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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 39, 24 March 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

An immense steamboat is in process of construction at St. Louis. She is four hundred and twenty-four feet long, by ninety feet wide, is to have four hundred large staterooms, and accomodations for one thousand five hundred passengers, and will be called the Dictator. — American Paper. Romantic Marriage in High Life. — fn the obituary which reached us by the last mail, our readers may have observed the name of the Earl of Oifford, M. P. for Totnes, eldest son of the Marquis of Tweeddale, and brother of the Duchess of Wellington and of the iate Marchioness of Dallionsie. His lordship had long been lingering between life and death; but his last hours were soothed by the presence and loving care of one who was his betrothed, and who, when it was seen that all hope of his recovery was over, obtained the right to be his nurse by wedding herself lo a dying man. The lady to whom we allude is the Dowager Lady Dufferin, one of the three accomplished granddaughters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and sister of the eminent poetess, the Honorable Mrs. Norton, and of the Duchess of Somerset,the " Queen of Beauty" at the Eglinlon Tournament Lady Gifford is herself an anthoress and musical composer of no mean repute ; her songs entitled " The Irish Emi--1 grant,' 1 *' Katey'a Letter," &c, have , achieved a wide popnlarity as well at the ( antipodes as in the home country. A Liter *ey Lottery. — Lamartine.Mys • a Paris letter, has just received L 16.000 ; (400.000f.)as the part proceeds of a lottery. I which will pay all his debts, and enable him t to end all his days in comfort. The ctly ot Faxto gate him a bmutifal parse.