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A W eek ly N ew spaper a n d R ev iew
WITH SUPPLEMENT.
D u m V O B IS G R A T U L AM U R , A N IM O S ET IAM ADDIM U S U T IN IN CCEPTIS V E S TR IS C O N S TAN TER M AN E A T IS .
From the B r ie f o f His Holiness Pius IX . to T he T ablet, June 4, 1870.
Vol. 518. No. 1995. L o n d o n , J u l y 6, 1878.
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[ R eg iste r ed a t th e G en er a l P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.
-Ch ronicle o f t h e W e e k
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The Congress— Prince Gortchakoff and Lord Beaconsfield. — Bosnia and Herzegovina. — Greece.— Bessarabia and the Dobrudja. — Navigation of the Danube.— The Indemnity. — Batoum— Success o f ihe English Policy.— The Memorandum” and the Foreign Office. — The Indian Native Press.— The Cattle Diseases Bill.— Irish Paupers and the Law of Settlement.- Habitual Drunkards.— Pius IX .—The Marseilles Vow.— The National Fete at Paris.— The Assassin Nobiling.— The Potter Committee.— The Westminster Education Meeting $£!....................................
L e a d e r s :
CONTENTS
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S hort N o t ic e s (continued) :
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English Liberals and Irish Ca
tholics. . . . . .. . • 5 Religious Equality in the New
Eastern States . . . . . . 5 The “ Centre Party ” in Germany and the Coming Elections . . 6 Legislation on Intemperance . . 7 R ev iew s :
To the Arctic Regions and Back in Six Weeks . . .. .. 8 A Treatise on the Pretended
The Divine Sanctuary . . . . 10 Devotions, &c., for Children of
Mary ........................................... 10 C o rrespondence :
The Reform o f Church Music . . 10 “ Save the Boy.” . . . . . . 12 The Prayer of the Indian. —
Church o f the Sacred Heart at N e l l o r e .........................................12 Intermediate Education in Ireland 13 The African Missions . . . . 13 Intermediate Education Jin Eng
Divorce between Henry V III. and Catharine of Aragon . . 9 S hort N otices :
First Principles of FrenchHistory 10 Life of Pius IX . . . . . . . 10
land. . _.......................................... 14 “ A Distressing Case.” . . . . 14 Welsh Prayer Book . . . . 14 The Poor School Committee and
Ecclesiastical Commission . . 14 P a r l ia m e n t a r y Summary . . 14
R ome : — Letter from our own
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Correspondent..............................17 D io cesan N ews
Westminster.........................................19 Southwark . . . . ,,20 Birmingham................................... . 2 0 L i v e r p o o l ................................... . 2 1 Northampton ............................. 21 Plymouth ... . . . ,21 S cotland :—
Glasgow , ,
I r e lan d :—
Letter from our own Corre
spondent .........................
F oreign N ews
Poland . .
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Religious ......................................... 23 G en er a l N ews . . . . ..23
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
THE CONGRESS—
PRINCE
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TH E Congress of Berlin is getting rapidly through its work. A t the sitting of the 26th
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Prince Gortchakoff was present, and was
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gortchakoff warmly congratulated on his partial recovery.
and lord H e was invited by the President to speak from seaconsitbld. seat( kut he rose and said that having been kept away for several days, he did not like to re-appear in the Congress without making some remarks which were prompted by the love of truth and of his country. “ During your late deliberations,” he continued, “ my colleagues have granted you, in the name of Russia, concessions far surpassing those she thought o f making.” Here there was considerable sensation, as nobody knew whether Prince Gortchakoff had not come down to withdraw these concessions. But the anxiety of his auditors was soon relieved, for the Prince went on to declare that he was too well aware of the feelings which influenced his colleagues to raise any objection to the concessions they deemed it their duty to make. *‘ I merely wish.” he added, “ to state to you what is very well known, that Russia has made these sacrifices from her desire of peace, and that she spoke truth when declaring, before as well as at the end of the war, that she merely stood up on behalf o f the Christians o f the East, that she had no .narrow or selfish aim, and that, having made enormous sacrifices in a war in which the cause of Christianity and civilisation was alone at stake, she has just proved herself capable of also making sacrifices for the great- work of pacification to which you are devoting your efforts. I suppose no one will gainsay the glory of her army which has achieved the most brilliant victories; but Russia wishes •it to be known that she is desirous of exchanging the laurels of victory bought with her most precious blood for the palm of peace.” Thus did the aged Chancellor cover the retreat of Russia from the positions taken up in the Treaty of Santo ■ Stefano, and he seems to have done it in a very dignified and impressive way. But quite as great an effect was produced by Lord Beaconsfield who, expressing his profound admiration for the language of his “ noble and illustrious friend,” added, with courteous tact, that he was happy to think that it was a desire for peace that had guided the decisions of Russia in the late discussions, and that he firmly hoped that he should meet with the same sentiment in all future deliberations. England also, he is reported to have added, had made great concessions for the sake of peace. During that sitting the Armenian delegates presented a memoir advocating the formation of an autonomous province under a Turkish Governor-General, to be appointed by the Porte, somewhat on the system o f the Lebanon, and the
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Congress adopted the proposal of Austria affirming the absolute equality of all religious creeds in Bulgaria and East Roumelia.
BOSNIA ANO HERZEGOVINA.
The next day, Friday, the 28th, the Congress adopted the independence o f Servia, with absolute civil and religious liberty for all religions, and settled the question of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Count Andrdssy detailed the difficulties in which Austria was placed by the chronic insurrection in those provinces, and mentioned the refusal o f the refugees to return unless protected against Turkey, and the proved inability o f the Porte to put down the insurrection. He made no proposal, but asked the Congress to find a solution. Lord Salisbury then proposed that Austria should be charged by the Congress to occupy and administer Bosnia and Herzegovina. M. Waddington supported him, Count Corti consented, and Prince Gortchakoff adhered. The Ottoman Plenipotentiaries objected on the ground that these provinces were outside the scope of the preliminary treaty and that Turkey could manage them herself; the Plenipotentiaries moreover were bound by formal instructions not to consent to this concession. But first Lord Beaconsfield and then Prince Bismarck pressed upon the Turks the necessity o f yielding, reminding them that the Congress has restored to Turkey a whole province infinitely more valuable than these. And the motion o f Lord Salisbury being adopted unanimously— Turkey and Austria abstaining from voting— Count Andrdssy formally accepted the charge imposed upon Austria. It is said that the Porte requires, as conditions of its consent to the Austrian occupation, that its duration, and the strength o f the force employed should be fixed, and that it should be confined to certain local limits, but these conditions are not likely to be accepted either by Austria or the Congress.
GRBECE.
On Saturday the Greek delegates M. Delyannis, Minister o f Foreign Affairs, and
M. Rhangabe, Charge d’ Affaires, were admitted, and M. Delyannis read a memoire, from which it appeared that the demands of Greece were very much what we indicated last week— the annexation o f Crete and the extension of the Hellenic frontier to the Gulfs o f Volo and Aulona or Arta. The Greek delegates are said to be bitterly discontented, for, after their case had been stated, nobody in the Congress said anything. They had been assured by the Russians that they would not oppose anything that the Congress might decide to do for them, but the Congress was silent, and the demands of Greece, moderate as they may be, are not very likely to be granted. Crete may possibly get autonomy, but not annexation to Hellas, and Thessaly may get administrative reforms, in common with Western Roumelia, but nothing more. It was also decided, on the