The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-01 00:00:00

MARRIAGE

In this case the plaintiff, Miss Blanche Rowlinson, the
daughter of a merchant in Liverpool, sought to recover
damages from Mr. W. G. Gordon, for breach of promise of
marriage. The plaintiff is 23 years of age, and the defen-
dant 27. The plaintiff and defendant became acquainted
when the latter was employed in an office in Liverpool. He
paid the plaintiff great attentions, but he never made any
proposal of marriage. He subsequently obtained a situation
at Hankow in China, from which place he wrote a long
letter to plaintiff's father, confessing his love for the plain •
tiff, and soliciting permission to pay his addresses to her.
In this he enclosed a most passionate love letter to the
plaintiff, Both Mr. Rowlinson and the plaintiff replied to
these letters, each agreeing to the defendant's wishes. The
defendant after this wrote numerous letters to the plaintiff,
in which, in true lover's terms, he constantly alluded to
their marriage, and spoke of his parents being agreeable to
the engagement. He also said that he had saved £3,000,
which be would settle on the plaintiff, and that he would
soon be a partner in the ,firm of his employers. He also
described how he was furnishing a house for her, and men-
tioned a variety of details as to her outfit, and the arrange-
ments he thought best for her journey to China. He spoke
also about everybody at Hankow and Shangai being aware
of his proposed marriage with her. This correspondence
commenced in June, 1861, but in August, 1862, the defen-
dant wrote to the plaintiff to the effect that the marriage
would have to be delayed, as his parents objected to the
marriage. He also said that he intended returning to
Europe to see his parents on the subject. His letters
atter this gradually cooled, and he finally wrote to Mr.
Rowlinson, returning the plaintiff's letters, and breaking
off the engagement. He gave as his reasons for this act
the opposition of his parents to the marriage, and the
uncongeniality of his disposition and the plaintiff's.
The damages were laid at £lO,OOO.

The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages,
£750.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Yesterday,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—FLAGRANT CASE or
POLICE TYRANNY.-Eliz ibeth Wilson, a respectable-
looking young woman, residing at No. 6, Great Exeter-
street, Lisson•grove, was charged before Mr. Arnold with
being a common prostitute, and annoying male passengers
in the street.

Mr. E tward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-atzeet, ap-
peared for the young woman.

The case was partly heard on Tuesday, resumed yester-
day, and concluded to-day, and the greatest interest seemed
to be felt in the matter, the court being much crowded.
Wollard, 129 D, said —At two o'clock on the morning of
Tuesday last I was in Oxford-street, and saw the prisoner
take hold of gentlemen's arms, and heard her say to one of
them, "Come home with me." I then tok her into cus-
tody. I have repeatedly seen her in the street.
By Mr. Lewis—Late in the evening. I cannot say the
dates, but this month. I spoke to the second gentleman.
He die not give me his name and address. I then thought
I was justified in taking her into custody. I heard her ask
the gentleman whether he would go home with her. I
said, "There are great complaints of prostitutes annoying
gentlemen, and I shall take you to the station ;" and did so.
I did not in Marylebone•lane say, " Now you may go."
She did not say to me, " No ; you have called me a prosti-
tute, and I will go with. you."

Mr. Arnold—You say you have repeatedly seen her in
the street. When was the last time before this ?—Con-
stable—l think on Sunaay night, between eleven and
twelve. She was then going towards the Marble Arch.
I have seen her walking bacitwards and forwards in Oxford-
street. I have seen her out as late as 1 o'clock in the fore
•
part of this month.
Thomas Berridge, 295 D—l have seen the prisoner in
Oxford-street at 11, 12, and 1 o'clock, always walking with
different men, and a quarter or half hour at a time.

Mr. Wilson, of 6, Exeter-street, Lisson-grove, said—The
young woman is my daughter, and a professional singer in
the provinces. When she is is town, sometimes a few weeks
together, she lives with me. She is occasionally out late, as
she visits professional people, who meet late. Her employer
for the last two years is in attendance to speak to her cha-
racter.

Mr. Jennings, the proprietor of an operatic troupe, said
he was in the habit of engaging Miss Wilson as one of his
operatic troupe for the provinces. He had done so for four
years. He had ascertained that Miss Wilson went on
Monday night to a music hall in Long-acre, and he had no
doubt that was the reason why she had not, when the case
was first before the court, stated where she had been, as he
told her once that if she sang there she might sing there
altogether, and probably she was afraid of offending him.
Mr. Arnold put several questions to the witness, in answer
to which he said Miss Wilson bore an excallent character.
Mrs. Sarah Macdonald, wife of Mr. Wm. Macdonald, of

the Scotch Stores, Long-acre, said—l have known Miss
Wilson for four years. I never heard anything derogatory
to her character. Cn the night of Easter Monday we had
a party at our house, and several professionals were present.
Miss Wilson was there all the evening, and left from half-
past 1 till 2.
Miss Julia Ballinger, a professional singer, said—l have
been in the habit of travelling with Miss Wilson for four
years with Mr. Jehnings's company. I have during . that
time lived with her, and never heard a word asaiust her
character.

