The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-01-24 00:00:00

BREACH OP PROMISE CASE.

A breach ..f promise ease, Hanger r. Wilson, was
tried in the Bail Court, Loudon, on Wednesday. The
plaintiff is a young lady of eonsiderable personal
attractions and of excellent education. She is the ,
second daughter of Mr. Haggai, the proprietor of •
large commercial establishment in Sloaneetreet, Lon. '
don, baying a country residence at Teddington, keeping
his carriage, and hying as a gentleman. The defendant
is • surgeon, and is now assistant aurgeou at Milbank
Prison, having an income there of between £3OO and
1:400 • year. His father had been a medical man. In
the year 1866 the plaintiff was an assistant to Lie Jay,
who, at the time, lived opposite Mr. /Jagger, in Sloane-
street. In that year the plaintiff and defendant was
much attracted by her, and proposed marriage; but she
said she had known him so short a time that sbe
declined his proposal. However, in 1837 the intimacy
was renewed. and in March of that year the defendant
again proposed, and was aceepted ; and they then lived
upon terms of the greatest affection and regard, and
these feelings had continued for four years. The
defendant eommuniested with the young lady's father,
who, alter some time, gave his consent to their union.
The defendant was constant in his atteodanee at
Teddington. generally staying at Mr. Hagger's from
Saturday until Monday. The defendant afterwards went
for some time to Highworth, but the correspon-
dence between the parties IFIVI continued. Mr.
Hagger's fsmily were in the habit of going to watering
plains every year. and the defendant ;frequently joined
them. There had been a very long correspondence, and
in this tho piefendant addressed the plaintiff as " My
dearest Polly," "My darling Pet," and signed himself
as "Yours ever affectionately, Jack." In all these
letters the defendant used the most endearing terms,
and always spoke of their future happineas. He asked
the plaintiff to remember him in her prayers, and to
add a prayer for their mutual happiness. In one of his
letters the defendant sent • prayer which he had com-
posed. Everything went on in the moat affectionate
manner until the return of the plaintiff from Boulogne,
in September, 1870, when the plaintiff treated her
with great contumely. The plaintiff wrote to him, and
on the 16th of Septomber the defendant wroto to the
plaintiff to ail that the loog-expected crisis had ariiyed
end he then expressed his intentiou of breaking off the
match, as he had seen that their tempers would not
suit, and if they married their days would be spent In
unhappy bickerings and quarrels ; and he added that
his parents had never been anxious for the match. The
defendant in his former letters bad frequently stated
that his mother was exceedingly attached to the
Plaintiff. Upon the contract beiog broken the plaintiff
, became very much indisposed, and WU now broken in
• spirit and completely altered in manner. Under these
circumetanees, the plaintiff had brought this action to
recover some compensation fur the wrong that had been
done her. The plaintiff was 2d and the defendant 25
years of age The jury returned a verdict for the
plaintiff, damages £5OO.

