The Express. — London, England, 1852-06-25 00:00:00

.•~ -r;' IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. --- HOUSE OF LORI/S.—THURSDAY, JUNE 24. Their lordships net at ) o'clock. Petitions were presented against the grant to Maynooth by the Earl of RODEN, from Londonderry, Waterford, Dublin, and other places; and by the Earl of OLENUALL, from shrewshury, and other plates. A petition was also presented by Lord BEAUMONT, trout the Aborigines Protection Society, against the New Zealand Bill, the petitioners alleging that it infringed on the rights art the natives. CHICORY AND COFFEE. Viscount TORRINGTON said be wished to give notice to the noble earl at the head of her Majesty's government that he would to-morrow put a question to him with regard to the rescinding o: the 'fremury minute relating to the use of chicory. The Earl of DERBY said he would at once answer the question of which the noble viscount had given notice. It woo the intention of the government to rescind the minute, The street of simply rescinding it, however, would be to retire the former prohibition, and absolutely to preclude dealers in cube from baying chicory, or any other article design, of to be liaised with cetfee, on their premises. There fore, what the government intended to do was, at the same time that they rescinded the minute of 1840, to give inetrue. bons not to interfere in any ease, or to press for penalties on account of the mere fact of parties having chieory or other snick son their premises, provided there was a printed label tin every packet cootaining chicory, stating that it mu chicory. The clreet of this would he to protect the revenue, the public, the fair trailer, and the chicory grower. Ac, however, there were many dealers who had a certain amount of mixed coffee on stuck, a short time woo.' le allowed for them to dispose of it, and na penalty would he intlieted upon them for selling it. la reply to a question Iron Lord REl.Esliv,Le, The Earl of DERBY sent mangel , Yrurzel or any other article might be sold by coffee dealers, provided it were sold under its own designation. BENNETT'S DIVORCE BILL. The Earl of MOUNTI'ASIIELL moved the second read ing of this bill. and in siting so contended that there was no proof of collusion between the parties. The LORD CIIANt'ELLOIt, in opposing the second leading. complained that the noble earl, who had heard none of the evidence, introduced tomes outside the evidence which lie had 'Mend, got from Mr. Bennett. It was nut for him to hod fault with the noble earl, but eor the sale of the regularity of theme lordships * proceeding*, he must pro tint ',sabot th., cow.. taken by the noble earl. The noble and learned lord then recapitulated the facts of the case, and owl that the only conclusion to be drawn from these farts wee, that Mr. Bennett bad des. rust his wife, and that say man mast have wen that what had taken place must take place. He thereforre moved that the bill be read a seemed time this day three months, Lord IlltoVei HAM wail that he had the fullest COI3II - as the judgment of his noble and learned friend. who *lune haJ heard the facts of the case ; Lot he meat remark is the pnroutatous position in which their lordships were, in being eaaial on to decide in these cases. without haring beard one word of the evidence. (Ilea+, hear.) The motion for the Peomil reading was then put and negatived, and the amendment was carried. TANDING ORDERS. Lord CL t'SBICARDE owed Met tbs Mending order No. Pai. requiting the assent of four-fifths of the pro rietors of a railway in case of a proposal fog amalgiunation, should he re tiered to • select committee for consideration. A discussion took place on the subject. It we. urged by the Marquis of ('laaricardc, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lonl Lyn.lhust, and others, that the order gave • minority power to defeat projects of great public advantage, as in the recent caw of the proposed amalgamation between the Shrewsbury and Birmingham and Shrewsbury and Chester Companies, by which the Great Western chain of commu nication way weight to be completed. The Earl of DERBY hoped their loirdehips would not follow the advice of his noble and learned friend. The noble marquis's notice was for • committee of inquiry, and if it were wrong to pass the standing order in such haste at the close of the *mien of IMO. equally wr ng would it be to rewind it will out notice. The discussion had turned too much on the merits of a particular cue—(hear, hear) —a most unsafe mode of proceeding. Ile was by no means utidicel that the most effectual remedy for the evil would be to return to three-fifths, or to require that any particu lar proportion of shareholders, should have given their ap proval. To • great and powerful company which de sired to prevent competition, 110,0001. would be almost as immaterial as ,0,0001. (Hear, hear.) The most effectual check perhaps would be to require that the shares should have been held for a terrain period by the persons who gave their votes. That would completely guard against a company's obtaining shares OD any particular occasion in order to indu-nce the decision of the committee. Ile thought the question might very properly be referred to • committee. After some conversation, the matter was referred to a mint committee. The following bills were read a recood time : Consoli dand Fund Appropriation, Militia Ballot Suspension, and Militia Pay Bills. The Navy Pay Bill and the Sunk Island goads Bill were read • third time. The Pharmacy Bill passed through committee. The Suitors in Chancery Relief Bill also passed through committee on.l tlis house reenact The report of the Commons' Enclosure Acts Eatension Bill was brought up. The Appointment of Overseen Bill was read a third time and passed. BiElikirritAßT CASUAL REVENrES (IN THE COLONIES) BILL. On the motion that this bill be read a third time, The Duke of NEWCASTLE inquired whether it w. intended to apply to mines and the prvious metals in Au stralia. Ile did not see any words which were applicable to that subject ; but the bill appeared to refer to the pro ceed. of the mile of wage lands, which had hitherto been appropriated to the revenue of the mother country. He wished to have an explanation as to whether the bill referred to Lod alone, or to the mines which bad been lately dis covered, and which it was understood that the government had given up to the colony. If the bill intended to do that, he quilt approved of it. The Earl of DERBY said the bill had been passed in con sequent* of doubt. having arisen with regard to the legality of the custom of appropriation, by the crown, of the funds arising from the sale of waste lands, inasmuch as they formed part of the hereditary revenues which had been given to parliament, in consideration of the voting of the Civil List. It was intended by this bill to give to the colony the proceeds of the sale of lands and of the mines also, instead of their being appropriated either by the crown or parliament. After some further conversation between the Duke of Newt ASTLF and the Earl of Danny, which was not dis tinctly audible, the bill was read • third time, and passed. The Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill was read • second time ; the Poor Law Board Continuance Bill was read a second time; the Inland Revenue Office Bill, and the Savings Banks' (Ireland) Bill were read • second time. METROPOLIS WATER SUPPLY. The Earl of LONSDALE moved the second reading of this bill. After explaining its provisions, he expressed • hope that after so many years of contest and difficulty some settlement of the question was now arrived at. