The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-12 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE,

The fleet at Spitheal was augmented yesterday by the
arrival of the Duke of Wellington, on bf,ard which
Rear-Admiral the Hon. R. S. Dundas, C. 8., is expected
to hoist his flag this morning as Commander-in-Chief of
the Baltic fleet. There are now at Portsmouth the fol-
lowing ships and vessels :—The Duke of Wellington,
131, Captain Caldwell ; the Britannia, 120, Captain
Carter (to be put out of commission to-morrow) ; the St.
George, 120, Captain Eyres, C.D. ; the Neptune, 120,
Captain Hutton ; the Royal George, 102, Captain Cod-
rington, C.B. ; the St. Vincent, 112, Captain Elliott,
C.B. ; the Nie, 91, Captain Mundy ; the James Watt,
91, Captain Elliot (refitting) ; the Calcutta, 84, Captain
J. J. Stopford ; the Cressy, 81, Captain R. L. Warren ;
the Hogue, 60, Captain Ramsay ; the Blenheim, 60,
Captain Hall ; the Ajax, 60, Captain Warden ; the
Pembroke, 60, Captain G. H. Seymour ;• the Hastings,
60, Captain Caffin ; the Edinburgh, 58, Captain Hew-
lett ; the Imperieuse, 51, Captain Watson, C.B. ; the
Euryalus, 61, Captain G. Ramsey ; the Arrogant, 46,
Captain Yelverton ; the Retribution, 28, Captain
Fisher ; the Esk, 20, Captain Birch ; the Penelope, 18,
Captain Sir W. Wiseman ; the Falcon, 17, Commander
Pullen ; the Ariel, 9, Commander Luce ; the Centaur,
6, Captain Clifford ; the Gorgon, 6, Commander R. B.
Crawford ; and Basilisk, 6, Commander Jenner. These
are all effective sea-going ships. We have not mentioned
harbour guard and training ships, Royal and other
yachts, port tenders, tugs, and lighters. Each day will
add to this great force, and by the end of the present
week it is expected to be doubled. The effects of its
presence are already felt on the local markets. Yesterday
the weather was very thick and intensely cold ; so there
was not much co mmu nicatioa with the s hips from the shore
where the snow lay several inches deep, having fallen
densely during the night. The clerlaof the Pay-office went
of to the Penelope on Saturday to pay her cre w wages in ad-
vance prior to her sailing for Cork to embark Royal Artil-
lery for the Cape of Geed Hope. The Hogue hauled out of
the steam basin, after refit and receiving sew boilers, on
Saturday. The crew of the Britannia will be draughted
for other ships when their leave is up. The refit of the
ships forsaing the Baltic expedition progresses rapidly at
each of the outorts, and there is no doubt that they
will all be in the Downs (if no further) by the end of the
month. The following was the position in which the
fleet at Spithead was moored yesterday :

WEST-LOOKING EAST.
Royal George Duke of Welling ton
Neptune Aj
Cressy Imperieuse
St. George Penelope
Calcutta Eik
Nile Euryalus

Arrogant

Gorgon.

EAST—LOOKING WEST.
The hired screw-steam stransport Imperial, Captain
Inman, No. 18S, which left London Feb. 24, with medi-
cal stores for Constantinople, and put back to Plymouth
with machinery damaged on the 3d of Marcb, having
had a new cylinder fitted, started again on Friday, when
the slide valves of the new cylinder gave way. New slide
valves were expected on board yesterday (Sunday), and
it was hoped that she would make a third attempt today
to prosecute her voyage.
The screw steam-ship Saxon, Captain Barfield, which
took Government stores to Constantinople, and then
shipped fruit at Smyrna for London on mecrbants' account'
put into Plymouth short of fuel yesterday. She left
Gibraltar March Ist, spoke the schooner Tradesman.
March 9th, five days out from London for Naples ; and
same day, in latitude 38 north, longitude 7 west, passed
a large quantity of square timber, part of which was in
a raft, supposed to b• the deck load of some ship.
Shipwrights and other artisans employed at Devon-
port on the screw steam-ship Colossus, 81, and Cesar, 91,
have received orders to work from six in the morning till
seven o'clock in the evening, to make good defects with
all despatch, so as to prepare them immediately for sea.
The C0'035129 is expected to be taken out of dock on
Thurs&y, and to go out of harbour on Monday next.
The screw steam-vessels Cruizer, 17, Conflict, 8,
Rosatuonri, 6, Weazer, and Recruit, were taken out of
the basin dock at Keybam, Plymouth, on Saturday.
The three former vessels went to the coal depot to com-
plete coaling, and it is expected that they, together
with the steam-vessels Magicienne, 16, Archer, 14, and
Vulture, 6, will be ready by to-morrow to proceed to
Spithead.

