The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-28 00:00:00

NJ.17,69.] LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING

ROYAL HOTEL, GRAINGER-STREET,
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.
C IA itLES S'L'ATES solicits the patronage of his
BROTHER TRAVELLERS to the above Establishment, which
has recently been newly furnished and laid out expressly for a Cotn-
mercial Hotel.
The COMMERCIAL ROOM, one of the largest and most elegantly
fitted In the NOrtTII, it Is hoped will be found complete in every
respect.
The 11ED-1100313 (Sixty in number) have been furnished in a
style which must ensere the approbation of all visitors.
Gentlemen travelling, with STOCK can at all times have BELOW
ROOMS without any extra charge.
The Music Hall, Lecture Room, and Reyal Motel Assembly Room
are all attached, arid under the same management.
The Royal Hotel is in the most central situation in Newcastle.

GRAVESEND via BLACKWALL RAIL-
WAY, and STAR and BLACKWALL PACKETS.
Kailway an 4 Boat included in one Payment.
Fore Cabin and Second Class Railway, NINEPENCE ;
Saloon and First Class ditto, ONE SHILLING.
To or from Blackwall or intermediate Piers,
Fore Cabin • • ••• • • • 6d. SaIoon•. •• Bd.
No other Packets call at the Grays or Greenhlthe Piers.
From The Terrace Pier. Gravesend, at 7%, B%*, 9%, 11%, 1, ;,
And F,. Sundays, at 7%, 8%, 11%, 1,3, and 5.
From the Brunswick Wharf, Blaekwall, at 9%, 11, 12, 1%, 3,4,
and b*. intulays, at 9%, 11, 1%, 3,4, and s*.
The TRAINS starting one quarter of an hour before each of these
times.
Packets marked * are run direct, the Packets not being per-
mitted to stop at Piers or for Boats.
Omnibuses t rum Fenehurch-street Station to all parts of London
every quarter of an hour.
BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 4/. 4s. ; Six Months, 2/. 15sd;
Three Months, 11. 15s. ; to be had of the Collectors on board the
packets; Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend; or of Mr. Saunders,
Brunswick Wharf, Biaokwall. •
November 22, 1847. •

W. SILVER and CO., CLOTHIERS,
7 • NAVAL, • MILITARY, and General OUTFITTERS and
CONTRAC 1•0124, respectitilly acquaint the Public, that they
have completed the alterations at their Warehouses, 66 and 67;
CORNII I LL, which enab!es them to concentrate and exhibit all
the requirements of an OUTFIT. Being the Manufacturers (vr:tli
experienced managers) of the chief and most expensive portions et
OUTFI I'S, they are enabled to produce and render them at
WHOLESALE PRICES; thus preventing MILITARY and NAVAL
OFFICERS, CADETS, and PASSENGERS generally sacrificing the
usual intermodia'e profit. L &DIES' OUTFITS (which are under thq
management of Females) on similar terms.
SILVER and CO. havin% a correspondent in nearly every
ENGLISH COLONY, their customers may at all times avail ,
them-
selves et their assistance. SILVER and CO. pack and ship their CUIP!
tomers' outfits, clear and warehouse their baggage homewards, pro-
cure and give SHIP-SAILINV information outwards or homewards,
without 'receiving a commission for such business. Moreover, theyi
do not allow the too usual commission to persons who introduce
customers to them, that purchasers may derive every advantage.
For example, individuals who are about to leave for India are gene-
rally inundated with.applications and lists from Outfitters, who ob-
tain the name and.. address of the party going abroad from
persons to whom they pay (if they supply the Outfit) so large a com-
mission for the information, as.to materially increase the amount of.
the Outfit. Now, SILVER and CO. never forward a list of neces-
saries to any one, unless direeted to do so by the party (or Mandl
going abroad. Thus SILVER and CO.'s prices are not burthened with
commission, because all recommendations to apply to them are pure
and disinterested.
The OUTFITTNO 'WHOLESALE and RETAIL CLOTHING
DEPARTMENTS: &c., are at 66 and 67, CORNHILL, and at
LIVERPOOL. -The' SHIRT DEPARTMENT for home use is at ,
No., 10, CORNHILL The WORKSHOPS for Clothing, at 41i,
Bishopsgate-street Within ; for •SIIIRTS and CABIN FURNITURE •
at 33 and 34, Naesau-place, Commercial-road; and for SHIRTS,
STAYS, BRACES, &c., at LANDPORT, near PORTSMOUTH.
N.B. 'Every description of Clothing for Male and Female Emi-
grants. •

