The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-04-08 00:00:00

AN OLD LADY OF HIGH POSITION
AND HER HEAD-DEARS.

GOLDSCHMIDT V. WeMAN.
This was the teeth n ag.enet the printer of Public Opinion,
tor the paragraph in it imputing that Mr. Goldechmidt had
squandered the fortune of his wile. The defendant pleaded
Not Guilty."
The SalicitonGeteral (specially retained), Mr. C. Pollock,
Q.n., and Mr Thenger were for the pintail!; Mr Serpent
eallentine and Mr. II elt were for the defendant
Madame Goldschmidt and her husband were an the bench;
and among those prenent to give evidence, if necessary, ou
hie behalf were Sir William Sterndale Bennett, sir Jultue
Benedict, Mr. John Mitchell, Mr, Durham, ILA., the
Chevalier Redden and others. The court was demely
crowded.
The Solicitor-Generth in opening the cute te the nate
eald,—Gentlemen, the plaletiff in this cane is the hnsbaud of
that great and famous artist whose maiden name was
'Jenny Lind "—a woman (am you are perfectly aware) of
great gentile of rare and carted accompaniments, and of
exalted virtue. Mr. (loldochmtdt himself Is no artist of no
mean pow." and attainments, a scholar and a gentleman,
whose cheracter is above all reproach: a mau Cl melee' tett
integrity and etainlew honour, awl enjejthe the frieedthip
of many peewee in this canna ry, tti Europe, and in the Ineted
States. He enjoys the friendship, among others of the late
Head Master of Rugby, the present Bishop of Exeter, having
anode post at that great nennuary in connexion with education
In music, and he has always maintained a position in the pro-
fession conspicuous aunt konoureble, need he Suds Itimielf—ex-
ceediegly to hia regtet—compeled to bring an dein in order
to enforce an open and public inquiry, or to have an unquall-
fied acknowledgment of the dentine* felaehood of the cruel
imputations whieh have been published of him ey the de-
fendant. Gentlemen, in 1,52 the plaintiff was married to
Jitney lend, god they have ever "ince been united in the
bends of the closest 14114 ieudereet aff, ellen. Ills wife was
possessed of a emelt' erable fortune, and he, with a sensitive
delicacy yen will appreciate, it:sided au Ito tring settled
upon her. Not only so, but her teethes Mettler; been con-
niderthly increased since her marriage, this abo wee vented in
trust for her. Practically, notwithstanding her marriage, her
control over both portions of her fortune has hew complete,
and they tave lived together in perfect happiness at amoderate
rate of expenditure ; and if there has been ley excess of
expenditure, it has been owing entirely to those munificent
catritles with which the none of el edema Goldschmilit has
so long been connected. But their married life has been one
of perfect and unclouded happiness, aid his conduct has
been above reproach. Nothing unfitting his poeitien, 'Rehire;
mean or unworthy of a gentleman, has ever been known
of him. lie has lived for 1.3 or 20 years a life as blameless
as it has been happy—a life, one would hew, thought, secure
from cieuniny, if possible, even from the malevolence of
envy. fluthe has been made aware that slanderous tongues
Strange as it may sound, It is just the very fact that were busy with his fair fame, awl there were thole in the
wed
the Parisians of to-day are aping in • resolute way the orld wick am ugh anti haw enongh to endeavourto wouod his wife through him Whole! were circle
formidable acts of their forefathers done eighty year., Wed tie to his extravagauce, aa. eff gambling ; that
ago, which inspires us with a hope that the unreal their married life was miserable, that he was a spend.
ceo kay cannot last (remarks the Daily Tdegraph). thrift. Modes of this kind have, from time to
It is next to impossible that such a great historic event time, reached his ears. Tney were aboolutely and
as the First French Revolution should reproduce ielf ; entirely false, hut they were et.; edingly ddticult to deal
ts
yet the events which we have had to record lately migh shape in which he t with because they seldom presented theme
Ifelvei in a
could challenge th. m. And from time
almost have been done in the days which gave M. Leas to time these stories found their way into Inlet. he thonght
Blanc the subject of his great hintory. Here we have It eetter to treat them with silent nietempt and try to live
the C 'immune of Paris again. Then there is a Corn. them down. Living, at he did, the life if an Eeglisa gentle.
