THE
LET A W eekly Newspaper and Review.
WITH SUPPLEMENT.
D U M VOBIS G R A TU LAM U R , AN IM O S ET IAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E STR IS CON STAN TER M AN EATIS.
From the Brief of His Holiness to T he T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.
Vol. 45. No. 1814. L o n d o n , J a n u a r y i 6 , 1875.
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C h r o n ic l e o f t h e W e e k :—
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The Spanish Restoration.— The Position of Don Carlos.— Scylla and Charybdis.— Prince Bismarck and the Spanish Protestants.— The Deadlock in France.— The Constitutional Bills.— Napoleon I I I .— “ La Lanterne.”— Press Amenities.— Civil Marriage in Prussia.— The United States.— The Catholic Union.— Newspaper Objections to the Jubilee.— Death of the Electors of Hesse Cassel.—The Russian Army.— Earl Russell.— The Latest Controversy. — Requirements of the Church of England.— The English Sunday.—The Reformed Reformation. — Mr. Gladstone.— &c., &c. . . . . ... ..65
CONTENTS.
Leaders :
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The Deadlock in France . . . . 69 The Irish College o f Physicians . . 69 The Parochial System in Rome . . 70 The Reports of the Vienna Com
mission .. . . .. . . 71 The Reform of Church Music . . 72 Prince Bismarck and Herr Debon.
Who Tells the Truth ? . . . . 73 O ur P r o t e s t a n t C o n t e m p o r a r ie s :
Conversion . . . . . . •• 74 R e v ie w s :
Meditations on the Life and Doc
trine of Jesus Christ . . . . 75 Repertoire Du Pretre . . . . 76 History of the Jews . . .. 76 The Anti-Pelagian Writings of St.
Augustine .. . . .. . . 76 Under the Dawn .. .. •• 77
Yorkshire Oddities .. S h o r t N otices :
The Cyclopaedia of Costume St. Bernard and his Work.. C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :
“ Old-Catholics.”— A Misnomer .. The Church and Restoration in
Spain Canterbury New Church . . The Homerton Mission Orphanage of Bethlehem in the
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Holy Land. Isle of Dogs .. . . . . .. 79 R om e :— Letter from our own Cor
respondent . . . . .. 81 Peter’s Pence.. .. . . . .. 81 R ecord of G e rm a n P ersecu t io n :
Deposition of the Bishop of Paderborn .. .. .. . . .. 81
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Banishment of Father Schneider.. 82 Bismarck and the Alsatians .. 82 Liberation of the Bishop of Fritr 82 Another Imprisoned Priest .. 82 The Doctrinal Teaching of the
Ritualist School in the Church of England .. .. .. .. 82 D io c e s a n N ew s :—
Westminster . . .. .. ..85 Southwark . . .. .. . . 86 Beverley . ? . . . . . . 86 Newport and Menevia . . . . 86 N ottingham . . . . . . .. 86 I r e l a n d . . . . . . .. ..87 F oreign N ews Austria . . ..87
Belgium . . . . . . ..88 M em o r a n d a :—
Religious . . . . .. . . 88 G e n e r a l N ews . . .. ..88
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
TORATION. T
THE SPANISH RES
H E triumphal entry of the young K ing o f Spain began with a landing at Barcelona, that the important capital of Catalonia might not be jealous o f Valencia.
H e left Marseilles on Friday morning in a frigate bearing the auspicious name of Las Navas de Tolosa, and reached the port of Barcelona at about 1 1 a.m., on Saturday, his approach having been previously announced by flights of carrier pigeons, let loose at a distance of 250 miles by a vessel which had gone out to meet him. The disembarkation took place amid ardent rejoicings, the King, after receiving the authorities at the quay, riding alone in front o f the procession on a white charger under showers of bouquets and flights of doves-—supposed to symbolize peace— to the Cathedral, where he was received by the Archbishop and assisted at a Te Deum, after which he was present at a banquet, made a short and pithy speech, proposing a toast to the reorganisation o f the army and navy, “ not to promote war, but to “ maintain peace” ; and the next morning, Sunday, after hearing Mass, laying the first stone o f a public institution, and receiving numerous deputations, embarked for Valencia, where he was met by the Cardinal Archbishop o f Valladolid and the representatives of the nobility of Madrid. Few young ■ sovereigns have ever had to undertake a more laborious task, but few have entered on it under happier auspices ; he is armed not only with the blessing of the Holy Father and the good wishes o f almost all the Governments of Europe, but with the expressions of support and adhesion which Spain itself, sick o f six years of fruitless experiments and bloody ■ discord, is pouring in from almost every town within its borders.