Mr. Arnold said the prisoner was charged with annoy..

lug gentlemen for the purpose of prostitution, and if the
statement of the constable was true, then the charge was
fully made out ; but if tne constable had not told the truth,
then it was not made out, and the constable was guilty of
wilful and corrupt perjury. In answer to the evidence of
the police, there was very strong evidence on the other side
as to the respectability of the young woman. Who had
great weight with him was, how the time was spent by her
on the night in question. He (Mr. Arnold) was aware that
a great many young women, ostensibly milliners or profes-
sionals, and persons of apparent respectability, eked out a
living by prostitution. The great difficulty he felt on both
occasions was no explanation being given as to how she
passed the night—but he was bound to say she had per-
fectly satisfied him now It would have been painful for

him (Mr. Arnold) to have convicted the young woman
after the protestations of respectability she had made, and
it was with great pain he said that the evidence of the con-
stable was utterly unworthy of belief. He believed the
young woman to be highly respectable. There was no
doubt the constable called her a prostitute, and that then
she resented it. He should take care the conduct of the
constable was represented to the Commissioners of Police,
and he trusted that he would not be allowed to remain many
hours longer in the force.
The 7oung woman was discharged.
Some applause followed the magistrate's decision, but
was instantly checked.
THE CHARGE OF ABDUCTION.—Thomas Howard, the
keeper of a night refreshment-house in Haymarket, charged
with taking a girl, named Minnie Wilson,from her parents,
she being under the age of 16, was again brought before
Mr. Arnold.

Mr. E. Dillon Lewis (in the office of Mr. Edward Lewis,
Great Marlborough-street) prosecuted, on behalf of the
Society for the Protection of Women and Children, and
on the prisoner being placed in the dock, said he had
good reason to believe that the girl Minnie Wilson had
been tampered with, as she was not in attendance. That
being the case, and as the evidence was not quite perfect,
he wished for another remand.

Sergeant Appleton, 26 C, said he had had charge of the
case, and he had reason to believe, indeed he was sure, the
girl had been tampered with. She had removed from the
place where she lodged, and £5O had been given to' her
through an officer of the House of Detention.
Mr. Arnold—An officer of the House of Detention!
Mr. Lewis said he should be able to substantiate it.
Mr. ,Arnold—Sergeant, Do you know a waiter at the
Raglan Music Hall ?
Sergeant Appleton said he did not.

_ ..
Mr. Arnold—l have received a letter, which I shall
hand to the solicitor for the prosecution, and from which it
appears the girl has been tampered with. _ _

Sergeant Appleton said the girl's father would not come
forward without he was summoned.

Mr. Arnold—l shall remand the prisoner, but will take
two sureties in £WO each:

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNAL S.

TIMES. —Her Majesty's loyal subjects will be very
well pleased to hear that their Sovereign is about to
break her protracted seclusion. Next week and

the week after she will hold Courts at Buckingham

Palace,—the first for the principal members Of the
Corps Diplomatique; the second for such distin-
guished persons as she may invite for the occasion.
Various other announcements encourage the hope

