The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-17 00:00:00

THE FEMAI..t.

thir re,:l.1"; Wit 101:alletlt the.. cir-
oir.,ortmcts receiit I y fitf“.•losCa on id at
St. Thomas's of the body of to., iNhvidual,

called James Allen, rdiose sex remained undisco-
vered for many years, although married to a woman
upwards of 21 years ago, during which period the
deceased assumed the garb of rllaia, and laboured
one. The deceased was kilted while at work on the

premi,es of Mr. Crisp, a shipwright at Dockhead, in
consequence of being struck on the head with a large
log of wood, while engaged in sawing a piece of
timber along with a man named Shrove ; the former
was underneath when the accident occured, and WWI

killed on the spot. The body was foithnith eon-
veyed to St. Thomas's Hospital, and on being di-
vested of men's apparel, to the actoni.shment of all
present, and no lelts so to a fornale also in attend-

mice, to whom the deceased was married 21 years
ago, it was dlicovered that the latter was of the
feminine bonder. Since the inquest was held on
the body, owing to the very peculiar facts that were
lqought to light relative to the deceased, we have
collected the following particulars Irons the female,
whom the deceased had led to the altar and plighted
her faith to, twenty-one years ago. The woman
who had been married to the deceased produced the
cert;ficate, by which it appeared that the marriage
was solemnised at Camberwell church, on the 13th

of December, 1808. Previous to its having taken
place, the deceased lived as groom in the service of
a Mr. Ward, No. d, Camberwell-terrace. Our in-
formant, Mary- Allen, was also housemaid in the same
gentleman's family, and it was while living there she
first became acquainted with the deceased, who at
that time was considered a smart and handsome

