The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-23 00:00:00

The New York linzes thinks that after the late
events the Southern people can no longer rest under
the delusion that Southern independence is sure of
being established sooner or later. There will pro-
bably be a change in the mood of the South con-
cerning the war, but what complexion it will take,
or what action it will prompt, cannot be conjectured.
The Times thinks that the late events will check
any new offer of intervention, unless it has already
been made.

Confederate General Taylor has 12,000 troops 40
miles above New Orleans.

An infantry brigade is being raised for 60 days'
service for the defence of New Orleans,
A case of retaliation has arisen at Richmond.
Two Federal captains have been selected for retalia-
tion for Burnside shooting two Confederate captains
at Sandusky, Ohio. The day of execution is not
yet fixed.

The draft is progressing in New England, Penn-
sylvania and New York.

The World contains the following account of the
surrender of Vicksburg :
"At eight on the morning of the 3d the Con-
federate General Bowen and Colonel Montgomery,
bearers of a communication from General Pem-
berton, were led blindfolded into the Federal lines.
General Pemberton's letter said, "Although I feel
confident of my ability to resist your arms indefi-
nitely, in order to stop the furthei effusion of blood
I propose that you appoint three commissioners to
meet three whom I shall nominate, to arrange such
terms as may best accomplish the result.' General
Grant replied—' rhe appointment of commissioners
is unnecessary. While I should be glad to stop the
needless effusion of blood, the only terms I can en-
tertain are those of unconditional surrender. At the
same time I and my army are willing to testify to
the distinguished gallantry with which the defence
has been conducted.'

A privateer, supposed to be the Florida, has been
seen off Gay Head burning a schooner and a brig.
The New York TVorld says :—" Dix has aban-
doned White House and returned to Fortress
Monroe. He has destroyed the Central Railroad
bridges and torn up the track of the Fredericksburg
road, and effectually destroyed the communication
between Richmond and General Lee's army."
General Neal Dow and staff have been captured
inside the Federal lines. near New Orleans.

The New York, Herald asserts that the question
of peace has been discussed in the Federal Cabinet,
and that a Cabinet crisis has been caused by a pro-
position of Mr. Seward to issue a presidential
proclamation offering an amnesty to the Southern
people, withdrawing the emancipation proclamation,
suspending the Confiscation Act, and offering
protection to the personal property and rights of
the Southern people, except the leaders.
The Attorney General Bates and Mr. Mont-
gomery Blair favour the scheme with modification.
Messrs. Stanton and Chase violently oppose it. Mr.
Wells also opposes it, but not so strongly. Mr.
Lincoln had given no opinion, but his speech on
the late serenade indicates that he favoured freeing
the slaves before consenting to peace.
The Republican party will shortly submit a
petition to President Lincoln to the following
effect :—They are willing to make peace ani restore
the Union. Slavery to cease after the year 1875.
Minors at that time would remain slaves till they
are 21 years of age. The loyal states only would
receive compensation for their negroes. A con-
vention would be called to revise the Federal Con-
stitution with a view to strike out the three-fifths
provisions recognising slavery as the basis of repre-
sentative population, and providing for emancipa-
tion in accordance with the above programme.
The New York, Herald of to-day asserts that
Vice-President Stephens' message was a proposi-
tion from President Davis for a separate govern-
ment for the North and South, but only one Presi-
dent. This would avoid interference with Southern
property and negroes, but make one foreign policy
for both sections.

"In the afternoon Generals Grant and Pember-
ton met between the lines, and after one hour's
consultation settled the terms of surrender. General
Pemberton urged that his soldiers might be paroled
at Vicksburg, and furnished with rations to carry
them to their lines. In view of the bravery they
had displayed, and the advantages of the place,
Gen. Grant consented.

" The number of prisoners and wounded is said
to be 18,000, of whom 12,000 are in fighting condi-
tion. The immediate cause of the surrender of the
garrison was the exhaustion of supplies and ammu-
nition, and the failure of Gen. Johnstone to come
to their aid."

Another account says that all that has been writ-
ten about the sufferings of the Confederates in
Vicksburg has been but half the truth. There were
about 22,000 people in Vicksburg, 10,000 of whom
are efficient soldiers. GOD. Grant had determined
to assault the place on the day following that on
which the surrender was made. It is stated the
surrender will give thaFederal Government 100,000
troops to be employed in other quarters.
The gribune says that the Secretary of War has
given orders for mounting guns and garrisoning
the forts in Portland Harbour. and has authorised
the Governor of Maine to raise artillery companies
for the defence of the coast towns.

