The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-23 00:00:00

EVENING, JUNE 23, 1852.

FORMIGZT.

Railways.

Nomini 1 Prices.

Business done
to-day.

Cent. France (0.V.) all
Charl. & Erquel all pd
Demerara all pd
Dutch Rhenish... Bl. pd
East Indian 181. pd
Do. Do 201. pd
Gt. Indian Penin. all p
Do. Do. 4 pd,
Grnd.Junc. of Fra. 4 pd.
Louv. a la Sambre NI
Luxembourg l3l. pd
Do. (Railway) 10/. pd
Do. l/. pd
Do. (Canal) 2t. pd
Maria Antonia 27* pd
Do. New pd
Namur & Liege all pd
North. of France,l6l.pd
Do. 20/. 3 p. c. Bds, all p
Orleans & Bor 11/. pd
Paris & Lyons ...61. pd
Paris & Orleans all pd
Paris & Rouen ...all pd
Paris & Stras. ...all pd
Rouen & Havre...all pd
Sambre & Meuse all pd
St. Andrew's & Quebec
(A) 4l. pd
Tours & Nantes 171. pd
West Flanders...B3/ pd
West. of France 61. pd

24% - 24%
14 -16

2% —2% dis.
5 511 p

1%-- 19 p
PA- 1% p

4 3/4 5
3/s 4
%
%
8 9

6% 7
241/2 243%
13y8 1414
5% 59's 13
-61 A
48y, —5O p
34% 35
23X 231,E x.d
13% 13%
5% 5%

4jB 45/Bdis.
3% 3yB

2 - 217 i p
MINES.

Agua Fria all pd
Anglo-Californian, all p
Asturian 15/. p
Australasian 2/. pd
Australian 51. pd
Austr. Freehold all pd
Ave Maria all pd
Blaenarvon I. & C. all p
Brit. Austr. Gold all pd
British Iron 13/. 15s. p
Braz. Im. (is. 5 p) 241/2
Do. Coca. & Cui. all p
Do. St. Joh. del R. 151.
Carson's Creek all pd
Cobre Copper ...401. pd
Colonial Gold 1/ pd
Copiapo 14/ pd
Eng. &Aust. Cop. all p
General all pd
Gold Mountain all pd
Great PolgoAh all pd
Lake Bathurst all pd
Liberty ... all pd
Lon. & Cal. Gld Quartz
Crushing Com all pd
Mexi. & S. Amer. 91. p
New Granada all pd
Nouveau Monde, all pd
Port Philip l/. pd
Quartz Rock all pd
Santiago de Cuba 1034
South Australian, 1 pd
Tin Croft 7l. pd
United Mexican all pd.
West Mariposa all pd
JOINT
Australasia all pd
Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd
Colonial 25/. pd
Corn. of London 20/. pd
Lon. & County 20/. pd
London Jt. Stk. 101. pd
Lon. & Westm. 20/. pd
Nat. Prov. Eng. 35/. pd
Do. New lO/. pd
Nat. of Ireland 22% p
Orient. Bk. Corp all pd
Prov. of Ireland 25/ pd.
Do. New all pd
Union of Austral all pd
Do. New 2% pd
Union of London 101. p
Union of Madrid all pd

% Ys P
YL 'A P

3% P
y„ 3A I
3/8 dis.l
7/8 dis

...
die par

... - .•
1% -. 1%

38% - %
- 3913

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...%
dis.l

3/8 is dis.
11— 11/2 p
Adis.

3/4- 1 1/i p

% % dis.
4% 5
3/s % dis.
Ys % p
% Y 8 P
ys % dis.
11 —ll%
3/8 % dis.
11 1114
2 2q,
ys- % dis
STOCK HAN:
50 —51%
59% 6034
14% 15
25 26%

18 -18 y,
29y, - 30%
43 -444

18% - 20
36 - 37%
46% - 47
16%8 - 17%
44% - 45%
4 - 454
15% -16%

BUS
Austral. Roy. Mail, 2 p
Canada 32 j pd
Copper Miners of Eng-
land . . 25/. pd
Do do. lO/. pd
Eastern Steam...2s. pd
Gen. Stm. Nay. 14/. pd
Gen. Screw Steam Ship-
ping Company...so/. p
Irish Beetroot Sug. 2i p
Penin. & Or. St. all pd
Do. Do. ...151. pd
Royal Mail Stm. 60/. pd
Universal Emigration
and Colonization, 2/. p

,CELLANEOTA
2 - 21,4
50 -51

2.8 IA -: 29

2 —23 A
86 87% .x.d
36% 37%
77% 78%

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius at Westminster, before Lord
CAMPBELL and a Special Jury.)
THE QUEEN (ON THE PROSECUTION OF ACHILLI) V.
NEWMAN.

