The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-10 00:00:00

BREACH OF PROMISE.

At the Durham Assizes on Friday, Mr. Knowles, Q C ,
and Mr. Manisty appeared on behalf of Miss Bell, and
Mr. Davidson for Mr. Jackson, in the case of a breach of
promise of marriage against the defendant, Jackson.
The plaintiff, Jane Bell, is a milliner, aged 34, residing at
Sunderland ; the defendant, John Jackson, is a miller et the
same place, aged 30. Various letters were put in and
read to the infinite mains, ment of an overflowing court ;
many of them were of the most ridiculous kind, 'and
nearly every one was written in doggrel rhyme. In one
of them the poetic miller thus proposes himself to the
fair object of his passion :
Half a match to you I send,
Upon you it does depend
'When my single life shall er.d,
The other half match you will me send
' Then my miseries will be at an end,"
and fu-.rher on he asks her consent to accompany him to
the hymeneal alter thus :
" I hope. Miss Bell, you will not be shy,
But that along with me the yoke you'll try."

Tben he expresses his opinion of her talent and beauty :
" It is in vain for me to try
To answer, yours again,
It is so beautiful and sublime,
Coming tram a creature so divine,
I cannot refrain from expressing my admiration
For there is not such another girl in the nation."
How( ver, some time afterwards, he alters his mind, and
his last communication ends : •
6. So farewell, Miss B-11.
Alone I will dwell."

On the part of the defence, it was contended that these
poetic effusions were nothing but trash, and were never
penned with a serious intent.
Verdict for the plaintiff—Aamages, £5O.

BuGs.—lt has hen said that to destroy one bug in
March or ea-ly in spring is destroying hundreds, f.r so
prolific are they that it has been pleasantly said that a bug
becomes a great grandfather in the space of 24 hours;
and as prevention is better than cure, we r(commend our
readera whose dwellings are subject to such disagreeable
pasts to at once adopt the use of "Greet's Patent Anti.
Bak Lotion," which will prevent as well as thoroughly-
eradicate them. It is cheap, easy to apply, non-poisonous,
and wherever applied bugs will not generate or exist.—
SLe advt

CONVICTION OF THE TICKET OF LEAVE MEN IN LEEDS.
—Oa SeturdaY, at the Leeds borough sessions, before
Robert Hall, Esq., deputy recorder, Benjamin Remington,
alias Ramadan ; Thomas Waterhouse, alias Johnson ;
Jai atban Parkinson, alias Fryer ; Amos Horsfall, and John
Parker, ve, re indicted •for felonious)? entering the shop of
Thee-ins Walker, pawnbroker, Leeds, on February 6th, and
stealing therefrom 50 pennies, 50 halfpennies, and a
handkerchief. We published the case at the time it
was heard before the Leeds magistrates. Reming.
ton's deposition was used in evidence against the other
prisoners, who are all notorious char:o3ra, aed the
conviction of every man ensued. Waterhouse was sen-
tenced. to two years, Parkinson to 21 months, Horsfell
for four years, and Tasker for nine months imprisonment.
consider this was a else in which the revocation of the
tickets of leave should, at least,'have been ordered by the
court. Remington was admitted Queen's evidence,
A Naw Seer.—At Philadelphia, a vOcmen named Anna
Meister was arrested on the complaint of a number of
persons on the cherge of obtaining money under false pre-
tences. The particulars of the case, as brought out before
Alderman
_Enue, on Wednesday evening, were published
in the papers of thiicity, and I do not propose to give
your readers that portion. of this most singular case, but
what I obtained by a visit made to the Moyarnensing prison,
where the woman is now confined. This Anna Meister,
like Miller and Joe Smith, is the founder of a new society
and faith, the doctrines.of which area thousand times more
absurd and ridiculous than were promulgated by either of
the two worthies named above. She announces herself to
be the " daughter of God and the Holy Ghost, and the
sister of Christ," and with these absurd pretensions she
has managed to raise a society numbering about tv 0
hundred women, all Germans (no men admitted) in this
City of Brotherly Love, where the people are supposed to
be fully enlightened in the principlea of the Bible and
Christianity.—.Ainericanpoper.
THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.—SHOULD THE WARY,
BATH BE USED IN OAsES OF DL owNlNet? —The Humane
Society. so eminently practical and philanthropic in its
e*-rtione, is still not exempt from the broad maxim,
4. humanum est errare." At their yearly Meeting, lately
held, the only notice taken of Dr. Marshall Hall's plan for
recovering apparently drowned persons was a statement by
one of the medical officers, that they proposed teeing it
when an opportunity' offered. In the '" directions" as to
treatment in cases of drowning, so widely circulated by the
society, the employment of the warm bath is prominently
recommended. Its injarious tendency has been most clearly
proved by De Marshall Hall, the simplest aid best known
laws of pbysiolegy forming the grounds of his arguments.
We therefore expected that the medical offiders of the
Humane Society, recognising the physiolegeal error com-
mitted by the employment of the warm bath would, at
least, have
.suggested the propriety of immediately recom-
mending its discontinuance untie their somewhat tardy
report on Dr. Marshall Hall's valuable discovery had been
presented.— The Lancet.
LOINS NAPOLEON'S ESCAPE AFTER THE INSURRECTION
IN ROMAGNA —The day after Louis fell ill, a courier eame
to announce to Hartense that the Austrian general would
take up his quarters in the very palace in which she . was
staying. Here was a strange increase of the danger of her
position, for although she was not to be disturbed in the
few rooms she °pearled, a single door only divided her
apartment from that of the Austrian general:- One of the
principal objects of this man was to capture her son, who
lay ill in the very next room to this his enemy. She was
,under the tvcessity, therefore, of forbidding him to speak,
and when he coughed she ran and mat her hand upon his
mouth to prevene, if possible, the sound being heard.
Austrian officers and soldiers meanwhile filled the palace,
the court yard, the staircases, and their harsh voices were
heard all day uttering their grating dialect. At length,
after eight days of anxiety and danger, the physician
declared Louis -Napoleon -to be in a condition to travel.
The decisive moment had then arriyede :How could he be
got but of her bedroom, cut of the palaceeeut of Ancona ?
Trusting to Providence, she ordered.the.horses to be got
ready, at the first peep :of dawn, while she spread
_the
, report that she would set out at seven. Of course she did
not sleep that night. One of her men servants pretended
to fall suddenly ill, and Louis Napoleon put on his suit of
livery; the Marchese Zappi, who lay ceracealed at a
friend's house, dreased himself in a similar suit; and was
ready-to start at the first thigh of light. At four o'clock
in the morning the Queen left her chamber, and passing
through the adjacent apartment, filled with sleeping Aus-
trians, descended the great staircase, at the foot of which
the guard, without interruption, suffered her to pass. It
was scarcely day ; she drove through the streets of the
city, and went on to rh-.gate. where her passports were
ex trninedeand with a palpitating heart she found herself
in the open country. Louis Napoleon stood like a footman
behind her carriage, and the Maretiese.Zappi behind that
• of her fenime-dechambre.—Louis Napoleon. A 14ography,
by James Augustus St. John.