The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-08-28 00:00:00

FRIDAY.

In reply to Mr. Butt.
Lord PALMISKATON said that the report that the
Austrian Government bad intimated to that of Turin
that they would treat the landing of Garibaldi in the
Neapolitan dominions as a easels Grill was totally devoid
of foundation ; that the Austrian Government had
always stated that they had no intention to interfere
beyond their own frontier.
The Divorce Court Bill and the Trustees, Mortgagees,
Bill was read a third tiwe and passed.
Mr. KINNAIRD, in moving an adjournment, asked
whether definite arrangements had been made for
...ambling the Conference proposed to be held at the
instance of the tiwias Confederation ; if not, whether It
was the intention of Her Majesty's Government to
recognize the annexation of lievoy and Nice LA a valid
act, funning part of the public las of Europe; also,
whether any other of the five great Powers are acting in
this matter in conjunction with Her Majesty's Govern-
ment.

Mr. KIROLAKR, after eulogizing the bearing and con-
duct of Switzerland, and justifying the course he and his
friends bad taken in pressing upon the Government the
subject of the annexation of Savoy and Nice, congratu-
lated the House upon the worthy manner in which,
he said, it bad caused its opinion to be heard, as indi-
cated by the meeting at Toplitz and the uniuu of Ger-
ni•ny. He concluded with some reftwtions upon the
proceedings of General Garibaldi, in reference especially
to the Austrian territories in Northern Italy.
Mr. H. Set moult called attention in the first instance
to the hypothecation of the revenues of Egypt by the
Pasha, in order to raise loans of money for his own par-
poses, and then to the state of our relations with
Persia; to the reported encroachments of Russia on the
Persian shores of the Caspian Sea, and to her attempts
to interfere with Fermin in the exercise of her ligitunate
authority over the Turkoinau tribes.
Sir G. BOWYER denounced the proceedings and
threatened proceedings of General Garibaldi as utterly
subversive of the public law of Europe, and uttered
dismal vaticinations as to the results of the revolution-
ary movements going on in Italy under • dream of
nationality caul-, by the spirit of anarchy.
I Lord Psbmitiorron declined to follow Sir G. Bowyer
I in his criticism upou must and his speculations upon
return events, but reminded him that General Garibaldi
Inel acted only as an auxiliary to the people. In reply
to Mr. Kinnaird, he stated that no period had yet been
fixed for the Conference, and that the annexation of
Savoy and Nice did not at present form part of the
publW law of Europe. That cession took plate under
peculiar circumstances, the province being held subject
to conditions from which it was not competent to the
King of Sardinia or the Emperor of the French to
emancipate himself. On that account, the manner in
which the cession was made and the circumstances
attending it created • most painful impression with re-
gard to all parties concerned in it in the minds of all
the other States of Europe. He hoped the result would
be that the transaction would close with due and ixon-
pletc security for the neutrality and independence of
Switzerland. With respect to Syria, Her Majesty's
Government were acting in conjunction with France,
Austria, Russia. and Prussia, and they believed that the
Turkish Government was sincerely desirous to punish
the guilty and establish peace between the hostile races.
In answer to Mr. Seymour he observed that there could
be no doubt that Russia MIS oesirons of establishing her
influence at the Court of Teheran ; but our relations
with Persia were of the wort satisfactory kind, there
being a =dial understanding between tho two
Governments.
Mr. GRIFFITH rose, and was making some remarks,
when the House was counted out at a quarter past six
o'clock.

The ships which were stationed at Queenstown, under
the command of Rear-Admiral Erskine, have joined the
Commander-in-Chief at Milford Haven.
The Dean of York has placed the munficent sum of
£2,OUU at the disposal of the Chapter, for the purpose of
augmenting the salaries of the " songmen," or, in other
words. fur improving the choir of York Cathedral.
The Spanish Government has made arrangements for
the construction in this country of eight first-class war-
steamers, which are expected to coat little less than
1.200,000 each. The Spanish Government are also in
the English market for the ',archaic of 'antral thousand
loads of oak timber.

Legal.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Banrroc, Aupik 17.
(Before Mr. Justice KEATING and a Special Jury.)
COLE V. WELCH. _ .

Mr. M. Smith. Q.C-.--an—d ring were for the
plaintiff; Sir F. Slade, Q.C., and Mr. Stock for the
defence.
This was an action for breach of promise of marriage,
the damages in which were laid at £lO,OOO. The
declaration alleged that the defendant had promised to
marry the plaintiff, and that a reasonable time having
elapsed he had neglected and refused to do so. A
second count alleged that lie had promised to marry
her a certain day, which day has elapsed, and that be
had neglected and refused to do so. The defendant
pleaded—he, that lie did not promise as alleged; 2nd,
that as reie.ouable time had not elapsed ; ir,l, that the
day iogteed upon had hot elapsed; 4th, that the plain-
tiff was not ready and willing to marry; sth, that the
plaintiff had absolved him from his promise.
Mr. M. Smith said he had the honour to appear for
the young lady, MISS Cole, who had complained of a
grievance she had sustained at the hands of Mr. Welch,
who had broken his solemn engagement to marry her.
The engagement was deliberately made, pursued for a
very long perioa, and heartlessly broken. The plaintiff,
who WM now 24 years of age' was the daughter of
respe,table pan um, her fathor being a yeoman of noise
consideration in the county of Somerset. Her mother
had died when she was young, and he had married
again, and Mias Cole had been adopted by two cousins,
' maiden ladies, who resided at Wick-cottage, tear Wells.
The defendant was a person in much the seine position
of life. He was of respectable family, fanned an estate,
and was a man of great wealth, having by the death of
an uncle come into a fortune of some £.10,000. The
learned counsel hero went minutely through the cir-
cumstances of the case as afterwards detailed by the
evidence, and said Miss Cole had not only suffered the
loss of the ouuipetence and position he had offered her,
but she was also grievously depressed in mind. He (the
learned counsel) had just been informed that Mr. Welch
had contracted marriage with a Miss Gray.
Sir Frederick Slade.—Yes, his first love.
Mr. Smith said nothing could justify the neglect of
MiSS Cole, and comminuted severely on the pleas which
had been put Oil the record. He eipmeed his confi-
dence that the jury, when they had heard the facts,
would award the plaintiff substantial damages.
Evidence having been heard and the learned Judge
having summed up, the jury returned a verdict fur the
plaintiff.—llatnages, £l,OOO.