The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-27 00:00:00

A CATHOLIC VIEW OF THE MADIAI
PROSECUTION.

The Debate has the laming on the ear of the
Medial, :
" The remit declarations el the Prime Leis Na-
poleon in favour of liberty el eonseisses ere not so
superfluous in the present asks of the we& as to
some they may seem. In a Christian state, Assort at
our own doors, we see two peaceable et:Wiens con-
damned to the galleys for having read the Bible in
the vulgar tongue. The Roman church has lately
spoken loudly in favour of liberty. It wu by
invoking this principle that it lately swan-
plished the fireateat changes in the organ. II
✓ation of its hierarchy in England, in spite of the
efforts of the government and parliament, and the
irritation of the majority of the nation. In the name
of liberty of conscience it installed cardinals and
catholic bkhops in a protestant country, and in face
of a national church. All those who proclaim liberty
of conscience, whether in France or England, were
sincere, and had that in their hearts which is heard
from their lips; they have now a fine opportunity
of raising their voice in vindication of their prima-
ioma,
plea say nothing of the truth of this or that
but of the right of men to be catholic. or
pretsatants. There is not a free conscience
throughout the world that should not rise against the
outrage perpetrated by the Corr Royale of Florence.
A deputation of protestant, from France, England,
Bwitserland. Holland, and Germany, is at this
moment at Florence, to intercede in favour of Medial
and his wife. We trust that their voice may be
heard by the grandson of Leopold I.; but, in any
ease, the friends of religious liberty, to whatever re-
ligion they may belong, will second their prayer."

Stu-rxrert.—Can any of your readers explain the
origin of "the ein•eater," and give instances of that horrid
practice still subsisting is parts of England or Wales, as I
am soured it does ? It consists in the supposed transfer of
the sins of a person recently dead to • man of reprobate
character, who eats a piece of bread laid on the chest of the
corpse, whereby he is believed to have released the dead
man from the responsibility of his sins, and to have taken
it on himself; he then receives half-a•mown for blase/vices,
and is driven or panned from the house with execration.
This practice was the subject of an interesting paper by
Mr. Mungridge, of Sesame, at the last annual meeting of
the Cambrian Archeological Amociation ; but its origin
was sot satisfactorily traced. The scapegoat, and the men-
ace of criminals in the arena at Athens, dm, have been
surgested.—Juinonk C. Symons. [The custom is gene•
rally supposed to have been taken from the scapegoat in
Leviticus lei., 21, 22. See a curious passage from the
Lowdown MSS. concerning a sin•etter who lived in a cot.
tap on the Rouse highway, in Herefordshire, quoted in
Brand's " Antiqnities, vol. ii., p. 247, edit. 1819.]—Front
Nola our Querwo.

„AIERICA•
OF THE ATLANTIC.
szatrutlC vacuum.)
mom OV OWN COIRINiONDINT.
LIVERPOOL, WIDNINDAT.
The United. States' mail steam-ship Atlantic, West,
oommisseirr, arrived in oar river at balf-pest eight
this nsirening,with 116 passengers and 382,000 dole.
neMe ea freight.
The Atlantic left New York at noon on the 16th,
tY Mad mails from the United States and
America.
• Nevada and the Illinois had arrived at New
31111 AIM California, with upwards of two millions
rad, bet without bringing any later intelligence
Ilbst published in London on Monday lest. The
Mail steam ship America, before reported as
• into Halifax, had arrived out at Boston.
Two great meetings had been held in New York
is reference to Cubs; many violent speeches were
Wt. One meeting wu held in Broadway, on the
mod the other in Tammany Hall, on the 14th.
the Atlantic left New York foreign exchange
toss/ a good demand, at nearly the previous rates,
sad mosey was rather easier.
The cotton market was firm, with an upward ten-
loory.
Aassaats firom Cincinnati, dated the 10th inst.,
annum, the completion of the vintage in that
=Nearly one-third of the crop bad been dm-
h frost; still the yield for the muss* amen
was intimated at nearly half a million bottles at fro
elms, besides a considerable quantity of inferior
wines. There are more than 1,300 acres of vinyardi
pleated in the valley of the Ohio, the Rhine of Amer
eke, and tho species of grape mostly cultivated is
the Catawba, a well-flavoured, hardy kind, which'
produce. a sparkling wine, said to to be not at
all inferior to any champagne imported. The grape
fields are chiefly the property of German families,
end a great number of French and Swiss vine-
dressers derive profitable employment. The princi-
pal wino grower sent to Europe a few years ago for
a skilful manufacturer of champagne, and now pro-
bers more than 100,000 bottles annually, and, greatly
as the manufacture has increased, the supply
esently keeps up with the demand.
A late arrival from Utah (the Mormon) territory
states that ” the crops through the valleys are heavy;
rod health is prevailing; pesos and plenty every-
where abound ; yet times are clone for money, and
ustabsadise is consequently dull. The emigrants
pmaing in thicker and faster, and flour wu
IFINtb 3 dek. per cwt." The St. Louis Mormon Com-
Mr were within 60 miles of Salt Lake City, having
bads =az
ijaomurendei,o:linadjonbueet
,one death,
aged that of
an A
most horrible circumstance, in connexion with
a recent accident on the Georgia State railroad, is
reported in the last number of the Georgia Constitu-
tionalist One of the firemen was thrown by the
collision between the locomotive and the tender, and
held fast by the feet, with his head hanging down-
wards, and his feet dreadfully crushed. The poor
fellow, in his agony, entreated some one to cut of
his legs and release him from his torture. This was
actually done, and he bled to death.
Provisions were in fair demand ; prime mess pork,
at 17.76 to 17.871; beef, 11.60 to 14 ; lard, 111 c. to
121 e.
Thu* was a good demand for wheat, and priors
were a shade higher.
The iron market also was active, and still increas-
ing retes were paid.
Naval stores in good request, at fully late rates.
Freights in moderate demand, without change
from previous prices.
Exchange on Loudon, 1101 to 1101 ; Paris, 5.121
to 5.131; Amsterdam, 41 to 411; Harnburgli, 301 to
38; : Bremen, 79 to 791.

