The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-21 00:00:00

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he turned the poi`'
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—man met him with a letter, and
this letter 0—
ways contained precisely thelmost dis-
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that particular moment. There is a French farce
wherein the heroine is persecuted nearly to death
for repeating a little scandal. Having inadvertently
said that a gentleman's wife had been unfaithful to
him, the husband makes her responsible for the
name of his rival. By every post, in every society,
wherever she may be, she receives a letter with the
unvarying inquiry, "Madame, s'il vows plait—son
nom." She found the persecution insufferable. So
Mr. Hughes, when he was about to be married,
found himself assailed by imputations that he was
insolvent, illegitimate, eaten up with the king's
evil, and subject to hereditary madness. When he
does get married he cannot receive his mother into
his own house but the postman arrives at his mother-
in-law's door with a protest. Even his housekeeper
is not allowed to pursue her course in peace, and
the butler is shot through the character by an epis-
tolary revolver. Now, a man may know himself to
be very solvent and very healthy, and may find the
society of his mother a solace, and may know his
servants to be honest, but still get impatient of a
pertinacious correspondence such as this. He may
be innocent of band boxes, and of those who carry
them, and yet not like to be called " Bar dbox
Hughes." But if the offence had terminated here
we need not have had a public esclandre. A private
exposure wou!d have been sufficient; society would
have punished this Candia, who draws her poi.ons
from the inkpot. An old woman's spite and malig-
nity are not thought worthy of much notice, unless
t hey could succeed in effecting mischief; and in this
case there was no special damage, as the lawyers
call it. But when these letters are followed up by
the visit of a fighting colouel and by public denial
upon oath of the authorship of the letters, we seem
to see a shameful act deepening in colour to a crime.
We are startled to find a woman of rank coming
into a cunt of justice, and solemnly, in the face of
the world, committing what the jury found to be
perjury; but we have no right to be surprised that
a woman who could write the letters produced upon
this trial should try to shield herself from the dis-
grace of detection even by such awful means. The
jury have declared that the scandalous anonymous
letters which so persecuted poor Mr. Hughes were
written by Lady Dinorben, and this after she had
appeared in the witness-box and had on her oath
repudiated them. The Judge's summing up and
the evidence in the case seem fully to bear out
the verdict. By a retributive piece of poetical
justice, the wickedest and most unwomanly
words which the letters contained were written in
the natural handwriting of the writer.
We began by deprecating that habit of unjust
generalisation which imputes to a whole class the
irregularities of a few unworthy members, but we
have no mercy for persons in the enjoyment of dis-
tinctive titles and a certain social rank who commit
offences against good taste and proper delicacy of
feeling, still less when they commit crimes. Their
temptations are less and their education is better,
and their example is more pern cious, than when
the offenders are from the common ranks. They
are also more amenable to the voice of society than
to the whip of the law, and they must submit to
point a moral though they do not adorn a tale.

SEDUCTION OF ENGLISH GIRLS IN

PARIS.

A case of a very painful nature, but of consider-
able interest, was yesterday submitted to the Tri-
bunal of Correctional Police. A woman named
Mesmeurice, 48 years of age, and who stated that
she lived on her property, was tried on the chirge
of what the French law calls " outraging mot ality,
and exciting girls under age to debauchery."
A police-officer said that in the morning of the
11th of May last, as he was on duty in the Rua de
la Pompe, at Pas y, he heard cries of " Help,"
" Murder," in a house, and on entering he found
in a splendidly furni-hed apartment on the ground
floor a young Englishwoman, remarkably hand-
some, who complained that the mistress of the
place had been beating her. He took both the
women before the commissary of police, and that
functionary, after hearing what they had to say,
had the elder taken into oust° ly.

