The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-21 00:00:00

ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.

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produced great excitement. The name and exact
locality we forbear at present mentioning, although
we 'understand the distressing occurrence is too
true. The farmer is between 50 and 60 years of
age, and holds a very respectable position among his
neighbours. He was a church elder, and his reli-
gious professions were matter of notoriety. It is also
reported that he was possessed of considerable wealth,
to the stock of which his wife had contributed a large
portion at their marriage, between twelve and
fifteen years ago. The marriage appears to have
been a happy one, but they had no children. About
two years ago the farmer engaged the servant who
has now decamped with him, and she entered his
service. She was not very young, and it is said
she was in America before that with another man.
Her charms, however, appear to have been too strong,
and soon overcome her master's virtue. A guilty
intercourse commenced between them, which could
not be long concealed, and was eventually detected.
It required strong suspicion, however, before the
g,udewife was convinced that her husband's affec"
tions had taken the wings of the morning, and
were lost to her. The servant soon got her dis-
missal, but after that domestic matters did not
run so smoothly as before, and, in the circurn-
stances, nothing else could have been expected.
short period elapsed, and the farmer brought the
servant back again to his service;
.but his indig-
naut spouse sternly refused admission to her, and
she had again to leave. The farmer seems, how-
ever, to have determined on speedy revenge. Buck-
ling up his clothes into a sack he left, with the
pretence of going to Perth for guano. This
was
not, however, his intention. He lifted, it appears,
all the available cash at the bank, which is believed,
to have been considerable, and departed to Glasgow,
alunr, with his guilty partner and her sister. It is
stated that passages were engaged in a ship to
Australia, for which about £7O were paid, whence
they have gone. The affair has created a deep feel-
ing of sympathy for the wife, who is believed to be
an excellent and amiable woman.

THE KINGSWOOD MURDER —Yesterday morning
Jacob Zimmerman and Henri Mainfortz, two Germans,
who had been apprehended on a warrant, near Chichester,
on suspicion of being Concerned in the murder of Martha
Halliday (under circumstances already detailed in The Sun),
were brought before Mr. W. Street, one of the local justices;
but upon Mr. Superintendent Coward, of the Surrey con-
stabulary, stating that he had made inquiries into the truth
of the statements made by the prisoners, and had found
them correct. and that he did not propose to offer any evi-
dence, the prisoners were dismissed.

Subjoined is a list of the Australian ships knows
to be at sea, with £582,000 in gold, viz.:—

Days at

Gold on board.

Name. Sailed. Sea. Ounces. Value.
Marco Polo Feb. 18....122 .. 6,570 £26,000
Boreas March 4 ...108 .. 10,468 42,000
Agincourt March 28.. 84 .. 19,822 79,000
Norfolk April 13 ... 68 .. 58,785 235,000
Donald M‘Kay April 10 ... GI .. 50,003 200,000

145,653 £582,000
Tlze Marco VOlOl ilis before mentioned, put into Valparaiso,