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY did not oppose the bill, but hoped that it would not he an obstacle to any measure which might hereafter be brought forward, and which would Ise founded on different principles and provide other sources for • water *ripply. Ile expressed his regret that the hill had net been more maturely considered. The Earl of DERBY said that some bills must at the end of • session he pawed hastily, or be rejected. He agreed that it might have been better if they had had • fuller opportunity of examining the bill and considering the different opposing schemes with regard to water supply ; but this was the first session in which they had been ekes to pass • measure of this kind with the consent of an the contending parties.:lf the measure was rejected, anotherper must elapse before another bill could be passed, and the habitant. of London would be deprived of • pure or morel extensive sod a more regular supply, which was provided by this bill ; and if it did not provide for the obtaining • supply from all the sources which the noble earl had 'pokes of, at least it did provide for a better supply than now Lord CAMPBELL took this opportunity of expressing • hops that the noble earl at the head of the goveramerit would in another session take mesas to ensure the originating of more legislative eseawires in their lordships' house. The East of DERBY said the noble and learned lord wee one of the most vigorous opponents of • plan intro duced by him foe continuing the business of one session to another, which would in some degree have remedied the evil complained of. Ile would, however, 'ay that in no session hail so many bills originated in their lordshipa' homer, including the important memoirs for Chancery and Nigel reform. - The bill was then read • second time. The Themes Embankment Bill was read • *wind tints. INCUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND). The Earl of DONOUOHMORE presented a polities from Dr. de Rysbere, complaining of the manner in which his estate was sold in the Irish ['numbered Evates Court. and moved Cr " • return of the petition, affidavits, rental, orders, and particulars of sale, and all other documents re eroded in the Irish Ineunshered Estates Courts relating le the sale of the estate of Dr. de ityshere," which was se doled. Their lordships then adjourned at • quarter past alas o'clock. 'TIE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 25 1852 for it was not received. But nAiIiMMO, a soli citor, produced.' an official copy of the judgment of that court (the Inquisition) on Dr. Aemui." This "judgment," when examined, turns out to be merely the declaration of a notary that he had examined the "acts" in the case of Acitiut, and that it appears from them that he had confessed himself guilty of incontinence with various women; and that for thou offences and " others recorded in the acts," he had submitted himself to the censure and punishment of the court, and had been suspended from the exercise of all priestly functions. The so-called judg ment" is, in fact, at best a garbled extract from the writings in the case of Acimit preserved in the archives of the Inquisition. When it is remembered that in the proceedings of that court the prisoner is not confronted with the witnesses against him,—is examined in private,—is tortured with interrogations and his answers recorded by the In quisitors iu their own words,—evenafull and certified copy of the whole written proceedings and the judg ment pronounced would be very equivocal testimony; hut extracts of isolated sentences, apart from the con text, that might have thrown a different light on them, interspersed with the remarks of the ex tractor, are utterly worthless. They may be per verted by the mistakes of the excerptor, even on the assumption that he made them in perfect good faith. As for the females who swore to Actitufs mis conduct with them, Mine. V.tLLENTI, for a woman in her rank of life, showed a most suspicious familia rity with the etiquette of the confessional. To one confessor she merely said she had 'hired with an ecclesiastic, without mentioning his name, because that is not customary ; to another she named Acittut lest he should suspect other and in nocent persons. The instruction of a more in structed, wary, and experienced mind is hero pal pable. The other female, and her mother swore that the father and mother had accosted ACMILLI while making one of a procession, which they would not have been allowed to do. The daughter, by way of making her story more pathetic, said her father had died of grief on account of her seduction — but of this the mother knew nothing ! These wit nesses, one of whom was exhorted to give her evi dence " for the honour of the church," " for the honour of (ion," have been living for weeks together, talking over the evidence they were to give. list this is as nothing compared with the utter failure of the charge respecting a tailor's wife at Corfu. The tailor himself was brought to this country, but made a precipitate retreat, and refused to return, when he knew that the Inspector General of Police in the lonian Islands was here. In lieu of him was produced ODD witness, who swore that ho had seen from a distance a person of ACIII LI.I'S stature leave the woman's door at night, and another of bad cha racter who swore that he had seen the husband seize Arnmu, though he confessed he had never seen ACMILLI before or since, and consequently could not know him. It is strong corroboration of 1 ACIIIILLI'S truthfulness that he frankly admitted the incident, the proof of which had so signally failed, and produced the woman to allow of her being cross seepned. Of Mr. Itevtiouis, who spoke to an offence at Zante, it is enough to say that he is hostile to Dr. Aetimu, who rebuked him for in temperance,—that he admits he has varied in the rea sons he has at different times assigned for suspecting Ai:mut—that in the witness-box he betrayed his state of mind by assuming what he was afterwards obliged to admit he did not know—and that there arc contradictions between his own evidence and that of his servant. As to the witnesses brought forward to prove criminality in England, their characters, as described by themselves, would be enough to deprive them of credit. And all of them admitted that they had been silent in circumstances when it is scarcely credible they could have abstained from making the charges now preferred—and all of them speak under the in fluence of anger. These and all other points of the case were doubt less fully considered by the jury, who, —after the three days' investigation had cloeed , —deliberated amongst themselves for between two and three hours before giving their verdict in favour of Dr. ACHILL!. And what does that verdict do? It shows to the fullest extent that Father NEWM tX (lid indeed slide