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The Week Its Paeliament. Mk. Ma.Theb In ...
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 not 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 . Hoesman" 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 . Horsman 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 BELL . The Earl of Desaet moved the second reading of this bill in the House of Lords on Tuesday . Pie 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 Lyttelton 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 Wodehottse apprehended that the bill was open to many theoretical objections , but thought that its defects might he remedied by the large power's 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 had' 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 lie
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 scheme 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 .
Earl Grey regretted that a rising colony should be burdened with such a churge as that contemplated by this measure , hut still justice must ba done to those who created the colony . He had been no fosterer of the company , but he was bound to say that the run now mado against it was as unmerited as the support it had at first received hud been exaggerated . The noblo earl then proceeded to defend the company jit considerable longtli , and afterwards addressed the House on the bill . The bill was then read a second time , and their lovdflhips -adjourned after despatching some other business .
MISCELLANEOUS . Grout progress has been imi . do thin week with the remaining 1 bills before the Houso of ConnnoiiH . The Poor Law JJoavd Continuance Bill wiw read a third time and passed , on Monday . Aiv attempt was mado to limit the power of the commissioners in ewes whoro their authority run counter to local acts , but it fulled . The Sanitary Bills relating to burials , water supply , jiud sowers in tho metropolis , havo been advanced towards tho final Htngo . On Monday evening , several motions by independent members wens abandoned . Tho Patont Law Amendment Hill wont through committee ; and tho Crime and Outrage ( Ireland ) Hill also passed through tho committee , l > y 104 to 1 . 1 . Tho Lnw Bills hnvo boon also advanced .
On Tuesday , tho Militia Ballots Suspension and Pay Bills woro passed , after a littlo nioro debo ' thitf on tho stato of our doftincoH . Taking advantage of tho third reading of tho Consolidated Fund ( Appropriation ) Bill , on Tuesday , Mr . llumo culled tho attention of tho House to tho potition lately presented from tlo Legislative Council of INW South Wales , and doclai-od that , if nothing was done before tho now Parliament assembled to moot tho ronsonnblo wishes of that and other colonies , ho aJiould , if in his power , bring tho subject
before the House . Sir J . Pakington said , the House must feel that this petition involved subjects of too much importance and magnitude , to be lightly arid incidentally discussed . Although lie believed that all the allegations it contained could not be borne out , the petition would receive the respectful attention of Her Majesty's Government , with every disposition to concede to the colonists their fair rights , consistently with the relations . between them and the mother country ; 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 morning , transacting , in that time , a good deal of routine ; and the Lords for about four hours in 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 ...
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 : — , My Lori ? , —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 b y 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 appeal's by my despatches , that Mr . Mather , in the presence of two gentlemen whom I sent to .-him ;' lord Frederic Elerr and Sir John Orde , declined to receive any 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 , with , the sanction and by the command of the . commander-in-chief of the Austrian arxny , 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 t ] aat any gentleman could require . It Avas in consequence of Mr . Mather ' s repudiation of all apology that I called for an inquiry , which I understood to be JVfr . Mather ' s expressed desire to tho English gentlemen above-mentioned . This course I thought expedient , upon the 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 bp pursued . I did all I could to forward tho inquiry , and I also recommendod an advocato of the highest reputation , and offered in my public capacity to defray , the expense of tho proceeding . I take upon myself the entiro responsibility of accepting 1000 francesconi by way of damages . My reasons for thus deviating from your lordship ' s instructions , by which I was to obtain at least 500 ? ., arc , that having repeatedly demanded this latter sum , I was unable to obtain any more than 1000 francesconi , which was at longtli offered by tho Tuscan Government .
If I had porsistod in demanding moro , it is certain that tlioy would havo persisted in thoir protest against all liability ; and under tho present peculiar circumstances of tho Tuscan Government , I folfc that her Majesty ' s Q-overnment could not consistently with generosity and justico and tho truth of tho facts , insist on hor liability as an indepondent power . If I am mistakon in this view , I can only express my regret that I did not loavo this matter to bo settled by another hand ; but I hopo I may bo forgiven tho oxprossion of my doubt , whether any negotiator could havo obtainod a larger compensation in tho shapo of money from tho Tuscan Government , without vory serious oxtroruitios . I have , & o . ( Signed ) P . Cami'ukli . Scaui / rtt .
Scandal In The Churches. The <2ukkn Verm...
