Lynchburg Daily Virginian

A "Mortara" Case in Sardinia.—At Genoa, on the 20th of December, before the first session of the Provisional Tribunal, a girl named Caterina Layezzara was brought, charged with having clandestinely administered baptism to a child, Leone Levi, an Israelite. Under the royal patent of December 6, 1838, the public prosecutor claimed the conviction and punishment by fine, and the tribunal, after considerable deliberation awarded all which the prosecutor claimed—a fine of fifty scudi, or imprisonment for the term of six months, or until the fine and costs were paid. There is to be an appeal taken in the case, but there is little doubt but that the present decision will be sustained. The Israelites of Genoa, and, in fact, throughout Sardinia, are naturally very much elated at the result of the trial.