Star.
London, England, 1830-03-17 00:00:00

AN UNNATURAL MOTHER.

As a proof of the strange and unnatural apathy on the
part of a mother towards her child, the following touch-
ing scene took place at Fullindushie whilst I was in the
town :
" A travelling slave-dealer passing through the place, had pur.
chased several of their children, of both sexes, from the inhabitants :
and amongst others, a middle-aged woman had an only daughter,
whom she parted with for a necklace of beads. The unhappy girl,
who might have been about thirteen or fourteen years of age, on
being dragged away from the threshold of her parents' hut, clung
distractedly, like *shipwrecked mariner toa floating mast, round the
knees of her unfeeling mother, and looking up wistfully in her
countenance, burst into a flood of tears, exclaiming with
vehemence and passion :—" 0 mother ! do not sell me ; what will
become of me ? what will become of yourself in your old age, if
you suffer me to desert you P Who will fetch your corn and milk ?
Who will pity you when you die ? Have I been unkind to you ?
Oh mother I do not sell your only daughter. I will take you in
my arms when you are feeble, and carry you under the shade of
trees. As the hen watches over her chicken, so will I watch over
you, my dear mother. I will repay the kindness you chewed me
in my infant years. When you are weary, I will fan you to sleep;
and whilst you are sleeping, I will drive away flies fru* you. I
will attend on you when you are in pain ; and when you die I will
shed riven of sorrow over your grave. 0 mother I my dear
mother I do not push me away from you ; do not sell your only
daughter to be the slave of a stranger !" Useless tears ! vain re-
monstrance ! The unnatural, relentless parent, shaking the beads
in the face of her only child, thrust her from her embraces • and
the slave-deekr drove the agonized girl from the place of her na-
tivity, which she was to behold no more."—Lander's African
Records.

The petition respecting the ancient Scotch titles of
Lennox and Darnley, presented to the House of Lords
by the Duke of Buckingham on the sth instant, was
from Count Nugent, jointly with his Countess, who is
Duchess of Riario Sforza, and a descendant of the elder
branch of the Stuart family. It does not claim the ho-
nours of theDuhedom, but maintains that the title of
Stuart Duke of Lennox having been to heirs male, can-
not be descendible to the Earl of Darnley, who claims
it, but is extinct ; and it therefore counter-claims for
Countess Nugent and her issue the dormant female titles
of Earl of Lennox and Baron Darnley, maintaining that,
if those titles are to be disposed of to any one, she has
the preferable claim. A very full pedigree accompanies
the petition. It will come under the consideration of
the Committee expected soon to sit for examining Lord
Darnley's claim to the Dukedom.
In the Prerogative Court a case has been decided of
considerable interest to the parties, and of rather unusual
occurrence in some of its circumstances. The suit was
instituted to determine the validity of a codicil to the will
of Frances Hall, of Manchester, made on the day of her
death, in the 83d year of her age, by which she revoked
the residue of her estate, amounting to 48,0001. to four
Charitable Institutions at Manchester. The whole pro-
Iperty of which she died possessed amounted to 80,000/.
personal estate, and 16,0001. real estate, the whole of
which was left in specific bequests to her relatives. There
was strong evidence to prove that her affection for her
relatives continued to her death; but there was equally
strong evidence, that when she made the codicil she was
of sound and disposing mind. Sir John Nichol, there-
fore, felt himself bound to decide for the validity of the
codicil.

A French Paper contains a curious account of the
skeleton of a man found in the hollow of a tree, with its
head downwards. There was nothing about it to show
whether a murder had been committed, or whether some
fantastical suicide had taken this extraordinary means of
destruction.
On Wednesday, witnesses were examined at the bar
of the House of Lords on Shakeriey's Divorce Bill, and
the evidence has been " ordered to be printed :" en
Tuesday, witnesses were examined at the bar of the said
House (in the presence, of the Duke of Buckingham,
Lord Bexley, Lord Holland, &c.) on " Lord Ellenbo.
rough's Divorce Bill," and the evidence has not been or.
lured to be printed.
The Committee of Drury-lane Theatre, the chairman
of which is Mr. Calcraft, intend to conduct the establish-
ment until the end of the present season, when the
theatre will be let to the highest bidder. Mr. Wallach
retains his station.
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