The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-11 00:00:00

SCOTLAND

TILE SMALL NOTE CURRENCY.—Speculating upon a
rumour that Government propose to introduce a measure
for abolis'iing the small note currency in Scotland, the
Times says, " It is undoubtedly a great anomaly in coun-
tries so nearly and closely connected, that there should be
a currency so different in its character in use among them ;
and those who desire to keep up still a small note circula-
tion, are bound to adduce to the Legislature the
most unanswerable reasons for retaining such a privi-
lege." This is a very easy way of coming to a conclusion,
and might herald in the abolition of every custom and in-
stitution we have, differing in the slightest degree from
those of England. The rumour can have no foundation,
as the project would have sheer wanton mischief for its
motive. When circumstances rendered such a measure
necessary for England in 1826, it was natural that, at a first
glance, its extension to Scotland should be contemplated.
It was on that occasion that Sir Walter Scott, in his
Letters of Malachi Malagrowther, combated along with
so many others in opposition to the measure, and it was
withdrawn, not without fears that circumstances would
soon arise to justify its resumption. These have not oc-
curred. The small note system has proved eminently
advantageous, and its abolition, besides its other evils,
would deprive the country of a very pi ofitable trade ; accord-
ing to the returns in 1826, our small note circulation ex-
ceeded two millions. The penalty against their circulation
in England has effectually prevented the small notes of
Scotland from inundating that part of the country, and
the system of exchanges has checked any great over-
issue at home. We are not supporters of customs merely
because they are national, and we admit the benefit of uni-
formity. -This benefit, however, may be bought too
dear, and the sacrifice of a system which does us much
good, and our neighbours no harm, would certainly be too
much to pay for it. —Scotsman.
The Scotsman's agricultural report of East Lothian for
the past month, concludes thus:—" It is highly gratifying
to state that the demand for labourers continues steady,
and that as yet no interruption has occurred from the
weather to their labour and consequent incomes; wages,
when not on piecework, ruining- from 18c1. to 201 a Say ;
butcher meat being about sd. and 6d. per lb. ; bread
per lb., or 10d. the four-pound loaf; and oatmeal 15d. to
16d. per peek of Vbs., or 2/d. nearly per lb.
THEATRE ROYAL.—Mr. and Mrs. Wood, Mr. G. Horn-
castle, and Mrs. East, commenced an enga„eement here
on Monday of twelve nights. Mrs. Wood has improved
considerably since her last visit, and since the death of Ma-
libran is unquestionably without a rival on the stage, either
in this or any other country. From some cause or other the
MaidofJudak, originally announced, gave place to the stan-
dard opera of Guy Mannering; but the admirable style in
which it was enacted, made up for the want of novelty. Mrs.
Wood in her first song, " Here's a health bonny Scotland
to thee!" seemed to take the house by surprise, and the
effect produced was perfectly electrical. Her voice is the
most powerful, varied, and beautiful we ever heard, and her
singing is characterised by a passion and enthusiasm—a
tenderness and pathos—altogether irresistible. Mr. Wood
is also a vocalist of superior merit, and sings with remark-
able ease and power. His song of, " The toast be—dear
woman !" in particular, was given with great effect, and
loudly encored. The Woods were ably supported by Mrs.
East, a very pleasing singer from Covent-Garden—and
Mr. Horncastle, a vocalist of considerable taste, humour,
and animation.

:ropo.

BILL OF SUSPENSION. _The Judges, Lords Meadow_
bank, Mcdwyn, and Glenlee, at advising the Bills of Sus-
pension and Interdict, in causa the Magistrates of Glasgow
v. the Commissioners of Police of Glasgow, unanimously
passed both Bills of Suspension and Interdict against the
Commissioners.

SEVEN GIRLS DROWNED.—Duntocher, on Thursday, ex-
hibited a scene of a very melancholy and affecting nature--
the seven unfortunate girls, formerly mentioned as being
drowned by the sudden breaking of the ice, were all car-
ried to the grave in the same funeral procession. Mr.
Dunn, with much good feeling, stopped his extensive works,
that all might have an opportunity of attending the mourn-
ful scene. A large and grieved assemblage took place at
the different dwellings of the deceased, and thence pro-
ceeded to the School-ball, and partook of refreshments
generously provided by Mr. Dunn at his own expense,
after which the procession moved in solemn order to Old
Kilpatrick churchyard. As the funeral left the village,
the sides of the streets were literally lined with sorrowful
spectators; and from the upper windows crowds, with grief
depicted in their countenances, beheld the mournful and
most melancholy procession.—Glasgow Chronicle.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

LLOYD'S.

