The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-22 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, June 21.
(Sittings at Nisi Pries, before Lord Csrarnm. and a
Special Jury.)
ACHILLI V. NEWMAN.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Dr. Grotti examined ,by Mr. ADDISON—I am now a
priest, at Broadway, in Worcestershire. I was a student
at the Lyceum College, at that town, when I.' was 11
years of age. Dr. Achilli was the Professor of Phi-
losophy at that time. His moral character was very
bad, and he had a bad reputation. There is a Bishop's
Court at Viterbo, over which the Vicar-General presides.
Achilli left Viterbo suddenly. He escaped; he was
not to be found there any more.
Cross-examined by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL—I have
never seen Achilli since. It was in the beginning of
last December' that I received the subpoena to attend
here. It was a friend of mine, Mr. Flanigan, who
brought it to me. Since:that time I have been abroad
getting information on the subject of the trial. I re-
member seeing a person named Rosa di Alessandria at
Nome and at Viterbo. I neither gave nor offered her
money, nor any person whatever. I saw a great many
persons upon this business, but I did not induce
any person to come over here as witnesses.
I put myself in communication on arriving at Viterbo
with the Vicar-General, Casa Nuovo by name, and a
priest, Zerbini; and as soon as it was known on what
business I was ceme about numbers of people came to
me to give me information ou the subject. I was em-
ployed to go there by Dr. Newman. I believe I was
the only person sent. I was at Viterbo fifteen days. I
was at Rome seven or eight days in going and return-
ing from Viterbo. I saw three persons there who are
all here as witnesses. I also saw Guistini at Rome.
Re-examined by Mr. BRAMWELL—WhiIe at Viterbo
her
to saw Rosa di Allessandria, and tried to persuade
to come to England, but she was unable, being in the
family way.
examined byrrMierd,
Sophia Maria Giovanna Principe,
BADDELEY, through the interpreter—Im a
name Ba-
woman, living at Naples. My; husbands na
lisano. My age is, I think, about 28. I knew Dr.
Achilli before I was married; I was
.then about thirteen
or habit
or fourteen years of age. I Was
nhe of
fre-
quenting the church of San PMartyr, at Na-
f Pietro
church t
A° chilli, who washtabtenl sfiurbs-t
Na-
ples. It was in the sacristy
became acquainted with Dr.
prior of the church. AchilliDr. was generally there alone.
pay a mail sum to him for some purpose. One
there
when Dr. Achilli was alone;
I had to
he shut
day I went
the door, and taking we in his arms, embraced me
tightly, threw we urn
kind of sofa, and there a
dis-
honoured me.
resisted and tried to get away. I was I became pregnant,
then a virgin. and had a child in
consequence. Before I was confined my father and
mother went to Dr. Achilli to remonstrate with him,
and at the time I remonstrated with him, and told him
that it was a great harm; he said there was no harm in
it, it was rather a good than an evil. The only thing he
ever gave me Was a bit of sweetmeat from time to time.
It caused a great deal of grief in my family; my father
died of as illness which was caused by his grief.
Cross-examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL—I left
Naples on the 16th of January last, accompanied as far
as Rome by ray mother. I was induced to come by a
Dominican father named Sauli. My case was well
known at Naples. There was a trial about it probably
twelve or thirteen years ago. The friar came to me and
asked me if it were all true. A father of the order of
St. Philip paid the expenses of the journey. I have
been two months in England, for I stayed some time at
Paris. I there met Signora Gentilli, and we have been
together all the time since. I had seen Achilli some
two or three months before the affair took place. He
was always alone, that is to say, there were
no other Dominican monks. The church was
open every day. The door of the sacristy
was open. I went there to put my name down, and
there were other persons too who went. It was about
November or December that this happened. I passed
through the church to the sacristy; there were a number
of other persons there. When I went in Achilli got up
and locked the door, and he told me not to make a noise
"or shame would grow out of it." I felt afraid and
wanted to go eta, but he told me that there would be
no harm in it, rather good than evil. I did not cry out,
but I struggled; I did not lose my consciousness, though
I did not know so much about it as I do now. He
did not put his hand over .my mouth. I was too
weakened by fear to cry, besides I knew there were
two rooms between me and the people, and it
was no use crying. I did not go out for a quarter
of an hour, because Dr. Anhilli said "I Was very red,
and it was no use going out though the church so I
went out by a side-door, which was used by the monks
,Dr. Achilli showed me the way out, looking first to sea if
there were any persons about. I did not tell my mother
that I was pregnant, and when they complained to Dr.
Achilli denied all knowledge of it. The child was born
in October.

The Court then rose, and the case was adjourned
until to-morrow (this) morning,

REGULATION OF TIME BY ELECTRIC
TELEGRAPH.

