The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-20 00:00:00

DR. ACIIILLI'S CASE

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—Tats DAT.
Boon loan Cannata, Ma hems Canaan. XL Janus
Wannaa, an Ma. Jaffna Eau.
Tam Qum( V. NIWKAN.

; This important cue having been specially flied for hear-
ing to-day, the court was much:crowded at an early hour.
Sir Alexander Cockburn, Attorney-General, Mr. Saddler,
Mr. Addison, and four of other gentlemen, appeared in
sapper' of the rule, and Sir F. Tnesiger, Sir Fitzroy Kelly,
Mr. Bilk*, sad two other counsel, appeared to show cause
Sit.
after their lordships had taken their seats,
bir F. Thrive said he objected to the rule being made
alsolute. The bathed judge who presided at the trial er-
renns diwaidefaction with the verdict of the jury, and
wirweill knows that the judges had always shown great
relostesse to interfere with the verdicts of juries.
Lord Campbell.—The judges expressed no opinion on
way or the other.
Sir F. Thesiger.—Precisly so. The court would recol-
lect that Dr. Aebilli we. called upon to defend lazuli
against charges ranging over twenty-6M yeah. and all them
charges had reference to circumstances which took place is
foreign mentries—in Viterbo, Copt's, and other places—and
he had am the means of obtaining the avidness to
sustain his defence. Lay enquiries that Drills • might hath
made I. Italy would have lima futile, while large seats of
money were awbseribed an the other side and diabarsed by
the friendly hands of Italian priests. Facilities of all kinds
were given to Dr. Newman to search archives and records,
and to gain mishaps la every direction. It wee impossible
for Dr. Aebilli Is same to trial underi more formidable cir-

