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conformity with the wishes of the colonies * He also referred to his previous objection , that for the first time in the history of the Church it was proposed that a clergyman should receive ordination without taking the oath of supremacy . He should assent to the introduction of the amended bill ; but should reserve its further consideration for a future session , and should not consider himself exonerated from his former promise hot to permit the question to rest , should it not be dealt with satisfactorily ; but should Mr . Gladstone succeed in framing a bill free from the objections he had stated , no member would give it more ready assent than himself .
Mr . Hobsman depreciated the bill , attacked Mr . Gladstone , and accused him and his party of attempting to set up priestly domination . Sir W , Page Wood retorted , that in the absence of facts Mr . Horsinan always imputed motives . The bill would strengthen the laity not the clergy of the church . Mr . Butt reposed serenely in Sir John Pakington ; and leave was given to bring in the bill .
THE NEW ZEALAND CONSTITUTION BILL . The Earl of Desaet moved the second reading of this bill in the House of Lords on Tuesday . He sketched the rise and progress of the colony , and appealed to their lordships to treat the bill in no party spirit , but show the same forbearance which the House of Commons had shown . Lord Lyttexton expressed his acknowledgments to the Government for bringing in the bill , though he thought it open to objection when compared with the Constitutions granted to the early American colonies . Lord Wodehouse apprehended that the bill Was open to many theoretical objections , but thought that its defects might be remedied by the large powers of adjustment , for which allowance had been made .
The Duke of Newcastle declined to follow Lord Lyttelton into ' a discussion on the principles of colonization , but confined himself to the bill before the House , which he was disposed to approve as conferring a larger amount of colonial freedom than hadL been conceded by any similar measure . There were , however , some parts of the bill -which he could not regard with a favourable eye , and especially that clause which regulated the constitution of the Upper Chamber . The Government ought to have abandoned the principle of nominee appointments to the Upper House , and he
thought that in retaining it they were dropping the substance of a really Conservative form of Government to grasp at a shadow . To say that there was any resemblance between a nominee Upper Chamber of the kind proposed and their Lordships' House was simply ridiculous , and the more the schome was practically considered the more shadowy and unreal would it be found . He also objected most strongly to the contemplated arrangement with the New Zealand Company , and trusted that this portion of the bill would not bo proceeded with .
Karl Grey regretted that a rising colony should bo burdened with such a charge as that contemplated by this measure , but still justice must be done to thoso ¦ who created the colony . He had been no fosterer of the company , but ho was bound to say that the run now made against it was as unmerited as the support it had at first received had been exaggerated . The noble carl then proceeded to defend the company at considerable length , and afterwards addressed tho House on tho bill . Tho bill was then read a second time , and their lordships adjourned after despatching some other business .
MISCELLANEOUS . Great progrcsH has beon made tln ' 8 week with the remaining bills before tho House of Commons . The Poor Law Hoard Continuance Bill was rend u third time and passed , on Monday . An attempt was madu to limit tho power of tho commissioners in cases whero their authority ran counter to local acts , but it failed . The Sftnitury Hills relating to burials , water supply , and Hewers in tho metropolis , have been advanced towards tho final stage . On Monday evening , neverul motions by independent inemberH wore abandoned . Tho Patent Law Amendment 1 H 11 wont through committee ; and tho Crime and Outrage ( Ireland ) Bill also passed through the committee , b y 104 , to 11 . Tho Law Hills have been also advanced .
On l ucsday , tho Militia Hallo ! ; h Suspension and Pay Bills wore pasted , nftor a little more debating on the state of our defences . Talcing advantage of tho third reading of tho Consolidated Fund ( Appropriation ) Bill , on Tuesday , Mr . Ilunio called tho attention of the House to tho petition lately presented from tho Legislative Council of Now South Wales , and declared that , if nothing was done before tho now Parliament ussem ,-bled to ¦ intiefc tho reasonable wishes of that and other colonies , he should , if in his power , bring tho gulnoct
before the House . Sir J . Paehtgton said , the House must feel that this petifcion involved subjects of too much importance and magnitude to be lightly and incidentally discussed . Although he believed that all the allegations it contained could not be borne out , the petition would receive the respectful attention of Her Majesty ' Government , with every disposition to concede to " the colonists tlieir fair rights , consistently with the relations between thenl and the mother eountry ; and in the interval before the next session he would carefully analyze every part of it .,,, .
Both Houses sat on Thursday , —the Commons for about an hour and a half in the n ; orning , transacting , in that time , a good de 4 of routine j and the Lords for about four hours jn . the evening , when nearly a score of bills , mostly newly arrived from , the Commons , were hurriedly read and advanced a stage . No debate of importance occurred in either House .
