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E ACCIDENT ON THE MANCHESTER,
SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY.
_We have received the following official account
of the above accident :
_On Sunday night the 5 p.m. London down train ran
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paLP.igeon-bridge, seven miles from Sheffield,
The engine ran into a "spoil-bank," and
went over on its side, taking the break-van and one
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.The
firemanithitjThe other coaches were left across the
states that he heard a loud crack,
immediately put on his break, but before he had
Succeeded the engine left the metals. The cause of the
accident was the breaking of the crank-axle of the
eno4
041- The driver and fireman, and leading guard,
Nie:4sslaiaeLy.n.zd some of the passen.gers, including Mr.
received contusions. All the passengers
In the train, except three who remained at Sheffield,
were taken on to Manchester where they arrived two
I`,l,°ll.rs and a half after time. The gentlemen injured are
doing well.

THE CURIOUS CASE IN CHANCERY.
11-Alar.Aavn v. MORTEBOY.--411 this case, in which a
question was raised whether a Mrs. Sheppard was
married twice to the same person—first, under the name
of lames 'Masters, on the 28th of February, 1824; and
Btcondly, under his real name of John Sheppard, on the
hof March following—or whether she married two
persons (the facts of which we published last week),
Judgment was given on Wednesday. The Court,
after reviewing the evidence at great length, held there
could be no doubt that both the marriages were celebrated
Ivith one person, namely, the John Sheppard, with whom
?Ile second marriage took place, with whom she lived for
many years, as her husband, whose widow she was
reported to be, and to whose estate she had administered.
The decision, therefore, was, that the defendants, to
Whom Mrs. Sheppard left her property, were entitled to
It, and not the plaintiff, the next of kin, or John Shep-
pard, who
would have been entitled to it if the second
Marriage with him was illegal, in consequence of her first
Marriage
being with a different person, who was really
named Masters.

ELOPEMENTS AND MARRIAGES.
" ELOPEMENT OF AN HEIRESS WITH A NIGGER.."—
The Detroit • Free Press thus describes this terrible and
unheard-of calamity :—" An elopement and marriage
took place on Saturday, which was a little out of the
usual line, sufficiently so, we imagine, to satisfy the
most craving appetite for the novel and disgusting, both
°f Which we have—the latter in sufficient quantity to
turn any white stomach in existence. A young girl
named Sarah Judson' whose father lives on a fine property,
a Mile or two from Pontiac, eloped on Saturday, and
came to Detroit. The partner of her flight was a black
man, who has been in the employment of her father for
sonic time in the capacity of farm hand. The first
inti-
mation that the father had of the intention of the parties
Was conveyed by the fact of their flight. They imme-
diately crossed over to Windsor, upon reaching this city,
fully sensible that they could never accomplish their un-
natural designs on this side, as no official or clergyman
could have been found who would have so far transgressed
the bounds of decency as to unite the couple, the appear-
lace of the girl being such as would forbid the union in
the mind of any sensible man,to say nothing of the law in
the' case. Some person was found in Canada who performed
the ceremony,however, and the two were. made one. They
are now in Windsor, enjoying the sweets of the honey-
moon. The father f the girl is a red-hot Abolitionist,
of the whole hog or nothing; nigger as good as anybody
style. For a long series of years he has disgusted his
neighbours with his ranting on abolition and amalgama-
tion, of which he was disposed to abate not a jot or a
tittle from its utmost limit. In order that he might
not be said to preach what he did not practise he
Made it a point to treat the numerous coloured -
Persons whom he from time to time employed as on
a Par with own family. These doctrines he incul-
heedcated
h upon the understandings of his children, and
upon
the supreme satisfaction of witnessing,
a. the practical result of his teachings, his own daughter
read in the embrace of a greasy nigger, willing and.
„ea-4, and even enthusiastically reciprocal, in the sweet
re of dalliance with which lovers delight to celebrate
r arriving
their unions The brother of the girl came on the next
here on Sunday, and ascertaining their
wwas eabonts7 went to her and implored her to return. She
,!.°otented, however, loved her ebony half, was happy
emotions Ban; and couldn't think of going back. The
than of a brother at such a girl can better be imagined
described. Some men would have blotted out their
Zar_
° re
acen with a single blow, but he had been taught that it
should
Sillose against God or man that his young sister
Mme cul p
t/11y in the embrace of a negro, and at the same
cornnte look him in the face and say that she was
aboutis
ed. Re went home as he had come, alone. The girl
18 ars old The family are said to have occupied
:orssition In societiwhich was first class, and the blow is,
herequent'Y, a terrible one. The father is rich and the
cilheiress' which makes it very nice for the African of
in the °ice' The matter has caused an intense excitement
girl .I.leghbourhood where the parties are well known, the
unvincr been born and brought up where her parentsreside. f •
mane t chtficult to imagine any train of eircum-
_r ght
es b
be u y which a young and intelligent girl could be
to form a connection so repugnant to all the
senses ; yet the fact exists. A more complete retribution
tthe crime of fanaticism we never heard of. The
ci
"4 We can wish is that the father, undoubtedly well
Ird of his beliefs by this time, may be able to save his
"to luegr.d„aughter from the terrible future which now opens

A 11%1Y-TRAORDINARY MARRIAGE OF A YOUNG LADY WITH
TLEIL—The past week has revealed another of those
anilassorted marriages which sometimes occur to the great
• °Yance of respectable families. The bride in this
vitrlitance is the only daughter of a family residing in a
a 'ago a few miles from Sheffield, who have been
traist'ined to move in the most aristocratic society in
b Part of Yorkshire. It appears the young man had
aeein a servant abroad to one of the sons of the family,
ao, on returning home had been installed as butler. By
What qualities he gained the affections of the, young lady
13 not for us to speculate, but the result Was, OW come
Ihree years ago they were secretly married at a church
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.11 London. The secret however was well kept; and
!tat is still more extraordinary, if true, it is asserted
That at least one little cherub, if no more, has blessed the
secret union, all unknown, of course, to its unsuspecting
grand-parents. The bridegroom continued to occupy his
position of butler until last week, when a lady visitor
Who had been made acquainted with the strange union,
broached the subject to the young wife's mother, wbo
had very recently been bereaved of her husband. The
disclosure created the most painful feelings, in which,
however, the offending daughter does not appear to have
shared. The result of the disclosure was, the ex-
butler and his wife left the parental roof for the north.
At the Victoria Station, in Sheffield where they took train,
the young lady displayed the utmost gaiety of manner,
and was observed to converse in a very animated manner
With several persons to whom she was known, to whom
she introduced her husband. It is stated that the young
lady has become possessed of a considerable fortune by
the death of her father, who, it is believed would, had
her ill-assorted marriage come to his knowledge, have
left her differently circumstanced. A fear of the conse-
quences of parental anger is assumed as the motive for
the long and strangely successful concealment of the
wedding.—Sheffield Independent.
MARRIAGE IN CETLON.-All ordinance, making impor-
tant alterations in the law of marriage as observed in
Kandy, has passed the Ceylon Legislative Council. In
Randy, we believe, the Nair custom prevails of one
Woman having several husbands, generally speaking, all
of whom are brothers. The new ordinance declares
this species of polygamy, with certain exceptions, as
,OA() the marriage of minors, illegal. Marriages prior
LO the ordinance are of course valid. The district courts
niaY grant divorces, and all marriages must be registered.
Bombay Standard.