St. Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863, 1858-06-24

| ins0lent letter to the conc;erue az the ho.,se.
dirsctine him net % supply Ter with anvkl,ine.
and u tell her tllat -.he IIEnttineetl was tired
of hez and that The bet thing she could do
was 20 take lover, IL she euuld lilss one = She
ieIl into such distress that s0nle Charitable Pc
Iruyiane here had t0 raise sahscrInsion foena-
be Der - rAurn . her own couritry. Rnt-
Etineszs fakheF and mother applied % the
Girl bpnak 70 degsA khe marriage null and
| volds Q 'e eyWp11 tlkk they had net givesll
their d Pct. and thai be feinR only q pears
old az| z|efese, = regards marriage. . mi~l
nuz So - vas, " article 1e2 of fheI
| Code ihaisnsnsab|y necessafY They
regisi III France. Ia the c0sirse Of the
pleadihgs on their behalf Il was stated that
the marriage had been deplorabIe one for the
young man. The counsel Of Mdrne. Guido
Insisted that the marriage was god, inasmuch
rs the father and mother Of the young man
had known of it at the time 1t was accomplish
cd, or at ell events had not protested against
il within year after it came 10 their knowl-
edge, rs the code Napoleon required to do.
The first OF these assertions was, however,
eontEadicted BY the plaintiffs; and, as TO the
second, they showed that il was In October last
that they had been informed uf the marriage,
and that in January they had commenced pro
ccedings for having il declared null. The tri-
bunal decided that the want Of the parents con-
sent made the marriage yoid, but, considering
that in contracting it Mdme. Guido had beenig-
norant of the French law, It laid down that she
should enjoy the civil advantages to which it
entitled her. AS to the two other points raised
| by the parents, the tribunal said that the first
one being sufficient, it was not necessary to
pronounce on them"
| The other case possesses q somewhat roman
tie interest, the bridegroom having been COM
PEELED TO choose between two e1ils-aither to
marry a.female whose relatives weie canni-
balls, or be himself served up as s.dainty
dish" for the 'family dinner" The following
are the facts:
att seems that a Mons. Malfilatre. Ms, while
taking sea voyage, visited Wallis Island, sit
uated in the South Pacific, somewhere between
the 18th and 14th degrees of latitude, and, ac-
cordlng to the statement of this young gentle
i man. he was married to beauty of the island
under circumstances very similar to those that
took place on the occasion Of Lismahago's
marriage with the lovely squaw Squinkinacoos-
ta, as recounted in Humphrey Clinker." AL
though Suleta Mackinonga (such was the fair
Willisan's name) was a Christian by persua-
sion, cannabilism prevailed in her family, and
NJ. Malflatre, .Gls, who had been left on the
island by his ship, was deemed,such desira-
bic match that the Mackinongas adopted the
mos. striugen: measures IN secure him, repre-
senting to him that he must become either the
| happy husband of Suleta or the chief delicacv
Of the next family dinner. Like Count Bas-
! set, in the Provoked Husband, who politely
preferred a wife to the gallows, NJ. Malfi!atre
flS, c! o to be q bridegroom rather than
I l.. Il IIa c. nj
onga, but no sooner did he return to France
than he resolved to cast off yoke SO forcibly
imposed, and in this pious resolution he had
the sympathics Of his father, who joined him
| in the application to the tribunal for the an
nulment Of this most inauspicious marriage.
mo case could look more promising than
that of the Malfilatres, pere and .tfls. The
picture of = young Christian gentleman sur
rounded by a set Of semi-pagan wretches, who.
pointing their knives land forks at his bo-
Esoni, forced him into union with a man.
eating squaw, was most pathetic. Some per-
son in court, with half a-dozeu manageable
daughters. might perhaps have regarded the
Willisian mode of matchmaking with less re-
pugnancc than others not similarly situated. but
even this exceptional person would have sup
pressed his feelings in the interests of civiIisa-
ton. Nothing, we repeat, could look more
promising than the case of the Milflatre, but
nevertheless it broke down, just because the
young gentleman's very hatural fhypothc sis
that nothing about Wallis island could pos
lsibly be known in Europe proved lamentably
incorrect.
''There is certain Bishop of Enos, whose
sec embraces the POlynesian islands, and this
eminent prclate happened to be at Wallis
when the union Of Malhlatrc, MS, and SuIeta
Al.
principal marriage in high life. Moreover. the
Bishop Of Enos was not 50 utterly absorbed in
his Polynesian duties that he could not hear
what was going on in France, and he accor-
dinghy wrote alctteF to the court, by which he
at once enlarged the Genealogical knowledge of
Europeans, and demolished the very plausible
story Of ID. Malflatre, Es In the first place.
it turns out that the Wallisians are not canni-
bals at all--nay, thai they are better Christians
than many OF the French, in the opinion of
the bishop, and thus measures their Christiani-
tty BY very high standard. In the second
place, we learn that NJ. MalfIatre, us, havirg
become enamored of Suleta Mackinonea. had
/ first proposed dishonorable terms. and it was
not till he had discovered Pulvnesian virtue too
strong for French hbertinage. that be propoeed
marriage. In the third place. he lived with
his wife q long time, and his ultimate desertinn
Of her, when whaleF anchored of the island,
was mere instance of baseness such as might
have happened % = highly polished and civil
ised community.
ssOn the strength uf these resolutions, the
court has condemned Malfilasre. .fEs, to retain
the niatriEnohial yoke. aud has ordered him
and bis father b pay the cost Of the applica-
ton. Two lovers, parted from each other.
once fervently prayed that space might be an
INITIATED 10 make them happy. ". Malfla-
ire, rs, is in . contrary prediearnent He
aads that no space, even. the space between
France and The South Pacific ocean, is snffi-
Gent to separate him from his S0Ietas dackin-
onga be must remain married man, and
the niaidens of Ia beRe France are jidicially
wafned not 70 set their caps ii him." 50" .
The man who ssoutly objected to his wife