The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-23 00:00:00

Larkin, a wealthy shopkeeper in the town in which ,she
was stationed. The attachment having reached the ears
of the family, the-father forbid the acquaintance, and " to
make assurance doubly
.sure," a lad eligible to seek the
hand of Miss Macmahon, was introduced, and a marriage
determined upon. The wedding -clothes were bought---;-
the marrif ge settlements completed, and the day named.
But, a• the old adage goes, " there's many. a slip 'twixt
the cup and the lip," so it was with respect to the Mac-
mahon family, for the night before the appointed day, the
sly policeman rescued tho bride-elect from the custody. of
her watchful uncle, and before the diseovery'of her elope-
ment, she was on the road-to her intended people-in-law
at Itatheornme. When the morning came, Newcastle
Was in a ferment. A warrant having been obtained from
a magistrate for her arrest upon a charge of felony, the
family 'of the Mactnahons was up in arms, and the
country around was searched for the delinquent, and a
.reward of £lO was offered through the Limerick Chronicle
for her apprehension. Within two days Webb returned
to his station; to avoid Coming under the charge of deser-

tion and resigned his office as policeman ; but so great
was the indignation of the- family and the friends of the
Maemabons. that he had to be escorted out of the town.

Perceiving he was " set," with the instinct of a policeman,
he made a circuit to arrive at the place of appointment,
and, eluding his pursuers, arrived in Cork on Sunday
night. Here he •inet his "intended," and on Monday
they went to get. married,: but were recognised by an old
soldier of- the local companies, who gave • them into cus-
tody; They were immediately taken before. the presiding
magistrate, who discharged Webb, but remanded .the
lady.- However, on Tuesday, Webb having engaged 'the
services of Mr. 1 I
.0' Brien; he showed the bench that

she *am not criminally cha
quently 'discharged. This- was a t<rrtnnate release, for
that day, being Shrove Tuesday,. they were enabled with-
out much (Hay to be joined in Wedlock by a priest. On
Wednesday, the father and uncle of the young
,wife

The ruder cannot but h

arrived in this city, but they found they were a
late, the happy couple having started the
to enjoy the scenery of ttie Lake., of Kilfaxm

ay too

mile morning
Ork

Comtitulioi

paiu w ule timers or *Joe ongtnal I.;100 Sheffield. anu
MancheAer shares. The No. 1 quarter or preferential
shares are to receive at the rate of 74 percent, per annum.
Satisfactory arrangements have been made with the neigh-
bouring lines. •

(kRMAN RAILROADS.—From recent German papers
se gather that within the year 1846 there opened of Ger-
man railways li4 German miles, or, in round numbers,
about 800 English .miles in length. The 'wrest section,
amounting to 94 German miles, was opened' in Prussia,
and includes the direct line from. Hamburgh to Berlin.
There is a line from Frankfort on the Oder to Bertin,
which joins the line from Upper Silesia to Stettin, tin the
Baltic sea. Upper Silesia is, therefore, connected by
lljelaigliliwirligiv`e:-I-f.
railway communication with Stettin on the. Baltic, and
with llamburgh rid Berlin. In another year there will
he another line to Hamhurgh, yid Dresden, which is now
finished as far as Hanover. The Prussians completed
their direct line to Hamburgh. while. the good King Of
Hanover was raising, the wind to mange the uniform of
his soldiers from red to blue; In the south of Germany
the grand Austrian trunk line from Vienna to Poland
passes through . Upper Silesia, on its way to" Galicia. A
! portion of the line already constructed leads through tht
plipneerin
Silesiapro -
vale of the Oder, and is continued to Cracow, The lint
now constructing from Frankfort to
the communication between Upper
of the Oder to the Rhine at
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.igaged 'the frpouttxn:hA_natnad-e..rppr:nssidt:sttceTrirdit..oryl: isii,'
a railway' from Flushing. to Dusseltnittiret9
the bench that
.nd- she- was conse-
,__ titer . good communicati,---

ti;; which all these lines

Silesii or the Va►li(

truck with the dire
:ake. They uniforrt