The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-27 00:00:00

NEW Yong, SEPT. 13,

MONEY.—The stock market is quiet. _ money
market a better tone prevails, although the rates on loans
are not easier. Foreign exchange is dull. The ruling
rates are on London, 1081- to 1091 ; Paris, 5.131 to 5.16 ;
Amsterdam, 408 to 41; Frankfort, 401 to 408 ; Bremen,
791- to 79i ; Hamburg, 36f to 36f ; Antwerp, 5.15 to 5.17 f.

In the

OoTToi.—Througliout the week there has been but a
moderate quantity offering, and no change in prices except
for the better grades, which being very scarce and wanted
for home use, are a shade dearer. The official statement
of crop of '52-3, as published by the New York Shipping
List, gives a total of 3,262,888 bales. The receipts of this
year, owing to the backwardness of the crop, are very
light everywhere, and at Mobile and New Orleans will be
delayed, owing to the yellow fever, until a very late period.
At what prices the stock, which will be run down to a
very low point before the close of the season, will be
replenished, will depend on later prospects of the crop,
the maintenance of peace in Europe, and the price of
breadstuff's. At New Orleans, on the Bth instant, mid-
dling was 107,1 c. to 11c., cost to sell in Liverpool 6id to 7d.
The New York market closes heavy to-day, with sales of
600 bales.

BREADSTUFFS.—The Flour market is rather dull, with-
out material change in prices. Wheat was in moderate
demand : sales of 4,000 bushels Canada white were made
at 143 c. Corn was in fair demand : sales of Southern
white were made at 83c.; Western mixed 81c. to 81ic.

Pnovlsiox s.—Mess pOrk is firm at $l5 624-e. to $l6 75c.,
prime rather heavy at $l2 75e. to $l2 874 e. Beef with-
out alteration. Lard firm at lle. to 114 e. Cheese brings

81c, to 9c

NAVAL STORM—Spirits of turpentine remains as
noticed previously, 67c. is asked. Rough inspected is
scarce, the last sales were at $4 50c. to $4 75c. Rosin is
quiet, but firm.
Inox.—The iron market is somewhat irregular. 45q
tons of Scotch pig were sold to-day at $33 to $37 50c.,
cash and time. _ _

FREIGHTS.—There is a lack of room for Liverpool and
London which checks freight engagements. To the former
port the rates are; for wheat 9d. to 91-d. to fill up 10d. to
ls. for future shipment ; flour, 3s. 6d. ; rosin, 38. 6d. ;
cotton, 7-32 d. to d. To London, wheat, ls. ; flour and
oilcake, 45., &c. To Havre, the market is active. One or
two ships were engaged full at 20c. for wheat ; 75c. to
80c. for flour.
NEW ORLEANS, SEPTEMBER S.—The sales of cotton
yesterday amounted to 100 bales of the new crop, at
for good middling. Flour has advanced to $5 37i e. to $5 50C
CHARLESTON, SEPTEMBER. 13.—Sales of cotton to-day.
500 bales, at prices ranging from Bic. to 11c.

TOLERANCE IN TUSCANY.