The intense interest which this case has excited during
the last two days bad increased rather than abated this
morning. The galleries and the body of the court were
crammed in every part, and crowds remained outside,
who we unable to obtain admittance.
Dr. Achilli was called and examined by Sir F. DIM-
MER. In reply to a preliminary question, he said he
would prefer giving his evidence in his own language.
He then said—l am forty-nine years of age. I was born
in Viterbo. I was educated in the Roman Catholic
faith in the College of the Jesuits. I entered the
Dominican convent at Qnercia as a novice; that was in
the year 1819. I was then sixteen years old. I re-
mained in that convent a little more than one year. I
then became a monk of the Dominican order. In 1521
I went to Lucca, to pursue my studies there. After
that I entered into priest's orders. I was then under the
canonical age. I obtained my orders by a dispensation
from the Pope. That was at the solicitation of the
Duke of Lucca. In the same year that I obtained my
orders I went to the College of Minerva at Rome to
pursue my studies there. In the early part of 182'7 I
was sent for to preach the Lent sermons at
Capronica, in the province of Viterbo. I was
appointed by the Bishop to preach those sermons.
I have yet the patent of my appointment. In Septem-
ber, 1827, I received an appointment as lector philoso-
phic at the seminary of the Bishop. of Viterbo. I
commenced my duties under this appointment in No-
vember in the same year. I remained discharging these
duties at Viterbo until 1833 inclusive. On the 6th Oc-
tober, 1832, I was appointed by the master of the sacred
palace at Viterbo to be his vicar. Among other things,
I was made not only censor of the press, but president
of the censorship. I have yet my appointment as vicar
of the sacred palace. In 18331 obtained from Cardinal
Belzi unlimited authority to confess in the diocese of
the Bishop of Monte Fiasco persons of both sexes.
That gave me authority to impose penance and give ab-
solution. In the seine year I was appointed by the ge-
neral of the Dominican order prefect of studies and
the head professor of studies at the College of
Mi-
nerve at Rome. I have not that appointment. In
1843 I left Viterbo with the provincial order on a vi-
sitation tour of the Dominican churches in Tus-
cany. In November, 1834, I returned to Viterbo, when
was
appointed
nt
theids
that visitation tour was ended. I stayed at Viterbo in
my own convent with the provincial. I
remained
ain e p
d p
eccasion only a few days at Viterbo.
visitor at another place. I was appointed the confessor
of the Governor of Viterbo, when I went there in 1827.
The whole of the time up to 1833 I acted as confessor
to the governor. -The general authority of the bishop to
confess in Viterbo is renewed from year to year, and
my appointment was renewed annually up to 1833. The
other place to which I was appointed visitor was the
convent of Napi, in the diocese of Napi. I was en-
gaged in that visitation some weeks. I then went to
Rome. I arrived in Rome inB3s th I
month of December,
1834. On the Ist April, 1, had two patents to
preach the Lent sermons. I have got them in my pos-
session. One is from the Cardinal Serra, Archbishop of
Capua.
I was to preach the sermons at hia cathedral
at Capua. The other patent was from the same Cardinal
to preach Lent sermons at St. Maria de Capua, a colle-
giate church. I received authority to confess persons of
both sexes in the diocese of Capua. It was an appoint-
ment during pleasure. I held it all the time I was at
Capua. In the year 1835 I obtained letters of secu-
larization from the Pope. I now produce those letters.
I did not avail myself of them immediately, because I
was ordered by the Cardinal Acton to remain a little
longer in my vocation until I was better tried. After I
obtained the letters of secularization I went to Naples,
and remained in the Dominican convent there for four
years. During that time I was a month at Rome.
That was in June, 1838. I was appointed at Rome
confessor to the Princess of Saxony, Louisa de
Bourbon. In the month of August, 1837, I had a
patent instituting me as prior of the convent of Santiago
at Naples. I bad previously been sub-prior. There is
a clause in the document absolving me from all excom-
munication. That clause is contained in all patents con-
ferring jurisdiction. lu September, 1837, I was appointed
by the Prior Provincial his commissary in a cause to be
tried in the convent of Del Atro near Naples. In 1639
I completed ray secularization and remained at Naples
as a secular priest for two years. I then went to Rome,
that was in the year 1841. In the spring of 1842 I was
imprisoned in the Inquisition. I remained at that time
about three months. When I was released, from the
prison I went to pass the summer in the country near to
Rome. I afterwards went to Ancona, and from thence
I proceeded to Corfu. I met Biochiani in Ancona; he
told me he was going to the lonian Islands. I told him
I was going the same way, but I had not a passport, and
he added I might avail myself of his, because he had a
passpost for five people and there were only four, so I
took no name, but I was number five. I re-
mained at Corfu about a year and a half.
I went from there to Zaute, where I
remained also about a year and a half. I left about
July, 1846, and went to Malta. I then came to Eng-
land. I came to England in ay, 1847. I was the
M
ap-
pointed professor of the college at Malta. I went and
discharged the duties of professor. In June, 1848, I
returned to England, where I remained till January,
1849. At Rome I was married—lthat marriage took
place on the 24th of June, 1849.
ad
beenmarried a Miss
Healey, an English lady, who h
Italy. Shortly afterwards I was educated in
put in prison
by the Inquisition. I remained there again
resixmonths. I was
confined in the prison of St. Angelo. I was let out of
prison under the pretext of being awitness
cause. Tee French authoritiesiu t e eed in a politicalinmyfavour.
After I left Rome on that occasion I came to England,
where I have remained ever since. I have acted as
minister of the Italian Potestant chapel near Golden-
square until two weeks ago. I was not deprived as early
as 1826, or at any time, of my faculty to lecture for any
offence. I did not,in February, 1831, or at any other time,
know a person of the name of Eleanor Valenti. While
at Viterbo I did not rob any young woman of her
honour at all. I knew a family of the name of Gen-
Wit There are two families of that name at Viterbo,
two brothers, each with a family. Iu 1831 I did not
know a Signora Gentilli. The only female of the
14nnae 6
e
of Cientilli was the wife of Count Julia Omani.

