Star.
London, England, 1829-01-17 00:00:00

TUE FEMALE HUSBAND.-

S Mme extraordinary circnotstancrs were recently dis-
closed on an inquest held at St. Thomas's Hospital on
the body of an individual named James Allen, whose
'see remained undisciplined for many years and although
married to a woman upwards of teensy-nn. years ago.
eluting which period the deceased assumed the garb
man, it was never a•tert tined until death as to what sex
the deceased be-longed.
It will he recollected that the individual alluded to
was killed, when at work as a s etc) er, on the premises
of Mr. Crisp, a ►hipwriglat in Do. 10.ead, in cons• que, ce
of being struck on the I eid by a pi ce I t timbr, which
f.:11 from the top of the siwpit. Tie body was inure•
diat•.ly conveyed to St. Thomas's hospital, %hetet to the
lastonishment of all g•re.ettr, the ti isband (if the expres-
sion may be aline ed) wa. discover d to be a (entities
Since the hopes' was held on the body, owing to the
very peculiar facts that were broisOit to light relative
to the deceased, we have c-Ilected the following pa ti•
slats from( to use a very common place espresso):) he
disconsolate teidont.who produced t' e ceitificate of mar.,
siage, by which it. appeared that it was solemnised at
Caotherwa 11 church in 11-c. I3t►3. P evious to irs hay
ing taker► place the deceased lived as g.o m in the •er-;
vice of a Nlr.Ward C Tribe t eli uriace.Out informant.
Maiy Allen. was houiemaid in the same gentlemati'.+',
faintly, and is was while living there she first bec me,
acquainted with the drcea ei,who at that time appeared
to tie a saiait and' handsome young man, and an vacs!!
lent groom, doing all the work belonging to the said
situation g•tite to the Satisfact on of the Gentleman with
whom she arm' in t►at capacity. M. Allen remained
As houbefnaid with Mr.Wal J tea 3 year, a.►d it was at the
latter part .►f this period the deceased began to be ex-
ti emely attentive na bet, and was viewed in the Hgl t of a
11 Ter by Mary,who at leogth consented, at the earliest en
treaties of the de-eased, to he matted. The matrimonia
alliancetook place b. tween the pit es at the time abrlve
specified,and from the church they retired together route
Bull, in Gray's-inn-latte. where they slept. Very
soon after they had ache.' to bed the btidegronm
was taken ill, acid c intinneJ, or pretended to
so, the remainder of the night. Previous to
the marriage the deceased had been in the service of•
Alderman Atkins as groom, arid with other Gentlemen
in the same capacity. Suhseq tently. to the marriage,
Mary Allen went back to service, and shed, ceased was
hired nal the service of Mr. Lnnsdal-, of Mayshill.
Blackheath, and stayed theme some time, during which
period theatew married couple seldom saw each other,
but carried•on an epistolary corresaondei.ce, in which
the deceased wrive most affectionately to the bride, ad
dressing 'her in all the endeating terms of a wife, and
cor.eu ti•ig lies letters by subtcrtbru! herself .h • bride's
most affectionue husband until death. T icy were
'absent from each other about tight months, and at
the expiration of that. period the deceased prevailed
on the bride, Mary Allen, to give up her situation and
live together as man and wife. Mary cm :entail, and at
this period the deceased having accumulated some
money, became landirod of a public house called the
Say, at Baldock, in H- tfordshire, and was getting on
Most prosperously it► business, when the house. unfair.
innately, was broke into and ri Ward of all the money
they possessed. Atter this 'misfortune they gave up
business, atta came to London, where the deceased ob.
t ined employment as a labourer, and afterwards in a
ship builder's yard as a ptch boiler.w here he was al ways
considered a sober, steady, ac ice man. There was rather
a peculiarity in the tone of veice,which subjected the de.
ceased toaa;llery amongst the men with whom she was
employed, but they never fur a moment di übted of her
being of rhe male tea ; deceased was also employed as a
labourer in a vitriol manufactory previous to entering
into the emp.oyment of Mr. Crisp, of Dockhead, in
.which situation she had remained for some considerable
time previous to the accident which deo iced her of his.
The wife always understood her reput.-cl ls:r•band to
be it native of Yarmcuth, but knew nothing of the family
further than that t!:e deteased had stated to het that her
gtandmother. lived in Leith-walk, Edinburgh.

In a field at Tilshemi, Devises, several white lark
may be daily seen flying about.
Tuesday, at a Vestry Meeting in a patish not very
distant fri m the Metropolis, a,,tientleman, on being
addressed with some warmth by another, challenged
him openly, publicly, and in the hearing.of all 'pre.ent.
to fight a duel with him the same earning I The chat=
lenger thus loseall respect tot the Vicar in the Chair,
And the sacred si of in which the, were assembled, viz.
the thence of The Church, the Vestry room not being
large enough (or the 'purpose. But in a 14rge populous
parish is it not a pefahatioa to Allow them tumultuous
meetings to be leld• in a Church ?
Friday evening, the family of Henry Johnson, a re-
spectable &finer, residing on the Fazaketley 'side of
the brook, in the immediate neighbourhood of Walton,
was plunged" into the greatest a® ction by the following
distressing circumstance:—Theit•srm Robert, a power-
ful athletic young man, about 2.5 years of age, had been
at Liverpool with a load Of hay, and, returning about
`elght o clbckiiith the empty cart, he had left the turn-
pike road, . and *al' prcideeding up the private road,
iiinated (Ware extreme verge of the field which 'leads
up to. the' farm, `When it is supposed he must 'have
jutored firm' his Cart," for the purpose of polling his
'horses on to the treld itielf,the.rdart being hut 'in Tiny
iridifFerent repair, `when, by Some -laccidant;:he *as
' thrown ddwn,' andthe *bat paised*OvettirelOwer part
bf thiati'dtimen; his dies for help were heard by
seriatit 'Man at the fiirni„'and also by the families of
' twevtafm'ert Whir live*On•the turnpike died, and which
they tendered' hint' as quickly is potsible. He 'Was
'irteabte' td 'speak when they got -to him;
_he moaned
seVerliftiMes in pie'at''agony whilatthey irrere laming
boase.;'anikezp'rred fun on theitietting him btu
the home.—Liverpool lbws. •