The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-07 00:00:00

PRAAOR OP PIOKIBII OP MAR E 1.40.1.

A TRIAL IN IRELAND.
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The case of T. Trowadale v.ll;wattt,4 for a breach
of promise of marriage, commenced on Friday last, before
the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench in Ireland
end a special jury, and was continued by adjournment till
Monday, when it was brought to a conclusion. The disk
seams to have excited unusual interest in the north of Ire-
land, sad for several day. the Belfast pepers have devoted
nne,.:lf.the whole of their available ewe to the elaborate
of Molars. O'Hagen and Whiteside, and to the
great mass of evidence elicited doling tee trial.
The plaintiff I. a young lady, being at 212 York-road,
Belie*, sad is dauglitex of • pedestals who holds a sites*.
he the Belfast custom-house. The defendaut is • gentlemen
of property, a native of Holywood. The gammons and
plaint ccatatte three counts. The first count alleges a pro-
mise to merry gemerally, and allow as • breach the marry-
ing Lizzie Hops. The mooed count alleges a peewee to
marry on request. The third count alleges a prank, to
marry within • reasonable time after the death a Hugh
Stewart, ben., the defendant's grandfather. The tessehin
the lam two count. Is the mine as the first. The defendatt
by his defenoe dowel the promise in the several moats eat
forth, and upon there defences the imams have been framed,
Damages were loid at 5,0001.
Counsel for the plainttff (Mr. Serjeant U'Regen), in the
course of his whiner, read • vast mass of Moore from the
defendant to the lady, all at first couched in more than the
ordinary amatory style of such effusions, and occasionally
resorting to original poetry as a happier medium to convey
the depth of his afitiottou towards the plaintiff. Bud-
dimly a cheap came. At the house of Mr. Trowsdals,
the . plalutiff's father, he tint tot • lady (Kies
Lizme Hope), and thenceforward it would appear that
the ardour of his affection for his first love had gradu-
ally cooled down, to account for welch, as revealed in the
oonespondenos, he complained, on the authority of some
inceptions Informant, that the plaintiff had (request/I me
Wilted his letters for the amusement of other parties, sad
also that she had made statements with respect to family
affairs, which were afterwards proved to be quite ervonsots.
Oe the llta of October, la the present yew, the detendaet
was married to Mies Hops, the ceremony having been per.
formed in St. Thomas's church, Dublin. The defendant was
proved to be poeseesed of property to the amount of 1,6601.
• year. He kept • yscht and lived in • style of Whiten be•
fitting a man of fortune and education. When he first cam-
mooted paying hie addreset • to the plaintiff his income was
lass than 1,000/ per annum, bat on to* death of his grind.
father he received an trot won of about 600 f, a year, =mat
Mar. He is twenty-six yens of age, and the pleintitl is nine-
teen. Thus far all wen' smooth on one side.
The defence won opened on Saturday by Mr. Whiteside,
is • telling speech, in the commit of which it trampled that
the family elfairs of the Trowathiles hid bees for • beg time
In a most unsatisfactory position, sad that in the year 11157.
Mr. Trowedale having fallen Into wear for rent of • plias
celled Seville-lodge, of which aMr. Waterton was the land-
, lord, legal prottredings were takes by the latter for the recovery
of the arrears; but previous to the execution bathe put in,
the fob:tense extreordinary letter was addressed to Mr.
Waterton by Mies AIICIO Trowsdsle, sister to the plaintiff:
" Bellyheckainore-Moute, Oct. 19, 1867.
Sir,—hiy tope, being strongly advtred by several of the
Belfast gentlemen, and himself feeling so Indignant at
the harsh and unfeeling manner which y. ti have
fit to exercise towards us, merles determinedtt
Seville-lodge to a party who certainly would not Meet
much credit to the neighbourhood, although the seem
which have et lately occurred there would make the
most disinterested person shudder to think such scenes could
be ocearoitted In a Chrietion country. But, from whatever
ranee or whatever your motive suety have been to try to
nun Lid, as it were, crush in the hue, the bright prospect',
of • family erbo a utoonstions of ever Minting you or any
one in any wee, is Lit known to yourself, and with God and
your own conseleece I Quill leave it, deeply as I feel, not
for myself, her for my deer parents and the net of the
family. Yet I tremble at the thought that the neighbour-
hood of my onto happy home should be more disgraced by
such parties braising inhaMtanta.
" Sir, my motive, thereto'', for now writing is to say that
I fully intended sending the key of Seville-lodge to-day.
unknown to papa; but be has 'alma the key with him, and
I fear it is to give It to those parties.. /fey 1 beg of you, for
your own sake, tee well as mine, to send >oar agent to papa.
,and try to make some artaigenient with bite, in order that
Mr. M'Cane may get possession to-morrow, as we had
promised.
! " I write this entirely unknown to my papa; and, should
he knew it, I should incur his lasting displeasure,
"Trusting, therefine, bat the may be kept in confidantes
and that you will attend to it, I am, sir, yours respect!allT,
A. TROWkDALI.
The party" to whom the house was to be emoted wee
stated to be a woman of most traumas character In Belfast;
and it was sworn in evidence that Miss Julia Trowedals, the
plaintiff, bad in ctnversatlon referred to the contents of the
foregoing letter, and said in the presence of bee mother sad
rioters that they would give up the lodge to Mrs. —.
Another witness swore that several times the plaintiff had
given him Mr. Stewart's letters to read, and that upon one
°comma the Witlie,ll helped her to compose • reply to a letter
from the defendant.

On Monday • rebutting case was goats into, sod, afla
another speech for the defendant, the Chief Justice derided
that there was no bar to the action, that (hove was evideacts
of • contract, and that them had been • breach of that con-
tact. The question, %hoofers. resolved itself into a question
of damaged. finO.equintly, his lordship charged the jury
at some length. His lordship's remarks were in favour al
the plalatff, and in roftrence to the letter of Mies Anne
Trowedald upon which an much etre*, Itsd been laid, the
learned judge observed :
.• Bet onetime ground of defence of a mote serious charm-
ter has bets pat forward, and one personally effecting her
character. It is said that she ...A • party to the gross and
nabeconaiog proposal, and joined in • conspiracy to
lodges Mr. Waterron to forgive @nears of rent by the
threat that Seville-lodge would be let to an improper chanc-
ier. blow, in answer to this charge, the Ilamtiff la entitled
to the boot& of the testimony of the dtfendaat himself as SO
the purity and inaocenos of her character, often and ,61.
sdly glow by himself in his later,. What object could she
bare had la furthering any such design as had been pat
forward by way of impeachment? fibs had no interest la
the hones, and what beatet could she expect from partial.
paling la en unbecoming project?"
The jury, after en bones deliberation, brought in • 'reedit<
foe the plaintiff, with 6001. damages smd ed. oasts.

MITZOTOLTTAN FELT, HOSPITAL, DZVON4E7IIII.
SQUAD.; CI T.—The aggregate number of paints realm/
daring the week ending Doc. 1 wee: MedkY, 626; OW
OW. 341; total, 966; of which 293 ware saw ans.