The Sun. — 1837-07-21 (London, England)

MARRIAGE A LOTTERY.—Our readers are acquainted with the singular freak of the young man who made a lottery of himself. The following has been the denouement of this ingenious speculation, for the truth of which a provincial journal refers us to the civil registry of Lyons. The drawing took place in the fairest manner possible, in presence of a notary and of several witnesses. Mademoiselle Euphrasio 8., a young lady of fortune at Lyons, won the young man. A singular incident occurred after the drawing had been decided. The young lady was still unaware of her good fortune, when one morning a lady waited upon her, in a state of most painful excitement. " Save my life, Mademoiselle " How ?" " Cede your ticket to me." " What ticket ?" " The lottery ticket--the ticket for the young man." " Oh, I had quite forgotten it." " Then, know, Mademoiselle, that I love —that I adore him. I had taken thirty tickets ; it was as much as my means would allow of my doing. My tickets are all blanks. Yours is the only prize. Cede it to me, or you will cause my death." " Madame," replied Mademoiselle Euphrasie, " there is a written clause on the tickets, that if the young man should not please me, or if I should not please the young man, we are to divide the 200,000 francs, and not to marry one another. This chance remains for you ;as to my ticket, I shall keep it." An hour afterwards the prize young man presented himself to Euphrasie ; they were mutually satisfied, and lost no time in binding the conjugal knot. The lady who had been so anxious to obtain the transfer of Euphrasie's ticket was a widow of Carcassone, and is said to have destroyed herself. The young couple united by lottery areispending their honeymoon at Narbonne.—ConstitutionneL  A grave writer on the laws of England, says that " when a jury of matrons is impannelled, the foreman ought to b.: a woman of known and good repute." The following is from a Berlin letter of the 6th inst. :—" The Princes Augustus and Adalbert will be present at the grand review of cavalry in the south of Russia, and will afterwards accompany the Emperor to Nicolajew and the maritime towns on the Black Sea. It is generally said the review will be one of the grandest military spectacles ever given. An attempt at murder was made here a day or two since by a young theologian, on the persons of two women who resided in the same house with him ; one of them is so dangerously wounded with a dagger, that her life is despaired of. Religious fanaticism is said to have been the cause of this outrageous act. The quantity of corn brought from the interior to the shores of the Baltic is enormous. The bad harvest in America, and the rapid rise in the price of grain, had excited to the highest degree the spirit of speculation. But the crisis has had a still stronger re-action, and has caused a rapid decline !n prices. Serious apprehensions are entertained for several houses. In addition to this misfortune, the cholera has broken out at Dantzic, and is supposed to have been brought there by the Polish boatmen. It is said that traces of it have also been discovered at Konigsberg, and it is feared that it will attack all the towns on the coast. There is every prospect of an abundant harvest."  . .