mittee, which has become a sub• Committee armed with Man in the society of English wettemen, he trustee to the
military authority. We have the seizure of public effect of Hs life end their keowledge of It to coneteract any
property. We have the system of daily allowance to ibie;i„teZeocit they
ldntlght have. He
rom bringing hi Wrank
wife and hi sell before
, as every mau of
piece the re patriota—whoie duty it would seem to be to get I ug wou, fs ie
public. And tor a time these dentine. ceased to be circa-
skunk, to wand-r about with deadly weapons. and lateal But some fear mentlie ago, all at onee In varteus
occasionallv to use these against their innecent fellow quarters at the some titne, sell actuated by some spirit of
citizens. We find apathy and cowardice to be the die, concert, and, es far as we could trace, origineting In tee
tinguishine masks of the xnejority, even as in the old United Steno, these islanders reappeared, and tens notice
to
e ern Mein. The present acne. egainst the
timers. All who can escape from Par; s are "enolgratle-
t". printeMoneta tor
ef Pse üblic Opi non —a wiper et the highest respect-
-that Ls, running away. Lodgings at Vereaelles, r yen *Witty. made up Chi, go of ertrac'e from other j turnals sons
of the humblest description, command faleilous pric.s. , to reflect del represent public opinion. The Solicitor-
There is the same heabation on the part of the 1 General then reed Wm libel arid went en t —Such is the way
persons really in authority as there was in those in which an English gentleman living happily end honour-
, ably With his stile rise beat society is ap.ken of In a re-
days when Paris drifted from tile beetle of the
• e loured . der ese ert what was
Sovereign into those of the Assembly, of the Girar spectael
clii s, • '
. Geldnonmidt to de 1 Hth i umstencee
is former forbearance hed been
of the Terroriats. The Batik of Franca haa been ram misconstruet ry the dim minetlen of throe slanders, and the
somed—it has made an *dem ce of £120,090 to the tame course of slender had been pursued with pernistent
Commune to avoid beirg plundered. The fatal archives meignity. Slanders of Lille sort May be repeated and re-
ef the police have been destroyed by citizens who, no copied in other countries as well as tins, and, as t told you,
doubt, had excellent reasons for their vigorous action Mr Goldechmidt as an artist is a kind of eel. en of the world,
in this respect. The Courts of Justice no longer exist. 2.3 I=l;:°.";sgr.d.: susppoenl thot ho nouinlWt.=
The rights of private property are trampled under foot. , slanders down, he could not hnoe to live them down in foreign
An ukase has gone forth, informing tenants that they ; countries as well as In this. He could not wonder, it finding
may dirspenee with the formality of paying any incon- I these slanders repeated, and no public hones taken of them.
veuient arrears of rents to their latidlords. The lime I there among whom he did not live as he lives in this control
areight believe them. el my tensors might fancy that (to use
of &Wrists is announced as being in contemplan common esprendon) where there was err much smoke there
tion, although 'upon what real value thoee notes Must be some flame, and that there must lie !erne ground
are to be based we hove not yet been told. Some ter dandera so tenet repeated. Moreover, Mo. Goldschmidt,
journals are suppressed ; others, not stlpproned, re- had not only himself tea consider ;he has children groeleit
commend the aboliVon of inheritance. Public men, tip. Ilia eldest auu, at Beebe, is ebout to proceed to Oxford;
colleaguea of the pre.ent rulers, who have been no and tut their mikes, as wee as for his own and lila wine's—a
audacious as to rectimmend "prudence," have been tsar:et:l:l:erre
Icousideratine—he has felt that he mud
F n Eat
cttymienyt.loy
it.
2... lass,, ~ ae,rnomte ui =vg:
lodged in priaon. M. de onvielle, ow in ngland, and publlchltiuuat,
has been condemned to death as " contumacious." action; he has at last turned upon his assailants; he is now
We are infermed, mereover, that, In some mysterious ready to confront them, and coetradict them noon meth, and to
way, a small Council of Three exists ; that the Three call as witnensee those who have Inman him &Ulna lire—who
have known what his conduct has been, who are snare what
are obedid t to the One' and that here the enpreme
his relations with hte wife have been, and thus to vindicate
direction el affairs ia to be found. If this be not
, his character ; tilourth 1 lout say that it needed no such
Robespierre over again, historical parallels sadly vindication, and tile hard upon a mall to Me position that he
fail. The logical consequence ehould surely be, should be driven to take so unpleased a course—to be forced
not only the secret denunciations which are to come into a public court ot justice mad trouble a judge
a'ready in fun play, but the guillotine, which, and jury with the Semite if his married life anti to
happily, has hitherto been kept in the background. enter into metters connected with their most intimate
Had not the terrible drama been played out before. r.e,,l.a.tronte 11,Lilnytheoil
, `i
n 1ter.4,1;1:
we ahonll have still greater apprehensions for the iteentionruess, thus to path and wound a Mani by personal
future. We cannot bring ourselves to believe that insinuations and personal attack,. And It is strange what
there will be another Revolutionary Tribunal—another notions persons of this sort seem to have on the subject;
Public scenee r—and that the fatal tumbrils will atain ' for they teem to fancy that It Is an exime tint they know
nothing ahout the matters on which they puelleh slanders.