His Prussian Majesty's frigate Thetis, Captain sunder-
wauldt, at Plymouth, is ready for sea, and will proceed
with the British fleet to the Ratio when the ioe breaks
up ; she is bound to Dantzic. Her full cogmple►nent is
about 400 men ; but she has at present only 200, part
of whom are engineers and stokers, the whole having
formed tk3 cress of the two gurl-bows Nix and Sala-
mander. On Tuesday last, when they were exercising
aloft, an able seaman, David Schwartz, a native of
Pillau, fell from the maintopsailyard, across the comb-
ings of the main hatchway, and received such frightful
injuries that he died immediately.
Oa Saturday the High Court of Admiralty having
condemned the vessel Klissova Constaatine, of which
Zillisimus Carronis was late the master, prize to her
Majesty's ship Retribution, and the Agos I.annes
•'Bododo, of which Theofori Vok•s was late the master,
prize to her Majesty's ship Highflyer, decrees of sale
were issued. The vessels are lying at Malta, where
they will be sold, together with their cargoes, arms, and
amount realised paid into the Admiralty for the benefit
of the captors. _

The North Star is loading bread, beef, and pork at
th• Royal William Victualling-yard, Plymouth, for tke
Crimea. The Wish, Captain Edwards, is leading bread
for Malta, and the Mute, of Portsmouth, is unloading
wheat from Shoreham. A cargo of biscuit is to be sent
to Haulbowline in the transport Blue Jacket. Tenders
have been accepted at 60k. per ton for conveying hay to
the Crimea per John Oldham. Orders have been re-
ceived to engage freights for convesing 500 tons of pro-
visions to Constantinople or the Crimea. There is in
store 39,8001 b. roasted coffee, andlBo,ooolb. raw coffee,
which the kiln is working night and day to finish. The
coffee is packed in canisters of 141 b., 251 b., and 281 b.
each.

The following appointments and promotions have
taken place.
Lientenants—John Palmer, from the St. Vincent, to
the Duke of Wellington, to serve as flag lieutenant to
Rear-Admiral the Hon. Richard Dundas, C.B. ; Chas.
A. I'. V. Robinson, recently serving in the Sampson, to
the Hecate ; James A. R. Dunlop to the Hastings ; J.
H. Whitshed to the Amphion ; Charles G. G. Percival,
from the Majestic, to the Horatio ; James W. Arm-
strong, from the Duke of Wellington, to the Bulldog ;
C. Hobart, from the Bulldog to the Duke of Wellington.
Masters—Richard C. Dyer, to the .Merton steam-
sloop ; Peter Wellington, to command the Tyne ; Wm.
T. Mainwise to the Victory.
Surgeon-Superintendents—Samuel Donielly, serving
in the Euryalus, to the Adelaide convict ship ; Edward
Groves, M.D., from the Gorgon steam-sloop, to the
Euryalus, vice Donnelly ; Richard King to the Gorgon,
vice Groves ; James Whicher to the Bulldog ; J. J. D.
Burns, M.D., to the Hastings.
Assirtaut-Surgeons—John C. Messer, M.D., from
the Duke of Wellington, to the Centaur ; Simon A.
Willis, M.D., to the Calcutta.

Acting Assistant-Surgeon—George T. Keele to the
Pylades.
Clerk George M. Blyth to the Hawke.

