The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-21 00:00:00

ROMANTIC WEDDING

A correspondent says, " About a fortnight ago, just as
the most beautiful month of the whole twelve was bursting
upon us, I came in the course of my perambulations in Wales
to a sequestered and romantic village, where, having rested
for the night, I rose with the lark eager for new adventures.
As the morning advanced, the little town exhibited symptoms
of unusual animation : the bells of the church, which is
situated on a slight elevation in a pretty vicinity, sent forth
their merry sounds ; some of the cottages were decorated
with boughs, and numbers of the youths of both sexes, deco-
rated in their holiday attire, were tripping gaily along. On
inquiry I found that a young couple were about to be married
under very interesting and peculiar circumstances. The
bridegroom was the son of u gentleman farmer, and the bride
the daughter of a retired tradesman, who resided in the same
neighbourhood—another and far distant part of the kingdom.
Here the young people became betrothed, but at the age of
two and twenty the youth, with the fickleness that not.unfre-
quently belongs to that age, became dissatisfied with the
neighbourhood and weary of his attachment, and quitted the
place, never intending to return ; the death of his only sur-
viving parent and the dispersion of his relatives, confirmed
him in this resolve. The young lady, who fully verified the
truth of the poet's remark,

,g Love is of man's life a thing apart,
'Tis woman's whole existence,"

could not so readily give up an affection which had increased
for years, and formed the only charm of her life. Nothing,
however, was heard of the faithless one, and the father of the
once affianced bride exerted every influence in his power to
induce her to accept the offer of a rich but rather old suitor.
This she at once refused, and notwithstanding that day after
day the parent urged upon his unhappy child the advantage
that would result from the union—in spite of the feeling of
resentment that must unavoidably have sprung up in her
bosom against her former lover, she still remained true to her
vows. At last the father even proceeded to threats ; and the
girl, whose existence was rendered miserable by this be-
haviour, and by the unkind treatment of a mother-in-law,
quitted the house privately, taking with her only some
clothes and a few pounds of her own. Far were the wander-
ings, and sad must have been the privations of that innocent
and delicate female, thus cast upon a cold and unfeeling
world. At length, however, (the efforts of the parent, who
perhaps was not over anxious to discover her, having failed),
she came to the village above referred t 9, and obtained a
situation as teacher in a seminary, where she remained for
five long years, faithfully performing her duties, but doubt-
less with a heavy heart and many a painful recollection
of the past. In the mean time her former lover had gone
to London, where engaging himself in a house of business,
by diligence and attention he acquired a complete knowledge
of his occupation, and saved some money, but every trace
of his affianced bride had faded away from his memory,
and she was to him as though she had never been. By
the death of his father he came into possession of a few
hundred pounds ; and being desirous of carrying on the bu-
siness, a knowledge of which he had acquired, in a small
way, he thought of Wales, a country of which he had heard
much, and where he thought he should like to live, having a
touch of the romantic in his disposition. An advertisement
in a newspaper directed his attention to the village, or rather
small town, referred to, where he entered upon a shop, and
the neighbourhood being populous, he seemed likely to pros-
per well in business. He had been thus engaged for twelve
months, when the interesting incident with which this nar-
rative commenced took place. During that time he must
have frequently seen and passed the once adored object of
his affection ; but other scenes, and the alteration of the
person in a few years, prevented recognition. She indeed
could not so easily forget, and her agitation when she dis-
covered that he was in the same place, may be easily sup-
posed. It happened that as he was one day going out in a
gig, the horse, alarmed by a troop of cavalry proceeding
rapidly, in an opposite direction, to one of the mining dis-
tricts, swerved to the side of the road, and the young man
was thrown out very violently, breaking his arm, and
being otherwise severely bruised and stunned ; he conti-
nued for some time in a senseless state. The seminary
being the nearest house, he was conveyed there; and the
proprietress, a lady of benevolent disposition, showed him
every attention and kindness. He remained there for a day or
two, and was then removed for his own home, where in a few
weeks he got well again. This incident naturally led to an
acquaintance with the conductors of the school; and the
pretty assistant, who, it may be concluded, evinced no little
anxiety about the accident, but whose modesty and timidity
kept her from declaring herself, came in for her share of in-
quiries The two young people at length met at a sort of
fête given in the neighbourhood, and in the course of conver-
sation explanations took place which brought back to the
wandering lover the scenes of other days and the solemn
engagements still unfulfilled. To make the story short, the
connexion was renewed, and in a few months the sobered
young man of seven-and-twenty married the faithful girl
whom, five years before, he had neglected.—This was the
wedding which excited so much interest and conversation,
and I heartily wish the young people, thus so singularly
brought together, every happiness. Though some may doubt
the accuracy of this little narrative, it must be recollecited
that the most important results frequently arise out of the
most ordinary occurrences, and that truth is stranger than
fiction. Such an incident did happen."— Worcester Jour.

MELTING HOT.—In the American newspapers it is com-
mon to see the greatest evils treated with ridicule by the
quaint wit of the editors. Thus the journals seemed for some
days to compete with each other for the palm of superiority
as to the most ingenious points of view in which this exces-
sive heat of the season could be exhibited. There were ac-
cordingly paragraphs beginning with the words " hissing
hot"—" frying hot"—" boiling hot", and so on; but the
prize seemed to he carried off by a New Orleans editor, who,
under the head of " melting hot," stated, that so great was
the heat at New Orleans, that " any persons choosing to put
their heads out of the window, might see whole suits of
clothes, in large numbers, walking empty through the streets,
the original wearers of the garments having been entirely
melted away ! "—Buckingham's America.

PROFLIGACY OF MANNERS IN WASHINGTON.—The
practice of carrying arms on the person is, no doubt, one of
the reasons why so many atrocious acts ale done under the
immediateinfluence of passion ; which, were no arms at
hand, would waste itself in words, or blows at the utmost;
but now too often results in death. A medical gentleman,
resident in the city, told me he was recently called in to see
a young girl who had been shot at with a pistol by one of her
paramours, the ball grazing her cheek with a deep wound,
and disfiguring
.her for life ; and yet nothing whatever was
done to the individual, who had only failed by accident in
his intention to destroy her life. In this city are many esta-
blishments where young girls are collected by procuresses,
and one of these was said to be kept by a young man who
had persuaded or. coerced all
.his sisters into prostitution,
and lived on topers ages of their infamy. These houses are
frequented in op day ; and hackney-coaches may be seen
almost constantly before their doors. In fact, the total ab-
sence of all restraint upon the actions of men here, either
legal or moral, occasions such open and unblushing displays
of recklessness and profligacy as would hardly be credited if
mentioned in detail. Unhappily, too, the influence of this
is more or less felt in the deteriorated characters of almost
all persons who come often to Washington, or live for a long
period there. Gentlemen from the northern and eastern
states, who before they left their homes were accounted
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come back quite altered characters, and, while they are at
Washington contract habits, the very mention of
.which is
quite revolting to chaste and unpolluted ears.—Buckmgham's
America.