from the altitude of Christian faith to the depths of unworthy slander. It shows that his zeal for his new faith tempted him to leave logic, and argument, and learn ing—the proper weapons for his use—to take up a series of unworthy and slanderous allegations ready at hand in the pages of a Romish review, in which they had been placed by an anonymous but scarcely unknown writer. But the verdict does more. It confirms the dark suspicions that began to accumulate when the Italian women came one after another into the witness-box to swear away the reputation of Aeniut. Indeed, imagination is positively fatigued in the attempt to follow out those ramifications of criminality suggested by the idea that the whole case against Actilut must be one vast conspiracy,—defeated in an English court of justice, but having its orga nization over half Italy. Wholesale perjury has, it is clear, been committed. What share had the original author of the shiniers in the concoction of this case for their defence ; what share had Father NEWMAN in the procuring of these witn whine l has been upset ; what share had the priestly organisation in Italy in the building up of the Mee thrown into the dust by the realm of last night? All these are questions thousands will now ask, and there is little doubt but the general answer will be one little favourable to any of the reputations involved. Meanwhile we may fairly pride ourselves upon the full investigation that the case has met in our open court—so unlike the secret tribunal of the Inquisition before which Dr. AeuILLI , I had formerly to stand. the MlNlterens are to cat their white-bait dinner next week. They will then explain away, apologise for and bury in oblivion all the little miffs in which during the session they have indulged to the surprise of • House of Commons accustomed to see members of one cabinet all smiles and affection to each other in public, however they might_quarrel in their pri. vate o ffi cial re/aeon/res. Lord islsAs will apologise to Sir JOHN PAKINGTON for having presented the Au stralian petition without giving him previous notice; Mr. DISRAELI to Lord NAAS for having imputed dis respectful language to the crown to a petition pre sented by the noble lord; Mr. WsLeote will apolo- gise to his colleagues generally for having horrified them by this impromptu proposal to introduce a militia electoral qualification; and Lord DERBY to Mr. WsLeoLe for having, in ignorance of his literal apprehension, led him by an indifferent joke to perpetuate a grave fol ly . Lord Sr. LEONARD'S will apologise to Mr. WALPOLK for his attempt to burko the Copyholds Enfranchisement Bill, to which the !town SECREIARY had pledged the support of government. And harmony having been thus restored, the jolly boon com panions will indulge in a flow of jokes and merri ment at the expense of the party which puts its faith in a ministry of which one member professes himself a stanch advocate of the protection which another declares incompatible with the spirit of the age—ono rests his claims to electoral support upon his pledge to withdraw the Maynooth Grant, while another in dignantly denounces the Ecclesiastical Titles Act— and a third gives up to the Australian colonists the management of their waste lands, while the bare request on their part to have this done is denounced by another as an insult to the prerogative. In the meantime sedulous efforts are being made to diffuse the concord and amity which is expected to prevail on this joyous occasion throughout the whole party. A solemn manifesto was yesterday promulgated—by a journal which, whether autism used or not, assumes the character of an official organ—calling upon " the friends of the Bridle monarchy, and our Mher sacred institutions," to be active and united at the coming elections. It ad jures them to postpone all such insignificant dis cussions as " our financial and commercial policy" until the great question is decided—" Is the consti tution of the country to be preserved?" And declares that it can only . be preserved by " the continuance of the present ministry in office:' An honourable and noble member of the House of Commons was a good deal laughed at, about the beginning of the session, when he gravely declared that a protec tionist meant a supporter of Lord Maur; but Lord DERBY and his colleagues aro now declared synony mous with " the British monarchy and our other sacred institutions." The propounders of this new political faith do not do their work by halves. After affirming that 0 there must be a merging of all minor differences in the one great object of now impressing our national policy with Conservative tendencies," it broadly de clares that " no particular opinions should bo pressed forward in a manner to endanger the triumph of this object." The assertion of any prin ciple, of every principle, must be postponed and silenced if likely to prove inconvenient to the Conser vative cause, incarnate in Lord Deituir and his eel.] leagues, the " dread Brame" of this new eonstitn- 1 tional avatar. A political system or creed to which all opinions are alike indifferent, is a startling novelty. The Conservative Whigs especially are implored to rally round Lord Deitity, in order to " secure the stability of our national institutions." The party thus appealed to may not unnaturally feel disposed to ask what these institutions are. They have no clue afforded them either by assaults made by any party on any national institutions, or by efforts on the part of ministers to defend any. No party pro poses to subvert or encroach on the authority of the Crown; no party calls for the abolition of the Church establishment ; no party culls for the ex tinction of Parliament; not aword is even whispered about a change in the constitution of the House of Lords; the judicial establishments are respected by all. True we do hear wishes expressed on all sides for the removal of abuses which have crept into some of these institutions; but if to call for reform war rant a suspicion of a wish to destroy, ministers are equally liable to such suspicion as ary other party. The heir apparent of the earldom of Deenv declares that a great legacy of reforms to be effected has been left by the late government to that of which he forms a part, and one and all of his colleagues profess themselves devoted to the cause of safe, rational, conservative " progress." Ministers, in fact, like every other party in the State, profess to hoof opinion that some of our insti tutions deserve to be upheld in their actual condi tion, while others admit of being greatly improved. It cannot, however, bo said of ministers that they have ' evinced much good taste or judgment in their choice either of institutions to be defended or of institu tions to be assailed. Wo have seen Lord Deativ zealously exerting himself to curtail and neutralise the bill sent up from the Commons to facilitate the eradication of corrupt influence from the consti- ' tucncics ; and wo have heard admissions from his colleagues that they intend to sap and undermine that most valuable institution—the system of National Education in Ireland. Ministers are as in veterate innovators as any of their opponents, but with this not very honourable peculiarity, that