AND EAST CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND NEWS. NO. 440 - Eighth Week in Quarter Registered for Transmission ABroad. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1874. PRICE 1D. ======================================================== SUMMARY OF PASSING EVENTS. It is not every day that a myrtle spray from a bride's bouquet becomes the subject of litigation, but this has virtually been the case in a curious civil action which came before SHERIFF HALLARD at Edinburgh. It appears that on the occasion when the mother of MISS AGNES TOD, the pursuer, was married forty-seven years ago, a sprig of myrtle taken from her nuptial bonnet was planted, and grew, in the course of time, into a stately tree, over which a conservatory was erected for its protection. The grounds on which the tree grew were let by the pursuer to the REV. JOHN WEMYSS, who received special injunctions not to do it any harm. Finding, however, that the myrtle, which he had been specially enjoined to preserve intact, interfered with the other plants in the conservatory, the reverend gentleman ruthlessly denuded it of some of its spreading branches. The proprietrix, on hearing what had occurred, raised an action against him in the Small Debt Court, concluding for £10 damages as the value of the nuptial-spring-sprung myrtle. >From a report presented in court it appeared that £2 10s. was considered to be the botanical value of the shrub. The Sheriff, holding that some solatium was due to the pursuer for the injury she had sustained in her feelings, allowed her £5 5s., with £2 2s. of costs, besides the ordinary court expenses. The nuptial myrtle, which has thus been the innocent cause of mulcting an indiscreet clergyman of gold and silver, is said to possess yet sufficient vitality to be able, in the lapse of years, to regain its former unshorn dimensions.