The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-05 00:00:00

JOBBING IN MATRIMONY.

Our readers are not perhaps awate of the extent to which the
welding trade is carried on the Scotch side of the Solway. Gretna
Green, it is true, has long been famous as a matrimoniai mart, and with
it are associated the names of many Patricians, such as two learned Lord
Chancellors, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and
the Prince of Capna, with the fortunate and beautiful Miss Penelope
Smith, who each and all 'passed the Matrimonial portals by the aid of
the 'GFetnd or Springfield blaCksmith ; and in dome ot these cases,
we understand his officiating fee was one hundred guineas. These
are prizes in the list, however; but a great trade is driven in
joining humbler men and maids, who have as good a right to be
married and happy as their betters, and accordingly more than
one station has sprung up on the Scottish Border. If the fee
is smaller, there are a greater number of them, and we are informed
that the keeper of a cabaret and ferry-boat on the Scottish side of the
Solway occasionally splices " for better for worse" half a dozen couples
in the week. The ferryman is altogether a decent sort of a fellow, and
obliging withal, as the following facts will show. A few days ago,
an acquaintance of our own, a Dumfries merchant, happened to be pac-
ing the sands, in company with a friend, when a party were observed
making their way from the English to the Scottish strand : "These gentry
need my assistance—they're weddiners," said mine befit, who has a keen
eye for the sublime. "Then will you allow me to officiate ?" said the
other. "By all means," responded the ferryman ; and in a few minutes
an English sea Captain presented himself, with a fair damsel from
Cumberland, whose heart had, Desdemona-like, fairly given way under
the recital of deeds of daring and hair-breadth 'scapes on the stormy
main. Our townsman, for the time, assumed the attitude and intona.
tion of the Priest, and in the course of three minutes the Captain was
a Benedict. The process is as follows :—Printed certificates are pro-
duced, into which are inserted the names of the candidates for matri.
rnony, with the parish and county from which they hail ; the priest then
asks the gentleman if he be willing to take this woman and cherish her
as his just and lawful wife, which being answered in the affirmative,
the same question is put to the lady, and as she never receives it with a
nay-say, the document is forthwith signed by the pair, attested by the
signatures of the priest and others who may be present, and delivered over
to the young wife. A tass of brandy, or a quaich of the mountain-dew,
passes round to the health of the young couple, the fee is paid,
and the party sot out to spend their honeymoon as they list.
The fees of these pedestrian or boating couples amount to from 2s. 6d.
to 105.6 d. each, and altogether a round sum of money finds its way to the
Scottish side by this species of traffic, which is to the full as convenient
and speedy as the new system of English registry. No one will applaud
the morality of the system, but still it is a system ; and, after all, the
Church is rarely despoiled of her. Ones ; for these.triarilages -are gene-
rally celebrated in the teeth of OppOsing relatiOns, or on the spur of the
moment, and after the young folks have passed the Rubicon of the
way, testy fathers and crusty mothers find that better may not be, and
accordingly wipe out the levity of the Solway wedding by asking Mother:
Church to interpose her authority by countenancing a regular ceremo-
nial.—Dumfries Courier.

