The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-12 00:00:00

THE LATE ELOPEMENT.

The fact of the marriage of the Lady Adela Villiers with
Captain C. P. Ibbetson, at Gretna Hall, on Thursday last,
was announced in the Morning Post of Monday.
Our detailed notice of the fugitive pair broke off with their
arrival at the York station of the North Midland, Railway.
We now append such other interesting facts in connexion
with "the affair" as have since reached us.

After breakfasting in the refreshment room at York, where
the elegant appearance and manner of Lady Adela was par-
ticularly remarked by several persons present, the lovers
again took their places in the mail train.
Throughout the run from York to Newcastle the parties
do not appear to have been observed, but traces of them weie
discovered on the line to Carlisle, which led the pursuers to
Gretna• green.
The fugitives reached Carlisle shortly after one o'clock on
Thursday, having thus run a distance of upwards of four
hundred miles between that hour and six o'clock on the pre-
vious evening. Here they entered the Gallant Captain's car-
riage, and post-horses having been furnished by that inde-
fatigable aider and abettor of the god Hymen, in the palmy
days of Gretna—the good host of the "Bush"—in a very few
moments, the party dashed through the fine old city en route
for " the birder."

The post-boys on the road between Carlisle and Gretna
were considered the Lest in the kingdom in the days when
posting formed the almost exclusive means of locomotion.

ProbaUly their superiority may have arisen from the inkling
all must have had of the importance of their trust in many
cases. Be this as it may, the race of "Carlisle boys" is not
yet extinct, and by dint of whip and spur, the expectant
pair of whom we treat alighted at the "Gretna Hall"
Tavern before half-past two o'clock on Thursday afternoon.
To unlearned " Southrons" it may be interesting to know
that "mine host of the Hall" unites the somewhat irrecon-
cileable characters of Boniface and priest in his own person.
At the moment of the arrival of the fugitives he was pre-
siding at a dinner, the guests at which consisted chiefly of a
staff of engineers, who are just now pursuing their avocation
in this hitherto peaceful neighbourhood. A very short inter-
val occurred, howeVer, before a person entered the room, who
delivered what appeared to the guests to be a sort of myste-
rious message to the chairman, but which in reality was sim-
ply a summons to attend " a lady and gentleman who had
just arrived from London, 'and were waiting his presence in
the saloon' up stairs." With a promptitude which sayi
much for the business habits of mine host, he immediately
vacated his post at the head of the table, and forth With pr_-
ceeded to grant the desired interview.

The first introduction over, the Gallant Captain, in the
presence of his fair companion, inquired of the worthy host
whether it was true that he himself " performed the cere-
mony of marriage when requested so to do ?"
Mine host replied with great alacrity that he had done se
for some years past, and should continue to act in a similar
capacity unless prevented by Lord Brougham, who, he be-
lieved, had attempted some interference with his prerogative
last year.
Boniface, requesting permission to retire for a few moments,
speedily returned attired in full canonicals.
The first procedure was to obtain the names of both
parties, with a proper description of their respective resi-
dences. Here for an instant a difficulty was apprehended.
Lady Adele confessed that at the moment she could only re-
collect three of her Christian names, though she believed she
had more. Our host soon calmed her Ladyship's misgivings,
by declaring that all the names were not necessary, in-
stancing a case where the same omission had been declared
valid—that of the Prince de Capua, who, possessing a string
of something like sixteen names, when asked to state them at
Gretna, could only recollect about one half the number. '
The names obtained, next came the question of witnesses.
. .

It was highly desirable that no party in the house should be
requested to attest the marriage, who might by possibility
have a knowledge of the principal actors. This was im-
pressed upon mine host, who promptly remarked that the
Carlisle postilions generally considered it their privilege to
act as witnesses on similar occasions, adding, that if the
Gallant Captain had no objection, one of them would be a
perfectly competent witness, while his own " better
might be the second.

•
The proposition was at once entertained, and the parties
alluded to were summoned to attend.

