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Wulf %Mat ed4tir No. 5.
SUBIACO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1874.
6eneital Sleanings. MARSHAL
BAZAINE'S ESCAPE SANITE MARGUERITE.
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The eiretimetances of the escape are nn questionably remarkable. Everything appears to have been planned six weeks ago, and with the utmost deliberation. Colonel Villette, the faithful aide-de-camp, and Madame Dazaine, the Marshal's Wife, were seemingly the sole conspirators. Remembering that Marshal Bimine is over sixty years of age, and exceedingly corpulent, it is, without doubt, extraordinary that he should have been able to descend, hand under hand, by means of a knotted rope, from the overhanging terrace immediately below his windon, perpendicularly, one hundred feet to the sea, which was then boiling and chafing tempestuously on the rocks beneath. At half-past five o'clock oa the Monday morning the prisoner was observed by a couple of soldiers on the terrace below his apartments. Directly afterwards, the sentinel who had charge of that terrace having been relieved at daybrsa.k, the Marshal must have accomplishsd a feat not un-
worthy of Blondin at Niagara. The knotted rope afterwards found dangling from the cliff proved to be blood -stained. An open boat, hired for the occasion was lying in wait there for the escaping prisoner, and seems to have lived, in the stormy surf, by little less than a miracle. Madame Bazaine herselfieseswed the boat
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until she and her hushaud were picked up by a passing vessel, an Italian steam yacht the " Baron llicasoli." As in the romantic historical instance of Lavalette, the whole scheme of the escape seems to have been planned and personally carried out by the dauntless wife of the prisoner. In its combination of the terrible and ridiculous, this hair -breadth escape from a precipice, overhanging a boisterous sea, on a rocky coast, would seem so be only capable of adequate illustration in the pages of the Police News, or through the closing sceucs of a transpomine melodrama. DON CARLOS.
An interview between Don Carlos
and the New York Herald's correspondent has, during this last week, been going the round of the newspapers. It is read wilh reluctance by the foes of Legitimacy. Charles VII. of Spain, according to this translantic reporter's account of him, is utterly unlike the impossible monster he has been depicted by his systematic traducers. The welcome accorded by his majesty to the travelling newspaper correspondent may seem strange to some after the incident
of Captain Schmidt's military execution, but then, as to that, Don Carlos's ex-
planation is simply-" Captain Schmidt was arrested under very suspicious circumstances, us tried by a court martial, found sty, and executned as a spy. eve less, I. egret exceedingly that my orders to save his life in common with the others, arrived too late." Addressing himself to the representative of American journalism, by whom he was then being interviewild, the King expressed his pleasure at the advent of
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is so good," he said, " that we do not fear the light of day. The false news spread by our enemies is both audacious and persistent, and they possess the means of giving it publicity through the various telegraphic agencies. We are but too glad to have honest journalists with us, so that they may gather evidence to show the absurdity of the stories floating in regard to Carlist
atrocities.' We have not at our disposal the means of making known the true state of things, while our enemies, by reiteration, would in the end make the world believe that we are really the monsters they desire to represent us." Questioned as to the probability of German intervention, Don Carlos disdained the notion of anything of the kind belt, g attempted as in the highest degree improbable. The Carlist Poli'y has for a long while past Teen so persistently. misrepresented that it is satisfactory to obtain through this interview some notion of the sentiments inspiring Don Carlos himself, in regard to Kingly and Con stitutional Government. What Spain wants, what the King himself wants, he sail, " is a Cortes fully and fairly elected by the people-a Cortes which will reflect the feeling's, interests, wishes, and sentiments of the people, and not constitute a mere body of factious politicans, who are powerless for ;nod, and stroeg only !Or evil. We do not want." said Don Carlos, " men who fiad their way into the legislature for the mere purpoee of furthering private interests, of premn!gatieg dect:iies which over.. throw the basis of snciety, and eti in barricades." The country, he had previously remarked, " has dren poverished by wars, revolutions, and changes of Government, that it would require the term of my whole life to restore her to that degree of prosperity I wish her to enjoy. This ran only be accomplished by a long and fruitful season of tranquility and repose; by cilltivaftig the arts of peace, re-estahlishing and consolidating the finances of the nation and the credit of the :lovernruent and by giving to the country that rest which it has never enjoye since the time of Charles V. I desire to restore to Spain," said the King, "something of her ancient grandeur. This shall he by task, and my only task !" Surely, a noble one ! Going from the particular to the general, the future sovereign, as we hope, of the major part of the Iberian peninsula, with a freedom seldom looked for from crowned heads, exrrassed to his democratic companion his views noon the yet larger suhjects of modern progress and civilization. "I wish Spain," said Don Carlos. " to march onward in the paths of progress and enlightenment, and not to remain behind her sister nations in science and education, because without these she would be outstripped in the race for wealth and prosperity. But," he added, "there is something radically wrong in model d currents of thought and modern systems o; education. The world is rushing into gross materalism and unbelief-a materiAlisin which, if not checked, will end in the extinction of the htunan race. The fault of nil this," said the Spanish King to the American Republican, " is in the modern methods of investigation. The so-called SU CUPS of to -day, who will be called fools by the savans of twoity years hence "-admirably well said, 3 oar Majesty-" wish us to discard the truth which has borne the test of ages, and to accept their whimsical theories instead. Spain shall never do this, if I can help it. Religion and education should go hand in hand, and assist each other, for science without religion is blind. I have not yet had time to elaborate a system of education for the Spanish people, because my attention up to this moment 1
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pressing matters ; bat," added the King, with a smile, "when I have compered my throne, and restored peace and order, it will be time to consider education." In the midst of all this-while the report
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of this interview is yet freshly within the public recollection, comes the astonding intimation that one after anotfier the 4eading po4etu of Europe, at the instigation, uo doubt, of Germany, bate come to the precipitate.dotermina-
Archbishop of Paris was originally confined, and then Cell No. 23, to which he was transferred, in order that, he might not remain in proximity to President Bonjean. 'We next decended the stairs which the hostages went down
tion of recognizing Marshal Serrano's Government !
and walked to the extremity of the wall
of the second enceinte, where it was at first intended to execute the hostages.
