The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-24 00:00:00

8.1771 RACES-(THIS DAY).

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LANSDOWN TRIAL STAKES.
King' of the Forest
Felicitas
Seven ran.
EIGHTH BIENNIAL STAKES.

Lupellus
Hartley lYintney ..
Brother to Rainbow .

1

3
Twelve ran.
FREE HANDICAP.

Voltigeur colt.

walked over.
BATH HANDICAP.

Blackmail
• •

Schism.,
Orleans.

Nine ran.

THE BRIDF, OF A WEEK .RE7URNS
AFTER TWELVE YEARS' ABSENCE.

We have been requested to suppress the names
in the following curious history, which has recently
transpired, or rather the last chapter, wliich re-
cently occurred in this country. A farmer's son,
some 12 years ago married a neighbouring girl, the
daughter of a very respectable family. They re-
moved immediately to a distant place, where they
had been living but a few days when upon his
return home one evening the wife of a week was
missing. She did not return that night, during
which he felt, of course, the utmost anxiety, and in
the morning he started in search of her. He could
only learn that she had taken the stage alone, which
led to a railroad station, some miles distant. He
followed, but at the depot he lost all traces of her.
He wrote to her former home, and published notices
in the newspapers, but could obtain no clue to her
whereabouts. He grieved in loneliness at her sup-
posed criminal act, and to escape the scene where
his week of unsullied happiness had been followed
by so great a grief, he removed to the then sparsely
settled wilderness. He here settled upon a pro-
mising piece of land, and in its cultivation and the
cares of life sought forgetfulness of the past. He
succeeded unusually—has filled offices of trust, and
grown wealthy. After a few
years, his home re-
quiring attention, he married, but his wife lived
only long enough to bear him a son, and witness
the first year of the little-one's existence.
A few weeks since, as the well-to-do-man of the
world was sitting by his fireside, there entered the
house a woman well clad, of fuller form, and 12
years older, but the picture of the long-lost bride
of a week, and she was accompanied by a girl of
near a dozen years.
• The sober man of the world was startled, but
asked the stranger visitor to be seated. Then came
her long and agonising story. All was oblivious to
her for the first ten years of their separation. She
could tell nothing, except of one hour of returned
reason, when the little girl beside her, his daughter,
was brought into the world. After that long time,
fitfully, and at periods remote from each other, came
back reason and memory. She had wandered to a
distant city in a state of mild insanity; there she
fell among kind people, and was installed in an
insane asylum. After the birth of the daughter,
and ten years more spent within its walls,thoughts
of her youth. her home, and her husband, came
back. She slowly recovered, then visited her parvnts,
learnt where her husband was, and flew to him. Be
sure he clasped her in his arms, and they wept upon
each other's necks. Again going before the altar
they were united, and she now presides with careful
dignity and ease over his household.

But little is said about it in the neighbourhood,
except expressions of wonder at Squire D.'s sudden
and unexpected marriage to one whom they sup-
posed to be a fair widow with whom be had recently
become acquainted.—Madison Argus, April 'l9.

TOSSING UP FOR A:SEAT IN PARLIAMENT.--ETeTV
one knows that at the last election for Chippenharn the
gallant Captain Boldero lost his seat. Few, however, are
aware that he is indebted for that mischance to the un-
lucky toss up of a halfpenny I Colonel Boldero pressed
forward his experience and long tenure of his seat ; Mr.
Long urged many qualifications which were not, en-
joyed by the gallant colonel. How was it to be decided ?
"Go to the wall" one of them must. In this dilemma,
two eminent men stepped forward one a member
of the long robe, though not a patron of Long; ;
the other an hon. gentleman, high sheriff of the county,
and member for a neighbouring borough. These two gen-
tlemen, praiseworthily animated with a desire to accommo -
date matters, undertook the task of deciding which of the
candidates should give tray—the Queen's Counsel taking
charge of the interest of the Colonel, and the high sheriff
that of the other candidate. This being agreed to, and it
being moreover decided that the decision of the arbitrators
was to be binding and conclusive, the lawyer and the sheriff
retired in solemn conclave, to fix upon one of the future
members for Chippenham. But here the same difficulty
again presented itself which had prevented the two candi-
dates from themselves coming to an accord upon the subject
—namely, that each party would not yield to the views
of the other. At last, however, what reason could not
effect chance accomplished. Our Queen's Counsel, whose
humour and love of a joke are known to all who have
the privilege of his acquaintance, suggested that the
question should go through the ordeal of the toss ; .and
Producing from his right-hand trousers pocket that most
useful of coins known as the British halfpenny, he pro-
posed that the toss, and the toss alone, should arbitrate
between the parties. The sheriff, seeing no better chance
of settlement, at once agreed. One toss was to decide the
fate of the candidates and the representation of the borough
of Chippenham in the Commons House of Parliament! Up
was to spin the coin, and if it came down head uppermost
the Colonel was to represent Chippenham, and if tail, the
other candidate. The lawyer was to perform "up goes the
halfpenny ;" the lawyer exerted his utmost skill ; never,
even upon Epsom racecourse, has there been seen a
more splendid toss. In due time the law of gravitation
brought the coin to the ground. Head or tail ? By all that
was unlucky for the colonel, it Was tail. The arbitrators
were honourable men • they adhered to their arrangement,
and forthwit Ii informed the expectant candidates (omitting,
as we are told, the exact means by which they arrived at
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Gazan, and a description of the fortified places in Alsace,
and a very valuable paper by Gen. Vial, at one time French
Ambassador in Switzerland, on the military resources of
that country. M. Laverdet, representing that he had come
into possession of the pipers by purchase, prayed the Presi-
dent to declare that his consent did not affect his right to
take proceedings against the, sellers. The President granted
the application subject to that condition.
THE FRENCH FLEET AT TOULON.--A letter from
Toulon states the following to be the strength of the French
fleet in that harbour :—" In commission—the Bretagne, 140
guns; the Ville de Paris, 120 guns; the Algesiras, 100
guns • the Redoutable, 100 guns ; the Napoleon, 90 guns ;
the fontenoy, 90 guns ; the Donawerth, 80 guns • and the
Suffrein, gunnery ship. The reserve is composed of the
Montebello, 120 guns ; the Friedland, 120 guns ; the
Souvrain, 120 guns ; the Fleurus, 100 guns ; the Navarin,
100 guns ; the Prince Jerome, 100 guns ; the Jena, 90 guns ;
the Charlemagne, 90 guns ; and the Duperre, 82. I use the
term 'reserve,' though the authorities declare the ships to
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