The clerical character was now altogether assumed by
mine host, and the ceremony commenced by a declaration
on the part of both her Ladyship and the Gallant Officer,
to the effect that they were single persons, and that they
had come to "Gretna freely and willingly, of their own ac-
cord, and without force. •

The priest (for the time being) addressing the Gallant
Officer, next said, " Will you take this woman to be your
lawful wife?"

The Gallant Officer, without waiting to hear the remainder
of the sentence, cheerfully replied, "I will."
The officiating officer continued—" To live after God's or-
dinance, in the holy state of matrimony. Will you love her
and comfort her, and cherish her in sickness and in health,
and forsaking all others, remain faithful unto her so longras
ye both shall live?"
_

The Gallant Captain again plighted his troth to her Lady.
ship with great apparent sincerity.
Similar questions were then addressed to Lady Adele, who
duly responded, maintaining her self-possession throughout
in the most remarkable manner, and notwithstanding the
excessive fatigue she had undergone, appearing in high spirits.
The Gallant Captain next took the left band of his fair
companian, and having placed the ring thereon, mine host
joined their hands together, and declared the parties man
and wife in the following terms :—" Forasmuch as this man
and this woman have consented together before God sind
this people to be man and wife, by receiving this ring,'
hereby declare them to be such in the presence of God and
these witnesses."
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The marriage was then recorded in the usual manner upon
a printed form prepared for the purpose. As a good deal of
curiosity may be supposed to prevail on the subject at this
moment, we append a copy of the document, together with
the signatures, exactly as they appear in the original :77:
" Kingdom of Scotland,
" County of Dumfries,
" Parish of Gretna.
" These are to certify to all to whom these presents may
come, that Charles Parke Ibbetson, of the parish of St.
Pancras, London, in the county of Middlesex, and Adele
Corisanda Villiers, of the parish. of St. George, London. in
the county of Middlesex, being now here present, and having
declared themselves single persons, were this day married,
after the manner of the laws of the Church of England, and
agreeably to the laws of Scotland.

-"
As witness our hands at Gretna Hall,' this sixth day
of November,lB4s..-

" C. P. IBBETSON.
"ADELA VILLIERS." •
J. LINTON."
JANE LINTON.
(ROBERT COPLEY."
The signatures were not particularised by anything re-
markable. That of the Captain was written in a fine, bold
hand, while Lady Adela's might have been written with a
" crowquill small and new," were one to judge from its deli-
cacy and finish.

" Solemnised by

". Witnesses

The ceremony concluded, the newly-wedded pair sto!es a
few moments to refresh themselves, preparatory to proceeding
further northward. The afternoon was now waning fast, and
Gretna having served its turn, the fugitives were naturally
anxious to leave the " Hall " some distance behind them.
At four o'clock, the best horses the stable afforded were put
to the carriage, and the Captain having, with a bounteous
hand, satisfied all, claims upon his purse, handed his youth-
ful bride to her seat, and springing into the carriage him-
self, the happy pair drove off together in the direction of
Edinburgh.
Despite the inconvenience of amateur postboys, sad not
very first-rate cattle, the party reached Langholm, a distance
of sixteen miles, and the first stage upon the old road to
EdinbUrgh, before six o'clock. Relays of horses were hers
provided at the Crown Inn, and our travellers again pro-
ceeded onwards, arriving about eight o'clock at Moss Paul, a
lone hostelrie, the property of the Duke of Buccleuch, situates
about midway between Gretna and Hawick.
At this place they rested for the night, intending to pro-
ceed early the next morning on their way to Edinburgh.—
Post.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
SHELL PRACTICE ON BOARD THE SCOURGE
STEAM-SLOOP, AT PORTSMOUTH.
The Scourge steam-sloop, of 1,124 tons burthen, went out
of Portsmouth harbour yesterday morning, under the direc-
tion of Captain Chads, of the Excellent, gunnery ship, having
with him several officers of that ship. Captain Stevens, of
the Royal Marine Artillery, and a gang of seamen, gunners,
and marine artillerymen, likewise from the Excellent. The
(by was unpropitious; a constant mizzling rain, with thick
weather, prevailed, which almost made it dangerous to fire;
but Captain Chads having taken up a position to the east-
ward of the Wight, fired the shells in the direction of the
shores off Hayling island, in which no vessel or boat could
be moving,
. . .

