The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-28 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The American packet Franklin arrived off Cowes
at nine o'clock last evening, on her way to Havre ;
she left New York on the 15th inst., at noon.
The American papers are filled with the reports of
tho reception of Kossuth in England.
The New nrk. herald of the 15th has the fol-
lowing letter, dated Washington, Nov. 13 :

Capt. Long, of the U.S. steam-frigate Mississippi, re-
ported himself at the Navy Department to-day. We are
authorised to publish the closing paragraph of a letter ad-
dressed by Governor Kossuth to Capt. Long, showing that
the kindest feelings and friendly regard existed on the part
of the former towards the commander and other officers of
the frigate, at the time of his leaving her at Gibraltar. The
letter is dated

_
" U.S. Steam-frigate Mississippi,
"Bay of Gibralter, October 18,1851.
" S 3 I have but one favour yet to claim, and that is that
you may be pleased to accept, for yourself as well as for
the officers and crew of this ship, the most sincere ex-
pression of my warmest thanks for the noble, kind, and
generous affection I was honoured with on board this ship.
The remembrance of it will he a lasting treasure to my
heart, and I will cherish it as a fair gift of the Almighty,
with wh►tever fate I may meet throughout my tempest-
tossed life. I hope to meet you soon again on the happy
shores of your glorious land. Let me hope that you and
all who have the honour to do service to their country under
your command, on board the Mississippi frigate, will bear
to me a kind remembrance arid the same high-minded affec-
tion they honoured me with from the first moment I bowed
with deep respect before the glorious flag of your ship, and
felt free once more, because protected by it, and surrounded
hyper frank, loyal, gallant, true, American hearts. May
the blessings of God, and glory and happiness attend you
wherever you go. Please to communicate this, my warns
wishes and sentiments, to the noble-minded, gallant officers,
and to the crew of the ship.
" KOSSUTH."
. .

Captain Long states that he is entirely unconscious that
any but the kindest feeling and courtesy were extended to
Governor Kossuth, while on board the Mississippi.
The Spanish question of etiquette will be compromised
in such a way as to save the honour of both Spaiu and the
United States. There is no probability of the old Spanish
consul coming back to New Orleans. and it a new consul
is coming, why should ho be denied the courtesy of saluting
his flag? It is not the consul's flag, but the flag of his
nation which iv saluted, and as the honour is immediately
returned by the ship carrying the consul, there is no humi-
liation on either part. if the thing is done handsomely
the American prisoners in Spain will be pardoned and come
home; Mr. Thrasher will also be released. Calderon de la
Berea has shown great forbearance, and Mr. Webster has
acted in the interest of humanity by not standing on a
punctilio.
Mr. Webster not leave the cabinet. All the ru-
mours to that effect arc merely picked up in the street.
Mr. Fillmore's claims to the presidency are not likely
to be pressed—that is the understanding now—and will not
for some mouths to come. You will see the indubitable
signs of it in the republic itself. On that condition all the
members of the cabinet remain, and Mr. Crittenden is sand-
wiched between Fillmore and Webster.

Another letter from the same place, and of the
same date, says :

The I'resident has to-day sanctioned Mr. Webster's re-
fusal to accede to the Spanish demands, in spite of the
machinations going on to prevent such unction.
Mr. Rives, says the Republic, has not been recalled, nor
has he expressed any intention of coming home. Of
course not. He has merely been invited to come back at
his earliest convenience.

The Hungarian exiles were on the 12th received
by the mayor, at the City-hall. Col. Berzenczey de-
livered the address in behalf of the exiles, and the
mayor replied in appropriate terms.
Mr. Webster has received a communication from
Kossuth referring to the celebrated letter of Hulse-
mann, the Austrian minister.
Judge Sharkey has been ordered to Havannah
to demand the trial or release of Mr. Thrasher.
According to further returns of the New York
election, the Whigs have a majority of two in
the Assembly. Mr. Toombes has been elected for
Georgia. In his speech he stated that the constitu-
tional union party will adhere to its present isolated
independent organisation and name. An awful
steam-boiler explosion had taken place at Buffalo.
An extensive failure had occurred at New Orleans,
where Peter Cowry, jun., had stopped payment: his
assets are stated at above one million dollars, and his,
liabilities at about eight hundred thousand dollars.
A large and enthusiastic meeting had taken place
at Boston to choose delegates to the State Convention,
and to nominate Daniel Webster for president. The
radical democrats at Utica are about to start a daily
paper to oppose General Cass for the presidency. A
heavy freshet has occurred in St. John River, New
Brunswick. At Frederickton the water rose sud-
denly 16 feet, and did great damage. Mr. Johnston,
• peeisetioniat candidate, haellesa elided to the
Assembly from St. John.
Destructive fires have taken place at Baltimore
and Troy. With respect to the Idassachusets legis-
lature, the Whig majority is reduced to 19, and there
are above 100 representatives yet to be chosen.
The Herald says : •

