The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-30 00:00:00

property by the Catholics of a convent in which she once
resided. At the conclusion of the evidence Miss Wake-
man was introduced to the court. Her countenance was
pleasing, with considerable vivacity in her manners. Her
answers to the questions of the learned commissioner were
to the following effect :—I do not consider my father is
dead, though I am aware that my mother is not living.
Upon her death the Duke of Wellington, my father,
married again, and I am his only child, born in India.
The Catholics got possession of my property during the
time of Edward the Black Prince. The Bla k Prince
was an Hungarian, and settled in China. Some papers
were here handed in, which Miss Wakeman had been
perusing ; they were very neatly written, and purported
to be the pedigree of the royal families of England,
showing that she was descended from King Caractacus,
through him to Edward 11., and that Arabella Stuart
having married one of the Wakemans of Worcestershire,
she had therefore the royal blood in her veins. In this
pedigree was traced a supposed connexion with the Plan-
tagenets, Tudors, Stuarts, &c., and with the chief fami-
lies of kingdom. She was proved to have been of
unsound mind since February last

EMIGRATION UNDER DIFFICULTIES.—An interesting
story is told in the Glasgow Saturday Post of the adven-
tures of a young lady, Miss Mary Brown. She was the
daughter of a gentleman lately dead, and inherited a
small property from him, on which she lived. Her only
near relative in Glasgow was a " ne'er-do-weel " brother,
a cab-driver, who, having himself been disinherited,
constantly teazed her and extorted money from her.
Having friends in America, she determined to emigrate,
and took her passage by the City of Glasgow steamer,
which left on Tuesday. her brother, disappointed and
vexed at her intended departure, formed a scheme to
detain her. A trumpery claim was reared up, and a
meditationefugw warrant applied for. This he swore to,
and got the warrant. Armed with this authority, and
attended by two sheriff's officers, he watched the sailing
of the vessel. Miss Brown, with her friends, was on
board; they remained with her till the signal for sailing
was given, and, bidding her farewell, they went on shore,
and walked down the quay. Now was the cab-driver's
opportunity. Seeing his sister deserted by her friends,
and no help at hand, he sneaked on board the vessel, and
caused the lady to be apprehended in the presence of the
passengers, the ship's crew, and the immense multitude
of on-lookers. In vain did she remonstrate against such
shameful conduct—violence was resorted to, and she was
dragged on shore, and, refusing to listen to their proposals
for letting her off, she was carried before Sheriff Bell.
The sheriff, after hearing the case, detected the trick,
and dismissed the case. She left the Sheriff's-office, and
met her friends : she was now freed from her tormentors.
A new dilemma now arose. The vessel had sailed—Miss
Brown's passage was paid, and all her luggage on board.
To overtake the vessel seemed hopeless, but still she
was resolved to make the attempt. Hiring a cab, she
drove to the Greenock Railway station, and, finding a
train on the point of starting, was speedily conveyed to
Greenock. Fresh misfortune seemed to arise—the City
of Glasgow steamer had passed Greenock nearly half an
hour before the arrival of the train, and was seen slowly
steaming past Gourock. A Gourock steamer was leaving
the quay, and Miss Brown went on board of it. The
Gourock steamer was rapidly overhauling the huge City
of Glasgow, when all on a sudden the latter was seen to
"bout ship," and steam towards Greenock. The cause
of this sudden change arose from an accident which hap-
pened to the oil cistern on board. A steam-tug was
despatched to Greenock for a fresh supply of oil, and
hence the delay which proved so fortunate for the perse-
cuted orphan. Taking a small boat Miss Brown was
rowed towards the vessel, and received on board amid the
cheers of the passengers. A new matter of consternation,
now arose; the captain, thinking she would not get away,
had landed all her luggage at Greenock, and there was no
hope of getting it. Further vexation was put an end to
by the return of the tug carrying the oil, with all Miss
Brown's luggage on board. Certain friends at Greenock
had seen her luggage on the quay, and forwarded it with
the tug. Thus were all further impediments happily
got over.