ANGLO CELT -- August 25, 1863 -- Part one of two -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADVERTISEMENTS TO CREDITORS, LEGATEES, AND INCUMBRANCERS. Cause Petition, under "the Court of Chancery (Ireland) Regulation Act, 1850." ------- In the Matter of Mary Anne Sheridan, widow Jane M'Cabe, & Anne Brady, otherwise Dunne, Petitioners ' Hugh Martyn, Respondent. I HEREBY require all persons claiming to be creditors, or pecuniary legatees of Mary BURROWES, late of Balnaney, in the County of Tyrone, spinster, deceased, on or before the 26th day of SEPTEMBER, to furnish in writing to Hugh SIMPSON, Esq., No. 2, Inns'-quay, Dublin, Solicitor for the Respondent, Hugh MARTYN, surviving Executor, named in the last will and testament of said Mary BURROWES, deceased, the amount and particulars of their several demands (accompanied, in case of simple contract debts, by a statement of the consideration of such debts), in order that the Petitioners may, without any expense to them, prove in this matter such or so much of their demands as they shall think just, of the allowance or disallowance of which, or any part of same, said creditors shall receive due notice. And all such creditors whose demands shall be disallowed either wholly or in part, shall at the peril of costs be at liberty to file charges in my office, in respect of the claims or a! mounts so disallowed, within one fortnight after they shall respectively have received notice of such disallowance. I also require all persons having charges or incumbrances affecting the real and freehold estate of the said Mary BURROWES, deceased, to come in before me, at my Chambers. Inns'-quay, in the City of Dublin, on or before the 3rd day of OCTOBER, and proceed to prove the same. Dated 24th day of August, 1852, WILLIAM HENN, Master in Chancery, Mathew Tully, Solicitor for the Petitioners, No. 49, Bolton-street, Dublin. ---------------------------------------------- MARRIAGE. August 18, at Thoresby Park, Notts, Charles Watkin Williams Wynn(sic), Esq., only son of the late Right Hon. C. W. W. Wyan(sic), M.P., to the Lady Annora Charlotte Pierrepoint, youngest daughter of Earl Manvers. August 17, in St. Peter's Church, Dublin, by the Rev. Mr. Green, Thomas Irwin, Esq., of Lisbofin, county of Fermanagh, to Dorinds(Dorinda?), second daughter of the late Thomas Nixon, Esq., Thorn Hill, county of Cavan. DEATH. August 18, at Bank House, Bandon, John J. Thompson, Esq., Manager of the Provincial Bank, aged fifty-five years. ------------------------------------------- MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE. August 16, at the parish Church of Drung, by the Rev. Lord John de la Poer Beresford, assisted by the Rev. Guy L'Estrange, Captain Thomas Heywood, of the 16th Lancers, only son of Thomas Heywood, Esq., of Hopend, Herefordshire, to Mary Emily, youngest daughter of the Venerable M. G. Beresford, Archdeacon of Ardagh, and immediately afterwards, at the same place, by the Rev. Lord John de la Poer Beresford, assisted by the Rev. Guy L'Estrange, Henry B. W. Milner, Esq., son of Sir Wm. Mordaunt Sturt(sic) Milner, Bart., of Nunappleton, Yorkshire, to Charlotte Henrietta, eldest daughter of the Venerable M. G. Beresford, Archdeacon of Ardagh. A numerous party of friends and relations attended the ceremony, and afterwards partook of the hospitalities of Archdeacon and Mrs. Beresford. The world is indebted to an immortal Irishman for the history of the gigantic solemnities that took place in ancient days at the castle of O'Rourke, Prince of Breffney. On the witty Dean of Saint Patrick's devolved the labour of love of chronicling the events of that memorable day, when O'Rourke spread the banquet, and "smoked the calumet" -- the "Pipe of peace," with his neighbouring chieftains. From the mellifluous pen of Swift flowed out those wondrous, heart-stirring strains which narrate the commotion produced by this gathering to the festive-board of Breffney -- and to him be the praise that "O'Rourke's noble feast shall ne'er be forgot By those who were there or by those who were not." It has fallen to our lot, another "Son of the Sod," to hand down to posterity an account of an event which took place in our own immediate neighbourhood on the 16th instant -- an event that will long be had in remembrance by the actors in the scene, "old men and maidens, young men and children." The occasion