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Elliott would have been a poet, in all that constitutes true poetry, had the corn laws never existed. He was born on 25th March, 1781, at the New Foundry, Masborough, in the parish of Rotherham, where his father was a clerk in the employment of Messrs. Walker, with a salary of £60 or £70 per annum.

The Birmingham and Derby line was opened for traffic in August, 1839; the Sheffield and Rotherham in November, 1839; and in the course of the following year, the Midland, the York and North Midland, the Chester and Crewe, the Chester and Birkenhead, the Manchester and Birmingham, the Manchester and Leeds, and the Maryport and Carlisle railways, were all publicly opened in whole or in part.

Her consent, however, was not given without a proviso, that a license should be subsequently procured, and a second marriage be had at a more fitting moment, should the ecclesiastical authorities consent to the same; a most improbable thing in itself. Mr. Rotherham availed himself of the statute inflicting the penalty, as an excuse for not officiating.

"It cannot be done legally, Mr. Thomas I should think Admiral Oakes would interfere to prevent it." "Rotherham," continued the patient, "I will settle with world; then, give thoughts to God. Have we guests the house? Men of family character?" "Certainly, Sir Wycherly; Admiral Oakes is in the room, even; and Admiral Bluewater, is, I believe, still in the house.

Rotherham 'Irish, is it not, hey! Atwood?" "I believe it is no move than 'I-n, stretched over much more paper than is necessary." "You are right enough, vicar; and the next word is 'the, though it looks like a chevaux de frise what follows? It looks like 'man-of-war. Atwood?"