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very sort and formal epistle from Monsiepr Io psocureur, requiring and oomniandluu lIlI§ 30 Eooaod forthwith in the matter of the marriage

tween Monsieur Dash, a British subject, and Mademoiselle Chose, born and new domiciled in Paris. After this, every thing marclll. II the French say, comma sur des roulct.'tss.' No‘- thing remained but to ‘ l1|ll|_° “P 5‘! i “ this, after a little becoming hesitation, was soon done. I enjoyed my revenge when I called on the mayor's 010:3. who. Jack-like, had been quite as determined as his master not to marl’! us, and ordered him to am: the necessary na- tices or bdnnsdofmsrriegc on the front of hit oﬂce that very I - _

And soon the‘ happy day arrived. or rather the ﬂrstof them, for people have two happy days in France—that is, 1 they can aﬂord to devote two days from their ordin_ar avoca one to the business of getting i_narrie . The _ _ is devoted to the legal marriage before. the civil authorities of the commune. This, although counting as the day of the wedding, the day on which you are le lly undo the unromantic matter-of-fact eye 0 the law, is not the_ day_ on which you really are become man and wife: it is not the day of the dressing, and feasting. and dancing. and weeping and leave-taki.ng,_ and of all the other doings, grave and ga , incident to a weddin . Custom, more power ul than law and revo utions, still ordains that you shall have the ‘priest's blessing as well [as the may- or’s ; an the second day therefore, is the Wed- ding-day par excellence—tho day of elegant toi- lettes and elaborate repasts. 1‘ s first day is ii sort ofbusiness aﬂ'.iir, which is passed over in comparative quiet, the gaities being reserved for the moi-row, when the blushing bride, shrouded in her graceful veil, and crowned with white ﬂowers, is led to the altar surrounded by troops of friends and relatives of the two fami- lies. It is certainly curious, that, in spite of the little hold which the more ordinances of their religion have retained on the vast majori- ty of the French eople, marriages by the civil authority alone s iould be so extremely rare. It may be that the legal ceremony is too sicke- too prosaic for a peep who are so given to dis-

lay, and so fond of theatrical elf.-ct; but whe- thel‘ that be the cause or not, the fact is cer- tain. Fery few persons dispense with the benediction of Monsieur 1e are. '

The day at last arrived, then, which was to make the woman of my cliioce legally mine, and in which, to use the Turkish phrase. my tormentor, the poor stupid old mayor, was to eat an immensity ofdirt—to marr mo in spite of his oft-reiterated phrase, ‘ n no vous mariera as.’ Punctually, at the hour ap- pointed, we came all to the Mairie, and in as short a time as it takes to tell it, we were married. Placing ourselves opposite Monsieur le Maire, at a table covered with green cloth, and accompanied by four witnesses and many relatives. we listened patiently to the captions clerk, while, with the usual legal drawl, he read over to us all the documents relating to the marria e. Then Monsieur le Maire, gird- ing himsel with the insignia of oliice, the triooloured scarf, reminded us, in solemn tones of the respective rights and duties of married persons, and put to each of us the all-important question. Lastly, the ‘ yes ’ being pronounced by the gentleman very distinctly, and by the lady, if not very distinctly, at least suliiciently so to shew that there was no mistake, Monsieur le Maire declared, ‘ in the name of the law.‘ that we were married. -

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Tin Mirusrsas AND was Wsii.—In one respect the public ought to know ‘that there is a very marked improvement in the administation of the war over that which obtained last year. We have at last gain- ed so much by the change of Ministry that we are now in grim earnest, straining every- nerve and taxing every faculty‘ to bring the stnuggle» to an end. A committee of the Cabinet meets, we understand, every Tues- day, to superintend more immediately the operations of the war.--Times.

A great lord of France being entertained at the Court of Queen -Elizabeth, she one day asked him how he liked .her ladies, he replied, “ it was hard to. judge of stars in the presence of the snn."

