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are all attached, and under the same management.
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liable to, had he united his fate and his fortunes with
those of the plaintif? Ruin—nothing but ruin. In
his opinion the defendant had acted like a man of ex-
treme prudence and foresight, fir finding, from the
state of health of the plaintiff that little, if anything
less, short of misery and ruin could result from his
union with her he had had the moral and the pruden-
tial courage to take his stand ere it was too late.
That was the position of matters, and it was for the
jury to say whether, under the circumstances, they
could award more than nominal damages. If they
were to give any substantial damages—they were laid
at 6001.—their verdict would condemn the defendant
to bankruptcy, from the effects of which he might
never be able to recover.

Mr. Baron RoLrE summed up, and said, that the
only question was the amount of compensation they
would give to a young female situated as the plaintiff

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The jury soon returned a verdict for the plaintiff.
—Damages 1001.

SHERIFFS' COUR Jan. 27.
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BumcnsLL.)

BREACH Or PROMISE OF AIARRIAGM--/LOGBAS V. 8.A.T..

CHELLOR.
This was an action to recover compensation in
damages for a breach of promise of marriage. The
damages were laid at 5001., and the present proceed-
ing (judgment having been allowed to go by default)
was to assess the amount to be awarded.

Mr. O'Malley was for the plaintiff, and Mr. W.
Cooke for the defendant.

As a singular feature in this .ease no witness was
called. The parties had c srresponded for about seven
years, and numerous letters had passed on both sides.
Several letters were taken as evidence, and the facts,
as far as they were disclosed, were gathered from the
epistles so admitted. It appeared that in 1342 the
defendant, who was stated to be now twenty-six years
of age, and a clerk in a railway company, having been
removed from one office in Liverpool to another in
London, had promised the plaintiff (Miss Maria
Louisa Rogers) to marry her. He was respectably
connected at Liverpool, and had been in India.
The plaintiff's mother and sister had gone to Arne-
riea, and she had stayed in England on his account.
The letters were worded in a sober mariner for such
epistles, and breathed much affection ; the defendant
giving the plaintiff credit for the sacrifice she had
made by remaining in this country on his account,
and expressing his intention to marry her. The de-
fendant had some years ago obtained a situation in a
railway company at Liverpool, which had been in-
creased in value, and he was now at the station in Lon-
don. The last three letters read were dated in August
last, they breathed not the same hopes as the former;
the latter declined from " My dearest Maria," to
" Dear Miss Rogers."
Mr. O'Alaeeer asked the jury to consider the
damage the plaintiff had sustained. For seven years
she had lived on hopes, and when the defendant's
circumstances prospered then he felt that she had not
a fortune, as he hinted in one of his letters, and that
he was not aware that she had made any arrangements
for him. She had stayed in England, had wasted the
seven best years of her life, and now he had discarded
her. He trusted that the jury would not let the plea
of poverty, which would be urged by the defendant's
counsel, prevail, but would give substantial damages
for the injury sustained.
Mr. Coolie, on the part of the defendant, complained
of the meagre state in which the case had been pre-
sented. No witness had been called ; all rested on
the letters admitted. There was no evidence to show
the defendant's position, further than that he was a
clerk. There was no evidence that the defendant had
discarded her, or had married another. On the con -
trary, he could inform the jury that he was as ready
as he ever had been to marry the plaintiff.
Mr. O'MALLiv, interrupting, said the defendant had
not expressed his readiness ; on the contrary, he had
admitted his breach of promise, and they were assem-
bled to assess the amount of damages to be awarded for
such breach.
Mr. COOKE declared that he could now state that he
had not, further than was implied by the present action,
broken his promise.
The Learned UNDEK-SHERIrE remarked that It was
not now too late for the parties to be married.
Mr. O'Meevly said therm was a case in the Exche-
quer some time back, in which the defendant stated
that he was ready to marry the party bringing the ac-
tion, but it was held that such an offer would not ope-
rate against the action.
Mr. Cooa E remarked on the absence of evidence.
The plaintiff had a married sister in London, and
had she been called, he could have shown that it had
been by her meddling conduct that the action had been
brought. The defendant, in fact, was ready to fulfil
his promise, but his circumstances would not permit
him to marry at present, and the remark made re-
specting the want of a fortune was to show (as the
Learned Gentleman expressed) " that there was no-
thing to make the pot boil." The defendant had pre-
ferred a single life to a married state of poverty, and
he was sure that in estimating the damages the jury
would have respect to the situation in life of the de-
fendant, and not by giving large damages consign
him to prison. It was a case for very moderate
damages.
The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF, in placing the case
before the jury, told them that it had been presented
in a very meagre form. There was no doubt a breach
of promise had been committed, and their province
was to award compensation for such a breach. It
was a case for fair and reasonable damages after a
correspondence of seven years and the attachment the
plaintiff had evinced by staying in this country when
her family went to America.
The jury retired for nearly two hours, and on
their return into court at seven o'clock, assessed the
damages at 64/.

