THE TABLET
A IVeekly Newspaper and Review.
D u M VOBIS G R A TU LAM U R , AN IM O S ET IAM ADDIMUS U T IN INCCEPTIS V E STR IS CON S TAN TER M AN EATIS.
F rom the B r i e f o j H i s Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4 , 1870.
Vol. 39. No. 1676. L o n d o n , M a y 25, 1872.
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[R eg i st e r e d a t t h e G en e r a l P o s t O f f ic e a s a N ew s pa p e r .
C hronicle o f t h e W e e k : The
Carlists.—The Fate o f the Movement.—Its Immediate Effects. The Republicans. — The Latest News.—General Schenclc and the
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Understanding.” — Sir Stafford Northcote on the Treaty.— Canada ■ *ndthe Washington Treaty.— Tests ■ mTrinity College.— Secularism in Scotland.— Civil Courts and Ecclesiastical Causes.— M. Rouher and 'he Assembly.— The Capitulations. -^Marshal Bazaine’s Trial.— The Liberation o f the Soil.—The Council
State Question.—The Banished Communists. — Germany and the Religious Orders. — The Church VI ^ ermany. — Proceedings under Nerr v. Lutz’s Law, &c., &c. • °37
CONTENTS.
L ea d e r s :
The Misunderstanding : Its Proba
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ble Cause and its Lesson . . 641 An Unwilling Witness . . . 641 Studies and Staff in the Queen’s
C o l l e g e s .......................................642 E n glish A dm in i s tr a t io n s an d
C a th o l ic I n t e r e s t s . — LXVII. Grattan in the English Parliament. — Fox in Relation to the Catholic Q u e s t i o n .......................................645 The Royal Academy. . . . 645 R e v iew s :
gious Education.— Monastic Legends. — Two Sermons on the Trinity.— Western Windows, Landmarks, and other Poems.— East and West.—Vita et Doctrina Jesu Christi.— Sancti Alphonsi Officium Parvum.— Great Truths in Little Words.— La Théorie Géogénique et la Science des Anciens.— The Creed of S. Athanasius : Charlemagne and Mr. Ffoulkes.— Catholics in the British Navy, &c. . . 649 C orrespondence :
S. Thomas o f Aquin : His Life and
Labours . . .■ . . 647 The Origin o f Species by Means of
Natural Selection . . . ^48 The Complete Poems of Robert
S o u th w e l l .......................................648 S h ort N o t ic e s : Secular v. Reli
“ Drawn.” .................................... 651 The Penny Catechism . . .6 5 1 Lives o f the Irish Saints . . 651 Young Men’s Catholic Association. 651 The Catholic Deaf and Dumb In
stitution . . . . .6 5 1
R ome :
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Letter from Rome . . . . 653 The Spanish Deputation, and R e
ply of HU Holiness . . . 653 The Third Order o f S. Francis . 654 D io cesan N ew s :
W estm in ster.......................................6^4 Hexham and Newcastle . . 654 I r e lan d :
Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent ....................................... 654 The Round Towers of Ireland . 655 The Ancient Oratories o f Ireland . 655 F oreign N ews : Rome and Ger
many.— Spain.— United States . 656 M em o r an d a :
Religious. — Educational. — Literary-Scientific.— Fine Arts, &c. . 658 G en e r a l N ew s . . . . 659
THE ^RLISTS. Sards This i s eem
C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .
