The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-06 00:00:00

An Irish Breach of Promise Case.

At the Antrim assizes, on Saturday and Monday,
Baron Fitzgerald and a special jury were engaged
in hearing a breach of promise case.. The plaintiff,
Miss Jane Marian Shallow, was a milliner at New-
castle, in the county Down. The defendant, Mr.
James Savage, a widower, was much older than the
plaintiff. He was a coal and timber merchant,
residing at Newry. He became acquainted with
her in the year 1860, and an attachment springing
up between them, he professed himself to be a de-
voted lover. At last their marriage was fixed
for the 17th of June, 1861. In consequence of
this the plaintiff was induced to sell off the greater
portion of her business, as defendant assured
her he was worth £7,000 or £B,OOO, and, therefore,
there would be no need for her to continue it.
When the 17th of June arrived the defendant
backed out from fulfilling the engagement then, on
the ground of ill-health, though it didn't appear to
be very serious. September was next named for
the interesting ceremony, but once more he de•
clined, and, as a matter of course, the plaintiff lost
her appetite, and indulged in nothing but crying
and fretting—indeed, her mother stated that for
four months she hardly came down from her bed-
room. When asked why he had bought her the
" wedding dress," he denied he had done so,
He was a sporting man, and as one of his dogs
had won a wager, he presented the plaintiff with a
new dress on the occasion. One of the strongest
proofs that he really was courting the plaintiff was
the fact that, daring a comparatively short time, he
sent her 200 letters. Most of them were of a very
prosaic and insipid character. However, in one or
two he described hie tender love for her "as being
like a lava flood that burns in the breast of E:na's
flames." This burning sensation must have soon
gone off, as he forsook the plaintiff and married an-
other lady. The jury awarded the plaintiff 100
guineas, though she had estimated the outrage on
her feelings at £3,000.

SERIOUS ACCIDENTS AT A CRICKET MATCH.—
Yesterday Captain Stewart, of the 2d Life Guards,
met with a serious accident while engaged in a match at
cricket in the barrack-field at Woolwich, between the
Household Brigade and the Royal Artillery, Captain
Stewart, in attempting to catch a short ball from the
wicket, fractured the middle finger of his left hand, which
was also severely lacerated. He was taken to the Royal
Artillery Infirmary, where the wounded hand was care-
fully attended to, and, being informed that amputation
would be necessary, he was removed to Landon at his own
request. Captain Taswell, B, A., was also severely wounded
in the same match. The ball struck him with terrible force
between the eyes, arid for a moment it was feared that the
blow was fatal. The ,sufferer will, it is stated, bear traces
of the wound through life.
GRANITE CYST FOR THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT
AND THE QUEEN. —A stone has been successfully
cut from the Cairngall Granite Quarry at Peterhead, which
is to form a tomb for Prince Albert—on a smaller scale, but
on the same principle as the tomb of Napoleon at Paris—
being placed on the floor of the vault, and not underground.
The stone is ten feet long by about seven broad, and three
and a half deep; and it is to be cut into a sort of sarco-
phagus, to rest in a pedestal. Two cysts are to be cut in
the stone for the insertion of coffins and lids lett to be
cemented down, The body of the late Prince is to occupy
one cyst ; and we believe it is the express wish of her Ma-
jesty that her own remains shall be deposited in the other.
The obtaining of this stone has been a work of extreme
difficulty—one or two fine blocks having been already re-
jected for flaws. The stone weighs above 18 tons, and will
at once be conveyed to Mr. Macdonald's establishment in
Aberdeen, to be dressed and polished.—Peterhead Sentinel.
Several of the French journals state that Rom n-
auguration of the statue of Napoleon as a
ren
Emperor on the column of the Place Vendome
lataatue
ton
postponed to the 15th October next, and that the e
remains of the Emperor were
at the spot where the mortal
be removed will b® placed on the Ron d Point of Courbevoie,
landed on the banks of the Seine.
COTTON CULTIVATION IN BRITISH BURNIAIL,--
The government of India has publi.shed. a brief report
we should think, to be of value for any
of an experiment in cotton cultivation in British B urmah
in
1862-63. The experiment was on a very small scale cer-
dptairsionxtrltiyi? or to the capabilities of the
tAjtborPt:thrP°rnealsple,;ofitable cultivation of the plant for com-
test fairly
Four acres of ground were cleared of
grass in May, 1862, near a village on the banks
of the Boben stream. Three and a half acres were sown
e seed.
The unfortunately
eeed
wmixed),asail
emleeprchiaanl tParP°B6B.
half an acre with
with seed of the New Orleans and Egyptian varieties
(whichgea Island
produce of last year's
and
cultivation; the sowings took place partly in June and
partly in July. The Sea Island cotton failed entirely, and in
no instances, says the report, has
it succeeded in Burmah.
The pods of the other sorts ripened
the rains had ceased, but in October, before
great care was taken to pick
the cotton immediately the
from damp, An European spods burst, so as to keep it
superintendent was sent to the
spot to superintend the picking,
which continued up to the
end of November. The first crop from the three and a half
acres yielded 6751 b. of cotton with seed ; a small second
March, crop was picked up in law
1863, when 1501 b. more
were collected, making a total for the year of
8251 b. After ginnin
g, only 2041 b. of cleaned cotton were
obtained, which was a proportion of about 21b. uncleaned
to lib. cleaned. It appears the seed sown in June did not
produce as much as that sown in July, which is accounted
for partly by its ripening too early when the rains were
still heavy, partly because the ground was not so well pre-
pared, and partly because the July or second sowing was
I superintended by an overseer who knew something of the
cotton plant and its treatment, from a residence
in the Southern States of America. Incessant rain,
it is said, prevented his superintending the first sow-
ing. The result c f the experiment is stated to be that
cotton will grow, but the experiment is very incomplete,
" as failures arise from accident, such as bad seed and
want of proper superintendence, if the localities chosen
for the seat of the experiment are distant and difficult of
access." It is proposed, however, next year to try expe-
riments to test whether it can be grown for profit, and
" whether later sowing, so as to ensure the heavy rains
being ended before the picking begins, will not give
more fruitful results." The experiment, such as was
obtained, being the utter failure of the Sea Island s
beeneed.
The report closes by stating that "some seed has
given to an overseer who works in the forest, end who is
anxious to try an experiment of his own on a larger scale,
to see whether the plant will thrive with a minimum
amount of labour spent upon it, and thus be made remu-
nerative." We should have tat
ught the Government, if it
matter itself, would have done
it on a larger scale, and taken a great deal more pains to
ensure the success of what it did undertake. Judging
from the proceedings of Government in the present case
from its own reptoort of a very meagre experiment,
d] have had a fair trial, for the
it seems
brief report on the subject admits ;
ignorant and im-
perfect superintendence, and that the various varieties
of seed used were hopelessly
mixed together, so that
impossible to say
it w whether one kind of seed
wouldas
do better than another, The experiment clearly
failed from the want of precautions must essential to secure
anyohance of success, and without which failure might have
been looked on as certain.—Bombay Gazette.