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Otago Daily Times, Issue 149, 8 May 1862, Page 6

TnK " So«iAii Evil " in London.—A case which ■was tried the other day in the Court of Common Plens brought with it an exposure of a traffic which is systematically persued in London. ■' A young Scotch girl, I described to be very good looking, brought an action for false imprisonment against one Mrs. Janet Miller under circumstance of a peculiar kin,d. The story ■which the plaintiff told, and which the jury believed, waa as follows :'—Slie snid-that she was 19 years old, and that she had left hef home in Greenoclvin.Company with a gentleman, who appears to have left her in Glasgow in October last. She there appears to have fallen into the hands of an agent or partner of the defendant, to whom she was consigned in the month in question. Mrs. Millar, keeps an establishment in Dorset-place, and she forthwitli provided dresses for the young Scotchwoman to enaWe her to walkthe streets in a manner becoming her new calling. , Gor these dresses, as well as for her board and lodg-i ing, she was to pay, of course, an exhorbitant price (to her taskmistress, who was to be reimbursed out o | the girl's earnings, and.who probably, at first, thought the terras'as generous as she could expect. But sho soon discovered the real nature of the bargin she had made. Every shilling she earned had to be strictly aeoounted for and paid over, day by day, to the woman •who had ensnared Tier. In the course of her examination the girl stated that during the eight weeks which she spent in this most abject slavery she received and paid over £40. She was not allowed a sixpence for herself.'-'1 At length she took French leave of her mistress in Dorset-place; but the latter sought her out in her 'retreat, and actually gave her into custody for stealing the clothes which she then wore. Mrs. Millar had no intention of attempting to substantiate bo ridiculous a charge. Her only object wns to frigh-1 ten the girl back to her hospitable establishment, of which she was most probably-the most attractive feature. But she had better have let the fair runaway go, f6r> in catching her, she certainly caught a .Tartar. The' girl brought an action of 'false imprisonment against Mrs: Millar, and the jury gave her a.verdict fo&£37, being, in fact, the amount earned by the girl while under the defendant's roof, minus the value of the dress with which she had wdked away. The Spanish. Protestants.—fri its sitting on the 4tli inst., the committee, on ..petition in the Prussian Chamber was .occupied with/the .question of the Spanish Protestants. .The of, the Government announced that the Prussian Ambassador at Madrid had protested to the Spanish Cabinet against the .barbarous sentence, and Lad claimed the support of the Erglish Ambassador The Minister of Foreign Affairs had also invited'the English Government to join in a common representation, while the' Prussian Ambassador has been directed to continue his efforts.at Madrid on behalf,.of the condemned. 1— Weekly Dispatch- ■

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