their innovations have a deteriorating tendency. One thing the coming elections will show, the numerical force in the electoral community of those who are the mere slaves of words. There was a time when " Conservative" had a distinct and tan gible meaning. It meant opposition to Catholic Emancipation ; it meant opposition to the removal of the disabilities under which Dissenters laboured; it meant opposition to Parliamentary Reform; it meant opposition to the extinction of sinecures and other profligate modes of public expenditure; it meant oppo sition to a liberal commercial policy ; it meant opposition to the education of the people. One after another all of these grounds have been abandoned by those who call themselves the leaders of the Conser vative party. They now profess not merely to acquiesce in all the innovations which they have so strenuously resisted, hut to be anxious to extend them. The y have abandoned all their old principles; they differ from reformers only in the vague and un satisfactory phraseology in which they express those which they would have men believe they have taken up in lieu of them. Their Conservatism is bat a name. If the Conservative party in time country MI abides by its old principles, it must look out for new champions, for ministers and their parliamentary' agents and allies have nothing in common with them. The object for which these men—for which any men—persist in calling themselves by a distinctive epithet which has ,ceased to have ' any meaning— cannot be mistaken. It is to persuade all whom they can induce to adopt or retain it to consider themselves as a body having interests apart from, or irreconcilable with, those of the general public; and thus to prevent their followers from frank reciprocal discussion and counsel with their fellow citizens, in order to agree upon and aim at the attainment of common objects. So long as the party who call themselves Conservative consent to be thus ticketed and kept apart from their fellow citizens, they de prive themselves of the advantages to be gained from acting in concert with than; and they sacrifice those advantages to enable them at the very utmost to keep in office a act of men who affect to entertain opinions which they admit cannot be acted upon. I tterly meaningless as the word Conserva tive has become—in so far as the electoral body is concerned—it has a very tangible and distinct meaning for the parliamentary adventurers who assume it—it means places and pensions for them and their friends, places and pensions obtained by systematic mystification and deception. In a free state there always will bo parties enter taining different views of national policy, banding and organising themselves to bring men into power and keep them there who they believe will act upon their respective views. It would be absurd to ex pect that the great hereditary party, which calls itself Conservative now as it once called itself Tory,. should disband and incorporate itself into the ranks of the Whigs or Reformers. But in the name et common sense, let it at least look upon society as it really exists, and propose to itself ends that ars really attainable. 'this it can never do so long as it allows itself to waste its energies in empty clamours for measures or a policy which are impossible as society is now constituted, or to lend itself as a blind agency to promote the personal ambition of political chameleons, who gull it by promises which they know they cannot perform. If the Conservatives aro Protectionists, let them bring forward and support Protectionist candidates; if they would maintain the claims of high-Church men for clerical ascendancy, let them bring forward and support candidates who really intend to do so. But they will only stultify themselves, waste their time and labour, make themselves a laughing stook and by-word, by struggling to keep in power a cabinet, ono member of which coquets with Exeter Hall, while another fawns upon Cardinal Wier- 1 MAN ono expatiates on the beauties of Free Trade, while another mourns over the gone glories of the Corn Law, the Sugar Duties ' and the Navigation Act--one professes to be a law reformer, while another does his best to impede law reform ; and of whom all conspire to degrade the national honour by allowing British subjects to bo wantonly injured without redress in foreign countries, to entangle this country once more in the meshes of holy alliance diplomacy, to subvert f the protestant principle of religious toleration, to per petuate the undue and illegal interference of peers in elections to the HOMO o Commons, and to carry their elections by lavish distribution of subordinate appointments, and by exempting Irish andlords from the repayment of the loans advanced out of the Exchequer during the famine in Ireland. ANOTHER ARCTIC EXPLORATION.—WC RTC glad to announce the speedy departure of the screw schooner, Isabel, under Commander Inglefleld, R.N. F.R.0.5,, in search of Sir John Franklin. This vessel , out by Lady Franklin, assisted by the Roy.' (leographical Society (of which Sir John was a Vice hesident), has been pre sented to Commander Ingletield, who purposes sailing in the first week of July, with the intention, if the season permit, of first visiting Jones end Smith's Sound, and then of prosecuting the great object of the voyage, namely, the examination of the western coast of Balfin's Bay and La brador. This expedition, combined with the exertions of such men es Belcher, Kellett, and Pullen, in the direction of Wellington Channel, and of Cullinson, M`Lure, and M.Quire, through Sebring Strait, supported by the newly determined expedition of the Hudson's Bay Company, under that indefatigable Arctic explorer, Dr. Rae, will go for to lay bare every portion of these frown regions of the north, as yet unexplored. Why not render success still more probable by adopting the project entertained by Mr. Petermann and other geographers, of passive direct to the north, through the deep, broad, and possibly open waters between Spitsbergen and Korai& &mile ? LECTURES ON GOLD AT THE 00VERNMENT SCHOOL Or MIN Ex.—The council of the Society of Arts have ap pointed a deputati ut to wait upon the directors of the Go• vernrnent School of Mines, to request that the eminent pro fessors of that school should immediately arrange a series of lectures on gold for the instruction of emigrants to Australia, and it is understood they will endeavour to obtain the deli very of these lecture, in the ensuing week. VAUXHALL—The gardens last night were bril liantly attended. Amongst the distmguishsd guests was his Highness Said Pacha, from Egypt, attended by Capt. Claremont, Mr. Galloway, and a numerous suite. Itis Highness remained until the termination of the lire-works, awl expressed great pleasure at the novel scene presented. payment o' compensation out of the consolidated fund to the owners of burial grounds dosed under the !Metropolitan Burials Art, was negatived . them being no teller foe the ayes no a division beim/ called. ENFRANCHISEMENT OF COPYIIOLDS BILL. The Lords' amendments to this bill were consideied and Tto. ILE AMEERS OF SCINDE.