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

MARCH 7.

NISI PRIUS..--.-(Before Mr. Justice 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 promise of marriage.
Mr. Knowles, Q.C., and Mr. Manisty appeared
on behalf of the plaintiff ; Mr. Davison repre-
sented 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 town. Jackson
had paid his addresses to the fair plaintiff for a
length of time, and, according to the evidence of
witnesses, the couple se:msted to proceed in a man-
ner which indicated approaching matrimony. The
action rested chiefly upon certain poetic Al letters,
which, considering the age of the defendant, 30
yeirs, and the age of his adored one, 34 years,
created immense laughter in an overcrowded court.
The first letter contained an invitation to a
party, and ended with the following avowal of
passion :

" Your absence I should much deplore,
For I never fell in with your equal before."
The neat letter, dated March 14, 185,6, contained
a further 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 alt 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 abolit
;heir eternal happiness. The fourth letter was en-
;irely 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-
.ar strain in the fifth letter :
" It is in vain for me to try
To answer yours again,
It is so beautiful and sublime,
Coming from a creature so divine.
I cannot refrain ftom expressing my admiration,
For there is not such another girl in the nation."

In another letter he hoped to "commemorate
the blessings of peace" in her company, but in the
last communication, which was relied upon by the
plaintiff's counsel as of great importance, he seemed
to have been misbehaving himself, 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 been a rascal in her eyes, she had
made him one in his own. He concludes :—" I
have considered 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 ;
therefore, I think we should forget the acquaint
ance, whatever effort it may cost
"So farewell, Mies Bell
Alone I will dwell."
Mr. Davison contended that these letters were
mere valentines.

Verdict for the plaintiff; damages 501.
Baron Martin presided in the other court, but
after this cause none were of particular public
interest,

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER HALL.
Haydn's " Creaticn," will be perfesrmed on Friday next,
the 13th inst.

TABLIAMENTA.RY BUSINESS FOR THE
WEEK.

There is a considerable amount of impor!ant bu-
siness on the paper for the current week. This
(Monday) evening the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer will propose to go into committee of supply,
in order to get over the estimats as early as
possible ; but Mr. Gladstone will oppose this
course, and will open up a discussion on the whole
financial condition of the country, in the follow-
; int., amendment-, of which he has given notice :
" That in order to secure to the country that
relief from taxation which it justly expects, it is
necessary, in the judgment of this house, to re-
vise and further reduce the expenditure of the
State." Sir C. Napier has given notice that in com-
mittee on the navy estimates he will bring under
the police of the house Sir IL Peel's recent speeches
at Stafford and Tamworth. For to-morrow (Tues-
day) there are no very urgent motions, but the
debate on Mr. Gladstone's amendment will
probably extend over that eveoirva Mt. Thomas
Duncombe will call attention to the grievances of
the Land Transport Corps, and Mr. H. Ingram
will move for a select committee to inquire into the
present method of collecting and assessing the re-
venue of the country, and to report any improve-
ment they may recommend in this department of
the public service. For Wednesday the orders are—
the second reading of the Ecclesiastical Corporations
Bill, the second reading of the imprisonment for
Debt Bill, the second reading of the Grand
Juries Act (1856) Amendment Bill, the second
reading of Sir J. Pakington's Education Bill, and a
committee on Sir Stafford Northcote's Industrial
Schools Bill. On Sir John Pakington's Educa-
tion Bill Mr. Henley will move as an amend-
ment that it be read a second time upon that
day six months. On Thursday Mr. E wart will
ask leave to bring in a bill to abolish capita
punishment in all cases except treason and mur-
der, and to assimilate the law imposing capi-
tal punishment in Scotland to that of Eng-
land, and Mr. Muntz will move the fol-
lowing resolutions That the collection of a
property tax under the existing law is univel sally
admitted to bear most unequivocally on the parti, s
who pay it. That all taxes which bear unequally
must be unjust and oppressive, and it is the
bounden duty of the representatives of the people
to remedy such inequality as much as the cir-
cumstances will admit. That to defer the applica-
tion of a practical remedy under the pretence that
it would not be a perfect one applicable to every in-
dividual case, is in truth only to add insult to in-
justice. That such admitted inequality would be
greatly alleviated if a property tax was im-
posed upon the owners of different classes of
income, capitalised according to the relative
value of the subject from which the income is de-
rived. That the abstract justice of such princi-
ples cannot be denied, and the details for
carrying it into practical operation would be
very simple. That among other tables of classi-
fication which may be sug;ested the fol-
lowing would be equitable, and would undoubtedly
relieve the people from a great portion of the itie-
quality, injustice, and oppression inflicted upon
them by the present mode—lncomes arising from
land, funds, rents, mortgages, tithe', and shares,
capitalised at twenty-five years' purchase ; in-
comes from house property capitalised at fif-
teen years' purchase ; incomes from commerce and
trade capitalised at ten years' purchase ; incomes
from professions capitalised at five years' purchase.
There a're no orders on the paper for Friday at
present ; but the Chancellor of the Exchequer will,
no doubt, move to gcr into committee of supply. I

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