The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-22 00:00:00

TUE MUSICAL INSTITUTE OF LONDON.

The first evening meeting of the season was held
out Saturday, at the Ream of the fearer, it, fleckeille-
street, Piccadilly ; Mr. Leer preeldieg, in the sheer, of
the presieretathe Itev. &r LW. H.Capit, Bart. operas
the peresilmye. Ole Chairman coaratalated the company
as the seekherep and suicidal peados el the
erstitere, W engsmel eediersee that it weal* ia It. pra-
yer* Meg sines se bear essfally es IMO* mad teed to
ezeit the dientslow et the Mi. He afterwards refired in
tame of anew he the death, doe* the set year, of the
Of Zed hire" who was, be rid, both skillet viollaist
sad s indelible Ember of the soosletise. -

A—poper hes the penif Mr. Dootrai then red by
the berraseLlergeme en the "Amisoise end Corm
AM sad lisieness." he the ewe
3.1:= attempt wee reds M selehihk • deep energy
between palming end rats. Thee isd to en kraeadei die-
remise, fs whisk mart of the Wks Ihat here less set
hrek on the mider at merles pried, rues Wady dimmed
et. It wee Wined that sash wideness led bees
wedged firer the edifies maid ; Yetthey rare embossed
is dr Preemie ; end dad dr Wrath& ef then
was to he in the depths elite Wes Med. One
prideseas resesebri that es Molinari " dr imitative arts"
wasp to he leribad math ef Ys vestries of ideas
whioY poio Md as the saidesk is this it meld be rash
Wm art better to mil dries the me of emeentia.
Wyndham Hardie/ midi he Mined, end sited Bar Isaac
Newton se an antbeilly kw the V, dist the whole
warn of beauty was te be head is addrastrel pro.
portions, and Mat memilisike=sed Way were alike
subject to this law hindamonall
imi-
lantin. lie west ea to Libra the weft that he
was preparing
a paper hr the demi ile=rat:tt
object of which was to show OM ewes the
statue of the Venus de Kediel Wed se needier
to the doctrine, that numerieol yosysedens am the mew
of artistic beauty.—Thesn webs reed op the isentary,
ter. Beni, who said that atereple to reduse immentyle mete
propintional laws were by no MEIN semi, hat they had all
tailed, and he biped and believed they would emetinnis to
fail. After all whet night be dose in that dirratien, there
would still be assail what wee Wed repreties. There
were, in test. ray ter ansisnies Maws= the MOW
arts ; and the meet oder she'd le Si disemer, est their
analogies, but their differentiae—This last remark elicited
warm expressions of assent; ad after • few observations
from the Chairman cm the gesenl resemblance to be traced
in the sacred and *eviler saes of different ages, the dis-
cussion reached, so far at least se the impression was con-
cerned, a satisfactory termination.
Before the assembly mouser, and in accordance with
the usage of the hastiest'. there was • short musical per-
formance. Os this meaden the principal piece was a selec-
tion from Spahr's Let itedomont—" Blest an the de-
parted "—an appropriate WWte to the memory of hits
whom the nation had jut Wised Si its grandest arra
lean.

TUE LATE ACCIDENT AT RED HILL.—Mra. Mary
Cloves, of IN, Regency-equsre, Brighton, who met with .a
composed fracture of the right leg at the accident which
occurred ow the Brighton Itsilway on the Ist instant, died
on Saturday maims from the result of the injuries whieh
' she then noshed. The fracture was reduced by Mr. B.
Vaguely ausgioss, who, la conjunction with his partner,
Mr. lioabousk, auseismod is attendance on the unfortunate
woe= till bud' ouseed. An inquest is to be held on the
body this day ; but some little difficulty is insetted, as at-
count of the driver and guard of the engine, who by
NOW of rules caused the mischief, having been adjudged
Met: litigate magistrates to suffer two mouths hard
ht owe of the Bwrrey prisons. In the event of an
imprit being held, it will be necessary that they, as the
pinks likely to be inculpated in the verdict, should be in
ailmobasse ma, therefore, • habeas corpui will be re-
tina to
o beim them up frost prioos to the promos of the
Nanw fry.

EXPRESS, MONDAY

IN TUSCANY.

