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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 129, 31 May 1880, Page 4

Tlie following spicy extract is from the World of the 23rd March :— •" One of tbe most sensational ac nns for breach of promise of marriage that ever s'artled society will shortly come before fhe Courts. Tbe de/endant is a youno Guardsman, the head of a rich country family, who, after a two yor.rb' entjß»e--ment, allowed the preparations for his marriage to go so far thiit besides icsisttng on the selection of his fiance's wedding dress he ordered the wedding cards, purchased tho rings and tiaveliing trucks (with his own initials and these of iho )ady) arranged with (he coacbmaker for tie alferation of the lady's monogram to bis own on her two carriages, invitsd a country victr to come to London and many lvm, and last, not letst, read over the eettleraenntß to his bflianced wife the night before he left town to vieit his fam.ly only four days before the intcn .od ceremony at St. 'George's, Hacover Squire. Since the night in quesiion the lady has never set eyea oa the gentleman who signad himself '■' Your loving husband" for many months previously, and, in addition to a lengthy correeptudenco that will be made public, the expo ure of a family under-current which ia, supposed to have influenced the bridegroom elect in his heartless conduct will not redound to (he credit of all concerned in the oocomplishraent of their object."