Acting Clerk Alexander D. M'Arthur to the Majestic.
Second Masters Francis Taylor, serving in the Vul-
ture, and John Thompson, serving in the Sharpshooter,
have been promoted to be Masters.
Several promotions and appointments have been made
in the Royal Marine Corps. In consequence of its being
intended immediately to augment the Royal Marine
Corps by the addition of one company to each of the
four divisions, Chatham, Portsmouth, Plymouth, and
Woolwich, each company will have one captain and two
first lieutenants.
Orders have been received at the Barrack Master's
department, Plymouth citadel, to prepare for the recep-
tion of about 60 men of the 11th Hussars, expected by
steam from Dublin, prior to embarkation at Plymouth
to join their regiment in the Crimea.
Reinforcements for the several regiments at the seat of
war are ordered to be held in readiness to proceed to the
Crimea forthwith. According to present arrangements,
the following are the numbers that are to be seat out—
viz.:—Grenadier tGuards, 3d battalion, 200 men ; Ist
battalion Coldstreams, 150 men ; Ist battalion Scots
Fusilier guards, 150 wen ; and it is stated that each of
the following regiments of the line are to be increased by
two companies of 100 men each—vie. :-2d battalion of
the Ist Foot (Royal Scots), 3d ditto (Buffs), 4th ditto,
7th Royal Fusiliers, 17th Toot, 18th (Royal Iris's),
19th Foot, 20th Foot, 21st (Royal North Britisk
Fusiliers), 23d (Royal Welsh ditto), 28th Foot, 30th
ditto, '33d (Duke of Wellington's Own), 34th Foot,
38th ditto, 39th ditto, 42d (Royal Highlanders), 44th
Foot, 146th ditto, 47th ditto, 48th ditto, 49th ditto,
50th ditto, 54th ditto, 55th ditto, 57th ditto, 62d ditto,
631 ditto, 66th ditto, 68th (Durham Light Infantry),
Ist battalion 71st Highland Light Infantry, 77th Foot,
79th Highlanders, 82,1F00t, 88th (Connaught Rangers),
89th Foot, 90th ditto, 91st ditto, 92d ditto, 93d High-
lander::, and 97th Foot. The Rifle Brigade is to be in-
creased by a battalion of ten companies consisting of 100
teen each. The reinforcements for the cavalry will pro-
ceed early in the ensuing month, when the horses for the
remounti will be sent out with thorn ; but the draughts
fr,r the Guards willl.ll-oceed during the present week.
Captain Astley, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, who
was wounded in the neck while gallantly leading his
men up the heights of Alma, has been beating up for
recruits for his regiment throughout the county of Sus-
sex. The dreadful sufferings which our troops in the
Crimea have tindergone have very much checked the
desire to enlist in all parts of the country.
Accounts from Cork, dated Friday evening, say :--
"f At 3 o'clock yesterday the Great Britain arrived in
Quoviatown Woolwiobi and took up her station