The result of the practice has been most satisfactory, and
we should say, very conclusive in establishing the capability
of steamers to carry mortars without detriment to the ves-
sels, or the machinery of the engines. Thirteen 13-inch
shells were fired with the following charges of powder :
Two with a charge of five pounds of powder, two of seven
pounds, two of ten pounds, one of fifteen, and six of a
charge of twenty pounds of powder. The shells were not
filled with powder, but with sand equal to the weight of the
powder of loaded shells. The mortar stands above the
weather deck, abaft the mainmast, and it was expected that
the explosion would have the effect of submerging her abaft,
but the discharge was scarcely felt, and the shock sustained
by the vessel was trifling. Eleven shells were tired right
aft, and the two last were Sred directly abeam. Those last
discharged affected the vessel most, but even these caused
comparatively slight shocks. The engineers in the engine-
room scarcely felt it, and not the smallest derangement took
place, although the Scourge, during the last six discharges of
the twenty pounds of powder charge, was under full steam.
Neither the bed of the mortar nor the heavy timber work
on which it rests, has been in the slightest degree disturbed.
Some of the thin deal hammock berthing, and some of the
slight plank berthing of the bulwark have been splintered,
and a few panes of glass broken, which is all the damage
sustained; and the trial has most fully established the fact,
that these vessels can carry such an armamentwithperrfatects
safety. Mr. Fincham, the master shipwright, and Mr.
Ni
the assistant, went on board the Scourge after she returned,
and minutely inspected her, but could not land the least
sympton of any derangement on board her.
Capt. Chads will go out in the Scourge again to-day, when
the long 10-feet gun of 87 cwt. will be likewise tried.
NAVAL RETIREMENT or COMMANDERS.—The seniors of
this meritorious class of officers, who were. promoted at the
conclusion of the war, and in whose glorious achievement
they have all participated with honour and distinction, have
met at Portsmouth and Plymouth, and formed themselves
into committees, for the purpose of memorialising the Board
of Adtniralty, to confer upon their long and arduous war
services, the same boon of retirement which has been ex-
tended to those of the Post Captains.
The President, 90, Capt. Stanley, with the flag of Admiral
Dacres, is quite ready for sea, but is 'waiting for the arrival
of the Dee steam transport, with six nine-pounder field
pieces, which the President takes out as far as the Cape of
Good Hope, but which are to go on to the Mauritius. •
The Fisgard, 42, Captain Duntze, left Lima on the 30th
of August, for Valparaiso.
The Juno, 26, Captain P. Blake, sailed on Monday from
Spithead, but the weather proving bad she returned, and
sailed again yesterday morning with a fair wind for Rio,
thence to join the squadron.
The Wasp, 18, Commander S. T. Ussher, left St. Helena
on the 16th of September, for Spithead, to be paid off.
The Frolic, 18, Commander Cospatrick B. Hamilton ar-
rived at Lima, from Africa, on the 24th of August, and left
on the 29th, it is said, with " sealed orders " to join Rear-
Admiral Sir G. Seymour, the Commander-in-Chief.
The Spider, 6, schooner packet, Lieutenant-Commander
Pym, arrived at Buenos Ayres, on the 18th of August, from
Monte Video.
The Penelope, 22, steam-frigate, Commodore Jones, left
St. Helena, for Evando, on the 19th of September.
The Cormorant steam-sloop, Commander George T. Gor-
don, arrived at Lima, from Panama, in eight days and a half,
on the Bth of August.