THE CONFESSIONAL AND THE WHIP:I

We find the following statement in the Nostream
Patriots Savothies:

" The vicar of Boege has lately accustomed him-
self to impose, as a penance on the females of his flock,
the obligation of coming to his chambers, where,
after their backs are stripped, they naive a flagella-
tion from the pastoral hand. There is no mistake
about the fact, which has evoked a cry of indigna-
tion throughout the commune. Mae than thirty
females are known to have submitted to
this infliction; others have refused to en-'
dure the degradation. The last attempt of the
priest tailed. The vicar had in his chamber a
female who was eneiwste, whom, under the pretext
of penance, be was desirous of flogging, and was
about to proceed by force to carry out hts purpose;
bat the woman be' frightened, uttered loud cries
which brought the ne hbours to her aid. We live
under a tionetitur government, but if these
things are done under the green tree, what will they
do under the dry r

LAMS' CHARITY SCHOOL. The half-lOarly
mooting of the patron' sad solomilen M thls che-
werois‘ hell =y at the premiss of the lastitaties,
Jmw, Jolla Moeftems, Esq., M.P.,
the tresmor at the institution, la the "heir. Lreutlia;
Maim of OM 'biblical to fill op mem*, Mt
read the repeat, hem which it appeared that the fib 'im-
plement of ettOdna la the institution' we. ft, end the,. are
that number in It sow, Melodize the throe Jost desist The
see of the children, whet seM, b hem II to Atl you".
They are odoesled Ilse
years andb:=lll=glindelte. a"
The siotribstimis
at thi last dinner, while Mk pieera 11111116 et haw,
amoanted to 1,0001., Mommemaimos of with ths fah as,
sow in • amisfemery simillies. The sepia wee edeptrol,
sad the eel we belay Mimed liwilho °baboon,
Thee. Denim. Weer gisillemem Dodo' the
peoseshow wise has dee mem and mg a
psalm. They preesseed • 'moan* doom beeliby,
seldwiled Tide laidtatlia le Me of tka Witt
amides is kiting bees astabilied MO years. Dr.
Joiness, the pest , teak mit interest is it,
and Mrs. Thralls woe sae the semne, end leek an
active part in the saammgamotat.
BILL 01 &Le OF • MOOlO.—T. B. Oldileld,
Jim, M ZeimMedwike, has this week ibioleholl se with
the semis* la dude of a mom it whisk ms irsbeeda •
copy. The negro is widen was odd, it Abe piessimd.
in 1772, only • hte yens beim Clingesee Mimed Amides
isdepiediat et (hest Dritefo. The mid sips wig bum*
le logiesd, ested essikeem. to the washer
ismi Ms INA, wadi hie death. The reatlemem Masse
teem is osmllessd is the yardarm wt. tatkooatly
ew-
meted by —nip with the Oldisid honey, and ths7lll
sale was eimmtibhomd easmest the haft reser& :
" Know all ma them presena, that I, Mary Pell,widow
of Samuel Pal, the eity el New Tea, dosemed, sad Mir
Hester Pell, foe and it ososidereeks of the am of eighty
Crmerest mom of dm prislose Hoo York, to me
imai d paid, at and beam the ineeding sod delivery of
them pesseets, by Col. Wm. C—, the seesipt whereof I
do himby aeksewledge, wad myself too he &smith !oily
sodded, oestested, MA paid itiil
misemsd mod by lime pima do fay, &My, la skes-
IMsly Mbirissssil.l. an whose owls Ills sell Mead
Wen. esseedies, ainftibutors, and
"miens, a imam ma sass. Twit. aged Mist thirty years,
le bare and le hill the
seeidtser ma amid Tea, unto
the said Wend Wm. ComkmMt, hie itsosotom !administer.
ton, and mime he ever. I the odd Mary Pell, for
myself, my helm. mocuton sad edoduhlushaes, de covesant
and sures to sad with the aborommed Colimi Wm.
C--, his eseenture,administratern, mud same, to venue
