New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-31
T.ord naeon,s coarssitp ana Marrlage.

In the flush of this triumph, with his fame now
fixed, and with great place won by hiTnRelf, not
mot, as Lord Campbell says, when he Is poor and
down in the summer Of the Queens deathl he
bega the lady Of his love to name her day. Three
years ago they were pledged to each other: ne
could have made her Lady Bacon then, or at any
time since then but be has hoped to give his bride
more settled fortune and more illustrious name
Renown beyond the dreams of woman he can give
her. Nor il he poor in these worldly gifts which
girls are taught to eovet more than character
and fame. Besides the grants bestowed on him By
Elizabeth. the reversion in the Star Chamber (not
yet fallen inY, and the leases OF Gheltenham and
Charlton Kings, of the Pitts and TWickenham
and excesaes caught from his noble friend) has
given him Gorhambury and the lands about it,
where he now lives when not al GTay's Inn, and
where in after years he viii built Verulam House by
the pond taking his house. as he says, the water,
when the water will no longer flow to his house,
More than ALL the patent Of Solicitor General may
be now sealed to him any day OF week, post OF
not less value than three or four thousand pounds
a year, with openings to higher office and greater
pay, to the Privy Council the Peerage and the
Seals. III
The day is named the 10th Of May. BY help
of Sir Dudley Carleton we may look upon the
pleasant scene npon The pretty bride, tRe joyial
knight, the ronpng girls, and the merry company,
as through glass. Feathers and lace light mp the
| rooms in the Strand Cecil has been warmly en-
gagged TO come over from Salisbury House. Three
| of his gentlemen, Sir Walter Cope, Sir Baptist
| Hicks, and Sir Hugh Beeston hard drinkers and
men about town, strut OYER in his stead, Haunting
in their swords and pumea; yet she prodigal bride
| COON, sumptuous in his tastes az in his genius,
| clad In suit of Genoese velvet, purple from cap
! to sfoe outbraves them all. The bride, too, fs
| richly dght; her whole dowry seeming to be piled
upon her in cloth of silver and ornaments OF gold
| The wedding rite is performed at st. Marylebone
chapel two miles from the Strand, among the lanes
| and suburbs winding towards the foot Of Hamp-
| stead Hill. Who that is blessed with any share Of
| sympathy or poetry cannot see how that glad and
| shining party ride to the rural church on that
| sunny 10th Of May2 how the girls will laugh and
Sir John will joke, as they wind through lanes now
| white with the thorn and the bloom of pears how
the bridesmaids scatter rosemary and the goomsr
men struggle for the kiss
4 Who cannot imagine that dinner in the Strand,
| though the tiny hunehback Earl of Salisbury has
| not come over to Sir Johns lodging to taste the
cheer or kiss the bride? We know that the wit j:
good, for Bacon is there we may trust Sir Johr
for the quality Of his wine.
Alice brings to her husband two hundred ant
| twenty pounds a year. with further claim on he
mothers death, Of one hundred and forty pounds
year. As Lady Pakington long ontltved Bacon
that increase never came into his hands, NV
, hundred and twenty pounds q year i bis wife
whole fortune. What Ia not spent in lace an
satins for her bridal Dress he allows her to invest 70
her separate use. From his own estate he settle
on her five hundred pounds year. Now, in Wha
sense can marriage in which there seems to be-
good deal of love, and in which there certainly
no great flush of money be called, on Bacon's sids
a mercenary match. [Dixon's Life Of Bacon.