Mrs. Siddons and a large ...
The Times, 1824-08-16T00:00:00

Mrs. Sidlons and a large party en flmilic, arc enjoying the baths, and the sea breezes at Dover, where she has taken one ol the new houses on the Marine Parade.-Kentishs Gazette. Thc matrimonial ceremony, like miany others, has un- dergone some 'ariation in thc progrers of time. Upw'asds of thrie centuries ago, the busband, on taking his wife, as now, by the righii hand, thus addressed her :-" I N. midersygnec the N. for my wedded wyfe, for beter, for worse, for richer for porer, yn sekness. and in heithe, tyl dethe us departe, (not " do part," aS we have er. roneonsly rendered it, the ancient meaning of departe, "even in Wickliffe's time, being " separate), as holy churche hath ordeyned, and thereto I, lyeth the my trovwtlie." The wife replies in the sarne form, with l adlitional clause, " to be buxom to the, tyl dethe us departe." So it appears in the first elition of the "* iials for the use of the famous and celebrated Church of herefbrd, 1502," fol. In whiat is called the SaeLsbzury Alissal, the lady pronounced a more ge- neral obedience, " to be bonere and buxom in bedde and at the borde." Edit. Wayland, 1554, 4to.-Dibditu's Biuliog7aphi*cal Dc- Cameron, * Boniatr. Freneh, whence our Euglish " debonalr," which some- trimes meaus geiateel, but at others chaerftil,agreeable,good.tempered: - Buxoin, blythe, and debojiair." LtMRtIlC, July 31.-On Wedneslay night last, a dewel- ling-louse, cow-house, and stable, on the lands of Cloneurry, coun- ty Clare, the estate of Mfr. Arthur, of Glenemera, were maliciously burned; tihey were all untecanted. T1he annexed Rock-notice was Xo- p to n thoh&etdooreontiiguoous-., Sir.-General John Rock, commander of and Chief of Ireland, gives warning to John Hute to quit the place; or else if he does not, that he will get a worse death than Ryan; or if he gives his Majesty the trouble of coming anv more, that he will consume both houscs and cattle to ashes. HIs Mlajesty gives orders to James Madden, in like manner, to quit the place from his herding." We are sorry to find that the pursuit in London after Rogers' kidnapped chiild, has proved unsuccessful; but a letter has been received by his wife at liunslet, from AMr. WIilliam lMate, the keeper of the gaol at Dovcr, communicating the information that Charlotte Shaw sailed from that place in the packet on or about the 18th of July, with a child, to Calais, whiere there is a large pottery, at which she probably hopes to obtain employment. This inforaa- tion has been conveyed from hence to Wmi. Rogers, the father of the child, now in lo,don, and if he has not returned into Yorkshirc before the letter reaches himl, he will no doubt proceed from thence to France. We are,on the whole,gld to hear that the vagabond has Mn her neck into the toils of the Frencl police; their system of rersonal description and minute registraiion will be very likely to ead to her detection._ Leeds il'ercecry. On Monday last a most distressing occurrence took place in Coventry. A young man, named Shorringten, employed as a writer in the Excise-office, about three o'clock on M1onday afternoon called at the house of a Mr. MIorgar (with. whom he was ncquaint- ed), and told him ho was going to shoot himself. lr. Alorgan hav- ing fre9oently heard hin make use of similar expressiens, made an- swer, tiat those who talked of such inatters were, in his opinion, of all persons the least likely to put their threats in execution. Sher- riigton soon afterwards left, and on his way to the Excise-office called at a Air. olnlias' vwhere he :drank two glasses of ale. Upon raising the first glass to tis lips he exclaimed, " It will be the death of me." -Mr. iollins inquired if he meant the ale ? To which he nanwered, " No;Iwill do it in a neater manlier." Having subse. qoently been informe that there were thrce grocers waiting at the offlce. ior permits, he replied, " Ah! but they will wait a long time before I write them)' Sberrington then wetst to the office, where he had been but a few mninutes, when a loud report of a pistol was.heard by the neighbours. kioUins,from whom theunfortunate youth had but just parted, immediately ran to the office, and finding the door tast- coed, hco then ha-stened to the window, where he beheld a dsiht ap- palling beyond all description. Sherrington was seated on a stool, with his head literaUy blown to atoms, portions of which were scat- tered in every direction upon the door of the apartment. The door having been forced, the niserabre man was fouml quite dead, and a small pocket pistol, with which he had commuted therash act, lying bcsule hin?.-Birnlngthia; Ciroalr,