In reply to the committee of Louisiana planters,
who stated that Louisiana wanted to return to her
allegiance with the state constitution unimpaired,
and requested President Lincoln to order the elec-
tion in November of state and Federal officers in
accordance with the state constitution and laws,
President Lincoln said he had reliable information
that the respectable portion of Louisiana desired to
amend the state constitution, and contemplated a
convention for that purpose. This was sufficient
reason why the committee should not act under
the existing constitution. President Lincoln could
not see how such a committee should facilitate
military operations, and it might be used to em-
barrass them.

The World says that a Federal expedition of
12,000 men, which was sent from White House, to
cut a bridge across the South Anna River, had
returned unsuccessful, having met a force at the
place of their destination too large to cope with.

Gen. Prentiss reports on the afternoon of the 4th,
that although the rebels were badly whipped at
Helena, Arkansas, there was no doubt they would
renew the attack, and were massing their troops for
that purpose. Gen. Prentiss's force was inferior to
that of the Confederates, but with aid from Hurl-
burt and from the gunboats he thought the Confe-
derates might be severely beaten. Gen. Hurlburt
was sending reinforcements.

The steamers Alice, Racoon, Kate, Antonica,
Elizabeth, Ellen, Beauregard, from Charleston, and
the steamers Banchee, Charleston, Lizzy, Flora, and
Fanny, from Wilmington, have all arrived at
Nassau.

NEW YORK, jnly 10, Evening.

General Morgan, with 8,000 men, has captured
Corydon, Indiana, and is advancing to Jefferson-
ville, where there are large Federal supplies. Busi-
ness is suspended at Indianopolis, and the Governor
of Indiana has caned out 50,000 man.
The Confederates have retired from Helena.

LATEST.
(By Telegraph to Cape Race.)
NEW YORK, July 13, Evening.
Generals Lee and Meade's armies confront each
other, preparing for battle.
A serious riot has occurred at New York, caused
by the enforcement of the draft

General Bragg has crossed the Tennessee River
and destroyed the bridge at Bridgeport. It is
stated that General Bragg will make the Tennessee
River his future line of defence.

It is supposed that the Confederates will abandon
the Hunterville, Memphis, and Charleston Rail-
road.

The _Richmond Enquirer of the 6th instant says
that General Taylor has captured 7,000 Federals
near New Orleans, and is marching on that city.
The Southern papers state that Vice-President
Stephen's visit to Washington was either to arrange
for the exchange of prisoners or to inform the
Federal Government that if private property was
not respected the Confederates would retaliate.
The counsel for the captors of the Peterhoffclaim
the condemnation of the vessel and cargo, on the
ground that the destination of the vessel was a
blockaded port, and that even if it belonged to a
line of vessels designed to go to Matamoras, yet there
were traces that the destination of the cargo was
Texas, the voyage to Matamoras being a contrivance
to do indirectly what it was not practicable to do
directly. If it was proved that the cargo was con-
traband of war, and that the owners contemplated
the direct transit of the cargo through Matamoras
to Texas, the counsel maintained that it did not help
them that they took the vessel to a neutral port.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, July 10, Evening.

Money easy. Exchange—Bankers' bills, 145.
Stocks steady. New York Central, 1181; Illinois,
106,1 ; Erie, 951; Six per Cent. United States
Bonds, 104.

NEW YORK, July 13, Evening.
Gold, 311 prem. ; Illinois Central, 107 ; Erie,
951 ; Six per Cent. United States Bonds, 1031.

The British schooner Frolic has been captured.

A privateer steamer is reported cruising off tae
eastern coast in the Seal Island fishing grounds.

POSTSCRIPT.

The Jackson, Mississippi, journals of the sth inst.
state that the entire force under General Osterhaus,
crossed the Big Black River on the 4th, and that it
was supposed that fighting with Grant would be
commenced.

NEW YORK, July 11, Morning.