Her Majesty will give a grand entertainment at the
now palace on Friday, the 17th instant, to celebrate the natal
day of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. This•will
close the Court parties in town during the present season.
IRISH CORPORATION BILL.—The Dublin Even-
ing Pest of Thursday, speaking of the Municipal Bill, affirms that the
entire Liberal Press unanimously reject it, and that the feelings and opi-
nions of the Irish public are most averse to the measure sought to be
inflicted on them. Our Contemporary concludes his remarks in the fol-
lowing terms We will wager a silver penny that should this Bill be-
come an Act, the claimants will not find such difficulty as has been re-
cently experienced in the Queen's Bench. But, indeed, there will
ba few mandamuses, Mr. Conway Dobbs, the RegiStering Barrister
in Dublin, will be compelled, under this Bill, to receive as many
claimants almost as offer themselves for enregisterment. -Sir Robert
Peel told his party long ago, that the battle of the Constitution,
as he called it, was to be fought in the Registry Courts. And, most
certainly, this Bill furnishes the party with a weapon, which must, here-
after, ensure their victory in (wry rite and borough in Ireland. In the
course of twelve months from this time, the freemen will, judging by
the progress they have already made, be able to swamp the freeholders
and householders of Dublin. In truth, we do not know how a limit
can be put to their numbers. Nineteen-twentieths of them are penny,
less paupers ; and, we need not add, that freemen are the scandal and
opprobrium of electors at all times arid places, and that in Dublin you
can hire their votes for a guinea or two a head. Now, these ,persons
would be the makers of Members of Parliament for this city in a feW •
years. But what would be ►ikely to occur here, will inevitably
happen elsewhere. What can hinder the fragments of the ascendancy
in Cork, Waterford,,Limerick, Kilkenny, Clonmel, &c., frOiti scraping
together any low Protestants that may still remain in the purlieus of
those towns—fellows without any qualification at all—presenting them
to the Registering Barrister, on the plea of birth, marriage, or service,
and insisting on the rights thus provided for them by an Act of Par-
liament. We will venture to say that, in six years, there is not a city
or borough in Ireland that would not be contested. Nay, we are satis-
fied that if this Bill pass—the liberties of the country—in as far as her
electoral rights are concerned—would be placed by far in a worse position
than before the passing of the,Reform Bill."

- • •
LADIES AgD THEIR DRESSMAKERS.—The two
scenes following, lately came tinder our knowledge within a few hours of
each other. The one set of actors are ladies of high rank, collected in
a large country house. They breakfast late, and soon return to a hot
lunch, when they drink a great deal of wine. They ride till dinner,
when they drink wine again, and retire to the card tables. They play
till midnight, whist with sovereign points, one lady losing in one eve-
rting five thousand pounds. Supper with wine again follows, and con.
mimes the remainder of the hours of darkness. The other set of actors
are the dressmakers of such ladies as these. They are for the most part
young, and many of them not done growing. It is near midnight of the
second night of working, when they should have been sleeping, and
they are to it through the whole of this night, and the next day : that
is, three days and two nights of incessant sewing, an occupation which
cannot safely be pursued for more than a few hours at a time. These
girls are fed high ; roast beef, porter, port wine; the rooms ere kept
light and hot; every stimulus is applied. Three at once drop off their
chairs, fainting ; they are plied with strong green tea, and resume their
work. As often as they are sinking, more strong green tea is given to
them; their eyes are dim, their skin burns, their hands tremble, their
voices are hysterical—but the ball dresses are finished; and when they
come to be paid for, more or fewer of them turn out bad debts. These
are facts.—London and it Review.

THE LATE SIR PUI-TENEY MALCOLM. It iS
with,Al acotilni
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wasregreta
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skilful,reco theh:m deathnei
considerate
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S imPinual tnedneery,
who was respected by all ranks and parties—a genuine Sailor
and a lie.
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whether he trod the deck or his own estate, and he was one of the four
Knights of Eskdale who sprung from the same pastoral roof-tree—Burn-
foot. So late as Saturday last we were waited on by a stranger, who
most anxiously inquired whether there was any truth in the report that
" his old master" was dead. We, of course answered in the affirma-
tire, and but rarely have we seen an individual more deeply
affected
The querist is a surgeon who had sailed with the deceased in early life.
and his words were--" a kinder or juster man never existed. The
youngest boy in the ship could approach him as readily as the oldest
officer. He was generous and kind to all, and so mingled example with
precept that he ruled by love rather than fear. A braver or kinder
officer never trod a deck in calm or storm."—Dumfries Courier.
MISFORTUNES OF AN HEIR-AT-LAN.—The
misfortunes of an " be it then known to all to whom these
presents come greeting," commence from the hour of his birth. There
is a period in married life when the olive-branches begin to thicken,
and then, indeed, a child may venture upon existence, without the fear
of being killed with kindness for his trouble ; but the birth of a son-
and-heir is a very different matter. The arrival of a personage of such
vast importance is an affair of so much joy, and kicks up so much con-
fusion, that the whole family is in a conspiracy against him. The young
gentleman is at once constituted a common centre, round which every
thing turns. In the drawing-room, in the nursery, and the servants'.
hall, there is such a stir made to welcome him into the world, that the
long odds are decidedly against his completing his first year, much more
against his arriving either at man's estate, or his father's. Every one
must dandle him, at the risk of breaking his neccakrli;esatnrdeceovlieercytioonnetmo
musyt
tfeezih, aytetahretrliisfk, owfacshoakrinagpi
hdimaiterFnamtimonmoyf gorging and of physic ;
and between the cook and the apothecary, it was a miracle how I
escaped poison. My mother was never satisfied that I was in safety,
and that, too, not without good reason ; for I certainly was as sickly a
brat as ever swallowed pill or powder, so that the physician was almost
in daily attendance. While I was crammed at all hours of the day
like a pincushion, because the young heir was to be refused nothing, I
was nightly supersaturated with cakes, ices, fruit, and wine, at the
family dinner-table—by my parents through fondness; by the guests, if
not in sheer malice, at least to get rid of my troublesome importunities
Thus primed and loaded for indigestion, and sent to iced to sleep off the
consequent fever as I best could, when I shrieked aloud under the
horrors of a night-mare dream, the nurses gave me laudanum " to make
the darling quiet;" and the doctor folloned as a matter of course hi the
morning, with his infernal black dose, to cure at once the disease, and
the effects bf the surreptitious sleeping..drops.—CoMurn's New Monthly
Magazine for "Inguct.

