The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-06-03 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SAILOR.—On Friday evening as Mrs. r. John M'Bryde Manager of the Nurz a walk on the banks of the Clyde, near  looking youth loitering in fearing from the disturbed and e youth that he meditated suicide, ion, and inquired into his cireutnerable hesitation and embarrassment • he meditated self-destruction—that he cand that he was altogether destitute. I)an'ci'" in progress, Mrs. M'Bryde was ' and on being informed of the incident  ed %,ii h tea, and a bed Z to Mr-i‘sililr-yde's house, refreshed questioned, th -"red for his his reception. On being tont, bleu trousers, and asaittl'llea(lnditderweillo wore a black suraleafrand who tures, though sunburned .2( that his name was Dough," hamlsom, fa pyasing—stated se fearespectable ; that he had been nanba that his irvioengr, from which he had been sent to arcught up futlnylit7ere highly person called tit Donald, who Bgeahool in he left it in disgust. He said ili'ioa such se ere tasks that about nine months, on board the shien had been at sea Captain Roberts, arrived at Falmouth :- „-afratt, fo sauttioar been at Ramsay in the Isle of Man, svi,uretth since then hati foot-boy, from thence he went to Edinburghefofficiated as a walked to Glasgow. Meeting accidentally Nrv9,,T which he Richardson of the Gorbals InPoice Office, Mr, with CaPtain kited the statement we have entoned above, and"lerecaptain's solicitation, was persuaded to allow the at the ded cabin boy to be brought to the office so that !),ri,,eettetnwatch might kept upon him in the event of his attempting suicide. The case was a suspicious one, and on being ex!. amined by the female searcher of the office, it was discovered that the assumed young sailor was a female. When taken before a magistrate, on Saturday however, she refused to answer any of the queries addressed to her as to parentage, employment, residenee,&c., Her features are intelligent and interesting—her dress smart and genteel—her hair is cut after ther fashion of males—and she very well becomes her attire. .Fooorindssome of her remarks before and after examination, she eem to be well educated, and to have considerable and stie knowledge of the Scritures. Her dialect is a good English, s not unacquainted with the French, while her handwriting. is plain been presumed and t swift. From hints that she gave it has near Torpoint, in Cornwall, the girl is the daughter of a clergyman with Irvine is err, ornwall, and the story of her connexion positively declinesnteoous ; but this is only surmise, as she a case of romance, of waywardness, who she really is. Whether this be or whether it be a waywardness, or of blighted affection, have nothing but casethatwh9f imposture, we know not, as ice girl aars to be betwe which is stated above to guide us. The In theantime, the e.n elghteen and tw t Mrs. M`ide h girl ls wellattendedher to where she is. fitted for her sex. Thi. ee with a change of raiment afternoon, when she acquainted held out till yesterday name, and the circumstances of h Mrs. M`Bride with her These it could answer no good end elopement from home. say, that she assumed the male to Publish. Suffice it to escaping from domestic discomf garb for the of ort and purpose the world.—Glasgow Mail of Wednesday,'Pushing her way in i , __