•
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Bankera,.Publie Companies, Merchants, and Traders, are in-
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demand for, the PATENT METAL-SEAL ENVELOPES and
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to offer Mein at reduced prices. The perfect security and the ready
dispatch afforded' by the use of tkese envelopes render this notifica-
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making foreign oomintinieations, avoiding the use of sealing-wax,
in compliance with the Poettnaster-General's instructions. Speci-
mens of the above will be forwarded on application to the Patentee,
4, Castle-street, Holborn, London. -Authorised agents travel through
the principal cities and towns in the kingdom.

QILVER PLATED CORNER DISHES.-
►7 A. B. SAVORY and SONS. Manufacturing Silversmiths, 14,
Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of England, submit the prices
of the following Patterns of strongly PLATED CORNER DISIIES,
with silver h finales ,nd edges, and silver shieVs for engraving the
crest or coats of arms, viz.:—
The Gadroon Pattern.
Four Strongly Plated Corner 'Jishes and Covers .• ••••• • .• XS 0 0
The St. James's Pattern.
Four Extra-strongly Plated Corner Dishes and Covers • • .. Xl3 10 0
N.B. The Covers are made with moveable handles, so as to form
extra dishes. Drawings of the above forwarded to auy part of Great
Britain or Ireland, postage free.

AWES'S CANDLES, 6d. per lb. ; Genuine
1 Sperm, Is. 9d. ; Yellow Soap, 485., 545., and 60s. per 112114. ;
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Solar, 3,. 3d., Pale Seal, 4s. ; Argand, or Vegetable, 45. 6d. ; Wind-
sor and Palm Soap, Is. 4d. per packet; Brown Windsor, Is. 9d ;
Rose. 2s. Almond, 2s. 6d. ; Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d.; Hale's Paragon
Composite, requiring no snuffing, 10d. per lb.
For Cash—At DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St.
Alertin',-lane, opposite Slaughter's Coffee-house.

YEBROWS, muusTAcHios, and W lIIS-
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prevented by the use of GRIMSTONE'S AROMATIC REGENE•
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most delightful, fracrant toilet perfume. Sold only in triangular
bottles, protected by the Government stamp, at 4s. ; double the size.
;s.; and double this size, I Is. each ; enclosed in a Pamphlet, con.
;lining testimonials et undoubted authority, entitled " Three Minutes'
kdvice on the Growth and Preservation of the Hums* Ilair, Scc."
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TO THE LADIES.
TWA :ady had the following letter Inserted in the "Tines" news-
paper on Aug. 7, 111,16. Reader, remember, this letter was put into
the paper by the lady herself, as a testimony to me.
" Mrs. Weekley, of No. 3. Swan-street, Borough, takes this oppor
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The most delicate ladies may use this delightful product of the
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COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 27.

(Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Westminster, before Mr.
Baron ROLFE and Common Juries.)
BRBACLT OF risoldisz.—C•NTEß V. CLARE.

