Glasgow Courier. — 1864-08-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

CURIOUS BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.  At the Guildford Assizes, on Saturday, an elegantlydressed and good-looking girl obtained £lOOO damages (by arrangement) from Mr Poynder, aged 40, a man reputed to be of great wealth. The defendant made het acquaintance at a cafe, took her to the Argyll Rooms, and eventually they lived together in good style as Mr and Mrs Prince. He was exceedingly generous to her, and lived with her for about seven years. The defendant had induced the plaintiff to give him up a number of letters which he had written to her, and that, in consideration of her doing so, he undertook to give her £2OOO to buy a house with, and to give her £6 or £7 a week. For some months he did make this allowance, but he at length stopped it, and the present action was brought by the plaintiff to enforce the contract that had been entered into by the defendant. Plaintiff stated that in 1861 the defendant gave her a parcel which he said contained £BOOO or £lO,OOO worth of railway shares, which would produce £5OO a-year, but she told him she did not understand them, and gave them back to him. The defendant was aware that a gentleman, aged about 40, Mayor of a large town in the north, whom she had met at the Exhibition, had offered her marriage. One of the defendant's letters to the plaintiff said that he had been to a ball, where he had seen three heiresses worth £30,000, £50,000, and £BO,OOO respectively, hitt the latter was so ugly that she was dear at the price. (A laugh.) He was very liberal to her. • He did sometimes complain of her extravagance when she asked for money, but when he came to see her he generally gave her double what she asked for. The defendant introduced one of his friends, a captain in the army, to her, and he used to make advances to her, which she resisted, and she told the defendant of this gentleman's- conduct, and he said he expected as much. (A laugh.) The defendant was represented as her husband at all the places where they lived, but he only came once or twice a week, and she accounted for his absence by saying that he was fond of travelling. (A. laugh.) Her sister lived with her as lady's maid and companion.  The Earl of Dalhousie and Lady Christrian Maule and suite have left Breehiu Castle for Inverraark for the season.  A boiler used at the Bolton Gas Works, in the prooess of distilling naphtha from gas tar, burst on Monday morning with force. Three of the workmen were killed'', several others were seriously injured, and a large amount of property was destroyed or damaged. The explosion was caused by the stoppage of a conduit pipe by which the crude naphtha was conducted from the boiler to the stills attached to it.  June papers from British Columbia state that this colony, like other parts of Northern America, was suffering severely from drought. Much alarm had been excited by the murder of road parties by the Chilcoaten Indians. A number of persons, both in British Columbia and Vancouver Island, had volunteered to be members of a party to be sent up the country to obtain justice. On Monday the Rev. Father Lavelle delivered a lecture in the City Hall, on "The National Doctrines embodied in the .Bishop of Orleans' Sermon." The advertisement stated that the proceeds were to be applied to the "Free Press Defence Fund." The hall was nearly filled by a most enthusiastic audience. Mr James M'Aulay, of Airdrie, occupied the chair. Father Lavelle, in the course of a lengthened oration, expressed himself strongly as to the desirableness of having Ireland freed from the control of the British Government. Towards the close of his address he entered upon personal matters. The lecturer seemed to carry the sympathies of his audience along with him throughout; and at the close he resumed his seat amidst the utmost enthusiasm.