MORALITY OF THE SIXTEENTO

CENTURY.

•
It now turns out that Henry the Eighth, on whom the
Pope conferred the title of Defender of the Faith, was for,
years engaged in procuring assassins to murder Cardinal
Beaton, the Prime Minister of Scotland. The last volume
of State Papers published throws a new light on this Ore;
cious deed, and affords a strikingproof of the dernoralizet!
state of society in England and Scotland about the period
of the ReforMation. Smile of the first, men in these king'
doms were abettors of the murder ; and'in answer to a let'
ter sent to the King by the Earl of 6assilis, offering l°
commit the deed, the Privy Council through • the
King's secretary thus writes :—" That his Higbee°
reporting the fact not meet to be set forward, ex,'
pressly by his Majesty, will not seem to have to do is
it, and yet not misliking the offer, thinketh good dr
Mr. Sadler to whom that letter was addressed should write
to the Earl, of the receipt of his letter containing such ad
offer." offer." It adds—that the service would be acceptable, au
the murderers would be rewarded. Sir Ralph Sadler, 101
time Ambassador in Scotland, afterwards Couricifie'r to Or,
Regency of Edward VI., and one of the Commissioners for
settling the disputes between Mary and the Regent 'Murray,
thus writes on the subject to one of the accomplices
" Therefore I am of your opinion, and as you write, think 1,,
to be acceptable service to God to take him out of the wqi,
And Henry plainly intimated, through his Privy Cowl°.
that some Frenchmen, who wished to be reconciled to Ins..
Government, had only to entrap or kill the Cardinal, fel-
some other great man, in order to gain their object. 11,,
murderers, who had hitherto been supposed instigated on
by religious zeal, fled to England, and were protected by thy
King. The last number of the " Athenaeum" gives a 115
and interesting account of the whole of these new
rious proceedino. __ _

ROYAL ETIQUETTE IN FRANCE

UNDER Trim OLD REGIME.