THE BOY MORTARA. The Boy Mortara, several years ego famous throughout Europe is now Father Pius Mortara, an Augustine maul in the Monastery of Notre Dame de Beauchene, and on the 16 ult. he preached a sermon at Niort, in the Department of the Two Sevres, on the occasion of the festival of Notre Dame de Mont Carmel.
A then DAY'S WORK. A German ecclesiastic, who has making
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short tour in this country, and who on Sunday last followed in the train of his Grace the Archbishop of Westminster from the early Mass in the Italian Church to the sermon at Eden grove, was profoundly astonished at his Grace's unfiaggiag energy, and at the indomitable spirit by which be was enable to perfOrm such an extraordtn dry amount of work. Oar readers, who are not strangers to the beloved Archbishop, and to whom his unwearied devotion is well known, will learn with pleasure that a distinguished foreign ecclesiastic was constrained to pass a highs eulogium on his lirace's wonderful exertions of Sunday last. In the morning his Grace celebrated the 9 a.m. Mass at the Italian Church, and presided at a breakfast which be gave to a temperance league. Ahont mid-day he opened new schools at Ilamps(ead, and no sooner finished this work than he started for Tower -hill, where he addressed a temperance meeting numbering upwards of 20,000 persons. Attire conclusion of the Tower -hill meeting. he drove to the Church of the Sacred Heart, Holloway, where he sang Pontifical Vespers and preached to a crowded congregation for nearly an hour. His labours ter the day were not yet completed, for no sooner was service over than his Grace addressed another temperance meeting hell in the school -room of Eden -grove. Our readers will perceive that his Grace was not idle last Sunday a
SCENE OF THE
MARTYRDOM OF
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COMMUNE HOSTAGES.
The Scene of the Martyrdom of the Hostages murdered by the Commune is thus vividly described by the Paris Correspondent of the Times :-Some foreigners called upon me to -day, Flimsy, the II nit, who were passing through Paris and begged me to procure them admission to the prison of La Roquette, as also to accompy them, which accordingly did. It was in this prison that the six unfortunate victims known to history as the hostages of the Commune were shot nn the 23rd of May, while the Versailles troop were already in Paris. On our arriving at the gates the foreign ladies who were among the party at first, with a kind of superstitious dread, avoided walking on the five flagstones leading up to the entrance of the prison, on which the guillotine is erected on the day of an execution. We afterwards went into the interior of the prison, the ladies, on seeing that the niassive gate closed behind them, experiencing a kind of terror. After I had presented the order with which Lavas provided, a chief warder was directed to act as our guide. We first went within the second enceinte, where the warder showed us Cell No. 8, in which the
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The warder explained to us that the Communist National Guards, perceiving the sick prisoners on the first story might witness the execution, suddenly altered their minds, and made the victims turn their backs and proceed to the space between the first and second enceinte wall. He made us follow the painful route taken by the hostages, and quitting the second enceinte we went between the two avails separating the first and second enceintes, and arrived at the spot where a white marble slab records the fact that Monseigneur Darboy, President l3onjean, the Abbe Deguerret, M. le Coudray, Allard, and a sixth, whose name escapes me, perished there. The warder then showed us the spot where the member of the Commune stood who presided at the execution, and who is supposed to have been Ferree. He explaned to us, in short, the details of a drama disgraceful to humanity. looked at the two walls, straight and high, bat without any ruggedness, intended to discourage the boldest at tempts at escape. " Ic must be daftenit," I said, "to escape from here." Thank God," he replied, " it is impossible." Why impossible ?" I asked." " Has nobody ever escaped ?" " No," he rejoined, " there is no instance reported even of an attempt."
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THE ARCHBISHOP
OF WESTMINISTER ON CHURCH -GOING LONDON.
His Grace the Archbishop, in replying to a deputation who waited upon him this day week, to ask for his assitance to the Hospital Saturday movement, said it had been asserted at the Mansion House-and lie was sorry to hear that unfortunately the working classes of London did not attend places of worship on Sunday. He had been twenty-five years in London, and he knew as a fact this statement was true; but when he came to examine the causes of it, he could not speak of it with blame to those who did not go to church, because many of the population were shut out from their places of worship, as they were not sufficiently large 'to receive them. In 1838 a Royal commission examined the capacity of all the places of worship in London. The return made was that there was church -room for 800,000. Since then accommodation bad been added for another halfmillion, so that there was church -room for about one-half the population of London. He knew with sorrow that the great masses of working men did not go to church, and he was not surprised at it. In the greater number of places of worship pews and places were sot apart, and the poor had the greatest difficulty in finding a Pm where they could distinctly hear that which was taught from the pulpit. The fact was that provision had not been made in churches for those who were placed in honourable poverty. As had been said by one of the deputation, the Hospital Saturday movement was not a political one, and in one sense it was not a religious movement because the hospitals were opened to everybody. was a movement of the law of Christian humanity, heeds he should give to it all the support in his power.
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