Star.
London, England, 1826-07-11 00:00:00

MARY-LA-BONNE.

Mrs. Sarah Anne Liddle, of Duke-street, Portland-place.
pulled by her daighter Clara, about 17 years of age, applied alb.
Itawunson for advice under the following circumstances: •
She stated that her daughter had been married clandestinely,
ahout two years since, to a person of the name of James Balfour.
His treatment towards her was very bad. Under the preter..e of
religious scruples, or some ridiculous system of philosophy, be lived
wholly upon vegetable diet ; and obliged his wife to adhere to the
same regimen, contrary to her wishes, and to the injury of her coo.
stitution.

Mr. 'Civets:non asked what business the strange man followed?
Mrs. Liddle—A Methodist, a vegetable eater, a Jumper, and a—
Mr. Rammer= said that that was sufficient ; but he should like
to hear about the marriage from the young Lady herself.
The daughter said, that James Balfour came accidentally into the
same pew where she bad been, in the Dissenters' Chapel, in Hyde-
street, at evening service, last Good Friday three years. He was
attentive to her, gave her a hymn-book, and joined her in the
psalm-singing. He appeared so pious that she was quite Wilted.
He took ease to renew the acquaintance at the neat meeting, and
followed her home every Sunday. She told her mother of the at-
tentions of the pious man; but the mother did not think the age of
' &sateen was a proper time for her to form an alliance with a man
advanced in years • she was therefore sent to school for twelve
months more, it being the intention of her mother to send leer to
France, after that, to fattish her edneation. Balfour. discovered
the intentions of her mother; and, a short time after she left
school, be prevailed ember to go with him to see some of his
friends. She went with him to St. Giles's Church, where bans had
been published, and everything prepared for their marriage.—
The ceremony was performed; bit she did not understand it, as
she expected to be left with her mother instil the age of It. ler
mother was incensed at the trick.

Mrs. Lidile.—h was not a lawful marriage, only a kind of spi.
ritual one--a sort of infatuation that the girl could not rritt. lie
had no regular employment since to support a wife. 11, xas
mariner at one time, a finisher of ladies boots at another time, and
then a dealer in .He starved the poor girl with his vegetable
philosophy, and to reconcile her to it, by saying it
was all in uledienas to thy pure workings of the spirit. She went
about six weeks ago to see her daughter at Waiwortb, and found
her, in appearance, like a spectra She brought her home ; but the
husband followed her, and insisted upon taking her back, to which
she would not consent.

Mr. Lamaism did not think the marriage valid-..hut that was
a subject for the consideration of Donors' C0U11139111. He would
advise Mn. Liadie to keep her daughter at borne, and set Balfour•
at defiance; and should be gh‘t them any annoyance, she should
11 get pruteatho from that aim •

Hr. Beckwith, matchmaker in the Commercial road, was ordered
to find bail for assaulting Edward Forster, who was passing in front
of defendant's house on Saturday night, when he 'misted he should
not pass that way ) and on complainant remonstrating, defendant
knocked him down and bit him in the fleshy part of the thigh ; and
also for assaulting tie patrol, into whose charge be was given.

It has been sometimes thought that glass can be
penetrated by water. Mr. CAMPBELL verifi d t'ie fact
in his ►oyage to the South of Airica. He lal two
spherical bottles, hermetically sealed, which he sunk
in the sea. to the depth of 1,200 feet, by attaching
sufficient weight of lead. When he wanted to bring
them up again, ten men were employed in the opera.
tion for a (maw of an hour. The two bottles came
up full of water, which the enormous pressure of the
liquid had forced through the glass.—Revue Eacyelop. -

MARRIED.

On Tuesday, the 4th itartsot, at St. Philip'., Liverpool, John
Price, Esq. of Chester, to Matilda, daughter of the late John
Wright, Est of Liverpool.

DIED.

At the Royal Arsenal,• Woolivkli, on Sunday sennight, Miss
Jane Dickson, aged twenty•three years, eldest daughter of Colour!
Sir Alexander Dickson, of the Royal Artillery, Aid-do-Camp to
his Majesty.
Friday ae'nnight, at his house, Little Ilallingbary, Rases, in his
75th year, Francis Horsley, Req. late of Bengal.