IRISH SPECIAL COMMISSION.
CLONMEL, Jere. 25.—The following is the address
of the Chief Justice to the grand jury, delivered yes-
terday evening :
e Mr. Foreman, and gentlemen of the grand jury
of the county of Tipperary -_I regret that the amount
of the business in Limerick prevented me from meet-
ing you here at the hour appointed for opening the
special commission. We have done all in oar power,
and I believe with success, to avoid personal incon-
venience to you from the alteration of the hour named
for opening the proceedings. This is the last county
in which, as I understand, the powers of this special
commission shall be carried into execution. The
delay in coming here will, I trust, be compensated for
by the publicity which the proceedings in Limerick
and Clare have already obtained, and by the time
allowed for serious and salutary reflection on these
proceedings. Indeed, this commission has attracted
such intense interest that there caa be no doubt that
the disturbers of the public peace, or those who have
aided in, or who are the authors of these disturbances,
are already well aware of what has been done
—of how much has been suffered—and of how
much remains to be suffered. Hardened, indeed,
must they be in guilt—utterly abandoned to wicked-
netts must they be, if they can view without coaster
nation and dismay the irresistible power of justice in
the terrible punishment that has been awarded to
those whose fate it is now for them to decide
whether they will avoid or follow. If among the
delusions which wicked men have practised on them-
selves, or that has been practised on them by others,
the hope of impunity or escape rested on the belief
that through terror the jurors would not do their
duty, enough, and more than enough, has occurred
to show how utterly vain and how utterly groundless
is that expectation. In the counties of Clare and
Limerick the constitutional tribunals of the country
discharged their duty with firmness, consci-
entiously, unmoved by fear, and
as unexas-
perated as if all around them were repose
and peace. In almost every case tried there was a
conviction. And why ? Because in almost every
case the charge was supported by a mass of evidence
which ma le the conviction of the prisoner a mat-
ter admitting of no doubt. That evidence was
given by witnesses who spoke the truth, and spoke it
fearlessly. From those circumstances I augur fa-
vourably with respect to those counties and their
future prospects; because in the conduct of those
witnesses I think, at least, I see a reviving confidence
in the power and authority of the law, and a resolu-
tion to resist what has become so intolerable as to
awaken and arouse them to self-protection and self-
defence. Circumstances which transpired on some of
those trials I advert to to strengthen me in this hope.
In many instances it appeared that families, with
intrepid bravery and complete success, resisted the
assailants of their helsitations, defeated their attacks,
and in some instances ms's e prisoners of the assailants,
and delivered them bound into the hands of justice.
These, gentlemen, are encouraging considerations,
and they should be so to you, for in no essential par-
ticular does the condition of your county appear to
me to dhl'er from that of Limerick and Clare.
Such publicity has been given to our proceed-
ings that I doubt not you are aware of the
observations which, on a similar occasion to
the present, were addressed by the Lord
Chief Baron and myself to the grand juries of the
counties of Limerick and Clare. I shall, therefore,
assume that so far as those observations can be useful
for your guidance or instruction they are already
substantially known to you, and I shall not trouble or
delay you by repeating them. I stated as my con-

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