MAUNSELL V. CASSIUS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1146, 1 April 1872, Page 3

MAUNSELL V. CASSIUS.

[MELBOURNE TELEGRAPH.] Jove laughs at lovers' perjuries, and jurymen are sadly inclined to wink at them. At all events, the verdict in the case of Maunaell v. Cassius is hardly encouraging to young ladies who think of using the courts to redress love grievances, The L 350 the plaintiff has obtained may be compensation for the damage she sustained in the past, but it is nothing to the shock and injury of the trial itself. Under ordinary circumstanced when an engagement is broken off, the episode is soon forgotten. The letters are burned, but unfortunately in these breach of promise cases they get printed, and are read with more avidity than if they occurred in a novel, and it must take a deal of moral courage to woo a lady whose outpourings everyone has perused. Miss Lily Dale had a devoted lover, one remembers, after she had been jilted, but (For contimtation of hews tee 4th Page.

if her letters had been in The Times, and all the pretty foolish things she said to i Crosbie had been laughed over m the offices, why even her devoted might not have been so faithful.; At the samo time, no one would argue that the male creature should be allowed to trifle with ladies' affections with impunity. The man can always find a wife although his,, letters have been read. In the first instance, moreover, it is not the lady who seeks him, but he who goes out of his waV to seek her. He induces her to ent^r into a contract that affects her destin^, depreciating her value in the matrimonial market the moment it ia known. Taking the world as we find it, the lesson to be drawn from this latest episode is that ladies should only go to court when they have such a complaint as wUl, arouse meiui. indignation, and induce a jury to punisfi the defendant as a heartless scamp. Otherwise, why a few pounds to spare after the solicitor's bill is met can never pay for brushing the bloom off the peach for eve*. If the case is not flagrant, then even in a money sense, Viola's is the beßt policy. She

" Never told her love, . But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her da Jiask cheek."