The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-21 00:00:00

BREACH OF PROMISE.—DAMAGES
£5,000.
At the Liverpool Midges on Friday in last week.
Miss Adele Mathilde Emilie Schneider, a teacher of
music and languages, in linekiaaon-rtreet. Liverpool,
brought an action for breach of promise of marriage
agaivist the Lev. Wilßairn Henry Casey, at present
curate of St. Matthew's Church, Scotland road.
The breach not being denied, a jury was empanelled
in the Sheriffs Court, before Mr. J. Aston, Q.C., for the
porpoise of wowing the den:mere, which, in the decla-
ration, were laid at £5 000. Mr. Torr, Q.C., and Mr.
James appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Gully for
the defendant.
Ca the care being called, Mr. Cully said it was a
case of considerable importance to the parties them-
selves, and of some peculiarity also, and under these
circumstances Mr. Torr and himself had agreed to ask
for an adjournment for an hour for the purpose of
allowing them an opportunity to colt with the
person whom it would be nemseary to coosnit before a
certain arrangemect which it wag propored should be
come to could be effected.
•1 le thought in the riot it
would save time, because in all probability the case
would be gettlenl out if court.
The Aareesor : It Mr. Torr consents to that, I have
no objection.
Mr. Tore: I agree to it.
The Court was then adjourned till half past 12, and
on resuming, Mr. Tames said he WAR sorry the matter
had not been arranged. The plaintiff and defendant
had mutually agreed to marry. A reasonable time for
such nom him had sow s I p:aal ; the plaintiff hail
always been willing and ready to marry the defendant,
but the fendaut bad nines ml to mat ry the plaintiff,
and the jury were there that day to assess the amount
of damages.
Mr. GeV}, : Tam afraid we are at hums in a way that
can hardly be settled out of court. I have to make a
suggestion in this ease wlich, it [seems to me, will pre-
clude there being any question of a Miry. The queer
tion we are here to decide is what are the damagen total
recovered. There is a sum mentioned at the foot of
the declaration (1;5,000), which in the plaintiff's claim;
and 1, on behalf of the defendant, consent to a verdict
fir the full amount of the chitn. Under there ch.-
cumstancea, I ray there is no question for the jury to
inquire into.
Mr. Tier: I aulimit that, haa Mg been brought here,
I have a tight to lay the facts of the cane before the
jury who have been call-d to 118313,3 the damages. I
think if you will read what occure at the bottom of
the declaration you will agree with me that there is
.very mach n.ore than a mere yielding to pay a conai-
derable amount claimed an damages; and that behind
all thia there are mattera which it 13 almost imperative
on me to lay before the jury. It may be called a novel
point whether we can go on after the offer of the de-
fendant to pay the damages contained in the decision.
tion, but we ire here to try it.
The Aseemor : I don't remember the point being
raised before.
Mr. Tore: No ; it has never occurred to me before
In all my experience.
The Assearsor : I do not know whether my judg-
ment on the knint might be the correct one, and if you
will permit me I will confer with one of the Judges of
the APRie3 WI to whether lam right. I have had con-
Eiderable experience as an assessor, but I never had a
point id this character before me till now.
Mr. James : I submit that we have a right to open
the cue. because if a lirge amount is claimed the jury
might give a verdict for a larger amount even than the
claim.
The Assessor: The jury could not give more than in
mentioned in the declaration.
Mr. James: But I say the jury might wish to give a
larger amount than is mentioned, in which care we
should apply to amend the declaration.
Mr. Anton left the court for the purpose of con-
sulting with Mr. Juntice Lush, and on returning said
—I have consulted with Me. Justice Lush, and he has
kindly given his opinion, although it is not part of
his duty to advise me, and bin opinion agrees with
mine, and I direct the jury to find a verdict of £5,000,
on the admission of the defemlant'a counsel that dint is
the amount of damages claimed. The jury cpuld not
give more, and it is no use going into the cage and
wanting the time of the public.
A verdict for the full amount claimed was then
entered.

CONSECRATION of THREE MISSIONARY
BISHOPS in WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
The third Sunday in Advent is one which will al-
ways be associated in the minds of the people with the
death of the lamented Prince Consort, and few who
were present on that day, eleven years ago, in Lambeth
Chapel,. when Dr. Staley wan consecrated to the
bishopric of Honolulu, will forget the at leenn feeling of
awe which pervaded the small but distinguished con-
gregation, to as many of whom the late Prince was
personally known (remarks the Standard). Leta Sun-
day (appropriately enough on the Sunday before
the Day of Intercession for u ore labourers in
the mission field), three bishops were consecrated
In Westminster Abbey, namely, for the Mauritius,
the Hudson's Bay Territory and for North China.