This was a part-heard case. The action was to
recover compensation in damages for a breach of pro-
mise of marriage.
The defendant pleaded that he did not promise.
Mr. Sergeant Allen, with whom was Mr. H. A.
Simon conducted the case for the plaintiff; and
Mr. li. Chambers appeared for the defendant.
Mr. Sergeant ALLEN entered into a lengthened
statement of the plaintiff's case, of which we give an
outline. This, he said, was an action of a class
which he was happy to say was not of very frequent
occurrence in the present day in courts of law. It
was an action to recover compensation in damages
for the infliction of one of the most severe injuries
which the juvenile female mind could be submitted
to, namely, a breach of promise of marriage, and
he thought he should best discharge his
duty to the lady whom he represented, were
he to confine himself to a statement of the details of
this painful and lamentable affair. A" simple narra- 1
tive, therefore, he would place before the jury, with 1
the perfect conviction that, having heard the simple
.1
story he had to detail, they would very quickly arrive
at a just conclusion, and do ample justice to the
plaintiff, for whom he at that moment appeared. The 1
parties, plaintiff and defendant, both lived in the
Kingsland-road. The former was the daughter of a
Air. Carter, who, some 20 years ago, had been the
proprietor of a very celebrated tavern, in those days
known as;the Laurel-tree, Brick-lane, Spitalfields.
it was noted as a house for first-rate dinners. Mr.
Carter, at his death, left a widow and several children,
of whom the present plaintiff was one,'with a provi-
sion of some 3,0001. or 4,0001. As the family grew
up they applied themselves each to obtain a livelihood
without trenching on the mother's income. The
plaintiff and her sister established a school, but
eventually, when one of them married, the mother'
and the plaintiff went to reside in the Kingsland-
road. After they had been there some time the
defendant became the proprietor of an extensive
grocer's shop within a very short distance of Mrs.
Carter's residence. This was about the Spring of
1846. Mrs. Carter had dealt at the shop prior to
the defendant becoming its owner, and having been
introduced to him by his predecessor, she had con-
tinued to,purchase all articles of grocery of the new
master. In the course of time, the plaintiff having
been in the habit of making purchases at the shop,
inspired the defendant with a feeling of love, which
resulted in his being received in the character of her
future husband. Continual interchanges of visits
ensued, and the plaintiff was introduced to the
defendant's family and connexions as the lady who
was about to become his wife. After this the defen•
dant appeared to hare consulted her on, everything.
She, to a certain extent, kept his books, examined
the accounts, and had the management and hiring of
his servants. The particular dress, black satin,which
he wished her to wear at the wedding, was chosen
by himself, notwithstanding the:plaifitiff's mother said
she thought her daughter would look as well in
white, or a light dress, which was more usual on such
occasions • because, as she had been many times with
him at the chapel, the people would stare at them if
she were to go in a bright wedding dress, seeing that
all had considered that they were already married.
There was scarcely an act which could have reference
to their marriage which the defendant did not with
the utmost scrupulousness and the utmost propriety
consult the plaintiff upon. Thus matters went on
from about the month of June, 1846. until the month
of March, 1847, when, on the 15th of this latter
month, the defendant made a communication to the
plaintiff to the effect that it was necessary they should
abandon their mutual pledge of attachment, upon the
ground, as was afterwards divulged, that her health
was too delicate to render tier a fitting subject for a
wife, or to become the mother of a family. This
blow was felt with great severity by the plaintiff,
who became incoherent in her mind, and at times
unable to recognise any member of her family. After
this interview the plaintiff was conveyed home,
but had not been there long before her brother re-
turned. As soon as he had ascertained what had
occurred, he went to the defendant and demanded the
cause of his conduct. The defendant simply replied
that the cause was her delicate state of health. This
was all the reason the defendant assigned for break-
ing off the engagement; but a person of the name of
Morgan, his brother-in-law, states that it was because
the plaintiff was physically unfitted for a wife or a
mother, and that she wanted the necessary anatomical
properties which were so advisable for a married
state. The brother was astounded at this coarse
declaration, and said that the only illness his sister
was subject to was a susceptibility to colds, and an
occasional attack of debility, but not more so than
every other fermate was liable to. Morgan then made
farther coarse anti disgusting allusions, and inquired
whether he had ever been at the " Judge and Jury,"
at the Gairick's Head, to hear the mock trials. The
brother replied in the affirmative; whereupon Mor-
gan gave an imitation, in his own person, assuming
the character of Chief Baron Nicholson, counsel on
both sides, witnesses and jury, of a mock trial of the
plaintiff, and eventually gave a verdict for the defen-
dant. The mother of the plaintiff confidently as-
serted, that although her daughter was very much
subject to colds and occasional debility, yet that her
general state of health was in ao way inferior to that
of other females. Legal proceedings were ultimately
had recourse to, but so strong was the attachment of
the plaintiff that, with the fond hope that the de-
fendant might return to his better self and his better
feeling, she gave instructions for the discontinuance
of the proceedings. Disappointment, however, awaited
her, and a second writ of summons was issued, which
had resulted in the present proceedings.
The above outline of the history of the case was
fully borne out by the witnesses who were examined.
Mr. M. CHAMBERS, on the part of the defendant,
submitted that his client had done no more than every
clearly-sighted and well-intentioned man would have
done under the like circumstances. After an ac-
quaintance of some months, the defendant found
that the plaintiff had such delicate health, that were
they to
sicklymarry
wife, a i
ruin couscyldkblut
family,resuland no end of
result. l.ongdoctor's
bills,a
misery and wretchedness must be entailed upon him-
self and the lady, if they were to marry. That was
the view defendant had taken; and upon that im
pression he had acted. The defendant was a young
tradesman just straggling into life, having a capital
to commence with, which he had borrowed from the
Fishmongers' Company at Si per cent. per annum
for four years. What was such a capital when op-
posed to the evils he would have rendered himself