—ADJOURNED DEBATE. The debate ou this subject, adjourned from the previous day, was ri sinned by Mr. BAILLIE, who stated that the deposed Anieer's family had hec treut,el with every consideration, and with regard to the net of deposition, complained of the praetiee of reopening questions of state policy long sines settled. Mr. BERRIES offered, on the part of the Board of Con trol, to give the principal papers asked for by Lord Joe lye, and suggested that the others should not be pressed for. Mr. ACME remarked that the facts of the case showed the government had heen matte the dupe of an artful man, Ali Mount, to perpetrate an net of the grossest injustice. The motion, us amended at the suggestion of Mr. Henke, was agreed to. FOREIGN POSTAOE. Mr. J. BELL ;invited of her Majesty's government what progress had been made in the negotiations ter the reduction of the postage of letters between Franey and England ; also whether it is in contemplation to edict • gencrai reduction of loniga postage. Mr. HAMILTON said that negotiations were still pend ing, and the subje:t should not be lust sight of. The house adjourned at a quarter to 2 o'clock to 2 o'clock thisAsy. (ti-ite 41.474)re;;;;5. TO el/ARP:SPUN PRNTS. A -ervAA PAllti•tu " The Espnes" coatatatna the gam, mtio Gaulle," pubii , thed every Tikemlay k giday Night, is diu.e Oar pugt. !vat ;resew.lntended for The Paprt, , g," Loodaa VArlitni ; alter, altwt rt_t.e. tio.vvrtcoggawt, by Two o'clock on 04 4a7 of Ipabatation. MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tau Da, —Manila'. 7h. 31Its Aftrresne. d. I..soaum—Mandag. 41.1 a.. --Mono" 911. I. LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 25. Tits Actitt.tt case is over. The huge scandal that has crowded the newspapers, and has been the topic of so many discussions, is—so far as the Queen a Bench and its reports arc concerned—con cluded. Never since this journal was established have the details of such a trial found record in its columns, and—acting upon the rule laid down for the exclusion of such details as those of the Nxwwsw libel—never would such a case have been reported by us, had it not presented an aspect very different from those which characterize trials revealing mere gross but ordinary criminality. In the present case, however, no rule of exclusion could be permitted to op rate—since it was impossible to separate the charges against Dr. Actitm.t from the animus of those who promoted them. The case has been, in truth, a priestly quarrel, )ought out in a legal court, with de bauchery fur the charge, and oath against oath in the investigation. It has not been the mere case of a cri minal upon trial. The women who came forward, at the instance of Dr.Nr.w MSS, as witnesses todeclare that the ex-Dominican priest had polluted them, were not in court to ask justice against the alleged dcbauchee. It was not an investigation of the damage done to the Ccphalouian by criminal conversation with his wife ; nor was it an inquiry into the fitness or unfitness of Dr. Actiatt as a member of the church under the shadow of which he is accused of com mitting so many bins. The case had a wider scope altogether, and involved a variety of interests that rendered it imperative upon every journalist to give each fact brought forward in evi dence, and every argument, both for and against the accused. In short the case was one between two rival churches—the church of St. Pxrsa and the church that had its foundation at the Reformation. It was a strife between the 'priesthood of Rome and the Evangelical Alliance —between a seceder from Popery and the most active agents of the POPE. The Papist slandered the Protestant, and this disgusting trial has been the result. As the trial has proceeded, the interest in the public mind has grown from day to day, until it has spread—with the reports of the investigation—to every corner of the land. When the case was first mpened, the statements of the witnesses were so decided, so circumstantial, and so numerous, that the fitting certainly ran strongly against itenti.ti-- any second thought upon the subject being ono of astonishment at the amount of systematic perjury committed, if the various allegations against him were untrue. When the case of Aeutua was opened, upon the cross-examination of the several witnesses, and subsequently by the examination of the ex-Dominican himself, that astonishment was not diminished, how ever much the balance of belief might have inclined in his favour. Indeed, long before the several advo cates had fulfilled their duty, it was perfectly clear that, on one side or the other, there was an amount of perjury positively terrible to contem plate. And when the balance of evidence turned against the Itomaniats, an additional and oversha dowing horror arose at the idea of what ramifications the perjury seemed to pass through—of what men in high places in the Church of Rome might be implicated in the crime—and with what de liberate pertinacity the whole web of untruth had been woven, until it seemed strong enough to entangle and defile, if not destroy, any reputation, however pure, against which it might be turned. Many points of the trial and of the evidence pro- voke especial criticism. Sir A. COCKBURN warned the jury to be on their hard against the unconscious bias of any Protestant prejudices. This was an allowable enough oratorical flourish,—e hint that Dr. NEWMAN and his witnesses might not meet with absolute fair play at the hands of professors of an alien creed. But, on the other hand, it might be urged that the Italian witnesses really were liable to suspicion on account of the manner in which they had been ferretted out and brought together. Dr. NEvritsw sent over emissaries to Italy, who applied to dignitaries of the Romish church and inquisitors to aid them in collecting wit nesses to defend their champion, Dr. NEWMAN, end disable their antagonist, Dr. ACHILLI,—by blaok suing his character. This aid was willingly lent. Many Italians were naturally disposed to help their priests against one whom they deemed an apostate. In addition, to refuse to bear evidence against Aentxtt might at this moment expose any Italian to a charge of favouring him. Lastly, it was naturally enough stated by ELEANOR GIURTINI or VALLENTI that when first interrogated by her curate as tw whether she couldtell anything against Dr. AMUR, do inquired whether it would be " for her owl wed ?" and was assured it was " for the honour a file holy church," " for the honour of God." Unbolt influence it is clear could be brought to bear on the Italian witnesses; undue influence, if VALLENTI can be believed, was brought to bear on at least one of them. These proceedings cannot exactly be called un precedented in an English court of justice. The charges brought against Dr. ACHILLI, and the means resorted to for obtaining witnesses in support of them, remind one of the trial of Queen CAROLINE, and the green-bag commission of Milan. The charges were spread over twenty-six years of Dr. Actium's life; he was called upon to rebut charges of incontinence with persons not named, in places and at times not specified. It was a terrible ordeal to undergo which no man unsupported by conscious innocence, and even in that case no man not possessed of more than average courage, could have braved. The parallel with the case to which we have compared Dr. ACHILLI'S is the stronger from the entire breaking down of the evidence so unscrupulously brought Itogether. We have no space to examine the whole of that evl- HOUSE OF COMMON 3.