that not only will Buckingham Palace-resume its
place in the world of life, but that her Majesty will
herself reappear as its Mistress, and that before long
the whole Court will recover from its suspended
animation. It is almost seedless to enumerate the
classes possessing so personal an interest in this
revival that they have taken abundant care to make
their wants known and establish an actual griev-
ance. The West-end of this metropolis only enjoys
life for half the year, and after staking so much
upon its Royal and aristocratic patrons has to de-
plore the lot of those who trust in the favour of
Princes. But the Court has a loftier mission and
wider duties than the encouragement of deserving
tradesmen, or the prosperity of those who seek to
bask in its smiles. It is the very central and highest
institution of the country. It is the Court which
realises and arrays the Sovereign to the mind of the
people. Lawyers and legislators may understand
the Royal prerogative, and say what a Sovereign
may do and what she may not ; and they may de-
scribe her as the keystone of the arch, the symbol
of unity, order, and obedience. Princes, toe, may
have that personal knowledge of the Sovereign
which reduces the splendid ceremonial to an idle
formality. But the people at large see, or think they
see, her Majesty surrounded by the officers of State,
the representativea of foreign powers, and the nobi-
lity and leading gentry of our own realm. We are
not a people to take much on trust, or to conceive
that to be real which does not meet the eye, Every
body must here show himself in his appointed place
or his usual resort. If a gentleman is no longer seen
on the bench of magistrates, or at the covert side, or
wherever else the county chooses to assemble, he
loses not so much caste as existence ; and even a dis-
appearance for a few years becomes so much lee way
in his career and in the progress of his family. It
is an exigency that bears hard upon many charac-
ters who are but ill adapted to hold their own i a the
crowd, but it is a matter of public weal,and the public
wishes to have its rulers always before its eye, that
being the necessity of its own life, and therefore the
reciprocal duty of all who claim a public character.
We do not deny that it is possible to retire from the
public eye to a household or a relent circle, and to
exercise, by force of wealth or position or some per-
sonal gift, a considerable power, and yet be almost
personally unknown. There are, it is true, men and
women who, yielding either to natural taste or to
circumstances, shut teemselves up and become names
and nothing more; known only in the past, or in
'Heir inseparable connection with living p rsons and
outward things. There are such who are believed to
be models of piety, of goodness, and of accomplish-
ment, whose virtues are often alluded to, and who
are worshipped in a mysterious retirement by a se-
lect circle of congenial and interested admirers. But
in no position or reek of lire is it possible to become
this impersonal and mystic being so completely as
to lose feelings and be incapable of opinions. The
most secluded people cannot make the world of their
own so complete as to shut out the reality; and they
who live ever so much in the past will still find the
living intrude. Indeed, they are apt to give way to
feelings upon the questions of the day alt the more
because they have indulged too much in recollec-
tions and regrets, and all the shadows of a bygone
time. The present will assert its claims to their at
tention and interest, and will iay a strenuous grasp
on the heart that seemed devoted to the very
tomb. As long as there is life there is that which
sustains the life of the great, the noble, and the
good—the love of justice and truth; the love of
family and race, the love of a cause, or whetever
else has once possessed the soul. So they wio
would isolate themselves from the world and its
duties must forget both it and themselves; they
must cease to know and to care as well as to act,
and be content to let things take their course. This
in effect they cannot do; this they never do; and
the only result is a struggle in which they neither
die nor live—neither live, as they wish, in the past,
nor do their duty in the working world. To take a
part in the world it is necessary to live in it. But
they who live in it and wish to share its action must
be present ; they must see and be seen. Without
this, they will find themselves fading to the eye of
man, losing hold on the general interest, receding
into the misty background, speaking without being
heard, aiming without reaching, stretching without
grasping, fighting the air when they believe them-
selves in friendly embrace or in contest of argu-
ment. It is the only advice that can be tendered to
all, from the Sovereign down to the humblest servant
of the Sovereign, the State, or the public ; down to
any man who has his walk in life and his post to fill.
He must walk his walk and fill his post, and that
actually and visibly, otherwise the view dissolves
and another picture takes its place, which is either
not himself, or such as he will hardly wish to be so.
POST.—Daring the reign of the Emperor Nicho-
las in Russia no one was surprised at accounts of
atrocities unknown and unheard of in civilised
countries. In those infelicitous times neither age
nor sex was excepted from corporal punishment.
The monster Constantine, who governed Poland as
viceroy, and himself married a beautiful Pole, was
constantly in the habit of ordering Polish women to
be flogged, not for crimes against the law, but for
political opinion, or the wearing of co:ours that in.
dicated a political opinion. Nothing raised the
gorge of the Poles more than this brutal soul
debasing inhumanity; and there can be no doubt
that it was one of the proximate causes of the
Revolution of 1831. Nor was the flogging of
women confined to Poland. It was often prac-
tised in Sr. Petersburg during the reign of Con-
stantine's younger brother, Nicholas, to whom he
3 ielded the imperial crown, and practised, too, no'
merely on Polish but on Russian women. In the
year 1830, if we remember rightly, one of the prin
c pal hotels at St. Petersburg was kept by one De.
mutb, and his wife, a born Russian, having been
denounced by a police spy, a Russian prince (princes
in Russia are as plentiful as blackberries in Sspt
as having spoken rather freely of one of the Dames
de la Comer, Madame Demuth was seized, bound,
stripped, and flogged by the police authorities in her
own house. The sensation this produced at Vienna
at the close of 1830 was intense, end when the revo-
lution broke out at Wilna and Warsaw in the fol-
lowing year the sympathies of the Viennese were
breast-high with the Poles, In Galicia facilities of
concealment and escape were afforded to Poles flying
from pursuing Russians, for the Austrian Govern-
ment did not at that moment dare to run counter to
public opinion. Yet Austria at that perioi was
dsspo ically governed ; the narrow-minded Em-
peror Francis still lived, and Metternicn was all-
powerful. True, the governing power was leader)
and heavy-handed, but it was not stolid or staple,
and certainly it was not brutal. It was not, indeed,
till seventeen or eighteen years after this period
that woman-flogging was heard of in Austria, and
then it was resorted to, in 1849 and 1850, by the
monster Haynau, who was not an Austrian born,,
bat a veritable Hessian, being the natural son of
William I. the Elector of Hesse-Cassel, by Madame
de Lidenthal. The manner in which this brutal
soldier exercised his authority was so ferocious that
the Austrian Government was forced to deprive
him of all military authority in July, 1850. He
left the army and the country which he disgraced
by his inhumanity at the close of August,
and in the month of September, 1850, arrived in
England. The infamy of his evil deeds had pre-
ceded him hither, and it is in the remembrance of
all that when he visited Barclay and Perkins's
brewery, some fourteen years ago, brewers' dray-
men and populace all joined in one loud diapason
of disgust and indignation at his cowardly con-
duct. The inhuman monster speedily left these
shores for Brussels. There, as well as here, the
populace taunted him with his dastardly and in-
human conduct to women, and received him with
shots of execration. From Brussels he proceeded
to Paris ; but though the police in that capital
afforded him protection from actual manual vio-
lence, yet he could sufficiently read in the expres-
sion of every passing visage indications of loathing
and contempt. He did not remain much longer
in France than in this country or Belgium, and
quickly returned to his fatherland. There,
whether from the stings of conscience or remorse,
be was seized with apoplexy, and died on his way
to the waters of Grafenberg in 1853. Since the period
of his death Austria has undergone great changes.
The military power of the empire has been humbled
and chastised. The Emperor Francis Joseph has been
induced to grant representative institutions to his
subjects, and 15 or 16 months ego many in these
kingdoms were hopeful enough to think that a career
of progression and improvement was opening cut to
Austria. But since the outbreak of the Polish
inaurrection many of those who were not originally
unfriendly to Austria have seen cause to change
their opinion. They are constrained to think that
Austria is acting in perfect complicity with Russia
:lid Prussia, and that the constitution and repre-
sentative institutions granted by the Emperor may
be but mere convenient shams, delusions, mockeries,
and snares—anything, in a word, but reality. Tuat
very Galicia which, in 1831, was a refuge and
shield for Russian Poles, is now, according to the
Journal de Debats and the Presse, the theatre of
Acts as tar. °ions as any occurring in 1831 at War-
osw under the Grand Duke Constantine, or at Wilna
ruler the senator Novosil z .ff. For more than a
math na-t councils of war have been in tall activity
a Lemberg. They dispose at least of four cases daily.
People of both sexes aro condemned each week—in-

