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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-06-29 00:00:00

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production of an office copy of the judgment of the inqui-
sition, which, for alleged immoralities, deprived Dr.
Achilli of all ecclesiastical functions for ever, and sen-
tenced him to be sent to a particuiaroonvent for three
years. After an admission by the counsellor the prose-
cution that if the .charges were true they w'ere for the
public benefit, the court rose.
On Wednesday, 'Dr. Achilli was placed =fn the witness
box, and in his examination in chief denied every act of
criminal intercoursealleged against him by the witnesses
on the opposite side. He did not know the name of
Eleanor Valente, and when confronted with her in court
denied having everseen her whilst living at Viterbo, and
spoke in the -same-style of the rest .of the-evidence against
him. He declared that when he was -before the inquisition
there were no charges against him for immoral conduct,
but solely with 'respect to his teaching. The document
from the office of the inquisition having been shown to
him, he stated that he made no stech confession as the one
therein detailed. 'No judgment was pronounced that he
knew of. Ue was set at liberty on the simple condition
that he should become reconciled to the Holy See, and in
the meantime that he should abstairtfrom the service of
the ministry. lihiseeconciliation, according to thesecret
instructions given., consisted in thatrke should write and
publish some book in favour of the Roman Catholic
Church. 'He-afterwards went into the country, and was
under the surveillance of the police:; but the order of sur—
veillance was a part of the decree.

Dr. L'oggi, of Seacombe, who was in the convent at
Viterbo when Achilli was sub-prior,. :mid that the Doctor
was universally and highly esteemed, and was employed
in ways in which no man would be employed, if his cha-
racter cot -morality were not high.

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at her house, end
—an ncing in her company, she had only called
him to the door to ask him a question. She adraitted:that
her husband was excessively jealous of her; that they had
had a multitude of quarrels, and that she had been before
and was now separated from her husband.
Mrs. Achilli an English lady, of rather comely appear-
ance, brought up in Italy, and apparently under 30, or2o
years younger than her husband, deposed that Harriet
Harris gave notice to leave her service because she com-
plained of the dirty kitchen, and'that Harriet afterwards
wanted to stay till the end of the month. Mrs. Achilli
added she discharged Jane Legge because she came •home
one night and 'found a young man in the back kitchen.
Here closed•the evidence for the prosecution, and the
court adjourned.
On Thursday, Sir A. Cockburn replied on behalf •of
Dr. Newman, at great length,- showing that there was no
evidence to .refute the defendant's witnesses, except
Achilli himself. Sir A. Cockburn went through his state-
ments, endeavouring to prove discrepancies and contra.
dictions., and concluded by describing him, in the lan-
guage of Dr.'Newman, as a hypocrite of the blackest dye
as regarded his religious doctrines. At the request of.
Lord Campbell, the jury were furnished with a copy of
the specific charges. The Attorney-General then replied
for Dr. Achilli,-showing that the•charges were unproved.
The jury retired at a quarter to nine. They were absent
close upon two•hours. At twenty-five minutes past ten
they returned into court, and gave a verdict of guilty
against Dr. Newman, declaring that none of the allegations
in the libel had •been proved,•with the exception of the
nineteenth charge, which merely alleged that Dr. Achilli
had been, by a decree of the inquisition at Rome, deprived
of his professorship, and prohibited from preaching, and
from hearing confession. This verdict was received with
great cheering by the persons who were present in the
court.

that on the night when I

DESTRUCTION :BY FIRE OF THE SCREW STEAM-SHIP
PEARL.--A most alarming and serious disaster was made
known at Yarmouth by the arrival of the Southwold pilot
boat, called the Providence, with intelligence of the total
burning of a large steamer, called the Pearl, belonging to
Dublin, while on a passage to Rottzrdam from Hartlepool.
The unfortunate•vessel was a screw steam-ship, between
400 and 500 tonsburthen. The crew made strenuous but
unavailing efforts to subdue the-fire, and were forced to
abandon the ship when about-forty,five miles from Yar-
mouth. In a few -hours they were picked up by the pilot-
boat Providence, and brought into 'Yarmouth.
BRITISH ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. —On
Monday, in the standing orders committee, consisting of
Lord Redesdale (chairman), and several other noble
lords, the standing orders were •declared not complied
with, and the bill was not to proceed. It was understood
that their lordships (who sat with closed doors) came to
the decision in conformity with the 116th standing order
of their lordships' house, known as Lord Lauderdale's
standing order, (originally intended to meet bills for
bubble companies), and which provides that all trading
companies, with certain exceptions, seeking to limit the
liability of individual shareholders, should have three-
fourths of their capital either deposited-in the funds, or in
the hands of trustees, as a guarantee of the substance and
bond fides of the company. Their lordships, finding that
this was not the case in the case in question, decided that
the orders were not complied with, and that they should
not recommend them to be dispensed with.

TRIAL AND CONVICTION .05 A NOTORIOUS SWINDLER.
—At the High Court of Justiciary, held in Glasgow, on
Monday last, Adolph Kronacher,or Adolp Leo Kronacher,
dims Alexander de Kuffner, was tried for obtaining goods
under false pretences. The prisoner was well:known to
the officers of all the guardian societies in the country,
and he succeeded in defrauding tradesmen and others to a
great extent by representing himself as a German noble.
man. He was apprehended in London and taken to
Dublin last year for swindling, but the law then would
not touch him. He was then transferred to Glasgow
under warrant, and has lain in gaol there for some mouths.
Several witnesses were brought from Germany, some from
London, others from Dublin, and in all .68 witnesses were
summoneel to appear at the trial. The German witnesses
alone got 60 guineas each, and the total expense of getting
this swindler convicted will be about £1,200 to £1,500.
The prisoner was, by the unanimous opinion of the jury,
found guilty, and sentenced to ten years' transportation.
CHICORY.-114IPORTANT TO GROCERS.-011 Thursday
night, in reply to a question from Lord Torrington, the
Earl of Derby stated that it was the intention of Her
Majesty's Government to rescind the Treasury minute on
this subject ; but the result of rescinding it would be to
revive the former prohibition that chicory should not be
kept at all in the premises of dealers in coffee. Govern.
ment would therefore give instructions simultaneously to
the officers of Excise not to file informations nor to press
for penalties against persons for havinff chicory on their
premises, provided ti vas a let
containing chicory stating that it wa
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