The Earl and Countess of Lichfield and the yoith.
ful Ladies Harriet and Guendaline Anson are expected to
winter at Graffenberg, the Noble Earl having relinquished
his intention of visiting Naples this Tear,

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TEILI GEN CE. I
("letriaS, ANT, HASTINGS.
' ,!' *eetitg of the proprietors was held at
the Al tte t 4 2, for the purpose of confirming a
resoluti= • hof JuT.‘• last, relative to the
sale of t --"wo and Brighton Company.
Rowf,.. the chairman of the Company, pre-
sided, and said that the meeting, which was a matter of
form, was for the purpose of confirming a resolution passed
some time ago, with reference to the Act for etendins the
line to Ashford, and also for the purpose of confirming a
resolution, transferring the rights of the Brighton
m, Lewes,
and Hastings line to the Brighton Company. Ile oved—
" That the Keymer branch, and also the Hastings and
Ashford line be made over by the Brighton, Lewes, and
Hastings Railway Company to the London and Brighton
Railway Company, if (and when) Acts shall be oainednged for
making the same or either of them ; it having been arra
that the London and Brighton Railway Company are to re-
pay to the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway Cotn-
pany all expenses incurred by them in relation to the said
Reymer branch and the Hastings and Ashford, whether such
Acts shall pas 4 or not, beand are hereby confirmed. And that
the corporate seal of the Company be affixed to the transfer,
and the London and Brighton Railway Coman have all
the powers granted to the Brighton, Lewes,pany d Hastings
Railway Company by the Act passed in the
and Hlast session
ing of
Parliament, enabling the Brighton,
Lewes, asts
Railway Company to make a branch railway from South-
over, Lewes, to join the London and Brighton Railway at
Kevmer ; and also the powers of another Act, also passed in
the last session of Parliament, to enable the said Brighton,
Lewes, and Hastings Railway Company to make a railway
from Balverbrittle, in the county of Sussex, to Ashford, in
Kent, so far, as the same relate to such portions of the rail-
way authorised by the said last-mentioned Act as has not
been ,transferred to the South-Eastern Railway Company,
pursuant to the provisions in the said Act contained; toge-
ther with all the rights and privileges of the Brighton,
Lewes, and Hastings Railway Company, in or over so much
and such parts of the said railway and works authorised by
the said last-mentioned Act, and the stations and conve-
niences connected therewith ,as have been transferred to the
aid South Eastern Railway Company, in pursuance of the
provisions of the said Act."
Mr. CROWLEY, the deputy-chairman, having seconded the
confirmation of the resolution, it was put and unanimously
agreed to.

