The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-15 00:00:00

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I (From the Morning Advertiser.)
We . yesterday transferred- into .our columns an
able article from the Times, denouncing theperse-,
cuting spirit of the Church"of Rome,, and bringing
home to her the charge of -having been the delibl
rate,, cold,-blooded( murderer:of Francesco ?viadiai.
We quote from our "oontempOrary tO-day:another
article, written in a similar, spirit, and holding up
to the abhorrence of religion _and hump,nity; with,'
if possible, still
.gr4ter. eft'ect, ' the insatiable thirst
of that Church' for.the hlood. of thOse whOse con-!
sciences lead them to differ from her., • To this arti-'
de from the Times we bciipeak the attention of mil.,
readers. • . •

. _
It is a melancholy reflection, that of. all the Go-
vernments of Europe, none but that of Prussia
adopted any steps to,rescue the two Madiai from
the clutehes of their Popish persecutors. We' be-
lieve—and we record the conviction with unbounded
gratification—that our own Sovereign did send a
letter of remonstrance to the Grand Duke of Tm-
cany against the incarceration of :these:llin poor
people in loathsome dungeun.s,• their only.:oifence
being that they' read their Bible in their own
humble abode. That letter.from. her Majesty also
contained an earnest appeal td Leopold the -edoild
to release the Madiai -*from the prison to_ which
they had -been consigned, and restore them to
their liberty. hut the letter was written in the
Queen's private capacity—if, indeed, any act of
her Majesty can strictly be said to be done in her
private capacity. The Derby GeVernment did
nothing in the matter. Nor could any energetic
interference be expected of that Government
with such a man as Lord Malmesbury in the Foreign
Office. A person 'in his position, filling the office
of Foreign Secretary, who could allow Austria to
Maltreat, with impunity, Mr. ,'Mather;' in the way
she did, was not a person, likely to interest him-
self in the fate of the two poor Madiai.
Prussia, we repeat, of all the. Governments of
Europe, slid alone .take a deep interest in the case of
these excellent, unoffending people. We record
the faCt to the lasting shame of this country, and
of every other civilised country in Europe. Nor
can we expect, now that one of the victims of the
relentless malignity with which
.the Church of
Rome pursues those who dare to differ from her,
has been transferred from his dungeon to his grave,
—that those European Courts which have been
inactive and silent hitherto, will either take any
action, or raise their voice, with a view to the
liberation of the remaining victim of Popish ven-
geance.' Need we add that there is, therefore, no
hope for poor Rosa Madiai ? No one who compre-
hends the true character of the Romish Church, will
be so simple as to suppose that she will relax her
iron grasp of the surviving widow, either from a
sense of shame, or from a consciousness of injus-
tice. She was never yet influenced by any such
considerations, and never will. Her vengeful spirit
will not be satiated until she has exacted the life of
Rosa also. Rome thirsts for the poor woman's
blood, and until she has drunk it, the course of per-
secution will proceed unchecked. The long list of
those who from first to last have been slain—some
suddenly, and others by a slow lingering process—
by the Romish Church furnishei a frightful com-
mentary on
.the Scriptural expression as applied •to
that Church—"-Drunk with the blood of the saints."
ThOugh there is, and can be, but ono universal
feeling of profound grief at the death, of Francesco
Madiai, or, to speak more plainly, at the murder of
that innocent man through the instrumentality of
the Church, there is every reason to anticipate, that
the fiendish malignity with which that Chureh'has
persecuted the poor man to the death, will be pro-
ductive of incalculable good. A largo proportion
of the Protestant population in this country, were
impressed with the notion that the Popery of the
present time was altogether unlike the Romanism
which lighted the fires of Smithfield: It was be-
lieved that the Roman Catholics, like everybody
else, had yielded themselves up to the softening
and subduing influences of a growing liberality,
•
consequent oil, the progress of intelligence, , and
that their Church would, as much as Protestantism
itself, shrink from sending to prison and putting to
death any'person for his honest convictions.
No, (lie possessing the reasoning factuty will any
longer labour_ under this delusion: Any such.
delusion will hereafter be found impossible. The'
murder of Francesco Madiai, and the anticipated
martyrdom of his wife, prove in a manner which
must bring home conviction to the most sceptical
mind, that the Church of Rome is just the same
in her spirit and character now, as she was when
she consigned, in scores, the most excellent men in
the land, to the fires which, with her own hand,
she lighted in Smithfield.
If Rome does not use the logic of the stake or
the scaffold in this country, it is not because her
faith or her disposition has undergone any change,
but solely because she is not invested with the ne-
cessary civil power. The dungeon, the rack, and
the scaffold, are still her favourite weapons of war-
fare with heretics. And nothing could have been
to her the source of greater mortification and . re-
gret, than that, when she resolved on the aggres-
sion of 1850, she could not, instead of parcelling
out the country into Popish bishoprics, deal with
the most eminent heretics among us, as she dealt
with our protestant ancestors in the days of the
Bloody Mary.
The Romish Church has no bowels of compassion.
She is a stranger to the feelings of humanity. In
her intercourse with those who reject her creed and
repudiate her authority, she would regard humanity
as worse than a childish weakness, if not as an un-
pardonable sin. Give her possession of the reins
of Government, invest her with the requisite au-
thority, and she will, without an hour's delay, em-
bark heart and hand in the enterprise of extirpat-
ing Protestant heresies, by all the appliances at
her disposal, and especially by the unsparing use
of the dungeon and the stake.

