The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-24 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.

The Lord Moyor requested that the press would acknow-
ledge his receipt of a post-Mem order for 10s., from
" W. ft.," for the widow and children of the eldest eon of
the late Sir Remy Bishop.
GUILDHALL.
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We reported a few days ago • charge preferred against a
Spanish merchant, Mr. J. Bailey Davis, by • friend of his,
Mr. Curtis, • civil engineer, of Great George-street, West-
minder, for the abduction of a young girl, on which occasion
evidence was given of the intention of Mr. Davis to take the
girl with him to Spain as his housekeeper, but from the
testimony of the young lady herself it appeared that the left
her friends voluntarily to accompany Mr. Davis, with whom
she had been little more than a week. She most positively
denied that she was under 17 years of age, and added that
she had no wish to leave Mr. Davis. Alderman Copeland
expressed • very strong opinion upon the conduct of the
parties, and dismissed the case, when Mr. Curtis intimated
his intention of appealing to the Foreign-office to prevent
Mr. Davis getting a passport for the girl; since which Mr.
Davis applied to Alderman Copeland for • recommendation
to obtain a passport for himself and wife, and on being inter-
rogated, he said he wanted the passport for the same young
lady whom he had that day married, and he produced the
marriage certificate in support of his statement.
Alderman Copeland expressed great pleasure upon hearing
that the affair had terminated so happily, and with every
wish for the comfort and prosperity of both, he willingly
granted the certificate requited to procure the
Mr. Davis said it was his intention to marry theP from
the first, but he did not choose to be interfered wit by his
friends, or to allow them to meddle in his private affairs.
Alderman Copeland yesterday received the following letter,
in reference to the above case :
" 30, Great George-street, Westminster,
Feb. 21, 1868.
" 81r,—Last Monday, after leaving the polies court at
Guildhall, I acted upon your suggestion as regards applying
to the Foreign-office to stop the passport of Elizabeth Wynn.
I applied through the secretary of tho " Society for the
Rescue of Young Women and Children" (in whose hands I
had placed the case), and Lord Clarendon was pleased not
only to order that not only her passport should be Mopped,
but &leo that of Mr. Davis; and I have now the very great
satisfaction of informing you that I have received from the
secretary of the Rescue Society, Mr. Daniel Cooper, • letter
informing me that Mr. Davis has since married the girl. Mr.
Cooper has also informed me that the agent of the society has
made the necessary Inquiries at the church where they were
married, and that be is perfectly satisfied that there is now no
deception. I have not seen Mr. Davis myself, but, as he
had the option of leaving the girl with her friends, it is clear
that be has voluntarily made the ameitde honorable, and it h
to be hoped that, u the parties really like each other, they
will be happy together. Yanr humane reproof and admoni-
tion baring thus had their due effect, I am somewhat afraid
that, as the mule has been reported in all the papers, the re-
port of the police-court examination may reach some, if not
many, who may be unacquainted with the reparation Mr.
Davis has made. If not, therefore, taking too great •
liberty, might I respectfully suggest that • few words from
you on the bench, announcing that you have beard on re-
liable authority of their marriage, and expressing your satis-
faction at so happy a tenuination of the affair, might do
something to prevent any injury the previous newspaper
port might otherwise inflict on the future prospects of the
newly-married couple.—l remain, &c.,
" J. G. C. Coarse.
" To Alderman Win. Taylor Copeland, Esq., M.P."
WORSHIP-STREET.
A are-worn middle-aged woman, of respectable appear-
ance, applied to Mr. D'Eynootut for a protecting order against
her husband under the Matrimonial Causes Act.

The applicant was in such agitation and nervous excite-
ment that shelves unable for some time to state her griev-
ances, bet with conaiderable difficulty. These facts were
elicited from her According to her statement, she had been
married upwards of twenty years to a commercial traveller,
and had given birth to fourteen children, several of whom
were now dependent upon her for support. For many years
put she had been most cruelly treated by her husband, who
had been in the habit of subjecting her to brutal personal
violence, and depriving hex of the commonneoesearies of life.
Finding that it was necessary to resort to some means of ob-
taining an independent livelihood for herself and children, she
applied herself to the business of an embroiderer and artificial
dower maker, by means of which she would have been
enabled to acquire a sufficient subsistence for her family
but for the rapacity of her husband, who deprived her
on three occasions of the produce of her hard-
earned labours, and Wither each time in a state of abso-
lute destitution. The last time she saw him was about
eighteen menthe since, when be returned home after a pro-
tracted absence, and remained a week with her, during
which brief interval he basely seduced a young girl who as-
sisted her in her business, with whom he absconded in the
night, taking with him the whole of her jewellery and every
portable article of value which remained in her possession.
She had mince ascertained that be bad proceeded to Scotland
with his paramour, but having recently received credible in-
formation that he was about to return for the purpose of
again dispossessing her of the property she had acquired
during his last absence, she had been advised by her friends
to apply at this court for protection wader the act.
After some observations from the landlord of the applicant,
which went fully to corroborate her statement,
Mr. D'Eyncourt said that it was certainly a most painful
awe, and from the evidence he had beard he should certainly
grant the complainant an immediate order for the protection
of her property .
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