of this assemblage of the gentry of Cavan and the adjoining counties was the celebration of the marriages of the two lovely daughters of Archdeacon Beresford, with two handsome and wealthy Englishmen -- and we feel bound to say that the hospitalities of Corravahan Glebe fell no whit behind the feast of the great O'Rourke. There has been no small stir amongst us since these marriages have been arranged ; and preparations for the weddings have furnished abundant occupation to every class amongst us. From the snowy surplice and golden-clasped book of the priest, down to the amphibious, half wooden, half leathern, instrument, mis-named a boot, that adorns the dexter leg of the postillion, all have been polished up to take a part in these solemnities. There is a growing taste of late amongst young ladies of the higher classes to have a great number of beautiful girls, their relatives and friends, to attend upon them as bridesmaids at the altar ; twenty-four were invited to grace the nuptials of the Misses Beresford. It requires no small amount of good taste, of time, and of trouble, to invent and provide, and fit a becoming uniform upon some twenty or four-and-twenty bridesmaids. Let us take one, as Sterne took his captive from amongst the millions that surrounded him, and which did but disturb his view ; let us isolate her, and contemplate her requirements. Look at her tiny foot glistening in white satin ; smooth as an onion boiled in butter ; look at the wreath of blush roses, forming two-thirds of a circle, that bounds that loveable little face "brightening all over" at the role it is about to act ; then the gown, so deeply plicate at hip and waist ; expanding as it descends in an ample rotundity, and bespeaking an ! enormous profusion of nether involucra. The bonnet, that pet of a bonnet, artfully constructed to conceal the cervical vertebrae and large portion of the occipital bone ; and the veil, and the gloves, and the sash, brought into a neat point at the anterior termination of the corset from whence two "streamers float upon the breeze." We say nothing here of the jewellry, nor of the showers of pins that are scattered from the trembling hand of the eloquent ladies maid ; and which, subsequently, become the undisputed property of the housemaid, through whom they are destined to flow down to, and irrigate, if we may use the term, the entire household ; nor of the bouquet of flowers ; nor of the pocket handkerchief ; that acre of lace surrounding a palms breadth of cambric. No ! the millinery arts have triumphed ; and we are lost in the wondrous perfection they have achieved. To come at any approximation to an estimate of the number of shoemakers, staymakers, weavers, bonnet-makers, milliners, "et hoc cenus omne" that found occupation for the last two months in fashioning the bridesmaids for this occasion, you must multiply this young fair one we have decked out by twenty-four, and, if you work out the problem correctly, the quotient will give you the exact amount ; but this does not take into account the trousseaux of the brides, neither the smart dresses of the ladies maids. But the brides are dressed, and the bridesmaids are dressed, and the bridegrooms stand on the tip-toe of expectation ; and now comes the moment of triumph and vain glory to the postillions. It could be no wedding without their assistance, and accordingly up they come spurring and cantering in goodly array, each displaying what Dickens terms "a most successful eruption of white buttons." The procession is forming, and we must proceed to the church. On arriving at the church the Archdeacon took his daughters from their carriage, gave each of them an arm, and walked forward to the communion table where he was to give them away. Give them away ! Strange, and passing strange it has ever appeared to us this every-day fact of giving a daughter away. A father takes that creature over whose welfare he has watched with incessant care form the moment she first breathed ; from the moment her first faint cry caught his ear and told him that he was a father ; from the moment his entire heart went out to her -- day and night ; through sickness and sorrow -- kissing away her tears ; sharing in her joys ; not "permitting the winds of Heaven to visit her face too roughly ; nurturing her up to blooming womanhood, and then -- "giving her away." A man comes to the