The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-28 00:00:00

THE IRISH CHURI-211.

The Church Commissioners have met this week to hear
appeals from orders pronounced by one of them. One
was a cause in which the Rev. Mr. Evans, curate of
Derryvillan, at Irvinestown, in the diocese of Clogher,
had been lately dismissed by his rector, the Rev. R.
Verschoyle, who was appointed to the living two years
ago, and then agreed to continue the services of Mr. Evans
as permanent curate, at a salary of £lOO. The effect of the
dismissal would be to deprive the curate of his annuity under
the Church Act, and his allegation was that the motive
was to augment the rector's own claims, while the rector
alleged that he had good and sufficient reason. The Com-
missioners declared the Rev. Mr. Evans a permanent
curate, and entitled to his annuity. In a croup of other
cases the question raised was as to the right of the appel-
lants to be allowed compensation for the loss of surplus
fees for certified copies of baptisms and for marriages,
which they were deprived of the right to impose in future.
The court will sit to hear arguments upon tha point.

At the opening of the Church Convention on Wednes-
day, the Vice-Chancellor presented a petition from the
diocese of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, signed by six lord-lieu-
tenants of counties, 37 clergymen, and 40 magistrates,
besides a large number of male adults. It protested
against any change in the doctrine or discipline of
the Church, as laid down in the Book of Common
Prayer, and any interpretation of the formularies
which would alter their present comprehensive
character. The petition was laid on the table without
discussion. Master Brooke then proposed a resolution,
which gave rise to a discussion that lasted the entire day.
It was for the appointment of a committee of 24 to con-
sider the propriety or prudence of instituting a revision of
the Prayer-book. The demand was based upon a
memorial presented the other day, and signed by 3,811
persons of all orders and ranks.

RETURN OF THE CAPE MAIL STEAMER,

DISABLED.

The Union Company's outward Cape Royal mail steam-
ship Briton, Captain George Vyvyan, R.N.R., put back
into Plymouth Sound on Wednesday night, disabled.
She left Plymouth at four p.m. on Tuesday, and had
proceeded about fifty miles, when she broke a piston-rod,
and had to bear up for that port. The weather was too
severe to attempt any repairs at sea. The damage will
be repaired at Plymouth.—Western Morning News.

ALLEGED BREACH OF PROMISE.
DAMAGES LAID AT ONE THOUSAND

POUNDS.

On Wednesday morning an action in the Queen's Bench
was opened before Mr. Under Sheriff Burchell and a jury,
"Clarkson v. Eisenburg," at the Sheriffs' Court, Red
Lion-square, to assess the amount of compensation
for a breach of promise of marriage. The damages
were laid at £l,OOO, and the defendant had
allowed judgment to go by default_ Mr. Ser-
geant Sleigh (with whom was Mr. Gates) appeared
for the plaintiff, Jane Clarkson, and Mr. Phillips for the
defendant, Sydney Eisenburg, who had gone by the name,
it IV OA said, of Sydney John Howard Eisenburg. The
learned Serjeant opened the case as one of a serious cha-
racter from the conduct of the defendant, who, after six
years' courtship, had, in May last, married a Lancashire
lady with property, and after he had obtained considerable
advances from the plaintiff. There were a great many letters
from the defendant, and he would read some extracts.
The learned serjeant then read portions from 1864, when
he spoke of his yacht. He commenced . with "My dear
Miss Clarkson, and in other letters be called her
his " Dearest," and implored God's blessings on
her, and concluded with " Amen." The plaintiff
was the daughter of a tobacconist and betting-house
keeper in the Edgware-road. The defendant also
betted, and was a chiropodist. Money had been
advanced to a large extent, and only in way last, when
he could not get any more money, he married another
lady with means. Tne plaintiff was called. Her father
was nearly blind, and she attended to his shop and
betting speculations. In 1864 she became acquainted
with the defendant, who came into the shop. She had
supplied him with money, and in the whole upwards
of £l,BOO. She had been obliged to pass through the
Court of Bankruptcy. She did not know of any other
engagement until his marriage in May last at Birkenhead.
She kept up an acquaintance with his mother, and was
to be introduced to another gentleman, but at the pro-
posed interview he was served with a writ in the present
action.—The plaintiff was cross-examined as to the ad-
vances, and it was said that the action was not for money,
but for breach of promise. The defendant's father was
a Jew. The case has not concluded.

THE CRUISE OF THE VALOROUS.—The Valorous,
12, paddle frigate, which has just returned to England
from the North America station with Admiral Wellesley
and suite on board, was last commissioned at DevOnport
in November, 1869, by Captain F. S. Tremlett, and after
visiting Kingstown and afterward towing the late unfor-
tunate Captain from Birkenhead to Spithead, Captain
Edward Hardinge was on March 8, 1870, appointed to
supersede Captain Tremlett in her command, and she
left England on the 16th, and on tho 26th, was at
Madeira. She arrived at Halifax May 24 from Bermuda,
and afterwards visited Newfoundldnd, Gaspe, Prince
Edward's Island, and on October 8 again left Halifax for
England.

A KENTUCKY DIFFICULTY SETTLED,—American
papers state that five men, who had had adifficulty a fort-
night before, met in Columbus on the 9th of October and
proceeded to settle matters in a free fight, with the fol-
lowing result :—Smith Gibson was stabbed twice, and died
instantly ; George Gibson was stabbed and dangerously
wounded ; Austin had his skull fractured by a club, and
will probably die ; Conrail was shot and wounded so dan-
gerously that there is little hope of his recovery ; Brock-
man was stabbed and terribly beaten, but he was taken to
his home in the country, and the result of his injuries will
probably never be known. The desperate nature of the
encounter is shewn by the fact that all those engaged were
hors de combat in three minutes from the commencement
of the affray.

Loss OF A VESSEL AND FIVE LlVES.—Another
lamentable shipping disaster was reported in Liverpool,
which like many others lately has been attended with a
serious loss of life. The Amelia, of Swansea, which was
bound from Bilboa to Swansea, with a cargo of ore, after
leaving the former port, encountered fearful weather, the
seas frequently washing completely over her. On the
morning of the 14th instant the weather was exceedingly
stormy, in the course of which the vessel strained very
much, and eventually broke in two amidships and
foundered about twenty minutes afterwards off
Santoria„ a place between Bilboa and Santander. The
crew had only just time to lower the two boats and leave
the vessel before she went down. One of the boats with
four of the seamen in it was shortly afterwards struck by
a sea and capsized and the four men drowned. The boat
was washed ashore the next day near Santoria. The
second boat, containing the captain, the chief officer, two
seamen, and a boy, was beached near Santolia, but whilst
the men were endeavouring to land through the heavy
surf, the boy was washed away by a heavy sea and
drowned.

CANADIAN SILVERINE.--This is the name given
to a new and very beautiful amalgam by the Messrs.
Pyke, of Ely-place, who gained such a great celebrity by
their Abyssinian gold jewellery. The Canadian Silverine
bids fair to outrival their former production, as it so
closely resembles sterling silver as to defy detection.
In order that the new metal may appear before the public
in the shape of bracelets, brooches, earrings, lockets, shirt
studs, and other articles of personal adornment, the most
exquisite shapes and forms have been adopted ; all the
old conventional patterns have been thrown aside, and
designs of the most artistic character have been chosen.
' The Silverine is most appropriately named, as it pos-
-1 sesses all the quality of the sterling metal, it takes a bril
liant polish which it permanently retains, and it is cer-
tain that when the general public become aware of the
novel production, and that articles manufactured in it
may be obtained at loss than half that charged for silver,
its sale will become immense,