The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-09 00:00:00

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—gzer OF DOMENICO CE
FOR READING TER BLBLL

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Another Tuna protestant his been =II Is id
aba lawman of the popish Priests Dilleinbe COSINI
Wei Oslsal lase Bastlay morals", at haipealitaiedi
asap hest his Wa to res the yams of the r ONO
Masa wittiest say trial, without say wheat* *
Cassell of Protector", to a you's rosfismesliat the Paolo
kaciary of Isbrogiaso, sear Meets Luper mbar be was
.swayed la chains os the foUowiag oseesisig tho Mama
fa shish be was oeasigsod to a Soares heir" tho poem
ties of owe Bible sad two Tattooists, sad
amnia by tto Cluweellor of the Delegatios of Name
Maria Novelle, that ha coosidored Jesse Christ tho Mk bead
of the &arch.
The

which led to this arrest an in OWN.
Milan of the spy systems now prevalsat throughoatTlMi
may, and so honourable to the man against whom It MO
directed, that I make no apology for communicant than
with ss man felons of detail as your ealussa will .Is.
Domain Cambodia is a workman employed in We SAM=
manufactory of MM. Emanuel Feosi and Co., the we&
boost bankers, who have for pun farmed this tareeigely.
He was calm of tie best workmen in the establiehiesse.
earaing See peals • day, and eojoyed the woes amid
oraddeses of his employers in the highest posaion dorm
His age is about forty-three; and as he is a widower, with
four boys, of whom the tides% is sisters sad tko youngest
sig. there has devolvzil on him tot only the teak of stain-
tainiag his family, bat of diseharging all those deemed'
duties which ant a mother's peculiar proviso,. And thin
duties he be. diasharpd so well that his four boys are
patters's/ geadooadsct, and the when eels bbourhoed is
went to speak of Coalmines children as the models of what
children ought to be. The two eldest wire Malady em-
played in the tobacco maanulactory, where they, too, .send,
on an average, a lira a day oath.

Csectietti livid on the first floor of a bowie is the Via
Tolstoi', does to the Wham° manufactory. In another
small apartment on the sews floor was lodged a young man,
the apprentice of a vintner in forgo La Noce. He was
struck by the good modest of the young Cscaliettifi,elli
the excellent and kind bearing of the lather, and fit
soon: of sonversatios and familiar istermans at Magrr
keened that the lather wee in the habit of reading with Mei
children and hi. (deeds the Blobs. And in casual chat will,
his own master be repeated this Cif CUMMINS to him, 10.1
pressing hie belief that the Bible could not be such a very
bed book, after all, whoa it Prodeoed such happy fruits.
• few days altirwerds, the vintner went is orefeselon at
Bass Lorecso, and time steationed to the 'enterer that hie
apposite* bad been talking to him about Diodati's Bible,
which be thought not so bad as it had been represented.
The priest Immediately interrupted the confession, sad
refused him absolution. Neat day, be met Priest Banta,
the first curate of San Lorenzo, and one of the fiercest and
most releatl.es pentenvore of the Tuscan Protestants.
" Why, whet is the matter with you," said Curate Budd,
" you seem so dull ?" " Ab, Curate, so wonder, yesterday
I wee refused absolution." " Refused abeolutloo," rejoined
the carate," "impossible! refine absolution to so good •
Catholic as you. There mast os same mistake; ease to
my house sad confess to me, and I hops it will prove
nothing."
The vintner made his confession to Curate Baran', sad
received absolution, all snug and comfortable; and Curate
Buratti lost no time in denoonciog Domenico Cecchetti to
the Tuscan police es guilty of this crime sal Protests.; pro-
papsaism, and requiring thin to welsh over his proceed-
ings, sad, if possible, to sties hiss in the act,
Accordingly, some One months ego, four radiuses
suddenly intend Ceorhetti's boon, about nine o'clock in
the eveuicg. They estiectad to have flunil him In company
with other inquirer., reading the Scriptures; they found
only another lellow-lodger named Cit Ali, who bad come to
repay Cinchona the sum of five peals, which he had bor.
Rowed on the previous day. But they seised and carried off
is triumph one copy of diodates Bible, and two copies of
the New Testament.

