The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-11 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION',
SUN OFFICE, Five oTiork.

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THIS EVENING.

DOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. Johnson, from 60 gcCrefoo Office of Ireland,
broUght an Account of Statrips in that country.

WI; R. INGLIS pitgeniefl a Petition from the inhalii-
tants of Eceleshall, against the Catht.lle tiftitnwi
Sir H. PARNELL presented a petition from Agl:iloe,
in Queen's Cdunty, in favour of their claims.

imtition4 mere irre9tutel from other parts
of the Queen's County.

Mr. DUGDALE presented a petition from the 1111-
eicians and Surgeons of Birmingham, relative to the pro-
curing of subjects for anatomy.
Mr. HENRY MAXWELL presented petitions against
the Catholic Claims from Newtotvnburry, Donegal, and
Barn.

Mr. H. RATLEY presented] a Memorial from she East
York Militia, on the subject of Disbanding the Militia

Staffs.

Colonel VAINE preiented a petition from Lyme Regis
in Dorset aga;nst Concessions to the Catholics. - •
Lord MILTON presented a petition from the Surgeon,
and Physicians of Sheffield relative to procuring subjects
for anatomy.

• Major-General KING prebented four petitions again4t
Catholic Concessions from Killala, Clackan, Dunferry, z.nd

Kilbride, in the county of Mayo.
Lord CLIFTON gave notice Oat he should pi vsent to-
morrow a petition from the Freeholders of the county of
Kent, in favour of the Catholic elainni. His Lordship
then presented a petition from Kildorking, in the county
of Meath, in favour ct the Catholics.

Mr. S. RICE presented a petition from the parish of
Thomondgate, in favour of the Catliolic,i.
Mr. J. WOOD presented a petition from Chumby, in
Lancashire, in favour of Religious Liberty.
Sir A. GRANT brought up the Report on the Supply,
and it was on the motion of Mr. G. Dawson postponed

until Fifthly next.
Mr. RUMBOLT preented a petition in favour of Re-

ligious Toleration, from the Dissenters of Yarmouth
The House then Adjourned.

THE FEMALE HUSBAND.

James Allen, alias the female husband, the
individual whose singular case excited so much
of public attention, quarrelled on Sunday, the
day preceding his (or, more correctly speaking,
her) death, with his wife, and struck her a severe
blow over the right eye, whilst in the act of un-
dressing her, and putting her to bed. On going
out to his work on Monday morning, the very
day of his death (for, by way of counter-distinc-
tion, we shall speak of this individual in the mas-
culine gender), he swore a great oath-, vowing
that he should never earn another shilling for
,her support—a prediction which was, alas I -too
soon and too awfully fit:l:lied; for the reputed
James Allen was that very morning killed, by a
piece .of timber falling upon him in a sawpit
crushedwhich
i through t
hishellead,Ze. el drove some parts
of ltis ~:_an ev
,r,,,i,.`hia mouth, which
was, in consequence thereof, at first mistaken for
his tongue. Mrs. Allen received the intelligence
of the death of her pretended husband with great
composure. She haa since resumed her maiden
name, Smith ; but followed him to the grave with
the wound or bruise, she received on the Sunday
night visible -in her face, and wears widow's
weeds for the loss of her departed equivocal lord.
Her father says that Allen was as, handsome a
young man as ever -the sun shone upon when he
married his daughter. But the widow Allen,
now Smith, is a very squatty, plain, and ordinary,
looking woman. It was ascertained, upon a
post moiterl inspection, that the pretended
James Allen had suckled a child ; and two sur-
geons out of three were of opinion that she had
(riven birth to a child, which, upon opening the
body, with the consent of the widow, proved to
have bran the fact. A son of James Allen's is
now said to be alive, and 20 years of age. Some
years ago Allen went to the East Indies to visit
a brother; Who had since remitted him 1,0001.
to be lodged in the Bank, for which Allen WA:: to
receive the interest, which he declined to accept,
preferring to live by the labour of his hands.
Allen had a box near his bed, supposed to con.;
tain valuable property, vlidh he allowed no one
to approach whenever he had occasion to open
it. He also was said to have had papers, notes,
and bills about his person, concealed in a dirty
linen wrapper or pocket ; -but, both box
,and
pocket have since disappeared. The person of
the deceased was beautifully shaped, and his legs
and feet particularly well made, but stuffed with
flannel from top to' toe, to fill up his boots and
male attire. Some grand mystery is strongly
suspected to lie at the bottom of the whole trans-
action, but it would be uncharitable to repeat
the surmises insinuated on this • subject ; still
there must be some very cogent reason for such
-a protracted, and
.certainly unpleasant, disguise.
Those who knew the parties well assert that the
widow Allen has been all along aware of the real
sex of the deceased, who, some time ago, was
dangerously ill, when Mrs. Allen and another
female, in her confidence, intended to lay the
body out, in case of death ensuing then, to pre-
vent the discovery of his sex. James Allen was
always extremely reserved, sober, and industrious..
Mrs. Allen's father is reported
she remained
to have said to
this in
her
siittiYanstio inie,ras slOwn fault that
ie could, by making the dis-
closure, have ridded herself of so unnatural a tie ;
to which she replied that. she did not wish to
expose herself to the sneers of the world. How-
ever, this explanation was very unsatisfactory to
her acquaintances. Mrs.' Allen continues to re-
side at East-lane, Bermondsey, in the
house No.
of a 1‘3121?. Sloan, a fireman to one of the
Insurance-offices, where her late husband had
taken - apartments. •

We have received Gibraltar Papers
,to the
20th ult. The garrison is again about to receive provi-
sions and vegetables from Tangier, the foolish affair of the
blockade of that port having bcen put an end to on the 18th
ult., by express orders from the English Ministry.

The grave-digger of Sorn, Airshire, was as
selfish end as mean a wretch as ever bandied trtaltock or
eatried nittcloth. lit; was a very querulous and dhrot,-
tented old man, with a voice like the whistle of the winfi
through a key hole, on a bleak Sumlay afternoon in the
tiountry. An acquaintance from a 'neighbouring pat ilh
accosted him one day, and asked hew the world wag stand •
ing with hies. "'Oh, very intirly,
indeed !" was the answer ; " the yard 'has dune naething
bva for mg this eitntnur. If ye like to liclieve me, I have-sm
aulitt a leeviu tvul this si:; weeks :" Clurnibero.