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the continental portion of the Greek kingdom, and after
having established that " all the territories and coun-
tries situated to the south of this line shall continue to
form a part of the Ottoman empire," concludes by enu-
merating and specifying the islands which ought to be-
long to the kingdom of Greece in the following terms :
" There shall equally belong to Greece the whole of the
island of Negropont, with the islands of Drable and
Skyro, and the islands f )rmerly known as the Cyclades,
comprising therein the island of Amorno." It is evident
therefore, that no island, except those which have been
thus specified, could ever be claimed by virtue of the
treaty as belonging to the kingdom of Greece.
The undersigned has further been desired to declare
to Mr. Londos that the Greek Government is not au-
thorised by any treaty or existing public act to claim
the islands of Sapienza and Cervi, and that it is incontes-
tably proved by the treaties of 1815 and 1810, mentioned
above, as well as by the act of the Septiatular Republic
of 1814, that these two islands belonging to the lonian
State.

In concluding this communication, the undersigned
can only point to the consideration and respect which
the British Government have shown towards that of
Greece, in Ito manner of treating this question; and
must express a fear that the British Government may
be much offended by the manner in which the Gret k
Government has chosen to reply. In a pointed
exposé, which the undersigned must consider,
though with great repu,:nance, as emanating from
the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Grece, it has been
sought to creute the belief that the British Government
had neglected to take into consideration Mons.
Glarakis's note of the 17th and 29th November,
1849, and that it had peremptorily insisted on this
question being terminated at the same time with those
mentioned in the note which the undersigned addressed to
M. Londos on the sth (17th) of January, 1850, and the
British Government will be tae more astonished at this be-
cause the undersigned had given the most particular care
to the note alluded to to confine his demand to the mere
reparation "of the injustice and injuries inflicted in
Greece on English and lonian subjects, and to recall the
Greek Government (as had been done in several other
former occasions) in determining those claims in the note
of Sir. E. Lyons to M. Colvoetroni dated the 6th De-
cember, 1848. It would be useless, therefore, to ob-
serve to M. Londos that the occupation of the unin-
habited islands of Cervi and Sapieraa does not con-
stitute "an injustice or an injury inflicted in Greece
on English or lonian subject," and that the note of Sir
E. Lyons, dated the 6th December, 1848, does not
contain the slightest allusion to those islands ;
such an allusion would have been impossible, because
the note was entirely devoted to questions on which
representations had been submitted to the Greek Go-
vernment by order of the British Government, and because
at the period when it was written no communication what-
ever had been made by order of the British Govern-
ment with respect to the islands of Cervi and Sapienza.
On the contrary, the British Government had
wanted with unexampled patience for a reply Ile m the
Greek Government to the representations of the British
mission at Athens ; and it is only after the lapse of .
nearly eleven years—the date of Sir E. Lyons' note
to Zographos was the 15th (27th) Octo-
er, 1839—and, after having lost all hope, that the
British government enjoined for the first time the Le-
gation to address a communication in its name to
the Greek Government on the subject of the islands
Cervi and Sapienza, and it was only seven months sub-
sequent to the date of the after-mentioned note of the
9th December. 1848, that the undersigned wrote to M.
Glarakis the note of the 19th July, and in which he de-
manded the evacuation of these islands.
" The undersigned, &e.,
(Signed) " Trios. WYSE."
With regard to the occupation by British troops of
the Islands of Cervi and Sapienza, Mr. Wyse, on the
12th Feb., addressed the following note to M. Thou-
venel, the French envoy :
" NOTE ADDRESSED BY DIR. WYSE TO Si. TIIOUVENEL,

case :

A SSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Newcastle-upon-Tynr,
March 1.
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NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron AL,

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DERSON.)
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.-NICIIOLSON V.

TURNBULL AND WIFE.

