MISCELLANEOUS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1941, 26 October 1874, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The cheapest rate of travelling I remember to have h^ard of prevails at present by steamer from Leith to Newcastle, the fare (steerage) being only one shilling. The same is the case with the s'eamers from Aberdeen to Newcastle. Goods are also carried at fourth < f 'he usual riW Excessive competition ia the cause of this Btate of things. Ir. is not surprising that many are tj»k ; ng advantage r f the opportunity, the steamers bving crammed with " bob a head" passengers. Mr Cosmo Innes, f»r many years Professor of Constitutional History in the University of Edinburgh, and a Pdncipal Clerk of Session, died on July 31st. Several parcels of pearls from the Ans tralian fisheries were submitted to public competition at Messrs Debenbara, Srorr, and Sons' Great Anc i -n-rooms on July 21. The lots were for the most part " mixed pearls," but there were some lots of very fine, pearls in the sale, which wpre the objpet of considerable competition among ihe buyers present, some of whom represented continental merchants. The ultimate price realised for the principle lots were as follows: — "Ten very fine large pearls, of great lustre, weight 52-. T., L2l los. ; a pear-shaped Dearl, and three others, weiuht 47 gr., L2O ;30 fine colour pearls, weight 103gr „ L2O 12s. ; 26 large pearls, fin© colour and shape, weight 157sjr., L 72 ;a parcel of very beautiful small round pearls, weight 322gr., Lsl. Many other lots were included in the catalogue, and all were sold at prices varying from 3f*. io 3s. 6d. per gravi, according to size, colour, lustre, &c. Prices at the last few sales have been on the increase, and it is fully excepted that if parcels r.re judiciously bandied, and the best pearls forwarded <o this cmin<ry direct, for sate, a very large amnvwt of business may be done, and this already rapidly deve'opins ttade nru?h incre:s d. An extraordinary riot took rlaca at FraserburghlHte on the night of Saturday tbe Ist inst Th< re were a larye number of Highland fishe>men in tbe pine*, and »>ne of them was put in h* lock-up for \ em-_' drunk and disord< rly. Hh» comrades 300 B'ronjr, abiut 10 pm, burst open the prison and rescued Idm, cn'nviri" I the riot, (ill 2 am. on Sunday, by wl>ich time the police were sea" tered, and ihprison, court house. &c, comple'e y wrecked. The Shetiff promptly s«orein specinl consla le*, and rext day ob'ai e f ' 60 fo'die'B "fr<>m Aber- een, but the r services were not. required. On'y two o c the rioters have been indentitied and arrtßfed. The Bug?pstion has been matfe *bat kan-* garoos migh' be generally cul'ivated in parks and other erc'osure« in this cou" try ; and it is probib'e that they would prove quite as useful hs deer. A French natura'ist, M. Cormlv, hns recei t'y published some novel information on t^e >ub ject, which peems to hhow that the pro P'ipal is perfectly feasible in every way. The experience of the various zoologica' B'ice'ies in Europe show that i his mirsnpial will thrive and breed in our climate, damp beng the o"ly condition ■which is fatal to it. It will bear area extremes of heat and cold without injury. M. Oorne'ly siya that tliey are not de: structive to trees and shrubs, and if any individual contract the habit of bark ng trees, they can be broken of it hy shut- in them up for two or three days without food. On being re'e>sed they «re so eager in seirch of grass that they do no' touch the tr^es. As an ornamental ad jnnct to an English park, tbe pr- s u nce of kangaroos would pr<»ve novel, i F n t v^r' valuable. The humidry of the climate, we fear, would be against their introduc tion. GOSSTP FOR THE LADIES. A marriage in bi.'h life to»k pace on the 22nd July, the contracting parties being the Marquis of Waterford .md the only daughter of the Duke of Beaufort, at whnse seat at Badminton the ceremony took place. This is the Marquis's second marriage, and tbe pecnilar circumstance? attending his former one wi'l perhaps be •within the recollection of some of your readers. The Marquis presumed the wife of the Hon. Captain Vivian, a beautiful and accomplished lady, to leave her husband and young family, and flee with, him to Paris. There her husband found her, bursting into the room in the hotel where she was living with the Marqnis : but no intreaty could induce her to return to the home she had left. Captain Vivian, accordingly, obtained a divorce, and the Marquis then married her. Their mflrried life was happy, but the unfortunate lady died in childbirth, about eighteen months ago. The Marquis's second wife, Lady Blanch Somerset is stated tn he one of the best horsewomen in England and foer face is familiar to a?{ frequenters of the principal race mee'im-s, of which her father used to be one of the chief patrons. At her marriage she is stated to have worn a '" satin trait, exqusi'ely trimmed with orange blooms." The Archbishop of Armagh performed the ceremony, and Lo.d Cl'arles Bere-ford was best, man. 250 rersonssat down to the wedding rreakfas 1 -. Mr Mun'z. in the rieWe in the House of Commons on the Public W. rship Bill, gave utterance to tie remarkable doctrine -thaton* Archbishop was wo'th all the women in England No doubt he p-marted for the sta'emei.t the dny (or ni»ht) after it anpeared in the p ao^rs. Twosomewhatnotewortbvca'esofbrpach of pr<>mi*e ' f n arr>age have recien'ly b en tried in En lanr l . Inonetr ed in London, tie daughter of a wool r l»roke»- obtain d fipni a youngmaii of i roiery, vhose agH w>>so>-ly 24, ihe Bu Hat nt al damages ot L3OOO for refuaalto fulfil a ma«ermoni>l engagem^t, In tbe other c*se, which was tiied at Kewcasile, a mtl'iner recove»ed from an innkeepvr Ll5O duma^es. for breach «f a rronvse given in October, 1850 — nearly 24 years ago. Something like a Statue of Limitations is requited to meet auch cipes a-> this. The firs' fai'cy rlres* ball given u"d^rthe immediate Huspic s < f royalty in England for many year?., took place at Marl hor. ugh House, the Prince <f Wahs's town re idence, ou the 22nd July. The company was numerous and highly dis'intni'shed, most i»f 11)6 yentjpmer) b^iu^ drean&d »b Cavaliers of the Sfuxrt peri' d, and m"Bt of the ladi sas Pur tans. The Prince of "Wales himself was d>e-s das Charles I, from a picture by Vandyck. The affair wa* a gr^at success, and the scene is caul to have been on« of the " moft dazzling description." The Dnchtssof Sutherland for example wore a satin dre?s the bor'y of which was* 'hung with countless strings of pearls. " As a contrast to this Lady Adalina Cocke wra dressed in homespun, an Cinderella and Lord Shanon as a simple Paddy with a ahUeelagh.