On Thursday, the requisite arrangements that have
for some tithe past been pending between the Electric
Telegraph Company, the Astronomer Royal, and the
South Eastern Railway, for the establishment and trans-
mission throughout London and the provinces of mean
Greenwich or uniform time, being completed, the con-
struction of the ingenious apparatus intended to carry
Out the object was commenced by Mr. Edwin Clark, the
company's engineer, upon the dome of the company's
west end station, opposite flungerford market. The
operations, which commenced as early as three in the
morning, attracted great attention from the parsers-by
through the Strand during the day. A scaffolding was
fret erected on the top of the cupole, built under the
direction of Mr. Sanclys, the constructer of the appa-
ratUs, deriigned by Mr. Clark. This scaffolding
was 30 feet hip, zueg from its summit an
uninterrupted vier of London and the river
was obtainable, the total height at which the
apparatus stands bein4 shout 110 feet above the
level of the Thames. A high wind prevailed at inter-
vals during the day at this altitude. The scaffolding
having bean secured, the next step was that of raising
the apparatus, which consists of a long quadrangular
shaft or pillar of wood 38 feet high and 8 in circumfe-
rence, formed of three sections. The first section of the
hollow shaft was fixed by the workmen into the floor of
the room underneath the dome, ands thence carried
through and joined on the second section, and the third,
the latter of which was then passed through the centre
of a large globe or ball, which is intended, by means of
sympathetic electrical action, to fall every day simulta-
neously with the well known ball on the top of Green-
wich Observatory, between which and the Strand the
electric wires have been completed for 'the purpose, so
as to indicate to all London and the vessels below
bridge exact Greenwich time. The ball is a re-
markable object, being nearly six feet high and 16 in
eirciimforenee, and could with ease accommodate three
People inside. It is formed of zinc, painted black,
so that it may be the better seen in contrast with a light
sky, with a broad white belt diametered about it, making
it look like a "great globe," or repreeentaticn of a ringed
otturn,
ball, and Tho shaft is continued a few feet above the
at the extremity is a bright gilded weather
vane, With
Lo r T. C." on the arms. It may be stated,
tn er the nature
able, that tv, of the mechanism more understand-
in connexto-: apparatus is provided with an air cylinder
and Greenw,7ith the telegraphic wires between London
falls an instainnte., *led that when the ball at Greenwich
aion,ufttous shock of electricity will be com-
municated
trigger conneetesd and this acting on an electrical
it to fail simultaneo(ushi the hall in the Strand; will cause
first experiment win • sY with that at Greenwich, and the
the purpose are peeee% tried when the arrangements for
d. The cost of carrying out this
novel enronomotrical_'
at bine is estimated at 1,000/.

it v
• The following General
eattacbed pay of 255. pur
the list of those receiving Ctrs
have been placed upon
diem:—Major-General Robert
Inked p
Major-
General George Paris Bradiih.w•
wAR-OFFICE
CHELSEA PENSIONERS
owin CIRCULAR
issued the foll ,
circular to auec
k, r
oeftarY-ALWar has
g
in command of the respective divieions the staff offi,sters
of Chelsea pen-

.
goners:—
" As employment
the Mat active
during a
may probably he pt. .
couple of months for some ofare
capahle-07€:,,,a.e,d intelli-
gent of the pensioners, who.
structors in infantry drill, it those at the same
is requested tii—"cg as in.
ri among under be made generally know
description will
district t
superintendence; that about ten of this F their
o drill the
probably be required from each
militia, after the ensuing harvest Provided the
found qualified, and willing duty 0,
the following terms:— to volunteer for that d y are
e 6 1. The psy to be is. 6d. in addition to pension, but
.without distinetion as to the rank of the pensioner.
.. ,2. The same allowances in regard to barracks or
billets, travelling expenses, Marching Laoney, messing,
&a., as in the regular army.
"' 3. They will be provided with the usual suit of
nlothing of an enrolled pensioner, or if they are
'enrolled in the local force, they will
be
a
the use of that clothing; but they will be expected
?
alreadyllowed
.to keep up a proper supply of necessaries at their own
expense.
" ' 4. Every pensioner engaging for
this duty m
in the event of having to remove from his home di us
alog
,
the period of his employment, leave at least sixpence e
day out of his pension for the support of his wife during
his absence, with threepence per day additional, if he
have only one child, or 6d. a day if he have two or
more children'. Should his pension be less than these
amounts, the whole must be applied to prevent his
family becoming chargeable to the parish in his absence.
" ' Before recommending these men, the staff officer
must use hie beat endeavours to ascertain that they are
capable of drilling recruits, and inform them that they
will probably be inspected and examined by another offi-
lieer as to their capaeity in this respect, before being
finally approved for this duty. The pensioners recom-
mended should not exceed 47 years of age, and a pre-
ference should he given t., enrolled men and those who
are recently' discharged.' "

EXTRIOaDINARY Fo6T MATCH
AT CALCUTTA.—
The " American Stag," who was, it appears, chief officer of
an American vessel, has accomplished his task of walking
1,000 mike in 1,000 hours in India. He began his journey
on the road
.between Calcutta and Barrackpore on the Bth of
march, and completed it on the 19th of April, and although
rt.4e,weather at the commencement of his task,
was unusaally
yet for the last 15 A.,
—375 he had to endure a tern-
czAviurable,
• is, e frequently above 90 degrees.
Ile did not, however,
/, r
Bengal Hurkaru aofioea.r much exhausted
,1.,!:'•::',:,,:ft,' °his' en;etrotiotnhse, but had lost nearly
ameo-usinxttho!hisweightd.
of interest, an
~,.,,,:;....I..,,w3easahievement excited, an unusual
and datives betted considerably on the re-
-•-e'.,•''•.,. (ialh—Ertropeans
1 .. at. The Hindoos viewed the feat when, Performed as pod-
' ,',-,'.;.:--:, nNelztniraculous.
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