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lly tbs sew Marriage Ad, it is provided that where oso
sr MA of like parties applying for a marriage Ikons shall
bawls to be under II year's( ate, the consent of the waits
or gasediass at such parties, ss the ease may be, shall be
alarmed sad certified oat oath before the illishisp of the Die-
cry& se Isis Surrogate. This was ales • priseisise sudsy the
utd l.iw ; hot it is coupled is the sow statute with saner re-
<iatilissaithelsrov.---- • egad hsrdshipof which eassol be
by • of •
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gym:lewd than by the following stutesseot
case w bids CAM* coder the notice of the geodemen in Doctors'
Consosons wily two days ago. The present Act requires that the
earls of consent to be takes by the parent or guardian in per.
sou before this Bishop or Surrogate, as already wiesatiowed,
swill be followed by the oath of a t►ird person-lies present,
as 1. the baud-writing of such coastwise parties. A tte♦
sielftan who is a minor •pplinl ler • totem* to intermarry
with a youog lady, whe also is • mi•ori she father of wet
party being resident in Ireland, awl the rasher of the other
tiring "inScutlend. The written rueseet of those parties most be
given before a Sofvegete.or other official, personally; if srane-
n►isted,aatheotiesied oily by she testimony w►ich was accept.
ed seder t►e old Act, it is invalid. Now Scotland sod leelsod
•re eaewpted from Ow operation of the new.Ae.t, not oily
is terms, bat because there are so seek jorisdictioas oe Ser.
ferrates is these parts of the kingdom. Before the
duals is question, therefore, east obtain a became, It will be
necessary fo► the father of•earb of them to repair t* some
port of .Engfeed, from his own respective nod *sleet rein.
deem io order to comply with the Matilde. The (Reran
and inConvenience of such • proceeding are obvious.

BOROUGH COURT OF PLYMOUTH.
ALSTAINDRE mesas SLUMS'S TOL7rlll,eL•ltiTtre ; CECIL
•INMAC DS RONAN DS IT, DavanDANT.
This was a w►it of inquiry to assess the slataages het:nets
the Plaretiff sad Defendant, which were laid at 280/. The
Defendant come from France to this lowa about ibeynonth of
F. binary 1.. i, and assumed th• title of Cosistess deJersey. and
remained a short time at t►e Royal Hotel, bill afterward, weal
to lodge at the Plaintiff's hems✓, who is also a native of Fritter.
The Plaintiff belletine her ru be • amble peisonage of that
country treated her seconlisichb and it appeared had put
himself to • coasiderable expense in fitting up his house
to receive her The aetiots was brought to recover fines
the Defeadant a saw of moue, due to the Plaintiff for
board and lodging. Frays t►e evidence given in support
of the elaiutilra ease it appeared, that whilst at hie
house the logy lived very luxuriously, awl had as excel.
lent appetite : she was slated to have mask use at a pound
of coffee per week, and wonhl eat • salmon peel and the
Weever pit of a chicken for dinner; that three or four
q•arts of stesalwerMs Would be boselit by Plitiattra wife,
that the Defendant might "eon the choicest" after dinner
with he► wine. uhirb she simild del oh out of toothlero, and
Hid bee app•tite was the same at other arils. is also ape
peered that she wasilel drip& glasses of 1.1.1 rp,rit freely.
After previa, the length of time elm lodged at Plaialitrn
bees, dad she other ripsaw, Pluintiff hail been put to roe
this Defendant. the Towandeek summed op the evidence,
sad the Jury hawing retired for • few minutes, returued a
verdict he t►e Plaintiff... Damages 88/. 4s. BJ.

