The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-07-25 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

ARRIVAL OF PRINCE AUGUSTUS AND HIS BRIDE.—
The French sterner Pluton arrived from Southampton on
Thursday evening, from Lisbon, having on board their
Royal Highnesses Prince Augustus and his bride, the
Princess Clementine ; also the Duke Ferdinand and suite.
The royal party landed at eight o'clock, under a royal sa-
lute, and immediately departed in a special train for Lon-
don. Union jacks and other flags were hoisted in all parts
of the town.

Lord Ashley presided over a very large meeting on
Wednesday, called for the purpose of preparing a memo-
rial for presentation to his grace the Duke of Wellington,
chancellor of the University of Oxford, directing the
noble duke's attention to the fearfully rapid spread of
heretical opinions in that seat of learning, and praying
that his grace would use his influence in counteracting
their dangerous tendencies. The meeting was composed
exclusively of laymen, and is expected to be the first of a
series. The noble chairman, in opening the proceedings,
spoke at some length on the critical position in which the
Established Church of England has been placed by the
spread of the pestilential doctrines of tractarianism, and
urged upon the meeting the necessity of adopting imme-
diate measures for their suppression. Several gentlemen
addressed the meeting, when a memorial to the Duke of
Wellington was unanimously agreed to, and will be pre-
sented in the course of a few days. The Protestant as-
sociation has also prepared a memorial to the right rev.
the primate and the prelates of the church : it has already
been numerously signed.

ESCAPE AND RE-CAPTURE OF A PRISONER.—On the
night of Tuesday, the 2d instant, Lawrence Doogan, aged
16 years, who was under sentence of transportation for
seven years, for stealing some silver spoors and other
articles, at Maryport, made his escape from Carlisle gaol
in a most miraculous manner, and who, on the 18th inst.,
was re-captured at a place between Preston and Lancaster.
His escape is the most miraculous on record. In conse-
quence of ill health he was put into the hospital, above
the door of which is a fan-light, which he had taken out,
and through the opening contrived to squeeze his body.
Near the door is a leaden spout, about 6 inches in diameter,
and 25 feet in height. Up this spout he climbed, at the
top of which is a receiver for the water 12 inches square,
and into this he must have got both his hands and feet.
He had now to raise himself up to get hold of the parapet,
nearly five feet from the top of the spout, on which he
had raised himself to get hold of the parapet, which he
surmounted, and from whence he had to leap a great
height upon the rigging-tree of the court-house. Having
performed the above dangerous exploits, he had still to
descend upwards of 25 feet to the ground, which he did
by swinging himself down into thershrubbery surrounding
the court• house, where the indentions of his feet still re-
main to a considerable depth in the ground. The visiting
magistrates of the prison have viewed the places by which
he escaped, and who exonerated Mr. Orridge, the gaoler,
and his assistants, from all blame of negligence. The officer
who apprehended Doogan will receive £2O reward.
ADJUTANT MUNRO.—The following particulars re-
lating to the first introduction of Lieutenant Munro to the
army may be relied upon :—Between nineteen and twenty
years ago (he being then about of age) Lieutenant Munro
met Corporal Grace, of the Ist Regiment of Life Guards,
at the Rose and Crown public-house at Knightsbridge,
and having expressed a wish to enlist in that regiment
(then in quarters at the Knightsbridge barracks), Corporal
Grace offered to take him at once to the Hon. H. B. Ly-
gon, then the Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment. Munro,
at this time, was somewhat shabbily attired in a long-worn
black coat, old silk waistcoat, and the rest of his clothes
en suite. His tout ensemble is represented to have been
that of a young man who had a little addicted himself to
the gaieties of life in the metropolis. Colonel Lygon, after
having put several questions to him as to his prospects
and family connexions, declined to receive him as a re-
cruit into the Life Guards, telling him he was afraid he
would never do to perform a trooper's duty. Young
Munro, however, being determined upon entering the
army, and preferring the cavalry to the infantry service,
advised with Corporal Grace upon the best plan to pursue
to achieve his object. It was then suggested that be
should " try the Blues," to which he readily assented ;
and the corporal sent a private of the Ist Life Guards (who
is now in that regiment) with him to Private Williams, in
the Blues, to put him in communication with Colonel C.
Hill (the brother of Lord Hill, the late General Com-
manding-in-Chief), the tben Lieutenant-Colonel of the
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards. Private Williams im-
mediately took him to Colonel Hill, who was impressed
from the first interview in favour of the applicant, and he
was then and there enlisted. Munro (whose military pro-
spects were never lost sight of by his Colonel) by his strict
attention to his duties, and his admirable soldier-like con-
duct and demeanour, was soon advanced to the rank of
corporal, and in the course of a few years received the ap-
pointment of adjutant, with a lieutenant's commission. It
has been stated, but incorrectly, that the commission of
Lieutenant Munro was purchased from out of the fortune
which he obtained by his union with his wife. The fact
is, that Lieutenant Munro obtained his lieutenancy upon
his appointment to the adjutancy of the Blues, without
purchase. Indeed, it may be mentioned as an almost un-
precedented circumstance, that Lieutenant Munro never
passed through the grade of Corporal-Major in his regi-
ment before he got his commission and his adjutancy. He
is a man much esteemed in his regiment (both by his bro-
ther officers and the men) for his kind and conciliatory
manners and general habits. The man who was sent with
him by Corporal Grace to Private Williams, of the Blues,
he casually met in town a few days before the Ist Life
Guards left for Windsor, and shortly before the unfortu-
nate duel took place. Lieutenant Munro immediately re-
cognised the man (although nearly twenty years had elapsed
since that period) and presented him with a crown to drink
his health. We understand there is very little doubt that
Lieutenant Munro, with Lieutenants Cuddy a.d Grant
will surrender to take their trials with Mr. Gulliver.