Cannonading, was heard at Frederick yesterday,
in the direction of Boonesboro. There was skir-
mishing between Jenkings's Confederate cavalry and
the Federals, under Buford. Jenkings is said to have
been captured.
Gen. Lee's army is estimated at 50,000 men with
250 pieces of artillery.
The Richmond papers speak of the occurrence of
a fight between Gene. Meade and Lee, stating that
the Confederate centre, under Hill, fell back, draw-
ing the Federals from their works, when Gene.
Longstreet and Ewell advanced upon both Federal
flanks and captured 4,000 Federal prisoners.
The Confederates under Morgan have captured
Salem, Indiana, and burned the depot of the Louis-
ville Chicago Railroad. Morgan has moved to strike
the Louisville Indianopolis Railroad. The Federals
are in close pursuit.
Martial law has been declared in Louisville. All
citizens have been ordered to enrol themselves, or to
go North,
Vicksburg advices of the 4th inst. stated that the
terms of the surrender were, that the prisoners
should be paroled, and that the officers should re-
tain their side arms and horses, 27,000 prisoners,
102 field pieces, 30 siege guns, and 50,000 stand of
arms were captured. The capitulation was caused
by destitution and prostration.

10,000 to 15,000 deserters from Gen. Bragg's arilly
are reported to be in the country north of Franklyn,
Tennessee.
Gen. Rosencranz's army is at the bend of Elk
River.
New Orleans advices to the 4th inst. state that
Port Hudson still held out.

Public assemblages, except for public worship,
are forbidden in New Orleans, without the permis-
ision of the commandant. No more than three per-
taons are allowed to assemble or congregate in the

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—The case of Mr. Bewicke is one of those
in which the honesty and compassion of the public
have a deeper wisdom than the cau`ion of official
persons, It is not wonderful, it is not even blam-
able, that gentlemen in the position of Sir G. Grey
and the Solicitor-General should look at a matter
of this kind in its relation to the general adminis
tration of justice, that they should fear to establish
a troublesome precedent, to excite hopes in others
which they would have afterwards to disappoint,
and, in fact, by giving compensation for one glaring
wrong, to break down the principle that no person
has a claim to compensation for anything he suffers
through the process of criminal justice. In their
eyes Mr. Bewicke's is merely a hard case, and
they are unwilling that it should bring forth bad
law. But though opposing Mr. Berkeley's motion
through a sense of official responsibility, they are
unable to deny the greatness of the victim's injury,
and the scandal which such a wrong, if unremedied,
brings upon the administration of English criminal
law. We think that their reasoning and their con-
clusion were unsound, and that Mr. Bewicke might
be compensated for his extraordinary misfortune
without any breach of sound jurisprudence, or any
chance of the Treasury being besieged by a legion
of claimants. Although the outline of the case will
dwell in the remembrance of our readers, we may
once more mention the principal circumstances :
Mr. Bewicke, of Threepwood-hall, in Northumber-
land, was defeated in an action at law, and the
sheriff proceeded to levy on his property. How this
functionary brought together his assistants does not
appear, but they are alleged to have been men of
the most villainous character. Felons, perjurers,
ife-beaters, drunkards, were, according to Mr.
Berkeley, the executors of the law in that distant
county. The sheriff's officers went to Mr.
Bewieke's, but he refused, as he had a perfect
right to do, to admit them to the house, and told
them that there was sufficient for the levy outside.
One of them then produced a pair of pistols,
and Mr. Bewicke, seeing this, went for a revol-
ver. He barricaded himself in the house
while the bailiffs remained in possession outside.
The next day he wanted to fire the pistol out of the
window that it might he clean. He told them what
he was about to do. They answered, "Alt right,
Sir," and he fired it, doing no harm, and, of course,
thought no more about it. But this act gave tti
ruffians the idea of bringing an accusation of at-
tempted murder against him, probably withko was
wthe
intention of extorting money. Mr.
B
held to b til, but thought too lightly o ' thecwlc matter
to take proper steps to defend himself.
.F he sheriff's
officers swot a up to the mark, he
was
convicted, and
The Trustees
sented to four years' penal servitude.
s t los of a
goo s a
of Greenwich Hospital, as lords of de
manior,
seized
Mr. Bewicke'a furniture and
Mr. Bewicke's
convicted felon. Property to tAhtelaysatluaefteorf
rleml,a6iono.
or £l,BOO was sold for £430. b d
ing more than a year in prisdon, a.nd etng eplorablY
apparent. His housekeeper
innocence was made
weakened both in body an ninad,
came to London, laid the case before Mr. Sergeant
Shee, who recommended her to an active attorney,
and the result was the issuing of warrants against
the whole gang, and the conviction of three of them
for conspiracy or perjury, one having turned Queen's
evidence
We cannot but think that, according to
the dictates of natural law, a man has a right to be

