The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-01-29
Interesting Foreign Extracts.
The Romance or Real Life.

Interesting Foreign Extracts.
The Romance or Real Life.
IIrom the Sterling (sootlapd) Journal, Jan. 81
The following facts possess some striking points
OF interest. We may premise that the story is
strictly true, the names only, for obvious reasons,
being suppressed
In the year 1927, young woman, Of decent pa.
rentage, engaged in the service Of clergyman's
family IN the ives. ntry, became acquainted with
neig Aoorhood. A child the result of this attach.
meDt, was ultm from the inability of either
OF the parents to support 1T, consigned to the
care of the grand mother on the fathers side.
and hearing of her boy while she rensined in
that quarter OF the country; but some timo after
wards she left the neighborhood and re moved to q
distance Thereafter father left the district
also, and removed to Ireland, taking the boy along
with him Some years passed away, and being
mutually ignorant Of each other place Of residence,
the mother, after using means to discover whether
her child had been removed, gave up all hope
OF obtaining the much desired Intelligence. She
conducted herself we'll in the gentlemans family in
which sho served, and in few years thereafter an
offer OF marriage was made to. her by respectable
tradesman, which, after candidly relating to him the
circumstances Ct her previous life, he was, by rea
son OF his attachment to her. induced to repeat and
she gratefully accepted the offer. In the prosecu-
ton OF his business he soon thereafter removed to
Glasgow where he commenced business as an engi-
neer The father Of the boy, in the meantime. had
also married, and by him the youth, when he grew
up, was sent to and completed his apprenticeship
with an engineer in Ireland. subsequently the lad
went to Glasgow in search Of and obtained en- ploy-
ment, by singular coincidence, and without
knowledge on either side Of the relationship, from
the engineer, who, "a We have stated, had married
the boy mother; and from the fact of her not hav
ing seen HIM since he was an infant she never sus
pected and indeed could not possibly have recog-
nizeo, him as her long lost boy.
1t appears that brother OF the lads father hap.
I,ened to keep booking Office for parcels, Sc, IN
the city. and to him, among Others, the father had
sometimes in mis- letters, alluded to the mother of
his boy, and his natural curiosity to know what
had become Of her. The young man was OCCASION
ally in the habit of calling his fathers brother,
and reading or talking over any mutual letters they
might receive from his father in Ireland ltchanced
one day tina. a we'll. dressed, and even ladylike
woman, entered the office to book q parcel The
man fixed his eyes upon her, and said ne had some
distant recollection Of having her before, and
begged with all civility to inquire whether In her
youth, she had been in employment as a servant q.
a manse 10 the west country, which he named The
garding her boy, and having reason for con-
cealment, eagerly inquired if he could give her
any tidlrgs OF her son, orif ne knew anything
concerning him. The man told her that he
was himself the brother of the bsy's father; that
having seen her in former years he remembered
AID recognized her countenAnce, and If she
would cali at his Office the succeeding
evening at seven o'clock, he would make arrange.
ste might see him. The interest and anxiety, it
may be imagiLed, OF this woman was great. She
had not heard of her boy, after many vain endea.
YOURS for the long space Of twenty years. not even
by letter and here, by single &C ,dent, when
sic least expected it, che was on the following
evening To see and converse with him. she imme.
diately went home and old the Circumstance to her
husband, ana deep ths interest he also took in
the matter which so much concerned her; for she
bad been 10 him good and faithful wife,
ard II she had erred che mad washed il away with
Ion sorrow ami repentance and he. OF a II Others,
hat fully and freely forgiven her. Iheintervening
TINE, it may be supposed, seemed long and tedious,
ard it was with an anxious eye, and FACILITATING
heart that che entered the Office Of the book keeper
tie succeeding evening, few minutes before the
appoiLt1d hour TIE man Informed her that the
lad had has not yet arrived, but would be there soon,
ID, handing her a seat, told her that he would
close a halt shutter OF the side window when he
came in, BY which signal she would know that it
was her son who entered People came and went
fer considerable time, and the mothers feelings
and anxiety were every moment increasing, when
enc OF her husbands workmen entered the office
She instrchvely turned away her head, for she
liked not that in her husbands service should
observe her at such an anxious time (; but at that
instant the half shutter was hastily closed; for /.
was inCee d her son who had entered. she gaZsd
at him as be stood in his prime. and her wonder was
great that she should recognise in one Of her hus
bands workmen her long lost son but the pre-
cedirg anxiety and the shock were too much, and
as she looked she became pale and tainted away
hestOIdtNee were pIUcUrou, 6uu, Ou
her being completely recovered, the explanation
of the extraordinary circumstances was coRmuni-
Gated to the SON Although he had had frequent
occasion to speak to his stress there had DO; been
the least suspicion either side of the close rela
tionship They went home to her husba house
aud his place Of business together. Her husband |
was amazed as we'll he might be- at the turn mat
tiers had taken, and indeed 1t was subject OF deep
interest and wonder to all Of them He Pile ased
to find that his wife's we'll doing, for of |
course, as his master, he knew him WELL and short
" afterwards, having used influence with his friends
on his behalf, and knowing the lads ability, he pro
cured Tor bin situation engineer one Of the |
English railroads, which no still holds Only about
ten months ago the lad nerceded and obtained for
his father subordinate situation on the same line
Of railway. The subdued and grateful thoughts Of
the mother may well be imagined An absence Of
nearly twenty years could not ia any degree abate
the feelings Of maternal attachment and though
she had often deplored the error Of her youth, it
was with feelings OF thsnkfalness and gladdened
heart. che contemplated the extraordinary chain Of
circumstances, which, under Providence bad re.
stored to her, after such protracted separation,
the child Of her affections