curnstancts, gad that was isertainly one !won why the
I greatest latitude shad* be allowed to Dr. Achilli in this
proce•ding. Alma Dr. Newman published his charges,
Dr. Achilli applied for • rule, which was granted. To the
criminal lallarmatisa Dr. Newman put in two pleas: one of
oil piney, sad the second a justiticatioo, containing 27 cr
OM the period between 1826 and.lBso.
I. that plea all those charges there was no at-
tempt mailleteenlahlie dee great mei, Cty of them and upon
ti tees thereetald he ao deabt that a verdict of pultynanst have
have been Tetanal bp Moiety. It was unreasonable to
suppose that their lordships would rant • rule which would
enable Dr. Newman eie rake up evidence' of which he did
sot avail himself apses ,the dormer oecwion, and which
would Waist upon Dr. AeleMl the ghost cruel injustWe, and
subject him to the most enormous expenses. He (Sir F.
Thesiger) trusted that ikthat court he was safe from the
popular and perhaps not unnatural prejudice, that
the number of the charges furnished some ground
for supposing that they were true, and yet the
Attorney-General had not disdained, when applying fir
the rule, to adopt that fallacious mode of reasoning. Such
• course was an insult to • learned Judicial tribunal. He
would plowed to call their lordships attention to those
charges of great enormity which were contained in the
plea ofjustalication, and which were as capable of proof as
those Bought to be established, and on which the verdict of
the jury must have been against Dr. Newman. It was
stated at the 4th charge that Dr. Achilli was appointed
lecturer at Viterbo, and that for earns offence he was de-
privedof his leetureship,but that the nature of it was unknown
to him, and in the nest charge, for he would take them both
together, it was stated that as early as 1827 Dr. Achilli
"had earned the reputation of • scandalous friar." There
might have been some disposition on the part of the Roman
catholic authorities not to reveal the nature of Dr. Achilli's
alleged offence in 1828 or 1827, but it was certainly incom-
prehensible that such a decree should exist in 1852, when
Dr. Achilli had been for many years a seceder from the
Roman catholic church. and whey the cue be-
tween him and Dr. Newman excited the deepest interest
throughout the whole of Italy. If thaw charges were true,
they could have been easily proved. Then the 2nd, 12th,
and 214 charges alleged that in February, 1831, Dr. Achill.'
debauched one Rosa Ale:Abadan' in the sacristy of the church
ef Viterbo, and that he was compelled to give her father a
sum equal to 101. as hush-nsonity. There was no attempt
to prove these charges, and when Dr. Achilli was examined
upon oath, be denied the whole of the statement. Then
there were other charges of the same character, all
which, as the court would remember, Dr. Newman utterly
failed to prove. Then there was another charge of an
extraordinary character, that in 1831, Dr. Achilli, being a
Romish priest at Capita, Viterbo, and other places, preached
against absolution, malesaion and ether prominent dm-
trines of that church, and againsti the moral obligations of
chastity and continence, and that by this preaching he de-
bauched various women, and was guilty of habitual incon-
tinence. These were charges of great enormity, in which
the proof had in some cases not been attempted, and in'
others utterly failed, and he asked their lordships whether,
under such circumstances, they would inflict upon Dr.
Achilli the great cruelty of compelling him to incur the
heavy expense and great inconvenience of another pro-
tracted trial.
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SOCIRTY FOR PROMOTING THE ENLARGEMENT OF ;
Cnurecnne.—Tbs third meeting of this moiety, for the ss
present leaden was held on Monday last, the BAT. Sir
Charles Parnaby, Bart., in the chair. Among the bu-iness
transacted, grants were made towards rebuilding the a
churches at Durkin% near Hanley, Staffordshire, and Dul-
verton, &merge ishire ; and towards enlarging the chapel at ti
nes Thothwaite, Kwick; the churches of Hogsthorpe, near N
Alford, Lincolnshire; St. Melds, Stafford; Thetford and et.
Tunstall, near Aile, is askik, and Chalfont St. Peter's,
Bucks. It was reported to mitatiogthat the may
shortly expect to receive el ingalimof may
Xis Woo 4 1,6661. from-NM Ikeily,asii $Bl. hem Dn.
dolhortand, together with eau-tenth ef the residue of the
ImSseentioned lady's poverty.
DEATH OF THE OMER IMIABITANT.—The do-
ewe of the " oldest wink k the world"—Mary Beaton
—the ereii-kairws "eid mama of Elton," took place last
week. Thai isms 10 be Nom dispute as to the precise
Ise of kis weiederfel women. On the coffin-plate it was
ailed to be 117, but It is generally supposed that this is
esslibralsly beneath the fact. A correspondent states that
Mete bad survived will the 13th February meet, she would
bow wildoed the mdpreesdented age a 122 years. Her'
• de might be expesai was very much bent, but her
Milareneilea was free lively, rind her eye, though
amok Maned musk el its former lustre, and she was
ahle te arks with the lesiatease of sissinsies to the last.
• iiiessil= pmmy wee • sod. el Dealleld, in
laishomy =hoi. Mum time at Loft Newton, pre-
dimes Mr amble to bee erieblerb home at Elton.--
!Miles Groorfirs.
BT. James's DlMllcr SCHOOLS, lisurtnaD I
ROAD.—On Monday *wales • meeting. was held to celebrate I'
lika..eming of these wheels, for girls and infants, in the T
which has hew taken for the purpose in Henri
et • ampeteed-real. The Rev. Henry Stebbins, D.D.
P. 11.13., the minimise of St. James's Chapel and district,
look the chair at mess o'clock. Prayer was offered by the
Ike.J.W. Langdale, ski • hymn sting by the children m-
ega The chamois the, addressed the meeting, express-
lsg kr the milt of their first da7's labours--
Wes dad ...ad lees admitted to the
eabodo sad the bade mewohly of Meads that evening Se-
aled its the interest felt is Its progress. Mr. G. P.
inlbsiser maorar! 2111ME7. node • statement is re-
pel neeseres whoa by the oetanitate he some time
psi to doom • whoa.m, aid idoielei Se the Ms=
el De. SWABe is ministering to the seal= of the peer
a= Alibi is Hick own hemm, and in instructing the Is-
belitioie of the moat deed.e portion of his district, is
new Wad Wed for the poopose in Mary-place, where
ales Mai =OS tad 70 chillies- had been taught, free sled
*aim he sue then two yam • school was now owed
asslma alai add dillies oinked ate price whia the
bonded Null allied to peg, owl it was evident that it
would be the fault of the parents if they did not avail thou-
genes of the opportunity of havingthdr children instructed,
a= Ms Mei for the discharge of the duties of their
sonail Mb= in the world. Several gentlemen led=
WSW teethosay to the necessity which existed for such as
WIWI= In the neighbourhood, • vote of thanks was
=te Dr. Stabbing for presiding in the chair and for hie
is the district for many years past, and the proceed-
, is/FANBIIIIOI2II LITERARY INSTITUTION.—The first
sours of the members and friends of the Literary and Mew
die Institutive was held at the Eagle Assembly-rooms es
Tuesday last, at which the Rev. Hy. Moseley presided,
sad made a most able and impressive speech upon the ad-
vantages of institutions and meetings which were calculated
to call forth the annul powers of the people. Shan
speeches wen made by Dr. Igstaff, Mr. A. Coleman, the
treasurer, Mr. H. Gore, Mr. D. Nicholson, Mr. M. Black-
mon, and Mr. Chee. Pearson, who, at the request of the
meeting, gave a short nation, with the assistance of
diagrams and models, s proposed central railway ter-
minus and City improvements, and the advantages likely to
accrue therefrom to the industrious classes of the metro-
polis and its vicinity. A most extensive variety of objects
were exhibited, including specimens of art, manufactures,
models in motion, new and interesting discoveries and pee-
resses, objects of natural history, and many other objects of
interest.
LONDON AND NORTH WISTIOUI AMWAY.—
Return of tradic for the week ending Jan. 16, 186i1;
Pamengers, parcels, carriages, horses, and kis
23,6831. Bs. 114. ; merchandise, 19,4481. lls. 7d.; aids,
1,0971. 10s. Bd. Total, 44,1271. lls. 2d. Coertepoudieg
week, 1802, 39,2031.12 x. 9d.
GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAT.—Rettirs of traffic
for week ending Jan. 9, 1863 :—Passengers, panels, car-
riages, horses, dogs, and mails, 6,632:.13e. Od. ; merchandise
and minerals, 8,7111. 141. 24. ; cattle, 1831. Gs. ld.—
Total, ,12,5071. 13e. 3d. Corresponding week, 1862,
9,7461.125. 11d.

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