—TIIVRSDAT, JvNz 24. device in detail; but, taking it in groups or chimes, its The &uits It took the chair at 12 o'clock. 1 weakness, its irrelevance, can easily be indicated. There PRIVATE BUSINESS. 1 I was a Catholic priest adduced to prove the general The Lords' amendments to the Eastern Union Railway, the Oreat Western Railway (No. 2), the North Western . , bad character of ACIIILLI , and some docu m e ntar y Railway, the Wedmore Road, and the Wycombe Railway i evidence was offered in support of his testimony ; 1 Bills were cossidend and agreed to. i there were witnesses brought forward to _prove 1 PUBLIC BUSINESS. 'specific offences in Italy , Malta , an d the leaks 1 METROPOLITAN BURIALS BILL. 1 Islands; there were witnesses produced to prove On the motion of Lord J. Maartrao, this bill was re- I .enefli in England. committed for the purpose of introducing eertain new ou chum.. With regard to the first, the priest stated that at The Valuation (Irclaoll) Bill, the Woods sad Forests the time to which ho referred he was a boy of from Land Reven uesßill ' the teeieP Summary Proceedingßill, , ten to thirteen years of age. Among all the priests the S. condary of Bankrupts Office Abolition Bill, the an d mon k s o f Viterbo, was there none who wan then li..horne of Quebec Bill, the Colloidal Bishops Bill, the Buittoprie of Cheiatehareh (New Zealand) Bill were lien- of mature years to speak from actual observation raPy rend a third time and passed. to what the younker spoke of from hearsay ? He The General Board of Health Bill was considered as declared that Mimi.' had a had character amended, and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. ,: at Viterbo, but admitted that he did not know why. METItOrOLITAN BURIALS (COMPENSATION I &c.) BILL. of the es memorandum of a policeman offered A motion for a ecsamitire of the whole house to authorise as a substitute for records alleged to have been de fines (to be proposed by Sir W. bletssessila) tee the stroyed in the revolution, it is unnecessary to speak, FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. In the Corps Legislatif to-day the debate on the budget was resumed. The chapters relative to the service of the national guard proposed the allowance of sums amounting, in the whole, to 135,000 fr. The committee had proposed a reduction of 711,000 fr., namely, 40,0iNlfr., being the pay of the general coin , mending in chief; and 20,000 fr., the pay of the prin cipal staff officer. These amendments were rejected by the Council of State. de K EIIVEGI'VN moved the suppression of the entire credit. Ile said that the national guard was the phalanx of disorder. It was the army of the revolution. It was the na tional guard that hail mode 1703, 11430, and 1818. Ile was astonished that, on the dud of Ikeember, the government had not got rid of it altogether. It would have been to render a great service to the cause of order, for what were called intelligent bayonets had brought France to the brink of destruction. U. uv. NIORNY said that if the head of the state had not abolished the institution of the national guard, it was because he thought a well organized national guard would be useful in the maintenance of order. M. LATOUR, while supporting the motion of M. de Ker veguen, took occasion to pay a cotnpliment to M. de Morny, whose prudent administration had, lie said, preserved autho rity, and at the same time respected the liberties of the country. The chapters were then voted without a division. Upon the chapter relative to public buildings the commit tee had proposed a reduction of 400,000 francs, which the Council of State had not admitted. The committee, conse quently, now moved the rejection of the entire Chapter. After a few observations from M. ClisssEtoe r-Lau nor and N. Titoitiouv, councillor of state, the motion of the committee was carried. This chapter is therefore rejected. The committee had proposed a reduction of .10,0003 in the grant to the Agricultural Institute of Versailles. This amtudmtut was admitted by the Council of State, and the chapter as amended was carried after a speech from M. Hillard in support of the original proposition. The remain ing chapter relating to the ministry of the intense were voted without opposition. In the budget of the committee of pslice a reduction of 100,000 front the 900,000 proposed to be allowed for assist mice to foreign refugees, had been admitred by the Council of State. The house adopted the chapter as amended. The committee had proposed the entire suppression of the chapters relative to the expenses of police inspection in the departments, amounting to 425,000. The Council of State rejected this amendment, but adopted another, reducing by 20,000 the salaries of four inspectors-general not yet ap pointed. The Duke D'Uzes said that these chapters raised two questions, one a national, and the other a moral question. In the first point of view, he thought the existing police agents quite sufficient, and that their salaries were also sufficient. Ile saw no reason for creating new directors of police for the departments. It was worse than useless to burdeu the budget with these new functionaries. With regard to the moral question,it mightbe asked whetherthe word " police" was very popular. One was involuutarily led to remember what the pike was under the empire. Doubtless it could not become the the same thing in the present day. But what ime was to be made of it i This question had been put to the Council of State, and M. de Thorigny answered, " I have sees M. de Maupas, and he made ma understand the neces pity for the police by pointing to a huge pile of papers, and awing to me if you only knew what those papers contain, you would not hesitate for a moment." (Immense laughter.) The police such as the government now wanted, was not to be an ordinary but also an administration police. It was to report how the prefects were conducting the busi ness of their departments. This reminded him of the ex pressian in Tacitus, " Riau& mutes, alyue inaninut, teats et parsetes circum spectobantur. - That was said under the reign of Tiberius. (Some murmurs, and cries of "Don't apply the quotation.") M. BILLAULT (smiling).