young man, and an excellent groom, doing all the
woih belonging to the situation quite to the satiS.-
faction of the geffileman with whole she acted in
that capacity. Mary Allen remained as housemaid
with Mr. Ward for three years, and it was at thelatter
part of this period the deceased began to be extremely
attentive to her, and who was viewed in the light of
a lover by Mary, who at length consented, at the ear-
nest entreaties of the deceased,to be married. The ma-
trimonial alliance took placebetween the parties at the
time above specified,and from the church they retired
together to a house called the Bull,in Gray's-Inn-lane,
where they slept. Very soon after they had retired
to bed the bridegroom was taken ill, and continued,
or pretended to be so, the remainder of the night.
Previous to the marriage, the deceased had lived in
the service of Alderman Atkins as groom, and with
other gentlemen in the same capacity. Subsequently
to the marriage, Mary Allen went back to service,
and the deceased was hired into the service of Mr.
Lonedale, of Maze-hill, Blackheath, and stayed there
some time, during which period the new-married
couple seldom saw each other, but carried on an
epietolury correspondence, in which the deceased al-
ways wrote most affectionately to the bride, address-
ing bet in all the endearing terms of a wife; and con-
cluding her letters, by subscribing herself the bride's
most loving and affectionate husband, tread death.
They were absent from each other eight months, and
at the expiration of that period the deceased prevailed
on t he bride, Mary Allen, to threw up her situation, and
both live together as man and wife. Mary consented,
and at this period the deceased, having accumulated
sonic money, became landlord of a public-house,
called the Sun," at Baldock, in Hertfordshire, and
was getting on most prosperously, until their house
was broken into one night, and robbed of all the
money it contained. After this misfortune, it ap-
pears, the deceased gave up the business, and came
to London, with the bride, and took lodgings in the
neighbourhood of Dockhead. Here the deceased
determined on working as a labourer, and obtained
employment in a ship-builder's yard as a pitch-boiler.
During the time the deceased was in this siotation,
her sex was never discovered by any of the men with
whom she laboured, and with whom she was in the
constant habit of associating. When she left the
above situation, she got employment in the yards
of other ship-builders, and was always considered
a sober, steady, strong, active man. There was rather
a peculiarity in the tone of voice, which subjected
the deceased to raillery amongst the men -,,vith whom
she worked: but they never for a moment doubted that
she was of any other' than the mate sex. The de-
ceased also worked a vitriol riaantActory previous
to her having entered the service of Mr. Crisp, at
Dockheed, in whose employ she had worked for a
considerable time preceding the accident which de-
prived her of life. 1 he woman to whom the de-
ceased was marrio'., on being ouestioeed as to At lit
tiler she hnew her six, declared most positively that
she never did ; and when further questioned as to
how it was possible that fact could have been a
secret to her, she replied that she was always of
opinion, since the first night of their marriage, that
the (teepee,' was en imperfect person, for whenever
7- !, approach her, sic always shrunk
aseiej, evaoeitly anxious not to be touched. Mary
Alice adds, that whenever she mentioned certain
pectiliar circumstances to the deceased, the latter
was eiezeedingly angry. Mary Allen believed till the
asseverations -af--her supposed husband; and never
afterwards alluded to the subject, and had even kept
the fact of her suspicious relative to the deceased a
profound secret from all her family, not one of
whom timely any thing wrong until the death,
which explained the whole mystery. The deceased was
described as of rather art ill-temper, and expressed
strong resentment against the poor woman whenever
the latter noticed a man particularly. Upon thee°
oecaeione the deceased 'lever faded to act the part
of the jealous husband, and has often inflicted cor-
poral punishment on the wife when she considered
that she was not conducting herself es she ought to
do. The reason Mary Allan (as site had been
called ever since the solemnization of marriage) as-
signs for not discleeing her suspicions relative to the
sex of the deceived to her friends, was in coneidera•
tion of her generally kind and affectionate behaviour
towards her; for the deceased worked early and
late far their subsistence, and the labour she was
employed at could not hare been performed except
by a person of uncommon strength of body, which
the deceased possessed in an extraordinary degree
for one of her sex. In her lifetime the deceased
generally dressed in eader's clothes, like shipwrights,
and always wore thick flannel waistcoats, which ex-
tended from the neck down to the hips, and to this
circumstance Mary Allen attributes never having had
en opportunity of observing the neck of the deceased,
which wasfound to be like that of other women,andin
order the more effectually to conceal ir, she also
wraoped a bandage over her chest, as she said, for
the purpose of protecting her lungs from colt:, as
she was in the habit of being much exposed to cold
and wet, often working over her knees in water
when engaged in clearing out the ways, that is,
cleansing a part of a shipwright's yard of the mud
collected on the receding of the tide. The de-
ceased was of a most ingenious turn, and was a very
expert carpenter, in addition to her other qualifica-
tions; in fact, as Mary Allen describes, she could
turn her hand to any thing. During the whole
period they had lived together Mary Allen never
heard of or saw any relatives belonging to the de-
ceased, who had at one time stated that she was
born at Yarmouth ; but as to whether this was true
or not, there was no telling, no person coming for-
ward who knew the deceased previous to the time
she had adopted the part of a mart and laboured in
that character.
'Since the decease of thie • extraordinary woman,
with the permission of Mary Allen, her body has
been opened, and was found perfect in all its part.
Subsequently to the examination, the body of the
deCeaeed was placed in a coffin and conveyed to the
lodging of Mary Allen, who appears greatly affected
at the death of the deceased. The former seems to.
he in very indigent circumstances, and can scarcely
scrape up money enough to pay tile undertaker for
the expenses of interment. It appears that the
deceased -was a 'member of a benefit club for many
Years, and regularly paid up her arrears to the
society. Since her decease, however, some demur
has been made to the benefits arising from the society,
on the ground that the deceased has been all along

imposing on it by repreS,antiligherSele a§ El man, and
always appearing in toe chinacter.of one when she
attended their mtetings. Although the above re-
port has gone forth, we tan scarcely give credit to
the rumour; is would indeed be unjust to withhold
that from Mery Allen ;ditch slle is entitled to if the
deceased dkkring hFr lifetime kept up her payments
to the society, as we are given to understand she has
always clone.
From the view we had of the body, there is no
doubt the deceased must have been an interesting
looking woman ; hue limbs were well proportioned,
end the only feature of a masculine character that
wo observed about her was her hands, Ivlaich were
large and the flesh extremely hard, owing to the
work she was engaged in for so many years.

