Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-06-19
THE GAZETTE.
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 70, 1858.
A MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE SUIT.

A MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE SUIT.
The law gossip of the week concerns most
especially those who go down to the sea IN
ships, and may serve as warning lesson to
those who prefer present security to future
peace and happiness. year or two ago, Nj.
Malfilatre, honor, hope, and beir OF a renoSn-
ed calico printer, stocking maker, and night
can yender of Rouen, set sail from Havre to
proceed to Sydney in order to saperntend the
business which his father carried on in that
Mace, and which the death OF his partner
had left without surveillance. Ooe of those
accidents which will happen, in spite OF cap
tain or compass. even to the best governed
ships on the ocean, happened, "a matter OF
course, to the rotten little bark In which NJ
Malflatre set sail--and on the iDhospitable
shore of Wallis's Island it was wrecked; ev-
erything lost but NJ. a'tatre, to whom eS-
rythipg was lost but honor. The plump per-
son and defenceiess state of tue young mer-
chant became a great temptation to the dam
tv inhabitants Of Wailis's Island, who have
disguised the missionaries by eating each
other. and they carried him away to the
chiefs hut with loud shouts oil triumph at the
sweet morsel which the waves had thrown
upon their shore. The Christian Missionaries
have small establishment oi the Maristes
on the Island. They work night and day
with unremitting zeal, at the conversion Of
these savages, aud have got as far as the pre-.
vention of inianticide for gastronomic purpo-
ses, which is great step; but they have not
as vet been able to inspire that wholesome
dislike of human flesh which should certain.
l. e.. .ho E-st in n
Christianity. The poor young man In his
dilemma, appealed pteUusly to the reverend
fathers; but they confessed that they pos
sessed no influence; that they we're barely to!-
Grated and dare not interfere. The only res
cueto be expected could be obtained by choos.
ing wife amongst the native women, and
cousentng to remain on the island forever
After much persuasion from the missionary
he accepted the latter alternative, and tho
holy father, according to the custom OF the
nation, chose a bride for the young man,
ard took especial care to choose good pd,tt
no less one than daughter OF the
chief. One thing, however, the father IN
sisted on; the marriage should DE solemnlzed
seriously with Catholic rites; and at all
events the bridegroom should be bound by
proper registers, and not be permitted to
treat the sacred ceremony with the same
ligbtness as it is elsewhere.
Everything was consented to by the young
man, who had grown attached to life by
means of good supper, and, accordingly, on
the mex, day the beautiful Suleta, all freshly
tattooed from head TO foOt--her fair proper
tions undsfgured by crinoline--was led to
the altar of the Marstes by NJ. Maihlatre.--
But. of course. our hero from Rouen had
treated the whole thing as little harmless
expedient to keep a safe skin and whole
bones in this hungry land. and soon began
10 look out for an opportunity OF quitting the
scene Of his connubial felicity. SJme months
elapsed, however, before this opportunity Oc-
cured but at length, one afternoon, wander
ing disconsolate on the beach, he described
vessel in the citing. 1t was an English yes
sci, whose boats crew in answer to the sig
nal of distress hoisted by the bridegroom,
FASTENED to the rescue, and bore him OF to
the ship, without discovery on toe part OF the
natives, who would have killed and eaten
them all had they been aware of the treach-
ery intended. NJ. Malflatre landed sale and
sound at Hayre only two months ago. lie
found that great changes had taken place 10
his fathers household during his absence
An inheritance had fallen in--iOrtune had
smiled most graciously upon the old man,
and the SOD, after all his vretcheGness aud
misery. returned to find himself the heir OF
wealth he had never dreamed Of. The first
thing for a rich man in France to do, is, as
we all know, to provide himself with rich
wife; the father began to look about him,
and having found suitable match, the par
ties we're straightway brought forth to be
married.
But now arose the dif6culty--young Maihl-
atre could not deny his marriage at Waiils's
Island by a Catholic priest, according to
Catholic rites. The marriage vas legal In
every point of view, excepting IN the one
point of the non-consent of the parents oi the
bridegroom So, therefore. notice was ser
we'd by @ h,tiSsier upon the "Demoisele Sule-
ta." to show cause why she should not be
dspossessed Of her title. Ol course the
whole affair was considered a mighty good
Joke by the gossips, and laughed at according
~: for. Of course, after the delay expired. no
payiie cicile appearing, judgment would 60
nv default. and Maliiatre might be free to
marry whom be pleased. Thus did the al
fair stand until last week, when lc! to the
utter confusion of the sanguine bridegroom
and his rich wife, the bishop OF Australia
and Oceana, In whose diocese lies the paradise
of which we have given some OF the most
striking trait de mours, and in defence OF
morality and religion, proelaims himself
ready to become pa,tie ciriie in this case Tor
the protection of the helpless Suieta We
may judge Of the CONSERVATION thrown among
the ranks Of jewellers, costumers, and mods
ties all engaged for the rich marrlage.-the
tears of the rich bride--the rawlings OF the
rich bridegroom. The debates which are to
come on directly, will be full of interest, and
of warning at the same time. The case is
considered one of the most curious on record
and has been complicated since the issue OF
the first mise en- demSure, by the arrival OF
the news of the birth at Wallis's Island, OF
son to the house Of Malflatre who now shares
the interest hitherto absorbed by tattooed
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