The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-16 00:00:00

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.

At the Yorkshire Assizes, on Friday, a case of this
character, " Gill v. Love," was heard.
Miss Sarah Gill was the plaintiff, and Mr. Thomas
Love, merchant, formerly of Huddersfield, but now of
Manchester, was the defendant. The plaintiff is twenty-
eight years of age, and she is the manager of a lodging-
house belonging to her step-father, Mr. Kelly, of
Scarborough, who is a builder, and the owner of several
houses. The defendant went to Scarborough from time
to time, and he commenced paying his attentions to the
plaintiff rather more than three years since. Mr. Kelly
asked him for an explanation of his intentions, and the
reply being satisfactory, he was permitted to continue to
pay his addresses to Miss Gill, and when he was absent
a voluminous correspondence toot place between him
and the plaintiff. Some of the letters he had addressed
to her were read, and one of the earliest concluded with
the words, "From your miserable Tom." (Laughter.)
In another letter he said, what a pity it was some
eminent man did not step forward and supplant such
men as Walker and Johnson (the lexicographers) in
the compilation of our language, so that we may have a
more superlative expression than dearest, as it does
certainly feel very cold. (Laughter.) He afterwards called
the plaintiff the dearest girl in nature ; and in reference
to a cessation of correspondence which had recurred, he
said the tie between them had been snapped once like
the great Atlantic cable (a laugh) ; but the after pre-
parations only made this possibility less possible. The
defendant., however, ultimately married another woman,
and the effect of the pleas he had put on the record was
that he did not make the promise, and that if he did, it
was a conditional one, that promise being that either
the plaintiff should turn Protestant, or the defendant
should turn Rolm' Catholic. The defence was•that
the marriage was to depend on the plaintiff embracing
the Protestant faith, which she had not done.

The jury, after consulting together thirty-five
minutes, returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages,
£B7.

BRIGHTON ELECTION.—The nomination took place
on Saturday, when Mr. T. D. Goldsmid, Mr. James
White, and Mr. Moor were severally' proposed. The
show of hands being in favour of the two first, a poll
was demanded on behalf of Mr. Moor.
IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN• VEGETABLES AND FRUIT.

—There have been imported into Hull within the last
eight days 5,489 packages of potatoes, 12,553 packages
of bilberries, 226 of gooseberries, 109 of carrots, 10,420
of cherries, 92 of cucumbers, 28 of onions, 1,175 of peas,
2 of cauliflowers, 57 of currants, and 258 of vegetables
and 375 of fruit nuenumerated.

WRECK or A YaCHT.—" The English yacht Star,
belonging to Sir John Turuley,7 says the Monitcur,
" coming from Ireland, and having a Jersey pilot on
board, touched on a rock called the Crapauds at the
entrance of St. Malo, on the 15th inst., and soon after
sank. The owner and the crew saved themselves in
their boat. At the reque,4 of Sir John Turnley, the chief
of the naval service at St. Servan placed at his disposal
a number of barges necessary to raise the yacht, an
operation which was successfully executed with the co-
operation of the steam advice boat Le Faon, which after-
wards towed the Star, water logged, into the port of St.
Pere, where she was beached and safely moored without
having sustained any very material injury."
REMARKABLE ESCAPE.—Within the last fortnight a
gentleman was coming from London to Plymouth with
his wife and family. Between Bridgewater and Durston
he missed. one of his children, who, unnoticed, had fallen
out of the carriage, the door being open. With great
difficulty he was restrained by his fellow travellers from
jumping out of the carriage. When, however, he
arrived at Durston, an engine was placed at his disposal,
and he returned to Bridgewater. Between the two
stations he saw nothing of the childrunning; but when he
arrived at Bridewater there was the little girl
ahioutth g
the platform,ust(). quite unhurt, and eating a bun
much

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THE VOLUNTEER SHAO nonT NEAR
LONDbii.

