Vronintiol.
The wedding-day of the Princess Royal was kept in the chief pro. vincial towns with much the same observances as in London. There was a general disposition to relax the hurry of business ; there were balls in great numbers, banquets ; in some places flags were hoisted and guns fired ; in others there were illuminations in addition ; and town and village throughout the country the joy-bells gave forth their stirring peals.
Early in December, Mahmoud Effendi, a Turk and professing Christian, caused the banns of marriage between himself and Miss Heaton, the daugh- ter of an English officer, to be called in the parish-church of Stoke Damen], Devonport, by the rector, the Reverend W. J. St. Aubyn. Hereupon, his cu- rate, the Reverend James Bliss, forbade the banns, on the ground that the man was a Mahometan and not a Christian—he had not been baptized. A correspondence ensued between Mr. St. Aubyn and Mr. Bliss; the curate in- voked the aid of his bishop, Dr. Philpott, and Dr. Philpott sent a notic,e of inhibition. In the mean time, to meet the most tangible objection, Me. St. Aubyn baptized the candidate for matrimony in Stoke Church ; Bliss, unwilling to give a bond for caution-money required by law, with drew his resistance.to the banns and the couple were married by Mr. St. Aubyu. The Bishop then sent four commissioners to inquire whether Mr. St. Aubyn had been guilty of the offence of baptizing an adult without giving previous notice to his. bishop. The commissioners met at Plymouth on Monday, and decided that there was prima facie evidence to justify a prosecution.
Mr. Delaney, the Lancashire Magistrate who was sentenced in November to be imprisoned in the Queen's Bench for one year for appropriating to himself two pounds extracted from men chfirged with killing rabbits, has been liberated: the exposure and disgrace brought on a severe illness, which threatened even his life.
There was a great crash at the Bolton station early on Thursday morning, with the loss of one life. A heavy train of goods and coal-waggons was coming in, descending an incline ; in consequence of a thaw, the brakes would not act, the weight of the train forced forward the engine, and the whole mass rushed through the station, dashed through gates, crossed a street, knocked down parts of a shed and the station, and crushed a train which was in waiting for passengers. George Royle, a plate-layer, who ,_was standing on the step of the engine, was crushed to death in the ruins ; 'but no one else was hurt.
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