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in doubt. It had been almost impossible' in ' .
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available resources of Juarez. In.point of territg •Li. . S
there was Of course -a -vast -amount-of_ ierrLtory
quite untrodden by the French. To what extent i -.,
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-
bility, that a fresh and more numerous army Would!
be arrayed at Mexico than had 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
but between six end seven thousand men at the ut-
most, and that even they are tainted with disaffee-
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be three weeks' later
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their way step by
step, and are called upon by the municipalityt
capital to assist the nation in measures. of the
amount to an, entire change of government. We
have seen that Marshal Forey Accepts their chal=-
lenge; he promises what they ask—justice, order,
and regular liberty. He must know perfectly wel
that no one of these three requisites of the 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. we
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
their considers-
now in a great measure rendered
tion obsolete. The French army is. in Mexico to
fulfil the high mission with which • it bad 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
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disposed to accept them as their pacificators, 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.

SUMMER ASSIZES.

OXFORD CIRCUIT-STAFFORD, July 21.
CIVIL COURT.

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

NIXON V. MOSS.

This was an action in which the plaintiff claimed
damages from the defendant for the breach by hint
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 Mary 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
riot being made the wife of a man in the defendant's
position of life, and also for the injury 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 tho
cases were of a light and very uninteresting cha-
racter.

JULY 22.
CIVIL SIDE.

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

JONES V. 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 the
Blue Bell, in answer to the question whether his
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 'ner 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 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-
fashionod. He also gave her a gold guard. It
appeared also that the plaintiff had given up an-
other suitor for Mr. Jeffries. The defendant con-
tinued to visit Miss Jones till a Saturday in April,
when his visits ceased' and
follow-
ing he married a Miss on the Thursday
NI reetman. It seems he had
been spoken to by the witness about Miss Weetman,
but he always declared she was his cousin, and gave
that explanation of his visits.
For the defendant no witness was called, where-
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 0 his
lordship's ruling, and

After Mr. Matthews had 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 PAW
—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 £4O.

FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterdav morning an acci-
dent terminated fatally to Cornelius Mahoney, aged 30 years
who resided in Thomas•placo, Jubilee-read, 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 briekwall, 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 the sale of Crown
diamonds, recently authorised by the Portuguese
Cortes, has taken place at the Bank of Portugal. Tho
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 1,300,000 f. Tho total proceeds of the day's
sale were 1,800,0001. These precious stones came from the
mines of Minas Geraes, in Brazil. They were brought to
Portugal, as has been stated, by King John VI. in 1821.
The value of the diamonds 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,