The King lay, not in his great bed, but in a smaller sucl
very low one which was prepared for him, and removed eve/
morning. The king fixed every night the hour of his risiuP
and orders were given to the valet,de-chambre on duty 100
awake his Majesty in case he should be asleep at the till'
appointed. But the first valet.de-chambre on duty bad Kiel:
viously gone into the king's room with the footmen to esti,
guish the light called mortier, to kindle a fire if it was winter f
time, and take in the night collation, consisting of a jug 00
wine, anothet be pufe water, bread, a fowl, some fruit'
goblet of silver gilt, and several ntipkinL
A the
The King being awake, the Grand Chamberlain au—
first Gentleman of the Bed-chamber wore informed that til,e.e
might enter, whilst a valet went to direct the officers of °lt
kitchen and buttery to prepare his Majesty's breakfast. he
the same time an Usher took possession of the door of t
chamber, that only such persons as had a right to come g 4
pay their respects to him might be suffered to pass. lie
Majesty chose this time to tell the first valet to admit t
grand entree. se'
The grand entree consists of the great officers of the Wu of
hold and the Crown, persons of quality, certain Marshals .th
France, and some privileged ladies, who share this favour lop
the cravatier, the tailor, the slipper-bearer, the barber-ialbe
dinary, the two barber-assistants, the clockmaker, and
apothecaries.
While all these persons are making their way into te
chamber, the first valet pours upon his Majesty's hands a bude,
of spirit of wine into a silver-gilt bowl ; the napkin is PrOr
sented by the Grand Chambesican or the first gentlernaut,
the Grand-Master of the Wardrobe, or even by the prenue
The vessel of holy water is then presented, and the Kra
having made the sign of the cross, repeats, or is suppuT,"`Til.
repeat, some prayer before he rises from bed. Louis S-
r.
put on his slippers himself ; it was a service which his co eoi
tiers would not have disdained ; but the King made tu
amends by granting them the honour of holding his more
gown while he put it on. This done, he went to the Br
chair in which he was to dress himself. ho
The king then asked for his chamber, that is, those? of,
were not yet there. The Usher on duty took hold of the lot
and his colleague went and whispered in the ear of the. 1,,
gentleman the names of the princes, ambassadors, eardirielit•
bishops, dukes and peers, marshals of France, Bente!'
generals, first-presidents, attorney-generals, peers and detectties, who might be present ; and the first gentleman rue
their names to the King.
b
The officers of the household passed unquestioned bute trsre
moment an unknown face presented itself among the ut 'eocl
the owner was stopped by the Usher, who asked his name, ter
decided in his wisdom whether he could permit him to enure
without referring to the first gentleman. All who ua,„e
thither were obliged to conform without a ml
customs; it was likewise requisite for the,
they were to scratch, and not to knock;
closed door was to be opened only by the U
officer on duty at it.
The ,reepte,l3. t for
_the King to dress bell
Pages of ficerhamber-staliiind'thernselves
Majesty's -slippers; when required. nis shi
covered with white taffetta: to present it t(
an eminent distinction, coveted by the high_
the realm. The King put it on in the presence
shmisammocrinoitnhge-clothes titude, but, for decency's .sake, two valets-de.'
b e nhg:
Master of the Wardrobe, the sword, blue riban
St. Louis were brought, and afterwards thr
the rule that the King should empty with hi
pockets of the clothes which he wore the pre
that he should tie. his cravat himself : three
chiefs were handed fo him in a dish of silvei
permitted him to take one, two, or even'all th
A valet held a mirror before the King (11
time of dressing, 'and two others lighted him
or were supposed to do so. The various ord
for the day, the King frequently granted
nuncio or to the ambassadors.

Louis XVIII. usually breakfasted either
just after mass, according to the distribute
lie admitted to his table several of the gre:
household. Ile had a good appetite, and
fond of mutton-chops so arranged as to allo
but a single mouthful of each of them : he al
boiled in champagne, but to please him it was necess'
they should be burning hot. in the
going to mass the King took pleasure in stopping prir;
11. of the Marshals, to receive such petitions as wereaging
sented to him : he received them with a most encon%
graciousness, and then handed them to the persons of
tinue. The petitioners had no doubt that he perused a rem
requests with attention: alas ! they were dismissed, to b
ferred from one to another with the sonnet of Orontes.

