The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-11 00:00:00

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(Stamped ld. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

AN ELOPEMENT FRUSTRATED.

Oa Satlirday lad Oar the Berkshire Chronicle)
the up4tatlina el the Great Waters Railway in
s
was the some of a most unusual smarms*, exclungt%
old gad pardealsely the kilter, fa me smell doges*.
TM objo=a hem Edgiel, dm at ReeMteg et t ld, arrived
at its proper time, hat had to menala at Res Mag souse time
is arm to allow the fast train, the at 3.49, to peas, which
was eissliegably bellied its time.sk At 4.30 it arrived, de-
pilates he samerous pasempeos, a after the and hustle
and 01111•161111 attesdert soma the downs, of the trate,
pursued he lewd joemsy. Anemia those 'lke get eat
was a middle-eged lady, very empanel* la eopierems,
and who agmered to be Labouring under essellerable
excdtemeat. She desired to as. the station meter, and
Mr. Smyth wee at ones at bawd, whey he speedily karat
that she "bad ore fair daughter sad no more, when she
bond passim well," but who had run away. Mr. Smyth
said, " Well, my good lady, what do you want with me ? "
"My daughter, sir," was rejoinder. This startling ap.
peel, whisk really seemed to later that Mr. Smyth had the
custody of the lady, mused him to inquire what the
daughter had beau doing. " She's run away from me, air,"
was the reply. The good lady's manor, together with the
tone la which it was attend, esesed Mr. Smyth to smile
iavoluntatily, whereupon the bereaved mother said, " Lb,
sir, I can see you've not the father of a family, or you would
not laugh," and at can rushed off in search of the Mt
child. 7*.a compartment of the cheap train was nar-
rowly scrutinised; did eyes more peringly penetrate
into the dark comes of any recess. At length she mane
to a third class carriage where she saw her daughter
comfortably mated. The mated mother screamed
out, " Ob, my child, my child l " and Johns, the
platform inspector, who was close by, said, " Which is your
child 1 " but the only remises he experieneed was a
seaside/able weight falling into his arms, the good lady
havingest. fainted away. The murder was now out ;it was
so e The passengers began to take the most
lively entreat la what was poising, and some elderly
ladies were exceedingly pressing with their advice. The
fainting lady was removed into the waiting nom, fol-
lowed by her daughter and the young 'tandem* with
whom else had eloped. lie was fashionably attired, sod 1
in feet was got up regardless of expense, with killing
black moustaches, ito , to match, and appeared muck le-
termed in a denouement which involved their mutual
happiam. Neaten of excited passengers asked a
thousand questions, sad displayed unbounded sym.
pithy. After the lapse of some moments she recovered
and spoke with her daughter, and from what transpired
it spoons the following are about the teats of the ems
The mother is a widow lady. ocespyleg a fares near
Cale*, and has cm daughter, who had become deeply
enamoured of a young dierple of Esoulapias, "yet never
told her love, but let oosmalment, like a worm i' the bud,
feed on her damask chmk." Knowing it was to no purpose
asking her mother's ement—pareuts generally having very
diffract ideas on such mutton, and of course much ener—
gise yielded to the entreaties of her swain, and consisted to
elope. Everything was prepared, and, in order to elude
pursuit, they took refuge in the parliamestary train for
Lemke, one sitting at one cad of the carriage, sad the other
st the opposite sad, when they were unhappily discovered
by the " enragied and uneatural what." The young lady
would not agree to go back with her mother unless the
would comsat to restive her " dearest Harry " (we thick
that was the name we caught) as a sou-in-law. Her tears
and her entreaties, backed by a reasonable amount of
sturdy deteentiaation, were resistless, the material affee•
dons, always too strong for reason, yielded, and alter a few
more tsars, and a distinct pledge of *. honourable intro.
Sass," to be immediately teethed en the port of the hero,
they became mutually reconciled aad prepared to return to
their demand home. And so ended this striking adven-
ture. AU was as delightful as a romance, and as " merry
as a marriage bell," when another bell, via., the station one,
recalled them to earth, and one of earth's cues, the necessity
of taking railway tickets. The exielleat parent, whose
duty it generally is " to pay tor all," applied to that au-
tomatic, bat not always detonable resource, her pooket,
lo l her parse was gone. Some unfeeling pickpockets on
the nation had taken base advantage of the dilemma sad
the crowd, and she had in we day been robbed like Shyloek
both of her daughter and her puree. The Lothano was
fortunately well provided, and the needful was produced, a
" fast " bystander remarking that he would have only paid
for one of the lmliee—M did not say which.