of the families lived in the country near Viterbo. I did
not peas my country month in 1831 in the Inriny of
Genti ii, but I passed it with another family. It was
wind friendstlhB3l
uit ot rw relations. e
01 ar t oh nr
ofl Amy sassed
fr:ets,c ohnunt
my custom in October to pass my time in the country
h
ee
y
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visitedon t
e rtwhwae
es
nhouset
therel.t
hoaf
aG servanteseurtvi lal ing..eyer monthi
whomh es re
e of
tlw thewo housesGikcendt
iiji
out.ls
ti r ngirl withn etiot
shooting.
[The witness Eleanor Valenti, who swore that ho had
Connexion with her at the G enti s country house, was
here brought forward.]
Did you ever see that woman before?—Never.
Did you ever have intercourse with '
that woman?
—Never (indignantly), I never had connexion
with that woman in any place in the world. I never saw
her or any other woman in the sacristy of the church of
Gradi, at Viterbo, nor had connexion with her. The
family of Maccarini at Viterbo, are my relations. I
never had connexion with the woman Valenti at their
house. I never gave her or any other woman a pocket
handkerchief and three sausages, as a return or reward
for any improper intercourse. Of sausages I had none
to give, but I might have given a handkerchief to some
poor woman. I know a nun, Rosa di Alesandris, a rela-
tion of mine, in the monastery of St. Bernardo, at Vi-
terbo. I was never found guilty of seducing and de-
bauching and carnally knowing her. She is older than
I am; with her I could not have committed any sin, be-
cause she is shut in a nunnery. I never had connexion
with her in the sacristy of the church of Gradi, or any-
where else. I never gave any money to her father as
hush money. I think I was a child of five or six years
old when her father died. Ido not know any other
Rosa di Alesandria. In July, 1834, I did not debauch,
seduce, and carnally know a young unmarried woman,
of 24, whose name is unknown to the prosecution. In
1835, while resident at Viterbo, I did not debauch and
seduce, and rob of her honour Vicenza Guerra. I did
not know a person of that name, and besides I was not
at Viterbo in 1835. When I was in Capue, in 1835, I
resided in the house of the Cardinal Archbishop, and
was occupied morning and evening in preaching Lent
sermons. I was during the whole of my stay there
under the eyes of the Archbishop. I did not while at Canna
have intercourse with a chaste and unmarried woman.
(The witness Principe Balisano was then shown to
Dr. Achilli.) I never saw that woman in the whole
course of my life. In 1840 I was at Naples. I had at that
time availed myself of my letter of secularization, and
was living as a simple priest. I never saw her in the
sacristy of the church at Naples. This is the first time
I have seen her. I know the paper produced (receipt for
payment of money to the image). It contains my writ-
ing. This was au institution for an image in St. Peter
the Martyr to collect money. I did not receive the
money; there was a person specially appointed for that
purpose. Persons came to me to write down their names,
but they were not allowed to enter the sacristy—they
stopped at the door. I do not recollect being
stopped in a procession by Principe or her
mother. I was never before the police respecting
a charge by the Principes. I had a friend, the Duke of
Larina; he is no relation of mine. I left the Dominican
order because the brethren began to make war, and
they spread charges against me. I made no account of
this, as was my custom, but my friends, irritated at
such proceedings, tried in every way to subvert and de-
stroy such charges. I had communication with the
Duke of Larina and all my friends. I was never before
the police with the Duke of Larina or any of my
friends. At Corfu I knew a tailor of the name of Gar-
ramoni. His wile lived with her mother, next door to
me. There were two houses. I never committed adul-
tery with Garramoni's wife. I remember on one night
a fact that happened in regard to Garramoni. One
evening I was passing before the house of the wife of
Garramoni, she was at the door and called me. She
asked me to answer and correspond to certain questions.
She began and asked these questions, when we were
surprised by her husband. The questions were begun