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AGRICUL7IIIidL AXPERIMENT.

the following letter from Dr. Adam Clarke
glees wa an intrreating account of a (quanta sari.
cultural experitueut, which the Doctor tried u few
years ago :
" DEAR Sta—Aa newest at the following agricultural
ropes imeut, though not as perfect as 1 (mild have wished it.
may ii.dece some of your readers to purser the same method
OP a larger lad 1 hope wore saccessful seals.
" On Jane Pa, 1816, I planted three grains of common
rid wheat, in what might be railed good, but sot rich ground,
sE Millbrook. in Feclestow, La•easkire. They sprained well,
alidl produced 'event side shoots, which I had tatesided to
divide and transplant early in August; bat being from home,
the transplanting was delayed till the 118th of the mooth. 1
Shea lookop the three paint, and divided the shoots, which
arotented to 150, but in transplanting, rotted I had room
for only IN plants without going to a different soil, These
116 plows might he consist. red the produce of two sod a
half grains of wheat.
" A few of the slips died; the rest were healthy, and each
pat forth several side shouts. Owing to the excessive wet-
nows and backwardness of the season. I did out transplant
these as soon as I could hove widiell; but,
" Oa October 18114 I took up all the survivors of the 126
plants, subdivided and reptinted them In a more op.o place,
Toted that the produce was 6SB perfect wheat plants. I
shrew aside what might be called tho prodoce of half a
grain, sad ascertained that at this second subdivision and
tranoplanting, two pains of wheat had yielded 974 distinct
plant., or 267 plaids room one grain! I then committed the
whole to the care of Divine Providence till the next spring,
totendiug to subdivide and transplant the produce of those
1.74 pleats twice in that season, should it be propitious.
" Monday and Tuesday, March 24th anti 26th, 1817, I
took up the shove plants, which had, in general, steed the
winter very well; a few plants wily having died, and a few
teem killed with the frost, which had been pretty keen for
'meal moraine ie the preceding week.,
" As they bad, in the coarse of the preceding October
(the time of the last transplaotiag), mid is the beginning
of this spring, pat forth several side shouts; I again di-
vided them, and fussed that one of the grates, that is, 287
plants, had multiplied itself into 900 plants and the second
groin into 916! These I planted in rows in a Geld, along.
side of other wheat, sown in the common way; setting the
plants four Inch's asunder, and about ten melte" bets/tea
the rows. I mice more committed these two groins, in their
produce, to the care of that astonishing Providence which
had multiplied one into nine hundred; and intended to sub.
divide ouce more. should the spring prove forward and fa-
vottrable.
" The first week in April there came a severe frost for
four or titre nights; and mot having lakes say precaution to
defend these tender plaids, oae third, at least, of she whole
was killed! Finding dint my experiment was thus neer".
seedy rendered inconiplste, I did not attempt ray further
sohrtivition or transplanting. The remaining plants throve,
and were very healthy, and in general greatly surpass the
other whest in length and strength of stalk, and in length,
li.ib, and In weight of ear ; sonny of the ears heiug five and
sra :nova long, and the gr.ioa toilet and writ-fed.
" As Inane of th.• more slender stalks did mot ripen as
won as the rest, 1 lift them growing after the field of wheat
had bees cat down ; and, to complete the catastrophe of
this experiment, fowls and birds dirotroced oae half of the
crop"; what remained, which amounted to several quarts,
was of the gluiest quality; soil had it not been fur the pre•
ceding accidents, the result of this single experiment would,
1 am 'vilified, have astouithed the most scientific agricul-
turist to Europe.
" Fates this experiment it is evident that a single gralu of
wheat has as atom", unlimited rapacity of multiplying it-
aelf hy slips or off.mitt—itiat every slip poasessea in fro.
terstia, the virtue of the iirigtuid plant—nod that so abtiod-
is its germinating power, that of all the wheat In Europe
were destroyed to a single grain, that grain, by proper ma-
statement in lbe above way, would im n short time produce
a sufficieney to sow all the cultivated surlier of the Conti-
nent and islands of this fourilt part of the globe. He who
cannot see the hush of wiiidom and the hem-Ocelot Pruvi•
donee of God in ibis thing must be blind indeed and he
whin* soul dues not expand with gratitude to his H ly
'Father, foe the proration of love sod moiler care manifested
eves' in this our case, must have a stupid head, ur • radials
beast. " ADAM CLARK E.
Nil Lruok, July it. 1921".