Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-20 00:00:00

ELOPEMENT.

THE LADY TWICE MARRIED.—On Friday last, a yourrg
man between 18 and 19 years of age arrived at Pough
keepsie,. accompanied by a young lady of 21 years. They
were privately marrie lin that city. On Tuesday- even-
young man, LO ue_ . . .
then hid himself behind the, door. The ruse succeeded to
a charm : for after waiting so:ne time the parties steppod
into the office, and the young man inquired for a letter,
giving his name. Whilst in the act of receiving it, the
policeman stepped from his hiding-place and arrested
them both. They were brought to this city for examina-
tion. The parties to this elopement are from the
Ei4hteenth ward, and are said to be of high stairling.
The lady was married about seven months since to a young
man of this city, when business demanded his presence in
Cuba till within the last few days, when he arrived in
this city, and heard that his wife had eloped, and inime.
diately started in pursuit.—New York Herald, June 25.
ABORTIVE ATTEMPT AT ELOPEMENT.—A. young man
who resides in the neighbourhood of Tullamore, had
lately occasion to visit Athlone, to execute some work
which he had contracted for and whilst there he contrived
to scrape an acquaintance with a young lady, the daughter
of an officer of her Majesty's customs stationed in Lon-
don, who happened to be on a visit with a relative at
Athlone. The acquaintance, though short, soon became
so fervid as to result a few days since in the elopement of
the pair to the house of his relatives near Tullamore,
where they were sojourning till arrangements should have
been completed for the nuptials. Whilst thus engaged,
their happy anticipations were frustrated by the arrival
of the young lady's mother who, with angry determination,
possessed herself of her daughter, and carried her off to
Londonderry in the far north, where she ha&been staying
when the intelligence of her daughter's escapade reached
her. The young lady is handsome, and twenty.one. An
elderly vetran captain had paid his addresses to her pa-
rents for her hand and had obtained consent, which she
ineffectually endeavoured to otherwise dispose of, to a
more agreeable and youthful substitute.—King's County
Chronic'e.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD AND LINCOLNSHIRE
RAILWAY COMPANY.

The half yearly report of this company, to be presented
to the meeting of the shareholders on Wednesday, 22nd
inst., shows a total revenue of £291,081,—earned in con-
nection with the railway and canals; a total expenditure
of £141,734; and a balance of net profit of .6'149,346,
which, with the balance of £4,500 brought forward from
the previous half-year, gave a total sum of £153,847 avail-
able for interest and dividend. The debenture and other
interest charges against the half-year amount to £63,510 ;
the canal annuities to £13,734 ; the dividend on debenture
stock to £250 ; the dividend on the £6 preference shares
to £23 685 ; the dividend on the 31 per cent stock to
£5,958; and the dividend on the 6 per cent preference
stock (late £lO preference shares) to £26,160; making a
total charge against the above net balance of £153,847 of
£133 299; and leaving £90,547 available for dividend on
the ordinary stock of the company. The directors re-
commend the proprietors to pay, after providing for the
whole of the preference dividends and charges, a dividend
of 10s per £lOO on the ordinary stock of the company, or
at the rate of I per cent per annum ; and to carry forward
a balance of £1,046 Os 10d. The traffic receipts have
improved during the half year. £4,615 have been re-
ceived more than in the corresponding halt of last year
for passenger traffic. The increase in the goods traffic
has been £16,513; the increase in mineral traffic, £3,983.
There has been a decrease of £498 in parcels, &c. traffic,
and of £9B in the live-stock traffic, The local receipts
of the company have been £58,632 for the con-
veyance of 1,193,040 passengers of all classes, as against
£55,928 and 1,116,978 passengers for the corresponding
half year of 1856. The receipts for foreign passenger
traffic have been £14,610, as against £12,699 in the cor-
responding half year of 1856, showing a total increase on
this traffic of £4,615. The expenditure on the repairs and
renewals of the working stock of the company, during
the half year, has exhibited an increase of £6,909 over the
corresponding period of 1856. During the half year the
contractor for the permanent way has, under his contract,
finished 30 miles 60 chains of permanent way, and relaid 21
miles ; while 6i miles have been strengthened by having
an additional sleeper placed under each length of rail,
and the engineer reports the line in a generally improved
state of efficiency. The capital account exhibits an
increase of £63,308, of which £60,539 is for land, and
works sanctioned at the date of the last half yearly
meeting, and £2,768 for new works ordered during the
half year. The extension across the town of Barnsley
will be ready for passenger traffic on the Ist of August.
It has already been used to some extent, for coal and
goods traffic. Under arrangements with the Stockport
and Disley, and London and North-Western Companies,
this company's bills for extension to Buxton have been
withdrawn for this sessiou. The bill for an extension from
Guide Bridge to Oldham has passed through the House of
Commons, and the Directors believe it will be unopposed
in the Lords. An arrangement has been made with the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Company, under which that
company takes an equal interest with this company in the
working agreement already approved by the proprietors.
The report then referred to the traffic agreement with the
Great Northern, and concludes by stating that the net
profit for the year ending 30th June, 1853, was £175,084 ;
or the year ending 30th June,,1857, £300,645 ; showing an
.ncrease of £125,561.

Colonel Buchanan, of Drumpeller and Mount Vernon
has, we learn, just purchased the estates of Carradale
and Auchenbre:k, iu Kin`yre, extending to about 13,000
acres, at the,; price of £49:7oo.—North British Daily
Mail.
The Banbury Guardian states that the disease which
has now for some years proved so destructive to the potato
crop has most undoubtedly again made its appearance in
this neighbourbood. The tops of some crops show the
fatul plague spot, and others have become perfectly black
and shrivelled, many of the tubers exhibiting the too well
known taint.
A considerable number of conversions from Catholicism
to Protestantism, says the New Prussian Gazette, have
lately taken pl ce, particularly in Moravia. Generally,
the converts belong to the rural population and to the
female sex. These conversions are sai 1 to be mostly
produced by the difficulties which the clergy throw in the
way of mixed marriages.
A duel with pistols, attended with fatal consequences,
took place a few days ago, between two students of the
University of Greifswald, in Prussia. One of them, shot
through the heart, immediately expired His adversary
gave himself into custody, but was released on bail. The
unfortunate victim was buried without any religious
service, the clergy having refused to give a benediction to
the deceased.
A curious case was a few days ago brought before the
rIF xhr- The Gazette of that town having