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MAMRVIVG COUSINS.-—TlIO New York “ Day Book” has the lollowing paragraph in regard to a very interesting qucstion:—

Among other profound subjects discussed by the association for the advancement of science at Providence, Rhodo Island, was the question whether a man may marry his cousin. Some fearful examples in the deformity of posterity were cited to prove that such near relations should not inter- marry. Instances of blindness, clubfeet, otc., were mentioned. The Roman Catho- lie and Episcopal Churches both forbid such marriages; but in the face of scientiﬁc and ecclesiastical authority we ask, what will the objectors to the marriage of cousins do with those cases, where children, the result of such marriages, are more than usually beautiful and intelligent? We explain the matter in this wa_v:—Children sometimes inherit their mental and physical organization from their mothers, and some- times from their fathers. If two cousins, who both inherit their constitutions from the satne side, unite in matrintony, the conse-

quences will be most disastrous; but if

cousins marry, who are entirely dissimilar- one having inherited a constitution from the

' father and the other from the mother, no It is the uniting of similar organizations, no matter whether ﬁrst or second cousins, that causes the in- jury to oﬁ‘-‘pving, and not the simple fact of

such result will follow.

legal relationship. . Parsritviso THE Puui.ic i’nci:.—-Giringa eruss child jam.

SENTENCI or STRAHAN, PAUL 8L Brrrzs, -rns Fit.woui.sn'r BANKRUl’1‘S.—-On Friday

and Saturday, the trial of the prisoners was

conducted at the Central Criminal Court, before Mr. Justice VVillis, Mr. Baron Al- derson, and Mr. Baron Martin. At the close on Saturday Baron Alderson sum- med up. The jury retired at twenty-ﬁve minutes beﬁire one, and after an absence of half an hour, returned into court with a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners. Baron Alderson twho laboured under deep

emotion) sentenced the prisoners in the

following terms:—Wm. Strahan, Sir John

Dean Paul, and Robert Makin Bates-the jury have now fotind you guilty of the offence which is charged against you in the indictment, the offence of disposing ofsecti- rities entrusted to you by others for safe

keeping, but which you have appropriated

under circumstances of temptation, to your

own advantage. A more serious offence can hardly be imagined in a great commer- cial community like this, and the punish- ment for such an offence must be commen- surate with its magnitude. All that l have to do is to say, that I cannot conceive any

worse case of the sort under the Act of

Parliament; and, as I cannot conceive a worse case, I must ass the extreme sen- tence which that act imposes. The sentence ofthe Court is, that you be Transported for Fourteen Years.

'I‘hcre is no foundation for the statement which has been going the round of the papers. that Strahan, Paul. and Bates, the bankers were about to be sent to Gibraltar to suﬁer their sentence at the Crimnal Court. Gibraltar is not by any means an easy station, but may be reckoned perhaps one ofthe most penal and hard-working, well as being by far from the most healthy. The convicts are new in lmvgate. They will, in the ﬁrst instance, or the usual period of separate conﬁnement, which is, we believe, a year. After that, they will jirobably be transported to a penal settle- ment for the remainder of their sentence; but no decision will be come to until alter the customary probation in separate con- ﬁneuient.—Obs¢reer.

Mtunav Pasniu-rioas.—'I‘ho Govern- ment has entered into extensive contracts for the supply of Minie riﬂes, riﬂed and wictoria csrabinos, rovolvors, and cavalry,

heavy and li ht) sabrss. The number of roarms of ali descriptions required is tip-

. wards of 100,000 stand, and 10,000 sabrss.

