The banns of marriage between the Prince of Capua and
Miss Penelope Smyth were published in St. George's Church, Hanover Square, on Sunday last. This was the first time of asking.
The Paris papers of Tuesday are filled with particulars of the dis- asters occasioned in various parts of the country by the late stormy and unusally severe weather. Every river in France has overflowed to an unprecedented extent. In some parts of the country storms of snow, hail, and rain, invariably attended with a high cold wind, have lasted whose days. In Paris itself, notwithstanding the protection of high quays along the whole banks of that portion of the Seine which goes through the city, the rise of the water has been so great as to occasion considerable damage in many places. At the new bridge, called Pont du Carrousel, the elevation of the water had been such as to leave no space between the surface and the crown of the arches.—Tiara.
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