On Saturday a meeting of Mr. Blomfield's pu-
pil*, of Bnry St. Edmund's (father of the Lord Bishop of
London), was held at the Angel Inn, for the purpose ()frank-
ing arrangements in fiatherattre of the design of present-
ing a piece of plate to that gentleman on his retirement,
as a mark of the very reset in whieh he is so exten-
sively held.

CoUNTY LouTH.—A meeting of the friends
of civil and religions liberty iu this county is to take place
at Dundalk, on Friday the 16th instant, for the purpose of
addressing the Marquis of Anglesey on his departure from
this kingdom. The requisition is signed by Sir P. Bellew,
Henry Chester, George Tr,.-.ffe, and i 3 other Roman Ca-
tholh_i gentlemen. The High Sheriff will, it is said, be
solicited to take the choir.—Dublin Poper.

We are informed that there is at present in the
possessiou of Mr. Thomas Kepper, in the parish of Ath-
nakisha, County Cork, an old mare, vrhiol: has advanced
to the extraordinary age of forty-nine years, having a foal
last Jane ! ! —Limerick Evening Pust.

RETP.ENCLIMENT.—The present Boards of
Customs and Excise in Dublin ere to b? forthwith abo-
lished, and the duty will dcvol-re upon a single Commis-
sioner for ooh department, who is to be sent over from
London. The office of Llaminer of the Customs in the

port of Dublin, either is at present abolished, or will Fe in
the course of a few weeks.—DuNin Paper.

On the night of Sunday, some person or per-
sons entered the dwelling-house of Mr. Steven'', situate
near the Boren inanagh -road, near the gas-works, by getting
over the wall. They went into Mr. Stevelley's bed-room,
and stole a lark moat and vest, two pair of shoes, a hat,

two pair of stoehings, one pair with tvhite cotton and
wool inside, and a check apron ; they afterwards broke
open the pantry, and stole font- silver table-spoons, one
silver gravy,p.Laoten silver dessert-spoons, and two silver
batter-ladles,Ptstia with a stag's bead. They afterwards
went inter the kitchen and tied all up in a check apron;
made tillitire and boiled four eggs, got bread and butter
and ate supper ; they left the letters which were in the
coat-pocket on the hearth-stone ; and also took some bread.
Every exertion is making to bring the offendeie to justice.
—Cork Constitution.

. That coals are to be found in the neighbour-
hood of Stamford has for many years been a popular opi-
nion. The strong evidences of iron ere afforded in the
chalyheate streams of Easton and Whittering are well
known ; and geologists pronounce that where iron-stone is
found abundant, there in general the substratum is coal.—
At Nassington, about six miles south-west of Stamford,
the pretence of iron ore is so remarkable, that the Earl of
Westmoreland is at this time employing an active person
(Mr. Stannifortll) who has withi❑ these three er four
years gone to iesside in the parish, in digging and boring
with a view to the discovery of coal. At present, we
belhve; the boring is to any great depth, but the belief
that coal will ultimately reward the investigation is greatly
strengthened by the finding of considerable quantities of a
beautiful calcareous spar, which is undoubtedly the tale or
mica of chemistry ; this is usually en intervening stratum
between iron-stone and coal. The hon. stone is so remark-
ably rich, that Mr. Stanniforth has been able by the heat
of a common smith's forge to procure metal from it.
Lin coin Mercury.