The contracts are divided amongst tho gun manufacturers of London and Birmin ham, Liogo and Nsinur Belgium), and on United States). he sword cutlors of oﬂiold have taken tho contract for ssbros. Tho departure of tho German Legion for

{As Crisios has been niarksd by s rotasntic I

circumstance. On Monday night, one of the privates was discovered to be a. woman, handsome and young, French, the wife of a soldier of the regiment who is a Swiss. This gallant wife regularly enlisted and passed muster, it would appear, afterwards; On tho discovery of her sex, the fact was reported to the colonel, who ordered her to he landed, but still she begged so hard and her appeal was so heartily and generally supported by the comrades ofher husband, that she had been allowed to accompany him in her capacity as a soldier, pro (em. As she expressed her determination to ﬁght and die in the same service as her husband, The enthusiasm of the regiment is universal at this unlooked-for episode in the outset of their martial career. So pleased were It number ofvisitors to the ship, ollicers and men, with her spirit and pi-t-possessing ap- pearance, that a subscription was speedily raised of upwards of .t"3tl for her. She shoulders her riﬂe, and has performed her military evolutions admirably.

Fitrurur. Love.-——'l'he gallant Sir Tho- mas Trowbridge is about to lead to the al- tar Miss Louisa Gurney, daughter ofDani- el Gurney, Esq, of Norwich, atid sister of the Hon. Mrs. “7. Cooper. Seldom has that proud meed of homage which beauty loves to pay to valor been conferred on it more worthy recipient. The descendant ofone 0fEngland’s gt't2tttc.~tt adinirals, and among the brave at Alma, the heroic valor of Sir Thomas Troivbi-idgc at lnkerman, has hecoine one of the glorious facts of liis- tory. Those who record the great achieve-~ ments of England’s soldiers in the present war, will emblazon, in the brightest colors of military story, how, wlieii his skill and courage in directing the fire of a battery had contributed to turn the tide of battle, and when a fatal cannon shot had carried away both his feet—-tlie wounded hero ro- fused to be conveyed to the rear, demand- ing ofhis fellow soldiers but to carry him to the front and raise him on it gun carriage, that, before bleeding to death, he might witness the successful issue of the conflict, and then, coolly, in that position, continu- ing to direct the ﬁre of his battery until he shared’ in the ﬁnal triumph and shouts of victory.

Preserved by almost tl miracle to life-— liis services crowned by every applause that a nation’s gratitude cotild bestow—his honors hallowed and enhanced by the tear of pity from his sovereign herself, while placing them upon his shattered frame, the noble soldier now reaps his ﬁnal and great- est reward in this happy consummation ofa long cherished attachment with the beauti- ful and amiable lady, who is about to share his titles and honors, while she consoles and repays his suﬁ'erings—Engli.th paper.

This interesting marriage reminds us of the similar case of the gallant Capt. Bar- clay, who was married whilc. in command of the British squadron in the battle of Lake Erie. It is said, that after the disaster, he wrote to his betrothed, desiring that she would consider herself released from the engagement, but his misfortune only in- creased her affection, and she insisted upon the marriage. It is also related ofthe great Duke of Wellington, that Miss Pakenham having been greately disﬁgured by pittings of the small pox, with which disease she was attacked alter her betrothal to him, she rs- lcased him from his engagement, but from motives either of honor or affection, he re- fused to be disengaged, and married her.- .N'. Y. Com. Jldeerliser.

General Codrington, the new comman- der-in chief of the army in the Crimea, is the only surviving son of Admiral Codring- ton, whose name is so intimately connected with 'the exploits of England upon the sea at the close of the last century, and whose crowning achievement was the victor of Nsvarino. General Codrington was born in 185, entered the Guards in 1821, and rotainod the rank of colonel in 1846. His ﬁrst active engagement was at_the battle of Alias, and at the battle of Inkoriiian, it was he who ﬁrst becamo aware of the approach of the Russians. He is said to be a man of one y, talent and accomplishments, and of his p ysical qualiﬁcations for the post he has reached; it is suﬁicient to so , that he

has not been sbsont a do from is dutiss

could not be granted. No

“ Basin Lssouss. ”—'l‘he people or», now banding together in quite a nutn.i- r oi -' towns tor the purpose of getting then ll -or directly from the West at cheapo-I‘ totes than they now have to pay in buying it from second and third hands, and paging two or three extra proﬁts. In addition to the cost it which we have already chronirled, oe --to serve in the Woodsockct Patriot at call signed by a large number of persons l'- r at meeting to form a “ Bread League " no that village. The object is to procure ﬂour from the West at reasonable prices. The sne- ccss of such attempts in several places lIIt~ been very encouraging. The citizens ol Haverhill (Mass) are taking nieasoi-es to purchase their ﬁour direct of the western producer to save the expense oftlio "mid- dlc inen. ”—Har(/brd Titties.

