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to demand that they shall have a fair and public trial, with
proper legal aseistance to prepare their defence, their legal
'dryer being chosen, not by the government which apneas
them, but by the consular agent of their own
meat ; and unless there be any poeitive and publicly-IMT:
regulation which precludes prisoners conlined before trW
upon such a charge as that brought against these Mill (of
which charge the British consular agent ought to have a
oopy), from communicating with their consul, than and in
such cos her Majesty's government have a right to insist
upon the British consular agent hiving free access to the
prisoner', for the purpose of supplying their weals, and pro-
viding for their defence on their trial, whioh owlet not to be
unnecessarily delayed. I have accordingly to tailrace you to
address an official note to the above effect to K. 'Carel", and
you will express a hope that the Neapolitan guvername, by
voluntarily complying with this just demand, will spare per
Majesty's government the necessity of repeating It through
another organ, and in a different manner.—l am, &c.,
(84111ted) CLAMS/WON.

Acting Consul Barber to the Earl of Clarendon.—(Received
October 14.)
Naples, Oct. 8, 1867.
My Lord,•—l have the honour to report to your lordship
that I was yesterday informed, from a source on which I nest
rely, that on the occasion of conveying the crew of the
Cagliari from the prison of Naples to that of Salerno, the
pollee handcuffed all the prisoners, and so tight were the
ligatures that three days after they were still visible on the
master's wrists. The engineers Watt and Park, lam in-
formed, were also conveyed to Salerno with their hands
bound, in the same manner as if they had been convicted of
felony, and so great is the misery of mind experienced by
them potsrLass, Misr three months'
alginser Watt, me soca as his kandrenrcca"=, =pit
to commit suicide by cutting his throat. He wee, however,
prevented by his companions, and two days after the first
attempt he made a second, by seizing the razors belonging
to the master of the Cagliari, and It was with great difficulty
that the roaster *unaided in preventing him from carrying
his intentions into execution. Bow long these men are
doomed to remain in primal I have no means of learning.
No date for the trial is yet fixed. I have given 'nitrations
to Mr. Vios-ConenlConsiglio, at Salerno to let me know
immediately when the da is named. Possibly Watt and
Park would be cif I could ere and speak to them ;
but, my lord, attar the repeated and positive manner In
which the Neapolitan government he. refused all applica-
tions made for me to see them, I reel that any demand in
this instance will also be negatived, unless backed by a
strong rentonstruice from your lordship.—l have, tn.,
(Sighed) LSIVIB J. HAMM*.

Mr. Park, senior, to the Earl of Clarendon.—(Received
October 23.)
Genoa, Oct. 18, 1867.
My Lord,—l feel mosedingly bony that I have to trouble
your lordship again on the occasion of my ma, Charles
Park, ens of the two engineers belonging to the steamship
Cagliari, who has been confined in the p ion at Naples from
the month of June last, without any evidence of their
cam being resorted to, and from thee they are now
trend...red to Salerno, to undergo a second course
of the ; and as to when their trial will be brought
forward I cannot arrive at any information whatever, being
refused in the most absolute manner, to all my solicitations
toesi with my son ; besides, he has been even deprived of
Waiving
letters from his parents. And, my Lord, I have
learned, with deep /MOW, to-day, from Naples, that my son
has become serious) effected in his mental disposition, from
no other cause but from the manner the government is acting
towards them. lam fully convinced your lordship is aware
of all that hail transpired throughout respecting this matter,
and I moat solemnly beg of your lordship to cause some im-
mediate i*p to be taken in order to arrange with ths Nee.
politaa authorides to great his parent the due privilege of
consoling with him ander Ms afflictions, and, at do same
time, I humbly beg your lordship to perm& the Neapo-
litan authorities to bring their ease to a &Mos in order that
they may be set at liberty.—l em, de.,
(Signed) Cmiii, Pang, sm.
The Earl of Clamed= to Actint Llamas' Barber.
Foreign Oct. 29,1867.
Slr,—l have received your despatch of 16th Instant,
sod its Whom% relative to the case of the engineers Park
and Watt, rad I have, in reply, to instruct yea to
the beet lawyer to be had in Naples for the defence of
am I further to instruct you, If you are allowed to
me Park sad Watt, in compliance with the demand you have
hem ceased to mete, to proceed to Salerno, and to ask them
most pardeularly about the treatment they have received, and
whither they have been in any way tortured or subjected to
bodily pier made& and to tall them that the English
government lam Its eye upon them, end will take care that
so &bodes Is done to them.-1 em, &c.,
(Iligued) CL12.7114D0N.

