The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-26 00:00:00

importations have done their work, and it is be-
lieved that there are, in Tuscany itself, more than.
10,000 or 15,000 persons who are in private study-
ing God's Word. Rome knows this, and Rome
shakes to her centre when thus assailed. She then
flies to her never-failing refuge—persecution. By
her having resort to this, we nifty know her fears.
She eschews persecution where she is the weakest
' party, as in England and America. She does not
employ persecution where the ,people are her . de-
voted slaves, as in Spain and Portugal. Like Sir
Anthony Absolute, she is the best-tempered crea-
ture in the world, when she has everything her own
way. But when her supremacy is assailed, as in
Italy just now, by the circulation of the Holy
Scriptures, there shd rages ; and if she may, she
will destroy by force all such attempts to resusci-
tate the knowledge of the Gospel.
As Lord. Carlisle remarked in his letter, which
we gave on Monday, and as the meeting of yester-
day stated in its resolutions, these doings plainly
refute the assurances by which we were deluded by
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lives, for the crime of reading the Scripture to t eir
maid-servant. Nay, it has gone farthes Ulan t .
Garducci was so far aware of their wat6hf ss
and their bitterness that he never veritured to read
the Bible to his wife until he had first ,sent .'.his
maid-servant out on some errand ! Itet 'this
cautious man, the trusted and valued clerk in a
bank, was seized in the dead of night, and now
lies in a dungeon, because, on searching his house,
a Bible waS found in it.

Surely, if we are not labouring under a judicial
blindness, these things ought to open our eyes.
We actually support a college to teach.the doctrines
which lead to these results. _ For 30/ws we have
been assured that all this wal-inunateribt &for that,
though the doctrines were there, nobody now
believed them, and that, having fallen into disuse,
they could do no harm. Who will argue thus•now?
We see those very doctrines brought into use in a
friendly city, crowded with English ; and when we
intercede for the victims, we are treated with con-
tempt. Why are not the same things done in
England also ? Simply because the Romanists want
power. Give them that, and the fate- of Carducci
and of. the Madiai would be the fate of myriads in
England at the present moment.

yesterday's meeting called for the speedy solu-
tion of the question, at least so far as it might be
achieved, by the withdrawal of the British embassy
from Florence. Such a step we knew would be
willingly seconded by the other Protestant powers.
We shall be curious to see how the present Cabinet,
depending for its very existence on the good-will
and support of the " Pope's brass band" in Parlia-
ment, will venture to deal with this request, made
by a large and resolute body of Englishmen.