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T E print elsewhere part of a private
letter, the writer of which, evidently sympathizing with the Carlists, re-
their chance of success as virtually at an end. Ihis failure, the more sanguine partizans of Don Carlos 5eem to attribute to the treachery of Rada, who is Reused of having been induced by Serrano to allow the *™ ce to be surrounded. A good deal of money has cerainly been expended. Señor Sagasta admits having taken *>°oo,ooo reals from the money voted for the navy, and having used them against the Carlists, in what way he did h°t say, and a fresh demand for secret service money has ■ since been made. The plan is alleged to have been within
ace of succeeding, the very day that Don Carlos first entered Spain, but it was apparently discovered, for Rada is said to have been brought before a council o f war, and condemned to be shot, after which the Prince commuted his *entence to dismissal from his service, and the detected
faitor betook himself to France. We do not understand, ., before, how this explanation can satisfactorily account for , . e subsequent collapse of the movement. Don Carlos ran
ls head into a great danger at the outset, but the danger *s discovered and avoi led, and will not account for what »oilowed. Rada, at any rate, fh g a g e - • - Rada, at any rate, cannot be responsible for the .gementat Oroquieta, which took place after his con
ation and dismissal, and this check too, if check it was, is "Scnbed to treachery. We do not mean to deny that there P 1/ have been treachery, but we suspect that imprudence *!ad more to do with it. And we have as yet seen no reason ?r changing our opinion that the real cause of the breakfr0wn of the whole affair is one which has been in operation
0ni lhe beginning, and the effects o f which were perfec y asy to foresee— we mean the complete want of support from Jhe army and from the towns. Without this, had the bands «een ever so prosperous they would have succeeded, not in "stalling Don Carlos at Madrid, but in establishing a chronic viate ° f civil war, and that principally in the northern pro¡ l"ces. Thrones are not restored by guerrilla warfare alone,
of which la Vendee, Calabria, and Spain have fur' ,\Shed sufficient examples before now. Another want— not ^?gether unconnected with the one we have just mentioned
’ s alluded to by a correspondent of the Times the want i * 0ney. Marshal O ’Donnell, it is true, started the « .1 rre<:don in 1841 with only 20,000 francs, and “ « : e O'fadel of Pampeluna without firing a shot,” but t e « "?Urrection of 1843 cost much more, and since then the « j,nce has advanced. The cost of the military revolution “ 0verthrew Queen Isabella must have been very con-
erable,” and no one need be surprised, thinks the lastN|£w Series. V o l . VII. No. 185.
named writer, at the Duke of Madrid’s failure, considering the small pecuniary means at his disposal.
THE FATE OF THE MOVEMENT.
A despatch was said to have been received in Paris by the Due de Rianzares on Saturday, announcing a defeat of Serrano by the insurgents. Tire truth seems to have been rather the other way, if the telegrams from the French side of the border are to be believed, for Marshal Serrano is said to be sweeping the bands before him out of Biscay into Guipúzcoa, and to having himself arrived on Saturday at S. Sebastian, having ordered General Moriones to advance towards the frontier, so as to cut them off from France. General Letona is stated to have gained a victory over a body o f about 3,000 insurgents m the mountains of Manaría, and to have entered Oñate, in Guipúzcoa, the place from which the Carlist official Gazette, in this as in the Carlist and Christino War, took its name. Two of the chiefs of the insurgents in Biscay, Ayastuy and Altube, are said to be killed. RearAdmiral Vinalet, who commanded the band in Murcia, has been taken and brought to Cartagena for trial, while another Carlist General, Pacheco, has been arrested at Bordeaux and sent to the German frontier. It seems tolerably certain that Don Carlos has himself taken refuge in France, for the Infante Don Alfonso lias issued a proclamation as “ generalissimo and a telegram, dated Bayonne the 18th, states that three Spaniards have been arrested at the Chateau de Bassonte and taken to Pau, and that one of them, whose passport bears the name of Pedro Coro, is believed by the Spanish authorities to be the Prince. The letter to which we have already referred speaks of him as having betaken himself to the residence of the Comte de Barrot, and, allowing for telegraphic blunders, there is a certain similarity in the names.
IM M EDIATE
The rising is beginning to produce the results ITS which we feared it would. Not only do we
EFFECTS.
hear of no quarter being given to the priests who accompanied their flocks when they turned out to follow Don Carlos’s banner, but the Council General of Guipúzcoa is reported to have resolved on exacting an indemnity for war damages from the insurgent populations, and, what is worse, on dismissing the parish priests and other clergy who took the field with their people, asking Government to appoint others in their place, and to suppress such convents as may have managed to exist until now.
The manifesto just issued by the Managing the Committee of the Federal Republicans is an inr e p u b l i c a n s . (i¡cat¡on 0f which way the wind blows at present. It repudiates any alliance or understanding with the Carlists, and declares that, unless under the pressure o f “ local circumstances,” they will neither help Don Carlos nor fight under the flag of Don Amadeo. Their programme is