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

POLICE INTELLIGENCES—Feb. 23.

GO-16DH A.L.L.. rePQrt ca fey:- days a,z -
charge proferi ed agAit_st a Spanish merchant, Mr.
J. Bailey Davis, by a friend of his, Mr. Curtis, a
civil on qineer, cf Great George-street, Westminster,
for the abduction of a young girl, land 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 she left her friends voluntarily to
accompcny Mr. Davis, with whom she had been
ale 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 a very strong opinion
upon the conduct of the parties, and dismissod 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 Mr. Alderman Copeland for
a recommendation to obtain a passport for himself
and wife ; and on being interrogated, he said he
wanted the passport for the same young lady whom
he had that day married, and he produced the mar-
riage certificate in support of his statement.
Alderman Copeland expressed great pleasure
upon hearing that the affair had terminated so hap-
pily, and with every. wish for the comfort and pros-
perity of both, he willingly granted the certificate
required to procure the passports.
Mr. Davis said it was his intention to marry the
girl from the first, but he did not choose to be in-
' terfered with by his friends, or to allow them to
meddle in his private affairs.

WORSHIP-STREET.--A care-worn, middle-
rMaaptrrioniteoentijanlgC Causes Act.
middle-
aged woman, of respectable appearance, applied to
order against her
The applicant was in such agitation and nervous
Mr.
husbandD'E
excitement that she was unable for some time to
ync
undero u r t
the f for
state her grievances, but, with considerable diffi-
culty, these facts were elicited from her : Accord-
ing to her statement she had been married upwards
of 20 years to a commercial traveller, and had
given birth to 14 children, several of whom were
now dependent upon her for support. For many
years she had been most cruelly treated by her
husband, who had been in the habit of subjecting
her to brutal personal violence, and depriving her
of the common necessaries of life. Finding that it
was necessary to resort to some means of obtain-
ing an independent livelihood for herself and chil-
dren, she applied herself to the business of an em-
broiderer and artificial flower maker, by means of
which she would have been enabled to acquire a
sufficient subsistence for her family but for the ra-
pacity
of her husband, who deprived her on three
occasions of the produce of her hard-earned labours,
and left her each time in a state of absolute desti-
tution. The last time she saw him was about 18
months since, when he returned home after a pro-
tracted absence, and remained a week with her,
during which brief interval he basely seduced a
young girl who assisted 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 since ascertained that lie had proceeded
to Scotland with his paramour, but having recently
received credi.,le information 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 under 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 case, and from the evidence he had heard
he sh6uld certainly gra,it the complainant an imme-
diate order for the protPction of her property.