IN'l‘ERl£lTlNG raom rur. Aitcric Oct-:A.'\— DIICOVERY or A New Rsceor lxoiuts, Stc. -—The California papers contain some ltl teresting facts respecting the recent Cl‘|II.~v ofthe U. S. sloop-of-war Vincennes, Con.- modore Rodgers, as the ﬂag-sliip of tin- Nortli Paciﬁc survey. The VIllCt‘tllI(3S t'll- tered Bchring’s Straits in the month of .-\o- gust, IS-"i5, and anchored in Seiiivane Ii ._v. a port of the eastern coast of Asia. l'he principal object of visiting this point was t - obtain astronomical observations, and at party of twelve was left for that plll'|ltI.~t', whilst Coin. Rodgers cruised Nortliuaid. He visiti.-d Herald lsltind, hut sotiglit in vain for the lniid said to have been -(lI.it'ti- vered by Capt. Kellet, and thinks that --lli cer must have been deceived by low cloud<. Wrangle’s Land was also sought for in vain, in the latitude set down for it. The Viti- ceiines returned in a month, and found the party at Senivane in safety and goodhenlth.

Vegetation in this region is exceedingly sparse. Mr. \Vright, the botniiist, disco- vered some dwarf species of the willow, growing at art average height of one and a half inches. A consideiable quantity of these “trees ” were gathered and eaten as salad. Some other species of timber were found, none of which exceeded, when full grown, the height of two or three inches. Amongst the party was Mr. Kern, who was one ol Col. Freinont’s party in the overland expedition to California in 1845. The fa- mous “ Kern river ” is named after him. The stibjcct of most interest to the general reader, is the information gained respecting the Techucchis Indians, a warlike race who inhabit this portion of Asia. They owe no allegiance to foreign power.

The manners and customs of tlieso people are peculiarly their own. Unlike savages in other portions of the world, they are characteristically provident and anxious of acctiinulating property. Having no know- ledge of the existence of a Supreme Being, and acknowledging no attribute superior to animal instinct, they are without supersti- tion, and lead a life of happy ignorance of all things unconnected with the present. It is equally remarkable of this untutored race, that in their social relations, and in the intercourse between the sexes, they are governed to a certain extent by correct principles ofmorality. They depend almost entirely upon the hard-earned fruit ofthe chase for subsistence, seemingly having but little taste or desire for the luxuries that might be obtained from the Russians in ex- change for valuable furs. At rare inter- vals, the fortunate captor of the blue otter exchanges his prize for knives and tobacco. but further than this they appear to have no desire to trade with the Russians, Their principal article of diet is whales, ﬁesh. which they preserve for months by simply burying it in the frozen earth.

Lieuteiiniit Brooke endeavored by manv devices, to awaken in the mind of the old chiefsoino ideas regarding the existence of a Supreme Being, and one day, when they had been sitting a long time in argument upon the subject, the savage oxclaimed in a tone of voice which sufficiently indicated the birth of a new, though scarcely deﬁned thought, “Good! Man cannot make whsles.” Ono of the marines attached to Liout. Brooke’s party, was very desirous of being lolt among the Indians. He stated his de- sire to open a school at Sonivane, and is- struct the natives in such branches of edu- cation as could be msdo applicable to their understanding. His roquost, howovor,

siaco tlio srniy landod in t s Criinos.

:2? nor more favorablo rod for missionary labour.

