The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-21 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Corriore Mercantile of Genoa having in a
late number indulged in some severe strictures upon
M. TRIERS, the new Orleanist paper, 11 Mediterraneo,
takes up his defence, and, after remarking that the
Intendant-General of the province of Genoa was
among the first the other day to inscribe his name as
a visitor at the hotel where M. TIIIEES stopped, it
states, as a proof of his friendly feeling towards Pied-
mont, that the following were his words at parting
from the chief editor of the Mediterraneo, on the
13th :

" is with the sincerest satisfaction I have seen this
active and commercial city—this Piedmontese army, so
well disciplined, and having so martial an appearance.
It would be a great misfortune were such a state of
things not to last; and, since you are come over here to
publish a. paper, I earnestly recommend you to preach
union. Let there be no divisions here, in the name of
Heaven, for division would be death."
The Corriere Mercantile states that M. THUM is
at present writing a history of Florence, and that,
during his stay at Rome, he had sixty statues of the
Vatican photographed by M. CANOVA.
The Neapolitan Ambassador has opened negotia-
tions with the Austrian Mini2ter for Trade and Com-
merce for Leconsiderable extension of the treaty of
commerce and ne.vigation concluded between Austria
and Naples in 1846, by which very considerable ad-
v4nt''•ges will be extended to Austrian commerce.
The
junction between Austrian and Sardinian tele-
Kr! lines will be accomplished in the course of a
eireetoteenleogapie
e, 'lnYe. By, this means. Austria will come into
from communication with Genoa ; and
by Hamba:'l(m the other hand, a line will be opened
The Vienna, and Trieste.
modem, and telegraphict communication between Reggio,
-rams has already been opened.
TT-T,

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Be the Levant map AND GREECE.
journalB to the „' 7we have received Constanti-
nople Athens to the 7th.
The ceremony cf. ''''
dueinir
tAbibla_i.ncidy reading the imperial
decree fit' re
the imperial navy from ten of service of sailors in
with a good deal of pew_ Years to eight, took place
days before. Three tbousP
__t•Constantinople a few
wsembled on the plain of 'lti°:ea sailors and marines
SULTAN and Sultana VaLizt
_Ok-Meician, and the
the docament had been read, loZre present. When
in honour of tii.3 ScIv.3ILEIGN ; vraacclamations arose
for him and his au T12'... family_ Y....ers were offered
marceuvres took place- ' '41:1 a number of
I. -
The Athens journals con a7n no news.
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L PA iiLIAmEN
(Ttiii DAY )

HOUSE OF LORDS:
Tee LORD CHANCELLOR toclt tis seat oa the wool.
sack at Five o'clock.
Earl FORTESCUB the
e the possession of
Government to adopt steps to senor
#157 discovered in
presento3 a petition praying
the immense deposits of guano
the :slands of Bobos, and generJrlcy"tnoifacilitate the iro.
por:ation of ihar. article into this ccuniry.
The Earl of MALW'SBURY said that her Majesty's
cruisers had received instructions to obtain all
of guano,n-
-i the infor-
mation in.-their power relative to these deposl
A i
and as tar as lay in their p hopes of
ower to secure
British
terests. Her Majesty's Government had great Iy
being able in some degree to break up the too Pco__'
which was at present kept up by the Peruvian Govern-
ment ~;peat of this article.
Lord BROUG'cIAI'.I presewed a petition cemplaicins
of certain pravisions introduced into the County Cool"
Bill, enabling articled clerks to practise in those courts.
Lord WODELTPOUSE presented a petition from Nor-
wich And other paces against the law prohibiting mar-
riage with a dec,:ate,l wiie's sister.
The Earl of CHESTERFIELD presented several
petitions :roan Kent to tim same
Similar petitions were presented by the Marquis of
liandsilowne, from Bristol; by the Earl of Laneshorough,
from ViLrwick, Glotrceser, die. ; and by Vlscount 4 Gage,
fro, Bath and et'r:er places.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from 130
memo-rs et tha inner a:A outer bar against the clause
in the County Courts Lit! prt]vtqAir,g barristers receiving
instructions from any nut tolicitots. HP hoped their
Lordships would tiarec amendment to remove the
grivance of whieeLbe petitioners complained.
Lord CAMPBELL considered that if the Noble
LAY'S su4gestiola were, carried out it would be pro-
ductive of great mischief, and lower the character of
the bar.

