The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-20 00:00:00

A ROMANTIC aroiy.

During the put week the police have been em
tareggaties • ere r moguls.? as it is rumestia
test ia
to the perk whin of the ore as far as we know them
to he eovre purposely withholding the erase of all
parties. It that some few rum noon a Beate.
art in her llejeety's navy became ermoursd of a trainee-
tag aggress, who, it iv eaK was the illegitimate daughter of
a meal conker, and whose mother nada in this locality.
The lienteart, who we a member of • very good faints
evermelly married re youag lady, arid, as m. t
be well unasked, dirrear his family end Meade.
La her of the bereseat died a liter mere than a year
ego, leaving a large earient of property to be divided
esecaget his children. In the Mai of the harms is
deer the wife would receive no benefit from the
will, unless she had a ebild or children, who would then
take their father's share. Strange to relate, the lieutenant
died last October. leaving no lame. His wife was at this
time residing with her late husbar's friends in the
Neighbourhood of London. Not long after she had bo-
som a widow Mrs. eomplained of being ill, and see
day informed her mother-in-law that she was sockets.
At that time the family believed her statement, and
orgy isivangement was made for her secouelarent.. gym

told her mother-in-law that ale should visit her
own mother at Portagrath, which she did, mush spirt
the wish of her husband's family. who tried to haws her
to return to their reside.., where it we. pro lowly
arranged that she should remain until attic her solosers-
nos& lira mods wrier rams when solkial
Ito return, and so peat was the asxisty al her esseherdw
law that she cane to this tows, visited her, sad ea or
ramaioashe beams corinced that Ifre. —'s rind
being incisor was sot true. fins Mill endoavou to in-
duce the widow to »tars, bat *gala an evasive answer was
giro. Last .witsk the di
ellasea mother wain
visited Porter:eta and koh la:l6w a this locality, deer-
mined if possibie to lama ths malt of affair, which
wars at a culminating point. At ens ohdoin on Friday,
the BA Mahal, Ma. metier wont to the
rased lisatenant's mother and Wormed lair that
Yrs. bad
_giro birth to a daughter. " Who
Iris the deetarr was las int minetisa, which
oiled the wry. "There was so doctor panant." The
ars thus bream mow arepicirm sad the mother-is-law
determined to sift the affair. A dour was called in and
be found Mrs. in bed, having wish her a newly-born
fears infant. Mr. refused all medial roisters, and
would not allow Dr. to come near her, telling ism, in
rawer to his question, that she was quits well and needed
so medical aid. The mother-in-kw breams the more wa-
rred that the child was not Mrs. —'s, sod sent for
another doctor, who received the same rebuff as the first.
The late lieutenant's family determined to fully investigate
the matter, and employed two detectives, who were down
Leto for several days, but all their endeavours to God evi-
dence that the child didoot belong to Mrs. failed. On
Wednesday the family had the following bill published,
and it 111111, no doubt, a mystery to most people who mod it :
"111 Y. Reward,—Whereas it is believed that a female child
born ou the 9th inst., hr been token to a house in Church-
par, largos* for the purpose of being falsely represented
r the child of a pros living there. The above reward
will be paid to any pprssson who will give inch information
as will lead to the drover! of the mother, or to proof of
the child having bean so left. Iron:nation to be gives to
Yr. R. Barber, Chief Superiotendent, Portsmouth, 154 h
April, Md." The molt was that it was ascertained that
Yea —, to wars the property left to her husband, had ,
induced a young woman in poor circumstances, who was near
her acesuchement, to reside near her, on the understanding
that the newly-bon babe was to be transferred directly it
was born from the real to the fictitious mother. Both par-
ties were wafture& and the young woman confessed the
plot, Mottos that Yrs. bad promised to word* for
the child, which, on its birth, was conveyed to Yrs. —'s
bedroom where she was in bed, reedy to restive it. - It la
understood that the young woman will receive the reward.
Yrs. is in receipt is a pours from governor; and
the family of her late husband have aggressed their readi-
ness to receive her again. The nary is, undoubtedly, true,
air the incidesta ober ?simians:erred sot far from Com-
mercial-road, Landper—Hansprirc rtiegraph.

SlllOl7ll CHARGE AGAINST TIM C•IPLUN AND
CAILPICiTER Of • 8871..—At the Liverpool Peliereotut at
Saturday, Alfred Grayson and Jams Aadareoe, the loniser
late ampule, sad the latter carpenter of the ship Earl of
Derby. were brought before the magistrates, ch with
attempting to scuttle that ship. On the 25th of November
bet the Had el Derby left Greeeoc,k for Melbouree, but it
arm discovered us the 29th that the ship was leaking, and
the men were kept at the pumps until they were submitted,
and Melded upon UN ship being taken into some port. Ac-
cordingly the ship's coarse was altered, end she node far
LiverpooL The captain then called all heads on dock, plied
them with drink, and refused to let them go to the pumps.
The carpenter and he then adjourned to the cabin, sad after
being there for some time, the carpenter win men to leave
and go into the forecastle with en auger end • gear sad
was heard to say on his return that • it ma well." 'After
this the ship was beached, and it was discovered that an
attempt had bean mailer to scuttle her. When beached the
"Neel was on bre, sad was deserted soon afterwards. And
when an *airy vu instituted by the Board of Trade, the
captain's certificate was withdrawn, and he wee cube-
quently apprehended by detective Carlisle, on the charge of
attempt* to scuttle the ship. After a partial brazing of
the came, the prisoners von remanded.

The Union Steamship Company's screw Ammer
Deem left Bontharoptan os Satnedey for the Cape of Good
Hope. She took out about ♦0 peassesers, and walls for St.
Bekaa. the Caro. sad Port Natal. It is expseted that she
will reach the Cape in about 36 days. She will then run
between the Cape and Natal.

FORSIDW LIQUID:iII-OmA Reduction in Prices.
—SiIMAM Deplete, see Co., them ups, Bela!®,larewhim of the ceielm M ted MO 4. Spa, hare seet,ttee the
Prize Medal for the excellence or their sapertine liqueurs, which
an all warranted to be the product of direct diettnettee, and,
not beim cowipsuadad with 81161110111. Will improve with see.
The Mowing table Mora in the trot mimeo. the pikes theme 1
in Ingland for web bottle of scam of the foreign liquors. sod,
in the mooed mask dos =had prime :
al eel. a 4. ed.
Ilisk de Spa ll 6CI I Min &or Dantrick .. 14 0S 0
Ditto liqueur het.
Campo am, per het ti's 46 : piers de the Pekoe. k 0 Si
Mk, stews whelk. 17 4 11 4 Delts ',milk
el.
M merdilas, pw irk 10 e• I/ Milk Itmaux ll 6 6 6
liMs, Meow bet... 41 4 1111 Mr ele Ogres l4 0 s 4
Miu7 'meted set Ila easy be MA in
by
bottles at
Se. IL Deplete, sod Cr. expeot that. sbUft Os
pubes te pt wipurlwallywrare 4 resmashis pekes. their bme.
Mkt use nil men Weems as mimed Is this artistry se it la
Areal Me kiabsCewkwastel Mers4 sok
emilipswis,asli 4=1.6146 be Ilreshed to lease Coils".
umeger. at Onalwareil, Loudon, 16. C. Compkte price lists
sent tem. Os isselpi col mix Maws Or " Brief History M tM
Ones. met Virtu. at 174seirs .l.urars." aka MO
tees. waled se ow Ur UAW Ussdem. T
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