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The following memorial has been presented to
Lord Malmesbury by the Committee of the Pro-
testant Association
4,1. Your memorialists have h4'rd with deep sorrow and
regret that in the Roman States, Edgar Mortara, a child
of Jewish parents, has been taken from his father's house
in the city of Bologna, and:placed in the city of Rome with-
out his father's consent, for education in the Roman
Catholic religion, on the ground of his having been baptised
by a Roman Catholic servant of the family.
"2. Your memorialists strongly object to the principle
that the mere fact of a Jewish child having been baptised,
with or without its own consent, or the consent of its
parents, should entitle the clergy, ministers, inquisitors, or
other agents or officers of the Papacy to take such child
away from parental control, believing, as they do, that such
course is in direct violation no less of natural right than of
the principles of civil and religious liberty.
"3. Your memorialists also desire to express their con-
viction that there is no satisfactory evidence that the rite of
baptism ever was actually performed over the child, and
they indulge a hope that any intervention which can pro-
perly be called into exercise by her Majesty's Government
will be exerted to procure the restoration of this child to
his parents.
"4. Your memorialists are aware that it may be con-
tended that her Majesty's Government has no strict right
to interfere in matters relating to the laws or the internal
administration of the affairs of a foreign country, and also
that the present case having arisen in the Roman States
may be considered as a still further complication of the
affair.
" 5. Your memorialists, nevertheless, very respectfully
desire to remind your lordship that on former occasions the
intervention of the Foreign-office haS been exercised, and
successfully exercised, in a friendly way to procure the libe-
ration of some who had been wrongfully imprisoned.
" 6. In the year 1844 the case of Dr. Kalley occurred,
who had been imprisoned for conscience sake by the Portu-
guese authorities at Madeira. A deputation waited on Lord
Aberdeen, then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and
Dr. Kelley was restored to liberty. oh this case your me-
morialists do not so much rely, because Dr. Kalley was a
British subject.
4, 7. Two stronger and more remote cases have, however,
occurred in reference to persons now,British subjects; one
the case of Dr. Achilli, who had been imprisoned in the
Inquisition at Rome, and the other that of a man and his
wife, named Madiai who had been imprisoned at Florence.
" 8. In each of these latter cases the parties were fo-
reigners, there was a British Minister at Florence, and a
consular agent at Rome. Strong sympathy was expressed,
both in the case of Dr. Achiffi and that of the Madiai, in
this country and elsewhere. -Representations were made by
philanthropic persons, the intervention of these whose high
position in European diplomacy gave them great weight
was called into exercise, and the liberation of Dr. Achilli
from the Inquisition in Rome and the Madia from their im-
prisonment at Florence was accomplished.
"9. Your memorialists therefore respectfully lay the
matter before your lordship, and humbly pray that it may
bo considered in what manner the influence of the British
Government, exercised so often with success in defence of
civil and religious liberty and the rights of the oppressed,
may be now exerted for the restoration of the child, Edgar
Mortara, to his parents at Bologna, and that steps may be
taken accordingly,
" Signed on behalf of the committee,
" JAMES LORD, Chairman.
"Protestant Association, 31, Strand, Nov. 8."

(THIS DAY.)

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VIE FORGERIES AT WIGAN.

Wednesday being appointed for the third ap
pearance of John Pollard before the magistrates,
on charges of forging scrip to the amount of about
£2,000, during the time he was secretary to the
Wigan Benefit Building Society, the Public Hall
was crowded with people anxious to bear the pro-
ceedings. Mr. Hilton, solicitor, appeared for the prose-
cution, and Mr. Marshall defended the prisoner.
Mr. Ralph Leigh, solicitor to the association, was
in attendance. Mr. Hilton opened the case by
stating that Mr. Pollard had been in receipt of
money belonging to the members of the 'Wigan
Building Society, and when any of them wished to
withdraw Mr. Pollard's duty was to inform the
treasurer and draw the money. It frequently hap-
pened that cheques we e given to Mr. Pollard to
hand over to the parties who wished to withdraw.
Mr. Hilton had no less than 24 such cases, but he
thought it would only be necessary to go into one
or two, in order to substantiate the charge. He
would put in a document said to be signed by a
person named Hart, on which Mr. Pollard. received
£l3B. This receipt would be proved in evidence.
When the affair, broke out, Mr. Pollard gave up
the key of the sate—the documents were found, and
the whole business was manifest. William Lea, of
Chapel-lane, was then' called and said he was a
member of the Wigan Union Benefit Building So-
ciety, of which he was treasurer from its commence-
ment, six years and a half ago. Mr. Pollard was
the secretary from the commencement. On the
27th October he went to Mr.. Pollard's and inquired
for him ; ho was not there. Waited an hour. The
safe belonging to the society was kept at his shop.
It contained the books and papers of the society.
Pollard kept the key. After waiting an hour wit-
ness assisted in removing the safe ; took it
to the shop of Mr. Smith, president of the so-
ciety. The key was afterwards brought, and the
safe opened. The key was brought by Mr. Mar-
shall, solicitor. A partial examination of the con-
tents was made, and the safe was again locked, the
key being given to Mr. Smith. In July last witness
was called upon by Pollard about Thomas Hart
withdrawing his three shares, amounting to £l3B,
and he asked witness to sign the cheque, as Thomas
Hart was 7oing to call at his shop for it. The
cheque was on Messrs. Woodcock's bank. The
cheque yeas then produced and identified by.-the
witness. Mr. Smith, president of the society,
detailed an interview which he had with Pollard
on the 28th October, when Pollard agreed to give
up the books on the following morning, which were
obtained with some difficulty. The books were
examined, and two scrip cards were found, marked
301 and. 302, with a receipt, purporting to be signed
by Thomas Hart on the 7th July, 1858. Receipts
of that description ought to be kept by the secre-
tary, and it was his duty to produce them before
the committee.—Thomas Hart was then called, and
said he was a carder. Produced his three scrip
cards for shares 300, 301, and 302 ; received them
in 1852, when the club started, and has had them
ever since. The notice and the receipt produced,
signed Thomas Hart, were not in his handwriting,
and he never authorised any person to sign it for
him. Had not received £l3B purporting to have
- been paid on that receipt. The scrip cards which
_ accompany the receipt had never been in his pos-
session, but the scrip cards which he produced were
those which he at first received.—Mr. Hilton said
- this was the case for the prosecution.—Mr. Marshall
said that the prisoner would reserve his defence.—
The prisoner was then committed on this charge.

THE SUN, LONDON, FIITDAY EVENNo, NOVEMBER 12, 1858.

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