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' opposite Haulbowline. The inhabitants of Queenstown
had thus an opportunity of comparing the two greatest
commercial steam-vessels in the world. The embarckation
of horses on board the Himalaya was one of the thousand
proofs of the fitness of Queenstown for a naval station.
The huge vessel was enabled to lie alongside the small
jetty running from the wharf of the Mes•rs. Scott. The
horses walked on deck, and in 47 minutes 123 horses had
been safely and easily put on board. The Himalaya then
steamed out to the man•of- war loads where she dropped
anchor for the night. This morning, at half past seven
o'clock, amid the cheers of the men, she left the harbour
to pursue her voyage. To-morrow the River Steamers'
Company's boats will convey the following draughts to
the Great Britain :-17th Infantry.-128 non-com-
missioned officers, rank and file ; Captains IV. A. Arm-
s'rongand P. INlTherson ; Lieutenants IV. H. -Verstuine,
F. A. Mac Creight, F. C. Dyer, and E. 11. Utterson.
21st Infantry.-132 non-commissioned officers, rank and
file ; Captains W. P. Collingwood and S. W. 11.
Hawker ; Lieutenants T. Bruce, R. 11. Best, Coak•
ley, and J. B. Hollway. 30th. —l3O non-commissioned
officers, rank and [file ; Captains Pennefather and Ste-.
venson ; Lieutenants Singleton, Fleming and Wood ;
and Ensign Field. 49th Infantry.—Captain T. Nason ' •
Lieutenants U. Lescorns, J. Maul, H. D. Savory, and
Ensign Davis. 57th Infantry.-132 non-commissioned
officers rank and file ; Lieutenants W. J. Cooke, H.
Bird, J. N. G. M`Cartney, J. Willings, and Ensign G.
R. Waugh. 62d infantry.—Captains M. Rynd and R.
A. Cox ; Lieutenants H. AV. Clarke, W. B. Hughes, R.
D. Templeman, and B. Ramsay • or a total of 817 offi-
cers and men. On Monday will also' embark the follow-
ing draughts, now in garrison : 63d Regiment,l3B non-
commissioned officers, rank and file; Major Higginbot-
ham ; Lieutenants S. A. T. Benyon, Duma,resq, and S.
E. Knox. 68th Regiment. 131? non-commissioned offi-
cers, rank and file ; Major Greer, Captain Trent, Lieu-
tenants Grace, Sparks, Etheleton, and Seymour, and 4
officers, 6 sergeants and 124 rank and file of the 41st ;
officers, 6 sergeants, and 124 rank and file of the 47th ;
and 5 officers, 6 sergeants, and 124 rank and file of the
55th Regiments. This makes the entire number oftroops
which leave for the Crimea in the Great Britain 1,498.
General Maunsell visited this vessel yesterday on her
arrival, and pronounced himself highly pleased with the
accommodation she afforded the troops."
The following gentlemen have been appointed Acting- 1
Assistant-Surgeons on the Hospital Staff :—Mr. A.
John Stewart, Mr. M. J. Jones, Mr. W. T. Irwin, Mr.
A. It. Smith, Mr. B. Lucas, Mr. T. S. Barry, Mr. R. '
H. Beale, Mr. A. 0. W. Swaine, and Mr. W. B.
Mackley.

THE MILITIA.
The Royal Elthorne Regiment was placed on perma-
nent duty on Feb. 6, at Uxbridge, and has been ob-
taining recruits every day since. Lieut. Benbow, of this
regiment, obtains an ensigncy in the 48th Regiment im-
mediately, having taken more than 75 men to the line.
The Lord-Lieut. of Ireland has been pleased to signify
to Colonel the Right Hon. W. F. Tighe his pleasure that
the Kilkenny Regiment shall be for the future styled
Fusiliers. The number of men enrolled for the Kilkenny
Fusiliers up to Friday was 303, of whom a few have
already volunteered into the line.

' The South Lincoln Infantry Militia having been ordered
from Chichester to Portsmouth, the Government intend
oonverting the barracks iota an hospital for the sick and
wounded on their arrival in this country from the East.
The preliminary arrangements have already been carried
out by Captain Graham, and a party of officers and men
of the Royal Engineers are expected to arrive in the
course of this week to effect the necessary alterations,
which will be completed with all possible speed.
The 18th Bedfordshire Regiment of Light Infantry,
embodied in August last, is now lying at head-quarters,
under command of Lieut.-Colonel Higgins. This regi-
ment has given upwards of 200 volunteers to the line.
The Royal Westminster Militia, Col. Viscount Chel-
sea, M.P., now embodied at T urnham-green, are about
to be removed for permanent duty.
The Ist Royal Surrey Militia, Col. W. Holme Sum-
ner, embodied at Richmond, have just given upwards of
100 volunteers for service in the Crimea.