Mier A, few Fords from Lord BROUGHAM and Lard
LYNDIIU3ST tbc oneversvien dropped.
MARRIAGE Lakive.
Ear! ST. GERUAN6'isAiki h
-e was instructed by a
Very largeo
,aln•
,?rltsperictia.ble bialy of persons
to present peti tor 2, pr...y r Lordships to concur
the law so hr as it
...nittitk) other House
wish
am"endiß
SPPatairino marring deceased wife's sister. The
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Cork Improvement
lIOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.
PPIVATE BUSINESS.
BHT hweerLeocrodns
Aberdeen Hammermen Incorporation.
The following Bills were read a third time and passed :
'sidaemreedndamndenatge reteed tthoe..
Adams's Estate.
Gedling's Estate.
Leith Exchange Buildings.
Magdalen College (Oxford) Estate.
PETITIONS.
West Middlesex Waterworks.
Mr. LOCKHART presented a petition from certain
weavers complaining of distress, and praying for assist-
ance to emigrate.
Mr. L"\CY presented a petition from Bodmin pray-
ing for the inspection of nunneries.
Mr. BAILEY presented a petition from Monmouth
praying for the separation of Church and State.
POOR-LAW BOARD CONTINUANCE BILL.
This Bill was read a third time. On the question that
the Bill do pass,
Sir DE LACY EVANS moved the insertion of the
following proviso—Provided always, that nothing in this
Act, or in any other Act, shall be deemed or taken to
authorise the said Commissioners to continue in any
Way to enforce, or to issue, any order by them hereto-
fore made, or hereafter to be made, whereby they may
have determined, or may determine, or assume to deter-
mine, the continuance in office or dismissal of any officers
appointed, or to be appointed, under the provisions
of any local Act for the regulation, or the government,
or the appointment of the officers of any parish. The
Hon. and Gallant Officer objected to the passing of the
Bill altogether, and insisted that it was not one of those
indispensably necessary measures which ought to have
been brought in this session. He might be told that it
was only a continuance Bill, but although it was so he
objected to it because it continued the existing law for
two instead of one year. It concerned the distribution
of upwards of 6.000,0001, of revenue, and it was the
duty of the House not to allow so important a measure
to be disposed of in a moribund Parliament. The
great question, however, involved in this Bill was the
appointment of the officers. For more than a century
the rate-payers had the power of appointing their own
officers on Easter-day; but in many instances the Poor-
law Board had prohibited the exercise of that privilege,
and the consequence had been that several public de-
monstrations had been made against the board. Many
of the local vestries and poor-law boards had performed
their duties so effectually that in some cases they re-
duced the taxation of the parish by nearly a half, and
for the sake of principle and economy he contended that
these local bodies ought not to be interfered with in
their useful and praiseworthy operations. The Poor-law
Board had laid it down as a rule that the parish officers
could not be removed without the sanction of the board,
and the effect of that rule had been, and would continue
to be, to improve the efficiency of the vestries and the
guardians. This was another of these attempts at a
centralization of power whickall Governments appeared
anxious to accomplish, and he prayed the House to hesi-
tate before it passed this Bill without the proviso which
he had proposed.
The clause was then breugh:`, up and read a first
time.