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..\'|t't'l .it-ti‘ posseueg (wave duckyard. rl\ for ships of the line and six for smalls; \..--.~o-l.~; also lllllnrnso arsenals, and almost r.I‘Inti.-llt'§.-I niateuials for shipbuilding. It einph-_\ . tit|0 worltinen in ordinary Iimog nod 2| .0! 0 on occasions of emergency A; ji|»¢,"~t oi toe number, according to the Ge;-- tl-tut .n-cooiits, is not less than 21,000,

.\lns Hour. no sin J. D. PAUL.—-The Curl.‘ Comtttlltlioii mentions the fact, thug _\lis (ion-‘s novel, “ The Banker's Wife " -.1‘ W'.I|('.lI the villainy of an unpriiiciplt’-d hm-lt--r forms the groundwork. was Clrdicg- t--d to Sir John Paul, as an illustrioug example of probiiy and good faith, and one III whom the ollice of banker was mad. lIlIlItitll'lil)lt'. Mr:-. Gore is a creditor of Sir John I). Paul's bank, it is said, of t.‘.t0_ti0i, i . which are included the gain; by her voluniinoiis writings.

\Viti»:cits.—A return, published by thg .8",-'ppniy Gazelle, shows that the number of vi-_~t t Is wrecked in the tnontli of October nin noted to I79. Owing totlte late vio- l m gals-s. this tiuinher, with the exception ot the l-I.~‘.~'t‘S in Janunrv, when they amount- ed to ‘£38 vessels, is larger than has occur- i-ad Ill any one month during the present \('Ht‘. Thus, in September, the losses onounted to I06 vessels; in August, I09; July, 70; June, 83; May. 98; April, lug; .\lm-uh, I-I9; February, 164; and in Jan“. any, 238.

The lndians on the \’Vcstern borders of the United States are still very warlike and trouhlesoine. In many cases they set the United State's troops at deliance,aiid carry otfgoveriinient property.

According to the Courier des Elals Unis, the Russian flag counted at Sebastopol, in the month of September, I854, seventeen ships, ﬁve of I20 guns, the reniaindor ol'84 guns, four corvettcs or hrigs; twelve steamships, and eighty-two ofiiiferior rank; in all I08 ships, carrying ‘2,‘.’1)0 gnng__ This colossal armament was destroyed by the Russians themselves, to prevent it from falling into the hands of their enemies.

The Montreal Herald is advocating a more extended system of Reciprocity of trade between Canada and the United States. Our contemporary proposes to make the reciprocity measure more truly national in its character——to include a reciprocity in the coasting trade and the trade of ships, between the two countries. The argu- ments employed in support of the position are clear and strong; and we have no doubt the commercial men of the United States and Canada will bestirthemselvcs, and by acting in concert induce their re. spective Governments to grant a general and liberal reciprocity in all things suitab|¢ to the enlightened spirit of the age. oooo—-—-

IIolIou:ay's Oinlmcntand Pill:.—l".xtrsordinary Cure of: liad Breast.-—The wife of Mr Arthur Born, of St. John, N. B., was, arm the in-uh of their last child. it constant sullen-r with a bgd bi-cast; there were several holes in ii, and (lea ‘re ofthe various remedies tried, her husband could not get anything to cause it to heal. After over other remedy had filled to beneﬁt the stiﬂiue, she had recourse to lloIlowsy‘s Ointment and Pills, which as a_mstter of cotirse,quickl_v cauged an iinprovetncttl in the appeaniiiee of the ﬂffqctgd parts, and by perseverance with these ﬁne yen..- dies for a few weeks. she was completely cured. This wonderful Ointment will also Yogdjly can all diseases of the skin.

Got.n IN ANCIENT riuss.—'l'lio contribution of the people in the time of David, for tho ssnctut. ry, exceeded £6,800,000. Tho immense treat stirs David is said to have collected for tho sane. tnsry amounted to 889 millions of periods sterling (Crite says 708 mil|ions)—s sam grostor thsn the British national debt. The gold with which Solomon overlsid tlio " most holy place,” only s roota thirty foot squsro, siiiotintod to more than 38 millions sterling.

Wuvr is the diforonoo botwson an suction and sos-sieknoss!—0no is tho sale of oﬁots; tho other is tho oﬂoots of a sail.

A I-‘sisitn is itssn.—A poo: qttsksr.

" A Qtuvss rim. or Diitoa-rsss.”—-ﬂoppy is he woo-—sosordiag to ‘Lord Grsnvills's now vorsloti-—hss s qsivor full of dstiglitors ; ssd hsppior still if all that are in tho qslvor hosts with the props! bow.