The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-21 00:00:00

A WORTHLESS LOVER.

Two industrious
.young women, Mdlle. Bourvaud,
a dress-maker, and Mdlle. Eliza, a lace-maker of
the Petrelle, Faubourg Poissonniere, lived together
on terms of the closest intimacy. The dress-
maker had for her 'favoured lover Verge, the
trombone of the band of the 68th regiment, who,
in time, in order to form a parti carre, introduced his
friend Favre, who played the long drum in the same
band. It being known that Mdlle. Eliza, the lace-
mender, who by the way was no longer in the flower
of her youth, was in possession of 700 f. a year in the
funds, besides the produce of her business, the long
drum soon became deeply enamoured—whether of
her person or her money will be apparent by the se-
quel. The warmest protestations of love were made
on his part, and at length responded to favourably
on hers. Promises of marriage were interchanged;
but, alas ! in this case false as well as true love met
with an obstacle. Favre, being a soldier, could not
take unto himself a wife without the consent of his
colonel, but so strong was his passion that not hav-
ing a sous of • his own to pay for a substitute, and
thus obtain his discharge, he declared his resolution
to desert, if the fair Eliza would but unite her fate
with his, and quit France. This proof of devotion
was too strong for the lave-sick maiden to resist,
and to evince her estimation of it, offered to ad-
vance the sum necessary for procuring the discharge.
This being agreed upon, Favre •and Verge appeared
at the lace-mender's lodgings the next day with Bar-
riere, a man who they said was willing to re-place
Favre for the moderate compensation of 800 f., which
Eliza at once consented to give, and even advanced
a small sum, as earnest to bind the bargain. On
the following day Verge obtained from her 100 f.,
under the pretence of buying the necessary clothing
for the substitute, and at a later hour 30 francs more
to clear an account Favre had at a public-house, and
which he said must be drone to enable him to leave the
service with honour. On the day after, Fevre,
Verge, and the supposed substitute, again came to the
expectant bride, and obtained from her the 800 francs,
leaving her elated with hopes that in a few hours she
would embrace her lover as a free man. During three
long days she waited in anxious expectation
of enjoying happiness, but, nobody coming to
marry her, she went to the barracks, and there
learnt that neither Favre nor Barriere, who, it
turned out, was already a musician in the regiment,
and had lent himself to what, it had become evident,
was a fraud, had been seen since the time they
were last with her. Verge was found, but he pro-
tested his innocence. Drowned in bitter tears for the
loss of both husband and money, she went to the colonel
and related her sad tale. After seven days more had.
passed, Fevre and Barriere staggered back into bar-
racks just in time to save themselves from the severe
penalties of desertion. They were put under arrest, and
with Verge, were on Friday brought before a court-
martial to answer for their misdeeds. Favre ad-
mitted all his faults, but expressed his hope that his
dear Eliza would forgive him, and make him her
husband. Upon this, she with perfect simplicity
said she would consider of it. Favre was found
guilty, and sentenced to a year's imprisonment for
swindling. Upon this, he exclaimed, " Well, then !
there's an end to my marrying ! " No proof
having been given that either Verge or Barriere
had received any of the money, they were both
acquitted. It transpired, in the course of the trial,
that immediately after the money was obtained Fevre
invited five or six of his comrades to a restaurant,
where they dined, en seigneur, at 20f. a-head.

EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDING

Monday night last between 40 and 50 able-bodied
paupers, in a filthy and ragged condition, from various
parts of the country, besieged Islington Workhouse and
demanded relief and admission, saying that they were
exhausted through starvation; they had sought after
work without success, and they could proceed no further.,
Crowds of persons assembled around them and were
loud in their exclamations against the parish officers fur
not admitting them immediately, and it was much feared
that the result would be violence and outrage. A com-
munication, however, having been made to Mr. Ashley,
time relieving overseer, he came and furnished them
with an order for food and beds for the night, and
they were admitted as casual poor. They, were,
as is customary, ordered into the bath to cleanse
themselves, which some of them quietly submitted to,
whilst others resisted and behaved themselves in a most
refractory manner, and it was evidently their intention
to intimidate the parish officers and to commit Ohtrage,
if not plunder, and it was with considerable difficulty
that they -were made to go to their beds. One stout
ruffianly-looking fellow, named Baines, who described
himself as a labourer out of work from Brentwood, kept
the house in a continual uproar during the whole of the
night by his bawling, swearing, and abusing the officers.
Tuesday morning when the proper officer repaired to
their wards to give them notice to quit the house, he
found several of them sitting on their beds in a complete
state of nudity, they having torn their old and tattered
garments to pieces for the purpose of being kept in the
workhouse or being provi:led with fresh clothes. It was
found necessary to call in a body of the police, with whose
assistance the unruly gang were ejected, with the excep-
tion of the ringleaders and those who had torn their
apparel, and they being supplied with a workhouse suit,
were taken into custody and charged at the station-
house. Tuesday morning they were taken to Clerken-
well Police Court and charged before Mr. Combe, when
the parish officers attended and gave evidence against
them. The prisoners in their defence said, that they
had come from various parts of the country in search of
work, and they met accidentally and formed themselves
into a body, for the purpose of demanding and insisting
upon being relieved by the parishes through which they
passed. The. party charged with destroying their clothes
did not deny the fact, saying that they were in so filthy
and ragged a state that no one would employ them, and
they devised that plan to get fresh clothes. the
,and
committed the prisoners to the House of Correction, with
hard labour for 21 days each, which sentence they re-
ceived with perfect indifference.

LLOYDS' SHIPPING
LoNnox, JULY 20.—Wind this day at Noon, W. S.W.
DEAL, JULY 19 Wind W. S. W. to W., light.—Sld. Hel-
vellyn, Sydney ; Childe Harold, Bombay ; Symmetry, Ceylon,
Miramichi, and Prince Regent (transport), Quebec; Media-
tor, New York.
PoitTsstouTn, JULY 19.—Wind E. S.E. to W.—Arrd. her
Majesty's ship Surplus, China, left Nov. 26, and Ascension,
May 18 ; her Majesty's ship Termigant, west coast of Africa.
Ski. her Majesty's ship Sattelite, South America ; her Ma-
jesty's ship Albatross, Bermuda; Malabar, Bombay.
COWES, JULY 19.—Arrd. Vernon, Robertson, Havannah.
FALMOUTH, JULY 18.—Wind S. W. fresh breezes.—Sld.
Montrose steamer, Vigo. Arrd. off, Lady Catherine Barham,
Freeman, Jamaica; Thomas Young, Rumford, Honduras,
left Ist ult.; Countess Mulgrave, Keely, Quebec.
SWANSEA, JULY 18.—Arrd. Lien, Buxton, from Cuba.

HULL, JULY 16.—Arrd. Sarah, Junes, Philadelphia.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 9.—Wind S. E., moderate. Arrd.
Micmac, Bell. Monte Video; Columbus, Green, Pernambuco,
left Juno 7 ; Rising Sun, Howell, Laguara ; Mary Mur, Payne,
Avrey ; Nicholson and Prince of- Wales, Montreal. Sld.
Black Prince, Lima ; Philips, ditto ; Risson, St. Thomas ;
St. George (steamer), Newfoundland ; Europe, New York.
DUBLIN, JULY 17.—Arrd. British Queen, Bowen, St.
John's, New Brunswick.
CORK, JULY 17.—Arrd. Charles, Windsor, Newfoundland.
PENTLAND FIRTH, JULY 16.—Arrd. Columbus, Pearson,
Miramichi ; Prince George, 111'Farlane, Quebec.
DUBLIN, JULY 14.—Arrived Wanderer and Visitor, Mop-
pitt, Trinidad.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 16 and 17.—Wind E. S.E.—Sld. Lady
Raffles, China ; Madras, ditto ; Marquis of Hastings, Hobart
Town. And. off, Monarch, Allen,. Montreal.
SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 16.—Sld. Medway steamer, West
Indies; Rainbow, Qtiebec; Montrose steamer, Gibraltar..

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The nuptials of the Earl
of Bective, eldest son of the Marquis of Headfort, with
Miss Thompson, daughter of Alderman Thompson, M.P.,
was solemnized in St. James's Church yesterday
in the presence of Grew Dukc
the Dutz-.e and DtteiwiLC of
Headfort, and a numerous party of the -nobility and
gentry connected with both families.