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MATHER AND MALMESBURY . Another document has been published by the Morning Herald ( Government organ ) . It is from Mr . Scarlett to Lord Malmesbury , is dated Florence , June 11 , 1852 , and noted as " received June 19 . " It is as follows : ^ - Mt LdB » , —I have just read Mr . Mather's letter to your lordship , published in the newspapers , in which he alleges that the suggestion of a money compensation came from the Legation .
Such a suggestion was never made by me or by my authority , or with my knowledge or _ consent , nor have I any reason to believe that any suggestion of the sort was made by any person attached to or connected with the Legation , nor do I know by whom it was made , if it was made . I beg also to take this opportunity of remarking , that it appears by my despatches , that Mr . Mather , in the presence of two gentlemen whom I sent to him , Lord Frederic Kerr and Sir John Ordej declined to receive an y apology . It is certain that the officer who struck Mr . Mather with his sword was ready , in consequence of my request made to the Austrian Envoy , ¦ wi th the sanction and by the command of the commander-in-chief of the Austrian army , Prince de Liechtenstein , to express his regret at having done so , whilst under the apprehension that Mr : Mather intended to assault him . ~ ^
Your lordship will also remember that the officer , with whom Prince de Liechtenstein , considered the fray to have begun , and who first struck Mr . Mather , was punished by being put under arrest and strongly reprimanded . The private honour of Mr . Mather , which was in some degree identified with that of the public , would thus have received the fullest- atonement that any gentleman could
requu'e . . It was in consequence of Mr . Mather ' s repudiation of all apology that I called for an inquiry , which I understood to be Mr . Mather ' s expressed desire to the English gentlemen above-mentioned . This course I thought expedient , upon tho further ground that besides bringing to light what really happened in the scuffle , it would give time to the British Government to consider the proper course to be pursued .
I did all I could to forward tho inquiry , and I also recommended an advocate of the highest reputation , and offered in my public capacity to defray the expense of the proceeding . I take upon myself the entire responsibility of accepting 1000 francosconi by way of damages . My reasons for thus deviating from your lordship ' s instructions , by which I was to obtain at least 500 Z ., arc , that having repeatedly demandod this latter sum , I was unable to obtain any nioro than 1000 francesconi , Avhich was at length offered by tho Tuscan Government .
If I had persisted in demanding more , it is certain that they would have persisted in thoir protest against all liability ; arid under tho present peculiar circumstances of tho Tuscan Government , I felt that her Majesty ' s Government could not consistently with generosity and justico and the truth of tho facts , insist on her liability as an independent power . If I am mistaken in this viow , I can only express my regrot that I did not leave this matter to bo sothlod by anothoi * hand ; but I hope I may bo forgiven tho expression of my doubt , whether any negotiator could havo obtained a larger compensation in the shape of money from the Tuscan Government , without very serious extremities . I . have , &e . ( Signed ) P . Cami'JJJbjli . Scakmjtt .
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SCANDAL IN THE CHU 11 CHES . THIS QUI 5 EN versiCS FATIIEIt NEWMAN " . This criminal information against John Henry Newman , on tho prosecution of Giovanni Gialluto Achilli , came on for trial in tho Court of Queen ' s Bench , on Monday , before Lord Campbell and a Bnuciul jury . Tho cuuho occupied tho whole- of Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday and Thursday . Tho Attorney-Goneml , tho Solicitor-General , and Mr . T . F . Ellis appeared for tho Crown ; Sir A . E . Cocklmrn , Mr . Sergeant Wilkins , Ml . Brainwell , Q . C ., Mr . Addition , and Mr . Badoloy for tho defendant . Tho libel was uh follow * : —
" And in tho midst of outrages such as these , my Brothers of tho Oratory , wiping its mouth and cloBpin ' g its hands , and turning up its oyos , it trudges to tho Town-Mall , to hoar . 'Dr . Achiln expose tho Inquisition . Ah ! Dr . AohiUi , I might havo spoken of him last wook , had time admitted of it . Tho Protestant world flocks to hear hiua , bcoauso lxo has Boxuotluiig to tpU o £ the Catholic
Church . He has something to tell , it is true ; lie has * scaadal to reveal ; he has an argument to exhibit . It j a simplei one ; and- . a powerful one , as far as it goes--and it is one . Thai one argument is himself : it is his presence Which is the *} triumph of Protestants ; it is the sight of Mm-, whiclx is a Catholic ' s confusion . It is indeea our confusion that ouf Holy Mother could have had a priest like Mm . He feels the , force of the argument , and lie Shows himself to ( the multitude that is gazing on hii * ' Mothers of families , ' he seems to say , ' gentlemaidens ' innocent children , look at me , for I am worth looking at ' You do not see such a sight every day . Can any church live over the imputation of such a production as I am ?