and defend the sale of the above-mimed mem sum, lamed
York, against all penman whatsoever. In witness whereof
I have hereunto set my head and seal, this twenty.seventh
day of August, enno. dom. ono thousand seven hundred
and seventy-two.—MAST PILL, 14 her mark; Human
PILL. Signed, «sled, and delivered In the presence of
Henry Van bleak, Hoary W. Perry. New York, the 27th
August, 1772.—Roarived of the within named Colonel Wm.
C—, the within mentioned sum of eighty pounds, New
York currenej, as a fell acknowledgment for the within
named MVO MB York, SS witness our hands,—M•ay
PILL, p 4 her mark; Humes PILL. Henry Vim Vieek;
Henry W. Perry.—Leeds Memory.
THE CASE OP THE MADIAIL—Letter of the 20th,
received from Genoa. report the snivel Is that city en rouge
to Florence of the Earls of Roden sod Coma and Captain
Trotter, as a deputation from the Pestierrat Alliance, to
intercede with the Grand Dukes( Teri my for the relates
of Francisco and Rom Madiai, wbe hew bora esodemoM
to a lengthened period of imprisemost. with hard islresr,
for alleged " impiety" is Whim andtemillog proteetant
doctrines in there own Miss. The elsgeolsthm bad re.
ceired several memorials, treandosed ken this emintry,
for presentation to the Greed Dohs, hat it tone hared they
would be compelled to withheld isms el them, as more
likely to ohetruet than presets the old,* of their mission.
Lord Rodeo, who was nessenputied by the Be.. R. Somer-
set Maxwell, wee obliged to premed to Ylootooto is his car-
riage, in consequence of every bed and Miellitese on board
the Leghorn steamer having bees Ti,. fol-
lowing, NJ far SS has yet been sem le betel coati.
nental delegates associated with the betel
From Francs, Count Ageism. de °aspirin and M. de Hi-
mont; Holland, M. Elout de fiosterwereale ; Wurtemberg,
M. von Pistorius • Prussia, Bothnia Hollweg; and
Switzerland, Colmiel Tronehin.

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WINDSOR, OCT. 26.
Tbs folimring bsd the honour of dining with her
Windy yesterday :—Tho Dubow of Kent, the Prince and
Primers. or Mabeelobo Isuilenberil, the Prinecti Atickider
sad Prizes Normoosia et Mohanlotto, and Sir Our.
Coeur.
TM Dabs of Terceira and Cunt Letradlo have boon
'seised, and troupes-tad to-day, on a visit to th• Queen.
Visoceurt Hardtop is abo ladled, and will arrive at the
Castle to-morrow.
The Earl of Morton haa relieved Lord Byron or the Lord-
hsWaitief, and Captain the Hon. Martian Wait has sac-
coded Lioet.-Colosol the Hon. N. Hood u Groom-in-
Wei Neile her Majesty.
The ties of Dann hu anceeeded Viscountem Cam-
shaft -irk Waiting, and the Hon. Flora Macdonald
Ma Ribald the Mere. Matilda Paget as Maid of Honour in
susehers es ibe

Mr. Charles Eavrkins had an interview with Sir John
Pakiagton yesterday at the Colonial.office. Lieut. Natal
tkrocold, R.N., had 'also an interview with the Right lion.
Secretary.
The night Hon. F. Kennedy had an Interview with the
Earl of Derby yesterday, at his official residence in Down-
iag-street.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Tuesday, the 2nd of
November, at 11 o'clock in the day, on which he will re-
ales the Lord May r Elect, in order to signify her Ma-
jesty'e approbation of his lordship.
The Lord Chancellor will also, on the same day (the first
of Michaelmas Term), remise the Judger, Queen's Counsel,
as. The reception will take place at the Lord Chancellor's
residence in litlgrare-square.
• 1 Despatches were received yesterday at the Coinage .o fil ce
from the Governors of New Zealand and the Australian
Colonies.