The finances of the country are in a very favourable con-
dition. California has added immensely to the metallic
currency of the world, and the prospect never was better for
a supply of gold dust equal to anything ever anticipated.
Very few realise the extent of the production of California
gold. More than two hundred millions of dollars, in gold
dust, have been extracted from the soil of that section of the
world in a little more than three years. It is this accession
to our currency that has given such an impetus to every
great interest of the country; and, so long as the receipts
continue at the rate already realised, we need apprehend no
revulsion that will arrest our progress. Occasional checks
may OCCLIT, but our course must be onwards, and in a few
years we shall be able to trade with other nations on our
own capital.

THE NAVIGATION LAW 6. —No less than 74 new
vessels, whose aggregate tonnage amounts to 32,000, are
on the stocks in the building yards on the banks of the
Wear : 13 of them are 13 years at Lloyd's ; 4, 12 years ;
and 16, 10 years. Four noble vessels, of an average ap-
proaching 700 tone, were launched on Saturday; others
will be launched during the present springs.
THE RUPPORD POACHING CASE.—This long pro.
tracted inquiry was again resumed yesterday, but was not
brought to a conclusion. This affray resulting in such ter
riblv consequences (the death of one individual and the
mutilation of numbers of others), it would be supposed
would have been a check to poaching in this distrirt ; not
so, however, for to such an extent is this min..' calling
practised, that since this occurrence three women, in male
attire and in thy pursuit of game, were captured ter a
short time, but ultimately effected their escape, on Lord
Scarborough's estate. On the night in question two keepers
only were on duty, both armed with flails. One of the
females we, struck to the ground ; she, however, rallied,
and a stand up fight commenced. In the struggle the sex
of the poacher wu discovered. After some fearful bruises
they succeeded in getting away, and have since defied the
most active pursuit.

WAR UPON BIBLES IN FLORENCE.

(Frnitt thn D4ity Nam)

Yesterday week we publ i•he.l a letter front Floreneo
giving an account of the inipri•ion.nent and indictment of
a number of peaceable, well-conducted per-ant., f,r kaving
met to read the Bible. Among them was the ease of Fran-
mace and nose Madiai, a man and his wife, who at the
date of the letter were locked in separate cell., except whim
brought before the secret tribunal for examination.

The tribunal of the first instance has now completed its
labours. They are summed op in thy following decree,
which contains ample intermit evidence of tlw grievous
persecution to which our correspoed,mt alleged they had
been subjected.
The tribunal of the first instance ot Florence assembled
in the Chamber of Council.

The precess instituted against Francesco and Rosa
Medial, man and wife, and Pasquale Ciis;..cei, for impiety.
The requisitoria of the public herrn%
The oral report of the Judge Instructor.
Whereas the accused Francesco and Rosa Madiai have
in the depositions confessed to hose made themselves
apostates from the catholic religion, and to prokss an hete-
rodox confession, which they all h. lir, name of evange-
lical confession, and of the pure gospel, the a hick does not
recognise the authority and the tradßions of tho catholic'
church, but subjects the interpretation of the gospel and of
the sacred Scriptures to private judgment.
Whereas it is also certified in the diva-diens that theyhaee
sought to spread and propagate their belief b)• instructions;
that, in fact, it appears by the deposition of Antonio 'Lac.
cagni JJ I , of Francesco Mamielli, of Alessandro Fantoni,
and of the girl Antonia Marsini, th d in the house of the
Aladiai a society of persons assembled, which (the girl) Mar-
sini estimates at the number of 20 or 30, each of whom was
to put in connexion (affiliate) with the society other 10
individuals, and one or other of the MAW, and sometimes
other persons read the bible translated by Diodati, with
the object of comparing the words of t.:.;. scripture with the
doctrines of the catholic religion, and of showing that tho
latter stand in opposition to the teaching of the gospel, as
Mannelli and Fautoni relate, who, in order to snow with
,eater proof of what these compations consisted, produce
for an example the words of the •etipturo that forbid
idolatry, and they say that the Madiai, man and wife, de-
duced from them arguments for tha condemnation of the
catholic religion, which permits the veneration of tho
images of Jesus Christ, and of the saints.
Whereas these meetings were a school of protestantism,
the more dangerous because some ettimlics took part i.e
them, and these children, as is attested by the woman Zoo-
cagruni, and by the woman Mavegi r ; that it follows, more-
over, from the deposition of these t .7t •tne.•es, that tracts
were distributed, which it must be p“..nmed were written
in the spirit of the protestant worship, u-guing from those
which have been seized in their house. and which are before
the tribunal. _ _ .

