gobtonnthino prEtorbiling OR, NATIVE AUSTRALIANS SECURE WIVES. that very entertaining book, "The Wedding-day in all Ages and Countries," recently published, which is replete with curious information, is found the fol-I,,,c'w,ing account of the marri a g e cus t oms o f th e Austr

The following are to be met with on the Continent and in America, and will doubtless, therefore, soon find their way into London houses, if they have not, at least in part, already done so. A new refrigerator differs from others in construction and in the manner of applying the

Smyrna, going thence to Rhodes and on to Cyprus, delaying some time at each of those places before continuing the voyage to Alexandria. Of the Empress's intended movements in Egypt, from the date of her arrival until the opening of the Suez Canal on the 15th of November, nothing

v.uwatrist. A LADY in the country—the clock having stopped—sent one of the servants out into the garden to see what time it was by the sun-dial. He was town-bred, and sharp enough at most things, but he had not learned this, and so he brought the face of the dial indoors that his

and fashionable article be durable. The Germans have succeeded in designing Improved fabric, brilliant in style and colours, both f 1 rice and plain, with a warranty for wear. The advancing of silks makes it impossible to supply more than a — number of pieces at 2s. aid. HARVEY

School, where boys are to be taught the art of weaving carpets, tape, socks, and other articles of cotton manufacture. Competent instructors have been entertained for this purpose, and a system of money stipends has also been adopted, to ensure regular attendance on the part of

a host of loquacious ganders, whose odious cackling forms an accompaniment to the clip-clip of the scissors with which they trim the heads of their victims. _ _ _ _ The strike of the Paris linendrapers' assistants has led to the employment in many instances of young women. The p

sick headache, loss of appetite, drowsiness, giddiness, spasms, and all disorders of the stomach and bowels; and where an aperient is required, nothing can be better adapted. PERSONS OF A FULL HABIT, who are subject to headache, giddiness, drowsiness, and singing in the ears, ar

PIANOFORTE MANUFACTURERS, 18, WIGMORE STREET, W. THE principal advantages of their last Patented Pianoforte Improvement are" The greatest delicacy or utmost power and brilliancy of tone can be produced immediately by the p.aYwithout the practice and effort that has hitherto been

BROWN AND POLSON were the first to adopt the name Corn Flour, and they are gr e atly i n t eres t e d i n maintaining its reputation, which is liable to be discredited by the unwarrantable appropriation of the name to articles of a different character, prepared, as in one promin