The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-18 00:00:00

A DRAMA.

A short time ago, a young woman of lady-
like manners presented herself before the mayor of
Sierck (Moselle), and said that her name was Theresa
Kirchberg. that she resided at Neiderlanstein, in the
duchy or Nassau, and that she came to oppose the pro.
jected marriage between a Mr. Mayer Reinhold, corn
merchant at Coblentz, and a young girl named Fanny Ca-
hen, daughter of a tradesman at Sierck. In supportuf her
opposition she asserted that a young child who accompa-
nied her was the fruit of the intimate relations sh 7 had
long held with inliold. The Mayor said that that cir-
cumstance was not sufficient et warrant him in refusing
to celebrate the martinet.. The young woman then went
to the house of the Cahens, and told the mother and
daughter that she had been seduced by Reinhold, and
cruelly abandoned. The mother showed much sym-
pathy towards her, but the young lady declared that
she would persist in mat rying Reinhold. " Even if he
was affianced to you," said she. " and even if he be the
father of your child, it matters not, fer in France a
young girl has no objection to marry a man who
has had an illegitimate child!" "In Germany,"
returned the other, "it is different, fer ttere
I have already succeeded iu preventing. his
marriage on two or three occasions." On finding that
this remark produced no effect, she added, "Leave to
this child his father, I beg of you—it not, you will
incur the greatest danger." "What danger?" asked
the other, but the visitor only replied by wattling
the young girl to reflect on what she had said.
The next day Mayer Reinhold received a letter in
these words—S. When you receive this letter, Mayer, you
will again be my affitteced, and your Cohen will be mar-
Hee with h. aven!" On the same day she paid a second
visit to the Cahens, and prayed and supplicated that the
uierr with slayer Reinhold might be broken off.
luattiainge a peremptory refusal being given she with-
drew. A iew hours later, however, she returned to
the house, and on being told that the young girl had
gone to a draper's shop in the town, she hurried
there, and, rushing into the shop, cried, " Will you
leave me, Mayer—yes or no?" Nig:demoiselle Cahen
cried, "No !' Whereupon she drew a pistol from her
bosom, and fired at her rival. Luckily the contents
did nut touch her, and on seeing this, the woman rushed
upon the young girl, seized her by the throat like a
fury, and attempted to strangle her. She was, how-
ever, separated from her victim. She then calmly
proceeded to the mayor's house, and constituted herself
prisoner. The mayor went to seek the gendarmes, leav-
ing her alone. See might then have escaped, but on a
:suggestion to that effect being made to her, she rejected
it disdain!eilly, and subsequently wrote to her brother,
"to have escaped would have been disgraceful." Being
brought to trial at the last assizes of the department of
Moselle, the facts here stated were proved in evidence.
As, however. the ill-treatment the poor woman had re-
ceived from Mayer Reinhold excited universal sympathy
in her behalf, the jury gladly seized hold of the fact that
no ball had been discovered in the shop, to assume that
the pistol was not loaded, though the acocrudsie.nclohyetrhseeylf
had at one time asserted the contrary; acc
retareed a verdict of acquittal, to the intense satis ac-
tion of an immense multitude assembled in the Court
and its vicinity.

To-morrow's tide in the Mersey will be the highest
'in the year.—Liverpool Mercury of WetintAlAY.