A Cratoes ithsTAKE.—(A:FAcr.)--In a
village a few miles west of Blandford, on Christmas even-
ing last, a company of melodious singers proceeded as
usual from house to house exerting their musical talents in
singing the customary psalms and hymns. Having amused
the inhabitants of the village with their delightful notes
they pr seeded to a farm-horse in the neighbourhood to
give the inmates a specimen of their superior talents, and
struck up one .4 their best tunes for the purpose. A young
men, feeder of a swinish herd, who was rather bard of
hearing, was awoke from his sleep by (as he said) a strange
sound and fancied it must he come thieves stealing the
who he supposed did not meth relish moving their quarters,
and were making opposition to their removal ; he imme-
diately jumped out from his bed, dor.ned his smock-frock
in haste, and with a large bludgeon in his hand tan down
stairs with the determination to knock the first man down
who dared to molest his fostered herd. Luchily for the
mneicians his organs of sight were better than time of
hearing, rer net rushing out violently, thinking to catch
the thieves, to his great astcnishineut he fund hirr,.:‘l!in
the midst of the sir.gers, when immediately making e sudden
stol; he sang seat " Faith ! is it yon! if I did'ot think
somebody were stealing the pigs !"—Plyonouth Journal.
CHILD STEALING.-011 Monday last, a
woman of the name of Hannah Atherton, the wife of a
shopkeeper at ()they, and who had for several days lodged
with a woman of the name of 'W:tem], in Woodhouee-
lane, called upon Blieabeth Lee, the wife of a weaver, at
Woodhouse Moor, representing herself as coming from a
Mrs. Cirrell, in St. Peter's-eqnare. She said, that at the
request of Mr. Battye, surgeon, tie had come to fetch
away Mrs. Lee's infant child, five woke old, ee, Mrs. Cir-
rell had lately been confined, and her child being dead, she
had an overflowing of milk, which, unless Mrs. Lee sent
her child, was likely to cause the milk fever. Sile then
produced a letter, purporting to he from a Mrs. Smith, re-
questing Mrs. Lee to give tlp her child, and stating that
it would be provided fee by Mrs. Cirrell. Atherton also
presented the W(1:11till with a sovereign. Mr. 13ettye having
attended Ma. Lee, and she knowing a Mrs. Smith, gave

the Emiy so plausible en appearence,that she foolishly gave
up her child. This was done in the absence of her hus-
band. On his return home, he felt debious about the story,
and sent his wife to make inquiries, when it turned out
that there were no such parties as had been repte&ented,
and that Mr. Battye had made no such request. In
the course of her inquir:,, a boy, who knew Mrs. Lee's
child, told her he thought he had seen it upon a woman'e
knee at Ibbetson'e. Thither the distracted mother re-
paired, and found the child upon the prisoner's lap, as if
she was in the act of suckling it. The prisoner immedi-
ately ran up stairs, and at first denied that the child was
Mrs. Lee's, but afterwards admitted it. She was given in
ensto4 to the police, who were obliged to use great exer-
tions to prevent the crowd from doing summary justice
upon her.—On Tuesday Mrs. Atherton underwent an ex-
amintoion before the Mayor, and Julia Brooke, Esq., &t
the Court-House, when her defence was, " that she took
it ant of charity." She was remanded until this day,
when she will undergo a further examination.—Leona
Intellipeneer.
TIIE RABY HUNT.—The Marquis of Cleve
land's fox hounds threw aft on blonds), morning last, at
Wood End, about three miles from Thirsk, where they
found, and the fox took the direction of the town. It
being market-day, the dogs were called off at the town
end, when the fox croasod the Flats, and came on the
Harbour Yard, where he was turned by some boys at play.
He then leaped the garden wall of Mr. Bell, where he was
observed by the gardeners, who immediately gave him
chase ha the garden, which is completely walled in. After
a ten minutes' run, he again leaped the wall into Mr.
Enipson's yard, and came up to the house of Mr. Master-
man, where some carts were so placed that he could not
pass without leaping the cellar door, which was partially
propped open, but in such a manner that Reynard could
not eve the interior until be had made his spring. Imme-
diately on gaining a glimpse of the rover for which he was
making, he threw himself against one of the squares of the
window, but this effort would nut do, and be came to
earth head foremost. But, instantly recovering himself,
he broke away, and a general chase by all the market
people commenced. The carts being planted in close
rows, gave him a great advantage, and he threaded them
beautifully, frequently throwing the biped pack at fault.
He at lest left the carts, crossed among the pot stalls, made
off through the corn market, among the carriers' waggons,
and up to toe White Swan Inn, where he was seized and
bared. Information was then sett to the hunters at the
outeleirte of the town, who immediately arrived and bore
him off in triumph, after liberally rewarding his raptor.
He woe then turned down in Sowerby Field, and killed,
after a short rnu. The scene during this extraordinary
chase in the market place beggars all description ; the
barking of cure, the screaming of pigs, the shouting and
hallooing of the old women, and the motley throng in the
market, formed such a contrast to the " deep-mouthed
music of the pack," that no wonder Reynard should be con-
' founded. Such a hunt was never before witnessed, and it
is more than probable, that; so foolish a fox as this will
never travel again to Thirtk inarket.—Leeds hadligencer.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCL.