—lt is quite impossible that there can be any application intended. The Duke iftzfe concluded by protesting against the creation of a min ster of police an officer who could only bring to mind the old police which came to a bloody end. (Sensation.) M. DEVINIAL defended the institution, and was of opinion that high functionaries should be well paid. Me was pro ceeding to speak of matters foreign to the debate, when he was called to the questiou by M. Billault, and sat down.) Baron Iff enema said that inspectors-general of police were a high police consisting of men of station and in telligence. This was better for society than a police of sergens de-ville, and he could see no danger in it. M. Mosso:it tie. LA SIZEUANNE added that tho ministry of police was nut now in question, for it had been already voted. They were now only discussing the question of in ' spectors-general, and it wis evident that so immediately after a revolution they could not be dispensed with. When order should be completely re-established, the subject might be reconsidered. PEIIIIET supported the reductions proposed by the 4searmittec. The effect of creating inspectors general of police would bo to weaken the moral authority of the local functionaries in the departments. That would evidently be a great danger. M. Boss ESN, councillor of state, said that there wee no resemblance between the old police and that of the present government. The victery of December 2 had cut the rep tile socialism in two; but a strong and vigilant police was necessary to prevent the mutilated pieces from re-uniting. It was not an inquisitorial police that had been created, but a police that would listen to and study the wants and wishes of the people. The prefects had too much to do to be able to attend to police duties. It was to relieve the prefects that the government had instituted the inspectors. M. CHASSELOVI. LAVALT, on the part of the committee, declined to press their opposition further, and the chapter MIS T h v e ot b ed ud . get of the minister of public works was adopted, with the two following amendments of the committee ad mitted by the Council of State. Ist. A reduction of 250,000 upon the 500,000 proposed for the opening of the new Rue de Strasbourg, and 2nd., a reduction of seven mil lions upon the expenses of the Bordeaux and Cette, and Paris and Cherbourg i ailways. The house then passed to the budget of the minister at war. The chapter relative to the pay of the army fixes the amount at 163.516,612 francs. The committee had proposed a reduction of 30,000; but it would not now persist in this amendment. M. DUMIRAIL thought the army was larger than neees l i - sary now that order was re-established. General ALLART, councillor of state, said that if order now prevailed it was only owing to the attitude and to the number of their military force. In answer to the argu ment that a certain number of soldiers might be sent to their homes, and summoned to arms again or case of neces sity, he would only say that such • system would destroy the military spirit of the army. The several chapters of the war budget then passed. The Ist section of the budget of the minister of marine was also voted after some observations of the reporter and the commissary of the government respecting the victualling of the fleet. The debate was then adjourned till to morrow. The committee on the Bordeaux and Cette Rail way has appointed M. Roqucs-Salvaza president, and M. Curnier secretary. M. Cornier has been chosen the reporter. Two hundred and eighteen political prisoners were taken yesterday morning out of the fort of Ilicette, and sent to Havre for transportation to Africa. Arrangements have just been effected between the Northern of France and the South Eastern Railway Companies, in pursuance of which, from and after Friday, the Ist of July, two departures will take place every momingl(Sundays included), from l'arie to London, and Lon on to Paris • the one by the route of Calais and Dover, the other by way of Bou logne and Folkestone, and both arriving in London and Paris the 'tame evening. This important and desirable arrangement is in addition to, and does not affect, the existing night mail service, which is re gularly performed between the capita ls within twelve hours. At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. rose sc. and closed at 101.53. The Three-and-a- Half fell 10c., closing at 70.70. Bank of France Shares fell 5. The railway market was firm. GERMAN Y. BERLIN, JVNB 21 The Prussia Monlieur offers another illustration of the peculiar manner in which the constitution is worked in this country. It contains the expected ordinance on tho communal law, concerning which the most contradictory assertions and predictions have been made in the Berlin journals for a week or more. The law for the organisation of communes, although passed in 1840, has never been fully curried out, and innumerable debates have occurred in the chamber on this account. The cabinet appears to have been almost as much divided on the matter as the legislative body, but, at last, we have its deci sion, or what is more Prussian, a provisorium. This evening the 61a:ette brings the following decree: Upon the report of the Ministry of State, dated June 17, I declare my pleasure that no further steps shall be taken for introducing the Communal Organisation of March 11, 1549, nor for re-establishing the assemblies of circles and pro vinces referred to in the ordinance of March 11, 1840. The Minister of Justice will therefore have to make the arrangements rendered necessary by this decree. Proposi tions concerning this matter will be laid before theChamben at the nest session. FREDERICK WILLIAM. Sansvouci, June 19, 1852. The communal law and the law on the organisation of circles, districts, and provinces, arc thus suspended. No law, however, is oetroyed in its stead, the ministerial report which follows the above expressing a hope that the chambers will take the matter in hand and settle it in a satisfactory . manner in its next session. Art. 63 of the constitution gives the king a right to octroyer laws, subject to the ratification of the chamber ; but in suspending a law enacted by all the powers of tho state the goverimient exercises a power unknown to the constitution. The reason assigned for this innovation is a very old one—the measure is commanded by the situation. The ordi.. t nonce, while prohibiting further organisation of communes according to the new law, does net appear' to affect those places in which it is already in opera-, tion. The provincial organisation, the report states, will be seferred, with the laws by which it ' is proposed to carry it out, to the Provincial Estates which will be convoked before the next meeting of the chambers. _ . _ Nothing new in Zollverein affairs. A hitting now and then for the dincuasion of the details of the Hanover treaty, which seems very absurd. when half of the delegates are pretending to leave Prussia and make a Vercin to themselves. The 11"..,,er f. a cite says, " Let people say what they will, M. Ilismark has received instructions on the subject of a union treaty, both political and commercial; while an un usually large discretion has been allowed him as to the use which he may see lit to make of his powers" SWITZERLAND. The Federal Assembly is convoked for the ::ith of July. The Executive Council of Berne pronounced, on the 16th, the dissolution of the Association of Grath, and ordered the expulsion of all its members who did not belong to the canton. The reasons put for ward for this proceeding arc that the association propagahs socialist and communist doctrines among the people ; that its tendency is hostile to the govern ment ; and that the association is in correspondence with communist associations abroad. Letters from Neufchatel of the 19th inst. stets that the loyalists contemplate a demonstration in favour of Prussia, and were endeavouring to get up a meeting, similar to that of Posicux, in the canton of Friburg. This attempt will certainly fail, as the last election proved that the majority of the population of Neufchatel are imbued with