THE TABLET
A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
D um VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the Brief of His Holiness to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.
Vol. 45. No. 1815. L ondon, J a n u a r y 23, 1875.
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C hronicle of the Week :—
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The Leadership of the Liberal Party.— Entry of King Alfonso into Madrid. — The Spanish Foreign Debt and the Payment of the Clergy.— Prince Bismarck’s Zeal for Toleration.— Departure of the King for the Army.— Don Carlos on the Prospects of the War.—The Cuban Insurrection.— The “ Gustav” Difficulty.— The Landsturm Bill.—The Bishops of Paderborn and Fulda. — The Prussian Courts and the “ Daily Telegraph.’’--The Crisis in France. — The Guikwar.—The Kings of Siam.—Worldly Critics of the Pope.— Rubery v. Grant and Sampson, &c., &c............................ 97
Leaders:
CONTENTS.
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Correspondence :
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Mr. Gladstone and Pius IX. .. 101 Ireland in the Coming Session .. 101 Jubilee Pilgrimages to Rome .. 102 Our Protestant Contemporaries :
The Church and Democracy .. 103 Reviews :
Dr. Newman’s Reply to Mr. Glad
stone .. .. .. .. 104 Peace Through the Truth.. .. 105 Characteristics of Dr. Newman’s
Writings .. .. .. .. xo6 Memoir of Margaret Countess of
Richmond and Derby .. .. 107 The Eighteenth Century in France 108 Choice of a State of Life .. .. 108 Short Notice:
Vindicia Alphonsianae .. .. 109 Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 109
Father Newman and Urban VIII. no Henri V. and the White Flag .. no Catholic Prisoners in Coldbath
Fields House of Correction .. no St. Mary’s Priory .. .. .. no The Austrian Nobility and the
Emperor .. .. .. ..in Improprieties of Nomenclature .. i n A Correction .. .. .. .. i n The Poor of Westminster .. . . in The Poor at Bethnal Green .. i n An Appeal .. .. .. ..in Rome :— Letter from our own Cor
respondent . . .. .. 113 Peter’s Pence.. .. .. .. 114 Record of German Persecution :
Bismarck and the German Semi
naries .. .. .. ..114
The “ Germania” ar.d the Liberals 114 The Diocese of Munster .. .. 115 Good out of Evil .. .. .. T15 The Doctrinal Teaching of the
Ritualist School in the Church of England .. .. .. .. 115 The League of St. Sebastian . . 117 Diocesan News :—
Westminster .. .. .. ..118 Newport and Menevia .. .. 119 Nottingham .. .. .. .. 119 Ireland:
Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent .. .. . . . . 119 Foreign News:
France.. .. .. .. ..119 Russia.. .. .. .. .. 120 Germany .. .. .. .. 121 General News .. .. .. 121
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
THE LEADERSHIP
OF THE
MR . G L A D S T O N E ’S definitive retirem ent
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from the leadership o f the Opposition will, at all events, bring with it this ad
LHiiig liberal vantage, that the ex-Prem ierw ill be less than ever party. able to impose on the Liberal party his peculiar views o f ecclesiastical politics. I f he chooses to com e down to the H ouse with his pockets stuffed with dynam ite— to borrow a metaphor from the limes— it will be a t least as a private member, and not as ch ie f o f a great party, that he introduces such explosive substances in to a p lace of public resort. I t is melancholy to have to write in such a tone o f one who has deserved so much credit for the in itiation o f wise and broad legislation, as well as for the earnest and religious turn o f his mind. We can hardly find it in our heart to be as severe upon him as his own political friends and co-religionists have shown them selves, a lthough the fluster into which an im aginary bugbear has thrown him has induced him to follow up a looselyreasoned pamphlet by a still weaker diatribe in a Review. Justice will be done on both. In the meantime Lord Granville, o f course, succeeds to the leadership o f the party and the potential Premiership, and o f the th ree possible leaders in the Commons— Mr. Forster, Mr. G oschen, and Lord Hartington— Lord Hartington is the favourite. Mr. Forster is, undoubtedly, the best man, as far as in tellect and power in debate can make him so, but he is disliked by the Dissenters, and is wanting in that social pre-eminence which covers a multitude o f shortcomings. Mr. Goschen is inferior to Mr. Forster in tellectually, and to Lord Hartington socially. A s Mr. Lowe is im possible as a political Ishm ael, and Sir W illiam H arcourt, though lik e ly to come to the front some day, has not served an apprenticeship in the Cabinet, there remains Lord Hartington, who is an excellent second-rate politician, a good administrator and master o f details, and the eldest son o f a Duke.