Whereas it is further proved that du Madiai, man and
wife, have not only taught maxims contrary to tie_ catholic
religion in their house to persona assembled there for the
purpose, but have also sought to nsal:e proselytes to the
protestant worship by their converaatini.s ;--in fact, Enrico
Materassi relates that, frequenting the L. house, to practise
himself in learning the French language, Madiai told kiln
that there was no other true religimi e• eept the religion of
the pure gospel; that worship ought not to he rendered to
images, nor faith placed in the IntprtvAions of the saints ;
that the supremacy of the pontiff was au imposture.
Whereas Luisa Bernioliin depose she was obliged
to leave off frequenting MIllti:IPtl bacatoc Madiai
ridi-
culed the catholic clergy, and said ti at the mass was a
priestly knavery. And Guiseppe teraccioli has re-
lated that Medial several times endeavoured to insinuate
that worship ought not to be rendered to the
Madonna, which insinuation was also made by Madiai to

Sebastiano Vannini, because he was accustomed to keep a
light burning before an image of the most holy
Mary ; whereas, if before the alme-mentioned wit-
nesses, Medial confined himself to mere insinuations
against the catholic religion, as much cannot be said
with respect to (his conduct to) Poustine Vecchioni, to
Antonietta Marini, and to Antonia Zaceagnini, since both
he and his wife sought by every kiwi of persuasion to in-
duce them to abandon the catholic faith.

Whereas in fact the woman Vecchioni relates that whilst
she lived in the house of Mailiai for porforruing sonic ser-
vices, they taught her that the religion professed by them
was the only true one, because conformed to the gospel and
to the bible; that auricular confession is au invention of
men ; that it is a folly to go to mass ; that it is vain
to pray to the Virgin and the saint, ; that disputes arose be-
tween herself and the Madiai because, stedfast in the catholic
faith, she rejected such propositions ; that at last, weary of
hearing these impious maxims, .he ceased to go to their
house.

The woman Zaccagnini deposes that whilst she also fre-
quented the house of Maihal to perform services, they taught
her the same maxims; that they gave her a Bible trans-
lated ; that their conversations had such an influence upon
her mind as to induce her to believe their doctrines: but,
having conferred with her confessor, she returned to the
catholic Path.

Finally, the girl Maniiii relates that staying as a domes-
tic in their house, they gave her the s-nie instructions, and
is order that sho might be able to read the Bible, they
caused her to be instructed in reading, procuring for
her a Bible, and books of heterodox prayers; that Madiai's
wife persuaded her to put off the earmelite dress that
she wore, and to throw away the string of beads of
the rosary. That apostatising from the catholic religion, she
allowed herself to be seduced to believe that worship ought
not to be rendered to images, nor to the saints, nor to the
Virgin ; that one ought not to have faith in the supremacy of
the pontiff; that there is not in the sacramental wafer the
real presence of Jesus Christ; that the communion should
be celebrated in the two kinds, as a commemoration of

the last supper, and not as a sacrament ; that the
precepts of the church about abstitritce from meat on
fast days are not binding; that purgatory dues not exist;
that they took her to the Anglican church, where she par.
took of the holy supper. That on Good Friday of the pre-
sent year she was taken by the wife of Medial to the house
of Massimiliano Buych, an apostate from the catholic reli-
gion, as is inferred Irons the combined deposition of the girl
Marsini aad of the aforesaid Buych, because he being un-
well, and wishing to partake of the holy supper, it was ne-
cessary according to the rite of that church that several
persons should partake together with him in that ceremony,
and amongst these were the girl Marsini and Mediai's
wife ; but having recovered herself from her errors she re-
turned to the catholic faith.