Toe President, addrassing, the prisoner, said,
"You are accused of exciting to debauchery ?"
"It is not true, sir." " Listen to me—you are
aecu ed of having frequently received young girls
from Eng'and, of letting furnished apartments to
them, and of giving them up to men." "My ad-
voiate will explain, sir—l am so troubled." An-
swer my question. You occupied larger apart-
ments than your fortune or style of living justified
—you let part of them to young girls, who
" No, sir, Ido not let lodgings." "You did, and
I can tell you the names of some of your lodgers—
Charlotte, Fernand; Melly, and Sarah. Amongst
the girls was one of 1G or 17 years of age, Char-
lotte B.Althaz ir by name, who will be called as a
witness, and this girl you introduced to a very-
wealthy man, a Russian princee it is s rid—he pay-
ing you liberally ?" "It is true that a Russian
prince sometimes came to the hi. butit was not
I who made him known to Charlotte—they knew
each other before." " You are accused of having
brought this girl from England to speculate on her
beauty." " I did not go there to seek her—she
came to me." "Did you not go frequently t)
England?" " I did, but it was on business.'
" What business ?" "To seek money due tome."
" Due by whom !" " Sir, it was an old friend who
made me an allowance." " It is easy enough to get
over money from England, and you need not go
there to s-ek it." " I have:nothing to do, and I
like travelling." " Aed you knew how to make
your travelling profitable. We are told that Char-
lotte Balthazar received large sums from the Rus-
sian prince—on one occasion as much as 4,000 f."
That is true, sir ; the foreigner gave a good deal of
money t Md•lle. Charlotte, but I had nothing to
do with their conventions. When she came to me
she said she was an Irishwoman who bad come
from England, awl that she was in distress." " Call
the girl," said the President ; " she shall tell her
own story." The girl then stepped forward. She
is remarkably handsome, with a brilliant com-
plexion and black hair, tall and graceful. " What
is your name ?" asked the President. " Maria
Theresa Balthazar," said the girl. " Your name is
not Charlotte ?" " No, sir, that is a name which
Marline. Mesmeurice gave me." " What is your
age ?" " Seventeen." " What is your occupation?"
" I have none." " Tell us what you have to say,
but take care to state nothing but the truth." "I
was in England, where I lived with a cabinet-
maker." " You had then no parents ?" " I had
left them. In England a girl can quit her parents
at 14 years of age." " She does wrong to do so,
especially when she does it for the purpose of tak-
ing to evil courses—but continue." " I knew at
London a dressmaker, who often asked me why I
did not go to Paris, where I should be very happy.
t always answered, No, no, 1 will remain iu Eng-
laud.' One day, however, she introduced me to
Mme. Mesmeurice, who had gone to London to seek
for girls ; and Mme. Mesmeurice said that if I
would ace enpany her to Perie she would, as I was
so beautiful find me a prince who would throw him-
self at my feet, that she would make me marry a
prince." (The girl spoke French with great facility,
and with only a slight Eiglish accent.) And you de-
termine lon coneng to Paris ?" ' Yes, sr, I came
with her. But I soon repented of having done so.
She had promised me tine dresses, fetes, pleasures,
but was unable to keep her promise. At first, I
had oven enough to eat. She was in such distress
that one evening, not being able to give me any
dinner, she took me to Musarcl's concert, and there
introduced me to a negro, frightfully ugly, who
gave me 20f. Afterwards, however, I had a prince."
The President said, "You have acted very ill, and
you must return to your parents." "Yes, sir."
" Before knowing the Russian prince, did the
accused introduce you to other men ?" "Yes,
sir; during a fortnight a good many came." "Did
she give you the money which she received from
those men 1" " No, sir ; I never had a sou, even
to buy a cake ; she kept all." "She lodged,
boarded, and cloth -d you ?' yes, sir." " Now
as to the Russia,' ; he gave a good deal of money ?"
" Yes,. sir ; 4,000 f. a mouth, without counting
presents." " the accrued give anything to
you ?" Nothing whatever." "Did you see any
other English girls at the prisoner's house ?" "Only
one, Nelly Bee ; but she had the luck to find a
protector, an I went away." "You appear intelli-
gent, and yet you c ill that luck ! Ho w old was
hit Nelly ?" " Eighteen." " You saw no others
iu her house ?" "No ; but the concierge told me
that she was accustomed to t dee French girls to
England, and to bring b ick English girls—th it
that was her ckl ii.g." " You affirm that all you
have said is teue. It is true also that she beat
you T' "Yes, sir. The Russian prince had to go
on a journey, hut b foie swain; out he sent us hi=
seen.), ary wi, h 4,000 f. The secretary gave 2,000 f.
to Mine. Mi s neurice, and 2,00ef. to me. When
he left, Mm Mesmeurice m ele me drink a goo
c eintoxicated.iipy
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about that
m day,y
deal,tier e foa uec,l
could not
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money, but s!ept all day lonee'. The next day, which
was a Sunday, I missed my 2,000 f., and asked fur
it she got into a passion, absued me, and gave me
a blow on the mouth, which made it bleed. Th •
next the dispute recommenced, and she
gave me a kick, which hurt me a good deal
As I do not know the law of Paris, I
cried for help, and a policeman cunt), and
delivered me." " All that this girl says" cried
the prisoner, "is a•tissue of falsehoods" Three wit-
nesses were then examined ; they deposed the
woman Mesmeurice was in the habit of keeping