SCANDAL IN THE CHURCHES . THE < 2 UKKN verms I'ATTTICK NEWMAN . Tins criminal information against John Homy Newman , on tho prosecution of Giovanni Gialiuto Achilli , caino on for trial in tho Court of Quoon ' s Bench , on Monday , boforo Lord Campbell and a special jury . Tliocauwo occupied tho wliplo of Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday and Thursday . Tho Attornoy-OJonorul , tho Solicitor-CJonoml , and Mr . T . ¥ . Ellis appeared for tho Crown ; Sir A . JO . Cockburn , Mr . Sergeant Wilkins , Mr . Bramwoll , Q . C ., Mr . Addison , and Mr . Badoloy for tho defendant . Tho libel was as follows : — " And in tho midst of outrages such as these , my Brothers of tho Oratory , wiping' ils mouth and clasping its hands , and turning up its oyos , it trudges to tho Townhall , to hoar Dr . Achilli oxposo tho Inquisition . Ah ! Dr . Aoliilli , I might havo spoken of him last wook , had timo admitted of it . Tho Protestant world flocks to hoar him , bocauBO Uo lias something to toll of tho Catholic
Church . He has something to tell , it is true ; he Jias scandal to reveal ; -He lias an argument to exhibit . It ' a simple one , apd a powerful one , as far as it goes—and it is one . That one argument is himself : ifc is his presences which is the triunjph of Protestants ; it is the sight of him which is a Catholic ' s confusion- It is indeed our confusion that bur Holy pother- could have had a priest like hinj . : He feels t & fbrcev 6 f the argximent , ' ho shows hiniself to the multitude that ia gazing ' n ' Mothers of families , ' he seems' to say , ' gentle maidens ' innocent children , look at mo , for I am worth looking at ' Yob . 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 Homan priest and a hypocrite : I hnvn l , an ~
a profligate under a cowl . I am that Father Achuli , who as early as 1826 , Was deprived of my faculty to lecture for an offence which my superiors did their best to concealand who in 1827 had . already earned the reputation of a scandalous friar . I am that . Achilli , who in the diocese of Viterbo , in February , 1831 , robbed of her honour a yountr woman of eighteen ; who in September , 1833 , was f ound guilty of a second 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-fop . I am he , who afterwards was found guiltyof sins , similar or % orse , ia other towns of the neighbourhood . I am that son' St . Dominic who is known to have repeated the offence at
Capua , in 1834 and 1835 , and at Naples again in l & fcO , 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 on me ; ye mothers of England , a confessor against Popery , for ye ' ne ' er ma y look upon my like again . ' I airi that veritable priest who , after all this , began to speak against , not Only the Catholic faith , but the moral law , and perverted others b y my teaching . I am the Cavaliere Achilli , who then went to Corfu , made the wife of a tailor faithless to ^ her , husband , and lived publicly and travelled abemt ¦ with the wife of a . chorus singer . I am that Professor in the Protestant College at Malta , who , with two others , was dismissed from my post for . offene . es which the authorities could not get themselves
to describe . And now attend to me , such as" I am , and you shall see what you shall see about the barbarity and profligacy of the inquisitors of Home . ' You speak truly , O Achilli , and we cannot answer you a word . You are a 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 , itis true , a profligate , an unbeliever , ana a hypocrite . Not Inany years passed of your conventual life , and you were never in choir , always in private houses , so that the 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 Vitp . rbo , You are reported in an 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 j 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 thoir vows . Yoii are your own witness ; but
• while you need not go out of yourself for your argument , neither are you able . With you the argument begins ; with you , too , it ends ; tho 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 j you cannot lay tho golden eggs , for you aro already dead . ' This was contained in a pomphlot by Dr . Newman , on the "Logical Inconsistency of the Protestant View , " which was one of a coiirso of lectures delivered to the
brothers of the Oratory , in 1851 . Tho defendant pleaded " not guilty / ' and a justification ; consisting of twonty-thrco charges against Dr . Achilli , substantially tho same , only stated in dotail , with those sot forth in the libel . Tho Attornoy-General in opening , narrated some ot tho particulars of Dr . Achilli ' s life , and the nature and circumstances of tho charges inado against him . Ho observed that he had felt somewhat embarrassed as to the co ' uroo which he ought to pursue in this investigation . .,. " Under ordinary circumstancos , " ho said , « I should ue desirous of anticipating all tho charges in tho pica , anu rebutting them beforoli and ; but it appenrs to mo ana my learned friends that it would bo impossible to adopt ui » coiirsn unon tho nrosont occasion . If tho charges Do nut ,
it is manifest that , from tho situation of tho parou * greater facilities would bo aflbrdod to Dr . Newman m Italy for substantiating those chargos ; nnd » "" " ' Dr . Newman would havo hotter opportunities of WPM . witnossos from that source . Wo aro horo m utter untu tainty as to tho modo in which Dr . Hewmnn P ^ P ^ , substantiate thoso charges . Wo aro awaro of somo oi •¦ ¦ witnesses who aro hero , and wo aro prepared to ro » Uf . ^ testimony ; but wo aro unawaro as to how tho ninjo" / , tho charges aro io bo provod . Wo aro , there fore , obi « to wait until tho defendant ' s witnesses have boon uiuu , and then to call our witnesses ; I plodgo my aoU , Iiown , among otjiora to coll . Dr . Achilli Juinacll / a t tho pioptimn .. Tirl i « unWii' . hnn f (» flm soiirchiiiff '« ros fl-oxa » ij » .
tion of my loomed iViond on tho othor side . ! lo J ^ i- ^ thla is a quoation of tho deepest anxiety " ^ . in 1 P " , , ! ] Mt Ha is lioro to aiiHwer for hia conduct ( luring tn « ' twenty-Hix years of his oxistenco . Ho cttlmly , «™ * ^ add fourloflBly , awaits tho result of this j ™^" "' j is awaro of all tho difficulties with winch 1 »« . * Mltjon Ho knows that nothing but tho niost careful JM ™^ will o » ivblo us to ascertain tho credit duo to Uio wi «^
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Leader (1850-1860), June 26, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26061852/page/4/
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