THE EARL OF DUNDONALD'S PLAN OF
NAVAL WARFARE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Peace being desirable, not only for the inte
rests of our country, but for those of the werld at
large, and the negotiations now pending being doubt-
less injuriously influenced by the obstinate resistance
of Sebastopol (which could be overcome is a day),
and by the impossibility of successfully attacking
Cronstadt by naval means (which might be as speedily
reduced), I have drawn up a petition to Parliament,
in order that secrecy and silence on ray part, and
deficiency of information on that of the public, may no
longer prove injurious to the success of our arms. lioa-
tili ties having proceeded actlar, assuredly most expe-
dient to reduce a restless ieurtn-rate
power than be ourselves reduced.

Let n t my motive be mi,taken. I have no wish to
command a fleet of 100 gun ships, or to attack first-rate
fortre.scs by encased batteries of steam gun-boats ; that
which I desire is, first, secretly, to demonstrate to com-
petent persons the efficiency of my plans, and then to
•btain authority (during eight or ten days of fine wea-
ther) to put Ocin in execution.

.
The means I contemplate are simple, cheap, and safe
in execution—they would spare thousands of lives, mil-
lions of money, and great havoc and uncertainty of re-
sult*. Their con,equences might, and probably would,
effect the emancipation of Poland, and give freedom to
the usurped territories of Sweden.

Those who judge unfavourably of all aged naval com-
manders assuredly do not refleet that the useful employ-
ment of the energies of thousands and tens of thousands
of men can best be developed and directed by a mind
instructed by long observation matured by reflection,advantage to which physical power that Could clear ian
ts
way by a broad sword can bear no comparison. My
unsupported opinion in regard to a naval enterprise in
1809 proved to be correct ; every other undertaking in
the British service, and as Commander-in-Chief in Chili,
Peru, Brazil, and Greece was successful, and so would
the protracted and unaccomplished undertaking:B (so in-
jurious to the result of negotiation) have succeeded had
I possessed sufficient influence to be patiently listened
to.—l am, sir, your obedient servant,

15IINDONALD.

"TO THE EON. TIIE COMMONS ll'f PARLIAMENT A 8•
6EMBLED.

"THE PETITION OF THOMAS EARL or =DONALD,
ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE,
"Humbly showeth—That in the year 1811 your peti-
tioner discovered, and, after deliberate consideration,
had the honour, in the year 1812, to disclose to his
Royal Highness the Prince Regent, a simple, yet irre-
si,tible, means whereby ordinary implements in war
might be dispensed with, and speedy and successful re
sults insured.

" That his Royal Highness was pleased to appoint a
commission to investigate tke subject, consisting of the
most competent persons of that period, whose report was
so favourable that his Royal Highness ordered the at-
tendance of your petitioner, and commanded secrecy,
which had been imposed on Lord Keith, Lord Exmouth,
and on General and Colonel Congreve—his Royal High-
ness the Duke of York being president of the commis-
sion.

"That with this injunction your petitioner faithfully
complied, although he could have put his plans in execu-
tion in foreign service, to his own great personal advan-
tage. That after your petitioner's return from abroad,
and when an apprehension of war had again arisen at
home, your petitioner presented his plans to his Majesty
King William (who had honoured your petitioner in
early life with favour), and whose professional know-
ledge enabled him to judge of their applicability.
"That his Majesty satisfied therewith, was pleased,
in the most flattering manner, to manifest the high esti-
mation in which he held the loyalty and disinterested
conduct of your petitioner.
" That on a subsequent threat of war, since the acces-
sion of her present Majesty, the question of the merits
of your petitioner's plan was, on a similar occasion, sub-
mitted to the most honourable the Cabinet Council,
wherein ingenuous and expanded minds, impressed with
sentiments similar to those which actuated his late Ma-
jesty, recommended and obtained a gracious manifesta-
tion of royal justice.
"That, in February and in July last year,. your peti-
tioner again offered his said plans, and sanctioned their
reference t• a secret commission of naval officers, in order
that a professional report might be made as to their
practicabilitytheirn andopi
neiffio
nc i
ae
sn ct yo ,
originating in an erroneous impression as to the endur-
ance of batteries,ironitioeunngdagfleoattoinagubdue,even
were they added all of which your
petitioner will
to the aefences of C. 1-onstadt.
That your petitioner, foreseeing the impracticability
of capturing numerous and powerful fortifications by the
means now in preparation, again most respectfully offers '
his plans and his services to accomplish these objects, re-
serving the encased batteries and steam gun-boats entire
and ready for the brief and easy task of destroying the
hostile fleet.

