On Saturday, Captain Verner, brother of the Member for Armagh,
applied to the Chester Magistrates, under the following circum- stances. His only daughter, a young lady fourteen years of age, had eloped from his house at Newry, in Ireland, with a yonng man named Mitchell, an attorney's clerk, the son of an Unitarian minister of that town. He traced them to Chester; and on Friday evening applied for the assistance of Hill, Superintendent of Police ; who found them residing in a house in Foregate Street, and took the young man into custody. The Magistrates, finding that they had no jurisdiction over him on the charge of abduction, remanded him for further examination on a charge of stealing two towels, the property of the Captain, which were found in his trunk. On his being sent back to prison, the young lady was very urgent in her entreaties to be allowed to accompany him; and refused to take any consolation unless her friends would consent to their union ; and her father was at last induced partially to give his consent, when the prisoner absolutely refused, and said lie never in- tended to marry her. Her friends therefore took her home to Newry; and Mitchell will be taken as soon as a warrant can be procured from a Magistrate at Newry, and indicted for the misdemeanour.—Chester Courant.
A female moving in the upper circles of society at Ramsgate, and possessed of considerable wealth, was detected on Saturday, in the market of that town, pilfering turnips from a poor person's stall; and having been long suspected of similar disgraceful acts, an immediate hue and cry arose amongst the market-people, which had well nigh brought summary vengeance upon the head of the offender. As it was, she had some difficulty in reaching her domicile in safety, although protected by the police. We understand that a Dutch cheese rolled accidentally into her muff a short time since, from a grocer's counter. The sum of 40s. has been paid to prevent prosecution.—Kent Herald.
Sir John St. Aubyn's seat at Clowance Park, one of the finest buildings in Cornwall, was burnt down on the 10th instant, and nothing saved but the pictures.
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