roil along the streets of Paris towards that magnificent
place in which eo much innocent blood has already Tr Arr,, dleictthal7l'. mp.ar'Zi,"."pthhtyLi'efrrel.; gag;
been shed. What the end is to be we know not ; we editor from an American paper, and thth he knew nothing
only know that it has not yet been recounted in history. about it, but now believed it to be untrue. Tnat tutu say,
that it is an excuse for publishitig slanders upon private
character, that the publishers know nothing of the matter.
believe that thie is net le telt. h law, and 1 hope it never
will be. Ido nettle:etre to be herd upon the defendant, and I
cannot believe, ludeed, that the Rego, will be seriously de-
fender'. At present I will content myself will' saying no
more loan gds.—that whatever the result of tt a cause may
be. I hope it will have this ff -et—that It wie show that
persons who are wronged in Melt most sacred and prlvefe
retelln no in this country, may Pave recourse, with perfect
confidence, to Eutlieh law for redress; and that a great
English Chief Justice and a specie( jury of Euglishmen will
vindicate the character of two highmineed and weomplished
foreigners, who have done honour to England by choosing it
as the country of their auoptiou, and do honour to England
by the lives they lead in Pi.
Madame Goldtchatnit woo then called as a witness and
mainlined by Mr. Pollock and stated that she Was a native ,
of Sweden, and thnt In 1551 nhe married Mr. Goldscbmidt
in Boston, United Slates. He pursued the profession of I
mud. For some years they raided at Dresden. in 1858 they I
came to redele in England. In 1E62 tl ey built a home at
Wimbledon, where they rill reeked They had three chil-
dren, the eldest of whom was at Rigby School. Oa their
marriage her fortune was considerable, and legal arrange-
ment. were made as to it with the advice of her trim els.
Since their marriage he had enlisted her in the manage-
ment et her property, "m. et carefully and eglicionslY,"
added Madame Goldornidt with emphages. He has attended
to the expenditure alto, she said, "moat conscientiously."
He had al, employed an accountant, and from time to
time she had clear information as to everything connected
with her property. My property (the said) hes remained
intent, and we have earneri more than half as much again,
and the whole is eerier the care of my huebat .1 and my
former guardian. I have hail perfect freedom us to my ex-
penditure, and on the other baud Mr. Goldschnthit has never
expanded any money upon hinted% wept in the era teary
expenses for a gentleman in his position. His habits have
been temple and Inexpensive. Ills amusements and °coml.
Hone have been with me and our family. Ills time la a good
deal occupied. We have never been separated.
Mr. Pollock : le there any ground for saying that you and
he are nem.dched as hennaed and wife, or that your mar-
riage has not been happy?
Madame Goldtchmidt en a tone of deep and tender feel-
ing) : Not in my heart. We have never lived apart. She
went on to say with emphasis that they had suffered per-
secution ever since their marriage. "Bile at persecution," in
consequence of tnese calumnies. She had new (she said: Mr.
Goldschmidt received everywhere as If he were a wounded
She stated, in concluelon, that they lived upon term, of in-
timacy with persons of gonna position, many of whom, she
was happy to say, were present is court.
Mr Serjeant Ballantine declined to ask Medame Gold-
schmtdt any questions.
The plaintiff, Mr. Geldsclitnidt, was then called and ex-
=Med by Mr. Tcestger. its sten d that he hed never been
addicted to gandeing ; that he haat never leen near a
gambling tails; that he slid n-it even frequent billiard
tattle., and did not play whist. lie had never any propensity
to gambling, his time was too much occupied either with
professional pursuits or self.culture.
Mr. fhessiger Have you ever been addicted to expensive
or extravagant tastes I
Me Goldschmidt: Why, really, I should like you to define
the term. of your inquiry a little, but I can state that I have
net habitually kept a sadele bor. that I do not play, and
that I don't even smoke. (Mach laughter). He went on to
state that on lis marriage there was a settlement; that belied
since the ma- gage been most careful in investmeets ; that
even their j dint earnings were leveeted at Interest ' • and
Met his wife now posseened more than double what she had
on her marriage.