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girls in her house ; that .Mlle. Charlotte was the
favourite of the Russian prince, and used to drive
-rrnt-every day in a dashing equipage, and that after
the donation of 4,000 f. by the prince the two
women quarrelled and fought. It appeared from
what one of the witnesses, a journeyman printer,
said, that the woman before going to Passy had
lived in the Rue Pigalle, in the same house that he
did, and that there she had with her "ladies who
had plenty of lovers." " Were these females Eng-
lish or French ?" asked the President. "English,
and all of them were young and pretty," was the
answer. " Don't listen to this man," cried the
woman, "heis a liar." [The Public Prosecutor
afterwards pleaded in support of the prosecution,
and M. Lachaud, advocate, defended the prisoner.]
The tribunal condemned the woman to a year's im-
prisonment, 100 f. fins•, and five years' interdiction
of civil rights.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SATURDAY MOANING.
GALWAY AND AMERICA.

The people of Galway have had to endure an-
other disappointment—only, however, a temporary
one. On a close examination of the Indian Empire
it was ascertained that some trifling repairs were
required, which, owing to the slowness of the work-
men, would, it was feared, necessitate the postpone-
ment of her sailing till this evening. The mail sent
by this conveyance was very small—not 1,000 let-
ters, the average number being from 12,000 to
15,000. The somewhat sinister accident which be-
fell the steamship on her first entrance into Gal-
way Bay has created quite a sensation here, and
the result of the trial of the two pilots is looked for
with no ordinary anxiety. The following narrative
of the transaction is condensed from the Evening
Mail :

" She was boarded at Blackhead by two men re-
presenting themselves as re2ular pilots, who under-
took to guide her safely to her moorings. It was
night, but calm and cloudless, and in the twilight
of a summer's sky landmarks and objects at sea
familiar to the experienced mariner's eye were dis-
tinctly visible. The vessel was taken in by those
►men, whose bearing, however, was so little satis-
factory or assuring to the captain that (contrary, it is
said, to their advice) he slackened her speed to one-
third of the rate at which he bad been steaming. It
was well that ho did so, for in less than half an hour
they tor) k the helm she struck upon a rock, and there
remained for two hours before she could be relieved. Had
she been going with all her steam up at, the moment of
the co lision there can be little doubt that she would, at
least, have received irreparable injury. Happily no ma-
terial damage was sustained, and, she has this day de-
parted notwithstanding the omen, melioribus fates. The
rock of St. Margaret, which was near being so disastrous

