New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-08
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LETTER FROM LONDON
Special 10 do New Orleans oresernt I

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not to omit some account Of recent domestic
alalr' 70 which public attention has been almost
exclusively drawn for some time past Imean the
case OF Ihelwall vs., Yelverton, tried in the Dublin
Court of Common Pleas before q special iurv
me case occupied the attention of the Court for
ten days, and therefore the report is necessarily
very yolumnons Doubtless you may receive it in
the pamphlet form; but this may not reach your
readefs+-neither would you be disposed to occupy
yonr columns with it entire.
~ this case, Thelwall sues Yelverton for the
maintenance Of his wife, Teresa Yelverton: and
the action is brought in point Of fact to prove the
legaHtY OF the claim of Mrs. Yclverton to be the
,deiendant's WIFE The defendant, the Hon. Major
William Charles felverton, Of Her Majesty's Artil-
fery is heir TO the title and estate of the barony of
Ayonmore- consequently he prides himself on his
blood. He is young man in his thirty-seventh
year, fashionable, accomplished, and in every re-
spect calculated for successful assailant of the
female heart and fancy Mrs Yelyerton. nice
no such Derivation being only the daughter of q
deceased silk7mercer. But, in grace beauty nc
accomplishments, and even genius, she is immeasur-
aply superior to her cruel and crafty prosecutor
as.ad hetrayer. Nor in these respects alone, but
hSegisel in honorable and virtuaus principle, in
steadfastness to truth and affection, all of which
nave been strengthened and purified by much suf-
lsrlng, and elevated by noble and almost heroic
lalny OF the man she accepted for her friend, her
defender and lifelong support.
Twas on her return from Boulogne, in France,
from visit to her sister, that she first met with
leiVertop, then captain Of artillery. This was
N 1867. It is quite likely that she had made some
impression upon the captain at this time, for he
called upon her while in London. Next year, 1858,
she was sent to Italy to complete her education
BENG IN Naples and desiring to send letter to a
cousin in Montenegro, she was required to send it
~ the way of Malta, where Capt. Yelverton was
then stationed. This led to a frequent correspond
enfe. When the Crimean war broke out. Miss
LohgWorth joined the Sisters of Mercy and went
INTO the hospitals at Galata, where Yeverton now
MAJOR, again met her, and this time made her an
oner Of marriage; bat inasmueh as he desired that
ltshould be secret she refused. She afterwards
went 70 the Crnea at the invitation of the wife of
zen. Won Strauheuzee, where she remained the
guest Of that lady until 1856.
During this time, the Majors attentions were in.
cessant and ardent, and he endeayored to get her
consent to be married by d Greek priest: but be-
1ng sincere and devout Catholic, she persistenty
refused. The trial here relates series of artful
ana persevering attempts upon the lady's virtue
which reflects the highest credit upon her honor
and strength of character, while they equally show
The baseness and cool villainyof the man. The roa
sons which he gave for desiring secret marriage
were, that biz uncle, Baron Ayonmore, demanded
that he should not marry until he found Iadv who
could pay bis (the Major's) debts. In 1856, Miss
Iongworth went to Edtnhurg. Yeverton was chen
stationed at Letl Here he renewed his atten.
tons and both being one day at the house of a
Mr. CANDLES, he there read in the presence Of wifi
nesses, the marriage ceremony nthe English book
ot common prayer, and affirmed that according to
the law OF Scotland that made her his wife. Still
MISS LongWorth was not satisfied; and, shortly af-
forwards, left Edinbnrg on visit to another sister
in Wales. Here, his letter followed her: and at
length. he consented that if she would meet him in
ireland, he would there marry her before Catho-
llc priest. AS she was romantically attached to
him, she consented; and on the 18th of August
1l.th in fha nh
Kiilowen, by the Rev Mr.. Mooney.