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circumstance helps also to clear up anoth e * ve
ls
ration of the utmost importance, in regr 44.1 t
termination of the campaign, which had I
in doubt. It had been almost impossible
to determine, when Puebla fell, w,ha,t 14-Xt
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available re.ources4f-Juarex. Itt_pOint of terriler_Te_o
there l was of Lennie a vast amount of terittbry•
quite untrodden by the French. To what extent
! was it, then, practicable for Juarez to draw down
fresh levies for the defence of the capital ? That
important question remained unsolved. There were
many who alleged, and not without great plausi-
ltility, that a fresh and more numerous army would:
be arrayed at Mexico than bad held the French in
check at Puebla. We have now seen, however,
what, this hypothesis is worth. It appears from.
more than one trustworthy source that Juarez has,
hut between six end seven thousand men at the ut-
most, and that even they are tainted with disaffec-
tion. Taut even supposing them faithful to their
chief, what stand can they possibly make against
the French army, which the marshal now declares
to have suffered but inconsiderably in numbers by
their last march, and to be, in fact, an overpower-
ing force ? It was obvious from the first that when-
ever Juarcz should happen to lose Mexico all
.would then depend on the manner in which he
and Mexican d
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"nore d e raapt ipoetaLr
that
might be supported by the Northern States of tile
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in Mexico. They have
bon& t their way step by
in
enmunicipality of the
step, and are called upon
capital to assist the natioyn snumreesnt.whiviche
amount to an entire change of government.
have seen that Marshal Forey accepts their chat
lenge ;he promises what they ask—justic order,
and regular liberty. He must know perfeceil
that no one of these three requisites of the ywell
Mexi-
can
are attainable by the successive military usur-
pations which under the name of presidential
governments have hitherto brought little but
curse and desolation upon the country. Marshal
Forey must therefore look to some substantial
change in the political basis of Mexico. NV
have been among those who have looked upon the
' French deviation from our original and limited
scheme of intervention as of doubtful policy
and of doubtful justice. We see nothing to
alter those convictions. But the course of events
has now in a great measure rendered their considera-
tion obsolete. The French army is in Mexico to
fulfil the high mission with which it had charged
itself, and which its commander has just now for-
mally accepted anew. This we take to be now the
aim of the French. If the Mexican people are really
disposed to accept them as their pacificatory, much
may no doubt be done. The capabilities of the Mexi-
cans are surprising to those who have seen them only
under the injurious condition of civil war—the re-
sources of the country itself past calculation.

Justice which the c
compensated by the community for the sufferings
justice which
he undergoes through such a failure of the
person wronglyt
momerneilnity administers for its own
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necessarily
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observe
voting
sanctioned the principle oflLctoeme
Mr. Barber the sum of £5,000. This
wrongfully convicted of being concernedb inmaan will
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after much consideration, determined that he should
forgerywbeub i
s someiinnocence
eye enaeres
was
so ;
established n
receive from the country which condemned him by a
juryof its citizens compensation for his unjust punish-
ment and his professional ruin. Mr. Be wicke's case
clearly comes under that of Mr. Barber, and is even
stronger, inasmuch as Mr. Barber was really con-
victed
on circumstantial evidence, was really the
victim of that " unavoidable possibility of miscar-
riage in the administration of justice " of which the
Solicitor-General speaks ; while Mr. Bewicke had
his liberty, character, wealth, and property sworn
away by a set of miscreants, who, by the negligence
of a public functionary, were entrusted with the exe-
cution of legal acts in the county of Northumber-
land.

