The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-11 00:00:00

UNREQUITED LOVE

The following singular " romance in real life" appears iu
the .Derry Journal. The legend of St. Kevin and Kathleen,
with " eyes of most unholy blue," has at length been paral-
led :—There are now, or were lately, in the Waterside two
persons whose joint history is not unlike that of Jason and
Medea, only the female party has none of that fell spirit of
vengeance which burned in the bosom of the Colchian sorce-
ress. Their names are James Connell and Bridget M'Guire;
he a carpenter, and she, by courtesy, a spinster. To escape
the persecution of her blandishments, he has had to fly from
place to place ; and she, with the sure instinct of a sleuth-
hound, has tracked him wherever he went, and insists that
she shall have the beatitude of at least gazing on his face,
which, we may state, is not exactly that of an Endymion.
This gazing she declares is all that she wants, and maintains
that there is no law to stand in the way of that enjoyment.
The fatigue, privations, and grief which she has endured,
must have brought her to her grave had she not been sustai-
ned by her singular infatuation. The parties had lived toge-
ther in the house of Connell's brother in the parish of Crough.
county of Limerick, where it is probable they became mutu-
ally enamoured; but, at length, he took French leave of her
and repaired to Newcastle-on-Tyne, whither she followed
him, and on their first interview she begged him only to allow
her to study and doat on the lines of his countenance ; but
there being a passiveness in this very irreconcilable with his
active habits, he again fled, and found refuge, as he believed.
in Dublin. There also he was overtaken by his inamorata;
and, on a charge of being amorously stared at, he had her
several times committed to prison, and once had her confined
in the county lunatic asylum. Two years passed over their
heads in this manner, when there seemed to be a revival of
affectiou'an his part ; for they went together to Liverpool,
and there lodged in the same house. His former aversion re-
turned, however, and in the beginning of August last he fled
to Derry, where, in a snug retreat in the Bogside, he fondly
hoped he would be secure against the lady's intrusion.
Most fallacious that hope was ! In a few days she appeared
in his apartment, and like Margaret's ghost, commenced
staring at her victim. He had then employment at the new
barracks ; and, as he went to and came from his work, she
was never absent from his side, and when he was at his meals
she sat at the table, with her eyes upraised to the cause of her
enchantment,unhantment, but never partook of the food which was before
hThis mesmerizing process having become intolerable
to Mr. Connell, he applied to the mayor for a summons
against her, and, having employed a professional gentleman
to conduct his case, his fellow-workmen clubbed their money
to engage another on behalf of the defendant. The issue was
that he was nonsuited. He had removed from the Bogside,
and taken lodgings in the Waterside, where both he and she
have been nearly these three months on their usual terms of
attraction on one side, and
repulsion on the other. He al-
lows her neither meat nor drink, nor does he pay for her
lodgings ;
while her delight is to pass with him, as he goes
to and from his work—to sit outside his workshop, when he
is there ; and, when not admitted into his lodging along with
him, to sit in the street opposite to it, which she often does
for whole nights. We bear that she has experienced kind-
ness both from the lodging-house keeper and the neighbours.
On the 15th ult., the authorities fonndit necessary to com-
mit her to the county gaol, where, for three days and
nights, she rejected all susteliaence ; andr at the end of that
the
-change in her
rekawbal: pretty
tttayt
time, after having been vis t d by i)
have mentioned,
large. The confinement has produced nwo
con-
duct.e
It ought to be stated that. is a re.
woman, and, but for the eccentri_eitie.s,
We have just heard that
her conduct has been faultless.the
sensitive, but obdurate Mr. Connell has again fled.

THE BEES AND THE BISHOP.—The following anecdote
will afford both amusement and instruction.
\ V eG
copye
t'
from a very clever work, called " The Bee-keeper's
nus,
visit
to his
" A very old French bishop, in paying his an
clergy, was very much afflicted by the representations they
made of their extreme poverty ; which, indeed, the. appearance
of their houses and families corroborated. Whilst, he wa
deploring the state of things which had reduced them to
sad condition, he arrived at the house of a curate, who, living
amongst a poorer set of parishioners than any he had yet
visited, would, he feared, be in still more woeful plight than
the others; contrary, however, to his expectations, he found
appearances very much improved ; everything about the
house wore the aspect of comfort and plenty. The good
bishop was amazed. `How is this, my friend ?' said he,
' you are the first man that I have met with a cheerful face
and a plentiful board. Have you any income independent of
your Cure Yes, Sir,' said the clergyman, I have ; my
family would starve on the pittance I receive from the poor
people I instruct ; come with me into the garden, and I will
show you the stock that yields me an excellent interest.' On
going to the garden he showed the bishop a large range of
bee-hives. There is the bank,' he continued, `rom which
I draw my annual dividend---it never stops payment.' Ever
after that memorable visit, when any of his clergy complained
to the bishop, of poverty, 'he would say to them, `Keep bees !
keep bees !"

In the
granted at

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ayor of London, with the ustia

of abbut a month church-rates have been
of the five parishes in Derby, viz., St. Peter,

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St. Werburgb, S
Mr. R. Thomas, barrister-at law, has applied for the coif
being entitled, according to his seniority at the bar to clain
that grade.

The extensive mills of Messrs. James Dennison a
near Limerick, were consumed by fire on Thursda
loss is estimated at £4OOO, which is covered by insure

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foreign debt of Buenos Ayres.

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