PAPAL AGGRESSION IN ITALY.—The Turin cor,
r•
t of the Ossietental Remo relates the Mowing : I'grodaneg the many proofs which might fie given to the
British public for the purpose of showing the dangers which
threaten civilisation in hay through the intrigues and the
open workings of the clergy. sided by Austris, I select one
only, which apposes to as worthy of your oonsideration.
About tan years ago, M. Ferdinand =sr, of Geneva,
married, at Plorenceo.a.,French lady, Mori. Burgat.
The marriage took according to the rites of the Evan-
OW Reformed church, and w the aseeesary and legal
form, both the man and the woman being protestant.. For
several years the young couple lived on the beet tow, and
their union was biased by the advent of several children.
Bat about the and of 1866, Madame Bettlngher showed the
worst tgirdxsiedble, and she finally applied to the Catholic
ad* Court
Ar at Florence kw a provisional
divorce. er husband, astounded by this most un-
expected demand, demurred to the jurisdiction of
a catholic ecclesiastical court in the affairs of a
marriage between two protestant.. But Madame Bet-
her declared herself ready and willing to abjure the
evangelical and embrace the Roman catholic religion. Upon
this the Ecclesiastical Court declared itself competent to ad-
judicate in the matter. This wee the state of Afars for some
time. But in March last M. Bettingher received a visit how
the usher of the civil tribunal of the Grand Duchy, who, on
the part of the Archiepiscopal Court, notified to him that •
sentence had been pronounced by the tribunal of the Holy
Inquisition at Rome. This renters of the Holy Inquisitioa,
elute Tribunal of the Holy Ofikre, was to the effect that the
roarrisge contracted between the said Bettingker and the said
Marie Burget wee null and void, and that the children of
the two were spurious and illegitimate children. The Holy
larded= at Rome did not hear or require the statements
of the pardon in the case. It departed from all judicial
forma, bat nevertheless it annulled a legitimate maniocs at
Florence, and the Tuscan government submitted to this pro-
cedure. These facts need no comment. No further facts are
required to show to Englishmen the nature of the straggle
which te golag on in Italy."

THE irOLIIIITAZT PRUOCIPLI AT Onsmto.—The
district of St. Peal's, Oxford which includes the poawt part
of the populous pariah of fit. Oilos'e end Jericho, another
poor neighbourhood, in the math of Amnia leg, mama by
a large majority to groat • china nits, and cosensently the
churchwarden were compelled to adopt the voluntary prln-
gttuabeir plan being to send rotted bogs from pew to pew
to the sermon. The rant has ben that Mi. was
collected dam thereto wee rehuml. The rate sand for would
have raked shout 441. The Nine system of colhattag during
the envire bur also bon adopted at Onearantows Church,
acv Oxford, when we believe it has answered admirably.
Both livings are in the gift of colleges within the University
of Oribed, the former incumbent bong nominated by Christ
Church, said the curate of the later by St. John's College.
WEDDLNOB ox 000 n FRID•T.—A maven diem).
polatmeat was vexatiously indicted upon the parties con-
reread la a wedding arrangement which wee dud to take
plam at AU Saints' Church, Stamford, on Friday lest. A
young couple, for whose union the hums had bees duly
published, had invited their friends and made other prepara-
tion ; bat the curate (the Rev. W. Anderson), who sedan
to entertain a strange notion of his position end his ehrioal
duties, objected to perform the ceremony on Good Friday,
urging ea his mason that it was • solemn hat. The non-
ventence that would result from • postponement was pound
oat to him and he reluctantly consented to rownn the
matter. liedectioni however, seems to have failed in bring-
ing him to mown or be sultnquently informed the expec-
tant parties that he would not unite them till next day, and
afkotod to inn a favour even of that, it being one ad the
days imainded Is Psesion week.—Stamford Mercury.
DEATH or • FIDIALI BLACKSIII7II.-011 Thus-
iv evening the lat instant, the news of the death of Mies
Mauna arrived at Melton. The muse of death was brain
fever. The yarn women bas for some thin followed the
employmmin of a biacimmith, and has worked at the Imp
and shoeing. Frequently she might be ern with by leather
apron on mounted ou the beck of • horse, %king it home
oiler she had been shed." it. No doubt ohs Ida be man
mimed, as ohs was thought to be Blear; may patron-
ised the pine as a novelty.—N • hawesel.

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