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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-04 00:00:00

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less than three feet in length. It seems to be formed of
two trunklike bones of great strength, diverging like the
other, into a fork at the root, and uniting and bl
into one at the extremity. These curious relics of a re-
mote age were found in a vast bed of 'stiff blue clay
30 to 35 feot below the surface. They extended
length of about Ifs feet. In the same neighbourhooli,
at a considerably- less depth, have been found tl_e fos_
remains of the elephant, Ammonites and belemnites are
also occasionally met with.—Northampton 11.1ermint:

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THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY ELOPEMENT.— _.„
cumstance has created more gossip in Nottingham and
its neighbourhood, for some years, than The Draper's
Wedding, (which we noticed in our last,) and that partly
owing to the attempt made to bury the matter in oblivion.
In additio' to what has been already mentioned, the fol-
lowing extract from a Nottingham paper may be added as
a sequel :--" The bridegroom is Mr. Robert Oldershaw,
draper, Long-row, .Nottingham. When the deception
was exposed, and the ambitious draper was made aware
of the cruel hoax which had been practised upon him,
his vexation knew no bounds ; and the consequence was,
that the newly-created wife was banished from the pre-
sence of her husband, to return to the humble dwelling
of her parents. The tales told of the affair have been
most romantic and marvellous, and we admit that some
parts are hidden in mystery. How a young roan, and a
respectable tradesman of unquestionable quickness and
parts, should have fallen a dupe to an intriguing woman,
is very difficult to conceive, and can only be accounted
for by supposing him to have no common share of the
bump of vanity, as the phrenologists would say. Certain,
however, it is, that he arrived in the town early in the
morning, in a chaise and pair—that the clergyman of the
parish church was summoned—the clerk, who was unwell,
was aroused from his bed—and the license being produced
the marriage was performed, not, however, without a word
of caution from the worthy vicar to the young heroine.
The clerk acted the part of father, as we are assured, and
gave away the blushing bride. Whether it was the ad.
monition of the vicar, or what else, we cannot say, but
something so operated upon the lady's nerves that she
was incapable of signing her name without assistance;
and when that was done she fainted away, and was with
difficulty taken into the vicar's house, where restoratives
were applied, and some time elapsed ere she was able to
take her seat by the side of her enamoured husband in
the chaise, to be drawn away from Nottingham. The
pretended Hon. Harriet Lumley is reported to he Harriet
Gretton, the daughter of Samuel Gretten, labourer, of
East Bridgford. She is 28 years of age, a fine figure,
with black hair ;-and was certainly away from the village
at the time, but returned back to her father's roof on
Wednesday or Thursday. There can be no doubt the
fair inamorata has been frequently in Nottingham, often
in a riding-habit, on a fine horse, and with a servant in
livery on horseback behind her. Where these sprang
from, as from fairy-land, wo do not presume to say.
Report points to a red building in the Park (the Barracks)
as the source from whence they came, but that may be
only like one of the thousand-and-one tales of this strange
story. It is reported that some suspicion was excited by
the roughness of her hands, but she very adroitly silenced
this by observin,g,.that one of the things which her friends
at Rufford had not approved was her great fondness for
gardening, and that she had often been chid for her devo-
tedness to the cultivation of her beautiful plot of flowers.
It is said that some time since she made an attempt upon
several other respectable tradesmen in Nottingham,.when
she passed herself off as Lady Bentinck, and that is the
name she is often called in her native village.”-Not-
tingham Review.

BAPTISM OF AN AFRICAN INFANT.—SHAMEFUL
BEHAVIOUR OF A MOB.—II! our last week's impression
we intimated that it was the intention of the Bishop of
Worcester to administer the rite of baptism to a child of
a native of the Amaponda tribes, of South Africa, which
had been born in Leicester at the close of the past year.
The ceremony accordingly took place on Monday last, in
the Cathedral, at the conclusion of the afternoon service.
It would have been a pleasing duty for us to record this
interesting event, did it not equally become our duty to
notice the disgraceful scene with which it was accom-
panied. On our entrance into the Cathedral we found
the choir filled with a large congregation, the greater part
of whom appeared to be highly respectable, and who had
assembled for this purpose of witnessing the ceremony.
The people in the nave conducted themselves in a manner
anything but fit for the sacred place in which they were
assembled ; in front of the baptismal font, and in other
parts of the building, was collected together one of the
most disorderly rabbles that could anywhere be seen. As
soon as the service was ended, and•the people were seen
to issue from the choir, a rush was made to the font, and
the crowd, in a few moments, became exceedingly dense,
those behind pressing upon those who had secured good
places in front, until at last these were obliged to give
way, and were precipitated over the forms placed near the
font for the accommodation of those who were to takeepnarsut
ensued
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of
andconfusion,
children, being thrown from their feet, were scrambling
pellmell, on the floor together ; the recess in which the
font is placed thus became filled, but the crowd still
continued to jostle each other, and for ten minutes or
more kept shouting, whistling, and quarrelling with each
other, in a manner which would have almost disgraced
the gallery of a low theatre. We certainly thought, when
we witnessed this tumult, that all idea of baptising the
infant in public would be abandoned ; but we were
mistaken, for after some time the bishop made his
appearance, accompanied by some of the officials of the
Cathedral, the mother of the child, dressed in the costume
of her country, the sponsors, and the child itself, and the
ceremony was—to say the least of it, injudiciously—pro-
ceeded with ; but so great was the noise and
,coi?fusion
that the voice of the bishop, although he evidently
exerted himself to the utmost of his power, could not be
heard at half-a-dozen paces' distance, and more than
once his lordship was obliged to stop until order was
partially restored. The ceremony was thus, after some
trouble, got through, the child being named Leicester
England, and its sponsors being Mr. Tyler, (their con-
ductor, Mrs. Tyler, and Mrs. Edwards. At the conclu-
sion of the ceremony, the partiewsapirnoogtceaescdoceodmeaptgloeisrhtehtdoe
Chapter House, to register the child ; but their journey
obtainthither,
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curiosities,
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without some difficulty. This duty being at length com-
pleted, the mother and child, together with those who
accompanied her, were—to avoid the crowd gathering in
the nave—conducted through the cloisters into College
Green, where the carriage which brought them to the
Cathedral was in waiting for them. On their entrance
into College Green, they were greeted by the shouts of
the crowd there assembled, and the ringing of the College
bells. They then proceeded in their carriage, which was
covered with the skins of wild beasts, to the house at
which they were staying, preceded by a brass band, and
the same night returned to Nottingham. where they are
being exhibited, having come from thence in the morning
expressly for the purpose of having the rite of baptism
performed by the Bishop of Worcester. The mother of
the child is a native of the Amaponda tribe of South
Africa, the father being a Zoolu Chief, from the mime
region.—Worcester Mina,