Comdata heard nothing more of the matter for surly tea
weeks. Oa the morning of Wednesday, the 14th iastant,
he received as or .er to appear before the delegate of Santa
Maria Semite, in the attersoun of theorem.. day. Thin and
there he was eaunined by the Cameohoc of the Dille_
'ratios, and required to declaim why three copies
of Diadati's Bible and Testament were found is
his permeative. " Indeed, &Amur Delegato," wee the
answer, " I only wish then had been floe instead of
three, for there are flu of as, my foot boys and myself, and
we require a Bible a piece." Toe C.tocellitre eameasively
iaterrogated him as to his opioion mouths( mass, mem
sign, the authority of the Pepe, small which points boosted
his opinion without mem. He repli.d that Jesus Christ
had been offered up once ea a 'strides for the eine of man-
kind ; that no Moire sacrifice was or could be wanted. Ile
said, "Au to coafemien, when I bane missed, it is my duty
to coafewinty we, drat to Almighty Clod and implore his
pucka ; thee to my brother, if I haas acted wrongly against
my brother—to you, S,eIOUF Caucellierr, for eaample, if I
have uffeaded you. A. to th• Pops being the head of the
eburch, I know, be solo, no brad.hip ova that of Jesus
Chili& The Pope is a constituted authority, like you,
Signor Cane-oilier,. before that ez.maaatioa terminated,
the Casseelliere of the D-legation had, 1 doubt sot, ao-
gaited the conviction oh Jocquee, that—
Out of these

nue Y n:rdrnriTs; itso.76e.id and Merced.
But, respecting certain salters, he neither heard nor
Imensii anything fro= Domenico Ceeehetti, though again
sad via be returned to the charge. Neither wheedling
see bellying afield induce Lim to reveal ate mane of env of
the Chrirtisa brethren eitii whom be read sad diseoened
upon the Scriptures. His answer neveriebty wog; "On all
pouts regarding myself I will smote r.l without the
slightest reserve ; but questions likely to esaaatit lay frkeds,
I cannot and will hot reply tr." The Cancelliete, finding
the attempt how leo, the& react over the minute. of the
Ciechetn himself penned it, sad signed to
same ; end so, for the Lae. the 'Has terminated with the
dismissal of :he aceuted.
The paper thus obtarbed was submitted to the Council of
Prefecture, which on the &easels it contained, senteseed
Domenico Cecenetti to a yeses imptioralatat In the peni-
tentiary of Imbrogians. Imbroglio% was formerly& villa of
the Orand Dukes of To c..oy, in which they solaced them-
selves after the cares don& with rural pleasures, sad is new
a dungeon for ate protestant subjects of Leopold 11., sad is
that interact'', doubtless, sends him as lama pleasure as
he is capable of receiving.
On the morning of Suudsy, the 25th, the gendarmes ware
charged with the exeeutioa of the sentence. They entered
the boom of Demonise Combetti at halt-past lour, sad told
him that they Id.d been rot to convey him br the Bergen°,
from whence he was not likely soon to return. Hastily
blaring his four toys, he bade them farewell, leaving them
in the ears of Him, tt with whom Is strength and wisdom,

arid whose ere bdb t►e deceived sad the deeeiver." Oa t►e

following =mimeo he was mat at a qo wise to seven, yielded
by two gendarmes, heavily ironed, pole bat calm, on his
way to the terminus of the Leghorn Railway, by wheel' he
was to go to Monte Lupo.
On the preeedieg facts I shall offer bat am word of
comment. Never was there a ease which more impe-
ratively required, which more completely justified, the
sympathy of all European protestante, and the interpo•
sition of all protattant goyeriuments. I, is well that oar
attention should b. turned to the Oriental Christians who
have groaned ond.r the whip and scourge of Moslem domi-
nation; bet let us set, ow that account, tweet the etwustry-
met of the Ciukcardisi sad Medial, ac oweitiek the harrow-
ing het that all Italy k rife with the wholesale peresestios
of swab men. N4l, is 'soh perescutios smeosseeted with
the great 'trunk in which we are 'swaged. "My respect
for the independence of states is well kaowo," said the late
Emperor Nicholas to Sir Hasedton Seymour; "sad the
proof is, that I supported the Grand Duke of Tuscany
&phut the protestant agermeless of the English givers.
lust !" Perhaps the Russian envoy, Con .t Loom Potorili,
who dieted yesterday with the Greed Duke Leopold, was
'shined by the dying autocrat to reiterate the same advise.
Es ie mid, et least, to be the bearer of such eases& to the
Neapolitan court, I a the executions, of the Poles might
fitly bequeath to the gaoler of POSTiO.