" That your petitioner begs that, should these pre-
mises, and the prayer hereunto annexed, seem to your
honourable house exaggerated or unreasonable, you will
be pleased to take into your consideration that, had
electric communication and photographic delineation
been privately known and publicly announced, these in
c-nite-ti'ile realities would have been received as an in-
sult to the understanding. Therefore your petitioner
humbly prays
" That your honourable house will be pleased, by a
searching inquiry, to ascertain whether the aforesaid
secret plans are capable speedily, certainly, and cheaply
to surmount obstacles which our gallant, persevering,
and costly armies and fleets have failed to accomplish.
" March 5, 1855." `'DUNDONALD.

EXPLOSION AT DARTFORD.—On Saturday tnotning, at
nine o'clock, the inhabitants of Dartford were startled
by tw• successive explosions, which shook the town and
neighbourhood. It was soon ascertained that one of
the drying mills of Messrs. Pigou bad exploded, destroy-
ing the building, and causing the death of one work•
DAD, begidea woudin several other!!

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BREAM OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.

LiNeoLY, March 10.

RUSSELL V. WHITEHEAD.

Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., and Mr. Hayes were counsel for
the plaintiff ; and Mr. Mellor, Q.C., and Mr. W. H.
Adams for the defendant.

Mr. Macaulay, in hi;opening, said that the defend-
' ant was a retired farmer, of about 63 years of age, and
the plaintiff a person of years not unsuited to his. She
was, in fact, a widow of 4i. So far as the defendant's
means of meeting the results of this action were con-
cerned, the jury might be content with his own state
ment, fortified as it would be by the plaintiff's evidence
that he was " worth thousons upon thousons." The de-
fendant had also stated that he "had nothing to do but
to amuse himself ;" and amuse himself be appeared to
have done by tampering with the affections of unsus-
pecting females. The defendant was a man who con-
sidered himself rather fascinating than not, and most
certainly he bad made a strong impression upon the
plaintiffs heart. At all events she was willing to have
him, and in rcturn for the factitious boon of opulence
and comfort, to bestow upon him the sweet consolations
of conjugal endearment. Mr. Macaulay observed that
he was not in a condition to offer much more evidence of
the defendant's promise than was contained in letters
from him to the plaintiff. Bat, said the learned coun•
sel, I have it hi his handwriting, and I eliculd recom-
mend all ladies baying dealings of this kind with the
defendant to take care to obtain his promise in a similar
form. There was a distinct promise contained in the
following letter :

