The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1852.

Havannah, fine yellow 39s 601 to 41s, good 3Ss tp 393,
low to mid 353 to 373 6d, fine brown 34s 63 to 353;
3500 bgs Manilla, unclayel 303 6d to 325; but 110
cases 40 brls 247 bga Bahir, damp and washed were
only in part sold at 283 6d to 323 for low to midling
brown, at 323 61 to 33s 6d for good and fine.
Floating cargoes are ranch required at previous
terms, but few can be obtained. and only one of Bahis ;
ord brown has been sold at 18s. There are buyers of
better sorts at 18s 3d to:18s 9d, white 21s to 235; brown
Pernambuco 17s to 17s 9d; white Havannah 28i to 295,
yellow 21s 61 to 24s 6d for numbers 11 to 16, and brown
at 20s to 213 for 9to 10. To day Foreign Sugar :was
sold to a fair extent privately, chiefly for exportltion,
and very full rates were obtained. None was offered
at auction.

COFFEE,—Native Ceylon is held with firmness ; at
present there is only a limited demand, and total
transactions since this day week have not exceeded
4,300 bags at 46s 6d to 47s for good ordinary.
The value of choice sorts of Coffee is 803 to 883, and
few parcels are in the market. Stock of Ceylon is 30,000
hags greater than last year, but, in the casks there is
scarcely any difference. Jamaica is wanted, and a public
Leh) of 57 casks 17 brls and bags went at firm prices,
good at 64s to 70s, low mid to mid 55s to 625, fine to
tine fine ord 495 to 545, good ord and low ord 44s to 48s,
and triage 40s to 43. 'rho prices obtained privately for
fine sorts of Coffee are 75s to 955. Mocha is less required.
This afternoon there was confidence on the part of
holders of Coffeee, and none of any sort was offered at
auction. Of Plantation Ceylon large parcels were sold
by private contract at a smell advance. In Native a
good business done, and prices left off firmly at 40s 6d
to 47s Oct for good to fine ord of new import.
TEA—Public sales are announced for Wednesday, at
present the quantity is 12,000 pkgs. Previous terms
are required for low to good common Congou, yet pur-
chases have been on a limited scale at 9d to led for
sound ; other sorts, however, have been in good request,
and rates are firm ; rather blackish leaf to blackish
loaf at lid to ii d, strong and Pekoe sorts at
Is. to Is 7d, superior of the now crop is 93 to Is 101
There is no further rise for Oolong, yet several pur-
chases have been made; fine Is 64 to is 9d, good is 2d
to Is sd, low to mid 10d to is ld. Souchong is still
much required; fine is 7d to is 101, low to good 10d to
Is. 6d; the market has also a firm aspect. Prices fez.
clean Ponehong are yet 7d to Bid. A free sale still pre-
vails for Elysen, Young I.lyeou, Imperial and Gunpow-
der, but no further advance has taken place. In ether
sorts several parolees have been made at previous terms.
Prices for Green raeol as fullows—low to mid Hysien
Is Id to is 43, good to fine is 5d to 2s 7d, choice 2s 83
to 2s 101, young .11)-son Canton 8(1 to lid, Hyson kind
Is to is floe and superior is 5d to 2s 3d, Twatikay
81 to Is, Gunpowper Canton 91 to 13, Hyson sort is Id
to 24 23, and ripen skin 6d to 81.
SPlCES.—Business in Cassie Lignea has been (lone at
the rates of 119 s to 1303 for I,w to fine. Cassia Vera is
wanted at 465 so 70s. Cassia Buds aro scarce, and can
not be obtained under 9/. Nutmegs are in small supply,
with several buyers, low brown at 2s 2cl to 2s 73, mid to
good 23 8d to 3s Sc), fine 3s 9i to 44 83, and limed is Bel
to 23 6n. Mace veils freely, tine at 35 43 to 3s eel, com-
mon to good 2A 93 to 3i 3.1, and is likely to be dearer.
A good demand exists for Cloves, Bourban and Z tree-
tier Gel to 61d, Penang 100 to Is, and Amboyna 7d to
Si. In Ginger private operations are limited, yet there
is no decline, African realising 235 to 245, Cochin aad
and Calico; 30s to 42s for low to mid, good to
superior 44s to 80e, and export Bergal 163 to 17s.
To day less desire was evinced to operate in Cassia
Lignes, and a decline took place. Of 506 chesfs. at
auction, nsmall part only sold at 1163 to 119 s for mid to
good. Pepper realised full terms, and 1,000 bags Mala-
bar sod at 3:0 to 3id for half heavy.
Pica —The confidence of holders of East India is
unshaken, and up to yesterday they refrained from sub-
mitting flay to public sale. Although the market has a
less active appearance, yet previous terms are well sup-
ported for all sorts, and operations are to a fair extent.
privately. Bengal good to fine white at 12s to 12s 61,
low to mid Ils to 113 9d, broken 105 fid to 105 93,
yellowish 93 6d to 103 63. For arrival there aro still
buyers; Madras 103 to 103 4 d, Arracan Os 6d to 9s 93,
and mid white Bengal at Ile to lls 6d. These rates
ore 2s above seasontbut stock is 5,000 tons smaller; de-