Whereas, by the above mentioned results of the proce-
dure. the charge against the Medial man and wife for hay-
ing disseminated maxims contrary to the catholic religion,
appears sufficiently substantiated, a criine provided fur, and
punished by the 60th article of the law of the 30th Novem-
ber, 1786, by a penalty which exceeding the competency
assigned to the Tribunals of First Instance, it pertains to
the Regal Courts to take cognisance of and decide con-
cerning.
For these reasons, declares that sufficient proofs exist to
send to the public judgment Fraucesco Medial, Rosa
Medial, and Pasquale Casacci, in order that they may
answer to the crime of impiety objected to them. It de-
-1 dares its own incompetency to take cognisance of, and to
decide on such a charge, and orders the transmission of the
process to the Regal Procurator• General, in the Regal
Court of Florence, for the further course of Justice. The
sixteenth of October, 1861.
J. Bottnutvt
J. BEILTACCHI Auditors.
J. PACINI
U. FARA:LTA, Coed.
By a copy compared with the original this 25th day of
October, 1851.

KING'S COLLEGE HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday a quar-
terly general court of the governors of the above charity
was held in the board-room, the Rev. Dr. Jelf, Principal of
King's College, in the chair. The report stated that on the
25th of March last 116 patients were in the wards, and
during the subsequent six months GI7 bad been admitted.
making a total of 773. Of these, 549 were discharged cured.
26 incurable 9 disorderly, 31 died, and 98 remained under
treatment 'the out-patients during the tame period reached
'115,978, making a total of each class since the opening of the
hospital of 199,436. The income had fallen short
of the expenditure by upwards of 9501., end pecu-
niary asaistance was much needed, to remove the
liabilities incurred. It was announced that the charter
tsr incorporating the charity had lately received the royal
resat, in consequence of which it was necessary to adopt a
OnallniOn seal, and alter the bye-laws so as to agree with a
cagante body. A design of the seal was submitted to the
and approved of. It wen stated that the building
and endowment committee had continued their labours,
aaieat progress bad been made in the plans of the in-
Mg UMW The report having been unanimously
es 4!s amass of Mr. Dennison, seconded by Sir
sNO rata Riddell, the chairman announced the receipt of 301.
from an " Old Pupil of King's College," and a donation of
1051. from the Rev. J. 11. Fisk, in addition to former con-
tributions to the amount of nearly 2,0001. The court then
broke up with the usual acknowledgment to the chairman.

NATIONAL BENEVOLENT
INSTITUTION.—Yesterdny
the annual general meeting of the subseribers of this cha-
rity, was held at Freemasons' Hall. The chair was occu-
pied by the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird. The Secretary read
the annual report, which regretted that during th; put
year the annual subscriptions had fallen below their former
average, but this was in some measure compensated for by
bequests amounting to nearly 1,2001. The amount distri-
buted in pensions during the year was 6,0631. 15s. The
number of pensioners at Christmas was 236, viz., 14 males
and 222 females. Of the former 7 had followed professional
pursuits and 7 had been engaged in various commercial
occupations. Of the females 82 had been governesses or
teachers, 87 were the widows of professional gentlemen or
decayed merchants or traders, and 51 had become
dependent on the institution either by the unexpected
loss of family property or by the failute of some
reputable employment from which they had formerly
derived their means of support. The income of the institu-
tion for the year ending 30th September last was 9,3461.
18s. 104., of which 1,8141. 9s. 7d. was the balance in hand
at the close of the year September 30th, 1850 ; dividends,
1,5511. 81. 9d. ; annual and special subscriptions (less by
152/. Os. 6d. collector's fees), 4,1601. 2s. ; life subscriptions,
6511. Os. • and the remainder the amount of legacies by
various ladies and gentlemen. The following were the dis-
bursements: pensions and expenses, 5,8801. ls. ; investments,
1,9434 14s. ; total, 7,6231. 15e. ; leaving a balance in hand
of 1,5231. 3a. 101. The deaths among the annuitants during
the past year have been much fewer than usual, and the
pensions have exceeded those of the previous year by nearly
1601. The report was unanimously agreed to. The com-
mittee for the next year was appointed, a vote of thanks
was passed to the chairman, and the poll for 18 new pen-
sioners was closed at four, with the declaration of the suc-
cessful candidates.