THE TABLET

A W eekly Newspaper and Review.

D u m VOBIS G R A TU L AM U R , AN IM O S ET IAM ADDIMUS U T IN INCCEPTIS V E S TR IS CON STAN TER M AN EATIS.

From the Brief of H is Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4 , 1870.

Vol. 46. No. 1850. L o n d o n , S e p t e m b e r 25, 1875.

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C h r o n ic l e o f t h e W e e k :—

The New Cardinals and the Consistory.— The Insurrection in the Turkish Provinces.— The Attitude >of Servia.— New Firman against Oppression.— The Address o f che Skuptchina.— The Lord Mayor of Dublin and the Nationalists.— The Queen and the Yachts.— Mr. Cross on Denominational Schools.— Lord Hartington on Higher and Secondary Education.— The Civil 'War in Spain.— Circular of the Nuncio at Madrid.— The “ Free ” University o f Paris.— The Letters £0 the Comte de Chambord.— Russia and Khokand.—The Murder of the President of Ecuador. .. 385

CONTENTS.

L e a d e r s :

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The Montreal Burial Case.. . . 389 England and Fugitive Slaves . . 389 Proposed Spoliation of the Cha­

ritable Institutions in Italy .. 390 M. De Broglie, M. Thiers, and

Prince Gortchakof _ . . .. 391 Truth and Science : Leibnitz and

Grotius . . .. . . . . 391 The Irish National Synod.. . . 393 Pastoral Address of the Irish

Bishops .....................................394 R e v ie w s :

R eview s (continued) :

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The Contemporary Review . . 396 Literary, Artistic, & Scientific Gossip 397 C o rrespondence :

Freemasonry.. . . . . . . 398 A New School for the Catholic

Boys in Stoke-on-Trent.. . . 399 Inquiry .......................................399 Missions to the Heathen . . . . 399 R ome :— Letter from our own Cor­

respondent

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The Spiritual Conflict and Con­

quest . . .. .. •• 394 The Life of Saint Teresa .. . . 395 History o f Music . . . . •• 39^

D io c e sa n N ews

Westminster . .

Beverley .......................................403 Birm ingham ................................403

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D io cesan (continued) ;

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Hexham and Newcastle . . .. 403 Nottingham .. . . .. . . 403 Shrewsbury . . .. .. . . 404 I r e l a n d :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent . . . . . . . . 404 Foreign N ews

France.. .. . . . . . . 405 Germany . . . . .. .. 435 Austria . . . . . . .. 406 Bavaria . . . . .. . . 406 Poland . . .. . . . . 407 M em oranda :—

Religious .. . . .. .. 407 Fine Arts . . . . . . . . 407 G en e r a l N ews ......................... 407

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

THE NEW CARDINALS o

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N the 17 th instant, as announced last week, the Consistory was held at which his Holiness proc o n s i s t o r y . claimed the five Cardinals already reserved in petto, and created one new Cardinal,