Lord Leven was then called, and stated that he knew Mr.
and Madame Geldachmidt, that he had seen much or them
since their utarrlige: that they lived etre the heat pea dble
terms' that Mr. Gold:cluntdt comulted h'm about hie wife's
hail
"Tewfikeeya, Den 8, 1870. hroprrty stal was cony careful of it; sod thut heed
ow,,infritrb e m tor some
"The expedition is in complete order, and the Erst with in
division of eight vessels started on the Ist of this month, Mr. Duceansienyai.rsettiot.or..,
.wahnodihttlehd
followed daily by sections' of the flotilla. I bring up the y nth. Goldechmidt
head' in'irgranV had the Ida eernings of himself and wife slime
rear on the 9th met all 59 vessels, I,COO bayonets,
their merriage settled In trust, nne the witnese added that
10 plates of artillery, tie had been struck with his delicate and high name of
"I returned all my sick to KbarteuM. The north honour. Tbis was the plelet ff's case,
wind in strong, the river full, and I have no fear of the Mr. sergeant Billentine, in addrosing the jnry for the de-
inoped:mer,t hat were fatal la,t 6.mm—shallows. fence tented that the paper was conducted in the most in e-
The (lama of v getation we IMPS out through. but for pro ethahledm en,n er irredt
twee:
teht.tthneohwigtersLeeh afirAct tnl
etlitti Its
am well prepared. Out of twenty
horsesrent In court to eed'ase oflibel, and especially in nth a mare
aye lost only one, thanks to great care in Pe
NJ this. In every word wed so eloquently by tee Solicitor-
atelono enn :Ater deuce. I regret to say that poor General he entirely crncarred, and there Woe no neceeelty to
add he especially concurred in all that wasaaiai as to the
eieu,,lT
he
adbeetmlweasyusddbeenonly
einearnetri, with
in plaintiff and his gifted wife. Me believed that there never
moorrewhighly gifted or who more graced the stage of
manner and habits, hut Shad no ilea that eo f riehtf al was
one
Cmalady wee intsiducusly working ithi
..,n,ltt.ted,tonowedho Iglnhtdi.dom;
Sir, honour tt the proles-
n Goldschmidt had me wn. I forwarded
him to Khartoum, but after some weeks, during which I
died the& she was sueraunded by friends who admired her for
he refused poitrishment, he withered away and
her genies and who loved Per for her virtues. leer husband
almost a eke!, on me to the lest. Mr. lliggin• woe a highly honourable man, and there was not a Word Raid
botham was in Khiarlonm when he died lie directed by the S Atelier. Getteral,wholf:.l mint prer- Ii
ant We Own
his etb 'lb cts to be sold by auction, and paid to the mind teen heolethee • d
g t h;rinter, who 11Z1 ixothireg hvgi;
Governorithneral the amount, to be handed to the
thverC 7ni.oln ta of the paper, and the theertion of the paragraph
Btitinh eenetaußte upon application. I believe the
won owing to the carelessness of the editor' which the de-
amount realisted was about . Our Europeans rendaut deeply regretted As soon, too, as the libel had sp-
are an well, although they bane all more or lees
peered, and had been gl,wia to the attention of the pro.
fered ing the rains. Thank Ctool, I urn always welt, vie ore, yat ore° If sved to do anythi g, and .o insert
and Lady Laker is the etrongtst of the party," thing to remove the effects ot it, and they did In tact In-
atq

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It has been esnerally supposed that only in a civilized
country could such a barbarous fashion of dreeeing the
hair prevail as that by which young ladies condemn
themselves to bear on their heads those enormous
burdens call, d chignons. It appears, however, from
the correspondence relating to Mr. Forsyth'a mission
to Yarkund which has lately been printed by order
of the House of Commons that there is an old lady of
high volition in a very out-of-the-way spot who has
discovered and adopted, if possible, a snore painful and
inconvenient style of head-dress than that which excites
so much sympathy at home. Deungaria Proper, says
Mr. Forsyth in his report to the Secretary to the
Government of the Punjaub, in now divided between
the Taranthie and Kulmaks ; of the form of gvernment
among the Taranchis the whilom slaves of the Chinese,
we have no information. Russian traders and caravans
are strictly excluded from Kuldja, so that what is en-
acting therein, although that plaits is only sixty-seven
miles distant from the Russian frontier, remains a
mystery. The country is known to be peopled, from
the fact of the constant appearance of armed bands ou
the Russcan lines, and from repeated incursions of
marauding parties neer the hoe der. It has, however,
been atc-rtainsd by the Russians that the Kulmake
who had retired in consequence of a revolt of the
Taranchis heyond the Yuldus Mountains have returned
to their fields in the neighbourhood of Kuldjs. These
Kulmake are ruled by an elderly woman. A Tartar
who had returned from Kuldja related at Fort 'Vern, i;
that he bad seen this Kultnak ruler proceeding to an
interview with the chief of the Totanchis. Her hair,
he said, hung in long tresses down her back. They
were so heavy with gold coins and other prthious crt.a-
ments that they had Lobe supported by two men as she
walked. It might be premature as yet to follow the
example of this old lady of Dzupgatia Proper, but
there can be no doubt that banknotes might be used as
endpapers with the moot pleasing • ffeet, apd that any
young ledy appearing with her head thus adorned
would not at ffor from any lack of admirers.