An officer in the army (lieutenant in the Fusiliers),
residing in Portland-place, applied to Mr. Bowdon for a peas-
port to enable him to travel to Park.
Mr. Beadon oould not render the applicant any aisktenon
as his identity was not so established as to fulffi the require-
ments of the new system.
The officer left the court, and in a short time returned with
a person from the office of an army agent, who being known
to parties connected with the court, his evidence as to the
of identity was admitted.
Mr. Beadon having ascertained theta single form had bee.
sent down to the court, mugged the chief clerk, Mr.
Leadley, to fill it up, and Owe it at the disposal of the
applicant.
The form, which appears to be very simple, is as follows :
" The undersigned, • magistrate for the county of
recommends a British subject, residing at
for • passport to ensile him to travel on the continent, or to
proceed to , accompanied" (as the case may be).
Signed and sealed by the magistrate.
To enable applicants to obtain this form it will be neces-
sary to be provided with evidence to prove that the parties
' applying ore really the individuals they assert they ere.
Sarah Wright, an elderly woman, applied flex a protection
order under the new act. She said she was the erlfe at
Edward Wright, who had deserted her tan yws ago, duos
which period she bad maintained herself by boafnassoarrkd
on in Greek-street, but having sold the badness some yews
lyre she was doing nothing now. Her husband had aver
allowed her anything towards ber maintenance since deser-
tion, and she had only accidentally met him once "boat three
months ago in the street. The Drapers' Hall Company had
offered her an asylum with a small pension and it wee to
secure these advantages that she visited for protection
'trainee her husband.
Order granted.
LAMBETH.

Yesterday a most di;4;;littf. case was brought under
the notice of Mr. Elliott. young woman advanced
in pregnancy, and accompanied by a little girl about three
years of age, appliod for some relief from the poor-box under
these circumstances:—Her name was Flora Augusta Nohn,
and at one time her father carried on business et Cambridge
as en optician. After the death of her father she came to
town with her mother, and they resided together near St.
Georges-road, Southwark. Nearly fire years ago M.
Charles d' HAW, a French gentleman, wee Introduced
to her mother, and soon after she (applicant) be-
came acquainted with him. Their acquaintance was
not of long duration before he commenced Pa her
attentions, offered her marriage, wee by her,
and a day fixed for their marriage. M. d• had always
acknowledged that be had been brought up in, and professed,
the Roman catholic religion, but mute no scruple of accom-
panying her (applicant) and her friends to the protestant
place of worship, and their marriage was solemnised in the
parish church of St. George the Martyr, by liana, on the
22nd day of May, 1854. Prom that time until about Sep-
tember, 1866, they had lived very lumpily, but about
that time the pupils to whom her husband had been a
French teacher having fallen off, her husband and herself
proceeded to Paris, where the applicant had a cousin in an
influential position. After a little thee her husband
made an application to her cousin to procure
him • public situation, and her cousin peomfed
to do so, but in the course of inquiries diaooveeed
that he was a catholic priest, and being so, his rearriervils
regarded the laws of France, wee null end veld.
taxedwith the fact, Mr. d' Seale did not &my beings pried,
but said he should seek the senotion of hie bishop to get
married, and he should, in case of each sanction, marry her
(applicant) according to the prescribed order in Fresco. For
some cause or other, which he had not explained, helmeted
her and her child for a period of nine mouths, which pried
she had every mason to believe he had spt in the spereitery
of La Trappe. In the interim the applicant was kept ot the
house of her aunt in Paris, and at the end of the slue maaths
she wasined by her husband, who prevailed on bar to mom -
puny him to England, and they proceeded to Scarborough,
where her husband *Mined a @Melon es s teach,, of ho-
mages at a public school. Two racelhe ego bee It=
without any previous notice of him inhales, soli
her, and she had no doubt, from Wore eke lei moshol
from him, that he had returned to La Tapp tier the
of ioining that order of monks. She sewed at
as long -11/1 she could, and had been mogollel M dimes d
almost everything she peering to mometheed[ all
and pay her way. Unfortunately alst leg het a fritioi
London, except her mother, who me elks' Wolf to mist
on a small pittance, and therefore atok looldo to mist bee,
so that she was obliged to part with Mont ovary Miele of
.2rwhich she powered, indeed tlieg but what
Ufes apposed la, to Provide mans ,Ift ger ammaui
child. The appilcant, in oonfirmation of Ise miolion, arm
a bundle of pearnbrokere duplicates from her mall
exhibited them to the beech. She oleo to
Mr. )IWett for his perusal rams lON= she

had received from her heartless, hypocritical husband. The
first of these letters read by the magistrate was without
address or date, and commenced—" Poor Flora, I am now in
France. I had great trouble to perform my journey, but still I
succeeded." After giving the name of a notary through
whom she tan addrem him, the letter concludes—" Good bye,
God blew you and my beloved child. Do not forget to hare
bee brought up In the catholic religion, as you promised me,
Good bye. I hops God will lead us all to a good end.—
Your. truly, C. D'Hast.z." The next letter, which was
dated the sth of January, ran thus:—
"My dtar Wife—The troubles I see before UR are mere
than I can bear, and I see no hops of ever being bet*.
Thus it is no use to keep you lamLary any longer. I hope,
my dear Flora, that your friends will take more notice of yet
by being without me. I return to follow my own profmslo..
In my conscience I think I sun right in doing so, and I leave
you to the mere of God. I hope that he will provide for you
and my deer child Alice, as well as for the one I am sorry to
sty is coming, and is mine. Good bye. God bless you and
my little dear child. You will never see nor hear from me any
more.—Your very unhappy husband, " C. D'HA,LE..
Mr. Elliott having asked the unhappy applicant several
questions, which she answered in the most iltilfaCtory
ner, he (Mr. Elliott) directed that sufficient should be ed.
vanced to her from the poor-box for present wants, and
desired her to call on a fixture day.
The poor woman seemed overwhelmed with gratitude, and
expressed her grateful thanks to the magistrate for his
kindnuis.