Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-02 00:00:00

LI of the thonth

made up and despatched ou the folloWi
packet will not, as heretofore, call
but will call at Port Louis, Mauritius

on Sunda'c

:mug, and

he mac

for Ceylon, will be forwarded henceforth with the
Australian Mails ; but mails for Mauritius will be made
up for transmission by each Australian Packet; and all

letters for Mauritiii; not otherwise 'addressed, will be
sent in such mails. The first homeward packet under the
new contract was appointed to leave Sydney on the 12th
inst. The mails brought by it, and forwarded, via Mar-
seilles, will be due in London on the 4th April ; and
those forwarded, via Southampton, on the 10th April.
Subsequent mails will be dne about the 4th and lOth of
every month.
THE ROTHSCHILD BRIDAL DINNER.—The Paris cor-
respondent of the LiLef.ary Gazette says :—A great event
in the beau mondo oMis place has been the Rothschild
marriage. The magnificence was beyond all description,
and it would appear that splendours, vying with those
recounted in the Arabian Nights, were lavished upon an
entertainment to which nobody wai'admitted. /bean
the dinner given after the nuptialeereniony

id at which

some sixty- or seventy Rodisebilds aloie were present
As no one but the family was_ preqe!4, at this fancion—

amusements—ofa as t h the Spaniards
course e entitle t 1; t e
et
femininehxaeimi i
nbe ud l lb-
by the
publicgtlhit se y
curiosity
auyairouodlnsai malete
ladies
has h ero f
been immeasurably excite-tdhbaty it, and ever
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all the plate of all the houses of
knowledge of the "festive
fino,aroltthihsceeml:elrndas
ihnfoacrse,thheiienso
oberardnoesqrsu
et ;
they may arrive at an ap-
proximatestcheeneL.'o'
ndlotnseehemi;
atleast
sent his dinner Rothschilds nearly was
dessert was
belonging service over to his cousin of Paris, and the
entire
made in 8-:s of the more than threescore guests were
was of silverthe precious
and. silver-gilt ; plates, dishes, everything
precious metals, as at the royal tables, only at
perceived the priceless service of old Sevres,
to the Paris paterfamilias and whereof each
plate represents somewhere about a king's ransom As to
the viands on the table, they came from every country
and ever clime.; there were swallows' nests from Cr.ina,
sterlets (a fish of excessive high price in Russia, of
the size of salmon, and of fat, orange-coloured flesh)
from Russia, reed birds and canvass-back ducks from
America, bustards from Spain,
.pheasants from Bohe-
mia, entrees of peacocks' brains, fillets of buffalo-
hump, and—one of my lady informants declares—
salmis. of Brazilian parrots ! Every salt or fresh
water had yielded up its fish ; every moor, marsh, and
forest its fowl ; every hot-bed. heated by fire or the sun,
its fruit ; and every grape that ever hung anywhere its
wine. As to the flowers with which the table and the
dining-room were ornamented, it is affirmed that there
were 1500 pounds' worth (I mean 1,500/.
leash:eflicoeuagnst ceprmeerepfPettirmnogrespolfaanlal round.
If the repast was wort
All the windows were covered with trellis work, over
centuryEtsngolfi sh t
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twrhopicihes,w
sheddinger e framedt h
et hi
re
worthy
ago, tne tribe of Rothschild seems to have been
worthy of it, and 'to have done it due honour.
In the first place it is 'affirmed that the ladies present
wore upontheir persons between 20 and 30 millions
ofthe way of doing
sewho'partook of it sat at
the tbanquet,
tila°hßlf6eruarrnroctmso w orh
of
jewels,
those and in
half-past six to midnight !"