liveries are 8,000 larger.
TALLOW.—The market for Russian presented a (filet
aspect at the commencement of the week, and rates
rather declined. Since then extensive purchases have
been made, and prices advanced, closing for fine old yel-
low Candle on the spot at 435 31 to 43s 6d, new 43s 9d
to 445, up to the close of the year 483 to 43s 6d, and
at 43s 9d to 44s for the early part of 1853. Of home-
melted supply still falls short of consumption and 45s is
the value. Only 50 pp 3 and 84 hhds South Amertcan
were offered at Auction this afternoon, and sold at 42s
to 43s 61 per cwt.

COURSE OF EXCE
Amaterdsm 11 17
Ditto, three months 11 1436
Potterdam 11 18X
Antwerp.............. 25 45
Il7u3sels • • 25 45
11 Amburgb .... • • 13 7%
Altona • •
Paris, 3 dayesight .... 25 20
Ditto, It months .... 25 40
Marseilles •• •• 25 42%
80urdeaux........ • • • •
Franltiorton Maine.... 120 M
Vienna, eine. flo • • .... 11 46
Trieste, ditto.. ...... 11 50
rotersburgh .. • • • • ...- 38
IA
Madrid . . • .... 493
Cadiz • . ...... 50
Barcelona ............
5evi11e................-

ANGE—Tais DAY.

Gltszaltar•• •• •• •• •• .4 ••
Leghorti.•••••••••..•• 30 65
Genoa —•• •••• •• •• •••• 25 60
Milan ..•••••• ••••••••

venice•• •• •• •• •• •• •• ••
gaples .............. 41V,,
L'alermo,peroz•• •• •• •• 124
Messina .............. 124 4
Lisbon.... •• ........ •• 53 V 4
Oporto .• .. • • .... •• •• •• 53%
Rio Janeiro •• ........

Buenos Ayres
Now York,6o days'sigt.t
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I?hilo.delphla .. •-• •... ••

PRIDES Of BULLION, PZB. OZ.
Foreign Geld inbara...£o 11 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Dorblooni .. 0 0 0
New Dollars •... • . 0 0 0
ziiiVer In bars ........ 0 0 0

ABD-EL

KADER.

