The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-15 00:00:00

remembered many years ago travelling from Turin,
of which they now heard so much, in a French dili-
gence,and among the company was a French colonel
upon half•pay. They entered into conversation ;
he (Sir J. Coleridge) being John Bull in his notions
and the gallant colonel being Napoleonic. It was
at the time when Napoleon was at Elba. The
colonel said—" It is all very well for you to talk,
but it is nothing but the Channel that has saved
you. We should have been upon you but for that,
and then all resistance would have been at an end."
He-(Sir J. Coleridge) said in reply,—" but
you know the Channel is just as open to you as it is
to us. It is just like a turnpike•gate. Why don't
you cross the Channel 9" The answer was, " Your
navy prevents us." (Hear.) They could then, in
the absence of steam, and with an enormously
superior navy, depend upon the " wooden walls of
old England." (Hear, hear.) Now, the " wooden
walls of old England" had as fine hearts in
them and as much skill as in those days, and
they were as good wooden walls as they could ba ;
but steam had come in, and it had been the policy
of the French, Emperor to raise his navy ship for
ship with this country, and rather indeed to increase
it. (Hear, hear.) As had been well said, he might
direct his navy (and by an accident against which
no mortal skill could provide) bring over an in-
vading army to that part of the coast where there
were very little means of resisting an enemy.
(Hear, hear.) He only- wished to say, without
raising any unnecessary alarm, that they must
bear that in mind. (Hear, hear.) There was
another thing to which Mr. Addington had alluded,
which was this—what was it that enabled this
country, when it was not in its present prosperous
state, when it had not its colonies and its great
wealth—what was it that enabled this little coun-
try (exclusive, be it remembered, of Scotland and
Ireland) to maintain its position against the House
of Austria and the kingdom of France P Why,
mainly the hearts of English people, and their
constant and familiar practice with the bow.
It was part of the law of the land that
in every parish two butts should be set up,
and the population were obliged to turn out and
practise the use of the long bow. It was this that
made the English the most effective force with the
bow in the world, and the English yeomen and
archers to be respected all over the world. (Cheers.)
What then was true of the bowmen of the olden
time let it be true of the riflemen now.. (Cheers.)
Let them be familiar with the use of the rifle, and
then there could be no reason why they should not
stand in the same situation as in the days long
past. (Cheers.)

SUIT FOR BREACH OF PROMISE

IN ST. LOUIS.

A breach of promise case of a very interesting
character has just been concluded in St. Louis, in
which the plaintiff recovered the unprecedented
sum in damages of 100,000 dols. The plaintiff is a
New York lady—Miss Effie C. Carstang, a daughter
of the Rev. Gideon Carstang, for many years a
Methodist preacher in this city and Brooklyn. The
lady, who is between 25 and 30 years old, it appears,
removed to St. Louis some years acre, where she
resided with her aunt and sister. Here she made
the acquaintance of a very wealthy gentleman
of about 65, named Henry Shaw, who paid her very
marked attentions for two years, and finally pro-
posed for her in marriage, and was accepted. For
some reason or other, however, he changed his
mind and broke off the engagement, whereupon
she brought a suit against him for 10,000 dols.
damages ; but subsequently, by the advice' of her
counsel, laid the damages at 100,000 dols., the
entire amount of which the jury thought she was
entitled to upon hearing the evidence. The de-
fendant put •in as a plea the character of Miss
Carstang, which he alleged had been bad during a
previous residence in Charleston, S.C., and more
recently in St. Louis, but he failed to sustain the
allegation by the testimony. He also offered a
letter of the plaintiff's written to him in the
spring of 1858, which he claimed was a release
from his promise to marry. The Court would not
receive the letter in evidence ; therefore it made no
part of the proceedings ; but as it details a perfect
history of the courtship and conduct of Mr. Shaw,
we give it here :

