BREACHES OF PROMISE.

Evening Star, Issue 3680, 8 December 1874, Page 3

BREACHES OF PROMISE.

The loves of the Rev John David Havard and Mias Theophilus, as recorded in the report of a trial for breach of promise of marriage at Cardiff, present a story of the most touching and 'romantic in erest. He is twenty-eight years of age and probably not so tender-hearte'd as he was ten years ago, when he went to lodge in the house of Mrs Theophilus, at Llandovery, and formed for Miss Theophilus, who was then as old as be is now, the attachment which has just cost him L 250. It is exceedingly interesting to watch the stages of his passion, and to see how he sirew cooler as he advance !in years. At first he was all froth and sentiment, writing the most affectionate letters, in one of which he said, among other tender things, “I beg of you to take some beer every day and in another, “ 1 left my tooth-brush after me ; make use of it if you like till I c me again.” as time went on he grew less romantic, and came to think of an old uncle who was “ very rich,” and who would not approve of his marrying “ a girl without money.” And at last he wrote a letter to Miss Theophilus, in which he requested that her mother would send in the lodging bill. “If there is any account between me and your mother,” he wrote, “ pleas', tell her to send the bill, and I will remit it.” The jury sentenced him to pay L 250. At Gloucester, on September 7, Miss Ada I aura Powell recovered from a farmer named Powell, worth about L 1,400 ayear, Lsot) damages, and at Shrewsbury Elizabeth Owen, the daughter of a solicitor’s clerk, was awarded L 225 because one William Swindel's (what a suggestive name) declined to marry her after they had been three years’ engaged. The letters written by the defendant were of a very sentimental character. I hey commenced in the earlier stages of the acquaintance of the parties with “ My ever dearest I izzie,” and defendant described himself as her “ Ever loving Will;” and after she had left Macclesfield he described himself as disconsolate, occupied with thoughts of his “ darling Oizz” all day, and unable to sleep for thinking about her at night. He said the thought of what had been “made tears flow” as he wrote about it, and he repeatedly expressed a desire that she were by his side to revive the varied experiences of their Macclesfield courtship.