liable to, had he united his fate andlais fortunes with
those of the plaintiff? Ruin—noth=ing bat ruin. In
his opinion the defendant had acted like a man of ex-
treme prudence and foresight, for ending, 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 dam ages—they were laid
at 6001.—their verdict would coniclemn the defendant
to bankruptcy, from the effects of which he might
never be able to recover.
Mr. BaronROLFE summed up, and said, that the
only question was the amount of compensation they
would give to a young female situ,ated as the plaintiff

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

SHERIFFS' COURY; Jan. 27.
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BuncnELL.)

UREACH OP PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.-..ROGERS V. BAT-

CEIELLOZ.
This was an action to recover compensation in
damages for a breach of promise of marriage. The
damages were laid at 500/., 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 case no witness was
rri called. The parties had co onded for about seven
years, and numerous letters passed on both sides.
Several letters were taken aik idence, and the facts,
as far as they were disolosed,:ware gathered from the
epistles so admitted. It appeared that in 1842 the'
defendant, who was stated to beilOW twenty-six years
of age, and a clerkin a railwairoetneinzharjng been
removed front one'btlice in Liverpool' to—another in
London, had promised the plaintiff (Miss Maria'
Louisa Rogers) to marry ber. He was respectably
connected at Liverpool, and had been in India.
The plaintiff's mother and sister had gone to Ame-
rica, and she had stayed in England on his account.
The letters were worded in a sober manner 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'MALLEY 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. COOKE, 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 shove
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'MALLer, 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. Coors declared that he could now state that he
had not, further than was implied by the present action,
broken his promise.
.... . . . .

The Learned Usinsa-Snlenirr remarked that it was
not now too late for the parties to be married.
Mr. O'MALLey said there 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 tnat such an offer would not ope-
rate against the action. . _ _

Mr.Cooas remarked on the absence of evidence.
Ile 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 Uapwa_Suaasrr, 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 protince
was to award compensation for such a breach. It
was a case for fair ,end 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 641.

IRISH SPECIAL COMMISSION.
CLONMEL, JAN. 25.—The following is the address
of the Chief Justice to the grand jury, delivered yes-
terday evening :
~ me. 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 our 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
;lelay 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 can 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-
ness must they be, if they can view without conster
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, by fear, and
consci-
entiously, unmoved as uaexas-
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 made 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 habitations, defeated their attacks,
and in some instances made prisoners of the assailants,
and delivered them bound lute 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 countyappear to
me to differ 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 b:, the Lord
Chief Baron and myself to the grand juries of the
Icounties 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. 1 stated as my con-