- A Toner’ or s Pain.-rsii_.-—At the Frank- lin Festival, recently held in.,Lowell, the following sentiment was proposed. andmost heartily responded to by__,_the company. “ The Printer--the Master of e Trades. He beats the farmer with _his ‘ _oe,’ the, carpenter with his .ruls_,, and themcson in

lie surpasses the lawyer and _ actor in attgading to his case. and heats the person ip the management of the evil." V

< ‘ c r» _ . - . upupuuiop Lovss.—_—‘—‘. dI’s sll gooe_goose_!'.' ssh ihe,youIh said will; his sweet heart yilied him.

sun.

Hugh Miller, in the Edinbur It Witness, thus writes:—“ Britain and fl-elnnd owe genial, equable warmth that ripens year after year their luxuriant cro s, and ren- ders their winters‘ so mild, t at the sea never freezes around their shores, not. at least directly, to the distant sun. Like apartments heated by pipes of steam or hot water, or greenhouses heated by lines, they derive their warmth from is heating agent laterally up lied. They are heated by warm water. he Great Gulf Stream which, issuing from the Straits of Florida, strikes diagonally across the Atlantic, and, impinging on our coasts, casts upon them not unfrequently the productions of the

est Indies, and always a considerable portion of the warmth of the West Indies, is generally recognized as the heating agent which gives to our country a climate so much more mild and genial than that of any other country whatever similiarly situ- ated. Wherever its influence is felt-—and it extends as far north as the southern shores oflceland, Nova Zambia, and the North Cape—tlie sea in winter tells of its meliorating effects, by never freezing; it remains open, like‘ those portions ofa reservoir or canal into which the heated water ofa steam boiler is supposed to es- cape. In some scnsons—an effect of un- known causes—the Gulf Stream impinges more strongly against our coasts than at others; it did so in 1775, when Benjamin Franklin made his recorded observations upon it—the first of any value which we possess; and again during the three mild, winters that immediately preceded the last severe one, and which owed their inildness apparently to that very circumstance. It was found during the latter seasons, that the temperature of the sea around our western coasts rose from one and a half to two degrees above its ordinary average: and our readers must remember how, during these seasons, every partial freezing that set in at once yielded to a thaw when- ever a pull‘ of wind from the west carried into the atmosphere the caloric ofthe water over which it swept. The amount ofhent discharged into the Atlantic by this great ocean current is enormous. ‘A simple calculation,’ says Lieutenant Maury, ‘ will show that the quantity of heat, discharged over the Atlantic from the waters of the Gulf Stream in a winter day, would be suﬁicient to raise the whole column of at- mosphere that rests upon France and the British Islands from the freezing point to summer heat.’ stream upon climate,’ he adds, ‘that makes Erin the Einernld Isle of the sea, and clothes the shores of Albion with evergreen robes; while in the same latitude on the other side, the shores of Labrador are fast bound in fetters of ice.’ "

moi: 49 Travelling Librm-y.—-Professor Por- son, the celebrated Grecian, was n travelling in a stage-coach, where a. young Oxonian, fresh from college, was amusing the ladies with a variety of talk, and amongst other things, with a notation, as he said, from Sophocles. A reek quote- tion, and in is coach too roused the slum- beriug professor from ii liind of dog sleep, in a snug corner of the vehicle. Shaking his ears and rubbing his eyes, “I think, young gentleman, " said he, “‘you favour. d usjust now with a. quotation rem Sopho- les: I do not happen to recollect it there.” 9'0, sir," replied the tyre, “the quota- tion is word for word as I have repeated it, and from Sophocles, too; but I suspect, sir, it is some time since gyou were at college.”

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The Professor, app inghis hand to his great-coat pocket, an taking out a small

_ ocket edition of Sophocles, quietly asked

im, if he could be ind enou h to show him the ‘passage iuqusstion in that little book. A or rummaging the pages for spine ,time, he replied, ,".Upon second thoughts, I new recollect that tliepasssge is in Eur-ipides.,”_ . , “ Then perhaps, sir,f’ said the Professor, putting his hand again into his ocket, and handing him is similar edition o Euripides, " you will be ,so good as to find it for me in that llttlmbook."

