The Sun. — 1862-08-08 (London, England)

THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY.—Is not the whole programme admirably arranged for carrying out the principle of female ascendancy end making a man feel particularly small ? If ever a man can thoroughly appreciatj the personal application of Hamlet's remark, "I could be bounded in a nut-shell,"  it is on this day of martyrdom, incorrectly called "the happiest day of his life." A wedding is a grand female triumph, in which all the women present virtually join in saying to the bride, "Remember you are a woman. England expects you will do your duty. Keep the man down." If the bride's thoughts were uttered, they would run thus : Look at me, my fellow-women, and applaud me. lam going to be married. A man is leading me—that is the phrase—in reality, lam leading him to the altar. I have inveigled this man. He is tne captive, not of my bow and my spear, but of arts and machinations. Come and see the sacrifice completed. The formula is that I submit myself to him, that my husband is to rule over me. Do the proceedii,gs look like this ? Are the coaches, the bridesmaids, the company, the breakfast, the parade, the publicity, the fuse,the man's choice ? Does he look as if he took a pride inthese things ? Are the preparations calculated to inflate him with vanity?"—" Ike Last Days of a Bachelor," by J. APGrigor Allan.  The inmates of a house in the Rue MontagneSte.-Genevieve were last night alarmed by cries of murder proceeding from an apartment occupied by a young mason named M---- and his wife. One of the lodgers and a sergeant de ville, who had heard the cries, almost immediately entered the apartment, and found M— bleeding profusely from a wound in the head. He stated that he had been attacked by a man whom he had for some time suspected of an intrigue with his (M—'s) wife; and that he had just found him concealed in the apartment, and bad been wt unded by him. The sergeant de ville then searched the house, and having found the gallant in a dark closet, he took both him and the woman in custody to the Prefecture. M--'s weunds are not dangerous—Galignani.  The Civil Tribunal yesterday gave judgment in an action brought by a man named Dumont against a pastry cook named Gru under the following circumstances : —On the 30th April, 1856, the defendant and his journeymen were dining in the back shop, when, from a noise heard in the chimney they fancied it was on fire. One of his apprentices, young Dumont, immediately knelt down to look up the chimney, and while in that position the defendant laid his hands on the young man's shoulders and pressed so heavily that the young man sank down with a ery of pain, From that time young Dumont suffered so much pain from the loins that he was unable to work, and slier languishing two years, died at last in the Hospital Lariboisiere, The plaintiff then brought an action for damages, and the Tribunal ordered an inquiry to be instituted, which resulted in establishing the fact that the young man's death was caused by the defendant's imprudence, though there was no reason to supppse he had meant to injure him. The Tribunal, in giving judgment, declared that, although the defendant did not intend to hurt the youth, I.:`,e had been guilty accordingly condemned him to pay the plaintiff 23000 f, damageo.—Galignani. of duo want of precaution, and