The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-04 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Sept. 4.—Wind this :day at noon—South-
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather.
PLYMOUTH, Sept. 2.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Maori, for
Adelaide.

DAnzmounr, Sept. 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—The Ark,
bound to Wales, having been in collision in going down
the Channel.

LIVERPOOL, Sept. 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—A. W.
Singleton, from New York.

WARRENPOINT, Sept. 2.—Arrived—Jenny Mordie, from
St. John's, N.B.
OFF DARTMOUTH, Sept. 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—
from Rio Janeiro.

CLYDE, Sept. 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Ailsa, from
Quebec.

Mr. J. A. St. John is preparing, for early publi-
cation, a new Life of Sir Walter Raleigh.
THE NEW SUGAR DUTIES.—On the Ist inst. the
Act to amend the law relating to the duties on sugar, and
the drawbacks thereon, took effect. The new duty on the
importation of cane juice is now Bs. 2d. the cwt. Instead
of a drawback on refined sugarof 12s. 10d. the cwt. allowed
on exportation, the sum is now 12s. 4d.
THE MILITIA ACT.—An act was passed in the late
session to suspend for a further period the ballots for tho
militia of the United Kingdom. The time would have ex-
pired at the end of the present month, but the making of
the lists is further suspended to the Ist October next year.
The act is not to prevent the holding of certain meetings
relating to the Militia.
A NEGRO WEDDING.—A correspondent of the

Cincinnati Gazette, writing from Hilton Head on
1 Ally 15, says:—" Some of our party, who remained last
night at Beaufort, have been giving amusing accounts of a
negro wedding. It seems that the good superintendent's
remark—if he had only known we were coming he would
have had two or three weddings for us—was no idle boast.
young Scarcely , volunteers e
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passes
imagine theirmonthly pay a pretty
good
assewithou t a marriage, and the
who
family, are especially given to matri-
monial ventures. Many of the Sea Islanders, while in
slavery,
came well up to the description of Brigham Young,
whom Artemus Ward pronounced " the most marriedman"
he ever saw. But polygamy is a practice not permitted by
the beneficent government to the poor negroes now—only
white people, and they in distant localities, can be indulged
in so dangerous a luxury—and herewith arises one of
General Saxton's chief embarrassments. It would often
happen that in the course of being transferred from one
plantation to another, a negro would have successively
three or four, or even half-a-dozen wives. Now that
he is restricted to one, which should it be ? Moralists
and theorists would answer ' the first.' General
Saxton, with the instinct of a sound political
economist, says ' the one that has the most children.'
As for the rest, they must hunt up other husbands,
The negroes really seem to appreciate the dignity and
solemnity of the marriage institution ; and they have a
great anxiety to enter its bonds fashionably. At the Beau-
fort wedding last night the bride wore a calico dress, whose
colours were as glowing as her own was swarthy ; her
hands were covered with white cotton gloves.; and for her
head, neck, and shoulders, a true history will be for ever
at a loss to tell how they were clad, for over her head was
cast in flowing folds of portentous thickness a gauzy sheet,
supposed to represent a white veil. It shrouded the fea-
tures in unnatural pallor ; it suggested no hint of neck,
and but the remotest suspicion of shoulders ; and it was
only gathered into terminal folds somewhere in the region
of what should have been the waist. From beneath this
effectual concealment, the bride made haste to give her
responses. The poor girl had been cheated out of her
marriage a week before, by some unexpected order to the
regiment which claimed the services of her soldier-intended,
and she was determined to have " de ting trou with dis
time." When the minister asked if he would have this
woman to be his wife, she hastily exclaimed, " Oh yes,
massa, I'll be his wife ;" and when the irrevocable words
were said, the huge veil disappeared with wondrous rapi-
dity before the ardour of the kiss. But they got, on their
marriage certificate, the signatures of a couple of witnesses
which the highest born in the land would be proud to
possess.
A tragical incident occurred recently before the
Tribunal of Leibnitz, in Germany. A young woman had
summoned the son of a miller of the neighbourhood named
Rupp before the justices to compel him to assist her in sup-
porting a child she had by him, and when in presence of
the court the young man first spat in the face of his former
mistress, and then drew a pistol from his pocket and dis-
charged it at her. The female saw his movement, and by
throwing herself aside received the ball only in her arm.
Rupp was then arrested, and expressed his
having succeeded in his attempted crime. He also
regredtecaltarneodt
that before coming to the Tribunal he bad drunk largely
to obtain sufficient nerve for the act.