HERALD.—The news we publish this morning
confirms that received by the last mail. Vicksburg
has really fallen, after a resistance which will im-
mortalise in history the name of that gallant little
eity. Even the Yankees, who have never before
shown themselves capable of anything like gene-
rosity, are forced to acknowledge and to admire the
desperate valour which has held out so long against
a powerful flotilla and an army of 100,000 men.
The North has not much to be proud of. After suf-
fering so severely that we are told that the accounts
already given only revealed half the truth, Vicks-
burg has surrendered to famine and not to the foe.
without supplies, without ammunition, disappointed
of the hopes so long cherished of assistance from
Gen. Johnstone, the garrison has at last capitulated
on honourable terms. Such, at least, is the Northern
account; and if this be true it is apparent that all
the stories which have reached us, also from Northern
sources, of communications open between Vicksburg
and the right bank of the Mississippi, and also of
abundant supplies stored in the city, have been*un-
true. A full and reliable history of the siege and the
surrender will probably reach us, ere long, from
Southern authority. In the meantime all that is
certain is, that the victory is more profitable
than glorious to the Federal army. They have
failed, after repeated efforts, to storm the place ;
its fall is due not to their exertions, but to the
original weakness of the garrison, in the want of
adequate stores to stand a siege. But the price,
however acquired, is one of the highest value.
Only one strong point on the whole course of
the Mississippi is now held by the Confederates,
and when that is gone—if, that is to say, Port
Hudson share the fate of Vicksburg—the
Confederacy will be cut in two. The States east of
the river will be blockaded on all sides, and will
find it almost as difficult to obtain supplies from
Texas and Arkansas as from Europe. This is a
serious calamity, but we mast not exaggerate its
severity. The States of the West will not be lost
to the Confederacy. The Federal flotilla will not
be able to prevent communication, and not even, in
all cases, to hinder the crossing of the troops.
Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana will have to fight
their own battle ; bat their immense extent, their
martial population, and their indomitable resolution,
will make it as impossible for the Federals to sub-
due them as to conquer their sister States of the
East ; and when the war is over, if the Confederates
succeed—and no one doubts that they must succeed
—in establishing their freedom, these States will be
at once abandoned by the North and re-united to
their sisters. Nor is the Mississippi really opened
to the commerce of the West. W bile the war lasts
no trading vessels can safely navigate that river
except under convoy. They may be fired upon
from the banks ; they may be set in flames ; they
may be captured by the daring guerillas of the
South-West. The worst evil in the fall of Vicks-
burg is that it sets tree an army said to number a
hundred thousand men, to burn, plunder, and mur-
der, as they march through Mississippi, either to
fall on the rear of General Bragg, to assist Banks
at Port Hudson, to ravage Alabama, or to complete
the establishment of military tyranny in Louisiana.
It is a significant fact that the news of the fall of
Vicksburg and the repulse of Lee was instantly fol-
lowed by an order for a conscription, to take effect
immediately. It is clear that the Federal Govern-
ment was in desperate straits ; that a victory had
become necessary to its very existence ; and that if
none had occurred it would have been driven to in-
vent one. Men must be had if the war is to go
on ; and even in presence of a Southern inva-
sion men will not come forward, and the
Government dare not take them, except at the
lucky moment when good news has excited the
people to a fit of warlike enthusiasm. As it is,
the draft has been resisted--a riot has occurred in
New York, on the nature of which the gravest
issues depend. Hit have been serious and success-
ful it will probably receive the support of Governor
Seymour, and with his support riot would become
revolution, When the mail left two great battles
were impending ; one between Lee and Meade, one
between popular liberty and Federal usurpation in
the Empire City. If the Federal power be worsted
in either of these engagements, there is a hope of
peace—if unsuccessful in both, it may prolong the
war till the South is devastated, the North ruined,
and Lancashire reduced to bankruptcy—but the
issue of the war remains as certain as ever, and
the independence of the Confederacy is still an
accomplished fact.
POST.—The despatch of Marshal Foray from the
Mexican capital to the Emperor of the French re-
presents the Mexican people in a new character.
Hitherto we have known them as for the mast part
opposed,to their invaders. But as the French arms
advance, either they come upon sections of the com-
munity differing in opinion from those of Puebla
and Vere Cruz ; or otherwise the tide of invasion
has carried before it all the opposition with which
it was before threatened. It appears that in
Mexico itself, t'ae reception which has been given
to the French marshal and his army has been one
continuous ovation. Nor are we at all surprised
that this should be so. Hitherto there have been no
means of arriving at the opinions of the inhabitants
of the capital. They were crushed by the worst of
all despotisms—a corrupt military (or rather a
brigand) usurpation, without justice and without
even laws for any one. This was, in a word, the
Government of Mexico. It must have been detested
by every one bearing the spirit of freedom or pos-
sessing the mere instinct of security and right.
But it is a part of such a Government to with-
hold any expression of the popular will. Fora
Mexican to assert a will of hie own
affairs was as inadmissible as to assert that his
private property was not liable to sequestrationann
in public.s
seizure by the State. From this state of
ntyerhanl
and insecurity, while it was clear, on
therl)ained, it
that public opinion could not be to‘finfer
was, on the other hand, pretty
what that public opinion really Wee elean-
at this übs
while, however, it was perp
show itself at
lic feeling did not distinctly lezin
As one moment it had
Orizaba and at Puebla.
Mexicans were resolved to
resent invasion at all costs, and appeared as though the , side even with their
_
'ban Wuhan the European invader
usurper rather eged. In
Now, however, all isplace of the
markedthe earlier part of the
slow marches which
French advance from
campaign, the • • Puebla to
as rapid as it has been
Mexico has beentriumphant.
Juarez has not even attempted _ to contest the posses-
, sion of the capital.
The inhabitants of Mexico
have received MarshalForey as their deliverer from
an intolerable bondage. In place of the artillery
and small arms of Puebla, the French have been
assailed by storms of garlands and bouquets flung
from every window. To judge from the language
of theCommender-in-Chief, who is no boaster, the
reception thus given to them must have been very
remarkable and significant. Nor was this all. The
municipality cam eforward to ask Marshal Forey
for the blessings
of justice, order, and moderate
liberty—that is, for a complete political revolution.
The marshal did not attempt to abridge or shrink
from his imperial master's programme. He pro-
mised the municipality of Mexico all these things.
We assume, therefore, that he is still prepared to
put this question of their political future before the
Mexican people, and not to leave them until that
question shall have been solved and the political
future of Mexico be called into present existence.
A people may prefer to owe the benefit of good go-
vernment to themselves rather than to a conqueror.
But they may also fairly prefer to owe it
to a conqueror than not to enjoy it at all.
It now appears that Juarez has but 6,000 men to
support him, With this remnant he has retired
northwards, it is stated, to San Luis Potosi ; but it
would be more correct to say simply in that direc-
tion ; for he did not appear to have retreated to any
great distance from Mexico when Marshal Forey's
despatch of the 10th of .) une left Mexico. This