Mr. Grainger and Mr. Udall were counsel for the
plaintiff; Mr. Sergeant Wilkins for the defendants.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who
is an organ-builder in this town, against the defend-
ant and his wife, to recover damages for a breach of
promise of marriage made by the defendant's wile to
the plaintiff in the course of the year 1848. It ap-
peared that the female defendant was the daughter
and only child of a Mr. Parkin, a respectable trades-
man, who died about two years ago, having be-
queathed to his daughter a considerable sum of money
which he had amassed. She resided at Etherley,
near Bishop's Auckland, and in the course of 1848
she met the plaintiff at the house of a Mr. Brother-
ton, who combines the two trades of grocer and
music-master at Bishop's Auckland, to which place
the plaintiff went continually for the purpose of
erecting an organ in the church. The lady going
twice a week to learn music of Mr. Brotherton, con-
tinually met the plaintiff, the consequence of which
meeting was, that an intimacy sprung up which
ended in an engagement, and the following letters,
addressed by the female defendant to the plaintiff,
were put in and read to substantiate the plaintiff's

" Wednesday Afternoon, March 21, 1849.
"My dear Jamcs,—l ought to have answered yours
sooner, but I have been so busy, and still am, you must
excuse vie. The ring was safe, but it is too large. I
suppose it can be made smaller. You can get the licence
at Durham to be married at Soutbehurch. I think it
would be better than cowing over to Auckland on pur-
pose, as I believe it has got out about your being at
Green's before.

" You can get a waistcoat made such as you like, and
I will make one such as I like, then you can wear
which you choose. I wish I could persuade you nct to
get much to the house until I come, I would feel far
more comfortable if you would not. Mr. and Mrs. Bro-
therton do teaze me so. I wish all this anxiety were
over. I write in haste, Miss Hall is working beside me.
I don't know of anything I shall want from Newcastle.
If anything should come into my head, I will write.
With kind love I remain,

