Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-06-07

sensation in one of the French Courts OF
Law. The writer says:
We learn from Cannes (South of
France) where Lord Brougham's Castle
Is situated, that some of his legal rights
having been contested, he appeared in
person, before the Civil Court, to plead
his cause in the French language. The
Cicero of England says the letter, had
q brilliant audience, and shone by his vi
vacity, ability, professional skill, and the
elegance of his French style. He cleo
tri6ed his hearers, the lawyers and visi-
tors, including ali the fashionable British
at and near Games, crowded about him
when he had done, to offer their congrat-
ulation and homage. The luck of wit
Messing such display of powers is rare
for provincial court The noble Lord
astonished the Bench and the Bar, parti-
cularly by the grand dissertation into
which he launched, on the nature and sa
cred rights of property. All this is so
exactly the ex- Chancellor May he live
thousand years, and certainly he wilne.
yer reach tMe age at which ordinary men
like ourselves, live only to recollect what
has happened, and to learn what happens
--how the world goes. He will never
cease while he breathes, to be a spoke in
the wheel, every where
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE
FTty.four and I'aOentyJour. Sergeant
Shee moved in the Court of Exchequer
lately, lor new trial in the case of Ad-
ans VS. Gibbs, tried at Maidstone, be
fore Chief Justice Wilde, on the ground
of misdirection aud excessive damages.
Mr.. Gibbs, farmer, aged fifty-four,
sought Miss Adams, aged twentyfour,
in marriage. All the preliminaries were
arranged, wedding dresses bought, and
even the wedding breakfast ordered, when
the defendant suddenly set off to Liver
pool, and subsequently to America. Ser
gcant Shee contended that the damages,
8sOO, were excessive. The defendant
was ready to pay handsomely for his re-
fusal to marry the plaintiff, but $500
was far too much. What loss had the
plaintiff sustained? There was no inter
esting correspondence, no sentimental
courtship, no broken heart. or anything
ofthst sort. Laughter.) What had
been the loss of this young lady? she
had lost husband of fifty-four. Why
what had man of fifty y-four TO do with a
young wife Of twentyfour? Nothing AT
all. She would be much better without
him Uaughter.) Sir F. Pollock-It
is very well for you, Brother Shee, who
are under fifty, to say that; but | can as
sure you that man far advanced beyond
that age, sometimes think differently.
Qmmense l.ughter) Judgment defer
red.
GEN. LopEz.--Is Venezuelan, noua
Peruvian, by birth, and according to a
very inflated biographical sketch, which
appears to have been written by the
same person who produces his proclama-
tons, he has performed some extraordi-
nary things in his time. Originally he
was bred merchant, but he took part
with Bolivarin the civil disturbances
which ended in the expulsion Of the Span
iards, and was Colenel at twenty three.
He took up his residence in Cuba in 1923.
Being in Spain during the Carlist trou-
bles, he distinguished himself on the Gov
ernment side, and was first Aid de Camp
to the Gommander-in Chief, Gen. Val
dez. Hewas for time Commander-in
Chief of the National Guard of Spain,
and subsequently Commandcr-in- Chief
of several Provinces; was afterwards
Governor of Madrid, and Senator from
the City of Seville. 1t is said that he
maintained liberal Democratic principles
throughout his career. He is now fifty
years old, and his disgust of Spanish
rule arises from the expulsion Of the Gu
ban deputies from the Uortes.
Mrs. De KRoYFr.-The exertions oil
this blind lady, by the sale of her book,
"A Place in thy Memory to secure her
sclfa support, promises to be eminently
successful. Since she left our city il
January last, for the South, she has dis
posed of two editions. with the proceed.
of which she has paid the cost of thei
publication, and purchased the stereo
type plates, from which new issues
with comparatively little expense, can b
printed to meet the public demand Sh
speaks with grateful enthusiasm of tn
warm hOsnitality extended tn her at th