On the question that the clause be read a second time,
Sir J. TROLLOPE opposed it, as being peculiarly
inconvenient at this moment, rind wholly uncalled fer.
He maintained that the present was the proper time for
passing this renewal Bill. which contained no power or
administrative clauses at all, while if the Hon. and Gal-
lant Gentleman objected to the existing Poor-law Board
he could renew his opposition iu the next Parliament,
slahuoguh.)ldhe be so fortunate as to obtain a seat in it.—(A
The Hon. and Gallant Member, besides others,
had stated that the Poor-law Board cost the country
250,0001., but the fact was it did not cost more than
33,604/. The Noble Lord the Member for Marylebone,
at one of his recent electioneering meetings, accused him
of having represented the Marylebone and St. Pancras
vestries as composed of illiterate tradesmen; but
he begged to tell the Noble Lord and the House that
since he had bean in office he had made no such imputation,
nor had his intercourse with the gentlemen who formed
these vestries produced such an impression in his mind.
(Hear, hear.) With regard to the observation of the
Hon. and Gallant Member, that parish officers ought to
be elected annually, he begged to state that he enter-
tained a very different opinion, and was equally opposed
to the proposition of the Hon. and Gallant Member to
place the dismissal of those officers at the caprice of the
vestries.—(Hear, hear.)
Lord DUDLEY STUART was prepared to support
the proviso, because he was favourable to the principle
of local self-government. He differed with the Right
Hon. Gentleman the President of the Poor-law Board,
in supposing that the vestries ought not to be entrusted
with the absolute appointment and dismissal of the
parish officers. The dictates of common sense told
them, that for the sake of securing subordination, the
vestries should have the same power of dismissing that
they had of appointing their officers, and he for ene
thought that the withholding, or the prohibition of any
such power, on the part of the Poor-law Board, would be
contrary to law.—(Hear, hear.) He disclaimed all
intention of reflecting upon the Right Honour-
able Gentleman personally when he addressed
his constituents the other day, but at the same
time he declined to withdraw any of , the statements that
he made then. The Poor-law Board had cast unfounded
imputations upon the Marylebone and St. Pancras
vestries, and he was authorised to state that most of the
statements which the Board had put forth against either
vestry were wholly devoid of truth. Years ago these
vestries might have mismanaged their affair, but they
must be judged by their present and not by their past
conduct. Hew, for instance, would the Government like
to be estimated according to the principles which they
professed a short time back? Why, they were only
t )lcrated because they had given up protection, which
stunk in the nostrils of the people, end he was sure the
Noble Lord at the head of the Administration would
prefer being tried by the present rather than the past.
The charge that the Marylebone vestry was composed of
iditerate tradesmen was too ridiculous to require refuta-
tion, while, as to the other imputation which the Right
Hon. Baronet had thrown out, that the vestry was
more occupied with the wrongs of Poland and Hungary
than their own affairs, he was ready to give it a flat
contradiction. Now, with regard to this unnecessary
Bill, he believed Government had brought it forward
for private reasons, and he could not allow it to
pass quietly into a law. No reason had been given why
the law, as it now stood, should be continued for two
years, except that it would save the interest of the Go-
vernment--all the other continuance Bills were limited to
twelve months, and he could sec no just cause why this
Bill should be made an exception to the rule.
Sir EMERSON TENNENT did not intend to follow
the Noble Lord through his very discursive speech, but
it was necessary that ho should remind the House that
the Noble Lord had totally misconceived the reason
which had induced the Government to prepare this Bill.
The object of the proviso under discussion was identi-
cally the same as that of the clause which the Noble
Lord the Member for Marylebone proposed when the
Bill was in Committee, and which the Committee re-
jected. The power which the clause proposed to abolish
had been exercised by the Poor-law Board for a period
of upwards of 18 years, and if the clause was carried it
would affect 380 parishes. New such an important
change in the law ought not to be made at this period
of the session, and he therefore called upon the House to
reject it,

