The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-16 00:00:00

ROM ISH PROSELYTISM.

The unscrupulous character of Roniish proselytism
has rarely been more forcibly illustrated than by i
recent occurrence in Italy, the particulars of which
hare been communicated from Berne:

A young prot.stant girl of 18, a native of the Pays ds
Vaud, livol an English family at Leghorn. Haling
become surrounded by catholic influences, she was Wawa
to abjure protestsutam. Hearing this, her father, in the
just exercise of his parallel rights over a minor, demanded
the interferenco of the Swiss Consul at Leghoto, for the pur-
pose of obtaining the removal of his daughter either to her
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ant should only ace her in the presence of tomb= of has
new faith; end the utinoet he could effect was to obteht
her exigent to place herself under the care of her relation at
Novice. Accordingly her passport was made out, and tha
Cousal took the pre caution to mention in that deemed
that she was going to the house of If. (woke
the reistica at Naples). M. having remind
notiro of his young relative's arrival, was in welting to re.
elms bar when the eteamer reached Naples. The capt
appears to have been in collusion with the priests who
pulled the sta fogs of this effalr ; for he reload to deliver
her up to H. -- without an order from the pollee.
Upon this, M. -- went to procure the net •strary
order, and shortly returned, provided with it, oa bend the
stesmer. Witte was hts astoni•bment when the esptsia
formed him that the young girl was gone I It amend that
.he bed been privately iarnithed by the tea: deaths of
Leghorn with a lethr of recommendation to the Cordinal
drchbi,hop of Naples; and no sooner had H.-- quinti
the wart, than she was spiry I away, rnd phetd in the
charge of that exoltc I personage.
His Eminence sent her ta a convent, end when she had
remained there some little time (probably with the view of
ensuCtig her ajaiust all danger of relapsing into henry),
he obtains 1 her a eitaation in a catholic family. In the
meantime Del. rnd the Swiss Consul-General of Naples,
acting on behalf of the young girl's father, applied to the
anthoritler to have her given up, as t Jug a minor under the
control of her wrote. All their endeavours hes :ng teen
found freitle-s, a demand was addrestcl by the
B.l's Federal Council to the Iftopoliteu gotten-
ment, the result of which wry that the young
underwent en !at :rrogatny In the prewar) of the Se's
Coro'-General. As it wry racy to forr:e, the was male
to declrns her devotion h the Rotriall chlrelt, end bat •1-
Magmas to retr-i1 in her pretest ai...ration. Liget the
grur id of 'a dellrtii.:CC, the Nenpolit n pvetament re-
fuel' to deliver her up, thus seU.ing utterly at naught the
maim: lly-arceptcd laws of paterael autholiiy, rnd ieau-
' prating a pCnciple which the spit:tart powers of Rome all
'WI, vs reabli•lard—a pinciple which places the dent-
lake of the cherub above the laws of CkL rad ruse us
back to the a:mollies of the Revocation of the Edict of
Nitrate . —sith tilt; d'ffitenro, however, that the protestant
chnt•Tlll tout by Louis XIV. from their penal', end buried
In convents sod horn .cs of seclusion, were He 011.1 subjects;
where •I the govewment of Bombs Is to'ing Pbm.ies with
free Bsi-s ckrrs. But let the gloomy tyrent hewers! He
may be btinhing • nest of hotness round bit bred. If Hug-
land be the citadel of prat -stani m, 810zorlinsd me of
its a:magent outwork,. The Bs:as pars awash of oar
B.uteet tonicity of put pose, cud the b.-gourd Bourbon 4 t 1 do
well to remember that it is to Boise Gonda that kis precious
life is watt amt L

THE STRUGGLE FOR FREE TRADE IN
AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, SEPT. 10.
For some months past the Austrian manufacturers
have been endeavouring to move heaven and earth
—that is, the Emperor and Boron von Bruck—to
upset the liberal commercial policy introduced with
such brilliant success by the present enlightened
Minister of Commerce, and revert to the system of
protective duties, and are not ashamed to publish
their tertimosiumpaupertatis. The number of these
clamorous croaker* who predict the total ruiner all
industrial undertakings in the Austrian dominions
has now been increased by the ironmasters, *hi are
now collected in this city from all the different pro-
vinces of the empire and holding • sort of congress,
the object of which is to prevsu on the goverateent
to rescind the orders lately given for the isipprti-
don of iron rails duty free. ` During the litsttwo
years and a half," said the president of the meeting,
"the different railway companies in Avitria have
imported from abroad no less then two millions of
centners (cwts.) of iron rail', besides other iron,
for their own use to the value of twenty millass of
florins (two million pounds sterling). These two
millions centners of rails, and these other artieles
worth twenty millions of florins, are stolen from the
Austrian producers of iron." This categorical ver-
dict found a hearty response from the sasemblrd
ironmasters, but has created a profound feeling of
=etamongst the more liberal-minded free-
, disclosing as it does such a him idea of the
rights of property. The members of this eciegress
of ironmasters seem to think that high protective
duties will create a spirit of eaterprise, the employ-
ment of fresh capital, cheap labour, and iturter •
menu in their manufactures, whilst the eremitism
of other countries goes to prove that these tfesfoble
advantages can only be obtained by wholesonse'un-
aided competition.
The Austrian government deserve praise for ilia
sacrifices they have made, and the almost insuperable
difficulties they have suomestally overcome, by the
new numismatic arrangements lately introdyerliby
which the eoinage throughout the whole of the Am-
trian dominioos has been made uniform, and is
assimilated to the currency of the rest of Oermsay.
The former crown-thalers of Maria Theresa .retell
called in, and have been melted down, whilst**
smaller coins, such as rwanzigers, kreutzere,
gradually put out of circulation to the aced
400,000 florins annually.

FEDIERATION OP Barr= itiflane.—There can
Do leaser be a doubt that • cashderatioa of the prrOtri,.•
British Werth America is to he a tavoarod logs* w'•
=issrawat theut. la bit azadisatry's Time Pelts(
course of the near to ==artePlimen her C=1.4.1p45• MI"
verataatt, and with tbm ts of oar
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of drift Nam WU as the priaclair ea=
toad et alibied thammeley midis the &caviar-, mf alga
Nora Amer.. say parings Istarificr be preodeibity
thew aa, however It all he paired thmit_
litivemerOthwal oomewita 'amither the Ceilidh& ler
.....gewealttheat to thy dthilarked policy. Thi
imatiouft throws around the
the of mit Is etill aatateteksaNy=
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pro wit *Viktor it likely Is ses
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each without the-
enwarite that It bad beet eartherce fs 1111
let voimalls t mad we thereto* regard this at
wry ie suptimtlere aith a de/nag (Meet la view.
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NM*, by dirket It is gemerally stated Is
itMi wry peiPoll/. WO believe also that ohs ea** at
the 4110"010.10 ragweed .:nin Quebec. to Bank; If OW
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milli a cl we bar. every mica to believe time thegetwai
goie...ewat it lily alive to the haprteoce of
not oal se regards the Ontario& and the Loma
bat se ith Important maim of the Welt PAM
' to the Pacific, of which, sow thst the
=VW& Columbia is likely to be me seibbelwal
amthr
drawths el der, 81'4, as ara emit
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townie the assimmiliesuat ei Obla psis prelever—firlald
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