The Constautionnel makes the history of Abd-e.
Bader the subject of a very long article, in which

says
" Abd-el-Bader, in the war which he waged against
France, had the merit of introducing a new law of na-
tions hitherto unknown in those countries. The Mus-
sulman, though charitable and hospitable during peace,
is pitiless during war. From the time of tho Turks, no
prisoners were ever taken in the struggles of the Osman-
lis against the Arabs. Abd-el-Fader, imitating our ex-
ample, adopted another practice. He one day gave un-
conditional liberty to 80 French prisoners, in return for
which we released several thousand Arabs. We wish we
could add that he always remained firm to those maxims.
Would to God he had closed his ears to the sanguinary
advice which was given to him at a moment of forgetful-
ness and despair. But let us draw a veil on the disas-
trous scenes of the Moulouia, which we know have left a
bitter souvenir in the heart of the Emir. The organis-
ing spirit of Abd el-Bader is not only manifested in the
administratio❑ of the tribes, but in the creation of his
regular baltalions, of his disciplined cavalry, of his ar-
senals, cannon-foundries, and powder manufactories, and
of all the means of defence which he brought into use to

stop the conquest of the French. We must only speak
with esteem of these attempts of a heroic enemy, who,
admitting the superiority of our civilisation, endeavoured
to acquire its secrets. What matters it if the event dis-
spisointed his previsions, and if he could not, as he had
announced, make his horse drink at the fountain of the
Great Mosque of Algiers, if his efforts have only tended
to complete the work of our domination. It is not a
trifling glory for him to have struggled against warriors
such as Marshal Bugeaud and the young generals formed
by the war in
.Africa ; the power of the conqueror is
msetvugglo. obstinate
Somece uratgreoiotst
certainly . a title of honour for the conquered. Too
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Praise be to God I ' he cried, these people cause me.
much uneasiness, embarrass all my movements, and tarn
me from the right path. I shall be more free for the
future to harass the infidels.' Understanding, besides,
like a skilful politician, what influence might be exercised
on his fortune by an event which destroyed his prestige,
and which had robbed him of his family and of his ser-
vants, he wrote on the following day to one of his khalifas,
The French have made a razzia on my Smala during
my absence. We have lost some women, but we are not
sorry for it, as we are less encumbered for war. The
wives of Ben-Allal have been taken, but the next day he
married the daughter of Berkani; we, therefore, think
no more of it.' His correspondence with his lieutenants,
who became more and more discouraged, show him to
be always indefatigable and ardent in the struggle; ap-
pealing by turns to rematimmats of religion and to inspira-
tions of patriotism, concealing his
.defeat tbes, and, like a
lion, evading by stratagem and turnings pursuit of
the huntsman. Abd-el. Kadr never displayed more re-
sources of mind thanin his days of adversity. His
emissaries never ceased going through the country,
creating diversions and re-lighting the torch of war.
Twice compelled to take refuge in Morocco, be at length
succeeded in embroiling us with the Emperor Abderrah.
man—a difference which was put an end to by the bat-
tle of Islay. He afterwards attempted to dethrone the
Emperor himself in order to renew the struggle with
the Moorish forces. Failing, however, in his attempts,
he again sought an asylum in our territory, and soon
after delivered himself up into our hand, declaring that
his role was finished, and that be had no other ambition
than to live free and unknown in a M. ussulman country.
Never could a greater homage be paid to the generosity
of our country. He would have been pitilessly put to
death by Abderrahman; with us ho found an honour-
able captivity, and now he has bad full and entire liberty
given him; he is treated by us not as an old enemy, but
as a friend."

POISONING THROUGH EATING COCKLES.---A most me-
lancholy sensation has been created in the neighbour-
hood of the Hotwells and Clifton, Bristol, in consequence
of the death under circumsstances of a very remarkable
kind, of a fine little girl of six or seven years old, the
daughter of a respectable tradesman named Stokes, who
resides at the Mardyke.house, Hotwell-road. The de-
ceased child was very fond of cockles, and she obtained
permission of her parent to purchase a pint for her
supper. No peculiar effect was observed immediately
to follow the meal, and the child retired to her bed at her
usual hour, and slept till early in the morning,
when she awoke complaining of a burning sen-
sation in her throat and stomach, accompanied by
excruciating thirst. Soon after vomiting came on,
and subsequently violent purging and the symp-
toms which usually accompany the administration of
irritant poison=. The symptoms continued, unchecked
to any material extent, and at about five o'clock in the
evening the little sufferer breathed her last. The death
is ascribed to the presence in the cockles of a kind of
parasitic insect which is sometimes found contained in
them.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

EQUITY COURTS.—Nov. 4.
(Before the Lords Justices of Appeal.)
IifAXWELL V. MAXWELL.

