The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1884-02-09 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

KAJKIIRT.. BARONET."  When Lori G.Oerm&in recieest—ed George HI to confer the title of Barooet on Dr. Elliott, who had never been a favourite of hie Majesty, the king manifested much unwillingnewt, baying at length, "But if I do, he sl,all not be my physcian."—" No, .ire," replied his lordship, "he shall be your majesty's baronet, and my phrnician " Thi excited the royal smile, and the title was conferred.  • SINICI7RII  The most severe—reto--rT Mr. Curran ever expvienoe I was from Sir Boyle !lochs, the °slob, sled member of the Irish parliament ( who, a gentleman, and a cood-hearted perm*, could scarcely speak a sentence without making a blunder). ,us debate where Mr Curran had made a very strong speech against sinecure Aloe- be was very tartly replied to by Sir Hercules Lan. ish Curran, nettled at some observation, started up, and warmly exclaimed, " I would have the baronet to know, that I am the guardian of my own honouw" Sir Belle instantly rejoined. "Then the gentleman has get a very tretty sinecure empl, yment of it, and so has been speakin, all night on the wrong side of the question."  The oil Eighth custom of crowning the newly married pair In church, lays claim to great'antiquity. Garlands were titled by both Heathen, and Jews; from whom they appear to have deerended to the first Christine; whence they were derived by the Analo-Sazons' After the marriage of the Anglo-Saxons. and the benediction had been given, the bride and bridegroom were adorned with a chaplet of dowers, or with a mown of niyrtle, both which were kept in the churches for tie purpoms of wedding festivities. In England, about the time ef Henry the custom was altered by our 'bold peasantry,' The bridegroom was heretofore crowned; bat this part of the ceremony was now abolished, and the bride wore a garland of flowers or cornears, which was blessed before being pleat& oa her head.  ANCUITT lIKTAPR  In the church of 'Colmmwth, Bedfordshire, in a magnificent monument, erect& in 1641, by Lady Byer, in memory of her deceased husbeau, Sir William Dyer, the inscription upon which tel,a us that " they multiplied themselvea Mt, ease,. chiliren." Beneath are the following g, mint liner My (lemma dust, could not thy hasty day Afford thy drowsy patience leave so stay One hour longer, so that we might eitner Have set op, or Aro,.e to bed together? But since thy finished labour bath possessed Thy weary limbs with early rest, Enjoy it sweetly; and thy widow bride, Shall MOM repose her by thy slumbering aide:. Whose business now is only to prepare My nightly dress and call to prayer. Mine eyes wax heavy, and the days grow old The dew falls thiek—my blood grows cold;— Draw, draw the closed curtains, and make room, My dear, my dearest dust, ioosae, I come.  orraxtre's  An account of his interview with Boyse, the friend and educate,. of his youth, is this 'elated by himself. '• About five and thirty years after leaving the school at Middleton, when I hid risen to some eminenco at the bar, and when I had a seat in path ,ment on my return, one day„ from court, I found an old gentl mat seated alone in my drawing-room; his feet familiarly placed on each side of the chimney-piece, and his whole air beereikieg the consoiousnest of Out quiet at home. He turned round—it was my friend of the Ball-alley. I rushed instinetive'y in his arms, and burst into tears. Words cannot de,cribe the Doane which followed: 'You are right sir; you ale rich;' said I; 'the chimney-piece is yours—the pictures are y urs--the house is yours. You gave me ell I have—my friend--suy father —my benefactor!' He dined with me; and in the evening I caught the tear glistening in his eye, when he sew poor, little Jack, the creature Id his bounty, rising in the House of Commons to reply to a right honourable. Poor Bore! he is now gone: end no suitor had a larger depoeit of practcal benevolence in the court above. This is his wine ; let us drink to his memory.  At Dublin on Wednesday, a man named Patrick Bulger was fined £lOO for having an Illicit atill on his pr. mi,es.  A the Taunton assizes on Wednesday, Mr. Justice Cave condemned Charles Bite to death for the murder of Albert Miles at Bath, on the 2nd January. In a quarrel prisoner stabbed the deceased in the chest with a knife.  BLOOD, SKIN, and NERVE DISEASES am cured by