador declares with considerable haughtiness that Spain would have a perfect right, i f it chose to do so, to throw the responsibility o f all that is happening, not upon the agents o f the French Government, but upon that G overnment itself, “ which, after having proposed a new form for in“ ternment, and taken a solemn engagement, adds the viola“ tion o f that engagement to the non-observance o f the Con“ vention of 1862 ; ” and he now demands in a peremptory manner “ that the protection Carlism finds in France should definitively c e a s e ; ” the measures which he suggests being the displacem ent o f the functionaries supposed to sympath ize with the Carlists and the military occupation b y F rance o f her side o f the frontier. T h e first reflection which suggests itself after a perusal o f the summary o f this document which has appeared in the lim es, is that its tone betrays a consciousness that its authors have got a backer. T h e Madrid Cabinet, which is said to have given its sanction to the wording o f the Note, would never have ventured to use language which so nearly resem bles that o f an ultimatum, were it not confident o f the approval, and, in case o f need, o f the active support o f Germany. And in connection with this state o f things in Spain it may be worth while to notice a singular statem ent o f Señor Romero Ortiz, that Germany in tends to keep up her interference in the affairs o f that country until France is sufficiently compromised to afford grounds for more direct action.

T h e tone adopted by Marshal Serrano’s the real representative is in strange contrast to the real which it strength o f his Government, if we may rely on covers. the estim ate furnished by the special corre­

spondent o f the lim es. “ T h e report,” he says, “ o f the revolutionary turmoils o f the [last] six years “ has been to remove from office able men like M oret y “ Prendergast, and honest men like R u ig Zorrilla, to con“ céntrate power in the hands o f such men as Serrano and “ Sagasti. What reasonable Spaniard can say that the Re“ publican arrangement is an im provement upon the M cn“ archical combination ? Under such circum stances it be-