TORBAIi, FEB. 7.—Arrived off; the Circassian, White, from Lon.
don ; Akka Boca, Potjer, from Rotterdam ; Jason, Rouen. Put
back, the Farmer.
Hutt, Fns. 7.—The James and Thomas, Carlisle, which sailed
hence on the :31st ult., for New York, struck on the Shipwash
on the 4th hist, has put back leaky, and must discharge.
KINGSTOWN, FEB. 7.—The Demerara, Miller, for Demerara, is
not arrived, as reported, yesterday.
BRISTOL, Fs& S.—Arrived the Jcnne Mathilde, from Nantes ;
Ann, Moore, Newfoundland; Concord, Fox, Lisbon.
CARDIFF, FEB. 7.—Sailed the Queen Adelaide, Francis, for Lisbon.
&inmost FEB. 7.—Arrived the Deaux Freres, Bernard from
Hamburgh ; Sceptre, Rtiddock, Harfleur; Alexander, Banes,
Gravelines ; Augusta, Saville, do. ; Nicholas, De Bois, do ;
Zerran, do. ; Neptune, Reber, Suncleborg ; Frederick, Genoa ;
Abeona, of Portsmouth, has been assisted into Scarborough,
having been fallen in with on the 4th inst. off Foley, brig leaky,
with pumps choked, by the Crystal, Hooks, arrived at this port...
BELFAST, FEB. 6.—Arrived the Alida, Bonlius, from Rotterdam ;
Salem, Williams, London.

BANFF, Fri. 4.—lt blew a perfect hurricane from N. to N.N.E.
on the 30th ult.

LYNN, FEB. 6.—The Spencer, Hunt, sailed from, hence on the
filth ult. for Newcastle. Has not since been heard of.
AALBORG, JAN. 28.—The Henriette, Sidemus. from Copen-
hagen to Liverpool, was totally wrecked on the 10th ult., near
Eggersund. Greater part of the cargo saved in a d.tmaged state ;
crew (except one) saved,

GENOA, FEB. 2.—The Clement Fillipo, Cordeglia, from this
port for London, put into Toulon on the 25th ult., leaky, having
experienced a violent gale from S. W., and expected would be
obliged to discharge.

HOBART TOWN.—The Isabella, Sampson, in returning to this
port from Newcastle, N.S.W., ran on the rocks on the 19th inst.
at the entrance of this river, but has been got.off; and it is feared
11:13 received considerable damage.
Gass EREND.—Arrived the Albatross, from Launceston ; Jo,
Berbice; Campbells, Antigua ; Rose, St. Michael's ; Fancy,
ditto ; Ceres, Terceira; Roseburg, Taganrog; Valentine, Seville;
Two Sisters, Naskow, , Victoire Eugene, Bordeaux; Jean Baptiste,
Cherbourg; Methuen Ca.tle, and Jules Lelie, Dunkirk ; Eole,
Gravelines ; Alliance, Lark, Aldborough ; Aratus, Guernsey ;
Mary and Maria, Jersey. Sailed the Globe, for Charleston; Bra.
ganza (steamer), Lisbon, &c.; Elizabeth, Mogadore; Rosduel,
Bayonne.

The Josephine, Conan, bound to Penzance, took fire at Aura},
and received considerable damage.

VEsseLs STOLEN WITIL-The Upton Castle, Williams, from
Calcutta to London, Nor, 14, in lat. 28. S., long. 44 5. W. ; Ad-
dingham, Sedgwick, Calcutta to Cape of Good Hope, 28th ult., in
lat. 35., long. 33.; Mary Imrie, 3d ult., in lat. 1. N., long. 20. W. ;
Isabella, London to Batavia, 6th ult., in lat. 4., long. 21. W. ; An
tigua, Leghorn to Liverpool, 2d inst., in lat. 45., long. 13.; Comet,
Stoyeson, Hamburg to Matemas, in lat. 43.. long. 11., by the Bri-
tannia, Volum, arrived in the Creek ; Lexington, Newfoundland to
Pernambuco, with loss of bulwarks, &e., 26th Dec., in lat. 40.,
long. '4l. ; Olive Branch, Smith, Scotland to Havanna:), 25th ult.,
lat. 32. long. 77. ; Frances, Johnsone, Liverpool to Calcutta, Ist ult.,
lat. 1 N, long. 18. E.; Juverna, Waterford to Bombay, Ist ult.,
tat. 2. N., long. 18. E. ; Switlsure, River Gambia to Campeacloy,
2d ult , lat. 3. N., long. 18. E. ; Juliana, Parker, Marseilles to the
Mauritius, 3d u:t., lat. 4. N., long. 18. F ; Simeon Hardy, Cork to
Barbadoes, 27th ult., lat. 41., long. 29., by the Anna Robertson,
Hamilton, arrived off' Hastings.

ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUSTOMHOUSE, Fan. 9.—The Le
Victoire, from Eugene; Flambert, Bordeaux; Fancy, Fitchener,
St. Michael's; Inks, Melia; Guillemard, Dunkirk; Eole, Le-
vel!, Gravelines; Mary, Wakehani, Jersey; ltosebery, White,
Taganrog; Jean Baptiste, Brelgnt, Clserborg; Maria, Lefevre, Jer-
sey ; Twfridu Costre, Jacobson, Nakskow ; Jo, Barnes, Berbice :
Campbell, Robson, Antigua; Methuen Castle, Gordon, Dunkirk.
ENTERED OUTWARDS.—The Bruges, Woodruff, for Antwerp;
City of Boulogne, Tema, Boulogne; Phcenix, Lefort, llavre ; Pie.
oiler, Keith, Trinidad ; William Jolliffe, Pashley, Calais; Tingal-
son, Primrose, —; Guardian, Smith, Venice ; Sdward, Ileward,
Cad;z ; Iberia, Cooper, Lisbon ; Margaret Thompson, Forrist,
St. Vincent's.

CLEARED 01.1 T WITH CARGO.--The Victoria, Davis, for New York
City of Boulogne, Jane, Boulogne ; William Jol liffe, Pashley, Calais
Bruges, Woodruff, Antwerp; Phenix, Lefort, Havre; Joven Ni.
cholas, Barens, Santander; Premier, Keith, Trinidad; London;
Person, Rotterdam; Stork, Grills, Newfoundland; Tigress, Symons;
Cey Ion; Giraffe, Shanack, Rotterdam.

IN BALLA/T.—The Lord John Russell, from St, John's, New
;runswick.

EAST INDIA SHIPPING,

A lIRITALS. —The Jelinston, from Bengal, off sailed
26th August, Saugur 2d September, Coringa 23d Sept.; St.
Helena 16th Dec. ; Elizabeth Walker, Crawford, from Sing pore,
off Portsmouth, sailed 12th Oct., St. Helena 22d Dec.

ARRIVALS INI TABLE BAY, CAPS OP GOOD HOPE.—lfer Ma.
jesty's steamer Plicenix, Dec. 8, from Helvoet ; Moira, Owen,
Dec. 2, from London.
DEPA ETU It 1?.. FROM TABLES BAN', CA PE OF GOOD HoPn.—

The Marion, M'Carthy, Dec. 9, for Calcutta; Formidable, Rice,
Dec 9, for the Mauritius; Hebe, Malcolm, Dec. 9, for New South
Wales ; Majestic, Williams, on Dec. 9, for Hobart Town.
DEPARTURI.:S FROM SIMON'S BAT, CAP% OF GOOD Hope.—The
Ann, M'Alpine, Nov, 14, for the Mauritius ; Louisa, Roche, Nov.
16, for Hobart Town; Her Majesty'a ship Columbine, Dec. 5, for
the West Coast.

ARRIVALS IN A wok BAY,—The Courier, Proudfoot, and
E leanor, Phillips, Nov. 20, from Table Bay.
DEPARTURE FROM THE MAURITIPB,—The Upton Castle, Wit_
hams, Nov. 6, for London. Loading—The Clio and Palmer, for
London.

ARRIVAL AT SWAM Rtviin.—The Joshua Carroll, Lindsay, from
the Mauritius.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—.The Letitia, Causzar, from Batavia and
the Mauritius, to Demerara, Nov. 13,1 at. 31.43. S., long 31.85 E. ;
Pances, Johnston, Liverpool, to Calcutta, Jan. 1, lat. 1.20. N , long.
17.35. E., had lost one man of the small pox ; Minerva, Grundy,
Waterford to Bombay, Jan. 1, lat. 2.20. N., long. 18. E. ; Juliana,
Parker, Marseilles to the Mauritius, Jan. 3, Mat. 3.40. N., long. 18.
E., all well out 35 days, by the Anna, Robertson, arrived in the
Downs ; Cornwell, Hesse, Mauritius, to London, Dec. 31, off As.
cension; Upton Castle, Williams, Calcutta, to London, NOV. 14,
lat. 28. S., long. 44. E. ; Mary Imrie, Bood, Liverpool, to the Cape
of Good Hope, sailed Nov. 3, lat. 1.30. N., long. 20.30. VV. ; Jus •
tina, Bentley, London, to Calcutta, Feb. 4, lat. 48. N., long. 9., by
the Minerva, arrived in the Downs.

