The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-21 00:00:00

A BEAUTY "MARRYING RICH."

The Paris correspondent of the .21Ioiitreal Herald thus
describes the marriage of a beautiful but penniless girl of
sixteen to one of the richest of the stockbroking nabobs of
the Parisian Bourse, aged eighty :—" The octogenarian
bridegroom, with that love of theatrical effect so strong in
the French heart, laid it down as an indispensable condition
of the alliance, that the young lady should wear, during the
performance of the ceremony, a simple dress of white tarle-
Sane over a muslin petticoat, and no other ornament of any
sort or kind than the wreath of orange blossoms and white
veil, without which no French woman, from the ragpickeT to
the duchess, would ever believe herself legally married.
The pretty bride consented to the simple gown of tarle-
tane, but begged with tears to be allowed to wear it over a.
white silk skirt. The mother, sisters, aunts and couzins,
ill joined their entreaties to those of the damsel, and tears
failed to soften his decision. He had caused a trousseau,
fit for a princess, to be prepared ;for his youthful bride,
and had purchased for her a magnificent assortment.
But he was detetmined to produce the stage effect
he ,had contrived, and to figure a King Cophetua,
raising a beggar girl to the height of his royal
dignity, by causing his bride to be seen at the mairie and
the church in the very modest toilet he had prescribed
as an indication of the poverty out of which he was
to lift her, and displaying her, at the banquet and ball
which were to take place immediately on the conclusion
of the double ceremony, in a marvellous robe of the
costliest lace worn over an underskirt of the richest satin,
covered with diamonds valued at about eighty thousand
dollars, and all the accessories of her toilet in corre-
sponding style. The old fellow carried out his vainglori-
ous programme to the letter. The crowd of spectators
Ythouenog occasion
attracted to the ceremony by the enormous wealth of
and thee
arrayedbeaut• f
o f tohre
twhboo,aigtev,d,asbri supposed,degroom would be
with a degree of splendour in keeping with the wealth
of the former. were dreadfully disappointed at the ex-
cessive simplicity of her attire, and the humble toilet of
her relatives, and were both scandalised at the shabbi-
ness of the stock-broker's behaviour and indignant at
finding themselves thus defrauded of one of those gra-
tuitous spectacles which Parisians consider as equally
their right and delight. However, as some scores of
invited guests sat down to the banquet in the splendid
hotel which the stock broker had fitted up as the scene
of his matrimonial felicity, and some thousands of guests
had been invited to the ball, the post-nuptial transfor-
mation of the beggar-girl into the queen was speedily
bruited through Paris ' • and the laugh excited at the
whimsical vanity of the nurse-proud bridegroom has con.*
a good way towards consoling the sight-loving public for
the disappointment created by the want of splendour at the
wedding.

SUICIDE OF MR. MORELL, OF PICCADILLY.—On
Monday afternoon some persons in the neighbourhood of
Keith, a little town between 40 and 50 miles north of Aber-
deen were surprised at seeing a strange gentleman proceed
somewhat hurriedly towards the Lynn, a favourite water-
fall in the vicinity, and having reached its edge and partly
undressed himself, walk into the water of the Isla and
immediately plunge headlong through a cutting of the rocks
into a deep shelving pool below. Instant measures were
taken by the person who observed the act to rescue the
stranger, but as he had sunk almost
immediately on reach-
ing the water, all their efforts were vain, and it was not
till some time after that the unfortunate man's bcdy was dis -
covered. It was carried to the parish church, and on search
being made in the pockets of the clothing a card was found
with the ad frees " Mr. Henry Morell, Piccadilly, and 2,
wTashef
deceased
inedthies
Lansdown Villa, Forest-hill;" also a
.wihitiatelsc,a,mubric hand-
kerchief, bearing in red letters the initials hi.,. A
large portmanteau, having the same
rai initials, 0 and which
E ItalianN r.— Th warehouseman e
sler or
nia
evening at the Keith 'Bail"of the firm had arrived by the afternooyn
station.t-li
understood to have been a member carrying on
business as wine pierce:7:
Piccadilly.
A SARCASTIC
Journal states that a pair of spectacles have just been pre-
pre-
sented to Mr. Foley, the superintendent of the Wiltshire
who bad charge of the Road murder case.
i the electric
telegraph interesting experiments with • c
were made three days ago at the Camp of
police,
Chalons. An apparatus was established at the head
( quarters, and a vehicle also containing an apparatus fol-
lowed the Marshal to the ground provided with telegraphia
wires communicating With the other. The Marshal was
thus enabled to telegraph instantaneously to his head-
quarters. The vehicle employed could have readily con-
veyed wire enough to keep up a communication from a dis-
tance of 18 miles. Count de Vougy, Director-General of
Telegraphs,' was present at the experiment, the results of
which were considered most satisfactory
In the new West India mail contract, the mail
packet station will be Antigua, instead of St. Thomas, ae At*
Dresent.