PONTEFII.I.CT MEETING, 1529.

FlRbt DAY.

Sweepsta',:es of 30g.. *nth, 10 it, One mile an:; shire

quarters.
Mr. O. sergeantson's ch. f. by St. Patrick, dam by Wofnl
Mr. Honldsworth's b. c. Dnrhatn, Lv Abler—Paeripitate
Mr. blouldsirorth's b. c. Abe:, brother to Fanny Davies
Mr. Ricisdale's ch. c. Tyke, by Tramp, darn by Cervantes
Lord SearboronF4h's hr. c. Cistercian, by Catton
Colonel King's di. c. Madcap, by Blackleek or Tramp
Mr. W. Doncombe's hr. c. by Waverlcy
Mr. Rebinson's eh. tr. Bolivar, by Blacklock
Mr. Gascoigne's eh. c. by Tramp—Cera, by Waxy
Loki Longford's b. c. Sir florcules, by Whalebone
Mr. Ilealey's b. c. by Grey Mahon, dam by Counts
Mr. Petre's b. e. Netherby, by Cervantes—Jnlisna
Metre's h. c. (:abler Will, by Tramp
Mr. Walker's gr. c. by Cannon-Ball
Mr. Richirdson's b. c. Felt, by Langar
Mr. Dickinson is a subscriber, but did not naale

'THIRD DAT.

Sweepstakos of 20 sore. each. Seven furlongs.
Mr. Jackson's br. c. Don Giovanni, by nonassus
Mr. Houldsworth's br. c. Crescent, by Blocklurk
Lord Sligo's ch. c. Canker, brother to Cant
Mr. Bower's hr. f. Tartarina, by Tramp
Lord Scarborough's b. f. Octavins, dam by Whisker
Lord Queensberry's 4.11. t. by Whisker—Remembrancer
Mr. GibbesOn's b. f. Lady Betty, by Figaro
Mr. Petre's hr. c. Reginald, by Figaro
Colonel Sykes's b. 1. by Whisker—Brenda
Sweepstakes of 5.20 soya. each, with 20 added. One mile
and a quarter.
Mr. lionldmorth's br. Lady Louisa, sister to Borodino
Lord Fitawilliant's b ty, by Cervantes
Lord Scarborough's dies. by Pilgurlick
Mr. Gaseolp..„ne's bl. h. Smolenshe—Louisa
Lord Normanby's cites. Florence, by Blucher
The Ledetone Stak of 25 tors. each, i 5 ft. Cae mile
and a quarter.
Mr. Honlds'a•arth's b. c. Durham, by Abjer—Prenipitate
Colonel King's ob. c. Madcap by Blacklock or Tramp
Lord Scarborongles LA. f. by Smolensko
Mr. Walker's b. c. Tramp, on; of sister to Borleigh