DEATH FROM SLEEPING ON A LINE OF RAIL&—A
man has died from having bad his foot out off by a railway
traits whilst sleeping on the Glossop broach of the Man-
chester, Sheffield, sal Lincolnshire Railway, a meth ego.
The diseased was John Gnosis, axed 36, of Gorton ; an
inquest on his body was bald on Mondayby Mr. Hirford,
city coroner. °nevi:, it appeared, had been employed to
mow the grass on the embankment of the railway ; and on
the morning of the Sib ult. he was seen on the line in-
toxicated, sad was ordered off by some platolaysn. He had,
however, disregarded their injunctions, for the driver of the
train which Leh Glossop for Dotting at 2.26 p.m. saw, when
about hall a mile from Glossop, a man's foot across one of
the line of rails on which the train was running. The steam
wee tamed off and the break applied ; bat, before the train
said be stopped, it palmed over the protruding leg, which
was that of the deceaseu, who was so drunk as to be ah-
eneelelei of what bad happened to him and to talk very
irestimally. He was removed to the Manchester Royal
Mermary, where he died on Monday last. A verdict of
" Accidental death" was retarned.—Menekeder Geordie.
HEALTH or CHEWS IN THE EABT.—In coma of
the war transports boned for the Eut, half a wins•glase of
mediested wine, mataising Mar grains of sulphate of qui-
nine. be been given to each of the crew every morning, ea
taw r the ships same within sight of Constantinople and
Beisliam, and fee three tweaks after iambs them phew.
Themes as walk hod she given them a MINION of the
Mee sal:tare es going as had; and if say anneal smell
from the shore was perseeptible the dose was repeated two
and three times a day. This was Mead me effeetnal pre-
ventive against say serMemr=seasee le the hesith of
the mews from the ahem at theshe.mmineliewed
motsplace,. The pod mots thin welkin' were oleo
sited by giving the men fresh meat and vegetablee=t;
making them dry Mews the date imbued of washing them
every morning. The decks were away washed cam a week.
Chloride of sine eddies was alts pima thweeet the bilge
water one" a week. If fever isms ea, sod es seedkel mut
was at head, the sit* men bad their heads shaved, and a fall
glass of the medicated wise was edmiaistered every fourth
boar, and the decks were sprinkled with aim isolation after
washing.
DISTURBING ACCIDENT ON :THE SOUTH DEVON
RAILWAY.—OD Woodsy es the afternoon uptrida was. pro-
oseding at fall speed, near the Alphington Railway temp,
a respectably-dressed men, who was walking on the line,
was knocked down and literally smashed to pieces. The
head is entirely gone, sod the body rat up through; the
heart was Mind a short dietaries from the body, and the UM
in another direction. A map of Devonshire and some
money were found on hie person. It is supposed that be
wilfully placed himself there for the purpose of committing
suicide. From esteeqeent inquiries it was found that his
name was Sperling, and that be has been staying with a
gentleman in Raster.
THE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT
BILSTOX.—Prom inquiries made yesterday (Tuesday) after-
noon, we learn that Mrs. Rama still lingers in a bopelw
' state. From the severe injuries M the werepbegnes all
attempts to adatiaister food to her have failed ; mad it le a
matter et surprise that she still matinees to exist.—Freker-
haeljtfoss Chnesiele.
WRICIL Or THE BRIG SILVIA. CARTHAOENA,
Oar. 2.—The Sylvia (brig), Rathbosi, of Ibuiderlaisd,
beam for Faro and Neweseds, with part ouzo of lead, in
areeeeditsg to ma, on the let of October, get ea shim at the
• ale, and has Moose water.lewd and a wresk. Prom the
1 heavy sea es it has been Impossible to oonmemies the
diediarge of the serge.