Despatches were sent off lut evening from the Colonial-
atm (or the Governor or Gibeshat.

A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock yester-
day afternoon, at the Foreign-office. The ministers
present were:—The Earl of Derby, the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Earl of Loosdale, the Marquis of Salis-
bury, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmes-
bury, Sir John Pakingtoa, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Right Hon. J. W. lienleT, the Earl
of Hardwicke, and Lord John Manners. The council
sat two hours and a half.

We think wo may state that the member for North
Essex, who holds a high military appointment under
the present government, will be selected for the im-
portant office of Governor of Jamaica—Globe.

MORE ADMIRALTY BOTCHINO.-THE

ROYAL ALBERT.

It is now upwards of six months ago since it was
decided, as we stated at the time, that the Itoyal Albert,
120 guns, building at Woolwich Dockyard, should be con-
verted into a screw steam-ship. When the alteration from
her original design by Mr. Lang, master shipwright at this
dockyard, as a sailing vessel only was decided upon, it was
intended by the Lords of the Admiralty and Captain Sir
Baldwin Walker, Surveyor of the Navy, that she should be
merely fitted with auxiliary power, and that a pair of the
engines in the government stores should be fitted in her.
Mr. Lang did not at first relish the idea that a magnificent
ship, as the Royal Albert must have proved, being at the
time 700 tons linter than any vessel ever built for
the royal navy, should be converted into a screw
steamship, and that ship be fitted with old engines to serve
as auxiliaries only, that proposition being made by the au•
timings with a view to economy. After several consulta-
tions it was considered that it would be more advantageous
and more worthy of the splendid vessel to have new engines,
and Messrs. John Fenn and Son were desired to furnish
designs of engines of 600-horse power and an estimate of
their east, which was accordingly done, and it was all but
finally decided that they should be put in the Royal Albert.
A subsequent knowledge that the French government were
giving their vessels of the first class engines of the best
make and most improved principles, with nearly, if not
full power, caused the Admiralty to hesitate in their decision
as to the power of the engines for the Royal Albert, the space
of the weasel in her present lines being unsuitable fur
engines of anything like the power a chip of her magnitude
would require to propel her, even at a moderate rate y
speed, through the water. It was therefore ultimateit
agreed upon that the matter should be referred to a com-
mittee, to report on the best means of making the Royal
Albert as eMeient screw steamship. The committee have
now concluded their labours, and their report has been ap-
proved by their lordships, as may be inferred from the fol-
lowing details. A number of workmen were yesterday
morning placed at work on the Royal Albert, 120, to make
her water tight up to some distance above the launch line
of immersion, it being intended to have that fine vessel
ready for launching early in the spring of 1833.
When launched, the Royal Albert is to be taken
into the east dock, next the saw mills, and
will there be lengthened 3.S feet, which will give her a
capacity of upwards of 4,000 tonnage, rendering her still
the largest ship in the royal navy, end afford am.-le room
for superior new engines of 1,000 horse power. The pro.
sees of lengthening the vessel would have taken place where
she is now building, but there is not room ender the slip
for that purpose.
The present board of Admiralty are aware of the neces-
sity of keeping pace with the exertions of the French, to
improve their steam vessels, fitted with screw propellers,
and in the late amtracts which have been entered into by
the British government, it has been stipulated that the
boiler shall be perfectly afar to work with a pressure of 20Ibs.
to the square itch, the previous stipulation being 161 b. to
the square inch, and it is now only desirable that all vessels
intended to lie fitted with screw propellers should have
engines of fall, instead of auxiliary power.

