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

SPIRIT OF T

Mr. Arnold said the prisoner was charged with annoy.
ing gentlemen for the purpose of prostitution, and if the
statement of the constable was true, then the charge was
fully made out ; but if the 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. 'What had
great weight with him was, how the time was spent by her
on the night in question. Ile (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 young woman was discharged.
Some applause followed the magistrate's decision, but
was instantly checked,
THE CHARGE or ABDUCTION.—Thomas Howard, the
keeper of a night refreshment-house in Haymarket, charged
with taking a girl, named Minnie Wilson,frona herparents,
she being under the ago 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 I
Mr. Lewis said he should be able to substantiate it.
Mr. :Arnold—Sergeant, Do you know a waiter at the
Raglan Music Rail ?
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 £lOO each.

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TIMES.—Her Mojesty'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 far the principal members of the
Corps Diplomstique ; 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 Heedless 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. Bat 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, too, may
have that personal knowledge of the Sovereign
which reduces the splendid ceremonial to an idle
formality. Bat the people at large see, or think they
see, her Majesty surrounded by the officers of State,
the representatives 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 is 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 select 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 themselves up and become names
and nothing more; known only in the past, or in
their inseparable connection with living persons 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 rank of life 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 wilt still find the
living intrude. Indeed, they are apt to give way to
feelings upon the questions of the day all 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 Jay 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 whatever
else has once possessed the soul. So they who
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 pi esent ; 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 dieeolves
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 colours that ins
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 St. Petersburg during the reign of Con-
stantine's younger brother, Nicholas, to whom he
yielded the imperial crown, and practised, too, not
merely on Polish but on Russian women. In the
year 1830, if we remember rightly, one of the pras-
e:pal hotels at St. Petersburg was kept by one Be.
muth, 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 Sept.),
as having spoken rather freely of one of the Dames
de la Cceur, Madame Demuth was seized, bound,
stripped, and flogged by t he police authorities in her
own house. The sensation this produced at Vienna
at the close of 1831) was intense, and wheen the revo-
lution broke out at Willie 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
f. one pursuing Russians, for the Austrian Govern-
ment did not at that moment dare to run counter to
public opinion. Yet Austria at that period was
despotically governed; the narrow-minded Em-
peror Francis still lived, and Metternich was all-
powerful. True, the governing power was leaden
and heavy-handed, but it was not stolid or stupid,
and certainly it was not brutal. It was not, indeed,
till seventeen or eighteen years afl et- 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,
but 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 express
visage indications of loathing
sion of every passing
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,
he 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 Fre ncis Joseph has been
induced to grant repoisentative institutions to his
subjects, and 15 or 16 months ago many in these
kingdoms were hopeful enough to think that a career
of progression and improvement was opening out to
Austria. But since the outbreak of the Polish
insurrection 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
and Prussia, and that the constitution and repre-
sentative institutions granted by too 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 Rnssian Poles, is now, according to the
Journal de Debats and the Presse, the theatre of
sets as atrocious as any occurring in 1831 at War-
saw under the Grand Duke Constantine, or at Vilna
under the senator Novosiltzoff. For more than a
!south past councils of war have been in fall activity
it Le.mberg. They dispose at least of four cases daily.
People of both sexes are condemned each week—in-