Mr. HUME was sorry so much time had been taken
up with the discussion. The question which the House
had to decide was simply whether the poor-law should
be allowed to work well in the metropolis? That end
could not be attained, in his opinion, without the same
parties who had the power of appointing the parish
officers had also the power of dismissing them, arid as
this provision recognised that principle he should cer-
tainly give it his hearty support.
Sir G. PECHELL was fully sensible of the necessity
of shortening their proceedings, but really, if Govern-
ment was also anxious to bring the session to an end,
they would take care tbat no two of its members were
allowed to make long speeches upon a topic of this cha-
restrict the
ructer. Now the President of the Poor-law Board had
told the House that it was only the metropolis that
ptitotni Petitions s..
re-
quired this change in the law, but he, for one, know
fieeetdtelvr;ttahndhif it had not been. that the country was satis-
t e determination of its representatives to
power of the Poor-law Board as much as
P 'Beible, there would have been an unlimited number of
presented in favour of the proviso. His objec-
year:uv:_lle continuance of the Poor. law Board for two
for 0,„ 4_43) that the income-tax itself was only to last
to proteeet
Adr:Aikaiand this was of as much importance.
the clause p
considered that it was very unnecessary
the present discussion. He sheuld vote for
Lord EBAMIed by his Hon. Friend.
hospitals was 33
Regiotrar-Go
ti 7n deaths meatier:lt.
sitate before entrr
heel so entirely faikidi
nssertialTON said that from the return of the
d by the destitutiye
Mr. W. WILLI hae,denenodo,bumo,rwbbetiosaftdisefiaths in the London
%cent. The Government should he.
with further powers bodies which
18.11n`'thsctiarteddlittihea6t. the greater part of
the Noble Lsrd had been
Ile was
the patients were in when
eausc
t,afetehne tbootdbieosheocempiteils;•
satisfied of the efficieecy
___, . considered that this Bill
( Sir BENJAMIN HALL
cy the Noble Lord.
ssoi.
period
snesostiohtia.ve been brought forward
at
this
late
House divided, when
o'f'stsel;feltdee a short conversation, the .
there appeared—
For the clause ...
...
presented a. petition from the hit d-
A6gaill3t, it •••
!••
Majority ••• ...
complaining Of distresa-ild
The Bill will tben reads third cale.
earaissioner
looMair.wLeEtOvCerli3flcAf 2T presented
praying for relief.
METROPOLITAN BURIALS BILL,
The House then wont into Committee on 1,114 Bill.
On clause I,
fri out the inutility Lord SEYMOUR pointed first .Ity of eon-
tinning oreasrpdoonfsiHhieeatlotbt.
doings of
that board, bat he had no control whatever over
down to propose
hoTHhoeuseforCthe
it. The board consisted of Mr. Chadwick and Dr.
Southwood Smith .and when he went

The Court then roso, and the case was adjourned
until to-morrow morning.

SEABORNE MAILS.
[N signifies that the mails are sent front the Genera! Post-oftic.
by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.]