bialStass IN Thou LlFE.—Yesterday morning
was soles deed, at St. Martin'ain-the-rields, the nuptials
of Mr. Orekasa, eldest son of the Right Honourable Sir
lames Graham, But., of Netherby, arid the Lady Her-
odias [Myst Maar, eldest daughter of Lord Seymour, and
greadAenester of the Duke of Somerset. The ceremony
we setheseed by the Rev. William Graham, rector of Ar-
*wee. Onsearland, uncle of the bridegroom. The bride
wm ilepliftitly attired in a robe of moire antique, with
1011111.114 mil veil of Brussels lace, and superb wreath of
orange bieleems. The bride was attended to the altar by a
train of is bridesmaids, vim., the Lady Ulriea Seynt
Mean_ iiks Mks Helen Graham, Miss Sheridan,
Mies MONIS the Lady Oweedoline Seynt Maur,
and Me Men all similarly attired in white.
The oe wee witless/el by a large party of rdatives
and friends, the Dwain of Somerset, Sir dames
and Lady Gramm Lord ad Lady Seymour, Lord
end Lady Deihrie, Lord Archibald Seynt Maur,
Kes. Mrs. Nevem and Mr. Brinaley Norton, Hon.
Kr. sad Mrs. Deneembe, Mrs. primary Sheridan, Mir Cal-
lender, he. ate. The eters in tront of Lest Seymour's house,
and them of St. Martin's Char& were revered with scarlet
cub; and at the esseelurion of the ceremony, and when
the Whitton aid bride left town, the bells rang forth a
Jayvee peal. hesurailisteiy attar the cosimay, an elegant
ajowser was gives by lagy Seysater, at the family resi-
dence, Wag-gerdsna. The *Omer wee of the moat ele-
gant and rachern-41 deeertpdes, end the brideseake, from
Gunter's, was remarkable for its famital devices and testa-
te ontementatiest. The totdo's trousseau was very vim-

di-d, mad olookbei of all do beautiful objects usuillj die-
played • Beike IsONcisms, Including rich spending gifts
from %MBank= of Inverness, the Duke of Somerset, the
Duchess of Ormstient, the Marchioness of Aylesbury, Sir
James Grains, Lady Grahams, Lady Duffetin, dn. Their
Broom the Duke and Duchess of Somerset will give a
spkndid bongos and soiriii this evening, in honour of the
auspicious mat. The happy pair have left town to spend
the hossymielg at Lord Seymour's country seat, Bradley,
Wiltshire.

LOtuOY AN ENGLISH VESSEL.—LIVERPOOL, MON.
DAY.—By the arrival of the brig Richard, from Pernam-
buco, we have received intelligence of the lees of the En-
chantress, Captain Bathland, of Yarmouth. on her passage
from Pernambuco for Falmouth. Tho Enchantress struck
on a sunken reef three days after leaving that part, and
immediately went to pieces. The captain, two mates, one
man, and a boy, were washed off the reef and drowned.
The remainder of the crew, sir in number, succeeded
in constructing a raft out of the bowsprit of the
wrecked vessel and another which they found on the
reef, by which means they reached a ...al uninhabited
Maul same dietaries off, called Lass Mend, Where they re-
shaiod.r4ays, enduring the wont of privations, the
:V
had to subsist upon being the eggs of sea
iliTters seeming to be no hopes of their being taken
off the Wand, they again put to sea on the raft, when they
were fortunately llen in with by the Richard, and were
taken on board, most of them in • dying state. Every
attention was paid to them by Captain White, and they are
now in • tolerably healthy state.
SuooesTED IMPROVISSIKNTS IN LONDON.—It can-

not, I think, be doubted that Gracechureh-etreet is far too
narrow for its traffic, and that some day a widening must
take place from London-bridge to the wider part of Bishops-
gatentreet, but I question it this will come first. And I
think if any one will look at a map of London he will soon
be eonvineed that the most efficient and cheapest way will
be the construction of a new street from the wide part of
Fenchurch-street, east of Rood-lane, to Orseeehurch-street,
about Telhot•eourt. This will be to the pans east of Lon-
don-bridge what the New King Willianvetreet is to the
west, putting Whitechapel and the whole eastern districts
in direct connexion with Thames-street, London-bridge,
and the Borough and the new Cannon-street, and thus wth
Blackfrian and " Bt. Paul's" bridges. The Immediate re-
lief that this street (with some occasional widening. in the
eastern parts of Fenchureh-sneet) will effect in the west ,
end of Fenchurch-street will be obvious; it will draw off
three-fourths of its heavy traffic ;it will also materially re-
lease Leadenhall-street, by drawing off all the traffic which
at present passes along it to Blackfriars. No one, I think,
can look at a map of London without being fully persuaded
that some day this change must come.—Correspondent of
Builder.

TUE SYDNEY MAIL STEAM-PACKET.—One of the
passengers bound for Port Philip, who went out in the
Sydney mail packet which left Plymouth (or Australia on the
4th of August last, returned to England in the Bosphorus.
He refused to proceed any farther than the Isle of Ascen-
sion, on account of the bad accommodation for passengers
on board the Sydney steamer.