The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-06 00:00:00

Colonel the Hon. A.Vordon and Count G;lti.

Iler Majesty and the illustrious party travelled by a spe-
cial train on the Great Western Railway, and on reaching
the Windsor Station proceeded in several of the Queen's
carriages to Virginia Water, and afterwards went to the
Royal Lodge, where luncheon was served.
The Queen and Prince Albert, and the Royal Circle, re-
turned by the same route to London, arriving at Bucking-
ham Palace at half-past four o'clock, escorted by a detach-
ment of the Royal Horse Gouda.
The Queen, accompanied by the Prince and Princess of
Prussia, honoured the Royal Italian Opera with her pre-
sence last evening. The Royal suite consisted of the
Countess of Mount Edgeumbe, the Countess Von Macke,
the Countess Oriolla, Lord Camoys, Lord Alfred Paget,
Lieutenant• Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, Count Puckler,
Count Gotta, and Count Boos. The Duchess of Kent ac-
companied by the Prince of Hohenlohe Longenbourg, and
the Princess Adelaide, and 'Mended by Lady Anna Maria
Dawson and Lord James Murray, also honoured the per-
formance with her presence.
Lord Camoys has relieved the Marquis of Ormonde in his
duties as the Lord in Waiting, to the Queen, and Lieut.-
Col. the lion. Robert Boyle has succeeded Major-General
Berkeley Drummond in his duties as Groom in Waiting to
her Majesty.

The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt had a quarterly meeting at the official residence of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street yesterday.
There were present the Chancellor of the Exchequer. the
Governor of the Bank of England and the Deputy Govc roar.
Sir Alexander Spearman, Secretary and Comptroller-Gene-
ral to the Commissioners, attended.
The Marquis of Bristol had an interview with the Earl
of Aberdeen yesterday at his official residence in Dawning-
street.
A deputation from the committee of theAnti-State Church
Association, to urge objections against the ecclesiastical pro-
visions of the Burial Grounds Act, had an interview with
Sir Wm. hiolesworth yesterday at the office of Works and
Public Buildings in Whitehalllilue. The deputation con-
sisted of Mr. Hadfield, M.P., Mr. Mien, M.P., Mr. Cross-
ley, M.P., Mr. 11, M.P., Mr. Kershaw, 111. P., Mr. Hey-
worth, M.P ' Mr. Pellatt, M P , Mr. J. Carvell Williams
(secretary), the Rev. Alexander Lewd, Mr. G. J. Cockerell,
and the Rev. Robert Eckert.
Dr. Bowring and Governor Barkly bad interviews yester-
day with the Duke of Newcastle at the Culonial•office.
A deputation to present a memorial for a repeal of the
malt tax and hop:duties had an interview with the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in
Downing-street. The deputation consisted of Messrs. Geo.
Rusbridger, Geo. Lear, James Lawrence, J. H. Hopkins,
S. Duke, H. Duke, Richard Castes, Edward Rabin, Mill-
lensDennett, Geo. Smith, Geo. Coote, John Wyatt, Edwd.
Wyatt, W. Death, John J upp, Henry ILardwick, and John
Brown.

It is understood that credits lately opened in Lon-
don in favour of a member of the family of the Emperor
Nicholas, who was expected to have visited England in the
coure of the present summer, were withdrawn on Monday,
the visit having been abandoned.

The service of plate subscribed for by the parish-
ioners of St. James's, Westminster, as a memorial to their
late rector upon his elevation to the see of Lincoln, was
presented on Monday to the right rev. prelate, by the com-
mittee acting for the parishioners. The value of the plate
was about 7001, and it was understood that it was to ba on
view during the last three days of this week at the makers',
Mean. Wilkinson and Dobson, P.ccaddly.

THE BLIND KING AND THE BLIND DRAMATIST.—
His Majesty the Kiag of Hanover has been pleased to pre-
sent to Mr. Moncrieff, the dramatist—now a brother of the
Charterhoute, and, like hie augur. pa,ron, totally blind—
the Royal Hanoverian Medal of Arts and Scienc a. Mr.
Moneriett,shortly before his Majesty succeeded to the throne,
dedicated his selection of plays in three volumes to the than
Crown Prince of Hanover.

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DETECTION OF IRON SHILLINGS AND SOVEREIGNS.
—By applying a small pocket magnet to • counterfeit coin
of the above kind, it is instantly attracted, and may tkus be
lifted up from a table, whereas genuine coins are unaf-
fected. A delicately-suspended magnetic needle is a still
mere sensitive indicator.
FLOGGING IN THE ROYAL NAVY.—Mr. Hume
has obtained • return showing the number of punishments
by flogging in the royal navy from 1848. In 1848 there
were as many as 1,363 punishments. and the lashes infitcted
were 40,515. There has been a decrease in the number
every year, and in 1812 the number was 678, and the lashes
inflicted 17,591. The highest given was 48, and the
owest 3.
CysToss.—From a return just issued, it appears
that in the year ended the -sth January last, the Customs
revenue was 22,312,5131., and the total cost of collection
1,268,4211. The value of exports was 219,545,609/., and of
imports 109,345,4001. The tonnage inwards and outwards
was 16,130,1410. The number of Customs officers was
11,691.

DENUNCIATION FROM THE ALTAR.-
CONVICTION OF A ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST
FOR ASSAULT.