SUMMER ASSIZES.

OXFORD CIRCUIT—STAFFORD, July 21.
CIVIL COD.2T.
(Before Mr. Baron Martin ands Common Jury.)

NIXON V. MOSS.
This was an action in which the plaintiff claimed.
damages from the defendant for the breach by him
of his promise to marry her.
Mr. Gray and Mr. H. James were for the plain-
tiff; Mr. Huddleston, Q.C. for the defendant,
The plaintiff's name is dewy Ann Nixon, and she
is the daughter of one John Nixon, a master crate-
maker, of Tunstal ; and the defendant, whose name
is Joseph Moss, is a builder and stonemason at
Tunstal. As long back as 1848 the plaintiff had a
child, which was affiliated on the defendant. In
1850 she had another child, said to be the child of
one Fuge. Subsequently the defendant again ap-
peared on the scene, and resumed his visits to her,
and in 1854 she had another child, of which the de-
fendant was the father. After the birth of the
second child, the mother of the plaintiff heard the
defendant often promise to " alter the thing" and
marry the plaintiff. He had, however, now deceived
her beyond forgiveness, for he had married another
woman last November. It was proved that he was
the owner of six houses in Tunstal.

Mr. Huddleston did not call witnesses, but ridi-
culed the action for its groundlessness and want of
romance, and blamed the promoters of it for raking
up the folly of the defendant's youth.
The learned Judge endorsed the epithet " unro-
mantic," and stated to the jury that, if they were
satisfied that the promise had been made and broken,
then the plaintiff was entitled to compensation for
not being made the wife of a man in the defendant's
position of life, and also for the injary done to her
feelings by being disappointed in a matter the most
important of her life to her; and
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—da-
mages, £2O.
Mr. Justice Byles sat in the Crown Court, but the
cases were of a light and very uninteresting cha-
racter.

