Glasgow Courier. — 1864-07-28 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MURDER AT NORTON.— On Wednesday a man, named Thomas Elmer, was drinking at the Red Lion, Norton, near Stockton-on-Tees, a public. house kept by a woman named Hannah Rowntree. He became quarrelsome, and was ordered to leave the house. He refused to do so, when Mrs. Brown. tree and her daughter attempted to eject him, but being unable to succeed, the mother went for a policeman. During her absence, the ruffian strangled the daughter, whom she found lying dead in the passage. The man is in custody. , The new Act to grant additional facilities for the purchase of small Government annuities, and for assuring payments of money on death, has been issued. Annuities may now be granted to £5O, and may be paid for in smaller instalments and at shorter periods than hitherto. An assurance on death is not to be entered into for or on behalf of a person under 16 or over 60 ; and not to be for more than £lOO or less than £2O. The Act is not to come into force until tables made in pursuance thereof can be legally acted upon. The talk of the West End during the week has been the marriage on Saturday last at St. George's, Hanover Square, of Lady Florence Paget with the Marquis of Hastings. Our readers will remember that the bride was engaged to Mr. Chaplin, and her marriage with that gentleman was fixed for the second week in next month. He was in her box at the opera on the night before the wedding, the Marquis of Hastings being there likewise. In the Morning Post of Monday appeared a short paragraph under the head of "An Extraordinary Marriage," giving the names of those present in the church, and commenting on the absence of the Paget family, but giving no clue to those not behind the scenes of the really sensational circumstances attending the wedding. The truth of the following particulars may be relied on. Lady Florence's jewels, the gift of Mr. Chaplin, have been exhibited for some time at a jeweller's in the West End, and her trousseau was in progress. Presents were pouring in upon her, and even the servants had given her a tea-service of silver. We give from the Queen the details of the actual manner in which the wedding (which was celebrated by the Rev. J. Knipe, a Warwickshire curate) was arranged, and we are enabled to confirm their substantial accuracy :—Lady Florence, on Saturday morning, left the St. George's Hotel, in Albemarle Street, where she had been staying during the season, in her father's brougham, telling the porter, if Mr. Chaplin called, she should not return until two o'clock. She was then driven to Marshall and Snellgrove's, in Oxford Street, and leaving the carriage at one entrance was met at the other by the sister of the :Ylarquis of Hastings, who, engaging a hack cab, drove her at once to St. George's, where the Marquis of Hastings, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Granville (whose marriage was recorded only a fortnight back), Mr. Blake, Mr. Wilkinson, and Mr. F. Wombwell were in waiting. Immediately after the ceremony had been performed, the Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings repaired to Mr. Granville's lodgings in St. James's Place, from whence, after the bride had communicated by letter to Mr. Chaplin and her family her change of mind, they started per special train for Donnington Park, to spend the honeymoon. At Peterborough station they were met by several of their friends, who were not a little surprised to find Lady Florence in company with the Marquis instead of Mr. Chaplin. To show the marriage could not have been an impromptu affair, as some people imagine, the fact of the happy couple being received at the station by the tenantry, who had erected no less than nine triumphal arches trimmed with flowers, at once discloses. It is needless to add that Mr. Chaplin feels very much the slight that has been put upon him, but his feelings are in some measure consoled by the assurance of his friends that it is all for the best. The Marquis of Anglesey is also much distressed at the affair, for the alliance with Mr. Chaplin had his consent and approbation. Her Ladyship's brother and brother-in-law, Lords Uxbridge and Winchelsea, heard of the marriage by melba 4 the pigeon planting match at gamy.