. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. s, the deductions of the defence have allbeen replied to by the previous proposition of factsand consideration of right— The following articles having been examined—thesixtieth of the law of 30th November, 1786; 1, 4, 9,14, of the decree of 4th March, 1849, confirmed bythe other of 5th May following, and 34 and 35 of thepolice regulations of 22d November, 1849, and 55 of theabove-mentioned law of 30th November, 1786, &c.— Francesco,
. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. s, the deductions of the defence have allbeen replied to by the previous proposition of factsand consideration of right— The following articles having been examined—thesixtieth of the law of 30th November, 1786; 1, 4, 9,14, of the decree of 4th March, 1849, confirmed bythe other of 5th May following, and 34 and 35 of thepolice regulations of 22d November, 1849, and 55 of theabove-mentioned law of 30th November, 1786, &c.— Francesco, son of the late Yicenzio Madiai, andRosa his wife, are condemned,—the former to thepunishment of fifty-six months seclusion in the prisonof hard labour at Volterra, and the latter to forty-fivemonths of Ergastolo, (the female galleys,) calculatedin the one case from the 26th of November, 1851, andin the other, from the 27th of the same month andyear: they are likewise condemned to pay the ex- THE BIBLE IN MADEIBA. penses of the trial, and made subject to the surveil-lance of the police for three years after the completionof their imprisonment.*. THE BIBLE IN MADEIRA. t5,C 2>i& I^C)M Tuscany, and this record of thei^^tEs barbarism, which, by her own show-ing, disgraces the statute-book of theGrand Duchy, we would call the at-tention of the reader to a brief reviewof facts in Madeira, illustrative ofstill mightier conquests of the Bible,and still more violent hostility to the libertywhich the Bible confers. The island of Ma-deira lies in the Atlantic Ocean, nearly oppo-site Morocco, on the coast of Africa, in about80°deg. north latitude. It derives its name, Madeira^or timber, from the abundance of its forests. Since1419, (when it was discovered,) it has been a part ofthe dominions of Portugal, and subject to its Roman Catholic religion is established by law,and, of course, the Bible is a proscribed book. In1838, Dr. Kalley, a Scotch phj^sician and a mission
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