The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-08 00:00:00

MISS JENKYNS IN ALARM AT
BONAPARTE.

I think it was in 1805 that Mies Jenkyns wrote the
longest series of letters, on occasion of her absence on a
visit to some friends near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. These
friends were intimate with the commandant of
toe garrison there, and heard from him of
all the preparations that were being made
to repel the invasion of Bonaparte, which
some people imagined might take place at the mouth of
the Tyne. Miss Jenkyns was evidently very much
alarmed; and the first part of her letters was often
written in pretty intelligible English, conveying particu•
lars of the preparations which were made in
the family with whom she was residing against
the dreaded event; the bundles of clothes that
wore packed up ready for a flight to Alston Moor (u
wild hilly piece of ground between Northumber•
land and Cumberland); the signal that was to be given
for this flight, and for the simultaneous turning out of
the volunteers under arms; which said signal was to
consist (if I remember rightly) in ringing church bells
in a particular and ominous manner. This warning
summons was actually given one day, when
Miss Jenkyns and her hosts were at a dinner-
party in Newcastle (not a very wise proceeding,
it there be any truth in the moral attached
to the table of the Boy and the Wolf; but so it was)
and Miss Jenkyns, hardly recovered from her fright,
wrote the next day to describe the sound, the breath-
less shock, the hurry and alarm; and then, taking
breath, she added, " low trivial, my dear father, do all
our apprehensions of the last evening appear, at the
present moment, to calm and inquiring minds!" And
here Miss Matey broke in with—" But, indeed, my
dear, they were not at all trivial or trifling at the
time. I know I used to wake up in the
night many a time, and think I heard the tramp of the
French entering Cranford. My mother has sat by my bed
half a night through, holding my hand and comforting
me; and many people talked or hiding themselves in the
salt mines—and meat would have kept capitallydown there,
only perhaps we should have been thirsty. And my fa-
ther preached a whole' set of sern-ons on the occasion;
one set in the mornings, all about David and Goliath,
to spirit up the people to fighting with spades or bricks,
if need were ; and the other set in the afternoon, prov-
ing that Nispleon (that was another name for Bony, as
we used to call him), was all the same as Apollyon and
Absddon. I remember, my father rather thought he
should be asked to print this last set; but the pirish
had, perhaps, • had Pnouzh of them with hearing."—
Dickens's " Household Words."

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onveyee by

On Thursday last the marriage of Miss Constance
Frances Phillpotts to the Rev. W. F. Gray, vicar of Corn-
wood, in the county of Devon, was celebrated in the cathedral
at Exeter, by the Venerable Archdeacon Bartholomew. /he
service was celebrated strictly according to the order of the
Church. The first part of the office in the body of the
church, the Psalm wam said in going to the Lord's 'Stade,
and the remainder of the service, after the nuptial benedic-
tion, in the sanctuary. Holy Cominunion was then cele-
brated by the Bishop, and not only the bridal party and
their friends, but many of the congregation, communicated.
The cathedral was very full, and the quiet and serious con-
duct of the many hundreds who were present attested the
practical value of the faithful performance of the marriage
service, as well as of all the other offices, according to the
order of the Church.—Chronicle.