Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-19

Another EnusIOn Of Scandal in BnGIand-
RomOntIc and CIandcstIne Marriage
and its PrOsaic Result-The Love Adj
ventures Of nm Rhelish Major and an
Imprudent beauty.
A trial is now taking place at Dublin,
which is extensively reported in the English
papers, and is attracting great attention in
England and Ireland. From the London
papers Of the 18th we copy the following
statement Of the facts; 1HTy
Between eight and nine years ago the
Boulogne packet-boat was on its passage to
Dover. II was sultry evening in August,
and the ladies and gentlemen on board
passed the night on deck. OF these, one
lady and gentleman sat side by side. The
gentleman folded his plaid and laid il across
the knees of himself and his fair companion.
An odic force was communicated through
the innocent woolen, and from that moment
mixed rapport Of magnetism and love was
established between them. Miss Teresa
LoDgworth, for that was the ladys name,
seems to have been fascinated by the odic
force of Major Yelverton, who was, no doubt,
personally an agreeable, and, to alady, a
loveable man. He was, besides, heir appa
rent to the earldom of Avonmore. OK
Miss Longworth belonged to what is called
good family in Lancashire; was educated
from infancy in a French Convent; had
lived little at home, her father having been
a man who feared neither God nor the devil,
not believing in either, but much abroad on
visits to relatives and friends. Her allow.
anee from her family was f200a year.
Twelve months after the rapport in the Bou-
logne boat the influence began to operate.
Msjor Yelverton was stationed at Malta
Miss Longworth set off for Italy. She seems
to have been attracted by him. "My recol-
lections Of him." she says, "were agreeable,
and l had vague desire to have further
acquaintance"
Her cousin was consul at Monastir, in AL.
bania, and wishing TO send him letter, Miss
Lopgworth, with the assistance of her Naples
banker, and of st. Anthony, the patron of
Italian postmen, could see no reader method
of, doing so than by inclosing the letter in
one TO Major Yelverton, with request to
him TO post it at Malta.
The correspondence thus opened was
warmly continued on both sides, but it was
not until 1855 that the Major aud the lady
again met. In that year he was with his
regiment In the Crimea; aud again the odic
force, assuming uneonsciously to its object
the form Of charity, drew Miss Longworth
to bis vicinity. Among the lady. nurses toll
ing in the hospitals Of Galata, she was visited
by the Major, who renewed his expressions
of attachment, and proposed a secret mar
risge.
Miss LoDgworth was willing to marry, but
rejected the condition of secrecy. But why
secrecy? This, the Major was in difficulties
about what be calls the pscunia, and had
promised his brother, on whom he was de-
pendent, not to marry any lady except one
who could pay his debts. Did he mean to
deceive the lady by false marriage, or were
his intentions honorable2 His subsequent
conduct must decide. Miss Longworth
would not listen to secrecy.
In 1857 Major Yelverton was in Edinburg,
and Miss Longworth, who had returned from
the Crimea the year before, was again at
tracted to his vicinity, and visited the capital
at the north. Here he renewed proposals for
a secret marriage, and spoke of the facility of
the Scotch law to tie the knot. She, too,
must have become more facile, for she joined
him in reading together marriage formula,
but did not go farther, and fed when he de-
sired to consummate the union. Bred a
Catholic, she could see no validityor sanctity
in marriage not performed in face of the
Church. Finally, in the August of 1857,
she sssented to the pledge OF secrecy, he on
his part acquiescing in marriage by Catho-
lie priest.
They were SO married at Rostrevor, in
! Ireland and entered on the fruition OF their
1oVe-happiness, according to the lady, en-
tire and unbounded, in which every thing
on earth became Indifferent but their two
selves when he said she was 'the dearest
small Tool. tool that ever lived,p and she
thought There was not in the wide world
another Carlo like hers" In few months,
however, circumstances were thought by
her to render the maintenance of secrecy
| respecting the marriage no longer possible,
and then it appeared that considerations
| touching his pectInid and his family we're
paramount in M0jor YelveTton's mind over
regard for his wife's reputation as q yirtuous
woman.
"The cat must be kept in the bag Just
now," he writes to her, for if the fiery devil
gets out now, she'll explode aprecious mine,
and blow us all to the devil" By mingled
threats and suasion he brought his wife 10
respect the secret. In 1854 they travelled
abroad as husband and wife. She fell
seriously i'll at Bordeaux, where he left her
| to rejoin his regiment. Here she was ex-
| posed to the distress of being considered his
mistress.
On her recovery and return to England
she wrote to Major Yelverton a touching
| letter. which he left unanswered. She com.
municated the fact of the marriage to his
family, and the catastrophe which he had
| prepared followed. Open Reputation was
afterward confirmed by second marriage
with lady who, 1t is presumed, was able to
/ pay his debts; and now Mrs. Teresa Yelver-
| ton, as she claims to be, appears in court to
support demand against him, made by one
of her friends, for necessaries supplied to
| her. 1t is, no doubt, sad and prosaic issue
to such q story; but although affection be
fed, the character of the lady may be vindi-
Gated,