The smallest bird, says M. Virey, can fly
several leagues in an hour; the hawk goes commonly at the rate of
a league in four minutes, or above forty miles an hour. A falcon
of Henry 11. was flown from Fontainbleau, and found, by its ring,
at Malta next day. One, sent from the Canaries to Andalusia, re..
turned to Teneriffe in sixteen hours, a distance of near seven hun.
dred miles, which it must have gone at the average rate of twenty
four miles an hour. Gulls go seven hundred miles out to sea and
return daily; and frigate birds have been found at twelve hundred
miles from any land. Upon their migration, he states, as a known
fact, that cranes go and return at the same date, without the least
regard to the state of the weather, which shows no doubt, if tru.,
a most peculiar instinct ; but these, and; indeed, all facts which we
find stated by a writer so addicted to painting and colouring, must
he received with a degree of suspicion, for which no one but M.
Virey is to be blamed. The accounts, however, of the swiftness of
birds, I can well credit, from an experiment which I made when
travelling on a railway. While going at the rate of thirty miles an
hour, I let fly a bee; it made its circles as usual, and surrounded
us easily. Now, if there was no current of air or draught to bear
it along, this indicated a rate of ninety miles an hour; and even
allowing for a current, the swiftness must have been great. I
should, however, wish to repeat this experiment before being quite
sure of so great a swiftness in so small an insect. —Lord
Brougham's Dissertations on Science.

