The Hillsborough Recorder

REAL IRISH BULL.

One of the most complete and singular bulls we remember to have heard, and which is likely to afford employment to the gentlemen of the long robe, has recently been committed in the county of Wicklow. We do not know that the subject has yet been noticed by the public prints, but we have no doubt as to the correctness of our information. Two gentlemen, brothers, were recently married on the same day, and the respective friends of each, with the brides and bridegrooms, determined on celebrating the happy event as joyfully as possible. Accordingly the whole party repaired to a house a short distance from Wicklow, where the day was spent in the usual style of Irish mirth; there being no lack of supply of the "generous grape," nor of the still more generous "native." At night, the brides, amidst blushes and smiles, retired to bed, but left positive orders that no candles were to be allowed the bridegrooms on their retiring. This doubtless was to save a repetition of blushes, and evinced great delicacy on the part of the ladies. It may be supposed the gentlemen were not long in following the example set them by their wives, and they retired to bed, observing strictly the injunctions of their fair brides. But O! dire mishap! in the morning it was discovered that each gentleman had gone to what was intended to be his brother's bed! the ladies in the dark, and the brothers' voices strongly resembling each other, not having noticed the fatal error! We understand, what particularly puzzles the lawyers, is, that one of the ladies possesses a fortune of 6000l. and the other one of 1000l, and the gentleman who married the lady with the latter fortune, wishes to keep possession of the lady with whom he slept, with the 6000l. this his brother refuses to accede to; and in consequence the whole affair is to be made public.

Liverpool Adv.