The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-07 00:00:00

"LOVE AFFAIR EXTRAORDINARY

" I understand that an honourable intimacy existed some
years ago between a young man of the name of M-, from
near Castle Ellis, in this county, and a Miss A P ,
also in this county, which continued until about four years
ago, when from some particular circumstances, the young
man discontinued paying his addresses, but renewed them
within these three or four months back, and on last night
proceeded to a place convenient to her dwelling, where she
met him, in order to elope with him. They had not proceeded
two miles from the house, where they intended to meet a con-
veyance to carry them, when they were overtaken by her
brother and three other young men, who, on coming up with
the fugitives, insisted on her returning home. She refused
in the most positive raaner ; and on her lover interfering in
her behalf, one of them cocked a pistol at him, which with
the most courageous bravery he wristed from his hand, and
broke it on his skull. Young P- immediately attempted
to shoot him, but was prevented by his sister seizing the pis-
tol, when a terible combat insued between the hero of the
scene and the other young men, M- still holding the pistol
in his hand. One of the young men got his arm broken, his
shoulder slipped, and his collar-bone fractured, and the other
is at present in a very precarious state from the effects of a
kick in the abdomen. But just as M had gallantly de-
feated them both, P escaped from the grasp of his sister,
and struck him on the head, which knocked him down, and
afterwards beat him in a cruel manner, and left him for dead
on the road. He then obliged his sister to go home; and
M- was got on the road and conveyed to a house con-
venient, when a doctor was sent for, and I understand that
hopes are entertained of his recovery. J. " H
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" P.S.—lf you think this worthy of publicity, I hope you
will be so good as not to attach my name or address to it, as
lam intimately acquainted with the younz lady's family. I
understand that Miss P— has, independently of her family,
one thousand pounds, left by an uncle."

TRIBUTE DAY AT BORRISOKANE.—" How are you, Mrs.
M- ?" (the collectors are addressing a respectable woman
of this parish)—" You are welcome, Mrs. M—• " " Mrs.
M , this is the collection for Daniel O'Connell." This
lady, through a feeling of delicacy, and to get rid of impor-
tunity, paid on Sunday last 2s. (id. to the O'Connell annuity.
" Come, boys, make way ; the people can't see what we are
about"—" Success, Tom ! always stood to your country ;
brave fellow ! " and then a half-suppressed cheer. Such
scenes as these ought not to be enacted near a house of
worship, and on the Lord's-day.—From the Rev. James
Birmingham's recent Letter to the Dublin Monitor.
MOST DISTRESSING AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—About half-
past six o'clock on Monday evening week, as the Rev. Henry
Allwright Hughes, a magistrate of the county of Devon, re-
siding at Clannaborough, his wife, son, and a lad, (a servant,)
were returning from a visit they had paid to the Itev. Geo.
Garrow, at Bundleigh,—the son being on horseback, and the
others in a four-wheel phaeton; on arriving at Ilayne Bridge,
which crosses the river Yeo in the parish of Zeal Monach-
orum, the waters had risen to such a height that the son rode
forward to ascertain if a passage was practicable, and having
informed his father that the road was passable, the Rev. Mr.
Hughes drove forward into the water; but, whether from the
bad state of the bridge, or velocity of the current, is not
known, the phaeton was precipitated into the river; and the
son and the horse which he rode were also swept away. Just
at this time, providentially, Mr. Wm. Ribbings, of Zeal
Monachorum, and his son, went down to see the height of
the water, and in their way met a man who said Mr. Hughes
was in the water. They immediately ran to the river, and
after great and hazardous efforts succeeded in rescuing Mr.
Hughes, who was in a very exhausted state ; but we deeply
regret to add, that no traces could be found of Mr. Hughes,
their son, (Mr. George Hughes, about 17 years of age,)
the
servant lad, or the horses. Their is a deep weir pool just
below the bridge, and into which the carriage and those in it,
the son, and horses were plunged. Mr. Hughes and his
family, consisting of nine children, including Mr. George
Hughes, who has thus untimely perished with his mother,
were held in the highest estimation. The bodies of Mrs.
Hughes and her son have since been found, but not that of
the servant. The Rev. Mr. Hughes, on being rescued, was
conveyed to the residence of the Rev. Mr. Stranger, of Zeal
Monachorum, where lie at present is.—Exeler IZyiAg Post.

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