The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-26 00:00:00

A _ROMANTIC STORY.

The Kendal Mercury contains the following
romantic story :

" It will be in the recollection of most of our
readers that on a fine morning, in the summer of
1854, the quiet town of Appleby was startled with
unusual activity by an announcement that a young
girl, resident at a boarding-school in the town, had
disappeared during the night in company—as was
suspected, and as turned out to be the fact—with
her music teacher. The younc, lady's age at the
time was, we believe, 13 or 14,° while that of the
gentleman—who they held the situation of organist
of the parish church—might be about 24. Pursuit
was forthwith given, and the electric telegraph put
in motion, but the parties arrived at Gretna, where
marriages could then be celebrated, ad libitum,
without regard to age or any other of the legal re-
quisites attached to the English ceremony, and the
Gordian knot was tied ere a veto could be put upon
the rash proccedi,igs. No doubt the happy pair
now thought the worst past—a too common delu-
sion—and that explanations and reconciliation
would follow merely as a matter of course, and their
future felicity be secured. But, alas ! their hopes
were soon diss'pated. At the Carlisle station, on
their return, the iron hand of the superintendent of
police was laid upon the arm of the happy bride-
groom, and lie was consigned to durance vile on a
charge of ' abduction,' while the young lady, his
wife, was straightway hurried to her paternal home
on the banks of Lake Windermere. On a subse-
quent day the wrath of the lady's parents, and of
the schoolmistress who initiated the legal proceed-
ings, being unappeasable, the captive lover' was
fully committed for trial by the Carlisle bench of
magistrates, and at the Westmoreland assizes, held
at Appleby, in the month of August following—
the mother of the young lady appearing as a wit-
ness against him—he was found guilty and sen-
tenced to 9 months' imprisonment as a first-class
misdemeanant. A question was discussed by the
public at the time whether the marriage which had
been celebrated between the parties was binding
upon them, but by the legal world, including time
judge who tried the case, we believe no doubt of
its validity according to the laws of Scotland, bind-
ing in England, was entertained; and that, not-
withstanding the conviction for abduction, the
gentleman, on the termination of his imprison-
ment, would have a legal right to claim the
possession of his youthful wife. Be this, how-
ever, as it may. we commit the question to the
hands of the curious in such matters, while
we proceed with our remarkable narrative.
The young lady, as we have stated above, on
being ruthlessly torn from him she had taken
for better for worse, was consigned to the care of
her parents, and here for a while we leave her.
The term of her husband's imprisonment having
expired, he resumed his profession as a teacher of
music, and although at the same time numerous
were his inquiries after, and great his search for,
the whereabouts of his wife, for years no traces of
her could be obtained. At one time she had been
removed to America, another to Australia, a
third account conveyed to him in an anonymous
letter about 12 months ago, was that the hand of
death had fallen upon her. At last, however, the
tide begins to ebb, the dark clouds which so long
o'ershadowed the easo are suddenly dispelled, and
light dawns. A letter unexpectedly arrives, an-
nouncing to the gentleman the agreeable tidings
that his presence in the Isle of Jersey, where his
wife was residing, would be agreeable to all parties
—and as we are not writing an imaginary romance,
but a novel adventure in real life, and have no de-
sire to fill up the interim with suppositions of cur
ONVII invention, we bring our tale to an end by
simply stating what will be gratifying to all true
lows ri to learn, that the happy pair were reunited
wedlock,' on the 12th inst.,
ails appears i'
pc!:1()risls(11: holy
more‘ utlarge in our list of marriages
spending their honey*on
at,lo;tg:,t the lakes and mountain scenery
of ~yrstruoreland,
them everlasting felicity."
tni•aulstle. re , and evermore, we wish

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