The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-19 00:00:00

MANAGEMENT OF LOVE AFFAIRS.

I've heard folk say that the witnmin was contrary.
Well, they is a leetle so; but, if you tnanige 'tm
right—haul in here, and let 'em out there—you can
drive 'em along without whip or spur, just which way
you want 'em to go.
When I lived at Elton, there was a good many
fust-rate gals down there, but I didn't take a likin' to
any of 'em till 'Squire Cummins cum down there to
live. The 'Squire bad a mighty purty darter. If a
fellow seed her once, he couldn't look at another for a
week. I tuk a likin' to her rite off, and we got as
thick as thieves. We used to go to the same
meetin', and set in the same pew. It took me to
find saws and hims for her : and we'd swell 'em
out in a manner shockin' to hardened sinners;
and the❑ we'd mosey home together, while the
gals and fellers kept a looking on as though they'd
like to mix in. I'd always stay to supper; and the
way she could make injin cakes, and the way I could
slick 'em with merlasses and put 'em away, wag
oothin' to nobody. She was dreadful civil, tew,
always gettin' somethin' nice for me. I was up to
the hub in love, and was pin' into it like a locomo-
tive. Well, things went on in this way for a spell,
till she bad me tight enuff. Then she began to show
off kinder independent. When I'd go to the meetin'
there was no room in the pew; then she'd streak off
with another chap, and leave me sucking my fingers
at the door. Instead of stickin' to me as she used to
do, she got to cuttin' around with the other fellers,
just as if she cared nothin' about me no more—none
whatever.

I got considerably riled, and thot I might as well
cum to the end of it at once ; so down I went to
have it out with her. There was a hull grist of fellers
there. They seemed mighty quiet till I went in ;
then she'd got to talkin' all sorts of nonsense, and sed
nothin' to me. I tried to keep my dander down. I
kept movin' about as if I had a pin in my trowsers.
I sweat as if I had been thrashin. I couldn't stand it,
so I cleared out as quickly as I could, for I seed 'twas
no use to say nothin' to her.
I went straight to bed, and thot the matter over a
spell. Thinks I, that gal is just train' of me; 'taint
no use of our playin' possum. I'll take the kink out
of her. If I don't fetch her out of that high grass,
use me for sausage-meat.
I heard tell of a boy wonce that got to skewl late
in the mornin'. The master sez—

" You sleepin' critter, what has kept you so late ?
"Why," sez the boy, "its so everlastin' slippery
our, I couldn't get along no how; every step I took
for ward I went two steps backward; and I couldn't
have got here at all if I hadn't turned back to go
t'other way."
Now, that's just my case. I've been puttin' after
that gal a considerable time. Now, thinks I, I'll go
t'other way. She's been slitein' of me, and now I'll
slite her.. What's sass for the goose is sass for the
gander.
Well, I went no more to Nancy's. Next Sabbath
day I slicked myself up, and I do say, when I got my
fixins on, I took the shine off any specimen of human
nature in our part.
About meetin' time, off I put to Elthum Dodge's
Patience Dodge was as nice a gal as you'd see twixt
here and yonder, any more than she wasn't just like
Nance. Ephraim Mussey was used to go and see her.
Well, I went to meetin' with Patience, and sat right.
afore Nancy. I didn't. set my eyes on her till after meet-
in'. I kept my eye on Nance arter meetin', and seed
how the cat was jumpin'; she didn't cut about like
she had, and looked re; her solemnly ; she'd gin her
two eyes to kiss and make up. I kept it up till I was
like to have got in a mess about Patience. The critter
thot I was goin arter lur for good, and got us proud
as a lame turkey.
One day Ephe came down to our place, lookin' as
wrathy as a militia officer on a trainin' day.
" Halloa !" sez I, " what's broke ?"
" Why," sez he, "I came down to have satisfaction
about Patience Dodge. Here I've been courtin' her
ever since last year, and she was just as good as mine
till you came a going after her."
" Why," sez I, what on airth are you talkin'
about ? I aint got nothin' to do with your gal : but
'spore I had, there's nothin' for you to get wolfy
about. If the girl has taken a likin' to me, 'taint my
fault ; and if I have taken a likin' to her, 'taint her
fault ; and if we have taken a likin' to each other,
'taint your fault. I aint so taken with her, and you
may get her for all me ; so you hadn't ought to got
savage about nothin'." _ _ _

That tickled him, and away he weat, a little better
pleased.
Now, thinks I, its time to look arter Nancy. Next
day, down I went; Nancy was all alone. I a,ked
her if the 'Squire was in. She said he warn't.
" Cause," said I making beleev I wanted him, " our
colt sprained his foot, and I cum to see if the 'Squire
wont's lend me his mare to go into town."
She sed she guessed he would—better set down till
he cum in. Down I sot; she loeked kind o'strange,
and my heart felt queer on the edges. Arter a while
sez she—

" Air you goin' down to Betsey Mastin's quiltin'?"
Sed I—" Reckon I shall."
Sed she—" I s'pos you'll take Patience Dodge ?"
Sed I —" I moight, and again I moight not."
Sed she—" I heard you're agoin' to get married."
Sed I—" Shouldn't wonder a bit—Patience is a
nice gal."
I looked at her—l seed the tears a-coming.
Sed I—" May be she'll az you to be bridesmaid."
She riz up—she did—her face as red as a boiled
beet.