"Yours, very affectionate
"li. PARKIN,

" 6, West Clayton-street, Newcastle."
" Whitehall, March 30, 1849.
" My dear James,--Before I received your last, I bad
almost begun to think you bad forgotten how to write.
You can get licence where it will be most convenient to
yourself, it is no matter to me where. I have got your
waistcoat finished to buttons, which you will perhaps be
kind enough to send by Mr. Brotherton. I would like
plated ones best; I enclose a bit of the material, and you
must get buttons to suit. I have seen studs to take out
when washed. If you can get them, they will be best.
I am quite well but rather harassed in mind, but it will
soon get over. I have no news. As you are so busy
with Lancaster organ, you had better not come on Sa-
turday. It would be quite as comfortable to me one
way as the other, but as you are working so hard, it is a
pity to waste so much time.
" Yours affectionate,
" M. PARKIN."
" April 6, 1849.
"My dear James,—l received yours yesterday morn-
ing, and the stads, for which I am much obliged; but
you will, perhaps, be kind enough to get the other two
studs, as you only sent six instead of seven, and
one has got broken on the road; I like them very
much. Cousin Jane came last night, and we find it
quite impossible to be ready on Tuesday. You must
exercise your patience a little longer, and I will do
my best to reward you when I do get ready—will
that satisfy you ? If I was at Newcastle I think I
could persuade you to be patient. I hope you will not
feel disappointed more than is necessary on account of
this matter ; it is unavoidable, and I can assure you I
would not have deferred the day, as I am as anxious to
be settled as you can be. When I write again, I hope I
shall be able to fix the day that all will be com-
pleted in.
" I shall be glad to find that you are not displeased.
I should have been glad for you to have spent Laster
Sunday with us, but as you will have to come on the
Saturday after to be ready, I think it would be as well
if you did not come till that time. I received the
licence by Mr. Brotherten; he tells me you are in ca-
pital spirits. I have just received the box from Stock •
ton with bonnets. I like them very much, and hope
you will do the same when you see them. Mr. Bro-
therton told us that you did not intend to send or bring
the cake ; please say when you write, as I have not
understood from you whether you intend bringing it or
not. I write in haste. Cousin Jane sends her love to
you. She will not go into Lancashire with us, but will
go with us to Newcastle to stay a time. She hopes you
will make yourself as happy as you can. With love to
yourself and the bairns, yours very affectionately.
" M. PARKIN."
After the writing of the last letter, it appeared that
the defendant, who was a merchant captain, and who
had been paying his addresses to the female defendant
previous to the plaintiff, returned from sea, and
shortly after, on the lath of April, it was intimated
to the plaintiff that Miss Parkin did not intend to
marry him, Mr. Nicholson, but was about to be mar-
ried to Captain Turnbull. The plaintiff was very
indignant at this treatment, which was increased by
his shortly after receiving from Captain Turnbull, the
defendant, the following letter :
" Etherley, April 21, 1849.
" Sir,—ln consequence of not having heard from you,
lam desired by Miss Parkin to write you, requesting
to know the nature and amount of your claim for ex-
penses which you have incurred on her account, as she
is wishful to reimburse you, as soon as she knows what
are the expenses you have been at on her account.
" Yours, respectfully,
" To Mr. Nicholson." " THOMAS TURNBULL.
The plaintiff was therefore tricked out of his wife,
and had been put to great expense in taking a large
house, and also in procuring a marriage licence; he
had likewise been deprived of the property of the
lady, and when he suggested that all should be set-
tled amicably by arbitration, he was cooly told by
the defendants to bring his action.
Several witnesses having been called,
Mr. Sergeant WiLxisis addressed the jury for the
defendants, and said it was one of the most extraor-
dinary cases ever presented to a jury, for, from the
letters which had been put in to convince them of the
amount of affection entertained by the young lady
towards the plaintiff, Mr. Nicholson, when the love
was put against the studs, plum cake, waistcoat, and
pianoforte, the love bore the same proportion towards
those commodities that Falstaff's piece of bread did
towards his sack. Fortunately such ridiculous actions
were not often brought on the part of a man. On what
ground could the plaintiff demand damages ? Was his
heart broken ? Fortunately there never was but one
broken heart, and that was the broken heart men-
tioned by Sam Slick, which belonged to a Yankee
blacksmith, who undertook to test his strength with
an English blacksmith in the lifting of an anvil. The
Englishman could not move it ; but the Yankee
having raised it, said "it broke his heart, for he
never went without a pain in his back afterwards."
But the Learned Counsel for the plaintiff had let out
the real grievances of the case, in saying that it was
a serious thing for the plaintiff to be deprived of the
young lady's fortune. If he had only obtained the
poor girl's fortune, it would have set him well up in
the organ-building, and have enabled him to carry on
a roaring trade. The real truth was, that the Bro-
thertons suggested the match to the plaintiff, as the
girl was possessed of money; and they had teazed
and worried her nearly to death, for the letters proved
that more than anything else, and did not contain the
warmth of affection which love letters usually breathe.
The plaintiff had proposed a reference. In the name of
all that.was amorous, who was to be the referee ? What
documents could he inspect? Was the award to be
made a rule of court, and if so of what court, except of
the court which could alone take cognizance of it—
the court of Cupid and Hymen. The truth was that
the lady's affections had previously been engaged to
Turnbull, and having been induced to break faith with
him by the plaintiff, he having returned from sea, the
plaintiff was caught in his own trap, and the verdict
most suitable to the case would be that returned by a
Welsh jury of "serve him right." The young lady
was only 20, whereas the plaintiff must be 40, having
a child 7 years of age. Captain Turnbull was only
28, and much more suitable in that respect than the
plaintiff, who was a man with three children. Elderly
suitors should remember the advice—
" Old men beware,
Young wives will make you remember;
They'll bring you to trouble and care,
Like poor old Mr. December."
With regard to the waistcoat, it must be admitted
that a strait-waistcoat would be most appropriate for
the plaintiff. But a promise had been made and
broken, and so they must find a verdict for the plain-
tiff. No damage, however, had been sustained ; no
love had been lost. It did not appear who paid for
the licence, and the ring which had been sent might,
for anything which had been shown, have been the
ring of the plaintiff's former wife. It wasla disgraceful
case, and the jury should mark their indignation by
awarding the plaintiff a farthing damages.
The Learned JUDGE left it to the jury to say what
damages they thought sufficient.
Verdict for the plaintiff, damages one farthing.
His LORDSIIIF said that such actions should not be
brought, and that he should, if requested, certify to
Deprive the plaintiff of costs.
CROWN COURT.- —(Before Mr. Baron ROLFE )
George Richardson and Thomas ;Orange were in-
dieted for shooting at John Smith, with intent to
murder.

Mr. Matthews and Mr. Otter conducted the prose-
cution ; Mr. Overend defended the prisoners.
It appeared that on the night of the 24th of De-
cember, John Smith, who is gamekeeper to Oswin
Cresswell, Esq., of Harehope, in this county, heard
guns in the Burnmouth plantation at East Lilburn,
and having obtained the assistance of two watchers
George Dixon and William Thane, they all pro-
ceeded to the Fond plantation, and then into A turnip