The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-29 00:00:00

PAINFUL ROMANCE.

A melancholy incident has just occurred wliTch hab
thrown into deep gloom several highly respectable
families in the metropolis. It appears that a
lady—young and accomplished—was engaged to bi
rrrirried to a young gentleman moving in a good positim
in society. But the expected bridal has had a disastrotp.
termination. The young lady in question was the daughtei,
of a gentleman occupying a prominent post in connection
with one of our largest railway companies. A fey:
weeks ago the day for the nuptial ceremony was fixed,
and great preparations were made for a suitable ce'ebra-
tuoi vo of the event. The wedding trots was obtained, and
"all went merry as a marriage bell,"
until, unfortunately,
almost the very time that the bell in question should have
been rung. Immediately before the day on which the youtt,
should have led his fair affianced to the altar he myste-
riously disappeared, and up to the present time nothing
has been heard of him. All is conjecture as to the
motives for his disappearance, and it is not knowr
whether he is dead or alive. The expectant
bride felt his loss deeply, and began rapidly to
droop in health and spirits—in fact, within a few dayi
grief had made such ravages upon her constitution that
it was evident her life was at stake. Eminent physicians
were called in, who insisted at once upon her removal
to the south of France. Thither she was accordingly
borne, but her malady was beyond the scope of
medicine, and she expired in the arms of her mother,
literally dying of a broken heart. Her body has been

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brought to England, and interred. Great sympathy
felt for the parents of the deceased, whose father is wel:
and popularly known by a large circle.—Echo.

MR. sum-Ay-Rips spßEcn ON THE
ALABAMA TREATY.

The speech of Mr. Sumner in the American Senate
against the Alabatna Ti-eaty appears to have attracted somo
atten' ion. The Anurican papers print it at some length
!if,. Sumner big its by complaieing of the unprecedentoi
haste with which the diplomatists conducted flack
operations, and objects to the model on which
the treaty was founded -the cl dins convention of
1853. This convention, which only concerned
eltou'd not,
110 says, have been taken as the model of
a treaty of such mometit, and :is acetif proves that the
Powers of the treaty were quite lissenstble to the momentous
issues at stake. M. Sumner complains that the treaty,
while doing so little for the Americans, makes such ample
provision for all claims on to British side that
even those of Confederate bondholders are included,
and their loan went up from 0 to 10 as soon
as the treaty was si,;n3i. Coming to the familiar questions
of the British right to reco.;nise the Colfederates as belli-
gerents, and the outfit anti escape of the craisers, Mr. Sum-
ner cites the testimony. of Ali...Cobden as t, the extent of
the injury inflicted on AmA-Tean commerce. Mr. Cobden
showed how completely American shipping had been trans
ferred to English capitalists l etween the years 1858 and 1863
the tonnage in the first year amounting to 13,000 tons, in the
latter to 22,00. Mr. Sumner, quoting from American
official reports, then goes on to show that during the four
years war the American tonnage fell more than a million
tons, amounting to about 40 per cent. of the foreign coin-
mores. In the same time a great increase took place in the
British foreign trade. Mr. Sumner charges England with
the needless prolongation of the war, and loss of life and
money consequent upon it. lie then proceeds to sum
up the legal -points of the case, and maintains that
by the common law, and the Roman law, all losses, whether
individual or national, aro the first subject of claim. Eng-
land is three times liable by the concession of ocean belli-
gerency, by the organization of -hostile expeditions, and
thirdly by welcome hospitality and suppies extended
to the pirate ships in British ports. lie has, for his
own part, hitherto avoided saying anything on " this
most irritating question," but the submission of the
treaty to the Senate left him no choice. The long delay
in the settlement of the question has aroused the people to a
sense a the great interests involved in it. The story of the
Sibyl is repeated, and England is the Roman King. Mr
Sumner & dares that he does not believe that war need arise
between England and America; but England has done the
United States an injury difficult to measure, and has hitherto
refused to acknowledge it. Such an acknowledgment would
be the beginning of a just settlement, and the hest assurance
of that harmony all must desire.

A proposal made at the Cork Town Council on
Tuesday, to invite Prince Arthur to the city during the raco
week, was opposed by a small section, including the Mayor,
but after a stormy debate was carried by a majority of
25 to 5.

A despatch, dated Havannab, April 15, says
The captured American brig Mary Lowell has been
declared a legal prize by the Spanish Courts. The Acting
Consul-General has sent the U.S. steamer Penobscot to Key
West with despatches informing the Government of the
facts. Tho steamer rajorollas wiled jgrainxitio; 11.1.0