Morning prayers had been said in the abbey
at eight o'clock, consequently the consecration
services at eleven lisgan with the Communion office.
At this hour the procession entered, consisting of
toadies, vereei s, abut:men, choristers, minor canons,
canons, the dean, the preeenti r, the preacher (the Rev.
Canon Miller), the bishops-designate, habited in black
gowns and D.D. hco le, seven bishops with their
chaplaiue, and the Archbishop of Canterbury with his
chaplain, and the load choir boy acting as his grace's
train-bearer. All having taken the seats allotted to
them, the Archbishop of Canterbury commenced the
Communion office, the Epistle from the Corteecration
office being read by the Ilishep of London and the
(lapel by the Bishop of Rochester. The Nicene
Creed, to Goes in D, was splendidly sung. Canon
Miller was the preacher, and a splendid discourse he
delivered from the words, "Men who have hazarded
their lives."
lie began by pointing out what he cosseidered a
defect in our Prayer-book, namely, that there were no
special prayers fur such an cc iasion as that they were
met to celebrate; bethought he might say this without
any feeling of disloyalty. Much and highly as he
venerated the Prayer- book,he must own- -and all would
own—it was not perfect; it was the composition of
scan, after all. Men, cold, selfish, caleulating, worldly
into, said our missions were a failure; he denied it
moot emphatically. What was it that had called forth
the Day of Intercession, which was to be kept on
Friday aext ? The failure of missions? No ; but their
great success. The field wan so wide, the harve:t so
great, but the labourers so few. Therefore they were
going to pray the Lord of the harvest to stir up men—
not illiterate men, not men unsuited for the work, but
men of piety, of learning, of devotion, of real, and love
of souls, to go forth from our universities, from our
country viearages, from friends and home ties, to work
abroad in distant unhealthy climes, for God and the
love of souls. There had been blots, sad blots, in some
of the missionary work; but there was a long roll ef
those who had forsaken all in order to carry the bless-
ings of the Gospel, in order to tell of the love of :Terms
to those who knew him rut. Time would indeed fail
him to enumerate half the list ; and those who were
now going out, and who were to be consecrated that
day, were men well tried for the work. Our missions
is failure, said the Canon: as men judge, yes—as God
jedgeth, no. Had a religious census been taken in the
days when our Saviour worked on earth, when the few
easembled in the upper room, it would have been de-
nounced by worldlingsas a complete failuPe, but the quiet
unobserved work which the Saviour did would not appear
In &religious cement, but we knew for certainty of lepers
being cleansed, the deaf made to bear, the blind to
see, the dumb to speak, eh ! and many a soul not told
of in the Gospels, soccoured, comforted, forgiven,
blessed ! In a magnificent peroration, the learned and
eloquent canon spoke of the fitness of these about to be
ceenecrated, and implored the vast congregation not to
be niece sightseers, but to spend the time in prayer for
God', bleeeing on them.
The sermon, every word of which was heard through-
out the whole abbey, occupied about 40 minutes in
delivering, and was listened to with rapt attentien ;
and in the vestry, after the service, the Bishop of
Rochester came and thanked Canon Miller for it,
remarking the great joy and comfort he had in
listening to such an eloquent, truly Gospel, mis-
sionary discourse. The sermon ended, the bishops
designate retired, sehilst the choir sang an anthem,
"God is a sprit," and returned vested in rochets. The
Litany was then chanted, at the end of which the
dean read a special prayer. Then the archbishop, sit-
ting on a throne in front of the holy table, put the
usual question to the bishops designate, and the Queen's
licence for the consecration having been read, they
again retired, whilst the choir sang " flow lovely are
the messengers !'' They returned vested in their full
episcopal dresses and wearing their hoode. Then,
after taking the oaths of allseiance to the Archbishop
of Canterbury and his successors, the actual corusecra-
thin took place.
The archbishop was the consecrator, assisted by the
Bishops of London, Rochester, Sierra-Leone, 'bishops
Claughton, Ryan, Andersen, and, by the special re-
queet of the archbishop, bishop M'llvaine (who, by
tee bye, did not wear his episcopal dress, but a black
gown and bands). Thenthe Holy Communion was ad-
ministered to about 1,000 communicants, the arch-
bishop being celebrant, and communicating the dean,
the Bishop of London, and the chief canon. Then
the dean commuuicateil the newly-consecrated bishops
and other bishops, after which the clergy and others
approached the altar, and were communicated by all
Ole bishops present at the abbey service. And thus
eervice long to be remembered in As Church
of Eriglate::