They afterwards went to Scotland, and spent
much OF their time in travelling and, from the tone
OF her letters were as happy as it is possible for
Young people in like circumstances to be. Finally
9ia lett her in France as the period Of her contine
ment approached, and returned to his regiment
Alter her. recovery, and the loss of her child, she
GENE to Edinburg, to discover that he had married
q Mrs. Forbes, lady who could pay his debts
The interval between this and the trial, was a De-
Rod Of little incident, but Of indescrbable suffer
ing. The woman, alone, whose affections have
been thus trampled upon, and who in the moment
betrayed, may be capable of imagining what
scene OF intense grief and shame that period must
have been am @ @
The sat instituted by Mr. Thelwall was to prove
the legality Of the first marriage; and in this, he
succeeded before an Irish jury-assisted no less.
by the shameless etirontery and easy prongacy Of
IeiTerton, than by the Justice Of the ladys claims
and the appeal of her wrongs, to an indignant and
syfnpathizng court But grave objections remain
to this most righteous verdict The Scotch mar
rage was not Valid aud the English law forbids
Catholic priest to marry Protestant and Catholic
under the penalty of $50, pron0uncng the mar
rage void. Ycverton knew this, and professed to
be Catholic for the sole purpose of entrapping
his nnsuspecting victim. He will carry the case
before an English court and, we can hardly doubt
have the decree Of TIL Irish tribunal set aside.
Meanwhile, public Indignation is highly excited
The Major has been suspended; his club have ex-
PEELED him. and it is hoped, the Queen will deprive
him of bis commission. But so much is thought of
- blood in England, that he will not only find
many to Gondoe with him in his " misfortune" but
the day may arrive when as peer Of the realm,
this youthful alteration will be forgotten. There
are too many cases of like character-though not
equal In cool and devilish atrocity- be-
tween the nobility and the common people, for this
to leave permanent blot upon the eseutcheon of
an heir of Avonmore Doubtless, the lady's honor
is vindicated in public estimation; but to what q
life of agony and hopeless grief it consigns her,
and she bnt rs years of age!
There is another matter which may equally lie
out OF your line as a political and commercial
paper, but still of grave and general concern.
After having been treated in numberless news
papers, magazines, pamphlets aud reviews, it has
lately been brought before the House of Lords by
the Bishop of Oxford. | may, therefore, be ex-
,AcIsed for making it the subject of paragraph.
There was published here year or so ago book
entitled Essays and Reveries," by seven clergy
men Of The Church of England. It has also been
reprinted by the Unitarian press of America, under
the title Of Recent Inquiries in Theology" |
have read the work, and it is now lying before me.
1t is an extraordinary production when we CON
slider the character and standing of the writer's
although it would excite little attention had it
proceeded from the press of professed uubelieyers
in the religion of the Bible, or from what is called
g the railroads.&c. wing of the Unitarian party.n
1t reminds me very strongly, by its style and man
ner of treating its subject, of the famous 18th and
10Th chapters of Gibbons Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire.n The professed object of the
writers is, among other things, to procure
revision Of the Book of Common Prayer, with
view to more liberal Interpretation of the sacred
Scriptures. But they go quite beyond all this.
On the subject Of miracles they take ground of
Hume and Strauss; on that of inspiration, they
use almost the language and quite the meaning of
allowances of other religions; Lyellis altogether
preferred to Moses and the German neologists
are sounder critics than Solomon. The Unitalians
are helped to overthrow all such orthodox doc
trines as the atonement, the Trinity, etc. And yet
these gentlemen manifest great reverence, and are
as unetious as any Methodist. They speak of the
g Work of God" and of Sour Lord Jesus Christi
and month aud mntter many other phrases, which
we hear fall from the lips of earnest preachers.
cannot see how, il the Bible is no more reliable
than any other old book written in dead Ian
guage, we are any longer to accept it as the foun
dation Of our faith. Neither can see what need
we can have of infdel writers, Chat is, protested
infdei Writers) when we can find clargymen
the Christian religion from the death of its founder,
has encountered such subtle and determined en-
emies as these seven reverend gentlemen of Ok
ford; for | have found nothing in all my reading,
which has been very extensive in this direction,
to compare with the dstinctiVeness of the element