to the enterprise, is 83 far out of the usual course by
which ships approach or leave the port of Galway that
more than half a century has passed since any vessel
was known to have come in contact with it. Its place is
well known on the charts. It is, moreover, marked by a
large buoy, so conspicuous that Capt. Courtney descried
it at a distance of a mile, and called the attention to it of
one of the self-styled pilots. But that trusty guardian
assured him it was only a small boat ; and then there
was scarcely time to order the engineers to back the
ship when she came bump upon the rock. Other indi-
cations of wilful blindness have been mentioned, but we
content ourselves f r the present with those which have
been proved in a publ c court. They present a case full
of suspicion. A numerous bench of magistrates, com-
prising men of a'l the varieties of our social and political
state, have committed the two pilots for trial at the ap-
proaching assizes. There was no difference of opinion on
that subject. Whether it was through criminal neglect,
or ignorance equally criminal, or from a still more nefa-
rious motive than either, that so untoward an event oc-
curred, we leave to the investigations of ju.tiee toascer-
tain. We hope that a strict and searching inquiry will
be made, and that neither pains nor expense will be
spared to trace it to the source."
Another Dublin journal (the Express) deals
more mysteriously with the conduct of the pilots—

" It remains fora jury to decide whether they were
guilty or not of the crime of intending to destroy the
steamer. It seems to be the general opinion in Gal way

that the facts cannot be accounted for except on the prr-
■umption of their guilt. This, however, should be left
to the decision of a jury of their countrymen. If they
should be found guilty the crime is one of the foulest on
record. But if they are guilty others are guilty too.
If they did run the steamer on the rock intentionally,
they were the agents of a diabolical cmispiracy, which
should he traced out ; and, if the chief criminals can be
detected, no puni-hment would be too severe for them.
Suspicion points to Liverpool as the seat of this con-
spiracy. The motives assigned are commercial jealousy,
and the self-interest of parties engaged in the Liverpool
shipping trade. Should this prove to be the case—
which we trust it may not, for the credit of our civilisa-
tion and the honour of humanity—it would furnish the
strongest possible argument in favour of the enterprise
of Mr. Lever. If those who are most capable of judg-
ing did not apprehend that it would be completely suc-
cessful—that it would at least attract all the Irish traffic,
and especially all the Irish emigrants, and so interfere
materially with their own interests—they would not
adopt such atrocious means 5 defeat the proj•sct.
horrible, and execrable as the attempt was—assuming
that it was made—it furnishes a most satisfactory augury
of success, especially as it was so providentially and so
mercifully frustrated."

GALWAY, SATURDAY.
The Indian Empire sailed for America at 12.15
p.m. to-day.

A. lifeboat, built by the Messrs. Forrest, of
Limehouse, boat builders to the Royal National
Lifeboat Institution, was on Saturday shipped
on board a Russian steamer for Russia. Her
dimensions are as follows :—Length, 30 feet ;
breadth, Eft. 4in ; depth, 2ft. Bin. ; draught of
water, without crew, llin. ; with crew and gear,
14M. Will bold 24 men and the deck be free from
water. Pulls six oars single banked. The stability
of the boat is such as to allow 15 men to stand on
her gunwale before it becomes level with the water.
The b3at self-rights and clears herself of water in
20 seconds. She was designed and supervised while
under construction, by Mr. James Peake, Assistant
Master-Shipwright at Woolwich Dockyard, ex-
pressly for the Emperor of Russia, and is the first
boat of her class which haw left the Messrs. Forrest's
buildieg.yard. A sister boat, not yet complete, is
being built by order of the Board of Trade for pre-
sentation to the port of Calais, in testimony of the
gallantry of :some s3amen of that port in re,cuing a
British sailor from shipwreck off their coast.
The labourers of her Majesty's dockyard and
arsenal at Woolwich were last week regaled with
their usual annual entertainment from the bounty
of Mr. George H&l Graham, in the grounds of Sir
Thomas Wilson. The echo .1 children were also,
according to a recent custom, provided with tea
and cake. Upwards of 3,000 tickets were circu-
lated for the occasion.
[Aoviner[sEsorr].—it would be to some extent a nee :et of
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