LITTER OF MISS CARSTANG TO MR. SHAW.
" When I last saw you I said that I would see you again
to write to you, but .delayed doing either, as I hoped your
own sense of right would lead you to seek an interview with
me. I write to you now, not because it is a pleasant task,
nor do I do it to annoy you, for I believe I am so constituted
that it is my disposition always to heal rather than wound ;
but, at the same time, I consider myself, under all circum-
stances, as bound to protect and defend my own person,
honour, and reputation, let who will suffer. I write now to
remind you that by your attentions the last two years to
me, and our engagement, and your subsequent desertion of
me, you have attacked and compromised all three. It is
unnecessary for me to say that I am much put out and dis-
satisfied, though perhaps you think I ought to have had
better sense than to have believed you. It is over two
yeas since you sought my acquaintance and requested per-
mission to visit me, and offered me references as to your
character and position, and very soon after came your
I proposal to marry. You said yburVealth-and business did
not answer for company; you were very lonesome; that your
mother was too old to live with you ; that your single sister
would probably die, even before your mother, and Mrs.
Morisse had her husband for company. After delaying some
time to test the sincerity of your offers, becoming satisfied
that you really desired me for your wife, I accepted you,
and from that time you were a constant visitor. You sent
me flowers and fruit, and made me presents from time
to time, and frequently invited me to ride, and seemed to
desire that our relation should be made public. You invited
me to meet friends at your house in the city, and to ride out
to your country seat. You sent me a piano, and desired
that I should employ a teacher. You told sister that you were
going to take me away, and finally named the time when
we would marry, and I made preparations for the same. The
time arrived and you postponed it on account of your desire
to perfect your arrangements in relation to the botanical
garden. You removed the piano to your own house under
the pretenee that you desired it on account of a musical
party to be held there. Finally you cease to visit me, and
when I become solicitous for fear you are ill, and call at
your house, you insult me with a proposition which any
true woman would reject. During our engagement I have
avoided general society, and declined the attentions of
others, and have endeavoured to please you in every way.
Your attentions have been remarked by many, and I am
now subjected to all the unhappiness and mortification
arising from your desertion of me. Had you called on me
as a gentleman, and offered any reasonable excuse for this
treatment, or simply asked me to release you from this en-
gagement, and assigned no reason, I trust I should have
had too much pride not to have complied at once ; but your
desertion, as it is, deserves whatever punishment the opi-
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It was proved on the trial by the testimony of
one of the assessors that Mr. Shaw owned property
to the amount of a million and a half of dollars, and
this fact, no doubt, influenced the jury materially
in making up their verdict.

The banking-house of Messrs. Fuller and Co., of
Moorgate-street, is to amalgamate at the end of the 'resent
month with that of Messrs. Sapte, Banbury, and Co., of
Lombard-street, Mr. S tpte retires in consequence of hie
advanced years, and Mr. William W. Fuller from ill-
health. Mr. George Arthur Fuller will remain, and the
firm is henceforth to be Fuller, Banbury, Nix, and Mathie-
son, and will be conducted at 77, Lombard -street.
A special meeting of the Mediterranean Exten-
sion Telegraph Company is called for the 21st inst., " for
the purpose of considering the present position and future
prospects of the company, and also for taking into conside-
ration a concession obtained by the company from the
Neapolitan Government for uniting Malta with Sicily, and
the arrangement which her Majesty's Government has
assented to with respect to such line, and of determining
upon the expediency or otherwise of constructing the same,
and upon the best means to be adopted for raising the
necessary capital for this and other purposes of the com-
pany." The Malta and Sicily cable will cost about
£lO,OOO, and will involve no increase in the standing ex-
penses, since the Sicily end will be taken charge of by the
Neapolitan Government, whilst the service at the Malta
terminus will be performed by the clerks employed on the
company's Malta and Cagliari line, which is now out of
order. The British Government have consented that the
subsidy of £7,200 per annum now in force shall be
held
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change of Ministry the obstacles which, strangely enough,
have been thrown in the way of this important commercial
work will be obviated. With the exception of about forty
miles, the same company's cable destined to connect Nor-
folk with Ponning, in Denmark, is now manufactured.
When completed, it will be coiled on board the steamer
William Cory, now lying in the Thames, and the work of
submersion will commence.

SHOCKING HOMICIDE.—On Saturday evening
several men were occupied on a farm in the parish of Wool-
hope, between Hereford and Ledbury, in hoeing beans and
potatoes. Among these persons was a young man of weak
intellect, named George tun.
Some altercation took place
between the parties, when words came to blows, and the
idiot, excited into a state of frenzy, rushed at a fellow-work-
man and struck furiously at him with a hoe. The assailed
retreated towards the hedgerow, warding off the blows as
well as he
injury. The idiot still did not relax his endeavours to cut
could, though not without receiving considerable
down his opponent, and with a blow he severed one of the
ears from his head. The man then finding that he had to
fight for his life, seized a large stake out of the bed_ ge,,a,r.
struck the idiot on the head, scattering his brailis.ano.u.l2l-f:
ground at his feet, and of course instantly deprivingheniponilicoul
life. The man is himself so much injured that t
have not thought proper to apprehend him.