The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-24 00:00:00

EXTRA ORDINARY STORY.

I 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 youn, 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, exposed to the wiles of wickei and
designing men. A deceiver soon turned up, paid his ad-
dresses to her, and, in the sacred name of love, won her
affections arid 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 he would not, and blasphemously invoked
God's crushing wrath upon his head if he ever should pay
her. The Almighty took him at his word, and the man
was crushed 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 do the same. Her madness was not of a vio-
-1 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
t
swine would loathe; whilst her shivering limbs
half covered with filthy rags, and the rottenness s'an'edr.eo.filth
in 'which she was buried m tde her an object of
.thseus
and loathing, had she not been an object of pitiable
and
sym-
pathy. Here, covered with these rags and
vermin,clanked
wallowing in this filth, the miserable female
Dilausrin that
her chains for more than twenty years.
bed aboutg the
period two vicars in succession have
Pinrgeacf this foul pri-
charities of the cross almost within hear
a iosh has resided
son—a magistrate and captain of the
hard by ; and yet not a finger has beennsrpaisred to arrest this
ifirsohm the lacerated
brutal cruelty, or to knock off the cnhEaing
philanthropist
limbs of this suffering woman.
satisfy himself respecting
who was recently over here actocAidentally heating of the
matter, visited the poor maniac,.
He found the case a more
the filets of which he had hearnd
to him, and we
deplorable one than it had representedebeneeit
the Assistant Attorney-
understand that at hie.
and that the unfortunate
General took the matter r: hand,
woman has been released from her " durance vile."—,bona
Herald.
SHIPP' -NG --THIS DAY.

(By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
1 SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning.
; pd Leda, steamer, from Dublin.
A riL'w- —CleMenCe and Le Coq, for Cherbourg; Wood-
„ici-ea.ii,rd-doernsey.
(BE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Sept. 23—Alice, from Guernsey.
gna and Dolphin from
Arrived, Sept. 24—Stadt Dordrecht, from Dordrecht;
kirk ; Max, from ft )stock.
Havannah ; Felicity, from Dun-
Sailed—Seine, for Boulogne ; Sir R, Peel, for Dunkirk.
.
DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
from St.
Passed—Eited, from London, for Tobago; Hermione
Abbs, for Finland.

A LEGEND OF FALKENSTEIN.—Falkenstein is
not without its own share of romantic tales. A knight of
Sayn, as the story goes, once loved a young lady of the
alkenstein family. The father would not consent to the
match excepting on the condition that the knight should
make by the next day a convenient road to the castle
which was only to be approached by a stiff climb before.
While the hopeless lover was wandering about at twilight,
a mountain spirit appeared to him, and offered to make the
road in question on condition that he would put a stop to
certain mining operations in a country which was inha-
bited by the Gnomes. The knight consented, and the next
night there was a vast bustle on the hill, and noise, with-
out visible workmen, of hammers, chisels, and pickaxes.
In the morning the knight, riding up the newly-formed
road to the castle, demanded his bride of the astonished
father.—Once a iFfert.