,.],'hp young Oxonian again returned to-

.his;|,ssk, but with no better. success, mut-

tering, however. to himself, a vow never

‘It is the influence of this‘

again to quote Greek in a stage-conch. he tittering of the ladies informed him plainly that he had got into a hobble. At last, “Why, sir,” said be, “how dull I am! I recolleet now; yes, now I perfectly rememberthat the asssge isin }Eschylus."

The inexorable rofessor returned to his inexhaustible pocket, and was in the act of handing him an 1Eschylus, when our aston- ished reshmnn vocifernted, “Coachman! holloa, conchmsn! let me out; Isay in- stantly let me out! There's a fellow here has the whole Budleinn library in his pocket.”

0 Tris new cssru or iisi.sroIui.. The building is of the Scotch baronial style of architecture modiﬁed in seine of its details, so as to combine the more bold and prominent features of the ancient strong- hold with the more domestic character of modern civilization. Entering by the main porch, the hall opens to the corridor, which runs along to the centre of the building, from which the grand staircase conducts to the royal private apartments on the first ﬂoor; the dining-room and drawing-room, with the billiard-room and library, occupy the ground floor, and are spacious and most commodious apartments. The private rooms of the Queen front the west, and look up the valley of the Dec on the wild ass of Invercauld with its overhanging cliffs, and the Craig-en-Gowan mountains in the distance. The apartments of Prince Albert look to the South, where the lawn stretches out to the foot of Craig-en-Gowan, and command an extensive view of the deer forest ofBallochbrine; while the Prince of \Vales’ rooms on the north side look on a scene in which the pastoral and romantic are richly blended. The whole ofthis por- tion ofthe Castle is ﬁre-proof," on the plan of Fox and Barrett, and well lighted with the purest plutcglass. The furnishings of the royal apartments are of the plainest and most substantial character. All the ap- pointments nre distinguished by that sim- plicity ofstyle and purity of taste for which the Royal Family are so remarkable. The carpets are of clan tartan, which is the prevailing pattern of the drawing-room furnishings, and wherever an ornament is necessary to round off an angle or soften a projection, the ﬂower ofthe Scotch thistle is used. The furniture is of African ash, a kind of wood resembling American maple, and everywhere presenting the same cha- racteristics ofusefulness which the furnish- ings exhibit throughout. It is pleasing to know while these undertakings have been entered on for the accommodation of the Royal Family, the Queen and the Prince have been mostnttcntive to the moral and. social wants of the people on the estates. Abergeldie, Birkhall, and Balmoral may be said to constitute the royal domains, and although the population is considerable, yet every tenant has his lease, every family has the rivilege of a school, and new and com ortable cottages are taking the place of the old mud huts of the poor. The schools are visited by the Queen and Prince, and habits of economy and forethought are encouraged among the people. ‘

Cosvsnsiou or s Dsssii-r into A LAKE.-— Captian William Allen of the British navy, has published a book advocating the con- version ofthe Arabian Desert into an ocean. The author believes, that the great .valley extending from the southern depression 0 the Lebanon range to the head of the Gulf of Akaba, the eastern branch of the head of the Red Sea, has been once an ocean. It is in many places 1300 feet below the level of the Mediterranean, and in it are situated the Dead Sea and the Sea of Tiberius. He believes that this ocean, being cut off from the Red Sea by the rise of land at the southern extremity, andbeing only fed by small streams, gradually became dried b solar. evaporation. He proposes to cut .s canal ofadnquate size from the hendof-the Gulf ofAkaba tothe Dead Sea, and another from the Mediterranean, near Mount Car- mel, across the plain of Esdraelon, to the ﬁssure in the mountain range, of Lebanon. By this. means, the Mediterranean-would rush in, with I fall of I300 feet... ﬁll= up the valley, and substitute an ocean of M00 vsquare miles in extent, fora zharren, useless

as short as the overland route, Iprogding

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desert; thus making the navigation to Indin‘<+iaenliept+'- or before it wilt‘-bollilltlod

fertility over a now arid country, and opening up the fertile"r‘eg'ions of Palestine to settlement and cisltivetio . The cone tion is a magniﬁcent‘ one, at no suﬂcieﬂ. survey has been made to determine its practicability or its cost.