. .
ief ACC!:
MAN BURNF.D A LIVE.—A more ShOek.i.v oy
dent than we are about to relate, it has seldom been our paiofdal!'cesrs;
record. The unfortunate subject of it was John Baird, aged
who, on Saturday last, was burned alive at Benston
Cumnock, where he had been employed for upwards of f`irt,,Ystsne°
About nine o'clock of the morning mentioned, he was brationi,
on the kilnhead, and incautiously stepped with one foot 1113°11 tD,e,
to break a stone which had rolled upon it, when the kiln being
hollow below, the burning gave way under his weight,
and the uu joel
nate man instantaneously disappeared, the kiln being twenty feetwor"
and the burning limestones on the surface closing over him. it
workman standing at his side, was witness to his fate, sod
giving the alarm, the other workmen hastened to the SP', wtes
human aid was unavailing. They, however, betook thersse
emptying the kiln by the eye, when they discovered the body oftl inf 016
fated companion in the very heart of the flames, in the centre
kiln, from which it was withdrawn with hooks,--Edinburgh Couj
beo-
STATE ten THE NAVL—A great deal 03-
said and writte lately about the comparative state of our na3ltie';
ciency and that of other.countries; but those who discuss the °f ,ling
appear to forget that the difficulty does not lie in equipping sbiP-feli 'el
force in any required number, but in getting men. We may'
,„,e s°e!
France and Russia build and equip as many ships as they P'''":10; (.0%.
assured that the inadequate and incompetent crews they ca
nish will only deliver these vaunted models into the bawlsf State"'
tars, meet when they may. If we, and still more other Europe,!" no do
could find sailors as easily as we can equip ships, we should be'"
ficulty for any naval armament:—Ulster Times. Of
As the time of the coronation of the EmPer,jor
oso,
higber
Austria as King of Lombardy, at Milan, approaches, the
~oes

staosrzey
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sceovset
aitenuti m
occasion. It consists of black P 3
eai
i,p'eiaedgneri
dress
becomeit,intender)
rrlish cetoi
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made very full, fastened at the ancle, over red morocco boots ; go!'"
coat of white satin buttoned all the way up—the butt"s of t
Waist,P
studded with turquoises and diamonds. No cravat is used, but
nificent diamond pin is fixed in the shirt at the neck ; round the tad
over the waistcoat, is a sash worked in gold and silver, and of v., gr' e
colours, the fringe hanging down in front ; and a short coat nii`ind
cloth embroidered in gold, with open sleeves thrown back be fireci°
shoulders, is worn over this. The buttons are studded tvitlLe'r SPoeg
stones. A rich sabre with a scabbard of an antique form, '"'s
a square white cap, edged with brown Astrakan, and bearllio i°l.ll
feather with brilliants, complete the costume. This is the r°oes
form of the Gallicians. It is said that several of the Yon",,f,et sclie,ll
appear in similar dresses, which will have a magnifieentnrpe
contrasted with the Hungarian costumes. The Austrian G°„l "tiss%a
has authorised the construction of a railroad from Milan to Pt't 01'0
distance of three leagues. Monza contains nearly 400 t(ic t°
other manufactories. The daily average of travellers between ,41
places is 1,260.
accia`,
CURIOUS WAGEII,--A curious wager wali, 1,001, c
some time ago in a village near Manchester, where at a 1411)7;01d
parish clerk, famous for garrulity, was upbraided with it, and
,0 Dourot
if his life depended upon it he could not hold his tongue for ttto Vi'ls,,
Moses, piqued at the insinuation, offered to wager the meneYo; speso,',s
have for digging a grave on the following day that he did,nhe bet.ieot
word, good, bad, or indifferent, for the time specified. „ op
concluded, the chatter.box screwed up his month, and becarn' va
hot , los
as the grave. All means were tried to provoke a word, ben....01.
At last a person was sent to tell the clerk's wife that her b",:iscic P 4,
taken speechless. Terrified at the news, she posted to thee Zoo 11_1;1
On entering she immediately asked her good man how b
self? He only answered by a nod and a shake of the beauwee. ,00
shake thy head at me, Moses ! How does do ?" al" of- deli flog
speak, Moses! Oh! I shall go mad." Every symptonl
swefe, jo,
soon made its appearance. She stamped, she wept, be
scolded, she a. Still Moses held his tongue. —iS to°
eia'sjecl
creased, she toreyed her cap, and began to tear her hair. .lera
.. ,esoje',De
much for Moses, and, with a louder voice than he had ev
ese"
Amen," he bawled out, " Rot thee, thou soft toad, thou
, al
, that
digging of old John Williams's grave, and be hanged to thee.
If we lash one another let it be with tl'e
strokes of wit and satire ; for lam of the old philosopl_i
_earth.ser tli
that if I must suffer from the one or the other, woultillsr.
be from the paw of a lion than the hoof of an ass.— Ad don

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