(From the Era.)
The annual farce has been played. The Sovereign
has delivered a speech at the opening of Parliament,
the great art of which confessedly is, to say nothing :
and the party newspapers have snapped and snerled, or
smiled and sniggered, at the nonentity, to the cus-
tomary satisfaction of their readers. Among the omis-
sions in the Speech are, the one idea uppermost in the
mind of the people—their determination to exist no
longer under the mockery of a representative
government, even should the alternative be a bloody
and untimely grave ; and the one idea upper-
most in the mind of the landed and manufac-
turing aristocracy—Which of us two shall live
the more luxuriously, and at the less cost ?
Among the rem/missions is a reprobatory notice of
the foolish and feeble doings of the Chartists in the
north, without a single corresponding allusion to the
crimes of Irish traitors. The sins of omission and com-
mission are quite enough to damn the Speech. They are
quite enough to show that its concoctors are not the
Ministers of the nation, uor of the Queen, who is at once
the mistress and the chief servant of the nation. They
are quite enough to show that the Parliament for which
the Speech was manufactured is not the Parliament of
the people, nor of the Queen, who is the bead of the
people. This most silly and contemptible production is,
in one word, a repetition of a stale farce with which
both houses have been long in the habit of insulting the
country ; and, in the name of that insulted country, we
call upon you, ye profane mountebanks, to withdraw
the intolerable piece henceforth and for ever from the
stage—or woe to your benches, your lustres, and your
properties !
The long endurance of a people under the miscon-
duct of their rulers, may be explained by the fact that
these rulers are an organised and concentrated body,
while the people are an unwieldy and enormous mass,
destitute of the regular functions of mobility, and only
stirred by great causee, not comprehended among the
usual phenomena of political existence. So steady is
this principle of passive endurance, that when a revolt
takes place, it may fairly be assumed that the people
are right and the rulers wrong. But even when the
revolt is unsuccessful, this forms no ground for im-
peaching the justice of the popular cause. It merely
exhibits the defect in organisation, which allows the
sensibility of one part of the mass to be counteracted
by the languor of the other.
That a general revolt of the people of this nation will
take place at no distant date, is our opinion, formed de-
liberately on a personal knowledge of the middle and
lower classes of our countrymen, and on a cool and
careful study of the " signs of the times." What is
going on now is net a repetition of the " Jacquerie" of
the middle ages. Has the newspaper idiot who made
an assertion of such stupendous absurdity no eyes
to guide his pen ?—no ears but to listen to its scratches
on the paper ? Can he not read as well as write ?
Does he not know that the Jacquerie of the fourteenth
century was an insurrection of the peasants, not to
acquire new privileges, but to preserve old ones
And, above all, does he not know that the people had at
that time only begun to exist—that the enfranchisement
of the Serfs took place in 1315 and that the revolt of
the new freemen followed about 1358, when King Jean
was the prisoner of the Black Prince ?
But the assertion is not made in ignorance ; for no
newspaper editor can be altogether unacquainted with
history. It is one of a series of insults which even now
rankle in the breast of the people, and which are in-
tended (wisely or not !) to do so. The word "Jacquerie"
recalls the idea of a rude, ignorant, and brutal mob, as
yet only touched by the dawn of liberty, and therefore
ie it applied to the excitement which now stirs up to the
centre the masses of the English people! It recalls the
idea of a gallant aristocracy,
" sheathed in steel,
With belted sword, and Fleur on heel,"
dashing on their barbs into the midst of a whole host
of peasants, armed only with clubs and pitchforks, and
defended only by their jacks ; and therefore is it ap-
plied to the war of opinion now raging between the
sections of an informed and civilised people.
This, however, is no longer the fourteenth century,
but the nineteenth. We do not battle to retain our
freedom, but to obtain the privileges to which we are
entitled as freemen. The world of political society is
no longer a mystery to us. We no longer gaze upon
the powers above us, as we gaze upon the eternal stars,
with a feeling of our own insignificance, sublimed by
the idea of inscrutable destiny chaining us for ever in
our appointed place as atoms of the universe. We com-
prehend the nature of the political machine—a machine
male and unmade by the hands of men. We inubsr-
stand the attraction which binds its parts together—an
attraction not necessary and unavoidable, but subsist-
ing entirely through our own free will. We respect
the virtual compact which guarantees the equal
rights of the sovereign, the aristocracy, and the
people ;—we respect it ourselves, and will, if ne-
cessary, compel others to do so also. We abjure
such absurdities as a community of property, but we
insist upon a community of rights. The nation does
not exi-t in political society fir the sovereign or the
aristocracy, any more than it exists by them. We are
here, on this soil of England, a community of, gene-
rally speaking, well-informed and intelligent persons,
each posseszing the same interest in the well-being of
the whole, and all determined to leave in the hands of
no clique, faction, or party whatever, the manage-
ment of the common business.
Such are the opinions of the thinking part of the
people of this nation—such are the opinions of the
great body of Reformers, but we regret to say that the
expression of those opinions is weakened and:interrupted
by our internal dissensions. There is no portion of the
people in a state of languor ; and a state of extreme
sensibility, therefore, in any one quarter, is annoy-
ing, if not dangerous. Tire Chartists do not merely
hold the doctrine of Universal Suffrage, but they will
apply this doctrine under any circumstances. Accord-
ing to them, if we reason analogically from their pre-
sent conduct, the followers of Wet Tyler might have
been safely entrusted with the franchise ; because, if the
principle of UniverSal Suffrage he correct, it must have
been so as well then as now ! The principle of Universal
Suffrage we have ourselves pronounced to be correct ;
but surely we need riot explain to any rational person
that. by Universal Suffrage we mean the extension of
the Suffrage to the whole number of people who are
capable of exercising it discreetly,
" But," say they, " where iS the use of sticking at
trifles ? We admit that there is a portion of the people
wholle incapable, either by reason of ignorance or vice,
of making a rational use of the suffrage ; but this por-
tion is small compared with the rest, and the bad votes
will be neutralized by the good." What a singular
argument ! " Many of our votes are good ; the/ (yore
you should not hestitate to adulterate them with bad !"
But who can tell what is the true balance of numbers e
Have the Chartists ever tried to do so ? Never ! This
argument, if argument it can be called, is founded on a
vague assumption, that the number of ignorant or vicious
min is very small in the lower ranks of society com-
pared with the number of men of the opposite charac-
ter. They would introduce—ay, and with the sword
if necessary—the most important of all legislati%e
changes on a mere floating opinion, without instituting
a single inquiry beyond those that are made in common
conversation, and answered upon common hearsay.
" But," say they again, "we want numbers on our
side. We cannot dispense with the assistance of the
ignorant and depraved." 'chat proves, in the first place,
the very important fact, that they consider ti-us a far
more numerous class than they pretend. But, in the
second place, it is wholly incorrect. They want no
such assistance to carry any plan of reform, if free from
the pollution they seek to introduce. Nine-tenths of
the entire people of England are rational, but zealous
reformers. " They why," they demand, "do not these
rational and zealous reformers start a plan of theirown ?
Why do they not evince their zeal as we do ?" Now,
this is exactly the point we would arrive at. We will
answer the question.
At the time of the Reform Bill agitation there
were no Chartists ; or, if any, the number was too in-
considerable for mention. Men were all rational Re-
formers—er at least (as we have said of the present
day) nine-tenths of the nation. The passing of this
Bid was one of the greatest triumphs ever
achieved by popular opinion. It was, in fact, a
bloodless revolution, of an importance which it
is hardly possible to exaggerate ; because it dis-
tinctly and practically admitted the principle for
which we all contend. But when exposed to
the test of trial, it was discovered that its execution
was by no means equal to its conception ; and every
year it was found, and will be found, less and less capa-
ble of satisfying the .
wants of an increasing civilization.
A property qualification now out of the question—we
will not have it—we will not hear of it ; and for the
simple reason that there are thousands of our brethren,
with no property but their labour, who are fully the
equals of the rich in point of intelligence, and who are
therefore perfectly qualified to takeout theirfreedom.
A rational, and yet comprehensive plan of reform
would have been proposed before now—but for Me
Chartists.. They came into the field at the very mo-
ment when the Reform Bill had received a long enough
trial to prove its comparative worthlessness, and indeed
before the minds of a considerable portion of the com-
munity were made up upon the subject. They pre-
sented themselves to the rational reformers as an enemy
to be combated, and destroyed, pro lanto, the progress
of all reform,
We find we have no room, however to go further into
the subject this week. In our next number we
hope to
show that it is by no means an impossibility, as is
practically asserted by the Chartists, to devise some
plan which shall introduce a moral test into the suf-
frage, and thus obviate the necessity they assume to
exist of doing away withany q ualification whatever.
If we succeed in this attempt we shall expect the
Chartists, as honest men, to enter into a COALITION OF
REFORMERS, which it is our intention to propose to the
country.

