The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-22 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY STORY.

Recently, in a certain parish in. the Isle of Man, a case
of cruelty was brought to our notice more inhuman than
anything we have ever heard of. The victim of it was in-
telligent and beautiful in her early youth, but unfortu-
nately was endowed with too strong passions to pass through
the vicissitudes of this world unscathed. Excitable as she
was, the restraining influence of religion and the pious
lessons of a widowed mother, kept her for many years in
the path of virtue. But when that mother was laid beside
her father's grave in the " old kirkyard," the daughter
was left a lone orphan in a tempting and heart-
less world, exposel to the wiles of wicked and.
designing men. A deceiver soon turned up, paid his ad-
dresses to her, and, in the sacred name of love, won her
affections aad the unreserved devotion of her warm
heart. This treacherous wretch robbed her not only
of her virtue, but of every farthing of her money bequeathed
by her saintly mother. She bore up heroically under these
accumulated wrongs; but a worse shock to her feelings
was reserved for her. Her betrayer and robber was urged by
some one to refund the money of which he had plundered
her. He swore ho would not, and blasphemously invoked
God's crushing wrath upon his head if ho ever should pay
her. The Almighty took him at his word, and the man
was crushedheA to death by a mass of earth and stones in a mine.
The violent death of her seducer was a blow not to be borne
—reason reeled from its throne, and the woman became a
maniac. It devolved upon her brother as a legal obligation to
support this crushed and heart-broken sister, he having ample
means to to the same. Her madness was not of a vio-
lent and dangerous kind—hence confinement was uuneces
sary, and no doubt by the power of kindness, had it been
bestowed, she might have been restored to a state of sanity.
But the brother chained up his sister in a dark and filthy
stable, half starving, or feeding her with the offal which
swine would loathe; whilst her shivering limbs were but
half covered with filthy rags, and the rottenness and filth
in which she was buried made her an object of disgust
and loathing, had she not been an object of pitiable sym-
pathy. Here, covered with theso rags and vermin, and
wallowing in this filth, the miserable female has clanked
her chains for more than twenty years. During that
period two vicars in succession have preached about the
charities of the cross almost within hearing of this foul pri-
son—a magistrate and captain of the parish has resided
hard by ; and yet not a finger has been raised to arrest this
brutal cruelty, or to knock off the chains from the lacerated
limbs of this suffering woman. An English philanthropist
who was recently over here accidentally heating of the
matter, visited the poor maniac, to satisfy himself respecting
the facts of which he had heard. He found the case a more
deplorable one than it had been represented to him, and we
understand that at his request the Assistant Attorney-
General took the matter in hand, and that the unfortunate'
woman has been released from her" durance vile."—ltlona'
Herald.

The Carlsruhe Gazette publishes the note by
which the Baden Government explained its senti-
ments to the Munich Cabinet on the subject of the
treaty of commerce with France. Baden does not
oppose, in principle, the entrance of Austria into
the Zollverein, but it demands that the negotiations
proposed for preparing that fusion shall not take
place till the Prussian financial convention shall
have been generally accepted and carried into exe•
cution. M. Roggenbach further insists on the pro-
priety of assembling a customs parliament, as the
best means of overcoming existing difficulties.

AMPUTATION THROUGH A LUCIFER MATCH.--
A " student," says the Cologne Gazette," travelling a few
days back on the railway to this place, to light a cigar took
a phosphoric match from a box which he had just before
purchased at Elberfeld. The matches being tightly packed.
the young man introduced his finger nail between them to
extract one, when a small portion of phosphorus Pass"'
under the nail and ignited. Although the flame waarrim-
mediately extinguished the hand swelled so
ing at Dusseldorf that a surgeon advised
to Cologne,
The student would not consent and p
drsooceme uch extended as
but on arriving there, the swelling
ha
and arm necessary,"
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dimetdsucrnhpa_untaation.
to render the amputation of both hand _
. ~Iti the royal dockyard at
A NEW INFERN:::
letter has the following . _ .
Nyholm experiments
which is said to
jUlsAteli beeniN Ern.
be capable of destroy-
of internal machine,
t iron-oased vessel. The inventor is Lieut.-
ing the strettges
Col. Rams
ted, a Finlander, who has 'been in the Russian
service.
• The apparatus is extremely clippie, and costs but
littio;',,