This was an appeal from the judgment of the Master
of the Rolls upon a special case submitted for the opinion
of the court, under the following eircumstences:—ln the
year 1821, Peter Constable Maxwell, a gentleman con-
nected with Scotland, but resident and domiciled in
Yorkshire, and having both real and personal estate in
England, and real estate, consisting of certain heritable
securities, in Scotland, made his will in the English
form, and executed and attested so as to pass real estate
in England. By that will he, by virtue of every right,
power, and authority enabling him in that behalf, gave,
devised, and bequeathed unto and to the use of certain
ruetees named in the will, all his real estate whatsoever
tand wheresoever, and whether in possession or reversion,
upon trust for his wife for life, with remainder for the
benefit of all his children. The testator died on the day
of the date of the will; and as the will, for the want of the
formalities prescribed by the Scotch law for the passing
real estate, was inoperate to pass the heritable securities in
Scotland, these descended upon the testator's eldest son as
his heir, according to the Scotch law. The object of the
special case was to take the opinion of the court upon the
question whether the eldest son was bound to elect be-
tween the real estate in Scotland to which he hed suc-
ceeded by descent, and the benefit given him by the
will, or whether he was intitled to both the benefit
under the will and the real estates descended. The
Master of the Rolls, upon the hearing of the special
I case in May last, had come to the conclusion that the
ease was covered by authority, and that the heir was
not pat to his election.
Lord Justice Lord Cranworth said he concurred in
the correctness of the conclusion to which his learned
brother had arrived. He took the general rule to be
that general words prima facie imported only what was
capable of being operated upon by the will. Where it
was evident on the taco of the instrument that it was in-
tended to exieud beyond that limit, as where other
propsrty was mentioned in express terms as in many
of the cases cited, that would be a ground of distinction.
There was, however, nothing of the sort here, and the
Court would therefore be doing what was not warrant-
able if it relied upon conjecture, however probable, as
to the testator's intention, as a ground for departing
from the general rule in the construction of this will,

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—Nov. 4.
(Sittings in Banco.)
CRIMINAL INFORMATION. _

In this case, Sir A. Cockburn, Q C., moved fora rule
on behalf of Earl Fitzhardinge. The alleged libel was
contained in an article in the Cheltenham Chronicle of
the 21st July, 1852. Sir Alexander Cockburn read tbis
article, which was of some length, and charged the Earl,
who is Lord-Lieutenant of the county cf Gloucester, with
having appointed a batch of deputy lieutenants for the
purpose of serving his own political purposes. From the
affidavit of Lord Fit zbardinge it appeared that he had not
for some years appointed any deputy lieutenants prior
to the passing of the Militia Bill ; that he had then con-
kidered, to carry out the purposes of that act, more
deputy lieutenants ought to be appointed ; that he
selected a list of the gentlemen whom be cuneidered
eligible for the office; that in selecting these gentlemen
he wax actuated by no political motive ; and 'that the
sllegutions of the article complained of in that respect
were wholly devoid of truth. Sir. A. Cockburn was
proceeding to comment upon the affilavit, when he
was stopped by
Lord Campbell, who remarked that this case was pre-
cisely similar to that of Lord Lonsdale (which was
fully ruorted in The Sun in November, 1851), where
a rule was granted, and that the lcarnel gentleman
might take a rule in this case also.—Rule accordingly.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.—NoT. 4.
(Sittings in Banco.)
TODD V. KERRIDGE.
This was an action tried before the Lord Chief Jos.
tics of the Common Pleas, at the last Guildford assizes,
when a verdict was found for the plaintiff, with 351.
damages.
Mr. Edwin James now moved for a rule to show
cause why a nonsuit should not be entered pursuant to
leave, or the verdict set aside, as being against the
evidence. The facts of the case appeared to be as fol-
lows :—Tle plaintiff who was a governess, last June
twelvemonth, advertised in the daily papers for a
situation. In consequence of this, Mrs. Kerridge, wife
of the defendant, who is treasurer for the county of
Snrrey, rsiding near Dorking, wrote to the plaintiff,
who afterwards met Mr. and Mrs. Kerridge at an inn in
Dorking,when an engagement was entered into. The
plaintiff vas dismissed from the defendant's service in the
following October, and by the present action she had
sought tt recover damngts for such dismissal before the
expiratim of a year. The whole question arose on the
plea of tae general isms', the point being whether a
governess was a domestic, or menial servant, and there-
tore subject to the same rules and customs with respect
to a hiring as domestic or menial servants.
Mr. Byron Alderson—W hat is a governess in point of
law?
Mr. Jones—A governess is a governess, my lord.
(Laughter.)
Mr. Baron Alderson—Yes, no doubt. The Queen is
a governesa, in one point of view. (Laughter.)
Mr. Baron Parke—No governor.
The Court eventually said they would take time to
consi.ler the matter.

