On Tuesday, a special jury at Lewes awarded damages to
the amount of £10,000 in an action for breach of promise of mar- riage. The plaintiff was a Miss Gladys Knowles, and the defendant the editor and proprietor of the Matrimonial News. Their engagement was the result of an attempt by the lady to obtain a husband through the medium of that paper, though, as she declared, not a very serious one. The conduct of the defendant was so mean and brutal, that if the damages are considered in the light of a penalty, no one need regret for a moment that they have been imposed. Considered, however, as a solatinm to Miss Knowles's wounded feelings, they are surely excessive. In all probability, however, the jury were not disinclined to deal a heavy blow at an organised attempt to promote matrimony by public advertisement.
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