ARREST OF A SCOTTISH LADY.
FLORENCE, SEPT. 14

I MANE already stated in my previous letters that the
English residents in Tuscany would be made amenable to
the provisions of the new criminal code ; and I have now
to inform you that, within a fortnight of its first coming
into operation, a young Scottish lady has been arrested,
and conveyed to the penitentiary at Lucca, on a charge of
disseminating Protestant tracts in a village near the baths
of Lucca. The lady in question is Miss Margaret Cun-
ninghame, of Thornton, near Kihnarnoek, Ayrshire, who,
with her mother and sister, were to leave Tuscany to-day,
for the purpose of continuing their travels towards Rome
and Naples. Mrs. Cunninghame and her other daughter
went to the office of the delegato, at the baths of Lucca,
on Monday morning, in order to have their passports yield,
the delegato having acquainted them that their personal
attendance was required. On their arrival he demanded
the reason of the absence of Miss Margaret Cunninghame,
and, on being informed that she was unwell and confined
to bed, declared that come she must, as he had a commu-
nication of importance to deliver. When Miss Margaret
Cunninghame reached the police-office she was formally
charged with the offence in question, was informed that
witnesses were already summoned to Lucca to prove the
crime, and that, in obedience to higher orders, she must
be removed under an escort of gendarmes to Lucca, there
to await the further measures which the government might
take. She received, I am informed, this announcement
with the most unaffected composure; but the distraction
of the poor mother is perfectly heart-rending.
Miss Cunninghame was accompanied to Lucca by two
friends of her family, who took every step which friend-
ship or patriotism could suggest in such a trying case.
One of these gentlemen, a person connected with her own
country—Sir William Millar, of Barskimming—made an
immediate, but ineffectual, attempt to have the whole
matter quashed, by going directly to the Grand Duke, who
is now staying at the baths of Lucca. His Royal High-
ness would not accord him an interview. Sir W. Millar,
and his friend, the Rev. Mr. Gordon, after accompanying
Miss Cunninghame to Lucca, and again attempting to
molify the local authorities, who, however, declared that
they were but instruments of a higher will, proceeded
directly to Florence, and laid all the circumstances of the
case before the Hon. Mr. Scarlett, now acting as Charge
d'Affaires, in the temporary absence of Sir Henry Bulwer.
I believe that not a moment was lost by Mr. Scarlett in
bringing the case before the ministers now in Florence,
and that he will set out for the baths of Lucca to-day, in
order to terminate the matter, if possible, by a direct
appeal to the Grand Duke. I have no doubt of his im-
pressing on his Royal Highness, that if this young lady is
to be liberated at all, then 'twere well it were done
quickly."
So the prison of Rosa Madiai is at this moment ten-
anted by a young Scottish lady of gentle birth, sprung
from the stern breed of the old Scottish Presbyterians,
and, if I am rightly informed, a lineal descendant of John
Knox. On the considerations which this simple fact sug-
gests I need not enlarge. They will present themselves
spontaneously to every free and Protestant community ;
they will there kindle the warmest passions which the
human heart can feel.

The persecution rages with unabated fury in Florence
against the Tuscans. On Sunday fortnight the gendarmes
broke into the house of Natale Lippi, a baker, in the
Palazzuolo, and there arrested him, and Piero Cieri, also,
a baker, and Alessandro Barli, a tailor, on the, charge of
meeting and reading the Scriptures in the version of
Diodati. The house was searched, and the Bibles found
in a press. All three were then committed to prison.
Barli and Cieri have since been released ; but Natale
Lippi will either have to stand his trial for offences against
the religion of the state, or; more probably, be condemned
without trial by the Council of Prefecture to such a term
of imprisonment as they may choose to award. Mean-
while, upwards of fifty Italians have been summoned
before the delegates of the different quarters, and cross-
examined, in the hope of eliciting some connection between
Italian Protestantism and English propagandism.
FLORENCE, SEPT. 16...

P.S.—The Grand Duke is inexoraii. in reply to the
urgent request of Mr. Scarlett to have the matter quashed,
he has declared that justice must take its course. The
Drand Duchess expresses regret for the situation of Miss
Cunninghame, but refuses to interfere. The individual
dispositions of the members of the ministry are' more
favourable. M. Lami, the Minister of Justice, willhurry
on the trial as fast as possible, and then obtain animme-
diate exercise of the Grand Ducal clemency. But on what
ground he anticipates that his Royal Highness is more
likely to relent a few weeks hence than now I cannot tell.
Miss Cunninghame will be tried on a charge of having
infringed the 137th article of the new criminal code. With
the terms of that article I have already made you ac-
quainted. It declares that "whoever shall circulate works
hostile to the Roman Catholic faith, with the view of
seducing any member from that communion, shall be con-
demned to the House of Correction and subjected to hard
labour for a period of not less than five, or greater than
ten years." Miss Cunninghame is charged with having
given to some peasants an Italian Bible, and an Italian
" Pilgrim's Progress," and both these
bookst the criminal category.
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It is but common justice to state that the zeal displayed
by Mr. Scarlett, from the moment that the case was first
brought under his notice, deserves the highest praise, and
B I I feel unfeigned pleasure in addine that the American

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already made to the Grand Dui
which have taken place with the
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