Saturday morning ccirinenCed rather inauspiciously
for the grand affair announce t.. 4 dike place in Camden
Park. There was rain in the nigig, still the ground
wad' ate wet at nine o'clock, but long befo?e noon all
threatenin'g esreas disappeared, and volunteers began
to emerge from &If various residences and places of
business eager for the fray: Vast numbers of persons

went down at a very early hon.?, many, of course, by

rail, but a vast number also in catfihrs and other
vehicles adapted to afford a prospect of the etent4 of the
afternoon.

The Observer gives a graphic and somewhat facetious
account of the great battle, which involved some very
complicated strategy, marching, retreating, manoeuvring,
and a large expenditure of villanous saltpetre.
The troops were divided into two divisions or
Defending Division, under Lieut.-Col. Hicks ; 2d, or
Attacking Division, under Lieut.-Col. Viscount Ranelagh.
The latter division was divided into two brigades :-
Ist Brigade, Lieut.-Col. Lord Radstock 2d Brigade,
Lieut.-Col. Thorold. Acting Quartermaster-General,
Lieut.-Col. Hon. C. H. Lindsay.
The absence of artillery tended to detract considerably
from the interest which would otherwise have attached
to the evolutions of the day. Another most important
arm of the service—the cavalry—was also " conspicuous
by its absence." The movements of the cavalry are
always watched with the greatest interest, and they are
by far the most popular portions of the force on occa-
sions of this kind.

There were 30,000 spectators upon the ground.
Whatever might have been the predictions of failure
indulged in by many persons, it is gratifying to state
that they proved wholly unfounded, and a more gratify-
ing exhibition of the volunteer movement has not yet
taken place. It proved in every respect an admirable
sequel ,to the grand review by her Majesty in Hyde
Park. •

It is to be regretted that the proceedings of the sham
fight did not pass off without one accident of a some-
what lamentable character. It appears that after the West
Middlesex had performed their skirmishing evolutions,
and were again forming, one of the members of the corps,
who had not discharged his rifle, put it, as he supposed,
on half-cock, and in the course of the movements the
piece exploded, and the wadding entered the back of
the gentleman immediately in front, Mr. Taylor, of
Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park, wounding him very
severely. The unfortunate gentleman fell, and en the
surgeon of the Highgate Rifles. who was in the im-
mediate vicinity, attending upon him immediately, it
was found that a portion of the wadding had entered
the back nearly an inch and a half, carrying with it
some of the clothing, so that the muzzle of the piece
must have been quite close to the back, which also, as
well as the coat, was much singed. The wadding was
extracted, and the wound having been dressed, the
unfortunate gentleman was moved from the field. A
similar occurrence took place in the North Middlesex
Corps, by which the hand of Mr. Griffiths, who is a
corporal in the corps, was slightly injured.
The whole of the movements of the day were under
the superintendence of Major-General Eyre, who was
deputed to attend on the'part of the Government. The
gallant general was attended by a numerous staff. There
was a large attendance of military officers present, and a
great number of members of both Houses of Parliament.
Several members of the Mounted Huntingdonshire
Rifles were present, and assisted the aides-de-camp in
conveying orders to various parts of the field. There was
a portable telegraph of about 2,000 yards in length,
and through which orders were transmitted to some
of the more distant corps. It having been announced
that after the fight was over the troops would march
to the bivouac in the valley, where refreshment
would be provided by commissariat contractors, and
from Captain Grant's apparatus, the various corps
marched to that portion of the ground indicated, but were
doomed to bitter disappointment, for not only was there
no Captain Grant's apparatus, but no bivouac, and
no refreshments to be obtained. This created no small
amount of dissatisfaction, and well it might, as the
men had been six or seven hours under arms with-
out even so much as a drop of water to quench
their thirst, except in a few instances, obtained
from a pump in the yard of the old farm house near
the field in which the first brigade of the attacking
force assembled. The men, however, bore the disap-
pointment with a cheerfulness becoming soldiers, and
especially Englishmen, which was evidenced by the fact
that as the various detachments marched back to the
railway station over green sward and dusty road, they
amused themselves by singing " Cheer, boys, cheer,".
"We won't go home till morning " (a contingency
believed to be very likely with regard to many of them),
and other popular airs. •