LAMBETH.—Yesterday a most distressing case
was Lrought
under the notice of Mr. Elliott. A
young woman advanced in pregnancy, and accom-
panied by a little girl about three years of age,
applied for some relief from the poor-box under
these circumstances :—Her name was Flora Au-
gusta Nolin, and at one time her father carried on
business at Cambridge as an optician. After the
death of her father she came to town with her
mother, and they resided together near St.
George's-road, Southwark. Nearly 5 years ago M.
Chas. d'Hasle, a French gentleman, was introduced
to her mother, and soon after she (applicant) be
came acquainted with him. Their acquaintance was
n)t of long duration before he commenced paying
her attentions, offered her marriage, was accepted
by her, and a day fixed for their marriage. M.
d'Hasle had always acknowledged that he had been
brought up in, and professed, the 'Roman catholic
religion, but made no scruple of accompanying 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
bans, on the 22d day of May, 1854. From that
time until about Scptember, 1856, they had lived
very happily, but about that time the pupils to
whom her husband had been a French teacher hav-
ing fallen of, her husband and herself proceeded to
Paris, where the applicant had a cousin in an influen-
tial position. After a little time her husband made
an application to her cousin to procure him a pub-
lic situation, and her cousin promised to do so, but
in the course of inquiries discovered that he was a
catholic priest, and being so, his marriage, as re-
garded the laws of Franca, was null and void.
When taxed with the fact, Mr. d'Hasle did not deny
being a priest, but said ho should seek the sanction
of his bishop to get married, and he should, in case
of such sanction, marry her (applicant) according
to the prescribed order in France. For some cause
or other, which he had not explained, ho deserted
her and her child for a period of nine months,
which period she had every reason to believe
thehhee r
ihadna of La Trappe. In
kept at the house of
monastery
sythe end of the nine
aatrphi
spe,l
imeaaohnndta swat
months she was joined by her husband, who pre-
vailed on her to accompany him to England, and
tu ensr spent
me
inntt
Pans,
they proceeded to Scarborough, where her husband
obtained a situation as teacher of languages at a
public school. Two months ago her husband
without any previous notice of his intention, again
deserted her, and she had no doubt, from letters she
had received from him, that he had returned to La
Trappe for the purpose of joining that order of
monks. She stopped at Scarborough as long as she
could, and had been compelled
to dispose of almost
ever} thing she possessed tosupport her self and child
and pay her way. Unfortunately she had not a
friend in London, except her mother, who was
obliged herself to exist on a small pittance, and
therefore totally unable to assist her, so that she
was obliged to part with almost every article of
apparel she possessed, indeed everything but what
she then appeared in, to provide necePaties for
herself and child. The applicant, in confirmation
of her asset tion, drew a bundle of p twitbrokerg
duplicates from her pocket, and exhib ted them to
-the bench. Sore als) handed Mr. Elliott for his pe-
rusal some letters which she bad received from her
heartless, hypocr.tical husband. The first of these
letters read by the maatstrate was without address
or date, and commenced—" Poor Flora, I am now
!n. 17r I,:0. 11 had gre trouble to pit form my
journey, but still I succeeded." After giving the
name of a notary through whew she can address
him, the letter concludes—" Good bye, God bless
you and my beloved child. Do not forget to have
her brought up in the Catholic religion, as you pro-
mised me. Good bye. I hope God will lead us all
to a good end.—Yours truly, C. D'HAsLE." The
next letter, which was dated the sth of January ran
thus :

4, My dear Wife, —The troubles I see before us are
more than I can bear, and I see no hope of ever
being better. Thus it is no use to keep you in
misery any longer. I hope, my dear Flora, that
your friends will take more notice of you by being
without me. I return to follow my own profession.
In my conscience I think I am tight in doing so,
and I leave you to the mercy of God. I hope that
he will provide for you and my dear child Alice, as
well as for the
one I am sorry to say is coming, and
is mine. Good bye. God bless you and my little
dear child. You will never see nor bear from me
any more.—Your very
• unhappy husband,
" C. n'llasLE."
Mr. Elliott having ailed the unhappy applicant
several questions., widch she answered iu the most
satisfactory rammer, he (Mr. Elliott) directed that
sufficient should be advanced to her from the poor-
box for present want:, and desired her to call on a
future day.
The poor woman seemed overwhelmed with gra-
titude, and expressed her grateful thanks to the
magistrate for his kindness.

At a meeting of the General Steam Navigation Com-
pany yesterday the dividend was adopted of 14?, per
share, being at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum,
and the usual Lonna of 2s. 6d. per share was also
declared.

THE COAST DEFENCES.— Cunsiderahle activity now
prevail 3 at Woolwich Arsenal in the completion of an
order given about two years since for the manufacture
of ordnance for the coast- defences. Since the Russian
war, such vast additions have been made to the royal
gun factories department, that with the aid of the power.
ful machinery now in we,
an almost unqmited supply of
heavy guns can be produced at a short notice. rrevious
to the erection of the new foundries, a large number of
guns were supplied by contractors, but the contract sys-
tem is to be entirely abolished. The large portion of
marsh land at the east end of Woolwich Arsenal is now
studded over with new buildings connected with the
laboratory and gun foundry departments ; and the
Royal Standard Foundry, for the casting of heavy
ordnance, which was opened last week, now in full
operwion.