When made up in i From what t„,
PLACZB. GeneralPost-oflice port dis. " "en
due.
London: patched.
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America (by 11. S. pkt.) NI .. • • Liverpool .. June 24
America (by 17.5. pkt.) M June 23 .. .. Southampt. June 30
Australia (via South-
ampton) .. .. .. M .. .. .. .. Southampt.
Ditto (via Marseilles) N .. .. .. .. Dover ..
Ditto, via C. of G. Hope N2d of August .. Plymouth..
Africa (West cosset).. N 14th of the month (Plymouth June 29
Alexandria* ........ N 19th 8c 30th of mo. ' Dover ... June 18
Belgium •• .. •• N Daily .. .. .. Dover .. Daily
Brazil .. ... .. M 9th of the month Southampt. June 16
Buenos Ayres .. .. M 9th of the month Southampt. June 16
Califernia(viaChagres)ll 2d& 17th of montb Southampt. June 20
Cape of Good Hope NI .. . .. Plymouth.. June 29
Cape de Verdi _. .. N2d of the month .. Plymouth • . June 29
Constantinople* .... N 7th 17th 27th ef mo Dover
.. June
Central America .. lii 2d & 17th of men. Southampt.
Channel Isles ..4 .. N Mon., Wed. &Fri. Southampt. Tn. Th.Sai
Chill .. .. .. . M 17th of themonth Southampt. June 20
Franco .. .- ./Itt 17 Twice daily .. .. Dover •• Twicede4Y
Jae:
2020
Greece* • • .. • • Ni 7th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. June 20
Hambnrgh .. .. N Tuesday & Friday London .. Tues. Sat.
Holland .. .. .. MI Wednes. & Satur. London .. Mon. Thur
Honduras .. .. • . N 17th of the month Southampt. June 20
Ireland .. .. II& NI Twice daily .. .. Holyhead.. Twicedally
India (via Sonthamp.) 31120th of the month Southampt. June 28
India (via Marseilles) N;Sth& 24th efmonth Dover • • June 17
India, via C. of G. Hope N'lsth of month Plymouth..
Mauritius
.. ~ .. N 15th of month Plymouth..
Mediterranean (via
Soutinurpton) .. Ml2oth of the month Southampt. June 28
Mediterranean (via 1
Marseilles) .. .. N Bth& 24th ofmonth Dover .. June ,17
Mexico .. .. .. Mild of the month.. Southampt. July 5
Madeira .. .. .. 31 9th of the month Southampt. June 16
Malta* .. .. I 7&th3,lo7tthh o,lf9rntho,n2th7th 1 Dover June 20
Naples* .. .. .. N sth 15th 25th ofme, Dover .. June 22
Papal States* .. .. N sth 15th 25th ef moi Dover .. June 22
Peninsular.. .. .. M 7th 17th 27th ef mo' South ampt. Jun e 26
Peru .. .. .. .. 31 17th of the month Southampt. June 20
Tuscany* .. .. .. Nsth 15th 25th of mo Dover • . Juno 22
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West Indies .. .. .31 17th of tho month Southampt. Jane 20
West Indies (except
Havanna & Nassau) ?A 2d of the month .. Southampt.

The mails to those
French nacket via Mars,

12d of the month
ountries thus marl
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Sonthampt. I
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instant, in consequence of

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,f the 27th falling a

Le morning of the 28th
a Sunday.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following
gentlemen having undergone the necessary examinations for
the diploma were admitted members of the college at the
meeting of the court of examiners of the 18th inst. :—Messrs.
Robert Marsland, Manchester; Frederick Lewis Leonard,
Royal Navy; Samuel Stacy Skipton, London; Daniel
Gwynne, Brighton; Alfred James Barker, Paramatta, Aus-
tralia; Charles Palmer, Kirton in Lindsey, Lincolnshire;
Charles Tourrette, Mauritius; Charles Lewis, Killarney;
George Frederick Dansey, Blandford, Dorset; and Thomas
Wiggleaworth.

ELECTION OF SHERIFFS.—On: Saturday 'tbe Lord
Mayor issued his precept for a comman hall of the livery, to
be held in the Guildhall of the city of London,on Thursday
next, the 24th inst., being Midsummer-day, to elect Sheriffs
of London and Ddiddlesex for the year ensuing.

were clergymen of the Established Church, ministers of anything he was always told that there was no se-
different denominations, merchants, bankers, lawyers,
concler.—(A. laugh.)
and medical men, and as many as 16,000 or 17,000 mar- Mr..
T. DUNCOMBE said Dr. Southwood Smith was
tied women. All these individuals were corn- au:Anted to his office in August, 1850, and he had re-
petent to form an ()Pinion upon that important subject, calved 12,0001. for going to Paris and writing a few
and the fact of their signing such a petition ought to letters. Now this Bill was to abolish the Act under
have great weight with their Lordships. England was which Dr. Southwood Smith acted, and the sooner Dr.
nearly the only country in which these marriages were Smith. followed the Act the better.—(Laughter.)
held to be not binding, and none of the evils whichit Sir B. HALL said both Dr. Southwood Smith and
was anticipated would result from an alteration of the Mr. Chadwick were perfect nuisances, and they ought
law hero were found to exist in those countries where to he included in the Nuisance Abolition Bill.
marriage with a deceased wife's sister was allowed. The clause, with a proviso, was then agreed to.
On clause 2,
(LEFT SPEAKING.)
Mr. FITZROY moved a proviso that the proprietors
of existing burial-grounds should have one year al-
lowed them for providing a new ground after the issue
of the closing order.
Lord EBRINGTON said this amendment only
showed the necessity for delaying the whole question
until the next Parliament.
Lord JOHN MANNERS had no objection to the
proviso.
Lord EBRINGTON asked if they were to understand
that no order could be made for closing a burial-ground
for one year, however horrible the scenes might be that
were committed on the ground?
Mr. FITZROY said the order might be made at any
time, but it could not be enforced until the expiration of
the year after it had been issued.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said the Bill was not worth
having if a year was to expire before the order could be
enforced.
The CHAIRMAN was then directed to report pro-
gress, and, the House having resumed, he did so accord-
ingly, and obtained leave to sit again to-morrow at
twelve o'clock.
METROPOLITAN SEWERS BILL.

