Southern Christian Advocate

England.—Public attention was considerably occupied by the news of the arrest in the City of Lucca, in Tuscany, of Miss Cunningham, a young Scotch lady, for giving away a Bible and a copy of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, in Italian, to a peasant. The British Minister at Florence, after using every effort for the liberation of the lady, was unsuccessful with the Grand Duke, and it was likely Miss Cunningham would be imprisoned five years for the offence, unless strong measures were adopted by the British Government. Deputations on the subject had waited on Lord Clarendon, who declared that every effort should be used to release the lady.