The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-09 00:00:00

MARCH 7.

NISI Pitws.—(Before Mr. Justicc Crompton.)
The court sat this morning at nine o'clock.
BELL V. JACKSON.—BREACH OF PROMISE- OF
MARRIAGE.

This was an action to recover damages for a
breach of pr mise of marriage.
Mr. Knowles, Q.C., and Mr. Manisty appeared
on behalf of the plaintiff ; Mr. Davison repre-
sent-'d the defendant.

The plaintiff, Jane Bell, is a milliner in somewhat
extensive business at Sunderland. The defendant,
J. Jackson, is a miller residing in.that 'own. Jack on
had paid his addrEsses to the fair plaintiff for a
length of time, and, according to the evidence of
witncsse4, the couple seemed to proceed iu a man-
ner which indicated approaching matrimony. The
action rested chiefly upon certain poetical letters,
which, considering the age of the defendant, 30
years, and the age of his adored ono, 34 years,
created immense laughter in an overcrowded court.
The first letter contained an invitation to a
pa-ty, and ended with the following avowal of
passion :

" Your absence I should much deplore,
For I never fell in with your equal before." •
The next letter, dated March 14, 1856, contained
a fiuther revelation :

" Go where I will you haunt my mind."

Another letter on the same day was more prosaic :
—"I yesterday received a most delightful note
from you. . . . You have stolen my heart,
but it is a blessing to me to have got yours in re-
turn—a heart more valuable than all earthly trea-
sures to me. You perhaps think me a general
lover. So lamto a certain extent . . . but
yoked with you as my partner, I think I should be
happy, for I love you with all my heart. You are
every way the girl of my heart but one, you being
a Protestant and I a Catholic."

And then he goes on to suggest doubts about
their eternal happiness. The fourth letter was en-
tirely of a poetic character :

" Half a match to you I send.
Upon you it does depend
When my single life shall end.
The other half match you will me send,
Then my miseries will be at an end.

. . .
There is nothing I wish for on earth
But to share your troubles and mirth,
For of all the girls from east to west,
Dear Miss Jane, I love you best.
I hope, Miss Bell, you will not be shy,
But that along with me the yoke you,ll try."

The miller's " unlettered muse" takes up a simi
lar strain in the fifth letter :
It is in yarn for me to try
To answer yours again.
It is b 0 beautiful and sublime,
Coming from a creature so divine.
1 cannot rofrain from expressing my admiration,
For there is not such another girl in the nation."

In another letter he hop d to "commemorate
the ble3singeof pe ice" in her company, but in the
last communication, which was rued upon by the
plaintiffs coun-el as of groat importance, he seemed
to have be„n misbehaving him,elf, for he writes to
say that what occurred at her house when he was
last there, and she "pitched" into him "so un
mercifully," had never been off his mind, and that
if he had not beer, a rascal in her eyes, she had
made him one in his .iwn. He concludes :—" I
have consideie I the subject over in my mind.
First, you consider my disposition bad. and un-
worthy ; second, you are quite arbitrary, and too
decided ; and third, you are of a different religion ;
tli.'refore, I think we should forget the acquaint-
ance, whatever effort it may cost
"So farewell, iliac; Bell,
Alone I will dwell."

Mr. Davison contended that these letters were
men) valentines,

Verdict for the plaintiff ; damages 507.
Baron Martin presided in the other court, but
after this cause none were of particular public
interest,

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