The Sun.
London, England, 1826-03-21 00:00:00

LANCASTER, AlAucif 18.

AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE: OF ELOPDIENT, or
rather of Abduction, has lately taken place at Liverpool, which
has occasioned no trifling sensation in the counties of Lancaster
and Chester. 31 iss Turner, a young holy of •about 16 years of
age, and of more than ordinary attractions both of purse and
person, was at the beginning of this month on a visit to a lady
of the name of Dalby, at Liverpool. Miss Turner is the only
child of Win. Turner, Esq., of Wrigley-hall, High Sheriff of
the county of Chester, and the possessor of property, ifgeneml re-
port is at all to be relied on, to the amount of more than a million
sterling. On Friday fortnight a carriage and lour drove up toMrs.
Dalby's door, and a letter addressed to Miss Turner was sent
into the house, front which the young lady learnt that her
mother had been attacked with paralysis ; that she was very de-
sirous to see her daughter; anti that if a moment was lost, it
was apprehended she would be incapable of recognizing her.—
Of course no time was lost on the part of Miss Turner. IVhen •
she saw the carriage, however, she exclaimed, ". Dear me,
this is not my father's carriage ;" but on being assured by
the gentleman inside that it was the carriage of a neighbour
of her, father's, and that he, though a stranger, bad
been commissioned .to conduct her home, •• she did
not hesitate to place herself under his protection. The
postillinns were ordered to drive •in the direction of Mr.
Turner's house ; and, as it- has been since ascertained, they
continued so to drive for about 31) miles, when they were di.
rested to take a northerly direction. For several days the
elopement or abduction remained undiscovered. When, how.
ever, it was ascertained that Miss Turner hid not returned
home, some friends of the family were immediately dispatched
in pursuit of her. They traced them as far as Man.
cheater and Huddersfield; ~but .at the latter place they
lost all traces of the parties. In the mean time a letter
was written to Mr. and Mrs.. 'turner, dated Carlisle,
and signed " Edward Gibbon Wakefield," begging them
not to make themselves unhappy, for that the writer, Mr.
Edward Gibbon Wakefield, had married their daughter.—
This statement is not believed ; but the unhappy parents
are of opinion that she was carried over to the Continent.—
Mr. Wakefield is said to be the son of the author of the
Statistical Account of (rebind ; and neither Mr. Turner
nor any of his family are aware that Miss Turner had
ever even seen that gentleman. He is said, too, to be a
widower, and much older than the lady ; and, it is added,
that he was married to his first wife under very pecidiar
circumstance*. Mrs. Turner is in a State of mind (pike Wes-
cribable ; and her medical attendants are decidedly of, opinion
that if she does not see her daughter in a few days, the shock
which she has sustained will be fatal to her. The account of n
marriage between Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Esq. and Miss
Turner, has been announced in the Lancashire papers, but
neither the clergyman who married thetti, n
Turner where
they were married, is mentioned. Missorthe ililssaacied to be
by far the richest heiress in the kingdom.

THE LATE KING OF PORTUGAL.--401IN VI.
King of Portugal, Emperor of Brazil, was born May 13, 1767.
From 17112, he governed in the character of Regent, in the name
of the Queen, Ins mother, who was affected with mental aliens.
tion. He succeeded her in 1817, and was crowned at Rio
Janeiro, to which place he had retired on the invasion of Por-
tugal by
Buonaparte ; who, in the hope of seizing his person,
lost no time in proclaiming, that the llouse of Braganza had
ceased to reign. John VI., while still but Prince of Brazil,
married, in 1790, the Infanta Charlotte Joachima, daughter of
King Charles IV. of Spain. .
oi ..
The venerable Lord Viscount ETTERVILLE
departed this life on Wednesday, at his residence near this city
(Dublin). lie was the sixth Viscount of his race, and having
been born in 1744, was of course 82 years of age. Infirmity
had long excluded his Lordship from society, but no individual
took a greater interest in the transactions or his country, or es-
pecially in those which related to the of itirs of his suffering
brethren of the Catholic persuasion. His acts (if-charity were
numerous and most munificent, although they were of the
Silent and unostentatious kind- The late Viscount never mar.
the Colouy, and
It is a
vied, and we believe the ancient title of I%etterville is now ex-
tinct.—(Dublin Mortang Post.)
en
Teenn andpaa ,vweraytertinne
almost incredible, that now, in the depth of Tasmanian winter.
although the mornings and evenings are frosty, there has been
fact unexampled in
brought to town from several small neighbouring farms, a se.
and pumkins ! The only reason we
of strawhemes, raspberries, apples
can assign for this prodigy is_, dun the last summers drought's()
telcorrs,
pulverized the ground, and the late warm rains so cherished it,
that the fertility which, under similar circumstances, in a less
congenial climate, would hate been experienced the following
season, has at this most tuition] period evinced itself, leaving
the husbandman every •
just cause for expecting that his next bar-
vest will be urmeecedentedly bountiful.—(llobart Town Ga-
zette, 4111 27, 1426.1
On 'I hurstlay last the Magistrates anti Council
of Maybole transmitted petitions to both Houses
of Parliament against any alteration in the paper
currency of Scotland.—(Glasgow Courier.)