At the Bristol quarter sessions, on Monday, before
the ltec ' ,It B. Crowder, Esq., Q C., the Rey. William
Cullinan, resident priest of the It:Asian catholic church of
St. Nicholu, Lawford's Get, and Martin Foley, a lay
member of his congregation, were 'evenly d for
having un the 19th day of June, in the church of St.
Nicholas aforesaid, unlawfully assaulted, beaten, i.nd
treated the Chevalier Antonio Barace•co de Mascatenhas.

Mr. Nash stated the nature of the fact?, which he be
lieved he sbou!d establis'a, ;.d caned—

The Chevalier de Masearenhas, who deposed that be had
lived 31 years in Bristol, durina which time he had held
the office of Consul General of Portugal. On Sunday, the
19fh, he went to St. Nicholas Church, for the purpose of
attending service. As he entered the churchyard, he 1.14`
the defendant Foley, a man nerned Ryan, and some others.
As he passed, lie wished them a good morning, open
which Foley said, " What do you come here fori
—do you come to insult i" Ile replied, No ; I
do not come to intuit—l came to my church."
Some one said," You shan't come here," but he passed en
and entered the church. Father Callinan was the cnti, Lit
ing priest, and proceeded with the mass to the end of the
first gospel, when he said, " I feel to) ill to•day to preach,
but I shall have something to say after the mass." Atter
he had concluded the mass and put the chalice on the altar
he held up a letter in his hand and said, " This is a let er
for an anion from the Chevalier's lawyer." He added that
the Chevalier's Jawyer was a protestant, while Lis (Culli-
nan'e) was a catholic, and then, pointing at him (the che
vslier), he said, "'that man does not perform his duties."
Upon his thus interfering with matters betwe, ti Lim and
his God witness rose and said calmly, "I do attend to my
duties. I confessed on Friday to Father Godfrey at St.
Mary's, and I received communion on S..turday." Father
Cullinlso then mild, " Turn him out," or " put him out,"
and immediately Foley and Ry.fn, and others, ran to him,
and seized him by the arms. I: would have been useless in
him to resist a powerful manlike Foley, and he was dragged
some way, when a member of the congregation said, " Do
not put him out. You shan't put him out." Upon this
Father Callinan pointed to the speaker and said, " I mark
you." A Mr. Duck said to Lim " Come out with me,•'
but he replied " No, let them put me out," and he was
put out. In reply to questions by his caunsel it was elicited
that the Chevalier had been a &::^t' promoter of the chapel,
and that he had lest 2601. towards buiiding it. Of this sum
he had got back VOL, and had given 10/., which left 50/.
still due to him. He had likewise been a donor of coal and
other matters for the poor of the di-nriet.
In reply to the Recorder he said he was in personal fear
at the time, as be knew that the same priest had ordered a
woman to be kicked out, and she was kicked out.

Cross-eaamined—He bad made statement• of complaint to
the bishop against the priest. One atrocity complained of
by him was this :—A person in the congregation happened
to yawn, upon which Father Cullinan from the altar uid,
" You go to hell and damn yourselt ; don't come here and
damn others." He spoke to the father about this and asked
him why he did such things, and arrogated a power
which was only possessed by Christ. The father cited the
Councils of Trent, but he told him he did not believe
that a priest had such power. Another atrocity was
that upon a sacred festival day the poor woman who had
been kicked out brought candles as an offering to the
Blessed Virgin, and instead of accepting them front her
Father Cullinan took them from her anal threw them into
the gutter. He complained of a third atrocity. On Good
Friday, which was obs: rued by his church as a most solemn
day—a day on which they prayed for all infidels, and the
cross was handed round for them to kiss—Father Cullinan
passed by the poor woman, and would not let her kiss it,
which was a great thing. The witness admitted that he
received a letter from the Bis':op, stating that as he was
in Liverpool seeking contributions, he must refer him to
the Vicar-General, and the Bishop also recommended him
to go to another chapel. He dial not yield to this advice,
as he was attached to the congregation of St. Nicholas. He
had said that such Irish priests were not tit fir Eng-
land, as the country was so different from Ireland.
By the words " such Irish priests," he meant irritable
prierts. Apart from the irritability he complained of, he
believed that Mr. Cullinan was a very good man.
Mr. Stone addressed the jury for the defendants, eon- I
tending that the Chevalier had brought all the conse-
quences he complained of upon his own head. It was clear
that he had preferred idle and groundlesc complaints against
Mr. Cullinan to the Bishop, because, bad they been at all
justified, the priest, at whom they were aimed, would have
certainly been removed. Then, instead of attending to the
Bishop's suggestion to go to another chapel, he chose to
pass places of worship much nearer to his own house, and
attend St. Nicholas, for the purpose of annoying the Priest
and disturbing the congregation. On the occasion in ques-
tion he chose to disturb the congregation, and his expulsion
was therefore justifiable.
The Recorder, is summing up, remarked that the main
question for the jury was, whether they considered that
the complainant had disturbed the congregation during set
vice, so as to warrant the parties in ejecting him; whether.
indeed, the pointing out a person from the altar as having
neglected his duties was a part of the service. Had the
account given by the Chevalier been inconsistent with the
truth, it was open to the defendants to have called the con-
gregation to contradict him.
The jury, after two or three minutes' consultation, found
both defendants guilty.
The Chevalier de Mascurenhas said he hoped the Recorder
would deal leniently with them, as his object was not punish-
ment but the vindication of his tights.
The Recorder then sentenced Father Cullinan to pay a
fine of 51., and Foley a flue of 21., to the Queen, and to be
imprisoned till it was paid.