The following is the report of Lord Rodeo and the
other members of the deputation to Florence in the
cane of the Medial, addressed to all the protestant
churches of Europe:
Is repairing open the result of oar 111111406, we have to
state that, is accordant* with what we naderstood to be
the views of those whom we represent, we, In our first ens-
sareicatias with the Tuscan Mishit., for Foreign Affairs,
disclaimed the advert...meat of any political object, or the
ase of any political 'militants; aiming to approach the
Grand Duke in the character solely of protestant Chris-
tians, who sympathised with the position, and desired to
alleviate the actual condition, of our impchoned brother
and sister, Francesco and Rosa Medial. We would further
state that, in order to attain our object of an audience with
the Grand Duke, we scrupulously avoided putting &Tweed
our firm ooaviction of the injustice and cruelty of the sen-
tence under which they are unlined. Our task was not to
demand what we believed to be justice, hut to ask that
which would be deemed by the Grand Duke the exercise
of mercy.
Notwithstanding the conciliatory spirit is which our re-
quest fur an audience was conceived, and the grounds thereof
stated, we regret to have to announce that our application
was refused. Ash is our wish to narrate everything with
moderation, we would add, that this refusal was couched, es
will be seen by the annexed correspondence, in courteous
terms. As regards the great object of our missinn, it Y
bat too evideut that the hope held out of mercy is mod
vague; nevertheless, as the language used would seem to
justify a hope, we cannot but trust that it may be speedily
realised.
With the termination of our mimion, we consider it ewe
duty to acquaint those whom we represent, and the Chefs.
tian public generally, with the actual position of the Media.
Not having as yet bad the privilege and advantage of per
access to them, we proceed, frum information am
which we can (ally rely, to present their condition seen-
rattly, avoiding everything in the way of exaggeration, not
only fur the hike of truth, but because it is a melancholy
fact that sufficient of grievous hardship exists to excite the
warns indignation and enlist the active sympathies of pro-
testant Christendom.
The Medial, then, an not sentenced to the galleys, net
are they confined in chains, nor placed in the same cells
with felons. They are treated with kindness by the attar
dents in the prison; but their sentence his beennot only he a
term of imprisonment of unusually long duration, but ens
which has attached en unjustifiable stigmata infamy to the&
Their confinement is solitary, and involves labour (groom
forces). Considering the activity of Frailness ModinFe
put isle as a travelling courier, and V•si extreme aim, et
his wife Rosa, fr m spinal disease, it is no maser sg lar-
prise that this confinement should hese proved MA la.
ninth to the health of both, and fears are to be eatartalmal
as to a fatal issue if it be much further prolonged. What
would be the aearaton in Europe if any such cad tremble-
tion to their present suderinp should ensue ? We ought
here to notice their total deprivation of all public worship,
and the consolations of a minister of their own faith—pri-
vileges which would be most precious to them, and which
are amply accorded to every other, even the very wont,
offender' confined within the same prisons. They are sepa-
rated from each other, not only in differeat cells, but in dif-
ferent prisons—the one on the heights of Volterra, the
other 60 miles off, in Lucca—as if the intercourse of these
poor sufferers could be dangerous to the state ; so that to
the hardships already alluded to is added an agonising on.
certainty as to the health of iamb. They are denied the use
of such devotional or other books as may be in accordance
with their own views: when allowed to take exercise, they
are obliged to do so in a confined space, between high
walls, which shut out the view of everything except
the sky.
Lastly, with respect to the trial and sentence. Although
the evidence was not allowed to be published in alms°, we
may state, on the authority of those who were present at
the trial, that it was distinctly proved that the life of Rosa
Madiai had been for years marked by acts of charity and
love without reference to the peculiar faith of those whom
she succoured ; that upon these occasions she made no use
of such opportunities to assail the religious principles of 1
those whom she benefited. The few acts of controversial
discussion deposed to sgaiast them were in answer to
or in consequence of, the applications or arguments of those'
who themselves entered into discussion with them. It
:vaulted from the whole trial that publicity—an essential
element of their crime under the law by which they were
tried—was so complirely, and, on the fare of the sentence,
so confessedly wanting, that the bench (who acted both as
judge and jury) were obliged to base their conviction upon
the g I course of jurisprudence as exhibited in for.ner
decisions. These demsleioas were, however, shown to be inap-
pliable, or, eves if applicable, not 'Wildcat to warrant any
such severity of seateam. It is farther worthy of notice that
his immensity between the law under which they were
tried, the ease ander which they were convicted, and the sen-
tence nadir which they are suffering, was, independent of the
fasts, made the ground of formal appeal on the part of their
semeek Nom Maggiorani, whose name deserves to be
waled ti is with gratitude, not more for the talent and
=knowledge which he displayed, than for the boldneu
professional conduct, and the tender and considerate
mmistance which he has privately afforded to his oppressed
clients. It should be added that the arguments of Signor
Msegiorani oo this point were formally end publicly as-
sented to as sound and valid under the signature of others
most eminent at the Florentine bar. An appeal for further
argument in the cue was not only not opposed, but was ad-
vocated by the =whet for the crown ; and yet each appeal
was ineffectual. _ _

