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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3290, 8 July 1879, Page 2

The House of Commons, by a majority of 106 to 65, has affirmed Mr Herschell/s resolution that henceforth no breach <©f promise action shall be brought, except in cases where actual and specific pecuniary loss has been sustained. Mr Herschell gave it as his opinion, based upon much experience, that the right of bringing these actions has been scandalously abused, and has been made the occasion for every sort of duplicity and imposture. But he allows, as the terms of his motion imply, that in those cases in which* the plaintiff' has given up a lucrative situation or business, or incurred any other loss which can be computed by a pecuniary standard, the action shall lie. All that he contends for is that wounded feelings and broken hearts should not Jbo legally considered injuries received, of such a kind that they can be assessed in pounds, shillings, and pence. The only possible answer to this argument is that Mrten a young lady who has been engaged- .during the most marriageable years of her life is jilted by her fickle lover, she has/ in effect, received a pecuniary wrong, iv the amount of which it is not unfair that the perfidious traitor of her heart should be mulcted. The House of Commons however, accepted Mr Herschell's resolution on the undoubted ralid ground that more injustice was done under the present regime than would be done when it ceased to exist.