, 1874-07-19

. | LQ6 1ISb4QEHk AuLuUItZlUE ku0 aPpUlutlueuk u
J. H. Mari as First Assistant Portmaster- Gen.
eral; also authority for John L. Routt Second
Assistant ostmostor-General to act as Post.
mnHt r-Genera} during any temporary absence
| of the Postmaster General.
THE FRENCH POSTAL TREATY.
Mr.. Hunt was dispatched With copy OF tho
French postal treaty for the signature OF thu
President. which WAS obtained Immediately.
BREACH OF PROMISE.
An Injured mmercia, Estt-
mates of LoEe-One Enrth1ng in
Londo'. Jtsne ~ Corrrsrondenes Of The Eoston Post
! A very novel and amusing breach-of. promise
case has just been concluded before Lord Chief
Justice Coleridge, OF the Common Pleas, of 60
unusual and piquAnt character that I cannot
reEiat furnishing you with some Of the details.
I have often remarked that breach-of-promise
cases are far mora frequent in England than in
love and courtsbip is one which the inhabitants
OF the ''Ahop-keeping nation are not likely to
lose sight Of; and it has now become an incident
Of sucl frequency to bring suits of this kind,
that injured hearts ever clAmorlng for
the golden balm. It is. however, almost inv.-
| r.abiY the gentler ser which furnishes the plain
ti1s in these cases. "Woman's Rights, aplo O.
pos OF WitheIed hopes and broken hearts, are
availcd Of to tho utmost extent; aud it is rarely
that the British jury does not prove itself sus-
ceptibe to the wrongs Of injured and tilted
| feminine Innocence, virtue, and too-credulous
trust in the vows Ut perfidious man. In the to-
! be famous case Of Fruat versus Golden, ov-
| ever. which has oppo1tunely cropped up in tho
| dead part Of the eenHon to refresh US with d
| Whit Of senEation, it is the manly heart which
has been bruised, and which seeks such precious
ointment as the doctors Of legal ills can pro-
| vide.
It would appear that A1r. George prust is
| What is called in England " commercial travel
| er. and in American commercial circles " run
| ner, an employment perfectly honorable and
respectable, but in England, st least not exactly
aristocratic, Miss Caroline Golden, = pretty
aud delicate looking young lady Of %, Is, on the
| other hand, the daughter OF we'll todo country
| gentleman, n ho bas lands ard "galore," aud IS
| also largely interested in some coal and iron
! mining operations in Ireland. Mr. George P1ust
I is go far complete man that he has dual side
to his characters be is sentimental and he is also
commercial Last ear. tate led him, in the courso
OF business, to the rather quiet nelghbo1hood OF
Launceston; he came eaw, and was conquered;
| that ie, Miss Golden encouraged him, and ate
last invited him to visit her at her fathers
arlstocratic country-seat, Hollington House.
Mr.. Prukt is evidently gentleman who believes
IN brief agunies, for lis acquaintance with the
young lady WAS scarcely nature when he wrote
Godden in one of her letters, gives us 4
graphic picture OF her lover and herself in the
sentence, " You arc steady old oak, and a
g7ddy girl who does not know her on n mind"
che as first received his propositions with be-
coming reserve, sa>ing, My father is 81 pres-
eut from hume III Germany. but OF courHe, be-
fore relating anything to him, must consider
your means, hc, myself, alter which, II my
opinion is fayorably inclined, will lay your pro-
posal before him"
But this mundane caution very soon melted
beneath the sunshine Of l1r. P11lsts epistola1y
etfasions, and very speedily her lette1n abandon
sentiment. Her "George" apparently becomes
frightened At her fathers wealth. and makes
show OF retiring from the field, and saye,
"Geerge'a f40 house, with only one servant,
reply. with romantic eelf-tacrifce, "No, my |
dearest and best my home does not make the |
least impression upon my mind regards |
worldly matte1s. would rather have you, my
me IN neat house, than place without love; |
and oh, my dearest, cannot give you up. What |
would not woman support and 20 through with
for the man she dearly loTes2" It is true that she
eoon finds out that "we arc as different as light
from darknees;" but the current of the true love
luns along smoothly enough until that not un-
familiar figure il such romauces (whethe1 on the
r;aee or in real Ilfe), the lrascible papa comes
npon the scene. The iron and coal magnate does
not. indeed. prove absolutely adanant He for
bids the gushing Prust his house, but on the
other hand takes no steps whatever to lock the,
love-sick Carrie up in the haunted chamber Of
Holl1ngton House, nor even forbid her continu-
ing the rich correspondence which has now been
given to the wotld. Once, in passion, the
lrascbe papa tod her that If she 'liked to have
Prust Sue might hase him, for al me;' Pru7t,
on the other hand, be sought to dssuads by say
ing to him that Miss Carr1e-distlcssing to re-
late" Was wesklY and had Jumps on her neck
She WAS only half chld-ehe was twin !" The
idea OF regarding twin only half child was
repugnaut to Lord Chief Justice Coler1dGe, who
protested against it on the spot,
"a leaves in Vallambrosa-" Now Miss Carrie
compa, es herself to Dot in Dickens Christmas
story, aud tells her George that she is his
Cricket on the Hearth, :" then becoming play
if over, What will the papers hare to tell us
now7 There will be no end OF divorce and elope-
ment cases." Unsuspecting eirll She little
thought that she would, for q little. take the
claimants place as the centre OF ltiglous attrac-
tion! Then, her Thoughts still mesndering in
the realms of romance, she becomes rhetorical,
and gaglY narrates to her love hor klt North
gave his daughter to Prof. Aytoun. Kit said
they must spare bis feelings and t4s. he would
when she came to Aytoun and said. "Para's an
swer is On my back" the delighted suitor read
on on the scrap OF paper' "With tho authors COM
There WAS to be but too rude an awakening
from all these fond da cams Of the commercial
but sentimental Prugt and the felruginous God
den's daughter. 4 small cloud came between
them, which grew gradually larger until tie
maiden at last cruelty snubbed her swain. 6ha
refused to let him come and see her, whereon
he wrote a letter threatening suicide, and after
wards penned the following: by this time my ,
poor, heart broken eprit would baye found rest,
and nv bones would haye been laid undor Surrey ,
ground. Then Carrie would have been Free" =
Presently the faiihless Carrie breaks out with: .
- In mercy let me- be free from what have ;
written IN my past letters-" This broke Prust
according to his story. completely down ; and :
low he broke TO Carrie the horrible truth Of !;
he result of his recent gloomy meditn- : :
ions. He refused to return the cempro-
nisng letters, wrote that he could only :
= eat in pain" and gave u hint Of his :
Intentions in the remafk that |" mine must = =
1e long bill if wish to be well in after years.
iis doctor-one Doctor Jolly, n name which,
'onsider1ng the circumstances, would have made :