The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-21 00:00:00

PASSPORTS TO THE CONTINENT.

REGULATIONS RESPECTING PASSPORTS ISSUED AT TUB
FOREIGN-OFFICE TO BRITISH SUBJECTS.

I.—Applications for Foreign-office passports must be
made in writing to her Majesty's Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, with the word " Passport" written
upon the cover.

2.—The fee on the issue of a passport is 7s. 6d.
3.—Foreign-office passports are granted only to British
subjects, including in that description foreigners who have
been naturalised by act of Parliament, or by certificates
of naturalisation granted before tho 24th day of August,
1850 ; in this latter case, the party is described in the
passport as a " naturalised British subject."
4.—Passports are granted between the hours of 12 and
4 on the day following that on which the application for
the passport has been received at the Foreign-office.
s.—Passports are granted to persons who are either
known to the Secretary of State, or recommended to him
by some person who is known to him ; or upon the
written application of any banking firm established in
London, or in any other part of the United Kingdom.
6.--Passports cannot be sent by the Foreign-office to
persons already abroad. Such persons should apply to
the nearest British Mission or Consulate.

7.—Foreign-office passports must be countersigned at
the Mission, or at some Consulate in England, of the
Government of the country which the bearer of the pass-
port intends to visit.
B. A Foreign-office passport granted for one journey
may be used for any subsequent journey, if countersigned
afresh by the Ministers or Consuls of the countries which
the bearer intends to visit.

Foreign-office, April, 1853.
The countersignature or visa of the Prussian or Sar-
dinian authorities in London is not required.

EXTRAORDINARY YORKSHIRE ELOPEMENT.—In Ley-
burn there has lived for many years an ingenious person,
whose versatility of talent has long been acknowledged
by the inhabitants. Some little time ago our hero ma-
nifested a slight eccentricity in expressing a wish to his
housekeeper that he might be able, at Christmas, to turn
the beans at 20 stone (he then weighing upwards of 16
stone), at the same time promising her marriage if,. by
dint of high feeding, she could assist him in accomplish-
ing that object. She accordingly set to wotrhke;demftrny
and ludicrous were the experiments tried ere
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his promise at the altar, lie at once assented, and
made preparation for the ceremony. But alas ! the
bond was not to be completed so easily. The two de-
votees of Cupid had not,
neighbours a thing unfortunately, consulted their
small towns. On of paramount importance in all
the day when their bliss should have
been consummated a mob assailed the house, hurling
bricks, stones, and
windows, other available missiles through th e
until the unfortunate couple were
quit the scene of devastation, and take refuge
in obliged
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warehouse. Here they remained until the mob subsided,
land then retired to their shattered domicile, determinqd
to be up with the lark, and, on the wings of love, fly to
the haven of Gretna. A postchaise was secretly ordered
at the Bolton Arius ; next evening, at five o'clock, they
were over the Border, and shortly after, man and wife
-were congratulating each other on having outwitted
their "knowing" neighbours.— Tiro) cestershire Chronicle.
A MYSTERIOUS FOUNDLING.—A female child, wrap-
ped up in the finest linen, and covered with a handsome
velvet cloak, was found a few days ago in a passage
leading to the vestry in the church of St. Roch. On
unfolding the clothes the following letter was found :--
" Imperious reasons compel me to momentarily desert
my child. I shall not cease to watch over her. I en-
treat the person who shall take charge of her, to pay
her the greatest attention. Some day, and that, per-
haps, not very distant, she will be generously rewarded
for her trouble and her maternal care. I wish the child
to be called Marie, and that the necklace which she his
on may be carefully preserved." The wife of the beadle
' took charge of the child, and, according to the wish of
the mother, it was christened Marie.—Gaignanz's of
sever.