Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-07 00:00:00

erred, for yielding to the presure

It bewailed their f

kirts, then murmured
feeble incoherent appeals for aid, then fainted, and
were borne out in collapse by stalwart policemen. But
still the multitude expanded. Then beautiful brows
were knitted with ire, cries of anguish were emitted,

culine remons

luces poured out with

zeal, all of course without avail

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nets, and mat

A few ladif
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And so it continued unti

lost their

ruinous with apprehension.
twelve o'clock.
Just at this hour a gentleman appeared near the
altar, and waved a red handkerchief to the organist,
who instantly diverged into a sonorousE triumph.
strain. Mr. Harrison played superbly, but all thought:.
were too intent on what was about to pass at one end
of the cathedral to heed his operations at the other. A
moment

of breathless suspense, and the wedding party
entered. First, came Don Esteban and Miss Bartlett.
Six. groomsmen and six bridesmaids followed. Last,
came the parents of the bride. After a moment's pause
Archbishop Hughes appeared,- and stood, supported by

—oistants, facing ,
ppearance of the bride was pronounced to be
Her fair blonde shone

two priestly

he party

Ln.exceptionably eh

arming.

more luminous

ly by contrast with the
more sombre complexion of Don Esteban. Tall and
dignified, though young—her mien indicates eighteen
—she bore her blushing honours well. Her, hair
was wreathed with orange flowers, her dress was exotic
—of Parisian point lace—but her paruee (necklace,
bracelet, brooch; ear-rings) was of native manufacture.
It proceeded from Tiffany, was of vast value, and
deserves a brief description.

years-

The necklace, a bioad festoon of pure strands of
pearls, met in a ribbon of brilliants arranged as a love-
knot, from which depended a pear-shaped pearl of great
size—and, no doubt, great price. The bracelet was like-
wise a quadruple band of pearls, but confined within
two rows of diamonds. The ear-rings were composed
of diamonds and pearls, The brooch was formed of
diamonds unalloyed by baser jewels, and especially dis-
tinguished by a superior " briolette" diamond, a stone
of peculiar shape and cut. The appearance of the
full-dressed male of the human species is alike on
all occasions. It is spiced with no variety. There-
fore it is only necessary to say of Don Estaban—who is
some inches shorter than the lady, darkishly disposed in
the matter of complexion, with heavy half curled black
whiskers and a moustache to match, and a Castilian fire

in his deep-set eye, confirming the resolute earnestness of
his countenance, and Who is apparently about fifty-five
years old—that he was elegantly dressed in black, with
intricately embroidered white waistcoat and cravat, dis-
playing for ornament only a solitary diamond breastpin
of excessive dimensions, and that he underwent with
composure the ordeal of inspection to which he was sub-
jected. The bridesmaids, Misses West, Stark, Parker,
Howland, Bartlett, and Izquado, were arrayed in white
dresses, two pure and simple, two decked with crimson
trimmings, and two with blue. These appointments,
like those of the bride, were all supplied by Don
Esteban. Similar antecedent liberality has been shown
by Don Esteban. On giving a ball at the St. Nicholas
some time ago, he most courteously directed the hair-
dresser of that establishment to arrange the hair of every
lady in the house at his expense.
During the performance of the marriage ceremony,
the assemblage of spectators, momentarily calm at the
opening, fell back into tumult. The confusion and

elanamir deadened the sound of the Archbishop's voice.
Sometimes cries of "Down front," and other remarks not
pertinent to the occasion were heard. Men strained
on tiptoe to catch the feeblest glimpse of the ab-
sorbing scene. Young girls announced intentions of
fainting, until elevated to commanding points of view,
when their faculties were miraculously restored. Some
women, indeed, with unlooked-for sprightliness, climbed
into lofty -windows, and gazed complacently on the
less agile ones below. Others perched and balanced
themselvei insecurely on backs of pews, swaying dan-
gerously with each throb of emotion that pervaded
them. But amid, and notwithstanding all this turbu-
lence, the ceremony did proceed, and °end, Lieutenant
Bartlett shedding. tears the while. Then the bride
turned, and standing in full view of the assemblage,
her cheeks flushed with excitement, her eyes diffusing
liquid lustre, showered kisses among her btidesmaids.
After that the party retired by a private door, and
general dessication followed.
At half-past twelve o'clock the Cathedral was de-
serted. A little later, and the last carriage rolled away
towards "Fourteenth-street, where Don Esteban and his
young wife received their friends and the people ; and
the policemen, who had been summoned' in large force,
to preserve order, ceased to cluster on the corners, and
to oppose the passage of vehicles. At one o'clock, a
second seething thronc, met at the residence of the
bride's parents, and for two hours receptions were in
order. To guard against untrustworthy visitors, detee-
ti7e policemen were here employed. They were deemed
i view of the enormous value of the bride's
For the _ general satisfac-

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community Brown was also on hand, and it
s rumoured that he was observed to diminish consider-
ably beneath the compression he suffered. In the centre
of the gornously furnished parlour Don Esteban and
,pting congratulations with grace and
linzered not long. For internal comforts

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