Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-06 00:00:00

MOTHER AND SON.

The great lady of whom we have had now and then oe
casion to entertain our readers, as presenting to out'
astonished eyesm most perfectly preserved souvenir of the
Regency—with her diamonds, her carved and inlaid car
riages, and her fantastical staircase of rose-coloured
alabaster has been the subject of our conversations
during the week. A most unpleasant element has been
aided to her hitherto enchanted existence, by the dis-
zovery of a tall sor, whom she has been keeping concealed
with the greatest care, and who suddenly makes his ap-
pearance, to stand betwixt her and the admiring gaze
o 7 the most extraordinary nature. The history reminds
ns somewhat of that of Emile Girardin. and the more
so as the youth seems to pal take of much of the same
nature. It appears that on the death of the lady's first
husband (a few years after she had been 'married to her
second, and while she was contemplating marriage with
her third), the French Consul of the place where the
husband (a Frenchman by birth, and a tailor by trade)
bad died, immediately despatched the son, issue of the
marriage, to the mother, then living in splendour with
her second husband in Paris. The mother, forced by
law to accept the sacred deposit, made all haste to
hide it from prorane eyes, by burying the child in
one of the Paris colleges, with the strictest injunctions
that he was never to be allowed to visit any one, or
be seen by any stranger. The lady passed an his benerne-
tress, and. expressed a desire that the boy should be
brought up in the most perfect simplicity .and privation.
as the best befitting his future state and the rank to
which he belonged. Not wishing. moreover, to have any
personal communication with the child, ehe named
a correspondent to whom all claims were to be
addressed, and, having accomplished all this she went en
her way rejoicing. Years, however, flew on for the bay
as well as the lady • the ono rern sieiege westing his sad
youth—Summer and Winter, Spring and Autumn—tspots
the dusty forms of the college, without interval, without,
hope, and without change, looking Wistfully through the
iron bars of the college windows as his comrades departed
one by one at holid Ay Unice to their happy homes the
lady starting forth in her carved .and painted brachia,
(.he wonder of the world) to the south, where she, far the
third time, played for a rich man's heart, and won it,
with rank, youth, and consideration into the bargain- Fee
ten long years had the boy led this life, when a comrade,.
who had taken great pity on his forlorn state, besought
his own mother to invite tie poor deserted Ltd to
their chateau during the last summer. The Princess
Y—, who had nothing to refuse her own darling boy,
on being urged, went to the correspondent, who, hoe-
ing neither heard of nor seen the prectectress of Ids
charge for so many years, saw no great harm is the
co mpliar c 3 with the request, and the dlighted lad, for the
first time in ten years, heard the great iron gates of the
college shut behind him, with what feelings you can best
imagine. By some extraordinary coincidence. into
which we have no right to fathom, it endears that Prime
Y-, having mounted the rot e-coloured alabaster
staircase one day, found nothing mare curious and
interesting to tell the lady to whom it belongs, than ttat
story of the nag mistakes and ignorant wonder of the
poor foel student, who ha been kept a close oritatter
in the college where his own son was studying, and whoa
his wife had invited to spend the summer with them is
the country. Furious as a hyena, the lady rushei to the
correspondent, reproaching him bitterly wi:b his want of
faith. The correspon lent, indignant, spired not the
lady in his turn, and the eetarrel ended in a cow's:snail,
de po!ice being despatched to bring the to riled lad to
Paris. Meanwhile the lady, true to her character to the
very last, had waited on the chef tie surcte to know whst
could be done with a b )3, of whose we fare she had taken.
charge, hut not adopted, and whose unfortuatte
propensities rendered it indisp msable that ho should be
lost sight of, and sent out of Paris. The chef, mach
interested in her benevolence, suggested the lure
admission into the Foreign Legion, recruiting for
Algeria—an offer which was eagerly se'z upon

by the kind protectress—and the- next day belield
the lad in the private room of the Act,
listening to the latter's nrgent'counsel to sien his engage
ment, and reform his life. But the lad, not wanting in
wit, absolutely refuse to sign; whereupon, he was told
that he must choose between departure for Algeria and
imprisonment in the Reformatory of La Rovette. We
chose the latter, without hesitation ; and, during the tiest
night of.his incarceration, calling reflection to his aid, he
discovered that either this powerful protectress mast be
his mother (and, consequently, he had a right to share
her state and splendour) or that shs was nothing
whatever to him, and had, therefore, no right to deviva
him of liberty. On his examination the next day, he
boldly taxed the authorities with overstepping the limits
of their power, and so intimidated them with the natue
the Princess Y—. that the affair has ended itt. the
proces-verbal of the affair—the condemnation of the
protec ress'' to payment of an annual stipend, from h
huge income, for the due and prop!' maintenance of her
son, aid the utter astonishment of all honest men that
such things can be, even in this place, where It ia
acknowledged that alt things hap2en.—Court Journs:

THE CHIRGE OF CON3PIRACY AGAIN?.T LOEB
CLINTON AND MR. JEFFREE.

In this case, in whieh an indictment has been Dreferre&
by Mr. T. J. S übbs, on bob ilf of Mr. F. Stockwell,
mining: agent, against Lord Ch ar'e; Pe ham C inton atl
Mr., Jeff:•ee, for conspiracy and obtaining money by false
pretences, arising out of transactions in the Wheal Z ea
g shares, Lord Clinton has been admitted to bait,
him,elf in £l.ooo, and twi sureties in £5OO each; Fir
Cornwallis Ricketts, Bart . R.N., and Dr. Ayerst, of
Cavendish-A tare. Mr. Jff ee entered into his arc
recoguisancea of £IOJ to meet the charge when called.
upon. and furthtr bail, to the amount of £lOO, was
accepted—viz., Mr. Smith, of the Court. of Bankruptcy.
£5O; and Mr. Goslett, painter, Mary!e')one, in the same
sum. The case continues to excite great interest in
circles.