ENTRY OP
KING ALFONSO
Before leaving Valencia, where his reception was most cordial, K in g A lfonso visited the shrine o f Our L ady o f the Exiles, and offered entoMadrid, there as the gift o f “ a poor returned e x i le ”
the golden baton o f a Captain-General which he bore. H e started for A ran ju ezon W ednesday in last week, and havingpassed the night at that R o yal country seat, enteredM adrid in great state the next day. A l l that has been prophesied about the apathy o f the Madrileños has been com p letely disproved by d ie event. T h e populace o f the capital, or the “ Court ” as the Spaniards call it, was not only warm, but enthusiastic in its expressions o f loyalty. T h e K in g was received at the railway station by the M inisters and all the great public dignitaries, and Señor Cánovas was the first to kiss hands. A ccom panied by the Cardinal-Archbishop o f Valla-
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dolid, the M ilitary Governor o f Madrid, a gorgeous military staff, the judges, and other civil authorities, the K in g then proceeded to the church o f A to cha, where the Cardinal officiated at a T e D eum “ to render thanks to the M ost H igh “ for the arrival o f H is M ajesty at the * Court.’ ” T h ence the gorgeous procession proceeded to the R oyal Palace, the young K ing, in the plainest of undress uniforms, and bareheaded, riding alone on a white charger with crim son velvet and gold housings, and bridle “ curiously in laid with “ rubies.” There seems to be a consensus o f the correspondents as to the graceful bearing o f the youthful Monarch, and the enthusiasm with which he was received by all classes. More official receptions at the Palace were follow ed by a review o f the troops, the K in g being attended by Generals Prim o de R iv era and the Count de Cheste. T h e next two days were occupied with more receptions and audiences, a Cabinet Council, visits to the opera and the theatre, where Calderon’s great p lay, “ L a V id a es “ Sueño,” set before the new Sovereign a probably fam iliar lesson on the duties o f princes. On Saturday evening, according to the custom always observed by Spanish Monarchs, the K in g visited the Church o f Our Lady o f the A tocha. F in e weather by day and brilliant illum inations by night filled the crowded streets to overflowing, and so, without any accident and with general good humour and decorum, the Jetes came to an end.
THE SPANISH
FOREIGN DEB1' AND THE PAYMENT OF
THE CLERGY.
years they decree the
A t the first Cabinet Council the K in g signed two im portant decrees, one confirm ing the arrangements for the paym ent o f the coupons o f the foreign debt which have ju s t been conc luded between Señor Salaverria, the M in ister o f F inance, and Mr. Eykyn, representing the foreign bondholders, and the other restoring to the clergy the incom e o f which for the last few have been unjustly deprived. In signing this K in g declared that he was resolved to respect and support the Catholic c lergy o f Spain, and at the same time to maintain that religious liberty which at present exists in the most c iv ilized countries. T h e arrears due to c lergy are to be dealt with in a subsequent decree.
PRINCE Bismarck’s ZEAL FOR TOLERATION.
Prince B ism arck, therefore, was unnecessarily hasty in his action— we have reason to Believe that he caused representations to be made to our own Governm ent, and therefore probably to others, with a v iew o f delaying the recogni
tion— for the suspension of the two Protestant Republican papers, and the closing o f the meeting-house at C ad iz seem to have been the act o f the lo ca l authorities only, and the suspension has since been removed. It is rem arkable, as the Spectator ju s tly observes, that G erm any should be so excited by the slightest indication o f p e rsecution in Spain,