INF.OLYENT DEBTORS' COURT.—Nov. 4.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Phillips.)
? Re; THOMAS STEVENS.—GOING TO AUSTRALIA.
This insolvent, a young man, was opposed by Mr.
Sargool for Messrs. Baker and Grover, wholesale gro-
cers at i?ortaes.
Mr. 'Jaws° supported.
The insolvent was a grocer at Selborne, near Gosport,
and was to sail from the London Docks on the II th
September last, with his wife to Australia. His pas-
sage was paid, and on the day the vessel sailed he was
arrested at the Docks and conveyed to prison. His wife
bad sailed, and he now applied to the Court to be libe-
rated.
Jud4ment was deferred to file a copy of a will under
which the insolvent had an interest.

Galloway, the British Consul at NaplPs, before whom
the mate and crew preferred a complaint agiinst him.
He believed they said ho was an habitual drunkard. The
entry was a false one, and he tore it.
Mr. Ingham—A most improper proceeding, indeed, to
destroy any part of the log-book.
Mr. Ingham—How often were you under the influence
of liquor?
Captain Nicholson—Well, I can't tell, I know it was
very often.
The Magistrate stopped the case, remarking that there
was no doubt that the mate had acted with the honest
intention of doing his best for preserving the ship and
the lives on board.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 4.

The following midshipmen were examined yesterday
on board the Victory, and found qualified for the rank
of lieutenant:—Messrs. Henry B. Phillimore, of the Sans
Pareil ; Augustus B. Law, of the Encounter ; and
J. Challis, supernumerary of the Victory, late of the
Growler.

Mr. Hurno J. Bmttson, ma9toC4-assistant, also qualified
at the same time for second-master, I.N. _ _

The Avon steam tender arrived here yesterday from
Plymouth, with supernumeraries, and sailed again in
the evening.
The Norwegian steam-corvette Nidaros, Captain
Llagerup, is daily expected at this port ; also the Russian
corvette Dvina, now in the Clarinnel.
Commodore Lord Adolphus Fitsilarenee, G.C.H., ar-
rived at this port this afternoon, and hoisted his first-
class broad pendant on board the Blenheim, 60, fur the
purpose of saluting, when the customary gunpowder
compliments were exchanged between that ship and the
Port-Admiral's ship Victory. After which the pendant
was struck on board the Blenheim and hoisted on board
the Royal George, the bulk of the Royal yachts. We
understand his Lordship gave hospitable entertainment
to her officers and crews on the occasion.

The remains of Mr. Henry Davy, the late ➢faster-At-
tendant of this dockyard, were removed to-day in the
Devon lighter to Plymouth, for interment.
The Encounter screw corvette, Captain O'Callaghan,
has adjusted her compasses, and is now ready for service.
The Duke of Wellington, screw three-decker, will be
taken into dock to day, to be coppered, &c.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 4.

