The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-02 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH.

EASTBOURNE.
There has beeti a terrific gale from thd zest;
south,west, causing serious damage to severa,.
houses on the Grams Parade. The Burlington
hotel has bad two large stacks of 'chimneys blown
throurili the roof, ettftl, if the
gale poiltilaue much
longer,it bids fair to be entirely unroofed. At the
back of ilie ParadeseVeral. stacks of ehitnneys lit:"
1,;;;11 thrown down by thS foteo of the wind • in
one instailce a stack weighing at least a toil and. a
half was blown from one house to the roof of the
next one, the distance between the two houses
being 15 feet. One of the inmates had a very.nar-
row escape, having only left the room a minute
when the roof was crushed in by the falling chim-
ney. The roads in all directions are strewn with
the broken branches of trees, several large trees
having been blown down in the Duke of Devwithon-
shire's grounds. The gale is still blowing
fearful violence, and, following so closely on that

£2O.

This town was visited yesterday with one of the
heaviest gales of wind which has been experienced
at Portsmouth for some time, far exceeding in
strength and intensity the gale of last week. On
Sunday there had been a remarkable fall of the ba-
rometer the whole day, the night closing with rain,
and every prospect of a stormy night. On the fol-
lowing morning the wind was light and hazy from
east-south-east, but gradually freshening, with rain,
and veering round to the westward. At sunset the
'wind bad increased, and all night it blew exces-
sively hard. At 3 and 5 a.m. fierce squalls of wind
and rain passed over the town from the westward,
and again at 10 a.m. From this time until high-
water the gale increased in its force, wind, west,
sweeping over the waves in fierce gusts and carry-
ing away their tops in clouds of spray to leeward.
The Mmander, which had put back on Sunday
evening, together with another large ship, and a
screw steamer, could at times be discerned through
the mist at anchor in 6t. Helen's Roads. At Spit-
head the Himalaya, with topgallantmasts down,
and yards pointed to the wind, was riding at her
anchors securely, and apparently motionless; but
abreast of,her the bark Panope, which had put into
Spithead on Sunday last leaky, was dragging her
anchors, and by sunset had dragged astern o the
Amazon, New York liner, lying to the eastward of
the Himalaya. The gale, from 3 to 5 p m., ap-
peared at times to lull, but at sunset, with the wind
W. by N.; the weather looked still very wild, but
clearer. The.signal flag was hoisted all the day on
the semaphore in the dockyard interdicting all
communication by men-of-war's boats between the
harbour and Spithead. The United Company's
st.campackcts were unable to make the usual pas-
sage between Ryde and Portsmouth. The packets
from Southampton and Cowes made no appearance
yesterday, with the exception of the first morning
passage. 'No news of any accidents along the cot).st
had been received up to the departure of the last
train at 7 p.m., with the exception of . a
coasting schooner which had run into harbour with
the loss of anchors and chains. The shipPiiig, in
harbour were riding securely at their moorings,
and no damage of any moment occurred: -In the
dockyard all the damage known was the fracture
of one of the plates and a girder of a portion of the
shed from under which the Victoria, 121, three-
decker, is about to be launched. The barometer on
Monday morning had fallen four-tenths since the
preceding.evening. Yesterday it stood at 29.0,but
at 4 p.m., began to make a slight upward move-
ment.

BREACH OF PROIIfISE.