THE " QUEER STORY.—On the afternoon of yesterday
(Friday) week a stranger, habited as a man, went into the
shop of Mr. Graves, baker, of Kingsthorpe, near this
town, and requested to sit down. He said he was fa-
tigued, and desired to be supplied with some refreshment,
for which he paid. After some time he proceeded to in-
form Mrs. Graves that he was a iusus naturce—a being
not framed in accordance with the ordinary rules of
na-
ture. He had a bed on Friday night, and the next day he
was visited by several women, having refused to see a
man. To those persons he made the same statement, and
the greatest curiosity and excitement were the consequence.
At last Mrs. Graves insisted upon the accuracy of his
statement being tested, and an investigation was accord-
ingly made by an elderly female named Atkinson, the
result of which was that Mrs. Atkinson was completely
satisfied that the party in question was a properly formed
female. On Sunday Mr. Graves, having read the account
given in this paper headed " A Queer Story," told his
wife that he suspected her guest and the female alluded to
in the paragraph were the same individual. Mrs. Graves,
participating in her husband's suspicions, handed the
newspaper to the lady, who, having read it, laughed and
admitted that she was the party referred to. Mr. Graves
then threatened to send for a policeman, and Mrs. Graves
advised her to decamp, advice which she thought it pru-
dent to take, and she left accordingly, leaving her spec-
tacles and walking-cane behind her to liquidate the debt
she had incurred. On Monday Superintendent Young
found her at a house in this town, and elicited from her
the following statement :—That she believes she was born
at Serampore, recollecting the manners of the Indians
and her crossing the sea ; that when about seven years of
age she was removed to Naples, and after staying there a
short time came to Dumfries, where she resided, at inter-
vals, for 10 years. During the summers she was taken to
France, Germany, or Italy, staying a short time, and then
returning to Dumfries, where she always lived in the out-
skirts. That she was brought up by a woman whom in
private she called her mother, but whom in company she
was directed to call her governess. That her mother was
a tall, fine woman, of ladylike appearance, and at this
time would be about 36 years of age; dressed well, and
was very haughty. About 15 months ago they left Dum-
fries for Liverpool, and shortly afterwards went to Aber-
deen, resided there three months, and then returned to
Liverpool ; stayed there a few days, when her mother
told her she would leave her in Liverpool for three weeks,
while she went on the continent. That she gave Ler
changes of apparel and £2O, and left her the next day.
That she remained in Liverpool five weeks, and her mo-
ther not returning she resolved on purchasing male attire,
and disguising her sex. Her mother, until on the
point of leaving her, always called her Mary-Jane ;
but she then informed her that as she was going to
leave her it was necessary she should acquaint her
that her name was Mary Jane Anson, and that she
was the daughter of the Earl of Lichfield, and that Lord
Waterpark was related to her by marriage. That having
purchased the male attire she left Liverpool, and lodged
for a week or more at a village five miles from Liverpool ;
then went by train to a village called Wilderspool, ten
miles from Liverpool, and having gone into a plantation
she took off her female apparel, which she tore in pieces,
put on the male attire, and came out of the plantation a
boy. She then made her way to Doverage-hall, near
Uttoxeter, the seat of Lord Waterpark, to claim his pro-
tection, but on seeing his Lordship her fortitude failed
her, and she merely told him she had run away from Eton
College. His Lordship advised her immediate return,
and on her stating that she had not the means of doing so,
his Lordship gave her £2, and she left. That from that
time she has been travelling over a great pint of England,
making various representations; has been several times in
custody, but got discharged on stating who she was, and
that she did not wish her friends to be troubled on her account
That the statement made by her at Rugby, as to her corn-
ing from Naples for the property at Leicester,
.was an
invention of her own, to get £2O to go to Naples with, and
throw herself on the Earl of Lichfield, her supposed
father, for protection ; she added, that had she obtained
it she would have done so. On obtaining £5 from the
gentlemen at Syston, she went to Leicester and from there
to London. She was now on her way to the seat of Lord
Waterpark, to claim his protection, but on arriving at
Kingsthorpe her money was expended. and the statement
she had made there was merely to excite sympathy. She
mentioned the name of Colonel Sinclair, because, when in
India, she bad known his son, who has since been killed
in India ; and she had besides often heard her mother
mention Colonel Sinclair's name. She says that instead
of being drunk at St. Alban's, she was under the effects
of poison, which the medical men ought to have known,
and that she is no more insane than they. She is at the
present time dressed in a dark linen Taglioni coat, with a
standing up collar, light waistcoat, good black trousers,
short Wellington boots, and good black bat; says she
will be 18 years of age in September next; appears to be
about five feet one or two inches high, fair complexion,
round full face, rather large mouth, with full set of teeth;
has not the slightest Scotch accent, but more that of a
person brought up in London or some large town, and
having from her style and manner the appearance of one
of a company of players at a minor theatre. She says she
never went to school : was not taught music nor any.ac-
complishment. Her writing is coarse, her style rambling.
iler letters are subscribed, " Arthur G. Anson."—Norlh-
ampton Mercury.