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ing at the door, and calling on the prisoner for an explana-
tion of some offensive language used by him earlier in the
evening. Meanwhile a policeman had come into the house,
and the prisoner, who had hitherto been afraid of going
home lest he should fall into the clutches of the prosecutor,
placed himself under the constable's protection, and sallied
forth. The prosecutor rushed at the prisoner, and be alleged
for a peaceable explanation, but according to the prisoner's
case with a view to "smashing Mr. Brewer's head." In
the struggle the prosecutor was severely wounded by a
knife, which according to one party the prisoner made a
stab with, and according to the other which the prisoner
merely held up in self-defence.
The case was proceeding when our parcel left.

NORTHERN CICUIT.—LIVERPOOL, March 31.
SECOND NISI PRIUS COURT.
(Before Mr Justice Wil►es.)
ROWLINSON V. GORDON—BREACH OF PROMISE or

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 pissionate 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 13,000,
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 Shengai 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. Ho 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 OF
POLICE TYRANNY.—Elizabeth 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. Eiward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, 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.
Woilard, 129 D, said —At two o'clock on the morning of
Tuesday last I was is Oxford-street, and saw the prisoner
take hold of gentlemen's arms, and heard her say to one of
them, "Come home with ma." I then tole 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 thou!,ht
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 Sunday night, between eleven and
twelve. She was then going towards the Marble Arch.
I have seen her walking backwards 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 in 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 excellent character.
Mrs. Sarah Macdonald, wife of Mr. W.,n. Macdonald, of

the Scotch Stores, Long-acre, said—l have known Miss
Wilson for four years. I nevor 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. Jennings's company. I have during that
time lived with her, and never heard a word against her
character.

JOURNAL S.

deed each day—to corporal punishment for the most
trifling offences. The slightest annoyance to a sen-
tinel is deemed worthy of corporal punishment.
Many youths and men have for this heinous crime
undergone corporal punishment either with clubs
or rods. This is brutal enough when applied to
the male sex, but what ar abomination is it when
applied to women ! Yet women have been
knouted and flogged in the month of March of
this year of grace, 1864, not in autocratic Russia,
but 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 ? Is there no deputy, gentle 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 Cborostouka, aged
thirty-four, 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 be
said that the Austria of 1864 is more brutal and
narbarous than the Austria of 1850 ? In the days
of Maria Theresa, Austria, though a despotism,
was a mild, a humane, a beneficent despotism,
in the days of Joseph 11. and Leopold it was a
Government tempered by philosophy, by gentleness,
and by toleration. But if the specific accounts con-
tained in the Debate, 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 !