The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-01-25 00:00:00

foreign anb it oknual Inttlltynce.

FRANCK
Pima, Friday, Jill. 21, 1.15 p.m.
Th. Bonnie opened • Gnu and animated. %antes,
69 35 and 69 40, being nearly i per cent. higher than
yebterday's closing.
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2.15 p.m.
Tendency heavy, and prices declining, in spite of •
rumour that Count Walewski has written a conciliatory
note. Rentes, 69 15.

3.15 p.m.
The Pourse closed very fiat, on the asserto that a
treaty offensive and defensive between France and Pied-
mont had been signed. Rentes, 68 95, both for money
and account.

The ministerial journals of France hay* lately taken •
subdued tone ; owing to • strong feeling against war
which has manifested itself throughout the country.
The Pays and the Constaalionnel have both published
articles in deprecation of alarm—the latter under direct
inspiration front head quarters, and with • view to
restore the value of securities. In this article the
alarm is attributed to three cases—the words addresed
by the Emperor to Baron Hubner at the New Year's
day levee, the speech of the King of Sardinia, and the
marriage of Prince Napoleon with the Princess Savoy;
awl the wiiter expresses his surprise that they should
produce such effects. The address of the Emperor to
Baron Hubner—what could be more innocent? And ,
then every one knows that there were differences
between Austria and France as regards the execution
of the Treaty of Paris and the proposed Austrian inter-
vention in Semis. The King of Piedmont's speech is
justified as quite natural under the circumstances. As
to the marriage of Prince Napoleon with a Princess of
the House of Savoy, it will certainly "drew still closer
the bonds of politicial union between France and Pied-
mont," but the sympathy of France for Piedmont was
no secret. At the same time, there can be no doubt
that the Emperor is still making large preparations of •
warlike character.

A NOLO-FRENCH U ARM AGES.—The Civil Tribunal has
just had to pronounce on the validity of a marriage con-
tracted by a Frenchman in England. A retired hair-
dresser, named Normandin, who is possessed of some
property, sent his son in 1858 to London to be appren-
ticed to a watchmaker. The young man of an evening
used to frequent a dancing academy, and there he made
the acquaintance of a young woman who called herself
Madame Looper, but who afterwards turned out to be
unmarried, and the daughter of a Belgian consul, de-
ceased, named Van Nyvel. Normandin conceived a
passion for her, and on the Mid June, 1857, they were
married in the church of St. Thomas, at Woolwich. He
did not ask his parents' consent, and did not even
announce the marriage to them until May, 1858. On
inquiry the parents found that the young woman Was
not a desirable match for their son, inasmuch as, though
daughter of a consul and well-educated, she lived apart
front her mother, and had led an irregular life. They
in consequence brought the young man from London,
and applied to the tribunal to declare the marriage nuU
and void, because their son had not asked their consent,
as lie was bound to do by French law, because he lied
not published it in France as required, and because he
had been married in the name of Normand, whereas his
real name was Normandin. The counsel for Mademoi-

selle Van Nyvel admitted that the marriage, for the
two And reasons, was by the French law void; but he
said that she was perfectly respectable, her father hav-
ing from 1832 to 1836 been Belgian consul in the bale of
Wight, and having subsequently realized a good fortune,
which, however, he lost by the Revolution of 1848. If.
said also that she had three sisters married in England,
and that when young Normandin saw her at the
dancing nobool she was soompanied by one of thew
sisters, Mrs. Kreagla by name, and by Mrs. Kreagh's
children; lastly, that the marriage had taken place with
the consent of Mr. and Mrs. /Creep!), and in their pre-
sence. From these circumstances the learned gentleman
concluded that the marriage could not be considered
clandestine, and that Mademoiselle Nyvel had every
reason to believe it valid As therefore she had been
wronged, she thought herself entitled to claim 50,0001.
damages. The tribunal decided that for want of the
consent of the parents and of the publicity required by
French law, the marriage was void, and it forbade
Mademoiselle Nyvel henceforth to call herself by the
name of Normandin. Am to the claim for damages, after
examining a maws of correspondence put an, the tribunal
declared that, as there was reason to believe that she
knew the marriage to be irregular, she could not receive
any.