but were not finished. I believe she meant to ask me if I
had heard any noise in her house on an antecedent night,
and I believe that she alluded to certain screams or crys
that, do facto, I had heard. When Garramoni came up
he began to inveigh very furiously against his wile. I
was standing at the door of the house, and it appeared
to me that he pushed me inside his house. I made a
step within the door. I reproved Garramoni for his
conduct to his wife. I made way with my hands and
got out. That was the only occasion on which I was
within the house of Garramoni's wire's mother. I do
not think I ever saw his wife at any other place. Some
days after I heard that Garramoni spoke against me
through the city. I went to Mr. Fraser, the secretary
of the Lord High Commissioner, and complained of Gar-
ramoni. I have no knowlege of any proceedings being
taken in the matter in the courts. I had two persons
in my service—Carraboni and his wife—all the time I
remained at Corfu, and at Zante they were in my service;
they followed me two or three weeks after I arrived at
Zante. I did duty at a chapel at Zante. I knew Mr.
Reynolds at Zante; he was one of my congregation.
His house did not look into mine, but mine into his. My
house was higher than his, and in order that a person
in Mr. Reynolds's house could see what was
going on in the upper room of my house
it was necessary to place himself outside the window.—
(A laugh.) I never committed any indecency with Garra-
moni's wife. I recollect Mr. Reynolds, after an event
which happened between us, did speak to me relative to
the persons in my service. I had in friendship, and
charitably, given some slight reproof to Mr. Reynolds
because he was in the habit of drinking too much in
the evening and being drunk. The first time he received
the reproof with resignation; the second time he was a
little displeased; afterwards he absented himself from
the congregation. I went to pay him a visit of reconci-
liation; he assumed altogether a serious tone, and began
to reprove me about my servants. He said that they
had been, before coming to me, persons not of good
morals. I answered I should be satisfied if they behaved
well while in my house. I begged him to tell me if he
had to say anything against them at that time. I re-
member that he himself spoke in eulogy of them, only
he would have wished that I should send them
away according to his will. Before that time
he had said nothing about sending them away.
Carraboni lived in my house as well as his wile.
They had a child. The wife never slept with
me, nor dined with me. Mr. Reynolds never came to
my house. • I never said that the two covers laid on
the table were for poor Albina, the wife, who was going to
dine with me. I never walked arm in arm with her in
the street. I never went with her to hear the band play.
I never went to hear it even by myself. The congre-
gation increased very much after Mr. Reynolds left it.
I continued to perform duties in the chapel six or seven
months after he left the congregation, and until the last
moment I remained in Zante. The congregation in-
creased up to the last moment. (The mother of the
witness Principe was here brought forward.) Ido not
know that woman at all. Carraboni and his wife did
not continue in my service after I left Zante. While I
was professor at the College of Malts, two priests, named
Zaccharis and Leonine, wo had been converted to the
Protestant faith, were accused of some offences. The
accusation was made by an Armenian priest, who, in my
judgment, was not deserving of belief. I was instructed
by the committee in London to inquire into the charges.
I had advised the secretary not to institute proceedings
against the accused persons, because I knew very well
the character of the accuser, and that no credit should
be given to the accusation. I investigated the matter
on my return to Malta, and the result was
that no credit was given to the allegations.
I sent Zaccharis on a mission. Before lie went I com-
municated to Mr. Hatfield, the principal, that he was
going to Sicily on a mission. I did not sand him
away for the purpose of stifling the charges against
him. Whatever were the charges against these two
persons, I fancy I was not implicated in them, as
I was in London at the time they were made, and they
were at Malta.

