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ment to liave permitted . Of the four native Protestant churci . es built within the last six years in tlie Sardinian states , ( the others
are at Turin , Nice , and Pignerol , ) this has been the most fiercely opposed bthe clerical party . I had a specimen of the bitterness
y of their feeling's in the stories which were mingled with their invectives . It was inexpressibly diverting to one who knew the
straitened circumstances of the Valdese pastors , and the difficulties they had encountered in raising subscriptions for the building of
this church , to hear of the immense bribes they employed to gain converts to their communion . Three , four , nay five thousand francs
was no uncommon largesse to a hopeful catechumen !* The circulation of Bibles was next lamented as a national calamity ; the
burden of the whole being , that , through the impiety and atheistical toleration of Cavour _, the most sacred interests of religion were in
jeopardy It was . the same amongst the women . After they had discussed
their children ' s health and perfections , for the Piedmontese fine lady is a tender , anxious mother ; the tittle-tattle of which , Turin , like all
small capitals , has a superabundant share ; and the court news from Vienna and Naples , as if , in the degeneracy of their own monarchy ,
the houses of Hapsburg and Bourbon were alone worthy of their attention no subject could be started -which failed to bring in the
President ; of the Council as a mark for their abuse . At one moment denounced as a socialist , the next as a renegade ; whatever
went amiss , according to coclino ideas , was laid upon him . You heard the name of Count de Cavour as often quoted in reference to
his capacity for evil , as that of the Marquis of Carabas , in " Puss in Boots , " cited by the feline phenomenon as the holder of each fair
domain on which the king ' s eyes rested . Availing myself of my privilege as a stranger , I sat more as a
looker-on than a participator in the scene , and tormented my next neihbouran acquaintance of some years standingwith inquiries
as to g tlie , different notabilities who were present . , The good comtesse , knowing my inquisitive tendencies of old , though not indeed
the fatal propensity of transferring my experiences into print , was obliingly communicative ; her information being " , of course , tinged
g with the sombre hue peculiar to her school of politics . " That fine white head ? " " CAereniadameit belongs to the
Marquis Brignole . He is the last representative , of one of the oldest families in Genoa , and for many years was ambassador from our
court—ahwe had a court then !—to that of France ; but when the , constitution was established in 1848 , he resigned his post . He was
then nained one of the senate by the king , but his principles did not these convert * Apropos charges , more of of just this bribery , th I an cannot , " flattering he said hel , p " to citin not his g from the townspeop witticism partiality le . of to " a the I Genoese do Valdese not would believe , not , but be a
because if they paid people for going to their church-, half Genoa ' with them . " . .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 189, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/45/
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