" Wainfieet, Jan... 10, 154.
"My dear Maria Russell,—l will never marrie no woman
uppon the berth but you self ; I cau a sure you of that.
You shall joined with me at all I ham worth, and be my
lowfull wife, becose you are a prudent woman, and I dote
uppon you—and if I live, I will mak you my lowful wife,
and be for long. I will own I have been very ruffs with
you, but I will mak mends, and so !lout think no more a
bout it, now I have promised you this, for I do lore you
a beve all women. " JESSUP WHITEHEAD."
The next letter, if somewhat less warm and ardent, was
equally explicit as to the material point. Its changed
tone might be accounted for by the statement, which was
true beyond all doubt, that the defendant's son was ill
at the time. It was as follows :
" Wainfleet, Feb. 21, 154.‘
"My dear Lady,—.l received a letter from you last
night, but can't read half. I eau insure you that I have
other things to think of, as my son is in very great danger,
and has been so more than a week. I have all his work to
see to, and I have been to Firsby ten miles, and must go to
Thorpe this afternoon, and whin I shall retorn Ido not
kenow. I shall never dseve you. I love monney too well
to dseve one that I do dot en. You know that we must
wet 2 yeres. I never did nor will Brack my premix. I
Cam to your door 3 or 4 times, but there is no chases of
getininn since your new neighbour cam be live theirs
but I will coin wen I can. You sad in your letter that I
was dull on Sunday, that is sine I though every our was
his last. I ham fall of trouble, I can asever you, my
dears love, Mrs. Russell. So no more at present from
" Yours, " JESSUP WurzzllZA.D."
The jury would now have to turn their eyes front the
spectacle of love and unchanged fidelity, which these
letters disclosed, to circumstances of 3 more painful
kind. Before sending to the plaintiff the letter about
Ito be read, the defendant had yielded to seductions from
which even the best and wisest of us enjoy no immunity,
and to which less refined natures, like that of the de-
fendant, are too prone to listen. In the interval he had
met with another widow, by name Mrs. Maria Soleby,
in years 54. Now, whether an ambiguity resulting
from the common character of " widow" had confused
an intellect not naturally strong, or whether a morbid
caprice had rendered that intellect unstable, it was im-
possible at the present time to ascertain. But the de-
fendant had, at all events, transferred his affections from
one widow to the other, and had given to Maria Soleby
the heart which ought to have belonged to Maria Rue-
sell alone. More than this, he had given to Mrs. Soleby
—an agreeable and opulent woman—a proof of affection
which incapacitated him from performing his promise to
the plaintiff. He had married her on the 27th of April
last. The letter about to be read would make but too
manifest not only the change of the defendant's senti-
ments and his disregard of the plaintiffs feelings, but
also his utter want of reverence for the most cherished
institutions of the land. It ran thus :
" Wainfleet, Dec. 15, 1854.
" Well, Mrs. Russell, do you intend to proceesl ageanst
me ? Why you will be lik a poor mouse amongest so money
cats for I have thousons, and you have flout at all. Did not
I tell you the night before I was married that I would
pay you well if you would be still about it ? I went to
Alford ou the Bth of December, '54, to aulter nay will, and
my boy is dad. I have no one to lave my monney to but
wat as plentey. I should have rembred you, but now you
shall not have a denied farden. I now ham a guen to sell
all my land, and is a guen to lave the town. I was a foal
for writen to you that not in your house; if I had not you
would of had no dame on me, but I did promis to 'surrey
you, and to mack you my lawfull wife, that is trewe, and
the 19 of Janery would of been the day, but I ham trustee
for Mrs. Byeraft, and this woman yust to meet me on a
tusday, night, and her tong and her monney drew my a
tenshen ; the last time I was in your house I wanted to
tell you, but I could not, for I new that you would feel it
very much, becose I had caned the mater too fare a great
deal. I own that I have don you damages in you sellen
your stack of at a reduce perises, and in senden the child
home, and you geten all things in readness ; it was very
foolish on me to do so, but I did love you, and I do wish
that I had married you, after all ; know Mrs. Russels you
ad a deal better sattel it, for I have 30 or 40 thoussons and
you ant a Penney. I clout care a dam for the Queen's laws
you poor you may ttie your worst, you shall not have
a dam farden ; for if I cant throw you with fare moans.
I ham determine " tier' I
never thought that yin, ~Ap my letters. I bornt your
dam things ; you ad a deal buster sattel, it will bee a decl
beter for you in the end, and you need not tack this leter
to that long dovel, it ii no euse, fur I have throwen my
hand ; you have no chance in the world with me, and wen
you have read this. you barna it. I dent care a dam for
j ug nor juery.

" JESSUP WHITEHEAD."
The jury must give exemplary damages for such miscon-
duct, and for losses of another kind which the plaintiff
had sustained. She had given up a shop which she kept
in Wainfleet, on the faith of the defendant's promise.
Mr. Thomas Barney said—l am the masager of the
Spalding and Boston Bank. The signature of the letters
is, I think, the defendant's. I should have paid chegnea
so signed. He is a retired' farmer, and lives at Spalding
on his rents.

