The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-27 00:00:00

HEART-RENDING CASE.

The 53d Regiment sailed from this port (Liverpool)
on Saturday, for Calcutta. There is one circumstance
connected with that sailing, most painful in its de-
tails, which we have deemed it right to bring thus
particularly under the notice of the public, in the
hope that it may meet the eyes, and bespeak the
sympathy, of the commanding officer of that gallant
corps. It appears that, about a fortnight since, one
of the privates, who left for Calcutta on Saturday,
obtained liberty from the commanding officer, at
Manchester, for himself and his wife, a fine young
woman, only nineteen years of age, to whom he had
been married only about a year and a-half, to pay a
short visit to their friends in Ireland, previous to leaving
the country. The private returned to Manchester at
the expiration of his furlough, but the wife remained
in Ireland a few days longer, not expecting the de-
tachment to sail until the end of the present month,
or the beginning of the next. On Wednesday last,
however, she received a letter from her husband,
stating, that they were under orders to leave Liver-
pool for their destination on Saturday, and that it
was absolutely necessary for her to be in Man-
chester on Friday, in order that, as she was one of
the women selected to go to Calcutta, there might be
no difficulty in getting her passed with the detach-
ment by the commanding officer. She immediately
proceeded to Dublin, where she arrived on Thurs-
day, but, to her inexpressible regret, found that the
Liverpool steamer had just left the quay, and that
she must remain for the night. She was, therefore,
unable to reach Liverpool before Saturday morning;
and, on coming here, she found the detachment in
the act of shipping on board the Nith, at the Prince's
Dock, and learned from her husband that, as she
was not in Manchester on the previous day, the wife
of one of the other privates had been seleced in
her stead by the commanding officer. A most heart-
rending scene succeeded. The parties burst into
floods of tears ; embraced each other several times, in
the belief that the period of their last parting had
arrived ; and the soldier, a fine, atheletic young fellow,
took his child, an infant about five months old, re-
peatedly out of its mother's arms, and kissed it with
all the fervour of an attached and most affectionate
father. After this affecting interview, one that was
witnessed with lively feelings of sympathy by a crowd
of spectators on the quay, had lasted for some time,
the afflicted mother, in a paroxysm of grief and de
infant -
spair, ran, with the in her arms, to the railway
station, in Lime-street, with the view of going on to
Manchester and entreating the commanding officer to
allow her to proceed with the detachment. She
had been informed that the Nith, after having
taken the companies on board, would lie in the
river until yesterday, and she hoped to be able to re-
turn in time for the sailing, and with the joyful intel-
ligence that she had achieved her object. On reaching
the station, however, she discovered, what she had
been too much grieved to think of before, that she
was all but penniless, and wholly unable to pay her
fare. She was, therefore, compelled to return to the
dock, where she arrived just in time to see the vessel
sailing out of the harbour for Calcutta. Hope now
forsook her, and the poignant anguish she felt may be
much more easily conceived than described. Inspector
Bibby found her on the Prince's Pierhead soon after,
and, ascertaining that she was without money, friends,
or even acquaintance in the town, he, much to his
credit, took her to his -house, provided her with food,
and is interesting himself to get her on to Manchester,
to see whether the commanding officer will allow her
to proceed to Calcutta with the next detachment.—
Liverpool Albion.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Friday afternoon, as one of
the Paisley trains, drawn by the llecate, one of the
Greenock Company's engines, was on its way to Glas-
gow, and when about two miles from Paisley, the axle
of the tender broke, when both tender and engine were
thrown off the line. None of the passengers or servants
were seriously hurt ; three of the former were slightly
injured, and were able to walk away soon after the acci-
dent happened. The tender, engine, and a third-class
carriage, were considerably damaged. A detention to
several trains took place in consequence of the obstruc-
tion, but, by about half-past three o'clock, the rails were
laid and the line clear.—Glasgow National.