Her Majesty's corvette Dido, Captain Moorshead, was
yesterday towed up harbour by the Confiance and Pike
steam•vessels.pShe is to bo placed in dock to have de-
jects made rod.
The defects of the Rodney, 92, Captain Graham, C. 8.,
and Termagant, 24, screw•frigate, Captain Gifford, at
Devonport, aro to be made good; but it has not been
stated whether they will go into harbour for that pur-
posP,
Their lordships appear anxious that the St. Jean
d'Acre, 101, screw-ship, at Devonport, should be has-
tened, and they have given directions for 150 mole ship.
wrights to be put on her.
In order to give place to the Dido the Madagascar
will be taken out of dock, where she was put on Tuesday
to be fitted as a store ship for Rio Janeiro to relieve the
Crescent.

The Avon siilcd on Tuesday with supernumeraries
for Portsmouth.

Mr. Roberis, President of Monrovia, his lady, and
suite, embarked on Monday, under a salute of seven
guns, on board her Majesty's steamer Dee, Lieutenant-
Commander G. S. C. Smith, which sailed this morning
for Monrovia and the Cape of Good Hope.
It will be satisfactory for merchants corresponding
with the Cape of Good Hope to know that all the bsgs
for that colony were transferred in Plymouth Sound, on
the 15th October, to the General Screw Steam Shipping
Company's mail packet Calcutta from the Melbourne
(late Greenock), which sailed the same day, incurred
damage on the 19th, and on the 24th put into Lisbon
with her mails saturated by leakage, top gear carried
away, and every probability of her being obliged to go
into dock, discharge cargo, and be repaired.
A Cowes pilot, at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, spoke a
French brig of war, under reefed topsails, with the wind
in south• west, off the Deadman, from Guadaloupn, bound
to Brest,

WOOLWICH, Nov. 4.
APPOINTMENTS.

Naval Instructor William Johnson (1841), to the
Agamemnon, 90, screw steam-ship, at Sheerness.
Acting Assistant-Surgeo❑ Archibald Stevenson, to the
Victory flag-ship, at Devonport.

THE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION AT FLO-
REACE.-THE MADIAIS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING HERILD.

Sia,—You were so good as to insert in your columns,
a short time ago, a letter I had received from Geneva
on the subject of the Madiais at Florence.
The interest felt by the public is very great ; and I
may therefore request you to publish the accompanying
letter from Lord Roden, the heed of the deputation to
the Grand Duke from many of the Protestants of En-
gland and the Continent.
Your very obedient servant,
SHAFTESBURY.

Nov. 3, 1852.

(Copy.)
Florence, Oct. 26,1852.

Dear Lord Shaftesbury,—l feel it my duty, together
with the ether British members of the deputation, Lord
Cavan, and Captain Trotter, to communicate to you, as
president of the Protestant Alliance, the course we have
adopted since our arrival here, as well as the result of
our endeavours to obtain the object for which we have
been sent.

