The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-21
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES.
Reported by De Haven Bro, No. 20 S. Third street.
RETWEEN ROAROS
HENERALITIES.
Five Hundred weddings n Day.

The London he1rS says:-Marrying aud giving
in marriage are such characteristic occupations
Of society that they probably went on within
the walls of starving Metz and we know they
are going on within the walls OF beleaguered
Paris. There is, however, a certain definite
relation between the number of marriages and
the prosperity of the people. Even Euglishmen
and women, as a rule, only marry when they
have something to marry on, and in hard times
they put off their weddings till they are better
off. During the long depression of commerce
the marriages declined, and it is one
proof of reyvpg trade that during the
spring OF this year the number of marriages
rose as nearly as possible to the usual average.
During the quarter ending 30th June there were
nearly GOO more persons married than In the
first months of the year. The number of we'd
wings in April, May, and June was 43, 491-an
average of little more than 500 day. Five
hundred marriages day, though they are seat
tered over the whole surface of England, gives
us toerably large aggregate of social happi-
Dess and comfort Five hundred new house
holds set up every day gives us a vivid sense OF
the increase of the naten. OF course, we should
have to set over against these several hundreds
of households dissolved every day by pisfor-
tune, death, emigration, and oil the influences
which disintegrate society. But there would
still remain a large margin, quite large enough
to answer the question put every day in every
growing city and town in the kingdom
Where do the people GENE from to fiji all the
new houses?" 1t is these 500 marriages a day,
forming 500 new households, which are at once
the means and the sign of our national pro-
gress.
Queen Victoria mt Halle ween. q "a
The Dundee Advertiser of November reports
from Balmoral as folows:-The time-honored
festival of Halloween was observed at Bamoral
Castle, and partially in the surrounding dis
trict, on Monday evening At quarter to six
the tenantry and servants on the eastern portion
of The estate made their appearance by the
approach, each bearing blazing torchlight.
Marching past the front of the castle in regular
order, they proceeded IL meet those from tue
we w nv is mi w ere De m
view at the Boatpool. The scene presented
the party came along the bend of the road there
was very imposing. When all had met in the
park, to the number OF upwards of 200, the
spectacle was heightened in effect by the
darkness of the night. Headed by her
Majesty's piper the company returned
in marching order by the approach to
the front of the castle, where they piled their
torchlghts, and, with an abundance of ready
fael at hand, made a tremendous fire instanter.
Dancing was at once tegun by the stalwarL
killed lads, who tripped Highland reel, with
blazing torches in their hands, with an energy
and spirit rarely equalled and never surpassed,
the stirring strain of the bagpipes infusing
heartiDess and zest in a marked degree. Her
Majesty was outside watching the movements
with seeming interest and satisfaction. Before
the party left to continue dancing in the iron
ballroom the health of the Queen was drunk
with true Highland honors and the different
members of tpe royal family aud the Marquis
of Lorne were afterwards heartily pledged.
The PoBe's Horses.
The Pope has sold off his horses.
THE event has inspired the correspondent OF
the Westminster Gazette, in the Eternal City, to
pen the following: ~ can hardly bring myself
to believe it. Those grand old black horses,
which looked so digni6ed and benevolent, so
conscious of the honor which had fallen to their
lot above any horses in the word, with their
solemn, ambling tramp, SO associated in our
minds with the delighted exclamation mur-
INJURED all round our ears 'EccO IL Papa! IL
Papa! BenedizioRe Sdnte Padre! Benedi-
ziOilep with the form of father SO dear To US,
clad in symbolic hues shining on us with up
raised hand, and then borne away like bright
vision, and with all the ceremonies which told
of the distinctive characters of Rome. The
grand old good natured black horses, with their
sleek shiny coats which we have seen Prancing
up the Esquiline decked with fresh flowers,
feathers and bells, to receive San Antonio's
zee them again? To what meaner use are they
reduced?"
The suex Canal aud the War.
Not a little anxiety has been felt in the pros
pect of a bOmbardment of Paris for the safety
OF the goods aud chattels" of the Suez Canal
Company. The company had (November y
property of great value in the strong room of
;he offices in Paris. NJ. de Lesseps Is himself
in the heleaguered city awaiting. perhaps, a
visit from his guest at lsmalia, Field Marshal
Fritz. The watchful representative OF the canal
| in England has however, not been idle. Sir
Daniel Lange has had an interview with Count
Bernstoff in reference to the danger which
threatened the canal property. The Count re-
| ceived Sir Daniel very cordially, and suggested
| that he should communicate with Count Biz
marck Offering himself as the mediuR for so
doing. Ii would certainly be general COM
mercial calamity If the deeds and documents,
not to mention the valuables, OF the company
were destroyed.
The Collector of Customs at New Orleans
was Obliged, according TO report, to issue an