The death of the eccentric Lady Hester Stanhope is announced
to have taken place at Djoun, in Syria, on the 23d of June. Lady Hester had been long ill.
The marriage of the Duke of Leuchtenberg with the Grand Dutchess Maria of Russia took place at St. Petersburg on the 14th July, in the chapel of the Winter Palace, in the presence of the Imperial Family, the dignitaries of the empire, the great military officers, and the am- bassadors. The marriage was celebrated according to the rites of the Greek Church, but subsequently the nuptial benediction was pronounced according to the forms of the Catholic Church. A salute of 101 guns at a particular part of the ceremony announced the celebration of the marriage to the public.— Galignani's Messenger.
The price of the four-pound loaf in Paris is to be again increased. The price of it for the first fortnight of August will be fixed at 16 sous ; but a further augmentation to 17 and IS sous in succession would, it was almost certain, take place. On this subject we have befbre us a long letter from our correspondent, in which, on the best authority, he states that, "serious aprehensions were entertained for the standing crops. There was still sufficient time to admit of their being cut and housed in gaol order if the weather permitted ; in which case, the quantity and quality would be such as to insure the country against a dearth. but the weather had become broken." In very many parts of France the wheat-fields throughout extensive districts had been ravaged; the stalk being literally cut to pieces by hail, not of the ordinary size or kind, but in lumps of ice weighing a pound or a pound and a half each, and of every possible shape, some of it resembling a bar of the thickness of a man's finger. " The loss occasioned by the storms had been estimated by competent persons at 250,001).000 francs (I 0,000,000!. sterling.) The prospect and appearances were," he adds, " better in the South than huh the North."—Times.
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