The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-13 00:00:00

ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

The following details are as strange as they ere true.
In the neighbourhood of Gloucester, a young lady, of
highly respectable connections, has experienced a series
of reverses in the cause of the heart's beat affection sel-
dom equalled. A gentleman, of some station in society,
became by accident acquainted with the maiden to whom
we allude, and their affection becoming reciprocal, the
day was fixed for their union, which was to have taken
place in the city of Gloucester. Agreeably with this
arrangement, and as the match was a desirable one,
her parent parted with a lucrative business in the
cductry, on which she and her mother lived in respect-
ability and comfort, and ;vent to Gloucester, intending
to settle. The day for the celebration of the wedding;
arrived ; hut, alas! the bridegroom came not : his pa-
rents had peremptorily forbidden the match, and he was
already, by their contrivance, on the seas, bound for
Jamaica. A letter reached the poor girl, but to con-
firm her fears ; his parents' consent had been with-
held, and he had suddenly left the seaport town in the
West of England, where he resided,not a faithless, but
an unhappy lover. 'rime passed, and industry on the
part of the hapless girl but ill supplied the loss of the
comparative independence herself and family had left
when they came to the city of Gloucester, with the
views, and indulging the hopes' o which we have alluded,
and though blighted in heart, she cheerfully succeeded
in helping to support her decrepit mother and aunt in
comfort. Time, the gentle softener. of affliction, had
many a long day cast its (limning shadow over the great
event of her life, and nothing more had been heard of
her absent lover, till a week or two ago, when to her
astonishment and delight, she received a letter from
him, breathing the devotedness of constant attachment
and vows of unaltered affection, net the less welcome,
though wafted across the seas. Another and another fol-
lowed, begging forgiveness for the former apparent ne-
glect—and still another, the last accompanied by
the consent of the parents of the absent one. The poor
girl's hopes were at the highest point of anxiety, when
she received a still more welcome epistle, assuring her
that her lover had landed at Falmouth, and was hasten-
ing to perform hie neglected promise. The day was
looked forward to with delight ; it came—and with it
the dark tidings of the grave—her lover had been sud-
denly seized with illness the night before his departure
for the city of Gloucester ;—he was a corpse before the
morning ! As a melancholy satisfaction to the poor
disappointed girl, the mother of the intended bridegroom
visited her immediately, when his mother confessed that
her son had been a voluntary exile, and would have re-
mained so, had not his parents, whom he loved and re-
spected, given their consent to his union ; after frequent
communications his parents assented, and he instantly
quitted Jamaica to claim the hand of his first love ;
hastening to meet her, death ruthlessly arrested his pro-
gress before he had been many hours on his native shore.
As a proof of the sincerity of his attachment, the lover,
in the hour of dissolution, bequeathed to his bride elect
',OOOl. --Hereford Times.

THE ROBBERY AT WINDSOR CASTLE.— I ;
100/. REWARD.—The following Las just been issued:—
' Whereas divers valuable articles have been stolen at dif-
ferent times from her Majesty's stores at Windsor Castle
—a reward of one hundred pounds will be paid by the
Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, on con-
viction of the offender, to any person who will give such
evidence as shall lead to the conviction of the person or
persons who stole the said articles, or who feloniously re-
ceived the same : and her Majesty's pardon will also be
granted to any person (not being the actual thief or re-
ceiver) who shall give the like evidence.—Whiteball, 12th
April, 1841."
LOSS OF THE FRENCH FRIGATE MAGI-
CIENNE.—During the week some indistinct rumours had
reached this place regarding the loss of the Magicienne,
which have received unfortunate confirmation by the arrival
of the Iberia from Manilla; and the following brief par-
ticulars have been handed us by a gentleman who has
derived them from an authentic source :—" On the 27th
of November, which was just a month after her departure
from this port for Manila the Magicienne encountered a
very strong gale in the 'Palawan passage, which by the
29th had increased to a typhoon, in which she lost her
masts, and received so much damage in her rudder, that
she became unmanageable, and about two A.M. on the
same day she was carried by a strong current on to the
Bombay shoal, to the N. N. VV. of Palawan ; and in this
state, borne on by a terrible sea, was dashed on the reef,
where she instantly went to pieces. The crew immediately
betook themselves to the construction of rafts, to reach a
but fortunately on the third day, the whole
sshafiep,:heoerme ;
company were picked up by two English vessels, the
Mysore and Clifford, and the French vessel Favourite, on
board of which they were conveyed in safety to Manilla,
where they arrived on the 15th instant. The French
corvette Danaide left Manilla on the 3d instant, for the
scene of this disaster, with the intention, as was supposed,
of recovering everything that could be saved from the
wreck, and had not returned by the 20tb.—Singapore
Free Press, Dec. 31.
BRUSSELS, APRIL 10.—The Monttcur pub.
lishes a long list of promotions in the army, on the occa-
sion of the birthday of the Duke of Brabant, who was :ix
years old yesterday. The public buildings were illuminated
in the evening.
SPANISH INFANTES.—The two elder sons of
Spain, who have
Don Francisco de Paulo, the Infante of
been at the College of Henry IV., have left Paris on a
%isit to several of the chief towns of France, previous to
their commencing a tour through Belgium, Holland, and
England, which will last for several months.