Don Carlos, indeed, has been moved by th e po s it io n this peaceful restoration of the expelled o f don Carlos, dynasty to issue a grandiloquent and rather angry manifesto, in which he asserts himself to be “ the only true and legitimate King of Spain,” and K ing Alfonso to be only the “ instrument o f the Revolu“ tion.” The latter statement, however, is as open to contradiction as the former. The informing spirit o f the present régime is S. Cánovas del Castillo, who can scarcely be called a Revolutionist, and who in 1868 steadily incurred unpopularity, and even danger, by insisting, after the abdication of Queen Isabella, on the proclamation of her son as king. H e is a statesman comparatively young in years, but old in public life, who played an influential part under the Government o f Marshal O ’Donnell. But it cannot be a matter for surprise that Don Carlos should be irritated into declaring, somewhat bombastically, that he will protest “ through the mouth o f his cannon.” For to the minds of many the recent event will just make the whole difference
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in the judgment which they will pass on his enterprise. A venture for a crown, even when the right of the claimant is questionable, appears to possess a different character when the country is in a state o f revolution and virtual anarchy, to that which it must assume when a legitimate and constitutional Government is restored. It is pretty certain that had it not been for the immoral revolution of 1868 we should never have heard either of the Cantonal insurrection or of the Carlist civil war.
SCTLLA AND CHARYBDIS.
It is rather diverting to observe the inconsistency o f the apprehensions which disturb opposite parties among foreign critics. Legiti
mists who can see no legitimacy outside the barriers of the Salic Law affect to consider the young K ing a Radical and Revolutionist, forgetting that their own champion has pledged himself to Liberal institutions quite as much as his cousin. On the other hand, the Berlin semi-official organs are grievously disconcerted at K ing Alfonso’s “ Ultramon“ tane proclivities,” and the lim es and other English papers have begun to lecture him, and to prophesy misfortune if he does not “ keep clear of the priests.” A ll this alarm was created by a Ministerial circular, which promised that the new Government would restore relations with the Holy See, and would protect the clergy ; but as a large number o f Episcopal Sees are kept vacant through an absurd objection by S. Sagasta’s Government to the wording of a Bull with which even S. Castelar found no fault, and as a considerable proportion of tne clergy in Spain have been long kept without their legal salaries, the assurances of S. Canovas’s Government need scarcely, one would think, alarm even the most nervous Liberal. It is true that two little Protestant Propagandist newspapers have been suspended, but we have the authority of the lim es Correspondent for saying that one of them at least was conducted by some apostate Religious, and was so indecently violent and aggressive that “ the “ wonder is that the order o f suspension was not issued by “ the Government of S. Sagasta.” Nobody need be under the least apprehension that Protestants will be buried in ditches when dead, or forbidden while alive to practise their religion with perfect impunity, so long as they do not publicly insult or interfere with the religion of the rest of the community. On the other hand, it is equally certain that, were Don Carlos himself at Madrid, he would be unable, if he wished it, to adopt a different course. The criticisms o f the Carlist pardzans and the misgivings of foreign Liberals on this head are alike as devoid of any reasonable basis as they are conflicting and inconsistent with each other.
PRINCE BISMARCK AND THE SPANISH PROTESTANTS.
It is reported that Prince Bismarck has taken advantage of the incident above mentioned to endeavour to force the new Spanish Government into an attitude of hostility to the Catholic Church, intimating to it that he will not recog