There is now living in Harwood, a man whose
fat her was born 1110 years ago—a circumstance perhaps unparalleled
in the county. The father was more than 65 years of age when the
son was horn.—Bolton Chronicle.

MA RR
On the 9th inst , at St. JameslED.
's, Piccadilly, Ur. Joseph
Broadhurst, Regent-street, to Jane, third daughter of the I'd.
Mr. John Gotto, of the same street.
On
son of the 7th inst., at St. Pancras Church, Samuel, yours
i,
gesit EdwiSandys, Esq. of Kentiah Town, te Sarah, 1 daughter of John Whishaw;E'sq., of Torrington-square.
At f;ranbrook, Mr. Croft, to Miss Jenner. The bride, in
anticipation of a nuptial day, had for same time st ber
laying up farthings to the number of 300, which shepa actual I
drew from her pocket and paid the marriage fees.
On Monday last, at Northwood Church, in the Isle of Wight'
William Moth, aged 73, to Sarah Clamp, aged 72. The bride'
groom's youna-est son represented the lady's father, and got'
the blushing bride away ; and his grand-daughter was bride"
maid on this interesting occasion.
The quizzical portion of the inhabitants of Caistor have been
(luring the past month considerably amused with the public'''
tion of the " banns of marriage " between Mr. Thomas Tomlin'
son, an eccentric English gentlemen of the olden times, age
85 ! and Elizabeth Jackson, his buxom housekeeper,
aged 22 ! No impediment was declared during three succee'
sivo sabiaathn, t, why these two persons should not be joined
together in holy matrimony." Many great lords of the cres:
tion, matrons " looking unutterable things," simpering inie!le.";
and ready made "fools, thick as blackberries," for MI"
around, eager to witness the making of the amorous couple
one, became impatient of the happy event's taking place; and e
was slily consummated early last. Sunday morning through 1,1
sheer tact of the gay Lothatio : the Rev. G. Watson tied the
a spinster,
" silken bands" without clamour, according to request. The
candidates for matrimony toddled to and from church in a zig-
zag direction, and separately in both cases; they arrived at t
temple unobserved, and the veteran then and there, quickly
for the third tinrg " plighted his troth," and endowed his
lady with all his orldly goods. On their return home from
church, the bride was assailed with the queerest gibes, and .101"f4,
ever heard at Caistor, which compelled both to take shelter In
the house of a relation, and they were ultimately escorted brie
by the Caistor rural police !