Star. — 1830-03-17 (London, England)

UNNATURAL MOTHER.  As a proof of the strange and unnatural apathy on the part of a mother towards her child, the following touching scene took place at Fullindushie whilst I was in the town : " A travelling slave-dealer passing through the place, had pur. chased several of their children, of both sexes, from the inhabitants : and amongst others, a middle-aged woman had an only daughter, whom she parted with for a necklace of beads. The unhappy girl, who might have been about thirteen or fourteen years of age, on being dragged away from the threshold of her parents' hut, clung distractedly, like *shipwrecked mariner toa floating mast, round the knees of her unfeeling mother, and looking up wistfully in her countenance, burst into a flood of tears, exclaiming with vehemence and passion :—" 0 mother ! do not sell me ; what will become of me ? what will become of yourself in your old age, if you suffer me to desert you P Who will fetch your corn and milk ? Who will pity you when you die ? Have I been unkind to you ? Oh mother I do not sell your only daughter. I will take you in my arms when you are feeble, and carry you under the shade of trees. As the hen watches over her chicken, so will I watch over you, my dear mother. I will repay the kindness you chewed me in my infant years. When you are weary, I will fan you to sleep; and whilst you are sleeping, I will drive away flies fru* you. I will attend on you when you are in pain ; and when you die I will shed riven of sorrow over your grave. 0 mother I my dear mother I do not push me away from you ; do not sell your only daughter to be the slave of a stranger !" Useless tears ! vain remonstrance ! The unnatural, relentless parent, shaking the beads in the face of her only child, thrust her from her embraces • and the slave-deekr drove the agonized girl from the place of her nativity, which she was to behold no more."—Lander's African Records.  The petition respecting the ancient Scotch titles of Lennox and Darnley, presented to the House of Lords by the Duke of Buckingham on the sth instant, was from Count Nugent, jointly with his Countess, who is Duchess of Riario Sforza, and a descendant of the elder branch of the Stuart family. It does not claim the honours of theDuhedom, but maintains that the title of Stuart Duke of Lennox having been to heirs male, cannot be descendible to the Earl of Darnley, who claims it, but is extinct ; and it therefore counter-claims for Countess Nugent and her issue the dormant female titles of Earl of Lennox and Baron Darnley, maintaining that, if those titles are to be disposed of to any one, she has the preferable claim. A very full pedigree accompanies the petition. It will come under the consideration of the Committee expected soon to sit for examining Lord Darnley's claim to the Dukedom. In the Prerogative Court a case has been decided of considerable interest to the parties, and of rather unusual occurrence in some of its circumstances. The suit was instituted to determine the validity of a codicil to the will of Frances Hall, of Manchester, made on the day of her death, in the 83d year of her age, by which she revoked the residue of her estate, amounting to 48,0001. to four Charitable Institutions at Manchester. The whole proIperty of which she died possessed amounted to 80,000/. personal estate, and 16,0001. real estate, the whole of which was left in specific bequests to her relatives. There was strong evidence to prove that her affection for her relatives continued to her death; but there was equally strong evidence, that when she made the codicil she was of sound and disposing mind. Sir John Nichol, therefore, felt himself bound to decide for the validity of the codicil.  A French Paper contains a curious account of the skeleton of a man found in the hollow of a tree, with its head downwards. There was nothing about it to show whether a murder had been committed, or whether some fantastical suicide had taken this extraordinary means of destruction. On Wednesday, witnesses were examined at the bar of the House of Lords on Shakeriey's Divorce Bill, and the evidence has been " ordered to be printed :" en Tuesday, witnesses were examined at the bar of the said House (in the presence, of the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Bexley, Lord Holland, &c.) on " Lord Ellenbo. rough's Divorce Bill," and the evidence has not been or. lured to be printed. The Committee of Drury-lane Theatre, the chairman of which is Mr. Calcraft, intend to conduct the establishment until the end of the present season, when the theatre will be let to the highest bidder. Mr. Wallach retains his station. named John Falkner.  was killed on Sa I  resti-mma;,—abatin-gl;;;;thirmis A watchman-, tam. ed John Falkner, was killed on Sa- of Ataptlillt, liadtartiabire. tis bound to agree, if he believe turday morning, by the sadden falling of some ruinous Wang: 'Mated aed rebbsbast by jONN mATss, at as Saas• lave obtained, in some instances, houses in Rosemary-lane. Omen Dtw 1, Plekett-plaineTegarls Bar.