The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-02 00:00:00

" OH 'TIS LOVE, 'TIS LOVE."

St. Peter's Church in this good city was to have been the
locus in quo of a more than usually remarkable marriage ce-
remony on last Tuesday morning, which excited much at-
tention among, at least, the fair portion of our citizens. The
bride was one of the few capital prizes in the lottery for
public competition—young and beautiful, witty, grave, and
gay—in short, having every accomplishment, and £60,000
sterling coin of this realm at her own disposal.
Fortune and this fair millionaire smiled benignantly upon
the scion of an ancient house which reared its aristocratic
front in the county of Westmeath. Mr. —, the beau ideal
of a jovial, light-hearted, but sound-hearted Irishman, who
thoroughly well understood the adage of " a wink is as good
as 8, nod," &c., lost no opportunity in confirming the fa-
vourable impression he had made ; and the course of true
love did run smooth.

Mr. - in due time proposed to lay his soul and body at
the feet of the fair Miss -; his heart, although beyond
his control, would still be a principal in the solemn league
and covenant. The maid returned

A. slight blush, a' soft tremor, a calm kind
Of gentle feminine delight,
which an anchorite, let alone a Westmeath man, might con-
strue into an affirmative.

Rumour, with its thousand tongues, announced as a posi-
tive fact, that the sole heiress of Jonathan -, the wealthy
salesmaster, had thrown her handkerchief to Mr. -, and
that she was only waiting for the close of the year to throw
off her sable suit to don the bridal garments. Three, four,
or five months the lovers passed (as ardent lovers have done
from the days of Anthony and Cleopatra to the present),
when the shady side of the picture appeared in, bold relief.
Executors, those mar.plots, those plague-spots on the ro-
mantic page of life, came forward to forbid the bans. Hav-
ing read all the " provisoes" of the old gentleman's will with
more care than the next of kin bestowed upon that document,
after the main fact was ascertained, they discovered that if
Miss - married without their consent, she should forfeit
one-half the assets, £30,000, and of course Mr. - could
not hope to obtain so important a concession. _ _

Pending the hiatus caused in the correspondence of the
lovers by this unlooked-for discovery, a gallant son of Mars
stept forward with the approbation of the executors, to so-
licit the smiles of their ward ; the lady was seized with what
is called, in garrison towns, the scarlet fever, in the delirium
of which poor was forgotten, while Captain pressed
the siege with vigour.
To make a long story short, the captain woo'd and won
the lady, to whom he was to be married on Tuesday last.
The favours were duly prepared—the gloves, rosettes, cards,
cakes, &c., &c., not forgetting the glazed notes apprising
distant friends that " Captain and Mrs. would be at
home" on such a day—in fact nothing was neglected that was
necessary to give eclat to the ceremony. The intended
bridegroom, who was stationed in Scotland, obtained lease
of absence from his colonel, and left his brother officers with
the cries of "joy, joy," ringing in his ears to proceed on his
matrimonial expedition.
"There's nothing certain under the sun"—that's a fact.
On Monday afternoon Miss proceeded to the house of
her milliner in Grafton-street, to inspect her wedding gar-
ments, when who should she meet at the door—of all men
in the world—but the discarded Mr. —. He solicited a
last interview—'twas granted—soft words were heard—then
sturdy speeches and then sobs—the upshot of all being that
the lady and gentleman left the house together, and a few
brief lines received at the residence in Fitzwilliam-square in-
formed the inmates that she would not be home for some
days, and accordingly " could not be at the wedding of Cap-
tain next morning."
It now appears that the man of Westmeath scattered to the
winds all the fine saws of the man of war. The happy Couple
journeyed towards the residence of a benevolent clergyman,
who detests restraint in his own proper person, and without
the preliminary trouble required by the orthodox, he united
them in the holy bands of wedlock.
Tuesday morning came, and so did the captain and the
guests—but what occurred in the premises further we know
not. Rumour says, that Mr. —isto be invited to a ball
after breakfast, the first fine morning after he appears in the
enemy's camp ' • but as this is not agreeable weather for a
bridegroom to be left shivering on a daisy, he'll be a precious
goose if he accept the kind invitation.—Dublin Correspondent
of the London Standard.

Tuesday last being the 12th anniversary of the Polish re-
volution, a great number of Poles assembled in London, to
celebrate the event. Several very elegant and energetic
speeches were delivered in the Polish language ; and the
meeting broke up amidst the hearty wishes of all present that
the next anniversary might be celebrated in Poland. Capt.
Jablonski, who was called to the chair, said, that sorry as he
was to embitter their already protracted sufferings, he could
not pass over in silence the religious persecutions which the
remorseless hand of their enemy has recently inflicted upon
their country. He could not refrain from saying that the
faith of their ancestors, the churches wherein its rites were
celebrated, and the clergy who administered its consolation
to a people deprived of every earttity blessing, haa met with
treatment at the hands of the Emperor of Russia which
would have disgraced a barbarian conqueror. But it was
not for him to relate the particulars of the unexampled cru-
elties perpetrated by the ambition of Nicholas ; the public
press had already brought them
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should be of no long continuance. Suffer, as they all must,
to sec their fatherland reduced to such a depth of misery and
abasement, to find themselves wanderers in a foreign land,
and severed from the ties which are dearest to humanity,
still (continued Capt. Jablonski) they must not vet despair.
The cause of justice must ultimately triumph, and this con-
viction ought to inspire every one of them with certainty
that the cause of Poland is not lost, but she is destined once
more to become a barrier against the irruption of Asiatic
barbarians (he could give them no other name), and prove, as
she has often proved before), the bulwark of Christendom
and of Europe.
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.—After a most harassing march
of nineteen or twenty miles, over the wild and dreary moun-
tains of the Queen's County, Constable Lyndon, of the Silo-
ravogue station, accompanied by Sub-constable Gibbon, both
dressed in coloured clothes, succeeded in arresting, in a lonely
and isolated hovel in Butter Island, Daniel Keeffe, a ruffian
who was principal in the robbery and grievous assault of
Patrick Conway, a poor farmer, near Kennitty, in the month
of March, and for which one of his accomplices has been
transported for fifteen years. As the constable and sub_
constable were escorting their prisoner on his way to Birr,
some country fellows made their appearance, to whom the
prisoner threw some signs, which they seemed to comprehend
very readily and return. After this interchange
and
of signs.
the counsry fellows closed around the
police,attempted
to hold oral communication with th,... prisoner. Constable.
Lyndon and his companion were then, in their own defence,
obliged to present their pistols, and threaten to shoot the
first man that would attempt to come near their. The mem-
bers of the ribbon fraternity slunk hack from their brother
in distress, while in view they threw themselves into a variety
of attitudes, and telegraphed to Keeffe how deeply they com-
miserated him in his trouble. The fellow has since been fully
identified and committed to Tullamore Gaol, to take his trial
at the next assizes.—On the night of Thursday the 17th inst. ,
a party of men, four in number, some of whom were armed,
and all with their faces blackened, broke into the house of
Daniel Kennedy, of Lisnamoe, and searched it for fire arms.
Not finding any, they broke open Kennedy's box and plun-
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Head-constable Bourke of the outrage ; and that efficient
officer succeeded in arresting, under peculiar circumstances,
two men, whom Kennedy has fully identified, and who are
committed to our gaol to abide until the spring assizes of this
ri ding . —Nenagls paper.