The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-21 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LivERrooL, Aua. 19.
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.-WARRING V. "WALLEY

AND WIFE.

This was an action to recover compensation for a breach of
promise of marriage, brought by a young man who holds the
situation of clerk in a warehouse in Liverpool, against Mr.
\Valley, a respectable inhabitant of the same place, and his
wife, who was alleged to have been pledged to Warring at the
time of her marriage to Walley. The cause was undefended;
The plaintiff had been for some time acquainted with the
defendant at Preston, where her father keeps a public-house.
In 1833. their affections were engaged to each other, and in
the hope of amending his condition in life
.he removed to
Liverpool, where he obtained a situation in a merchant's
counting-house. Ile continued to reside in Liverpool, and
was favoured with frequent visits by the defendant, then Miss
Townsend, with whom he planned the arrangements for their
marriage. But
" The course of true love never did run smooth,"
Miss Townsend, in December of last year, was married to Mr.
Walley, Mr. Warring being discarded. The Learned Counsel
then proceeded to read some letters from Miss Townsend to
Warring, portions of which excited much merriment. In the
first, dated September 27, 1833, she expressed much uneasiness
regarding the constancy of her lover, and told him, " If ever
you meet any of the girls we met in the square shut your eyes
and do not look at them, for if you do I shall soon lose you."
She adds, " My cousin Sarah says you arc the best man she
saw in Liverpool, and if you were not engaged she would set
her cap at you."—(Loud laughter.) In another letter, dated
October, she complains, " You men are so deceitful," and as-
sures him, " You are the first I ever loved, and I calculate you
will be the last." At the same time she says she " would wait as
patiently as Naban did for Rachel," could she only be sure of
having him at last.—( Laughter.) Other letters in the same
fervid strain were read, but anon a change came over the spirit
of the fair one ; and, on the 29th of January, she penned a letter,
addressed simply to" Edward," (without the "dear") in which
she assigns the opposition of her family as the ground for
breaking off the connection, and requesting him to return
her letters by her friend, Miss Hodgkinson. " God bless you
(said she in conclusion), and may you meet with some one who
can make you far happier than I can." Immediately after
the date of this letter she made Mr. Walley happy for life, by
marrying him.
The facts two witnesses were called to prove, after which
• Lord. ABINGER summed up. The poet had said that love
formed the sole object of a woman's existence, whilst with a
man it was a mere interlude ; and, undoubtedly, in the case of
a man deserted by a woman there were none of those sufferings
and vne of those taints upon the character which m the case
of an abandoned female the world often created. The plaintiff
no doubt was entitled to a verdict, but he would say that the
very smallest amount of damages would satisfy the justice of
the case.

The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages is.

Sheriff Raphael's trip to Carlow will cost him, we
hear, from first to last, little short of 5,0001. We know not
exactly how much per day this will have been for the honour
of stewing in the House of Commons during part of the dog-
days.

NAPLES, AUG. 6.—" All our friends have de-
parted, and are scattered in the neighbouring villas on the
hills, and we are nearly alone here. At Castellamare there
are Lady Barbara Ponsonby, Lady Rendlesham, Lord and
Lady Wallscourt, &c. We had the other day an excavation
at Pompeii, where two things were found in the highest state
of preservation, and which are the first specimens of the kind
found there, namely a full-sized bath, exactly tit shape of
those-now in common use, and a vase of round form, both
made of copper. In the same chamber where these were
discovered were two human skeletons and four posts of a bed
in wood inlaid, and ornamented with ivory; a beautiful mo-
saic pavement was also discovered at the same time. These
interesting relics attract much notice, and the excavation is
proceeding with great caution to prevent mischief. St: Carlo
is our evening lounge after the drive on the chiaja ; but in the
opera we are not by any means so well off as we are in the
ballet, " Amore and Pysche," which is truly magnificent—
probably the finest ever produced. Several of our English
friends, now in London, are expected to return and spend the
winter here."

Extract of a letter from Calcutta, dated April
2:—" We have just received accounts from Delhi, of the mur-
der of Mr. W. Fraser, the commissioner on the part of Go-
vernment in that part of the country. He had been out to
pay a visit, and was returning homewards on horseback, with
one mounted attendant behind him. A native, also mounted,
joined the attendant, and talked to him for a little while, then
rode forward, and on coming up on the left side of Mr. Fraser
levelled a blunderbuss and fired, when that gentleman fell in-
stantly dead from his horse. The horse of the attendant
reared at the fire and report, and threw his rider, so that the
the murderer escaped. On examining the body, it was found
to have been struck by several slugs, and one had passed di-
rectly through the heart. Mr. Fraser was a man of daring
courage, and, though a civilian, was all his life fond of par-
taking in military adventure. He had the official, or brevet
rank of Major in the Regiment of First Local Horse, under
command of the celebrated Colonel Skinner. At the late
scige of Bhurtpore, Mr. (or Major) Fraser was in command of
a part of the corps, which was on the look out to intercept any
of the garrison which might attempt to escape : while so em-
ployed, he fell in with a strong force of the enemy, which
had been detached from the fort to cut through a bank or
dam, for the purpose of flooding the ditch surrounding the
fortress. He came up with them just as they were about to
succeed in their object, which lie fortunately prevented, and
completely defeated them, killing several and making many
prisoners. The siege must have been much protracted and
rendered more difficult, if water had gained access to the
ditch."

MUSICAL TASTE.—.A clever caricature has lately
appeared representing a young hidv (at her pianoforte) and
her cockney beau, between whom the following dialogue takes
place :—Lady—Pray, Mr. Jenkins, are you musical? Gen-
tleman—Vy, no, Miss lam not musical myself, but I have
a wery hexcellent snuff:box vot is.