At the Salford Hundred of Record, on Monday,
says the Manchester Guardian, before Mr. T. S.
Raffles, the judge, a writ of inquiry came on for
trial, in Which Alice Henshaw sued John Ogden
for damages sustained by reason of a breach of pro-
mise to marry. The damages were laid at £5O.
Mr. Cobliett, for the plaintiff, Said that the jury
would have to assess the damages which the plain-
tiff lead sustained at the hands of the defendant.
There being no plea to the declaration, the breach
of contract was admitted, and all the jury had to
ascertain was the amount which the plaintiff was
entitled to receive.
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defendant
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been and-
acquaintedresided
iwnasmbaent
for three years and a half. They began to
keep company in March, 1856. The banns had
been published on two distinct occasions, and, alto-
gether, four separate times the defendant had made
promises to marry, which he had broken. The
plaintiff had obtained for herself a situation as nurse
in the Manchester Infirmary, where she was to re-
ceive 12 guineas per annum and her board and
lodgings. In Janurry, 1859, the parties were asked
in Eccles Church, and at the instance of the defen-
dant, Alice Henshaw was induced to give formal
notice toi quit her situation at the infirmary, and
did leave accordingly, in anticipation of the mar-
riage immediately taking place. The plaintiff was
at length driven to seek for legal assistance, and
after the'attorney's letter had been received by the
defendant, he showed the plaintiff a bag full of
sovereigns, which he shook in her face, and taunt-
ingly said, " I suppose you would like some of
these." For the contumely she had suffered, and
the disappointments which the defendant had occa-
sioned her, the plaintiff now asked the jury to give
her adequate damages. Margaret Willoughby, wife
of Joseph Willoughby, had known Alice Henshaw.
about three years, and John Ogden for more than
20 years. She is about 35, and he about 49. Ile
has been married before, but he has not. They
'began keeping company together about seven
weeks after he buried his wife, and they continued
up to the time when she left the infirmary. The
banns had been put up 12 months before that, and
he asked me to and be bridesmaid for her. After
the second putting up of banns he gave as a reason
why he did not marry the ;plaintiff, that he was
short of work. Last December witness and Alice
Renshaw were witnesses for him about a child in
an affiliation case ; and the summons was dismissed.
Ogden said that providing he got off paying for
that child, he would go that very morning to the
Old Church, and !get married :to the plaintiff by
license. In April last Ogden asked the plaintiff
whether she was going on with the law against
him, as he did not value the law or anything else.
The attorneys had then sent him notice. In Sep-
tember, at the Beehive, Ogden pulled out a
bag of sovereigns, and shook it in Henshaw's
face and mine, saying, " Wouldn't you like to have
some of these ? If thee wants a sovereign I'll give
thee one. Thee looks as if thee wanted one, for
thee looks very poorly." She had been very un-
wel: after leaving the infirmary. The defendant is
a dyer, and gets a guinea a-week. The plaintiff
is now in service, looking after a widower and his
family. She was to have is. 6d. a-week ; but she
tells me that she had not been paid since she went
there Cross-examined by Mr. Cottenham (who
during Mr. Cobbett's opening of the case had been
instructed for the defence)—The defendant had
some ill-feeling against me, because happened to
let slip a word that the child was like him. I be-
lieve it is not usual for married women to be brides-
maids, but it did not matter much for people of their
age. (Laughter.) Thomas Gorse, parish clerk of
Eccles, proved that defendant caused the banns to
be put up in the church on two occasions—on
the 14th, 21st, and 28th of February, 1858, and
again on the 2d, 9th, and 16th January, 1859.
Maria Outram, matron of the Manchester Infir-
mary, spoke to the plaintiff having been engaged
there from October. Elizabeth Willoughby,
daughter of a former. witness, proved a promise of
marriage. The letters written by Messrs. Cobbett
and Wheeler, threatening the defendant with legal
proceedings, were then put in and read, and Mr.
Cottenham addressed the jury for the defendant,
who, he said, did not earn 14s. a-week, and urged
that very small damages would satisfy the justice
" the case. Mr. Cottenham proposed to call the
defenol2nt, but it was held that he could not be
the
Rigby was about to make a state-
examntilaitt
plaintiff having been out with three
'nmeen drinking, but
this evidence
asking the jury to glue
was stopped by the
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the i;aintiff substantial damages.j
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The judge said
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able to pay. The jury assessed the ati.lages at
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NEW NORTII-110AD.—At an early hour rate-
day morning, workmen were employed removing tb:e toll-
houses and side-bars on this road, the Act of Parliament
establishing it assturnpike having expired the previous
night, the 31st ult. The road is therefore now free from
toll-gates and other obstructions, and under parish control.