The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-10 00:00:00

BREACH OF PROMISE OF 31.4BRIAGE,

At the York Assizes, on Saturday, Mr. Overend,;in
stating the case of Mason v. Furniss, said the plaintiff,
Phcebe Mason, was the daughter of Mrs. Mason, who keeps
an inn at Bill Foot, near Sheffield; and she brought this
action against the defendant for having broken a promise
he had made to marry her two or three years ago. ' 'l"he
defendant, Edward Furniss, is an electro-silver plater, at
Sheffield, who employs from a score to four-and-twenty
workmen. He believed the defendant was under thirty-
five years of age, and, in addition to carrying on the
electro-plating, he keeps an inn two or three miles from
Sheffield. The plaintiff was, he (the learned counsel) be-
lieved, a remarkably handsome young woman. During
the year 1858 she went to see the niece of Mr. Boldero, an
electro. plater, and she met the defendant at his house. On
two or three occasions the defendant wished to walk home
with her, but she declined to allow him to do so. He was
struck with her appearance, conversation, and manners, and
he asked her if ho might be allowed to pay his addresses to
her. She hesitated, and he spoke to her mother, in April,
1859. He declared that his intentions were perfectly hon-
ourable, and the mother and daughter having consented to
the engagement, he was received into the family as her
accepted lover. He paid his addresses to her for a con-
siderable time, and after he had been courting a year or
two, he was very anxious to- be married. He
accordingly proposed to the mother that he
and her daughter should be married. Mrs. Mason thought
her daughter was too young, but preparations were ulti-
mately made for the marriage. Last summer the plaintiff
was asked by Mrs. Laycock to go with her to Scarborough,
for the benefit of the sea air. Before this, the plaintiff had
noticed something different in the manner of the defendant,
and she made a statement to her sister (Mrs. Walters)
of the great grief she experienced. It appeared that the
defendant, who had been received into the family with
the most perfect trust and reliance on his honour, and
on the assurances he had made that he was about
to marry her, had taken advantage of the situation
in which he was placed by accomplishing her ruin. After
that, he no longer went near her, she was nearly heart
broken, and she told her sister what had occurred. The
defendant was seen not only by the plaintiff, but by Mrs.
Walters; and on the latter telling him he had ruined her
sister, he said they were not to make themselves uneasy,
and that he would marry the plaintiff in a week. She went
to Scarborough with Mrs. Laycock, and remained there more
than a fortnight. On her return home, it newspaper was
put into her hand by her sister, in which it was announced
that the defendant had married another woman, who he
(Mr. Overend) believed had a little more money than his
client, and was his own cousin. The plaintiff was con-
fined on the 21st of February last, and she was then 20 years
of age. By the fortune the defendant received from his
wife he commenced to keep an inn, in addition to his other
business. The learned counsel submitted that this was a
case of a gross character, and that it was for the jury to say
what the defendant ought to pay as a compensation.—Evi-
dence having been adduced in support of the learned gen-
tleman's statement, Mr. Temple briefly addressed the jury
in mitigation of damages.--The jury found a verdict for
the plaintiff; damages, £l5O.

MALT BONDED.-A return to the House of Com-
mons shows that in the year ending the 30th Sept., 1861,
the number of bushels of malt made in bond for distillation
was 3,000,449 ; made in bond for exportation, 214,438;
allowed a drawback of duty for exportion, 147,110. There
is no drawback of duty allowed on malt used for distil-

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seamen, named Hetherington and Kennish ; and two ap-
prentices. Tho night was wild, snow and rain driving from
S.S.W. Next morning the brig was found stranded on the
rocks about a mile from Harrington. How she came there
must for ever be a matter of speculation, as none of the crew
were left to tell the tale. It is probable that either the cap-
tain had kept too closely in to the shore, and thus struck
accidentally, or that the vessel had sprung a leak and was
purposely stranded to save the lives of the crew. All the
six bodies were washed ashore.

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day I) it has remained dry, and dry it must, unhappily,
remain, Never more to haggis. and haddock-fed recipi-
ents of these and other creature-comforts of this earth
will that silver-rimmed bowl of Inverary marble diffuse a
fragrant steam of Scotland's drink ; of whisky cautiously
mixed with scalding Tweed or Thames, and cunningly
flavoured with thirst-provoking sugar, and like cunningly
intermingled with thirst-allaying lemon. Its history is
remarkable, its destiny suggestive. The punch-bowl of
" Robert Burns, Poet" (fur so he loved to describe him •
self), is now, by the bequest of Hastie, one of the curiosi-
ties of the British Museum. We scarcely think it retains
the perfume of the liquor and the lemons with which it
reeked and was so long imbued, as its fellow curiosity in the
same receptacle of rarities—the sarcophagus of Alexander
the Great—retains to this day (so antiquaries allege) the
balsams and preservatives of the apothecaries of Macedon.
—Once a Week.

The California Legislature had passed concurrent
resolutions protesting against the policy of taxing
the California gold mines by the general govern-
ment.

The Xreutz Zeitung says that on the morning of
the 4th the King of Prussia received, in presence of
Gen. de Peucker, 259 cadets who will have to pass
their examination in spring for the grade of officer.
His Majesty dismissed them in the most gracious
terms, recommending them to do their duty with
zeal and fidelity.
The Publicist of Berlin states that far some time
extraordinary military measures have been taken
in that capital.