NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3637, 19 October 1874, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

FASHIONABLE GOSSIP. : .* at another sign—if indeed any further of the end of the Londpn season having arrived Were needed—ia to be found in the i number of fashionable marriages which are now taking place. Those young ladies of . e ( Hpper ten” who have been successful in bringing down their man ” -during the season, which is just at an end, are now making their victims happy for life 1 One of tuese “ victims ” is the young Earl of Bern broke, who is about (at the age of ; fcwenty-four) to marry a lady (Lady Ger.trude lalbot) whose age is thirty-four. Our. readers may remember the Earl of Pembroke :as the part author of a very silly book called _ Southi Sea Bubbles, by the Earl and the | Doctor. Lord Selborne’s daughter was also married the other day to her cousin, Earl Waldegrave. As Lord Selborne (late Sir Koundell Palmer) is renowned here as being ■ a very high churchman, some surprise has I been expressed that he should have consented !te the marriage of bis daughter with her u8l “; Such marriages, though allowed by the Church of England, are prohibited by that of Borne, and one would have thought ;that in such a matter Lord Selbourne would . hftVG been inclined to follow' the directions jof the latter rather than that of the former Church. Numerous other fashionable mar--1 r * a ,? es are H °w taking place daily, but wo . will not further refer to them more than to mention that at one pf them there were present dq fewer than ten bridesmaids, A ; young peer is about to marry an actress of :one of the West End theatres. Naturally ! enough, the peer’s family do not look with rapture at his approaching alliance with the lady in question; but as the young noble•man is of age, they are, of coures, unable to prevent him from carrying his matrimonial .project into execution. The accouchment lof the Duchess of Edit , burgh will take place id Octoner. It is said ihat the Empress of Russia intends to visit her daughter on this interesting occasion.

BREACH OF PROMISE CASES. In Farkea Prite, there was really no defence. The parties were engaged, and kept company for nearly twelve months, when defendant for the first time wrote intimating that his friends were opposed to the match. The lady’s guardian demanded an explanation, and the defendant replied that, having felt certain that everything would go on smoothly, whereas it had been just the opposite, he felt justified in breaking off the engagement. He added, it was not such a 'dreadful affair, as he had known her so long, ;he did not wish to write any more about it! and be expected his letter would close the correspondence. For the defence the defendant was called to prove that he lived with | bis father, and bad only an allowance of 5s or 6s a week pocket-money ; but he admitted in cross-examination father allowed him what he required, an I that his father did a business of from L6OO to LBOO per , He was always anxious to marry the plaintiff, and if he could have got his father’s consent, or the means of livelihood, he would have dene so. The jurv returned a 1 verdict for the plaint; ff with L2OO damages In Houseman v. Verity, the plaintiff was twenty-seven years of age, and the daughter of a farmer, with whose widow she lived. ;The defendant is the son of a farmer, farming 500 acres of his own, is thirty years of age, but has no means of his own beyond what bis father allows him/ The courtship between the parties was very short. The intimacy commenced on January 18, and the wedding day was fi?ced for the Ist of April. In January, 1874, he had written to the plamtiff a letter, in the course pf which he said : u I think it je the love of you that keeps me going on by day and night by night. My dear lovery {«ic) Martha, 1 wish 1 was with you. 1 think you are worth your weight three times over in gold. Lovely kiss, lovely kiss ; a kiss of you is worth more than fifty of some. Kiss I This from your true love,— John Veritv, Kisa-o-Egy,” It Was not explained what this last expression meant. On the Saturday before the ; wedding, at supper, defendant suddenly said i that bis father would not let them be married, as there was another girl at Hay ford- bridge : w ko would bring a breach of promise, and bis father said the plaintiff “had naught.” ; The jury found for plaintiff—damages, L2OO. :At the Liverpool Assizes, on August 27, , Gillbanks v. Williamson was tried. • The ; is 30 years of age, the daughter of a | manufacturer ; the defendant, a'widower, an ! eqgipeer. The day had been fixed, but de i fondant refused to marj-y plaintiff because he ! felt convinced th ; at there waa incompatibility j between them that would render a marriage ' unhappy. The jury returned a verdict for ; plaintiff, .with- L 750 damages. Defendant is ; worth L2OOO a-year. ■