" Seth Stokes," seu she, and she couldn't say any
more, she was so full.
" Won't you be bridesmaid ? " sez I.
"No," sez she, and she burst rite out.
" Well, then," sez I, " if you won't be bridesmaid,
will you be the bride ?"
She looked up at me—l never seed anything so
awful putty—l took rite hold of her hand.
" Yes, or no, rite off," sez I.

" Yes," sez she.
"That's your sort," sez I, and I gave her a buss
and a hug. I soon fixed matters with the 'Squire.
We then hitched traces to trot in double harness for
life, and I never had cause to repent my bargain.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COUR"' OF BANKRUPTCY, Aug. 18.
(Before Mr. Comtnissiouer FAN.S.)
IN ItE B. 11AYE8.

The bankrupt was a draper in Regent-street and
Pimlico. There was a meeting fur the choice of
assignees. From a statement furnished by the ac-
countant in the cares (Mr. Butler), it appeared that
the bankrun,'s debt*, focluding to the ex-
tent of 1,453/, are 3,732/. ; his assets, 1,140/. Mr.
Bull, of St. gartin's-unte, was chosen assignee.

INSOLVENT DEBToIf.S' COURT, Aug. 18.
(Before Mr. Commissioner LAW.)
IN THE MATTER OF JAMES ELLIS.
This insolvent, who formerly had Cremorne Gar-
dens, and latterly the Flora Gardens, Camberwell, ap-
peared to be discharged on sureties till his hearing in
September.
Mr. Cooke supported the application.
An attorney, named Bursell, attended to oppose
on the part of Mr. Thomas Foulkes, ttie detaining
creditor.
Mr. CooKE objected to the appearance of Mr.
Bursell, as he was not the attorney of Mr. Foulkes
in the action on the record on which the insolvent was
in prison.
Mr. Commissioner LAW was of opinion that the
objection was a good one. The Court had allowed
attorneys to oppose on account of the short notice
given, which did not admit of time to instruct coun-
sel. The object of that permission was not to allow
attorneys to usurp the privileges of the bar, as
was the practice in some courts, but to allow the
attorneys to oppose. That rule, however, did not
enable any attorney to oppose simply as the advocate
of another, but was a permission to the attorney on
the record.
The opposition was not allowed, the sureties were
accepted, and the discharge ordered.

MARYLEBONE COUNTY COURT, Aug• 18

ALLDER V. YEOMAN.

This action, it may be remembered, led to an ap-
plication for a criminal rule in the Court of Queen's
Bench, against Mr. Amos, the Judge of the Diary-
lebone County Court, for corrupt practices in his
office as j udge, and which application was unanimously
refused by the Court, with full costs. To-day Mr.
Amos gave judgment for the plaintiff, ordering 71. 7s.
to be paid on the 16th day of September next, but
refusing the costs. After entering into the merits of
the case at great length, Mr. Amos concluded by
saying: The prosecutor of the rule in the Queen's
Bench has sent me a message, expressing his contri-
tion, stating that he was led into the proceedings en-
tirely by the instigation of his counsel, otherwise he
would not have thought of any step of the kind, and
offering certain terms for the payment of the taxed
costs of the discharged rule, amounting to 26/. 16s.—
about half the actual costs. I have signified that I
am not unwilling to grant him much more lenient
terms than he offers, and to renounce all claim to be
reimbursed my costs, but upon conniton of a certain
mitigated payment being made into the poor-box of
this court.

Dr. Schlegel traces the disposition to commit suicide
among the English, Germans, and Russians, to intemperance,
in France to love and gambling, and in Spain to bigotry. A
curious fact is mentioned in the North Americanllettsew—
that in the week which followed the t:rawing of the last
ottery in England, titty suicides were committed.
A man pledges himself to swim from Dover to
Calais, according to a letter dated Vienna (Aug. 10), where
he is at present. He offers to wake from 50 1. to 1.0001.,
a , ainst all corners, that he will do this in the month of
August or September; the money to be deposited before-
hand with a Loudon banker. He has already swum, ac-
cording to his own account, from Vienna to Presburg, down
the Danube.