I have been a Bpman priest anda hypocrite ; I have been a profligate under a cOwl . I am that Father Achilli , who as early as 1826 , was deprived of my faculty to lecture , for an offence which my superiors did £ heir best to conceal and who in 1827 had already earned the imputation of a scandalous friar . I am that AcMUi , who in th e dioces e of Viterbo , in February , 1831 , robbed of her honour a young woman of eighteen ; whoin September , 1833 , was found guilty of a secbirtl such crime , in the case of a person of twenty-eight ; and who perpetrated a'third in July , 1834 in the case of another , aged twenty-foiir . I am he , who afterwards was found g _ uilty of sins , similar or worse , in other towns of the neighbourhood . I amv that son of
St . Dominic who is known to lave repeated the offence at Capua , in 1834 . and 1835 , and at Naples again in 1840 , in the case of a child of fifteen . I am he who chose the sacristy of the church for one of these crimes , and Good Friday for another . Look onme ^ ye mothers of England , a confessor against Popery , for ye ' ne ' er may look upon ^ ny like again . ' I am that veritable priest who , after all this , began to speak against , not only the Catholic faith , but the moral law , and perverted others "by my teaching . I am the Cavaliere Achilla who then * went to Corfu , made the wife of a tailor faithless to her husband , and lived publicly and travelled : about ^ with th e wife of a chorus singer . I am that Professor iii the Protestant College at Maltawho , with two others , was dismissed from my post
, for offences which the authorities could not get themselves to describe . And now attend to me such as I am , arid you shall see what you . shall see about the barbarity and profligacy of the inquisitors of Borne . ' You speak truly , O Acnilli , and we cannot answer you a word . You area priest ; you have been a friar ; you are , it is undeniable , the scandal of Catholicism , and the palmary argument of Protestants , by your extraordinary depravity . You have been , it is true , a profligate , an unbeliever , and a hypocrite . Not niany years passed of your conventual life , and you were never in choir , always in private houses , so that tie laity observed you . You were deprived of your professorship , we own it ; you were prohibited from preaching and
hearing confessions ; you were obliged to give hush-money to the father of one of your victims , as we learn from the official report of the police of Viterbo . You aro reported in au official document of the Neapolitan police to be * known for habitual incontinency ; your name came before the civil tribunal at Corfu for your crime of adultery . You have put the crown on your offences by , as long as you could , denying them all ; you have professed to seek after truth , when you were ravening after sin . Yes , you are an incontrovertible proof that priests may fall and friars break their vows . You are vour own witness ; but
while you need not go out of yourself for your argument , neither are you able . With y ou the argument begins ; with you , too , it ends ; the beginning and tho ending you are both . When you have shown yourself , you have done your worst and your all ; you are your best argument and your sole . Your witness against others is utterly invalidated by your witness against yourself . You leave your sting in the wound ; you cannot lay the golden eggs , for you ore already dead . *' This was contained in a pamphlet by Dr . Newman , on the "Logical Inconsistency of the Protestant View , " which was one of a course of lectures delivered to tho
brothers of the Oratory , in 1851 . The defendant pleaded " not guilty , " and a justification ; consisting of twenty-three charges against Dr . Achilli , substantially the same , only stated in detail , with those set forth in the libel . The Attorney-General in opening , narrated some of the particulars of Dr . Achilli ' s life , and the nature and circumstances of tho charges mode against him . Ho observed that ho had felt somewhat embarrassed as to tho course which ho ought to pursue in this investigation . , " Under ordinary circumstances , " he said , " I Hhould Do desirous of anticipating all tho charges in the plea , » n « rebutting them beforehand ; but it appears lom « a ° a ™? learned friends that it would bo impossible to adopt twu courso u » on tho present occasion . If tho charges bo true ,
it ia mamToat that , from tho situation of tho paruw , greater facilities would bo afforded to Dr . Nowmw J Italy for substantiating thoso charges ; and «"" ; " ' Dr . Nowman M'ould havo hotter opportunities ot l » rin b "' witnesses from that source ,, Wo aro hero in uttw uncurtain ty as to . tho mode in ' which Dr . Wowman proposes w substantiate theno charges . Wo aro aware of nomo oi w witnosHOS who aro hovo , and wo aro prepared to rowutw ^ testimony ; but wo aro unaware as to how tho rnajori y tho charges are to bo proved . We are , thoroibro , owjfaj to wait until tho defendant ' s witnesses havo boon 0 ^ ' and then to call our witnesses . I pledge mysoli , l » wov « >
among others to call Dr . Achilli himself , at tlio proptime , and to submit him . to the searching araHS-oxain . tion of my learned friend on tho other side , lo ¦ Ur \ \ e this is a question of the deepest anxiety and imp 0 ™»» JIo is lioro to answor for his conduct during «» ° ' » twenty-six years of lm oxistenco . Ho calmly , x xj add fearlessly , awaits tlio rosult of this investigai 10 "; , is aworo of all tlio difficulties with which lie is "jffiS ,, Ho knows that nothing but the most caroful alum . will enablo us to ascertaui tho credit duo to tlio wi »^
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Leader (1850-1860), June 26, 1852, page 600, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1941/page/4/
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