federal sentiments. TURKEY. The D 'bats says We learn from Constantinople, under date of the 10th, that Fuad Eliendi was expected there the next day, from his mission to Abbas radio. Alit Bey was to set out for Egypt, and thence to Jerusalem, immediately after the return of Fuad Effendi, in order to carry a firman from the Porte approving of the arrangements ea tered into with Abbas I'acha, and to have the twin, meats of the Porte withyrance relative Mite holy sepu:chre car ried into execution. The financial question continued to occupy men's minds. Whilst the bank was endeavour ing to come to some understanding with Europe to rive more stability to its operations, the Porte was taking mea sures to improve its credit by reducing its issue of paw money, and on the 10th the Sultan was to proceed to the hotel of the Minister of Commerce, where 12 millions of piastres of that paper were to be burnt. Sir S. Canning had not jet kit Constantinople. At a dinner pie, him on the ,th of June by the Englidt merchants, lie had made a speech, in which (with about two or three ex ceptions) he had comprised in the same accusation of ve nality and corruption all the font tionaries of Turkey, and drawn a most melancholy picture of the Ottoman empire. This outbreak of the Bsitannic representative had excited a great sensation at Constantinople. THE INNOCENCE OF MR. MURRAY. TO THE EDITOR OF TILE DAILY NEWS. SIR,—If you can spare space in your valuable journal for the insertion of the incloecel letter and cat& cats, I should feel greatly obliged, u they go far to prove the innocence of my unfortunate and unhappy nephew.—l am, Sir, your obedient humble servant, , . FRANCIS RAY L'EST RANGE. 15, 31ornington-road, June 23, 1852. _ _ Corfu, June 3,1352. Madam, —having been given to understand that you have greatly interested yourself in the fate of the unfortu nate Edward Murray, the intelligence of whose condemna tion only reached us yesterday, I hasten to transmit to you a certificate in duplicate from Signor Mattioli, late Presi dent of Ancona, under whose orders Mr. Murray acted in the affair which has led to such an unhappy termination. This certificate most fully proves the innocence of Mr. Murray, of which no doubt exists in the minds of all those who are acquainted with the facts. Indeed, Mr. Moore, the British Consul in Ancona, with whom I have had much correspondence on the subject, has from the first &elan himself that no other culpability could be attache d to him but that of indiscretion. You have, of course, been duly informed of the details of this business, as well as of the inhuman way Mr. Murray has been detained in orison for more than three years, suffering the most cruel privations, notwithstanding the great interest exerted in his favour by numerous and powerful friends. If Mr. Murray hail ben fairly tried in Ancona, as was originally the intention of the Roman government, I thick a different result might have been anticipated ; but the jealous, tyrannical, and arbitrary way in which all legal processes against suspected persons is carried on in Rome could lead to no other conclusion than the present; but I do hope that although a sentence of condemnation has passed, execution will not follow, as the circumstance has interested too many Englishmen for the Roman Government to hazard con witting such a gross act of injustice. The enclosed certi ficate may have some weight in causing the influential per sons in England to take a greater interest in Mr. Murray s fate. In Rome I fear it would have little effect, as Signor Mattioli from his republican principles would not be much credited, but here be is considered OS a gentleman and an honest man. I regret that I have only within these few days become acquainted with the termination of Mr. Mon ray's trial, and as I have been absent from England a per many years, I do not know into whose hands I can con. sign Signor Mattioli's certificate than to yours, leaving it to you to make the most advantageous use of it you may deem proper. I have the honour to be, Madam, your most obedient, humble servant, (Signed) Wm. DIXON, Late Captain Royal Artillery. In the name of God. Corfu, June 4,18 R, Being requested by the relative , of Edward Murray to express my personal opinion concerning the alleged culpa. bility of their unfortunate kinsman (who having bees arrested in April, 1819, while I was governor of the city and province of Ancona, has since been condemned to death by the Supreme Pontifical Tribunal of the Ck.imaltal, I locl that I should be wanting in the homage due to truth, am well as to the dictates of my own conscience, were I not to repeat the declaration made in my certificate, dated Otto ber 10, 1849. It is then my firm and intimate conviction that Edvesnl Murray had no part or complicity in the deplorable assn• sinations which, for a brief period, dishonoured the rey of Ancona, and which the arm of justice rigorowly repressed. The gentleness of his obaracter, his unwavering tenni!, the diligence and amenity which he displayed in the die charge of the delicate duties pertaining to his office as in spector of the police, make me confident that the atrocioss and cowardly crimes of which he has been accused ate utterly foreign and abhorrent to his nature. If, upon the murder of Signor Servanti Collin de Sas Severino (perpetrated unhappily as Murray hall remind carders from me to be upon his guard against all ireidione attempts), it was thought necessary to institute a prom* against the above.named inspector of police for not having guaranteed the security of Colli°, this was hearse it usa thought he might have been wanting in eirearespt colt and vigilance, and not in any measure because he peeled of being privy to the crime. In an interview which 1 had with Murray at his oes request, in the prison of Ancona, he protested his innocent* in the most sincere and earnest manner and afterwards , when released from distance, and at liberty to go whither he chose, so strong was he in the confidence of his blase lessness, that lie remained at Ancona after the fall of the Roman Itepublie and the restoration of the pontifical autho rity, and constituted himself a prisoner for the 1411 01 meeting any charge which could he brought aguitOt 1.34' I know not the grounds of the long and mysterious pro cess which has been protracted through three years wit" result so fatal to Mr.Murrny. I would hope that the pontifical government has confided it to men both skilful and pure, but it is not the less impossible for me to avoid the raise tion that in carrying on au investigation, rendered so di loa ; by the confusion and distance of the events concerued. sod yet so momentous in its issues to the accused, the Jwls" have been conducting their inquiries in a light whiA , ds rived from political circumstances, is little tivoural'i, to the discovery of the innocence, however real, of acs cured. U IRtrrt: CAMILLO MATTIOLL Ex-Governor of the City and l`nivince of Ancona. Office of the Lord lligh Commissioner of the lonia Islands, Corfu, June -I, 1832. The foregoing certificate is in the handwriting " i Cimino Mattioli, and bears his signature. J. Fasinuft, Secretary of the Lord nigh Com missioner. 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