damsel ; a strange man mayhap, and he asks the damsel to go with him ; and the damsel answers him, as damsels have answered since the days of Rebecca, "I will go with the man! ;" and the man tells the father of the damsel, and the father adorns his daughter in her bridal jewels ; and he takes her trembling hand into his ; looks into her eyes, her tearful eyes ; those eyes so like her mother's eyes, "When he looked on her, blooming, young and fair As she was on her wedding day." And he prints a burning kiss upon her marble forehead ; with faltering tongue he bids "God bless her," and he givers her to the man for ever : And we echo back "God bless you, ye beauteous children ; May heaven's choicest blessings light upon your young hears, and guide you in the ways of peace and happiness." We breathe this prayer upon you for your sainted mother's sake. The bridegrooms, as handsome a pair of English gentlemen as heart could desire ; followed next. Captain Heywood and Miss Emily Beresford, stood forward for the Priest's first benediction ; the gallant Captain said it was his right, as he and his fair partner "were the first on parade." Now if there is anything at all wrong about the Captain it lies in his being too handsome ; but this is a small fault in a good boy, and one for which he will readily be pardoned by the ladies ; yet he is a soldierly looking fellow, notwithstanding ; "bearded like "Pard," with a good Williamite nose -- a "back for a knapsack, and a leg for spatterdash." The Captain and his lively wife having been "done for," Mr. Henry Milner and his beautiful bride presented themselves. Mrs. Henry Milner ! What a pretty name ! Mrs. Henry Milner ; don't you admire it, girls? We only say that if you saw Mr. Henry Milner you would admire him still more. He was the "admired of all admirers;" and you would ! pardon any girl for falling love with him ; and possibly you would wish that he had fallen in love with yourself. The church service having ended -- signing the books and all -- we proceeded to the refectory. Truly 'twas a goodly sight. What sirloins of beef ; what saddles of mutton ; and the haunch of venison, the growth of a seven years' buck ; "That haunch was a picture for painters to study, The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy." Limerick, Wicklow, Belfast, and Westphalia, contended for the prize in hams ; Norfolk supplied the Turkey pouts ; Ballyshannon the salmon. There were fowls of every wing and feather ; fruits of every clime, wines of every vintage, and then the brides caked -- shade of Verey hide your diminished head -- then the brides cakes ; in shape and magnitude they resemble the upper and the nether millstones. The tables, made specially to support this burthen of good cheer, absolutely groaned beneath the task imposed upon them. Eighty six guests sat down to this sumptuous dejeuner. Among those present were -- The Earl and Countess of Erne, and Lady John Crichton, Lord and Lady John Beresford, Lady Farnham and Miss Stapleton, the two Misses Stevenson, Mrs. and Mrs. Burrowes of Stradone and Miss Burrowes, Mr. James Burrowes of Lisnamandra, Mrs. Humphreys, the two Misses, Mr. Hugh Humphreys of Ballyhaise House, and Miss Garrett, Mrs. Thos. Perceval Heywood or(sic - should probably be of) Dovely, Derbyshire, eldest son of Sir Benjamin Heywood, Bart., Francis Fuljambe, Esq., of Osberton Notts, Capt. Dixon, 16th Lancers, the Hon. Miss Fitzgerald, the two Misses Perceval of Templehouse, Colonel Clements and the three Misses Clements, Ashfield, Mr. Clements of Rakenny and the two Misses Clements, George L'Estrange, Esq., of Kilnacrott, and the three Misses L'Estrange, Mr. Edmond L'Estrange and Mrs. and Miss L'Estrange, of Craigdarc, Captain and Mrs. Hamilton of Pinmore, Ayrshire ; Mr. Severne, 16th Lancers, Rev. Guy L'Estrange, Rev. Henry Stepney, Rev. Charles! Leslie and Mrs. Leslie, Kilmore Palace, Colonel and Mrs. Hill, Colgrave Place, Notts, Mrs. O'Hara, Mrs. Architage (Arthitage?) Moore ; Mr. and Mrs., and the three Misses Story, Mr. Neville Reid, Rev., Andrew M'Creight, Rev. J. King, the two Misses Butler, Mr. and Mrs. Carson, Dr. Roe, Dr., and Mrs. Mease, Mr. George Beresford, and Mr. H. M. Beresford, 9th Regt. (transcriber's note - to be continued on August 25, 1853, part 2 of 2) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- County Cavan Newspaper Transcription Project