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 itt
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, be again fled, and found refuge, as he believed.

it! Dublin. rhere'also he was overtaken 13y 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
beads in this manner, when there seemed to be a revival of
affection on 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 I 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, but never partook of the food which was before
him. This mesmerizing process having become intolerable
to Mr. Connell. he applied to the mayor fora 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 be 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 hear that she has experienced kind-
ness both from the lodging-housekeeper and the neighbours.
On the 15th ult., the authorities found it necessary to com-
mit..L
hero
the county gaol, where, for three days and
nights, she rejected all sustenance
by ; and aßot the end of that
time, after having gan, was set at
been visited Dr.
large. The co
°fit:ten:Lent has produeed no change in her con-
d
that she is a
con-
duct. It ought to be statedremarkably pretty
,woman, and, but for the eccentricities,
lle have just
rwe have
he mentioned, that the
her conduct has been faultless•
sensitive, but obdurate Mr. Connell has again fled.

TEE BEES AND THE BISHOP.—The following anecdote
will afford both amusement and instruction. Nye copy it
from a very clever work, called " The Bee-keeper s.quide :"
"A very old French bishop, in paying his annual visit to his
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 was
deploring the state of things which had reduced them to this
sad condition, he arrived at the house of a curare, 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
houseb wore the aspect of comfort and plenty. The good
bishop waa amazed. ' How is this, my friend ? said he,

YOU are the first man that I have met with a

Jeerful face

and a plentiful board. Have you any income independent
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, from which
I draw my annual dividend—it never stops payraeut.' 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 !"