The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-30 00:00:00

arms, enveloped in a cloak and shawl, which he had
ready for her.
It was " night's witching hour, the wind blew cold,
the pale stars twinkled in the hazy sky, but no moon-
beam shone to light their hurrying steps." They
walked cn to Yarrow-bridge, about half a mile from
the asylum, and on their way thither the fair
fugitive was heard to ask her lover " Whether ho
int,nded to make a fool of her, or to marry her?" He re-
plied "To marry you, most certainly, as he would play
the fool to no lady." He then offered her his arm, but
she replied, " No, you shall not run away with me,
but I will run away with you." Near the bridge a ve-
hicle was waiting for them by a fellow-servant of Norris,
and on entering they urged their flight to the Boar's
Head, near Wigan, and, in order to evade detection,
they got out of the vehicle and passed on foot through
the tollgate. Upon reaching Warrington, they obtained
a horse and chaise, and got to Chester, and on Sunday
morning they were married at St. Oswald's Church,
both parties being described as of Liverpool.
The wedding day passed away, and information of the
jonrney had now reached the ears of the police. Sergeant
Hetherington, of Standish, was dispatched after and
surprised them on Monday, soon after breakfast hour, at
their private lodgings in Chester. He took the lady into
custody, according to the instructions be had received,
and told Norris he might follow it he chose. They re-
turned together to Chorley when Mr. Seed gave orders for
Norris to be also taken into custody. On Tuesday he was
bailed out, and hundreds of people thronged the streets of
Chorley, all on the qui wive, and anxious to hear the cause
tried before the magistrates, who met about one o'clock
in the afternoon. _ _

The prisoner was charged before the magistrates with
breaking into Mr. Seed's dwelling-house for an unlawful
purpose, and stealing Miss Elizabeth Durie, from motives
of lucre, to marry her, she having then an interest in
real and personal estate. No evidence being offered, the
prisoner was discharged.
Norris then demanded his wife, but the Bench said
they had nothing to do with her, and the Chairman said
be did not know that he had got one. The fair fugitive
—now Mrs. Norris—was taken back to the asylum, and
the last reports described her as being like a caged dove
without its mate. Upon leaving the police-station
Norris was loudly cheered by the populace, and flags
were hoisted to greet him with welcome when he arrived
at Chorley-moor. He told the people he was determined
to get back his wife, let the consequences be ever so
dreadful.

There will, no doubt, be some further inquiry into this
extraordinary occurrence.—Preston Guardian.
. _

The Manchester Guardian states, on " unquestionable
authority," that instead of 3,000/. a year, Miss Durie has
no fortune whatever of her own. With regard to the
lady's insanity, the same paper states that she was
placed in the institution un the certificate of two leading
physicians of the county.

TATTERSALL'S-THISEVENING

Six o'CLocx.

CHESTER CUP.
33 to 1 on the field
66 to 1 agst Heanan Platoff colt
66 to 1 agst Peep o' Day Boy
66 to 1 agst Canezou

DERBY.
12 to 1 agst Honeycomb
20 to 1 agst Osterley
20 to 1 agst liriel
Very little doing.

IRELAND.
THE CLEARANCE SYSTEM.

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY.—There are further and dis-
heartening accounts of the progress of evictions in the
s,aith. The occupiers of the hrger class of farms are
emigrating, many of them without paying rent or poor-
rate; and the smaller holders are put out by ejectment.
The Cork Examiner containi the following:—" Battem,
parish of Kilmoe, Nov. 23.—0 n Friday, 17th November
inst., Joe Driscoll, driver to Mrs. Clerk, went on the
lands of Battem, and dispossessed several families, com-
prising in all 36 persons."
The same journal says:—" The correspondent, who
authenticates this information, states that there are no-
tices pending for even a wider range of extermination!
And it is in the most wretched part of all this wretched
country that this movement is so rife."
The 1 ipperary Vindicator gives an appalling account
of the condition of some districts in the North Riding of
that county :—" In a townland in the immediate neigh-
bourhood of Borrisokane, where twenty-five families
lived in comfortable circumstances, nine of those fami-
lies emigrated within the last few months, and four of
them died, leaving twelve on the townland, some of
whom are in the most indigent circumstances, desirous
of leaving the country if they could. The village of Bal_
lymackey has become a heap of the most squalid paupe-
rism, whilst it does not contain one-fourth of the once
comparatively happy cottiers by whom it was inhabited,
death having made sad havoc among them. Of Toom-
avara the same may be said in a great measure; and in
nearly all the rural chapels on Sundays it is observed
that the congregations are thin, scanty, and ragged, not
numbering half what they were a few years ago."
ESTATES OF LORD BLAYNEY.—The Newry Examiner
mentions a rumour that Baron Rothschild is the pur-
chaser of the estates of Lord Blayney.
COURT OF ERROR.

KELLY V. SUGDEN.ITheC:t;i of Error delivered
judgment this day, reversing the decision of the Court
of Queen's Bench. By this decision, Mr. Sugden is con-
firmed in the office of Registrar to the Court of Chan-
cery. All the judges in error, except Judge Cramptun,
gave their decisions in Mr. Sugdyn's favour. The proof
thus afforded of the fallibility of the Queen's Bench is a
source of gratulation to those amongst the friends of
Mr. O'Brien, and the other State prisoners, who antici-
pate an unfavourable judgment from Chief Justice
Blackburne and his learned brethren. They appear to
think that this judgment may lessen the effect of an ad-
verse decision, as regards the prisoners in the treason
cases, in the eyes of law lords and judges of England.

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