• HULL AND HOLYHEAD DIRECT.
A meeting of the committee of management in this under-
taking was held on Saturday, at the offices of the Company,
2, Winchester-buildings, Winchester-street, Lord Viscount
Ingestre, M.P., presiding.
His Lordship having briefly introduced the proceedings,
the report of Mr. W. 11. Smith, the engineer, was laid before
the meeting, and read by Mr. William Tyler, the secretary
to the Company.
It commenced by stating that it became his (Mr. Smith's)
duty to report to the Committee on the practicability of the
Hull and Holyhead Direct Railway, from the surveys
which had already been made, the state of forwardness of
those surveys at the present moment, and generally upon
the probability of remuneration to the shareholders here-
after. From the rumours which had prevailed as to the
practicability of the line, he felt called upon to spare no
pains or detail, and he wished to be able to prove that it
would not only, commercially speaking, be highly ad-
vantageous, but in an engineering point of view, of an
extremely satisfactory character. The formation of the line,
in tunnels, gradients, or curves, and cost of construction,
would be much more favourable than he at first anticipated,
and much under his original estimate. There would be no
curves so quick, or gradients so severe, as on railways at
present in existence; and, strange as it might appear, there
would not_ be so great a total length of tunnelling, or any
one, so long, as those upon an equal distance either of the
London and Birmingham or of the Great Western Railways,
while on the projected line there existed the advantage of
passing throughout a fine building-stone of the best pos-
sible quality for tunnelling. There were many reasons,
based upon the result of local inquiry and information,
which were amply sufficient to warrant the construction of
this line. 1. Taking as termini the towns of Chester and
Northwich, Northwich and Knntsford, Altringham and
Manchester, Manchester and Holyhead, Northwich and
Sheffield, Sheffield and Macclesfield, they were in themselves
of sufficient importance to demand direct lines ; this line
embracing the whole of these important towns amongst its
other enumerated advantages. 2.• Railways, being proved to
be 'the cheapest of all communication, the great agricultural
produce of Ireland would be conveyed by the Holyhead line
to Chelter, and by the Hull and Holyhead direct to the port
of Hull, and other great eastern outlets of the kingdom,
bringing in return the produce and manufactures of those
districts, the manufactures of Sheffield and Manchester, and
the large trade in rock salt from Northwich to the northern
ports of Europe. 3. For the vast mineral wealth of Derby-
shire and Yorkshire, including some of the oldest mines in the
kingdom of iron, coal, and lead, and the finest stone and lime-
stone, increased facilities of transit would thus be afforded.
4. The great accession of traffic arising from the numerous
feeders, consisting of the Sheffield and Great Grimsby and
numerous other lines, as likewise the branches already pro-
posed from Castleton to Buxton, and the potteries on the
south, and to Stockport and Manchester on the north. Mr.
Smith proceeded to say that he had considered the relative
merits of the atmospheric system, against which he thought an
undue amount of prejudice existed. He had adopted curves
and gradients, and also a line generally applicable with
advantage to either. The Hull and Holyhead line would
form the shortest from the new American packet station,
Galway, Dublin, &c., to Hull, the Baltic, and the northern
parts of Europe, and would have for its feeders numerous
existing and projected great lines of railway, running north
and south, from Sheffield, Chester, Macclesfield, &c. It
would likewise facilitate the shipment of manufactures,
which are at present conveyed to Chester, and thence, by a
circuitous route, to the interior, and ultimately to the port of
Hull, at great loss of time and expense, the latter amount-
ing in itself almost to a prohibition. The surveys would be
complete in time for deposit for going before Parliament in
the approaching session.
The CuAntMAN remarked that but one opinion could pre-
vail as to the satisfactory character of the report, the adop-
tion of which he would move.
The motion was put and carried nem. dis.
Mr. TYLER announced that the notice of the intended ap-
plication to Parliament, in the ensuing session, would appear
in the Gazette of Friday next.
A vote of thanks to the Chairman, which his Lordship
briefly acknowledged, concluded the business of the meeting.

GREAT WESTERN AND FALMOUTH JUNCTION.
EXETEE, MONDAY ASTEENOON.—A meeting of the Great
Western and Falmouth Junction Company was held to-day
at the Old London Hotel, in this city, for the purpose of
receiving the engineer's report of the survey of the line, and
other business.
At eleven o'clock the attendance was both numerous and
respectable.
Mr. JA3IES GOLDSWORTHY, having been unanimously
called to the chair, commenced the procedings by at once
calling on the engineer of the Company, Mr. George Han-
son Julian, to read his report, which he did as follows:
" Having been directed to make a survey for a line of rail-
way from Crediton to Falmouth, keeping as near the princi-
pal towns on the route as may be practicable, I have the sa-
tisfaction to report that a line has been laid down, which for
gradients and general engineering qualities cannot be sur-
passed. The Committee will remember that what is called the
central line was long since surveyed, and it was my intention
to have adopted it, with such variations only as
.might be
found necessary to obviate the formidable objections which
had been made by the Board of Trade. In proceeding to
do so I discovered a very superior line was obtainable,
in a direction which appears to have been hitherfo entirely
overlooked. The line I have adopted leaves the station of
the Crediton and Exeter Railway at Crediton, thence
_pro-
ceeds by the valley of the Yeo to Colebroke, thence by Bow
and North Tawton to the lowest point of the ridge at
Sam pford Moor, thence along the valleys of the Lew and
Carey rivers to
.Launceston. Arriving at Launceston in the
manner :le6cribed, the line passes along the valley, close
to the west side of the town, and the station will be within
'a few chains of the market-place and the principal hotel
near the centre of the town. Upon making exploring snr-
veys between Launceston and Bodmin, it became obvious
to me that the lowest attainable summit between those
towns was at Doz Mare ; I therefore decided on taking a
survey of the country in that direction. From Launceston
the line runs by South Petherwin and Trebartha to the
summit of the Doz Mare, from which it immediately de-
rcends to Warleggan, along the Cardenham valley to the
and dose to the county town of Bodmin. The chief
dithctilties and heavy works of the late central line, which
were so strongly condemned by the Board of Trade, were
t.ncounteito,l in the district of country betweenLaunceston and
'Botnia, I can safely assert that through this district the
. line I have described will be constructed at much less ex-
pense, with far better gradients, and across a summit.of 130
feet lower than the old central line. From Bodmin the line
continues near to the Tretoil and Lanivet Consols Mine,
and the town of Lostwithiel, to the valley of the Luxulian
waters, along which it passes for three miles to the centre of
the large village of Roche. Crossing the lowest part of the
ridge at Roche, with a gradient of about 1 in 200, the line
emerges into the valley of the river Fal, along which it
.runs within a short distance of the towns of Grampound,
• Tregony, Probus, diverging therefrom to Ladock on to
Trur', where there would be a station adjoining the town.
From Truro the line will pass near Killion, acnss the Carnon
stream, along the valley to Burnt House, close to the borough
town of Penryn, and terminating near Killegrow-street,
Fahruntth, with a branch fur heavy traffic to the water's
edge, near Green Bank. The whole of the line thus de-
scribed has been most carefully and thoroughly surveyed,
and will be about four miles shorter than any line yet pro-
jected from. Exeter direct to Falmouth, and about twenty- '
fors miles shorter tnan the late coast line. Our active sur-
veyors, a large and efficient staff of whom have been
employed fur six weeks past in making the surveys, have
engaged to complete their work before the 20th instant, and
from the forward .state of their survey and plans, I have no
doubt they will be able easily to fulfil their undertaking,
thus ensuring to the company the ability to comply with the
t3tanding Orders of Parliament.
"I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
"G. 11. JULIAN."

