Star.
London, England, 1821-08-04 00:00:00

ELOPEMENT.

BIMITNGLIAM, AUGUST 2.—An elopement, under
very curious circumstances, and shewing a deter-
mination on the part of the young La.iy seldom
eqnalled, took place in this neighbourhood on Mon-
day morning. The daughter of a Gentleman of for-
tune, residing within a few miles of Worcester, came
a few days since on a visit to a friend of her father's,
who lives about three miles from this place. On
Sunday last a Gentleman, who afterwards proved to
be her lover, called upon her, introducing himself to
the friend of the Lady as an intimate acquaintance
of her father. He spent the thy with the family,
and, as it was supposed, took his departure for
Worcestershire in the evening. So well did the par-
ties arrange their proceedings, that they fixed their
plans in the presence of the whole family, without
the slightest suspicion being excited. Early the next
morning, it was discovered that the young Lady had
escaped in the course of the night, and had lett ail
note assuring her friends that should they succeed in
overtaking her, nothing should prevent her bestow-
ing her hand upon the object of her choice. Instant
pursuit was made, and at every stage the pursuers
had the mortification to find that they had little
chance of overtaking them, till the knot. of Hymen
had been irrevocably tied. Unfortunately for the
fugitives, the celebration of the ceremony was not so
well arranged as the elopement, for owing to the
absence of the Clergyman of a small town in Shrop-
shire, they were compelled to wait in dire sus-
pense," and before his return the friends of the Lady
arrived. Remonstrance was however in vain, and
in the presence of her friends, the lover and his fair
fugitive proceeded to the church. The Clergyman
doubted—the happy pair insisted—the friends op-
posed it by every means in their power, but, as no
legal difficulty intervened, the ceremony was per-
formed. Report says the Lady is very handsome,
and the Gentleman possessed of an ample fortune.—
Both parties are exceedingly well known.

Some time since, a fellow belonging to Kent left.
his wife and seven children to be supported by the
Parish. He was followed by the officers in Glasgow,
and on Monday he was apprehended by two of the
Gorbals Police. It appears he has got another wife
since he came to Scotland: a woman came to the Po-

lice Office on Monday, who claimed him as her hus-
band, and produced her marriage-lihes, and expressed
a determination to accompany him to England.
The following tragi-comic paragraph appears in a
Paris Paper of Sunday On Thursday some boat-
men took a man out of the Seine, who had thrown
himself in from the Pont-au•Change. On conveying
him to the Corps de Garde, they succeeded in re-
covering him. He was no sooner restored than he
assured the Commissary of Police very seriously, that
as soon as he was free he should take the first oppor-
tunity of drowning himself. The Commissary pro-
posed to him to sign a declaration of his intention to
destroy himself, and to which the man readily agreed.
At this juncture, a female arrived, loudly screaming
My husband, will see my husband! When, how-
ever, she found him alive, she was immediately silent.
The boatmen approached her, to ask for some re-
ward for having saved herhushand, when she angrily
repulsed them, saying, Why did not you let him drown
himself? what business had you to meddle with him?
These words had the effect of curing the husband of
his folly, and he swore that he would not again
attempt to drown himself."

VENTILATION OF COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—
The attractions of this place of amusement have been
considerably increased within the last few nights, in
consequence of the excellent manner in which it has
been ventilated. The Theatre is perfectly free from
that unpleasant and close smell experienced on enter-
ing other crowded assemblies, and it is surprisingly
cool, considering the state of the weather and the
numbers who frequent it. Without some adequate
arrangement of this kind, few amusements can com-
pensate for the inconvenience experienced in a heated
and vitiated atmosphere. The temperature of the
House of Lords has been frequently up to 90 deg.
and the House of Commons has baffled every attempt
hitherto made to ventilate it. The Courts of Law,
too, are intolerably close and oppressive. Covent-
Garden Theatre has now a constant current of air
passing through every part, and its temperature is,
even on the most crowded nights, not higher than
summer heat.
LYNN, JULY 29.—The grand Cut of the Eau Brink,
in the Bedford Level, which was intended to have
been opened by the Commissioners, with appropriate
ceremonials, on Tuesday next, was opened on Friday
last, with no ceremony at all, by a very high tide
and heavy gale at N.W. The boundary of land which
WAS finally to be divided, to perfect a channel to our
harbour, was thus suddenly swept away, when the
tide flowed so rapidly up the new Cut, that had not
immediate means been adopted for letting a portion
of the sea-flood into the Hundred-foot river, the new

banks must have been overflowed, and a large track
of land-been laid under salt water. Fortunately no
material damage has been sustained by this elemental
eruption; but thousands who had formed parties for
the aquatic gala will be disappointed in their plea-
surable expectations on Tuesday next, by an event
which verifies the prophetic adage, that " time and
tide stay for no man." _ _

THE, ROMAN BRIDGE IN HoLLAND.—Groningen.
—The Roman bridge, which was discovered in Rol-
land, in 1818, is now wholly cleared from the turf
with which it was surrounded. It is three miles long
and twelve feet broad. It laid, by the fifteenth cohort
of Germanicus, over the marshes, in which deep beds
of turf have since been formed, and, in all probability,
gradually sunk into the marsh by its own weight.—
rhe resinous particles which are in the marshy soil
have probably contributed to preserve the bi idge,
which is entirely of wood. Every six feet there were
posts to support the railing, as may be judged by the
holes in which they were fixed. This great wui k,
which consists of a judicious number of beams, ap-
pears to have been wrought %%itli vet), large ; the
workmanship is adn.iratlic.