there are now three
(including the _Morning Advertiser_, which "goes in" upon the
aristocratic dodge), contained the other day the account of a marriage
of a Reverend Baronet with a young lady, whose name is not given, but
who is said to be "related to the EARL OF ROSSE." This scientific
nobleman may have numerous distant relations, who, on the strength of
his title and his telescope, would like to be looked upon as near
relations, and therefore the bride may or may not be a very close
connection of the Earl. At all events, the persons inserting the
advertisement in the fashionable paper, do not seem to have felt
themselves justified in heading the paragraph with the usual words,
"Marriage in High Life." It was most probably a sort of middle-class
matrimonial connection; though in these days it is hard to say where
high life ends and mediocrity begins. The couple seem to have been
"carriage people," at all events; for as the vehicle--probably a "neat
fly" with post horses--approached the bridge, the assembled multitude
raised such "vociferations," says the penny-a-liner, "as to make the
welkin ring." We should like to see the bell attached to the Welkin, and
the Welkin itself in which the phenomenon of "ringing" was produced by
the shouts of the multitude.

On reaching the village the vehicle "proceeded through a triumphal arch,
ornamented with a lamp." We beg leave to say that we have the honour of
passing under a triumphal arch--that which bears the Wellington
Statue--twice a day, and we do so without any feeling of undue vanity,
notwithstanding the fact that it is also "ornamented with a lamp,"--and
indeed two--for there is one on each side of it. The penny-a-liner adds
that "on reaching their residence the bride and bridegroom briefly, but
feelingly, returned thanks to the inhabitants." What a pity that we have
not had a full report of the speeches. Where was GURNEY, the short-hand
writer; where was SHERER, and what had become of MORTON?

The next time that a marriage in "mediocre" life is celebrated we trust
that a staff of stenographists will be in attendance to take down the
"speeches" of the bride and bridegroom, as they pass from the neat fly,
gig, or clarence to the inn or hotel they may have chosen for their
mellilunar abode.

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THE TIGHT BLOCKADE.

If that old Bear in Boots, the CZAR,
Will drag old England into war,
Our fleet shall sail to Turkey's aid,