-
deed each day—to corporal punishment for the most
trifling offences. The slightest annoyance to a sen-
tinel is deemed worthy of corporal pun;'shment.
Many youths and men hay for this below. is crime
undergone corporal punishment either wit h
clubs
or rods. This is brutal enough when applied to
the male sex, but what av abomination is it when
applied to women ! Yet women have been
knouted and flogged in the month of Mewls of
this year of grace, 1864, not in autocratic Re ssifil
bat in constitutional Austria—Austria with two
Chambers possessing liberty of speech and discus-
sion. Is there no man with a heart within his bosom
among the hundreds of men in the Upper or the
Lower Chamber of Austria who will denounce these
horrors P Is there no deputy, gent:e or simple,
titled or untitled, in Austria who will ask for the
decision of the court, military or civil, prevotal or
mixed which condemned Julia Chorostouka, aged
thirty•fonr, manteau-maker at Lemberg, to be
flogged ? Is there no one who will ask for what
crime Catherine Samborska, domestic servant, has
been ordered to receive a like punishment. Four-
teen years ago Austria repudiated and disgraced the
monster Haynau for woman flogging. Shall it bo
said that the Austria of 1864 is more brutal and
barbarous than the Austria of 1850 P In the days
of Maria Theresa, Austria, though a despotism,
was a mild, a humane, a beneficent despotism,
in the days of Joseph 11. end Leopold it was a
Government tempered by philosophy, by gentleness,
and by toleration. But if the speeific accounts con-
tained in the Debats, with names, and dates, and all
convenient certainty of time and place, be true,
Austria, instead of progressing, is retrograding
instead of advancing, is becoming the scandal, the
opprobrium, and the shame of Europe. UnhappY
country ! unhappy people !