CHARGE MP MURDER.—In our last two numbers we
have given reports of an inquest, that was several times
adjourned, on the body of a child, of poor parents, named
Mary Ann Cleveley, whose death was caused, according
to medical evidence, by a fracture of the skull. It was
not considered judicious at the time to publish the evi-
dence of one of the witnesses examined—namely, of
Eliza Hale—as, from what came out in her own testi-
mony and in that of other witnesses, considerable suspi-
cion attached to her, although insufficient to justify her
being then placed in custody. For the same reason, the
jury hesitated in coming to a positive conclusion, and
accordingly returned an open verdict, the coroner at the
same time hinting to the inspector of police, who was
present, that if he thought the presumptive evidence
against Hale sufficient to justify such a course, she might
be taken before the magistrates and examined on the
charge of ill-treating the deceased. Acting on this sug-
gestion, and following up his previously instituted inqui-
ries, Inspector Hill lost no time in searching as closely
into the matter as possible, and at length, on Monday
last, the girl was brought before the mayor and other
magistrates, and an examination gone into. Hale was
shown to have been one of the lodgers in the house
where the deceased was kept by Mrs. Sutton, and on
several occasions to have used angry expressions con-
cerning her, such as " If the child was mine, I'd kill the
young —," &c. On the day on which the injury was
inflicted on the child, she said to Mrs. Sutton, on her
return home, "The child has fell down and broke her
skull ;" and at the same time Mrs. Sutton observed a
large nail on the floor, which she had seen shortly before
to be in its usual place, in the chimney, although loose.
This nail was just such a weapon as would have pro-
duced tho hole that was afterwards found in the child's
skull. This and other circumstantial evidence of a simi-
lar kind, was considered by the bench sufficient to ren-
der it their duty to send the case before a higher tribunal,
and they accordingly committed Hale for trial at the
next assizes, upon the charge of wilful murder.—Wilt-
shire Independent.

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The rectory of St. Andrew Undershaft, to which the
rev. gentleman was instituted in 1794, is worth 1,800/.
a-year, and is in the gift of the Bishop of London. The
rectory of Acton, rendered vacant by the death of Mr.
Antrobus, is also in the gift of the Bishop of London,
and is worth about 1,2001. a-year. The rev. gentle-
man was instituted to the recto of Acton in 1797, so
that he has been a beneficed clergygynaan of the diocese of
London nearly 60 years.
CLEW BAY COPPER MINES, MAYO.—The operations
at these mines are maintained
we have made great pro-
with increased activity
,
and promise. Captain Mates in his last weekly report,
states—" Since my last report
gress into the hill, and the appearance of the lode, which
Cornish captain's teeth wo
is nearly a foot wide,
uld, I feel sure, make any
water ; for the rich purple ore
which came out of it yesterday (Wednesday) tells at
once the increasing value of this mine. The water spouts
out right well, and the mixture of quartz and splendeire
greasy clay stamp it at once to be a mine that will
long pay more than its own working."
t December,
LONDON BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILwAT.—
The accounts for the half-year ending the 31st.
edirectors
1852, having been submitted to the board, the air
tion a :
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have decided upon recommendin the d
r setting Ise dwill
dividend for the half-year of 2/. 12s. _ per cent.
consolidated stock of the company, after fund.
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epa cent. Oivoiodle.ndtofworartdisme tyheears
18521 amounts Tt(1)15/, 4s.