The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-20 00:00:00

GERMANY.
Accounts have been received from Frankfort to
the 16th.
M. von Rochow, the Russian Envoy, was to leave
that city on the evening of the 17th for Warsaw.
No sitting of the Diet for other than formal business
was expected for some days.
No date bas been fixed for the dissolution of the
Central Provisional Commission of the Bund, now
practically superseded.
The garrison of Frankfort has not been increased,
nor had any troops been concentrated round it; but
the several States had agreed to put two-fifths of the
Federal military contingent on such a footing that it
could be put in motion within eight days.

BRITISH PROTESTANT CHAPEL
AT FLORENCE.

The following correspondence has taken place between
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and her Ma-
jesty's Minister at Florence, on the subject of certain
charges brought by the Tuscan Government, to the
effect that the British chapel at Florence has been con-
ducted with a view to making proselytes to Protestant
worship:—
THE HON P. C. CCARLETT TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.
(Receivd January 28.)

" Florence, January 20, 1851.
"My Lord,—A charge has been brought against the
British Protestant Church at Florence by the Tuscan
Government, of having been in the practice of teaching
Tuscan subjects the doctrines of the Protestant faith in
the Italian language, and of adopting other practices
specified, contrary to the ecclesiastical regulations and
laws of Tuscany.
" I have the honour to inclose a copy
of a note re-
ceived on this subject from the Duke of Cas gn
of my reply to that note, which last contains refuta-
tion and
futa-
lion of those accusations on a
been , grounded
be I
addressed to
of which I also inclose, which has ittel a copy
me by the church vestry at Florence, by which your
Lordship will be convinced that thereaton.
has been no sort
of foundation for making the accusation.
Excellency,
I have
si since sending my reply to
byhis
Signor Landucel, that
the explanation I have afforded
been informed both by him and_
ded appears satisfactory, and
that it is possible the Tuscan (government
may have
been misinformed by their own authorities.
" Your that
Lordship will observe it is now the ens-
tom for the police to attend inside the Church on Sunday.
" The Duke of Casighano stated to me in conversa-
tion, that orders had come from the Prussian Mission at
Rome to sanction the Tuscan Government in prohibit-
ing of the Swiss Church at Florence from
pastor _
preaching in Italian to Tuscan subjects who have for
some time been accustomed to frequent that church, the
practice in future, he said, would be forbidden.—l
have, &C., (Signed) "P. CAMPBELL SCARLETT."
"Florence, January 9, 1851.
46M. le Charg6 d'Affaires,—Ller Britannic Majesty's
representative at Florence, applied to the Grand Ducal
Government in 1838 for permission to open under his
protection a private chapel for the purposes of Anglican
worship. The Tuscan Government complied with the
request of the Minister of England, on the condition,
however, that this chapel should be wholly and exclu-
sively private, which was moreover the natural result of
the public law of Tuscany, in which there exists a state
religion protected by the State.
" The Grand Ducal Government has now been in-
formed that in the Anglican chapel in the Via del Magill:),
all those who desire to take part in the service are ireely
admitted, and it is even known that the custom of pray-
ing and catechizing in the Italian language has been in-
troduced there. Many Catholics, Tuscan subjects, im-
bibe there principles and sentiments contrary to the
dominant religion. and publicly propagate the same.
"The Tuscan Govercment is deeply sensible of the duty
of not tolerating such an abuse, and of opposing a state of
thins which, combined with other effects made of the
same character and with the like object, weuid infallibly
lead to the weekening of the Catholic religion in Tuscany.
" Accordingly. I deem it my duty to acquaint you,
M. le Chargé d'Affaires, that if the abuse which I have
pointed out to jou is continued, the Grand Ducal Go-
vernment is resolved to adopt all the measures which
shall be necessary to prevent' Tuscan subjects from
taking part in the religious ceremonies of the Anglican
chapel.—Receive, &c.,
" LE Duc DE CASIGLIANO."
THE HON. P. SCARLETT TO THE DUKE OF CASIGLIANO.
Florence, 26, 1:151.

" M.. Le Alinistre,—l have delayed until now to
reply to your Excellency's note of January 9, relating
to the charges brought by the Tuscan Government
against the British Protestant Church at Florence, for
supposed interference with the religion of the State, by
the adoption of certain practices specified by your Ex-
cellency's communication to me, and alleged to have
been sanctioned by that establishment.
" I had the honour, in conversation, to observe to your
Excellency, that I apprehended it would he found, on
due investigation, that the accusations advanced were
groundless and erroneous, and that the Tuscan Govern-
ment had been deceived and misled in this matter, to the
prejudice of the British church in this city.
"Ia this belief I was not mistaken, and I have much
satisfaction in inclosing to your Excellency the accom-
panying statement, drawn up by the committee appointed
for the management of the English Church, to whom I
forwarded a copy of your Excellency's note.
"In this statement, signed by the secretary of the
committee, and addressed to me, every point in year
Excellency's note has been answered se> iutim, either by
a direct denial of the facts imputed, or by an explana-
tion which cannot but prove twiefactory to the Tuscan
Government.