the Archbishop of Rennes. But, first, Cardinal Martinelli, the Augustinian who was raised to the Sacred College at the same time with the late Cardinal Tarquini, at the last creation of Cardinals but one, was promoted from the order o f Cardinal Deacons to that of Cardinal Priests, and was assigned the “ title " of St. Prisca in place of the Diaconate o f St. George in Velabro. He will take rank immediately after Cardinal Sirnor, the last of the Cardinal Priests created at the same time with himself. Then the Holy Father proclaimed the three Cardinal Priests already created, but reserved in petto at the Consistory of the 15 th March ; namely, Mgr. Antici-Mattei, Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, and Auditor of the Rev. Apostolic Chamber; Mgr Nobili VitelJeschi, Archbishop of Seleucia inpartibus, and Secretary of the Sacred Congregations of Bishops and Regulars and of Ecclesiastical Immunities, and Mgr. Simeoni, Archbishop of Chalcedonia, now Nuncio at Madrid, and formerly Secretary of the Sacred Congregation de Propaganda Fide. Next his Holiness proclaimed the two Cardinal Deacons created but reserved in petto at the same time; namely, Mgr. Randi, Vice-Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church, and Governor o f Rome down to the time of the invasion ; and Mgr. Pacca, Maggiordomo to his Holiness, and formerly Maestro di «Camera. Another Cardinal Priest was then created and proclaimed, Mgr. Brossais-Saint-Marc, Archbishop ofRennes, — the number of Cardinals in France being thus raised to 5— within one of that allotted by custom to the hierarchy of that country. Lastly, his Holiness “ opened the mouth” of Cardinal MacCloskey, delivered to him the Cardinalitial ring, and assigned to him as title the Church of Sta. Maria supra minercam. On Thursday the second Consistory for the aperitio oris, delivery of the ring, and assignment of the title of the newly-created Cardinals present in Curia, was to beheld, and at the same time the fourteen additional Spanish Bishops, the formalities of whose appointments were not concluded, as we have already mentioned, in time for the last Consistory, were to be preconized.

In spite of the discouragement produced by r e c t io n ^ n" s u c c e s s e s ° f t h e Tuiks and by the certainty t h e t u k k i s h t h a t t h e Bowers will neither support nor t r o v i n c e s . countenance the revolt, still the insurrection in

Bosnia and Herzegovina does not die out. Separate telegrams from Cattaro and Cettinje mention

N eWj S f.r i e s , V o l . XIV. No. 359.

serious encounters between the regulars and insurgents in the East of the Herzegovina, and the reports on which these telegrams are founded represent the insurgents as victorious, the rebel leaders having succeeded in surprising Selim Pasha and Dervish Pasha with 2,000 Turkish trooos in a mountainous pass, and puting them to flight with a loss of about 100 killed and wounded. This intelligence, however, comes from insurgent sources, and is therefore open to suspicion ; and, whether true or not, it is of less importance than the statement contained in the Belgrade papers that fresh insurrections have broken out in Upper Bosnia, opposite the Austrian frontier, and also at Tiskovac, near Grachowo, and that there are rumours, which are said to be current, that everything is prepared for a general rising throughout Bosnia. In that province the chances in favour of peace are evidently fewer than they are in the south and west ; for the Consuls of Austria, Germany, and Italy, who in their recent tour through the disturbed districts took that line of country, are understood to have given up all hope of bringing the leaders of the insurrection into communication with Server Pasha. In the Herzegovina, the province visited by the English, French, and Russian Consuls, the prospects of the negotiations are less gloomy, for some of the insurgents in those parts have shown a readiness to listen to reason, though the Consuls can make no definitive report on. the state of affairs till they have visited the rebels who are in the mountains near Gatchka. The Austrian, German, and Italian Consuls arrived at Trebinje on the 18th, and left for Stolatz on Monday, and the interviews with the insurgents in the Trebinje district were to begin on Sunday. But on Saturday there was an engagement in the neighbourhood of Glavisdikol which was reported by the Correspondent of the Standard to be more serious than any that has taken place since the beginning of the insurrection. The insurgents were victorious, and it is said that the Turks had 80 men killed and n o wounded, and that 260 breech-loaders, 30 horses, 31 revolvers, 74 yataghans, and a thousand head of cattle were captured by the rebels. The heads of 70 Turks were cut off as trophies, and 20 Turkish villages were destroyed by fire. Two thousand Montenegrins and Dalmatians are said to be assembled in the Drinje mountains on the frontier of Austria, and the priest Zarko, at the head of a body of insurgents reinforced by fresh bands from Servia, is laying waste the Turkish villages in Bosnia, and has burnt everything between Nova Warosh and Visigrad. The news of these successes of the insurgents is confirmed by a private despatch sent to the National Zeitung from Belgrade— telegraphed on Wednesday to the P a l l M a l l Gazette from Berlin— with the additional information that Trebinje is again surrounded.