BREACH OF PROMISE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2242, 25 May 1880, Page 2

BREACH OF PROMISE.

A sensational breach of promise e marriage case is shortly to come before the Courts (says an English paper). The defendant is a young Guardsman, the head of a rich county family, who, after a two years’ engagement, allowed the preparations for his marriage to go so far that, besides insisting upon the selection of his fiance's wedding dress, ho ordered the wedding cards, purchased the ring and travelling trunks (with his own initials on those of the lady), arranged with the coachmaker for the alteration of the lady’s monogram to his own on her two carriages, invited a country vicar to come to London to marry him; and last, not least, rend over the settlements to his affianced wife the night before ho left town to visit his family, only four days before the intended ceremony at St. George’s, Hanover square. Since the night in question the lady has never set eyes on the man who signed himself “your loving husbund ” for many months previously; and in addition to a lengthy correspondence that will bo made public, the exposure of a family undercurrent, which is supposed to have influenced the bridegroom-elect in his heartless conduct, will not redound to the credit of all concerned in the accomplishment of their object.