JULY 22.
CIVIL SIDE.

(Before Mr. Baron Martin and a Common Jury.)

JONES T. JEFFRIES.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff Ann
Jones, against the defendant, James Jeffries, for :the
breach of his promise to marry her.
Mr. H. James and Mr. Brindley were for the
plaintiff; Mr. Matthews for the defendant.
The plaintiff, at the time of the defendant's intro-
duction to her, was the barmaid at the Blue Bell
Inn, at Stone, and the defendant was a joiner and
builder in the same place. The defendant only de-
nied making the promise. The plaintiff's case was
proved by a Miss Stretch, whom the plaintiff suc-
ceeded as barmaid at the Blue Bell, and who
turned dressmaker, living with her mother at Stone,
and visited the landlady of the Blue Bell after she
had left. She spoke to seeing the defendant with
Miss Jones continually, and to their walking out of
an evening for hours together, and to
hearing the
defendant tell Mrs. Dugmore, the landlady of
Blue Bell, in answer to the question whether hie
intentions were honourable, that he intended to
marry Miss Jones at Christmas last. This occurred
in October last, and in December Mr. and Mrs.
Dugmore left the Blue Bell, and the successor at
the inn no longer required a barmaid; upon which
the defendant begged Miss Jones not to take an :
other situation, as he would make her his wife,
and Miss Stretch said she.could give her a home for
a month or two. The plaintiff accordingly went to
the Stretches and has been there ever since. While
there the defendant con
continued his visits, and re-
peated to Miss Stretch his intention to marry the
plaintiff. In the middle of March last he took a
house for himself and Miss Jones, as he said ; he
bought furniture, sho wed a pattern of a wedding
dress to Miss Jones, who disapproved it as too old-
fashioned. He also gave her a gold guard. It
appeared. also that the plaintiff bad given u an-
other suitor for Mr. Jeffries. The detend.antp con. -
tinned to visit. Miss Jones till a Saturday in April,
when his visits ceased, and on the Thursday follow-
ing he married a Miss Weetman. It seems he had
been spoken to by the witness about
. Miss. Weetman,
but he always declafrehd. she. .was his cousin, and gave
that explanation
For the defendant no witness was called, where-
vi.sits.
upon

Mr. James proceeded to reply, and a curious
point arose, for when he proceeded to discuss the
damages he was stopped by
The learned Judge, who ruled that he must con-
fine himself to a discussion of the evidence as far as
it affected the issue—viz., whether a promise had
been made or not, and must not touch upon the
damages.
Mr. James tendered a bill of exceptions to his
lordship's ruling, and
After Mr. Matthews bad addressed the jury,
His lordship summed up, saying that it was a case
for substantial damages, and, if the defendant had
been a person of substance, in his opinion the jury
might well give heavy damages, but as they had no
proof that the defendant in this case was worth
anything, it would be useless to do so.
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—.
Damages, £5O.

THE HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE AT ASTON PARK•
—The inquest on the body of Madame Geneive, the unfor-
tunate woman who fell a victim to the popular taste for sen-
sational excitement at the Foresters' fete on Monday, will
be held this afternoon. It may perhaps be interesting to
know that in her case the price of blood was £lO.

FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning an acci-
dent terminated fatally to Cornelius Mahoney, aged 30 years
who resided in Thomas place, Jubilee-road, Kensington:
The deceased was in the act of erecting a scaffold in War-
wick-square, Hammersmith, and slipped, when he fell a
depth of 30 feet, on a brickwail, and then to the ground.
He was conveyed to St. George's Hospital, where he gra-
dually sunk and expired,

A letter from Lisbon states that tho sale of Crown
diamonds, recently authorised by the Portuguese
Cortes, has taken place at the Bank of Portugal. The
principal purchaser was M. Bernard, of the Imperial
diamond-cutter's establishment of France, to whom four of
the principal lots of rough diamonds were knocked down
for a sum of 1,300,0001. The total proceeds of the day's
sale wore 1,800,000 f. These precious stones came from the
mines of Minas Germs, in Brazil. They were brought to
Portugal, as has been stated, by King John VI. in 1821.
The value of the diomonds which the Crown still has to sell
is estimated at about 35 million of francs. It is said that one
rough stone among them will, when cut, surpass in size the
finest at present known.