" It appears from this dxutnont that wither prayers,
preaching, or tco.ching iu the Lillian languaze h.s ever
been resorted to, nor in any other language, with refer-
ence to Tuican subjects. That no Toscana hare either
been invited to enter, or encouraged to frequent, the Pro-
testant church, excepting the police authorities sent
there by the Tuscan Government; and I am further au-
thorised to state, that no Protestant books have ever
been translated, printed, or eirculto ed among Tuscan
subjects with the sanction of the church in question.
"Such being the state of the case, I trust your Ex-
cellency and the Tuscan Government will entertain the
same conviction as I do myself, that the charges which
have been brought against the English Church have no
real foundation, and must have been caused by some
Confusion and misunderstanding of the truth, as I feel
convinced that it is, and always has been, the sincere
desire of that religions institution to conform entirely to
the regulation required by the Tuscan Government, from
which it has never deviated.—l seize this occasion, &c.
(Signed) "P. CAMPBELL SCARLETT."
The select vestry of the church have given a d.stinct
denial, seriatim, of the allegations contained in the letter
of the Tuscan Nlinister for Foreign Alfirs. They state
that -no.custom has been introduced of making prayers
or reading catechisms in the Italian language, and that
no language had been used in the church 'ministrations
nave the English.

'VISCOUNT PALMERSTON TO THE RIOT HON. R. L. SHELL.
" Foreign-office, Feb. 3, 1851
" Sir—l have received Mr. Scarlett's dispatch of the
20th ult., enclosing copies of a correspondence with the
Duke of Casigliano, respecting an unfounded accusation
brought by the Tuscan Government against the parties
concerned in the management of the affairs of the British
chapel at Florence ; that they conducted the services in
that chapel in a way calculated to alienate the minds of
Tuscan subjects from the Roman Catholic faith.
" I have to instruct you to say to the Duke of Casig-
liano, that her Majesty's Government trust that this
correspondence will show the Tuscan Government that
they ought not to place too implicit reliance on the
secret information which may reach them; and you
willalso say, that though the papers inclosed
her 1:.1E. Scarlett's dispatch are satisfactory to
_.,. majesty's Government, as showing that the
•uritish residents at Florence hove strictly com-
plied with the conditions on which permission was
given for the establishment of a Protestant chapel,
yet him ma.
In! impressil
piritoeisity s Government cannot disguise the pain-
lerant a which they have received from the into-
s comtztlit.is manifested in the Duke of Casig-
liano
contrast With the iand which affords so remarkable a
prevails in the liberalunitd and enlightened system which
cise of religious belief.--... Kingdom, in regard to the exer-
of Cssigliano.—l am, &c.
patch to the Duke You will give a copy of this dis-
(Signed)
~....—_____ " PALMERSTON."

EVENING.
DANGEROUS A'-----Efid
POLLOCK LAsTICIN THE REV. MR.
attack was made in St.
Last evening a remarkable
•
Mark's Church, en the Rev,
ruilhek, under the fol-
audetnocement of
lowing circumstances i—On the corn
vice two men entered the church the ser-
xpiration
apparently
hour the service proceeded quietly, but t)9.l' seats. For an
of that time the annoyingly in uestion bseathe
restless. and. wandered hP and
the clerk, in order to preserve the
aisle. Mr. Boyd,
iecorum,
ordered them either to sit down quietly or
church. Instantly, one of the men rushed to the the
and, opening the door, with a stick in his hand, struck
Mr. Pollock twice on the back. Mr. Pollock, bu."ob'
ob-
serving the man ascending the pulpit stairs, in-
quired who. he was. The prisoner exclaimed, with
violence, that he was " God Almighty." Great
excitement instantly pervaded the 'edifice. Gentle-
menrose to their feet and ladies screamed, and seldom,
perhaps, has a scene so remarkable been witnessed in
anyeneourtfLcedevoted to sacred purposes. Mr. Pollock,
of receivedogi instant assistance from the gentle-
men andviolent strti:'-1a,15 of the congregation, and, after a
from the pulpit the madman was carried forcibly
Pollock buikling, ur. eila, (I conveyed to the exterior of the
perfect calmness resuming his sermon with
shortly arrived, and tt composure. A, police-officer
to
the station
was pinioned and con-
ducted in custody
by a large concourse of 8 station in High-street, followed
rtators from the congregations
of S. Mark's and Great r'l3-ec
at both owe, having te;:telogae4reet Chapel, the services
v.ng at the station shortly after the occur-
rence. 0u arri i
toreme.asures of strong re-
wacescirain the prisoner from
pressiou were found necessary
round his wrists and
violence, and handcuffs ware
ropes round his feet. Subsequent!
Mr. Talbot, from
lithaet
riptsipienn:alriYyt--; 7.77igritirdibrbhoen .parnid.
had a7, be traced
elapsed the
the act of violeace azo"u'Pected, it
:after some time
narae
Daniel
'ad that his
at 123, Grafton-street:
reycii to the Dispensary. lialler
. .
cquaint his NV,ifia with his position,
,e movements Nft;Fp at least of a ,o '
v.-.
'e his name, but it Os not thought
ira. We are bappy. to state that
was not in any manner injuzed,—
sterday.
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bard, had an interview with-lAirci Pahnia3tou, ou Satur-
day, at the Foreign-offieei -

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