On the motion that the Bill should be considered as
amended,
Lord EBRINGTON asked what necessity there was
for hurrying this Bill through?
Lord JOHN MANNERS said there was an obvious
pressing necessity for passing every Bill in the paper
through•—(A laugh).
The Lill was then agreed to, and ordered to be read a
third time to-morrow.
METROPOLIS WATER SUPPLY BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH (No. 2) BILL.
This Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
committed to-morrow.
The House rose at Four o'clock.

1 t The House resumed at Six o'clock.
ffsMr. ELLIOTT presented a petition against the May.
nooth grant.

His Grace the Duke of Wellington honoured
Messrs. Hering and Remington with a visit to-day, to in-
spect Mr. Ansdell's large picture of the "Fight for the
Standard," which is to be engraved in mezzotinto by Mr. Ryall,
and after conversing a short time with the veteran Chelsea
pensioner in attendance on the picture, expressed himself
much pleased with the painting, and was gratified that a
work of art possessing such merits would gain publicity by
means of the engraver.

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord CAMPBELL and a
Special Jury.)
ACHILLI V. NEWMAN.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition).
Dr. Grotti examined by Mr. ADDISON—I:am now a
priest, at Broadway, in W orcestershire. I was a student
at the Lyceum College, at that town, whern 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. :Ho escaped; he was
not to ba found there any more.
Crese-examined by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL—I have
never seen Achilli since. It was in the beginning of.
last December that I received the suletcena to attend
hero. It was a friend of mine, Mr. Flanigan, who
br )ught 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
Roma and at Viter bo. I neither gave nor offered her
money, nor any person whatever. I saw a great man)
persons upon tnis 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 come about numbers of people came to
me to give me information on 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.
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
I saw Rosa di Allessandria, and tried to persuade her
to come to England, but she was unable, being in the
family way.
Sophia Maria Giovanna Principe, examined by Mr.
BADDELEY, through the interpreter—I am a married
woman, living at Naples. My, husband's name is Ba-
lisano. My
age is, I think, about 28. I knew Dr.
Achilli before I was married; I was then about thirteen
or fourteen years of age. I was in the habit of fre-
quenting the church of San Pietro the Martyr, at Na-
ples. It was in the sacristy of that church that I first
became acquainted with Dr. Achilli, who was then sub-
prior of the church. Dr.Achilli was generally there alone.
I had to pay a small sum to him for some purpose. One
day I went: there when Dr. Achilli was alone; he shut
the door, and taking me in his arms, embraced me
tightly, threw me upon a kind of sofa, and there dis-
honoured me. I resisted and tried to get away. I was
then a virgin. I became pregnant, 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 an 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 my 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
uo 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
or 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 out, 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
Idid not know so much about it as I do now. Ile
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 tiae people, and it
was no use crying. I did nut go out for a quarter
of an hour because Dr. Achilli 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 see if
there were any persons about. I did not toll my mother
that Iwa pregnant, and when they complained to Dr.
Achilli denied all knowledge of it The child was born
in October.