On our arrival at Florence on the morning of the 22i,
we found that some of the foreign members of our de-
putation were already arrived ; wo immediately put our-
salves in communication with them, and, after asking
God's blessing and guidance upon our proceedings, we
earns to the resolution ef addressing a letter at once to
the Tuscan Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, with-
out the intervention of any diplomatic agent ; praying
to be admitted an audience by his Imperial and
Royal Highness the Grand Duke. A copy of our ap-
plication I herewith enclose (No. 1). During many
hours of close consultation for two successive days we
wore engaged in discussing the substance of our address
to the Grand Duke, should we be admitted to the honour
of an audience by his Imperial and Royal Highness.
Lord Cavan, Captain Trotter, and I, felt that the great
object of our mission was the case of the Madiai ; we
were, therefore, unwilling to mix up any other subject
with it, which might either retard or prevent altogether
the release of those two faithful Christians, whose
persecution has created so great a sympathy throughout
Europe.
In the evening of yesterday we received a reply to our
communication from the Duke of Cassaglione, a copy of
which I also enclose (No. 2). We feel that the substance
of this answer is such as to induce us to hope, that al-
though our immediate request has been denied. yet
that it is the intention of his Imperial and Royal
Highness to extend his pardon to the Ma li:Ai at no dis-
tant period. We, therefore, think that it would be im-
prudent in us to take any further step at rho present
time, except to send to the Duke of Cassaglione a copy
of our address to his Imperial and Royal Highness had
he favoured us with an audience—a copy of which I
also seclose (No. 3).
It is our intention to ask the leave of the Tuscan
Government to visit the prisoners at Volterra, and at
Lucca ; and, I hope on our return to England, we shall
be able to give you and those whose delegates we are
every information with respect to the circumstances in
which the Madi,ti ar,s placed, and the hopes which we
entertain for their speedy release.
We do not think it right to enter into greater detail
at present, and will only add that we hope to finish our
business here so as to leave this, on cur return home,
early in the next week. We have great cause to be
thankful to God for his great mercies, which we have
received during the whole of this undertaking and in our
long journey across Europe : and we are most grateful
for those many prayers which we know have been
offered up on our behalf.
Believe me, dear Lord Shaftesbury,
Very sincerly yours,
(Signed) RODEN.
The Earl of Shaftsbnry, President of the
Protestant Alliance, Loudon.

The following is the letter of the Duke of Cassigliano
above referred to :

" Florence, Oct. 25, 1852.

" Lnrd,—l have submitted to my august Sove-
reign tne letter addressed to me under date the 24th
inst., signed by the gentlemen at the head of whom
appears your name.
" His Imperial and Royal Highness, while appre-
ciating the course you have adopted in this matter,
would certainly have repelled any political pressure
(pressline) whatever, and the honourable diplomatic
agents resident at this Court would have been careful
to avoid it.
" The Madiais (man and wife), Tuscan subjects, to
whom you refer, have been condemned to five years'
imprisonment by the ordinary tribunals for the crime
of propagating Protestantism (de propagande protestante),
which is proscribed by our laws as au attack upon the
religion of the State. Their punishment is the appli-
cation of these laws, and their appeal for a reversal of
their sentence has been rejected by the Court of Ces-
sation.
" His Imperial and Royal Highness, in reserving to
himself the exercise of his high prerogative in such
eases and at such times as he may judge right, cannot
permit any interposition in a case which concerns the
administration of justice in his States and his acts
towards his own subjects.
Mq august Sovereign, recognizing the benevolent
sen!iments by which you have been actuated, but not
considering it necessary to listen to any kind of inter-
vention on this subject, commands me to inform you,
my Lord, that he regrets being unable to grant the
audience solicited by you and the other gentlemen who
have signed the letter which bas been addressed to me.
" Accept, my Lord, and convey to those gentlemen,
the assurance of my high consideration.
" LE Dile 1)E CASSIGLIAN O.
" To the Right Hon. the Earl of Roden, Florence."