We have preferred a temperate and accurate statement
of facts to any, the most eloquent, appeal to your fooling,.
What our feeling' are, may be easily conceived; suffice it
to say, that they impel us to erg* a loud and continued
protest against a sentence of imprisonment thur inflicted ;
involving with it bodily suffering, and even risk of life,
together with religious privations, from which all (deader'
in every civilised country arc exempt.
The report which we have thus laid before you would
not be complete were we to leave the impression that this
is but a solitary instance of suffering for Christ's sake. The
case of the Mediala is but the type of a numerous edam;
for it is an awful fact that the progress of persecution is
fearfully advancing. It would, therefore, bedesirable that
the publicity which its peculiar circumstances have ob-
tained for it should attract attention to very many others,
in order to make them the subject came earnest prayers end
efforts. We do not exaggerate when (in the very terms of
the persecution of the first Christiana) we affirm that a
system prevails here of " entering into every house " where
saspieiers, not of political but of religious " crime," exists.
"haling men and women, committing them to prison," and
" breathing out threatenings." We might tell, with truth.
of sot a few " put into the,
common prison," of several
" scattered abroad," and of very many who, hungering and
thirsting adler these privilege', are prevented meeting for
payer and the study of the Bible. We can only say, in
cenerlusion, "My brethren, these things ought not so to be."
How they are to be remedied may be considered by others
pomming more worldly wisdom then ourselves. In the
meantime, we cherish the hope that, when and how the
Lord may see fit, He will vindicate His own cause, and de-
liver those who are persecuted for His name's sake.
RODIN, CAVAN, Jona Taocrun, Members of the Bri-
tish Deputation; MUMS TILONCRIN, ALII. H. as ST.
°sotto% Members of the Swiss Deputation ; Oka/ AL-
lenT TON POUITALUI, A. TON Bond', Members of the
German Deputation ; F. as MINONT, Member of the
French Deputation; ELOUT on Bocrnacrono; Member
of the Deputation for Holland.
Moran, Oct. 29, 1962.

Lose .07 FOWL Lilt= FROM TILE FLOODS IN
lio aasr.—Ths lausdatisas is Surrey are maw, and have
bees, for the yea weak, askimelve as to have made all
esinmuniastisa Si dm lasat lawns end villages eztransoly
dattgossus an Is* mad. Is may yams, even is by hors*
eargyame. The intanwininas sustained, and swirl-
woos resisted W ha led Si the folletriffig 111•Imsbily less
tisminiuna ef life at Wallies-gpserThems, a age Mary,
spa the South Wagon dedway. Ovills s orearg,
about five o'cleek, Sarah, the wife of James , to-
gether with her sea, a boy shoat twelve years aid, her
dargehter, aged loveless, topear with their lather, had
bona employed ea 140 Court fees, ia the asseyallsa of
Mr. Willis.. Carole* and were voluesing home des their
with at the above hour to tialresaMge, which bat preent,
la seasequesso of the dada, sampletely surrounded by
wear. The fent of Mr. Creches is surrountiod by a beep '
mawhisk separates the Maga st the gollormate de-
wad anstbse hem the fru whoa dry had hem at
work, awl their *Maw weds of pram to this attape
was by mom of a path rose/ay awe the side of the moat,
sad thew own a high arbgarseat at the owl of it.
This authanitmsna is sow shoat three feet under water,
and there/aro Si got to their surge they had recounts to •
beer sealer, about seven feet kit& Isar feet wide, and
only mum Wass in depth, be the purpose of being punted
scrota the mat, which is is Os priest state 30 yenta wide.
On the evening in question the three pewees above named.
vis., Mrs. Utley, and her son and daughter, having returned
frees the farm, were waiting at the tam SI the moat foe
as return of the husband of Mrs. Law, who had pose
to the stables, to pant thorn ammo in this beer
cooler, he having previously to lonise them told his wife
to be sure and not attempt to CMS the nett until he came
bark, which caution, however, appears to have been
neglected, as the deceased Thomaslarvis, • shepherd in
Mr. Careless's employ, who was feeding some sheep in •
turnip field a short distance from the moat, is supposed to
have offered, or was solicited, to ferry the three persons
across The four persons woven seen by Ellen, a younger
daughter, who was standing at the cottage door, to leave
the bank in the beer-cooler together being punted over by
the shepherd with a long pole. She immediately afterwar&
heard cries foe assistance, and upon running out of the cot-
tage she saw them all struggling in the moat and the beer-
cooler floating filled with water. Assistance was procured
as speedily as possible, and the bodies were got oat, but
unfortunately life was found to be extinct in them sll.
They were conveyed to the Castle Inn, where they now
await ma inland.
MORE COTTON TROY INDIA.—Mr. Fleming, Se-
cretary to the Manchester Commercial Aes,ciation, received
advice, from the Secretary to the lion. East India Com-
pany, on Saturday morning, that the Court of Directors
had instructed Mr. Wm. Batbboue, of Liverpool, to for-
ward to him for sad. in Manchester two consignments of
cotton : one amounting to 600 bales, per Chancellor, and the
other to more than 1,000 bales, per Loch Lomond, shipped
at Bombay. These are the largest consignments yet made
of cotton grown under the experiments making in India to
encourage its cultivation there, and they consist chiefly of
Dharwar cotton raised from New Orleans seed, the growth
of Kio-61. There are, however, amongst this oottes some
few bales grown at Schwan and Hyderabad (Wade),
Candela, and Kurrachn.

EVENING, NOVEMBER

'Ube court.