Twelve more 35-ion guns are to be constructed.
Fifty fugitives from Rennes arrived in Jersey on
Friday.
There will be no appeal in the case of the Inter
national, and the vessel eill be releosel.
French ironclads here been seen at the back of the
Goodwin and in the neighbourhood of Sandpit°.
The will of Baron Hochman, according to the Illus.
Otani Logsdon Neon was proved under halt a million.
On Friday afternoon Mr. England, gunsmith, of
Dewsbury, while showing • loaded revolver to Mr.
Newsome, of that town, accidently shot him in the
lungs. The Lujored man is not expected to recover.
Tits New Anemias if tsurree.—A Bill has poised
the House of Representatives to allow General Schen&
£5OO • year during his residence as American Minister
in London for an amanuensis, his riAlit hand having
beau disabled by wounds received in the war.
Banal. —There is no more powerful logic than that
of fact.; and we have been much struck, in looking
through the returns of the consumption of wines in the
United Kingdom, to find that the quantity of sherry
upon which duty was paid during the pat year woe
almost equal to toe total quantity of wise from other
ommtries than Spain. This is the more remarkable.
bemuse the alteration of duties in 1862, whioh did so
mush for the wines of Frame and Germany, had the
effect ot placing sherry at • oorreaponding disadvantage,
inasmuch as the new wale of duties was 150 par cent.
in favour of light wines, such as claret, etc., as com•
pared with port and sherry. The medical profession
has no doubt done moth also to increase the demand for
light wine.; and yet, on reflection, it is not difficult to
see that that there are many reasons which, when taken
singly, would not appear to be of Dutch importance,
but have, nevertheless, almost impsreeptibly influenced
the public in their seastion of snerry to preference to
all other Wine/ for general household use. The almost
unlimited quantity of wine prodneed in Spain has made
sherry • oomparadvely moderate priest' wine, while its
intrinsis value bears a more definite relation to its
selling prism than is the nose with the growths of other
countries where ths value depends, to • great extent,
upon the reputation of some particular estate, vintage,
or district—matters which are at best but uncertain
guides to &stud value. The produce of Spain has
always been shipped to this country under the name
simply of 'hairy; and its price, oonsequantly, has been
determined more strictly by actual value. Beyond,
this, sherry has tome decided advantages over most
other wines. It does not, like port, deposit • crust,
and thus become liable to Bee it brilliancy by removal
or variations of temperature. As compared with light
' wines, such as claret and hock, it has the further ad-
vantage of economy, from its keeping good in the
laminator for any length of time—a matter of consider-
aMe convenience, as it is thus always at hand whether
=red for use at meals or on other occasions. Con-
medioally, sherry is a wholesome stimulant,
More perfectly fermented than malt liquor; and its
setrootive matters are undoubtedly more digestible
then those of either malt beverages or of port
and other kinds of wine. Many kinds of light
Mind sherry have bitter quaint'', such as are
sopesially marked in Manzanillo, which make them dia-
timely tonic and appetising; and it harmonises better
than other wines with all kinds of light vegetable
toad's and bitters calculated to improve an enfeebled
digestion: It admits readily of dilution, without losing
Me agreeable characteristics. We most tauten to have
found mach overeating information on the subject of
wine in • pamphlet published by Messrs- W. and A.
Gilbity—A Treatise on Os Wine, of the Aran* pro.
duces? Comairies. The chapter beaded "The Chemistry
Of WON" contains some statistic.s and information of
special interest to the medical profession, complied by
some of the most eminent snelytical chemists of the
day. The generally ;increased sonsumptios of wide is
no doubt doe to the fact that its present soot is only
about one-half of what it was ten or twenty years ago;
end this decrease in price is unquestionably owing in •
gnat 10114/1114. to the feet that wins has become more
etriokly a oommeroial snide, to be obtained almost
everywhere of grocers or others, just iii the gams
Manner as we prorates the other ordinary articles of
daily consumption ; the grocer obtaining his supplied
from some well-known house of established reputation,
and selling it at certain fixed priors. We have ha"
turning &Motion lately to these wines ; and the
quantity of moderate prised wines purchased In this
way proves to be of a far higher averse than that of
winos of greater preteasion sold by 'inters and small
wins nnrUkillia• The IttOlool is one of considerable
disks* importance; and we propose to detail some of
the resale of the examinations which we have inati-
toied. Cheapens is by no means Incompatible with
load quelite. In the wrath of BUTOPO• g,Pet are She
most Wallas produotions of the soil ; and tbeftt is, in-
deed, no reason why wise should not *ltimately be sold
In this country it even mash lower pricer—the high
rate of duty, exposes of sonveyeass, and other inter-
mediate eberges, now forming aa item mush more for-
midable than the first cost of the wine itself. The
best way we know to mecsrsge an honest sompeldtion,
likely to bring abase 1111 desknflhe result, is omission.
ally to test aid report se the relative qaciities and
the itheiper wines offered for eala—Britiol
Minteds am lib.