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

PAINFUL ROMANCE.

A melancholy incident has just occurred which ha:t
thrown into deep gloom several highly respectable
families in the metropolis. It appears that
lady—young and accomplished—was engaged to b
married to a young gentleman moving in a good position
in society. But the expected bridal has had a disastroul,
termination. The young lady in question was the daughtei
of a gentleman occupying a prominent post in connection
with cne of our largest railway companies. A fey:
weeks ago the day fur the nuptial ceremony was fixed,
and great preparations were made for a suitable ce'ebra•
tion of the event. The wedding trousseau 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 youth
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 know=
whether he is dead or alive. The expectant
bride felt his loss deeply, and began rapidly Co
droop in health and spirits—in fact, within a few days
grief had made such ravages upon her constitution that
it was evident her life was at stake. Eminent physiciant
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
brought to England, and interred. Great sympathy is
felt for the parents of the deceased, whose father is well.
and popularly known by a large circle.—Echo.

MR. SUMNER'S SPEECH ON THE
ALABAMA TREATY.

The speech of Mr. Sumner in the American Senate
against the Alabama Treaty appears to have attracted some
attention. The American papers print it at some length
Me. Sumner begins -by complaining of the unprecodenteci
baste with which the diplomatists conducted thou'
operations, and objects to the model on which
the treaty was founded —the claims convention of
1853. This convention, which only concerned indivi-
duals, should not, he says, have been taken as the model of
a treaty of such moment, and ;is; ueleetirn proves that the
Powers of the treaty were quite Insensible to the momentous
issues at stake. Mr. Sumner complains that the treaty.
while doing so little for the Americans, makes such ample
provision for all claims on ties Briti,h side that
even those of Corded, rate bondholders are included,
and their loan went up from 0 to 10 as soon
as the treaty was Corning to the familiar questions
of the British right to recognise the Confederates as belli-
gerents, end the outfit and escape of the cruisers, Mr. Sum-
ner cites the testimony of At r, CoLd,n as tr the extent of
the injury inflicted on American commerce. Mr. Cobden
showed how completely American shipping had been trans
ferred to English capitalists Letween the years 1858 and 1863
the tonnage in the first year amounting to 13,000 tons, in the
latter to 252,000. 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 com-
merce. 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. Ire then proceeds to sum
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thelegalPillivt, ansod the
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Roman law,
and maintains that
by the common la law, all losses, whether
individual or national, are the first subj• et of claim. Eng-
land is three times liable by the concession of ocean belli-
gerency, by the organization of hostile expAitions, and
thirdly by welcome hospitality and supplies extended
anything on "this
intghe submission of the
lt to
s part,tt irritatinghe h
piratei thos
11.1tgio , ships
avoideds itnionl r t
bi sFul ports. 11.9 has, for his
own arty
treaty to the Senate left him no choice. The long delay
in the settlement of the question has aroused the people to a
sense (f the great interests involved in it. The story of the
Sibyl is repeated, and England is the Roman King. Mr
Sumner declares 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 woulC
bef
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harbeginningmy llaofta just settlement, and the beat assurance
omust desire.

A proposal made at the Cork Town Council on
Tuesday, to invite Prince Arthur to the city during the race
weak,
aftera was o
25 to 5. pepteonnsedybdyeabastmealwl
aseection, including the Mayor,
but carried
by a
majority of

A despatch, dated Havannab, April lb, 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. The steamer l'ajoro:Las sailed for .Nuettae, with a
detachnleut et artillery