M_sr.si¢cnoi.r sun Fsrsi. Cssusmrx ——-W0 are inforined that a fatal accident occurred at Kentville. N. 8., on Friday last. it appear! that on that evening. a number of young IIIOI had assembled to make a demonstration in solo brstion of the fall of Sebastopol. Everything pas_sed of well, until they began to returnta their homes, when a gun was ﬁred by a man‘ named Futon, the charge of which entered tliu back of a.young man named Chas. Harris, [I5 lin him instantly. The deceased was the sea of ._ D. Harris, Esq., and was much esteemed by his relatives and acquaintances—Ceur.

Tris Czsn mo ms Cooxcii. A1‘ Loocsiinssns.— The Morning Chronicle publishes the following, but without givin any authority for the same ': —“ The celebrated dispatch from Prince Gott- seh_akoﬂ', announcing that ‘ Our worlis are suf- fering, ’ caused a great impression atSt. Peters- burg, and the Emperor immediately summoned ii kind of Council of War, composed of the most experienced oﬁcers, and demanded their advice on the best means of reestablishing the marsh of his troops, and lessening the bad elfect of the defeat of Tchernsya. He also ordered an in- quiry into the conduct of General Read, who had been accused by Prince Gortschakoﬁ of not followin the instructions of his general-in- chief. '1 urning then to Prince Menschikol, who, with General Dannenberg, had received a summons to the council, the Emperor asked why, when he was commanding at Sebastopol, he hadfnot followed up the system " ofconstant attacks on the enemy at a time when the allies were discouraged by months of useless toil and by disease, and before they had received the reinforcements which have since been so con-

stantly pouring in. The Prince replied, that he was 0 liged to give up the system because the

army was then actually in want ofammunition. At this answer, the Emperor turned sharpfy round on Prince Dolgorouky, the Minister of War, and rcpi-oaclied him bitterly with his in- conceivable negligence in leaving the Russian army in want _of so necessary an article. The Prince replied roughly,that the assertion of the ex-Commandcr-iii-(‘hief in the Crimea was false, and that the Russian army never was de- ficient anywhere in rations and ammunition, and certainly not in the Crimea. Prince Men- B0lllk0ll,Wll0B(§ hnughtiness and temper are noto- rious, retorted that the Minister of War knew nothing about what he was saying, and that he did not consider him competent to offer any opinion on the matter, as he had neither in- vented, nor handled, nor burnt owder. It is hard to tell to what lengths t e altercation might have been carried, according to the ac- count we have received, had not the Emperor terminated the sitting,by ordering Count Alexis Orlcﬂ to investigate the truth of these conflict- ing assertions. ’ a

To Kerr Fisn Fiuisii.—Drnw the fish and remove the gills, then insert a piece of char- uoal in their mouths, and two or three pieces between the sides. Ifthey are to be'con- veyed any distance, wrap each fish sepa- nrntely inlpaper, and place them in a box.

several days.

Runny ron Bi.is-rsaso Fsii'r.—iPe<hs- trians whose feet are apt to blister duriig long journeys should rub the feet, at n’ t, with spirits mixed with tnllow dropped a candle into the palm of the hand; on the following morning, no blister will exist, for the spirits possess healing power, and the tallow keeps the skin soft and plient.—Gsl- ton’: Jr! of Travel.

A few nights ago, a Mr. Bodkin, who had been out, on goin _home late, borrow- ed an umbrella, and w en_his wife's tongue tongue was loosened, he sat up ip bed and suddenly spread , out the parapluic. _

‘ What are you going to do with that?’ said his wi c._ I’ A .. 0:3-i"hy),-'iIi;yl.‘dear,.§ expgeied a very heavy.

M g t, an so cumetprepnre

a few minutqs,,Mrs. Bodkin, appeared to be asleep. , — . ' The prosecuted on thejcohst of California. Every respectable lawyeriu Buffalo has refused to aidslevehnnters in the eat‘ meat of the fugitive slave law.

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ed snsitismens to surrender! . ‘ ~

Fish thus preserved will keep fresh in-_

pearl ﬁshery is quite successfully ./