The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-02 00:00:00

ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE
The following facts posses some striking points of
interest. We may premise that the story is strictly
true, the names only, for obvious reasons, being
suppressed :
In the year 1827, a young woman, of decent
parentage, engaged in the service of a clergyman's
family in the west country, became acquainted with,
and formed :an attachment to, a young man in the
neighbourhood. A child, the result of this attach-
ment, was ultimately, from the inability of either
of the parents to support it, consigned to
the care of the grandmother on the father's
side. The mother had frequent opportunities
of seeing and hearing of her boy while she remained
in that quarter of the country ; but some time after-
wards she left the neighbourhood and removed to a
distance. Thereafter the father left the same district
also, and removed to Ireland, taking the boy along
with him. Some years passed away, and being
mutually ignorant of each other's place of residence,
the mother, after using means to discover whither
her child had been removed, gave up all hope
of obtaining the much desired intelligence. She
conducted herself well in the gentleman's family in
which she served, and in a few years thereafter, an
offer of marriage was made to her by a respectable
tradesman, which, after candidly relating to him the
circumstances of her previous life, he was, by reason
of his attachment to her, induced to repeat, and she
gratefully accepted the offer. In the prosecutio❑ of
his business he soon thereafter removed to Glasgow,
where he commenced business as an engineer.
The father of the boy, in the meantime, had also
married, and by him the youth, when he grew up,
was sent to and completed his apprenticeship with an
engineer in Ireland. Subsequently the lad went to
Glasgow in search of, and obtained employment, by a
singular coincidence, and without a knowledge on
either side of the relationship, from the engineer who,
as we have stated, had married the boy's mother; and
from the fact of her not having seen him since he
was an infant, she never suspected, and indeed could
not possibly have recognised him as her long-lose
bo

appears that a brother of the lad's father happened
to keep a booking-office for parcels, &c., in the city,
and to him, among others, the father had sometimes,
in his letters, alluded to the mother of his boy, and
his natural curiosity to know what had become of her.
The young man was occasionally in the habit of calling
on his father's brother, and reading or talking over any
mutual letters they might receive from his father in
Ireland. It chanced one day that a well-dressed, and
even ladylike woman, entered the office to book a parcel.
The man fixed his eyes upon her, and said he bad
some distant recollection of having seen her before,
and begged with all civility to inquire whether, in
her youth, she had been in employment as a servant
at a manse in the west country which he named. The
lady replied that she had ; and, ever anxious regard-
ing her boy, and having no reason for concealment,
eagerly inquired if be could give her any tidings of
her son, or if he knew anything concerning him. The
man told her that he was himself the brother of the
boy's father; that having seen her in former years
he remembered and recognised her couutenance, and
if she would call at his office on the succeeding
evening at seven o'clock, he would make arrange-
ments whereby her son would be in attendance, and
she might see him. The interest and anxiety, it may
be imagined, of this woman was great. She had not
heard of her boy, after many vain endeavours, for the
long space of twenty years—not even by letter; and
here, by a single accident, when she least expected it,
she was on the following evening to see and converse
with him. She immediately went home and told the
circumstance to her husband, and deep was the
interest he also took in the matter which so much
concerned her; for she had been to him a good
and faithful wife, and if she had erred she
had washed it away with long sorrow and repentance;
and he, of all others, had fully and freely forgiven
her. The intervening time, it may be supposed,
seemed long and tedious, and it was with an anxious
eye, and a palpitating heart, that she entered the office
of the book-keeper the succeeding evening, a few mi-
nutes before the appointed hour. The man informed
her that the lad had not yet arrived, but would be there
soon, and, handing her a seat, told her that he would
close a half•shutter of the side window when he
came in, by which signal she would know that it was
her son who entered. People came and went for
a considerable time, and the mother's feelings
and anxiety were every moment increasing, when one
of her husband's workmen entered the office. She in-
stinctively turned away her bead, for she liked not that
one in her husband's service should observe her at such
an anxious time, but at that instant the half shutter
was hastily closed ; for it was indeed her son who bad
entered. She gazed at him as he stood in his prime,
anc her wonder was great that she should recognise
in one of her husband's workmen her long-lost son ;
but the preceding anxiety and the shock were too
much, and as she looked she became pale and fainted
away. Restoratives were immediately pro-
cured, and, on her being completely recovered, the
explanation of the extraordinary circumstances was
communicated to the son. Although he had had
frequent occasion to speak to his mistress, there had
not been the least suspicion on either side of the close
relationship. They went home to her husband's house
and his place of business together. Her husband was
atnazed, as well he might be, at the turn matters had
taken, and indeed it was subject of deep interest and
wonder to all of them. He was pleased to find that
his wife's son was so well doing, for of course, as his
master, he knew him well; and shortly afterwards,
having used influence with his friends on his behalf,
and knowing the lad's ability, be procured
for him a situation as engineer on one of the English
railways, which he still holds. Only about ten months
ago the lad interceded and obtained for his father a
subordinate situation on the same line of railway. The
subdued and grateful thoughts of the mother may well
be imagined. An absence of nearly twenty years
could not in any degree abate the feelings of maternal
attachment; and though she had often deplored the
error of her youth, was with feelings of thankful-
ness and a gladdened heart she contemplated the ex-
traordinary chain of circumstances which, under
Providence, had restored to her, after such a pro-
tracted separation, the child of her affections.—Stir-
Journal.