Mr. JOHN STOODEN wished to ask the engineer in what
direction this line would proceed, taking it in reference to the
late central line, and showing the difference of the summits,
gradients, Sic.
The ENGINEER replied, that the late line passed from
Launceston, and in its progress towards Bodmin crossed
the range of hills proceeding west from Launceston. It had
a tunnel at Piper's Pool, with the heavy gradient of one in
eighty, which began to rise at that place; this gradient
extend'; for several miles. Here it was proposed to have
a tunnel of 700 yards in length, and there is a sort of table-
land extending for about four miles, the descent from which
would be by a gradient of one in eighty towards Bodmin,
passing the turnpike-road at Ponsconcer. The summit
level, however, which he (Mr. Julian) had taken, was at
Doz Mare Pool, where he -rose to the summit and imme-
diately fell. He had no table-land to contend with, because
be got into the leading valleys which took him with the
ea4e-d possible gradients which streams of the character he
ha.l alluded to could do in a direct line towards Bodmin;
.- 1( tile stream from Tretoil, which he had taken to arrive at
his minimit level, was also a leading stream. Here he
got a level along the valley for three miles in extent, with-
out-any cutting, ar,d in which it was only requisite to turn
up the land for the purpose of laying down the rails. It was
eft this point that they had to overcome what had hitherto
been considered the most difficult part of the country, viz.,
the cutting through the Bodmin moors.
Mr. HARVET.--YOU are speaking of the difficulties of the
old Cornwall and Central Devon scheme.
The ENGINEER said he was so, and he felt satisfied that he
had chosen the lowest possible summit, and that the line
which he had laid down would cross the moors in the best
possible manner.—(Cheers.) It would be found that he had
taken the lowest practicable summits, and the easiest gra-
dients that could be had. All the streams rose in the mi4uile
of the moors, flowing thence in every direction, and the lime
'le had chosen led exactly • from one into the other, in the
direct line of their raHway.

After some co►iversational discussion,
Mr. HARVEY then rose and said he wished to offer a few
obwrations upon the report which they had heard real,
and upon some other Ratters connected with the present
undertaking. He had been exceedingly gratified by the
report Which their engineer had•been able to present to theta