The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-22 00:00:00

THE ACIIILLI CASE.

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[We continue our report of the proceedings of yesterday.]
The Attorney-Oeneral, is conclusion, asked, was there
any reason why there should sot be • new trial ?
The other aide wen stopped from saying so by the
course they had followed at the trial. They ought
to have said at the euelusion of Dr. Newman's case
that the plea of justification bad not been made out, and
have insisted upon • verdict for want of evidence. But
they did not so, and now that they had profited to the ut-
most by the evidence of Dr. Achilli, they asked their lord-
ships to send tho defendant from this court a. guilty, not
only of a libel, but with the additional stigma of having got
up and brought forward a false and fraudulent case
to support it. It was not for them to turn
round now with this merely technical objection; one
brought forward at the last moment, in order that, having
obtained a verdict by the testimony of Dr. Achilli from
what he would not hesitate to call a most prejudiced and
biassed jury, the matter might not be again re-opened, and
another endeavour made to ascertain the truth of this most
weighty and serious charge.
dlr. Serjeant Wilkins then asked the court to permit Mr.
Bramwell to precede him, as he (the learned eerjeant) was
suffering from an affection is his eyes which prevented him
from seeing his notes in the twilight.
Their lordships granted the application, sad
Mr. Bramwell, Q.C., then addressed the mime again,
going over the more important parts of the evidence, and
commenting upon it.
At the conclusion of his address the court rose.

THIS DAT.

The judges of the Court of Queen's Bench took their
seats at ten o'clock this morning, and proceeded with this

Mr. Serjeant Wilkins rose and said that, although in ad-
dressing the court he fared he should be open to the
chugs of being irksome, yet he felt that such was the im-
portance of the case, and the weight of responsibility
thrown upon counsel on the part of Dr. Newman, that he
was bound to go through the whole of the case, notwith-
standing the elaborate manner in which the Attorney-
Oeoeral had argued it. He would without farther preface
draw the attention of the court to the evidence, and then
he would deal with the technical objections raised
by the learned counsel on the other side against
the granting of the rule. There was not the
attempt to throw unworthy imputations upon the character
of Dr. Newman. It was admitted that he was a man of the
highest honour. He had left the church of England, in
which he held a distinguished position, thereby giving up
Mends and pecuniary advaatages, in order that he might
ids what he conceit, d to be the true church. But what
MOO abia position of Dr. Achilli. He had seceded from the
dumb es Rim. to jtala the protestant church, because his
difisiNise kg predliguy bad become so notorious that he had
from the church of Rome, and sought refuge in
isimmanion. The evidence was clear that
Du hod been taken before the judicial
lan* Of the church of Rome for • long
lam y. If that were so, then let the court
riontrang ctera of Dr. Achilli and Dr. Newman,
and the drimastacees surrounding the conversion of the

one amilthe mueslis se the other.' Dr. Achilli had sworn
in ids andsvit that he was not in 1828, or at say other time,
deprived of his faculty to lecture, and yet the jury had
found that he had been deprived of that faculty, thereby
affirming that Dr. Achilli had been guilty cf perjury. Was,
therefore, the evidence of such a man to be believed against
the testimony of a number of witnesses who had no earthly
motive whatever to come forward and perjure themselves,
bat on the contrary had the greatest reasons to abstain from
coming forward at all. It was urged as a grievance on the
other side that Dr. Achilli had been put on his trial on a
criminal charge, and yet his own evidence had bees re-
ceived and believed by the jury against the testimony of 28
witnesses. It was always understood in the administration
of the criminal law of the land, that the mouth of the pri-
soner in the dock was sealed. Dr. Ashilli had therefore
boon allowed an advantage which no prisoner placed in
the dock ever possessed. The learned counsel then went
minutely through the evidence, and proceeded to say that
when Dr. Achilli was asked whether he bad had connexion
with any females is England beyond his wife, the jury
jumped up and objected to the question. How were
the English witnesses treated in the witness-box ? Jane
Lake, an English girl, was asked by Sir Frederick Thesiger
whether she had connexion with any other penes than Dr.
Mbilli—the same to the other English female witnesses,
pet not a man of the jury started up in the witaele-
ben, in& with excitement lighting up his features,
illffieleiltailffilinulliating a coarse of treatment. The jury
wasid protest poor, weak Achilli ; but what was torture
flee that man was pure justice towards English females. It
was too plain to be denied by any but interested parties,
Sat the jury protected Achilli in their anxiety to slander
the ehmeals of Rome. The jury were influenced by the
dientgoilaide efforts made to blacken the church of Rome,
awl aces unknown to themselves. Th committed •
gees Ihjsetice in their verdict. The learned eouusel want
late the details of the cross-examination of the other
wawa who gave evidence for the defence, and reiterated
Use charge of gross partiality in subjecting those wit-
nesses to a line of examination from which they ef-
fecteally shielded Dr. Achilli. The witnesses, however, were
not shakes in their evidence of Achilit's infamy, and not a
single witness on his part was called to throw discredit on
their testimony ; and yet the jury, upon the testmony of
Dr. declared those persica guilty of perjury. With
regard to the two Italian women seduced by Dr. Achilli,
they too were perjurers—he bad
yet who but the jury in this country believed it. Why
was it that the witnessesfor Dr. New= were branded with
shame ? Why but that they could not be right and the new
protestant light, Dr. Achill, be right also. Again, with
regard to Garimoni's wife, the jury disbelieved the alleged
charge made by him, that his wife had been closeted with
Dr. Achill at midnight, notwithstanding the production of
the record of the court at Corfu. The jury were asked to
believe every word uttered by Dr. Achill, and to disbelieve
the solemn oaths of twelve persons whose characters were
unimposched unless by the contamination they had suf-
fered by the immorality of the Italian doctor. No matter,
however, it was thought neomeary by mad zealots in this
country to resort to every mode to strip the scarlet cloak
from the Pope.
Lord Campbell—When I visited the Pope he wore a
white flannel dressing-gown. (Laughter.)
Mr. Serjeant Wilkins—Your lordship bas had • great
advaatage over me, but we are taught here that tie Pope
was a dreadful scarlet gentleman.
[The sate was proceeding when we wont to prow]

DEATH or Mr.. Hears—A very painful sensa-
tion was excited the day before yesterday by the sudden
death of this veteran musician, for many years, as a per-
former on the trumpet, unrivalled in Europe. Mr. Har-
per had retired from the more laborious duties of his pro-
fession, but still performed occasionally. He had assisted
at the reltsenal of the Harmonic Union, at Exeter Hall, on
Wednesday morning. At the end of the rehearsal he was
seised with a fit, and expired almost immediately. He was.
we believe, about sixty-five or sixty-six years of age. ilia
death is much and generally regretted ; as he did honour
to his profession, not only by his distinguished talents, but
by his respectable character and amiable disposition.

TEE SPECIE BROUGHT BY THE PARANA, now
lying in quarantine in Southampton water, wee landed yes-
Wedgy and despatched to London.
THE AMERICAN MINISTER'S LATE VISIT TO MAN-
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