In consequence of the refusal to off Id an audience,
Lord Rodeo, and his colleagues, acknowledging the pro-
mise on the part of the Grand Duke to exercise his pre-
rogative at the fitting moment, thought it incumbent in
the discharge of their mandate, to present the following
expression of sentiments which they had been authorised
to lay before the Grand Duke :
" Monsigneur,—Your Imperial and Royal Highness
already knows with what object, and in what quality we
have the honour to present ourselves before you ; not
only have we avoided recourse to diplomatic intervention,
which would have compromised the exclusively religious
character of the step we have taken, but we manifest
now again our express desire, that this step shall not be
made the ground of any future political action.
" Here are only simple Christians, representing mil-
lions of other Christians, who desire no other arms than
prayer—no other force than that of their Divine Master.
This is an Embassy of a new kind, and which manifests,
we dare to think, our respect for the sentiments of the
Prince to whom it is sent.
" Our brethren said to us, Go not in the name of
such or such Protestant power, but in that of the Lord
Jesus; bear to the Sovereign of Tuscany the expression
of profound sympathy which is excited by the situation
of Lions. and Madame Madiai. We dare to hope that
sympathies as general will be taken into consideration
by your Imperial and Royal Highness.'
" We will not, Monseigneur, commit the impropriety
of expressing an opinion upon the law that has been
applied, and on the manner of its application. It does
not belong to us truly to meddle with legislation, or the
administration of justice in your states. We feel simply
the need of adding a word which will justify our pro-
ceedings, by showing that what we desire fur partners
of our o wit creed we do not refuse to those who are
strangers to our faith.
" Roman Catholicism is free in the Protestant coun-
tries which we represent. Your Imperial and Royal
Highness comprehends why we renal this fact. How
could we have dated to address our memorial in favour
of our brethren, the Madiais, if we knew not how to
respect ourselves the liberty of Roman Catholics.
" We should have been wanting in the profound re-
spect we owe your Imperial Highness bad we hesitated
to hold this language.
Respect is not only on our lips, it is in our hearts.
The evangelical Christians who sent us here have all
learned by the study of the Holy Scriptures to honour
established powers, and their prayers for your Imperial
and Royal Highness are joined to those which from all
parts of Europe and America rise for our brethren, the
Madiais.
" We dare to hope, Monseigneur, that your reply will
give complete joy to those who sent us.
(Signed) " RODEN. A. DE GASPERIN.
A. DE BONIN. CAVAN.
F. DE MOBIONT. TROTTER."

NEW WATER COMPANY.—The "Wandle Water
and Sewage Company" has been formally introduced in
the market, with a nominal capital of half a million
sterling in 101. shares. It will be rememtvned that the
bill embodying the objects of the proposed association
actually engaged the attention of the Select Committee
on the Metropolis Water Supply last session, but that
owing to its being delayed till a late period of the session,
it was judged expedient, with a view to avoiding unne-
cessary expenditure, that the bill should be withdrawn,
upon the understanding that the same measure wouid
be proceeded with in the new parliament. The objects
of the association are the supply of an unlimited quantity
of pure water from the River Wandle and its vicinity to
the inhabitants of the southern portion of the metropolis
extending from Richmond to Deptford, Streatham and
Norwood; and the simultaneous execution of sanitary
improvements. The rates of charge are to bo much
lower, it is stated, than those of the Lambeth and South-
wark and Vauxhall water companies.
LIE MEMORY OF TILE DEAD.—At a meeting of the
corporation yesterday, one of the members, Mr. Codd,
a Roman Catholic, submitted a motion to the effect that
the Lord Mayor having apprised the House that the
Earl Marshal has reserved for the members of the cor-
poration 25 places in St. Paul's Cathedral, to attend the
funeral obsequies of the late illustrious Duke of Wel-
lington, his Lordship be requested to ascertain the names
of the members who are desirous to be present on the
occasion ; and should the number exceed that for which
accommodation has been provided, that the members be
then selected from those by ballot. After a sharp dis-
cussion the motion was carried by a majority of 26 to
eight. The minority was wholly composed of Roman
Catholics.
IRON FOUNDERS IN GLASGOW.—The following are
the number of foundries in Glasgow
i a
de of d
od subu!ts, viz,;
—North aide of the town, 17 ; west !itto, 10 ;
south side of ditto, 7 ; east side of. ditto, 9 ; total, 43.
These are all in full operation, with the exception of
three standing.
NEW FOREIGN RAILWAY.—It is stated in letters
from Copenhagen that Sir Charles Fox, as was antici-
pated. has obtained the concession of the Roskilde-
Kagip.R—lw -y on favourable terms, the state giving a
guarantee of 4 per cent. The line is believed to be about
50 miles in length. It is understood, however, that
some official formalities remain to be gone through.
Surveys cf the Copenhagen and Elsinore line are also
being prosecuted on account of Evglish capitalists.