THE FORGERIES ON THE YORK-
SHIRE BANK.
James Ellis, Edward Marshall, and John Green,
charged with the extensive forgery on the Yorkshire
Banking Company, were yesterday (Thursday) again
examined before the borough magistrates at Leeds,
and much additional evidence was adduced, fully sus-
taining the charge of uttering a large number of 5/.
forged notes in Bradford, Leeds, Sheffield, and other
places against all the prisoners. The following addi-
tional witnesses gave evidence against them yesterday,
and from their testimony it will be seen that Green
row stands equally implicated with Marshall and

Ellis :
James Curvishly, of the Manchester police, said he
knew Green and Marshall by sight, and saw them
together on the 6th of December, about 20 minutes
past six o'clock, at which time Marshall had been
uttering a base 51. note at Binyon and Hunter's, in
Bootle-street. Marshall was running away from one
of the servants of those gentlemen and a police-officer
named William Cliffe. The witnes3 joined in the
pursuit, and seized his prisoner, when he put a piece
of paper into his mouth, which he immediately swal-
lowed. Witness took him towards the police station,
and on their way Green and a man named Robert
Stones, now in Manchester gaol, came up. They
came up together, and it was the first time witness
had seen Stones ; they all three ran away, and wit-
ness followed them. Marshall was again stopped by
a gentleman in another street, and witness and
Cliffe went up, put handcuffs on him, and took
him to the station. The others got away. Mar-
shall was detained from Saturday till Monday, and
then discharged by Mr. Maude. Stones was
apprehended on Sunday morning by Sub-in-
spector Hallan, and now stands for trial fur
assault and rescue of the prisoner. Marshall had run
from witness about 200 yards before he was stopped
by the gentleman, and had got out of witness's sight
about three minutes in turning a street, but he was
quite certain he was the man.
Cross-examined—The time when witness first saw
Marshall was about twenty minutes past six. It
was dark, on account of its being night, but they bad
good gas in Manchester, and had a clear light
from the lamps. He had never seen Green before
the night that be rescued Marshall, nor had he
ever seen him until he saw him in the dock. The
only opportunity he had of being able to identify him
was when he made the attack upon him at the time
of the rescue, but that was sufficient for him to say
he was confident that Green was the person. He had
on a different coat then to what he had now. He had
then a sort of pepper-and-salt overcoat. He had not
seen Green until he came into that room, and knew
him at once. When Marshall was before the magis-
trates at Manchester witness did not say that Stones
was the only one who had rescued him. He had said
there was only one who bad struck him. He did not
say he could only identify one person.
James Marsden,
police-officer, Leeds, said—On
Wednesday, the 24th of December, he was in the
police-office, when a note came from Mr. Whitelock
relating to a al. note, a forgery. The person who had
paid it was represented
as a lowish man. Winter-
bottom and the witness went to the railway station,
and found Marshall there. Witness asked him his
business, and he said Winterbottom knew him, as he
had been a n officer for many years at York. Winter-
bottom said he did not know him. Marshall not
answering the description, they left him, and he saw
him no more, nor did he see any of the other pri-
soners.
William White, detective officer in the Sheffield
police, said he knew all the prisoners—Green for