The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-15 00:00:00

BREACH OF PROMISE

At the Wilts assizes held at Devises before Mr. Baron
Martin, an action of breach of promise of marriage was
tried. The case was that of Powney v. Evans. The
plaintiff was a young, woman, the daughter of poor parents,
in that county. She had been an assistant in a confec•
tioner's shop, in Liverpool, in which town the defendant
lived, and was an assistant in a draper's shop there, and
the action was brought to recover compensation in
damages for the breach of a promise of marriage. The
promise was proved by a number of letters which had
been written by the defendant to the plaintiff, commenc•
ing with "My ever dearst Annie,' and stating, after most
endearing language, that he intended making the plaintiff
his *ire: This continued for many months, the plaintiff
having left Liverpool, and returned to her parents, where
she was delivered of a child. The plaintiff *rote to the
defendant stating that she was near her confinement, and
entreating him to marry her. To this letter the defendant
wrote as follows:
" Miss Powney,—l received a letter from you on Tues-
day. You shall have an answer in a day or two.
Yours &c., "D. Earrs."
The father of they
plaintiff then wrote to him,vand the
defendant, in answer, stated that it was his candid opinion
he was not the cause of her being In the condition in which
she was, "but, to cut the niattv short, I beg to say that
it is not my intention to 'perform your proposal.' The
learned Baron, in summing up, told the jury that if they
gave moderate damages thew would be a chance of the
plaintiff's obtaining them; whereas, if they gave a large
sum, very probably she would never receive a farthing.
The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, £BO.

Mr. William Russell, the Times correspondent in the
Crimea, is now at Odessa, en route for Moscow and the
Coronation.

INtINDATIONS IN FRANCE.—The sum of upwards of
£2,490 has already been raised in Glasgow for the
sufferers by the recent disastrous inundations iri the
south of France.
Rossu.—Advices from Berlin, announce the receipt
of intelligence from St. Petersburg, dated the 9th inst.,
to the effect that the Emperor's departure for Moscow,,
for his coronation, is fixed for the 16th proximo.
THE TYPOGRAPHIC ART.—The town of Alost, in Bel-
gium, was on Sunday week the scene of great festivities
on the occasion of inaugurating a bronze statue erected
in ,
honour of Theodore Martens, who introduced the art

of printing into the Netherlands, and died at
1534, in religious retirement.
TH It REBUILDING OF COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—The
rebuilding of this lyrical and dramatic temple having now
been actually commenced, the houses in Prince's-place are
all to be taken down, including the residence of Mr. Slo-
rntn, the master-carpenter, in order to secure space. It is
stated that the saving of expense in re-construction, in
consequence of the outer walls having been declared safe,
will not be less than £60,000. The contractors are Messrs.
Fox and Henderson, The principal capitalists engaged in
the undertaking are the Duke of Buccleuch and Miss
Burdett Coutts. Several noble donations have been made
in aid of the restoration and completion of the building,
and amongst them is a sum of £l,OOO contributed by her
Majesty.
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PAPAL STATES.—We learn from Rome that
Monsignore de Pietro, recalled from Lisbon on account of
his gallantries there, is now appointed cardinal; and M.
Laschigvo, so noted for the manner in which he managed
the Gozernment taxes for his own benefit, has been pro-
moted ala Consulta. So a gay prelate is made a prince of
the Church, and a noted prelate in his pecuniary matters
is made a Privy Councillor. At Naples the greatest
activity is shown in putting every place in a state of
defence. Officers of Artillery and Engineers have been
sent to Calabria to strengthen those points on which it is
supposed the Anglo-Itaiian legion from Malta may effect
a landing. The King himself has given his orders how
these men are to be treated when they are caught. The
police at Modena have, within these few days, become
most rigid and severe. The duke has ordered that, on no
account is the word Piedmont to be heard in the ducal
palace. It is scarcely possible to get passports to any
part of Sardinia. A complete change for the worse has
lately occurred with this Government. A native of Tus-
cany has been sentenced by a military commission to a
year's
patrol which
for having answered too loudly to
the which arrested him on the high road.
ACCIDENTS AT THE REVIEW IN 11YDE-PARK.--11p0H
enquiry on Friday evening at St. George's Hospital, it was
ascertained that of the five persons who were injured at the
review of the Crimean Brigade of Guards by her Majesty
in Hyde-park, on 'Wednesday, four were still in a precarious
condition owing to the severity of their wounds. The
following is a list of the sufferers :—James Adams, aged
sixteen, of 22, North Audley-street, who was knocked down
by one of the cavalry horses and injured so severely that he
has continued in a state of insensibility no to the present
time. Ills skull was knocked in, and not the slightest hopes
are entertained of his recovery. A lady named Theresa
Main, ef independent means, and residing at Dulwich, is
suffering ffom a severe injury to her right leg, the knee cap
being broken. Mrs. Elizabeth Bennett, aged thirty-one, of
2, Spring street, Dorset, lies in the hospital suffering from a
fractured and flesh wound of the right leg, caused by a kick
from one of the horses of the 2nd Life Guards. Mr.
Thomas South, aged 56, of 17, King street, Walworth, was
standing on a chair looking at the troops, when a crush
took place, and the chair was knocked from under him, and
in putting out his right arm to grasp the railings to save
himself from falling, the iron spike at the top of the railing
entered his arm and tore off a portion of the flesh. The
fifth case was one of injury to the ribs of a man, but not of
much importance.
Assrzz. INTELLIGENCE.—The summer assizes through-
out the country have already commenced, and present
some cases of interest. At Leicester the commission
was opened by Mr. Justice Cresswell, when the case of
Mr, William Clarke, charged with feloniously discharg-
ing a loaded pistol at a rival auctioneer, Mr. William
Shoaler, at Melton Mowbray, was disposed of. The
facts of the case have already appeared in our columns,
and the jury, after a brief consultation, returned a ver-
dict of not guilty, on the ground of insanity, and the
prisoner was ordered to be detained during her Majesty's
pleasure. At Hertford, before Mr. Justice Erle, two
men named Bennett and Tibbles were convicted of night
poaching, and Bennett, who was an old offender, was
sentenced to four years' penal servitude, and his com-
panion, who had been decoyed to the commission of the
offence, to a month's imprisonment. The moment the
sentence was pronounced, Bennett struck the other pri-
soner a tremendous blow under the ear, which felled
him to the ground. The turnkeys immediately rushed
upon him, but it was with great difficulty that he was
secured and prevented from committing further violence.
It appears that the penalty for committing an assault in
the King's Court of Justice, in the presence of the
justices, is no less an one than an amputation of the
right hand. In the case of Arthur O'Connor and others,
who were tried for high treason, and where an attempt
was made to rescue the prisoners from the custody of
the sheriff, and some of his officers were assaulted,
several persons, and amongst them Lord Thanet, were
indicted for an assault and riot, and in some of the
counts they were charged with committing the offence in
one of the King's Courts of Justine, and in the presence
of the justices, and upon the jury returning a verdict of
guilty, Lord Kenyon, who presided, expressed a doubt
Whether lie ought not to pass the sentence of amputation
upon the defendants, and the difficulty was only got
over by the Attorney-General entering a 'toile prosequi
upon those counts of the indictment which charged the
offence to have been committed in a court of