The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-03 00:00:00

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M. •O.
l,lnverness (Burghs)
Matheson ..
Pebblesshire
Mr Montgomery

THE BRITISH MUSEUM.--For the year ending March
next, £60,000 is required, for the ' British Museum
establishment, £43,314 for buildings, and £7,000 for
purchases.
An Egyptian mummy is advertised to be sold by auction
at Southampton to-day. It is at present lying amongst
other unclaimed articles at the Southampton Docks,
having been detained to, defray certain dock charges to
which they are liable.
AN AMERICAN ELOPEMENT.-The New York Herald,
under the title " A Runaway Marriage in High Life--the
bride worth two hundred and fifty thousand dollars," has
the following Marriage took place in Grace Church
on Monday last, that excited no little interest in fashion
able circles, and caused quite a fluttering among certain
wealthy families. It seems the bride is an heiress, and
worth in hee own right 250,000 dollars. She was the
inmate of one-of our- molt 'exclusive female seminaries,
and is but 14 years and 8 months old. tier wealth and
the high position of her family were of course 'known to
her associates, and her acquaintance was consequently
courted. Among the gentlemen she was introduced to
was S---- K , a well known habitue of the Fifth
Avenue saloons, but who bad reached the mature age of
31 years. The acquaintance
.ripened into intimacy, and
eventually the parties became erigaged to be married ; but
as the parents 'might interpoee an objection, it was
arranged that it; should take place unknown to them, or
any of the young lady's friends. It was agreed that the
happy event should come off last Saturday (St. yalentine's
Day) and the church was opened, the minister ready,
and a' few spectators had also assembled to wit-
ness the marriage ceremony, which was announced
for eleven o'clock a.m. But noon came and went,
and no bride made her' appearance, and the church
was closed. It seems that the principal of the seminary
in which the young lady was a-pupil, got wind that some-
t,,ing unusual was on the tapis, and she locked the would-
be bride in her room, and so prevented the fulfilment of
her engagement. But " love laughs at locksmiths," and
by some' means Mr. K- was notified of the situation of
affairs; and arranged matters in such a Manner that the
young lady escaped from siirveillance, and the couple
were duly *married in one of our most fashionable up-town
churches on -the 15th instant. The bride and bride-
groom immediately started for Washington and intend
to spend the holieymooa on a southern tour.
This pleasant little affair has crested quite an excite-
ment among the young ladies in upper towndorn, and
is to them tar more interesting than the Bond street
tragedy. Upon the foregoieg. paragraph,The, -.Yew.rerlo Express 'ddds 'MN commenter
y :--A morning paper
gives a mysterious account of a marriage in high life,"
intimating that Mr. S. K., an habitue of the Fifth Avenue,
has feathered his nest by espousing"a, spring chicken, only
14 years, old, who has 250,000 (lois- in her own right. The
child alluded to is Miss Lollard, whose elopement from
Miss Haines boarding, school has occasioned quite a
fluttering.

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