THE TABLET
A W eekly Newspaper and Review
D U M VOBIS GRA.TULAMUR, AN IM O S ET IAM ADDIMUS U T IN INCCEPTIS V E STR IS CON STAN TER M ANEATIS.
From the B r ie f o j H is Holiness to T he T ablet, Ju n e 4, 1870.’
Vol. 39. No. 1674. L o n d o n , M a y i i , 1872.
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[R e g is tered a t t h e G en e r a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew s pa p e r .
C h ronicle of t h e W ë e k : The
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Carlist Campaign. —The Republican Movement.— Latest Aspect of the Situation.— Canada and the Washington Treaty.— The Irish Convention Act.— The Scotch Education Vote.— Prison Ministers Bill. — Permissive Bill.— Mr. Syrian’s Amendment.— The last Defeat of the French Government.— The Capitulations.— French Army Contracts.— The Comte d’Harcourt •and the Embassy to Rome.— Cardinal von Hohenlohe.— The Jesuits In Germany.— S. Croce and the Catacombs.—The King of the Belgians and the Literary Fund.— The Callan Scandal. — The Swiss
“ Referendum.'’ . . . . 573
CONTENTS.
L ea d e r s :
The Week’s History o f the Arbi
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S h ort N otices : The Catholic tration Controversy . . . 577 Catholic Interests in Parliament . 577 Foundation of the Queen's Col
leges, Ireland .... 578 E nglish A dm in i s tr a t io n s an d
C atholic I n t e r e s t s . — LXV. Lord Clare, Yelvcrton, Cornwallis, and Castlereagh’s Concern in the Union.— De Quincey on the giving of the Royal Assent . . .581 Institute o f Painters in Water
C o lo u r s ............................................... 582 R ev iew s :
Discussions and Arguments on various Subjects. . . . 583 The Dublin Review . . . 584
World. — The Hawthorn. — Old Merry’s Monthly. — Macmillan's Magazine.—The Law Magazine.— Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. — The Illustrated Catholic Magazitie.— Catholic Progress . . 585 C orrespondence :
The “ Dublin Review” on Pri
mary Education .... 585 The Douay and the Rheims
Translations of the Sacred Scriptures ............................................... 585 P a r l ia m e n t a r y S ummary . . 586 R ome :
Letter from Rome . .
D io cesan N ews :
Westminster............................... 590
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D io cesan N ews (continued) : Page.
Beverley....................................... 590 Scotland.— Western District . . 590 I r e l a n d :
Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent ...................................... 59E The Irish Convention Act . . 591 On the Architecture and Antiqui
ties o f the Western part o f the Province of Ulster . . . 592 F oreign N ews :
France :
The late Archbishop of Paris and the Council . . _. 593 First Communion of Children in a French Village , . . 593 M em o randa :
Religious. — Educational. — Lite
rary.— Fine Arts & Music.— Legal 594 G en er a l N ews . . . -595
C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .
TH E Madrid telegrams and the Legitimist intelligence from Paris continue to contradict each other. What is certain is that Don Carlos, who had been staying at Bayonne ■ under the name o f the Comte Blanc, left that city on the 1st in open day, and, accompanied by fourteen friends, ascended the valley o f the Bidassoa to the point where both banks become Spanish territory, entering the province of Navarre near the village ■ of Vera, where he was received with shouts and ringing of bells by about 2,000 Carlists under Rada, whom the telegrams represented as flying before Serrano or rather Moriones, but who had been approaching the frontier in order to cover the entrance o f the Prince. The latter is said, in a private letter to a French paper, to have immediately knelt down to ask a blessing on his undertaking, and to have kissed the Spanish soil by way o f taking possession o f the kingdom •of his ancestors. Then we have two proclamations o f his, one to Spaniards, and the other to the soldiers, appealing to the nation generally, as “ victims o f an audacious minority,” ■ to rally round the flag inscribed with the device o f “ God, “ Country, and K ing,” and expel the foreigner; and to the ■ soldiers to forsake the Revolution which has turned them into “ mercenaries o f petty ambition.” Next we have letters in the Paris Journal and. Figaro immensely exaggerating the successes which the insurrection has obtained. Barcelona, Lerida, Pampeluna, and Bilbao, were all said to be in the power o f the Carlists ; and this alone is sufficient to show how untrustworthy these accounts are. The fact is, that the Royalist partizans have no large town in their possession, -certainly none of these; they have some open towns, such as Durango and other places of about 5,000 inhabitants, which they enter to obtain supplies and then leave. Nor do we place much more reliance on the statements of the ■ other side. It must be remembered that the telegraphs are under the control of the Madrid Government, and that it is of vital importance to the latter to get it generally believed that the insurrection is at an end, in order to prevent the threatened rising of the Republicans, who, if the Carlists were at all successful, were ready to co-operate with them to get rid of the foreigner. The Madrid telegrams must therefore be received with great suspicion. They tell us that, Serrano having come up to Pampeluna to the relief o f General Moriones, the latter had advanced into the mountains, and, co-operating with other columns coming from the Basque provinces, had closed up behind Don Carlos, -who had passed between them and arrived as far as Orosquieta, not far from Serrano’s head-quarters, N.E. of Pampeluna; that an engagement was thus forced on, that 100 were killed and wounded on both sides ; and 750 Carlists taken prisoners,
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the Prince being according to one rumour shot, according to another flying with 200 men towards the frontier, and according to a third having been since captured. The statement about the 700 odd prisoners is true, but Don Carlos has not been captured, and though he is represented as being still flying towards the frontier, it must be remembered that it took him only about two days to afvance from thence to the scene o f the fight. H e has probably made for the Biscayan mountains. Rada is said to be in France, having stayed there out o f jealousy at Brigadier Aguirre’s having joined the Prince’s suite before his arrival at Vera, but this is contradicted by the Legitimist papers. Now, while we do not believe that the Carlists have occupied even Bilbao, we think there is reason to doubt that they have met with quite as decisive a defeat as that depicted in these accounts. It was reported, according to a Paris telegram of the 7th, that they were “ endeavouring to escape and form afresh.” The truth, we suspect, is something o f this kind. Don Carlos, we know, was disappointed, on arriving at the frontier, at not finding, not only a large sum o f money on which he had calculated, but also 15,000 Remingtons which were to have been landed in Spain. A large number o f the peasantry who have flocked to his standard were consequently unarmed, and what is described as a battle, lasting nine hours, was very probably an attempt to enclose the principal nucleus o f the bands— commanded very possibly by Don Carlos in person— whose object on the other hand was not so much to fight as to disperse in different directions among the labyrinth o f defiles in the Amezcoas mountains where the affair took place. This is the story told by a Saragossan paper in the interest o f the Government, as quoted in the Epoca, and it would explain the large number o f prisoners— probably unarmed followers— compared with that o f the killed and wounded. This view is confirmed by the undoubted fact that the enthusiasm in the Basque provinces and Navarre is so great that whole villages have gone out to join the rising, while it is scareely probable that arms can have been found for so many. T o this rising en masse is also to be attributed the presence o f those priests on whom the l ib e ra l press has agreed to throw all the responsibility o f the movement ; the fact being that it is impossible for them to remain behind after all their flocks are gone, as to do so would be to expose themselves to a certainty o f arrest or imprisonment, or even worse. Señor Cruz Ochoa, the well-known Carlist deputy, and a brother of Canon Manterola, are stated, in hostile telegrams, to be in command o f bands, and Tristany is reported to be in Catalonia.
But whether the conjecture which we have yHE . just made as to the extent o f the alleged fimv^EMENif defeat o f the Carlists be the true account o f the matter or not, it is clear that the only