John Joshua Barkworth said—l ant a tailor, and live
next door to the plaintiff in the market-place of Wain-
fleet. A year ago I agreed to take the stock of her shop
after she was married. She reduced it, and sold it off:
Mr. A. Dalton, a brewer, said—l have seen the de-
fendant coming out of plaintiff's house of an evening. I
have said, " Is this the time of night to come from court-
ing ?" He has made no reply. This would be between
ten and eleven ; not the regular time—(laughter)—but,
at all events, the defendant's time. I saw him a few
days ago (on the 7th inst.) He asked me if I was sub-
poenaed, and added, "I don't deny going to the house.
I've frequently been there, and also up stairs. I've
rolled the old lady on the bed many times."
Cross-examined—He said he haul never written her any
letters.

Eliza Clayton said—l am niece of the defendant's pre-
sent wife. I saw them come out of church after their
marriage. I have seen the defendant go to Mrs. Rus-
sell's house, and I have told my aunt so, and I hive told
her that defendant was making game of her.
Mr. Baron Alderson—And notwithstanding this, she
married him ?

Witness (curtseying low and smiling)—Yes, my lord.
Other evidence having been adduced in proof of the
defendant's handwriting.
Mr. Mellor addressed the jury for him. They had
heard something, he said, and they would' hear more,
of the plaintiff's career. Left a widow by Russell, she
had subsequently married a man named Eno, and she
had brought Eno's career to a speedy termination, for
he died in six months after his wedding. Set free froze
this old pedlar of 70, she aimed at some higher object.
But she did not succeed in her views, so far as the defen-
dant was concerned. It was true that the defendant
had visited at her house. It might be true that the cere-
mony of a marriage would have added but little to the
intimacy which once subsisted between them ; but it was
not true that he had ever written to her, or ever pro-
mised to marry her. He should show that her character
was such as to render the idea of such a promise simply
ridiculous, and that the letters were forgeries.
Mr. Baron Alderson said that as the only question for
the jury was whether or not a promise to marry had ever
been made, ho should not allow evidence to be gives of
the plaintiff's bad character. That should have been
pleaded. He then summed up the whole case to the
jury, who retired, and remained many hours in deliberar
tion. At about nine o'clock they made their appearance
at the judge's lodgings, and found a verdict for the
plaintiff—damages, 125/.

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FROM FOTTN-

DERING.

The Result, East Indianian, belonging to Mr. Green;
at Blackwall, now lying in the East India Dock, is at-
tracting much notice on account of her recent miraculoue
escape. She is laden with one of the richest cargoes that
has been shipped this season from China, consisting of
47,000 packages and boxes of tea, and a large assortment
of China produce, consigned to Messrs. Lowther and Co.,
the brokers. On the ship reaching to within 400 miles
of Cape Clear, she encountered a tremendous gale of !via
from the S.E., which lasted for nearly forty-eight hours,
with a mountainous sea, in thelcourse if which the ship
strained considerably, aid being an American-built ship
her seams opened, letting in the water to the hold to as
alarming extent. The moment it was discovered all hands
were set to work at the pumps, and although they
f were
kept going day and night, the waterincreased
than 16 o d&instead
ee 3,000
the crew to get below, in order to bale the water out
creasing, until at length there were no lessfeet.
Theand 4 after, eoro hatcheshoxs o
fwteerae
wt hoe,
thrownope::ed
a n d betwn
overboard, toenable
with a large cask which had been rigged above.
Although thig baled out ninety gallons per minute, in
addition to that ejected by the pumps, yet the water in-
creased. Toe officers considered that nothing could
save the ship, but that she must inevitably founder ; and,
as the last resource, had arranged to throw over the
cargo from between decks, so as to keep her afloat as
long as they could. Luckily, a favourable wind afforded
them a speedy run to Spithead, all on board working
hard for their lives until she gained that anchorage.
The moment she was seen from Portsmouth, the Govern-
ment dispatched two steamers and a nuneber of bands
and pumps to her assistance, by which means she was
kept afloat and towed round to the Thames. As may
be supposed, a large portion of her cargo of tea, which
was under water nearly a month,
was destroyed. Up.
wards of 10,000 boxes have been landed in the dockit
a saturated Condition, rendered, by the salt water,
felt rabbish.