Were you dismissed by the College of Malta for the
offences of sin, fornication, and immorality ?—No, I
think not.
Did you ever preach against the laws of chastity and
morality ?—No, never.
Do you believe in the truths of Christianity ?—Yes.
Have you ever been an infidel ?—I think or believe not.
There was no time in which I did not believe in the
truths of Christianity. There was never a lime in
which I did not believe in the divine mission of our
Saviour. After I got out of the prisons of St. Angelo I
came to this country with my wife. I do not know a
person of the name of Catherine Gorman. In London I
lived at No. 3, St. James's-street, at the house of a
Miss Lambert. I never took any liberties with the ser-
vant of Miss Lambert. When I first came to London I
lived in Northumberland-street, and, subsequently,
at Shaftesbury-terrace. I had a servant,Z named
Harriet Harris. I never conducted myself indecently to-
wards thst person, or attempted to reduce her.
I had a servant named Jane Legg. She followed the
other servant, and remained with me six months. I
never behaved indecently to her or tried to seduce her.
I remember Sarah, who came frame the House of Mercy,
at Windsor, to take Jane's place. I never had criminal
intercourse with her, or attempted it in any way. I
was in the prisons of the Inquisition on two occasions,
There were some proceedings sgainst me, on the first oc-
casion, in the holy office of the Inquisition. I was
questioned by the Inquisition every day. The charges
made against me were with regard to my teaching in
the school, in the pulpit, and in the confessional.
There was no charge bronghs against me re.
specting my moral conduct. The Inquisition is
not a competent tribunal to deal with these
crimes. The Inquisition never personally and to
my face charged me with immorality. Ido not know
of any charge of immorality being preferred against me
to the Inquisition. I never made a confession to the
Inquisition of having had carnal intercourse with various
women in Viterbo and elsewhere. I see the judgment
of the Inquisition now produced, but I know of rinse
ti were
pro-
ceedings in which any of the charger
brought under my nonce. I never macliet
guilt and threw myself on their mercy; Pemight have
commencement of the proceedings t
hoeny their mercy,
asked if' I was willing to throw myselfand then in that
alacee°neriar:essr the
yes ! would naturally
and I might have answered
case the Chancellor of the Inquisitionttotheir mercy. I have written that I did so aeppoece_inent
tidalited;
be-
lieve that the first part odf the u
that I might be chastised
receive with
fr9-Ime3nnot admit the rest, that if my
the Court I should lons
necessary,g e s ted severe n proceedings
dt
tbh oa
tdeemed
tah:vsUinue irffide 10'obiirteeedndettrdiIskt 'evvnoirfuladlgdda ibsisnuanstbotm,l.ll't:teu:ioi
rmeisgi
ghitmettniotton;a to
confession soon.
which the holy
t,ribuual might inflict
chat ges as those for
and fornication were brought egainst
any punishmentOnll at occasion no sun
"VI" me. omen
proceeding'li had
Coi:-.oVeing
ing, There was no sentence entirely reference to my teach-
tcoljantlei tiaotnjsi—be
a decree of the Congregation
or udement delivered, only
uljndoep;,cetroiaint' of the holy office, ordered
conditions—that
ht
.laet teasshould then b
become
ma
et
reconciled again to th 11 I
ibiynerttl-yie
e 0 y See, and that in the mean-