Ir is now nearly a your since we drew attention to the matrimonial wants of certain residents in Eh an set forth in Uiat remarkable journal, The Matrimonial News and Special Advertiser. We find this paper still apparently flourishing, for the benefit of those bachelors and spinsters who are so nn~ fortunate as to have no friends and acquaintances, from among wh muy choose their partner fur life orderly and quiet manner prevalent among civilised people. The News is devoted, on its own showing, to the Promotion of Marriage and conjugal felicity." It may succeed in promoting marriage, but it would not be amiss if the Editor would oconsionally print testimonials from people who had teen brought together by its agency, to prove that its efforts had resulted in conjugal felicity. Possibly the unions procured by this somewhat sordid monn muy turn out on the average us well us those whioh have been incited and arranged in the more ne cepted ways 5 for marriage is a lottery at best, as we know. The Editor enlarges on the Aesirabilily of the existence of his paper, because " civilisation combined with the cold formalities of Suciety and the rules of etiquette, imposes such restrictions on the sexes, that there are thousands of martingerble men and women of all ngo what are the editor's idea each other happy, who never have a chance of meeting, in town or countts When this 1 was first started, it was regarded us a prolonged hoax; bat as the business which it re-
Presents has now been established over thirty youre, and the News itself over fifteen years, it ie tule to wsxume that. the enterprise is a genuine one, and that in the fifteen years, there has been an average of about ten people a week willing to trust ppinessund comfort of their lives to consorts selected by menns of & newspaper ndvertixement. In the number before ne, that for Qud January lust, there are more than seven pages of rtisements from people of both sexes and all ages, with incomes ranging from nothing to £5,000 a year. As money is now-n-days one of the first considerations, if not the first, we ox-tract the following advertisement from 8 lady who should have no difficalty in finding a husband, It will be seen that she makes no stipulation Matrimeny.—A Lady, 22, tall, fair, and very handsome, with £5,000 year, wishes to marry. Address Clara, under cover to the Editor M.N., 302 Strand.
Nor should the hero of the following, if his income of some thousands has Lut a mythical existence, Lave to mait long for a responsive heart A Gentleman, aged 60, very tall, with more than average good appearance, genial temper, and who believes he could make any reasonable woman happy, wants to worry. He has an income of some that ands a year, handsome town and country residences, keeps several aves, and' would make a gov Editor has addr The number of handsome young men without merino, and very fair but who wish to have their burden of life assumed by a con. sort is endless, We have only room for three or four specimens of their de-unrids, but itis noticeablothat the gentle. wen, with the caution of the sex, are much more given to requiring Unt the answerer shall have an income, than the Indies are Alady, tall, young and handsome, w to marry andi is amiable, and would make a bright and happy home for any man, Editor has address, A gentleman of good family, ngo 25, tall, and gued locking, only partner in youd City firm, will be glad to meet with a lady of menus with a view to marriage, Editor 9 years of age, beautiful girl, medium height, fair, blue eyes, exquisi and well defined features, amiable dispo tion, and talented, would make a loving wife, desires to correspond with a young gentleman aged about 23 ut medium height, hot ston!, brown hair and moustache, must have a knowledge of foreign Inngunges, money no object. Address M. E, cure of Mditor, N.B.—'Uhis advertivoment is to reply to Bossi Dee. 19), Lam 24, 5, appear much youn; been a Master for Mathemat &c, at several grammar school ology as given by Odell, Chorine-cross, in, too, charitable, bold, poetical, lov to common Editor has nddrew The phrenology of the Inxt tisar, as given by Odell, is rather mixed, It would be end for Bessie if he turned oat to be too "born to ow Some one, probably Thuckerns, writing of the advertisements in the London duily papers of servants wanting lives and musters and misiressex ut the sume time wanting sorvunte, reflects that the cuvkless mistresses and the ist rerslens cooks, the gentlemen' requiring enleta and the valets out of place, will mont likely never come together. Ti wou'd seem us if Lhe same happened to these aspirants to martin ge, And ne some hold that for every soul in exch mn there is another "onl in a womnn, an that an unhappy fate may keep thone apart for ever, incomplete, and yearning for the other half, it would almost seem if the Indies and gentlemen who advertise their possessions and charm are mostly of those to whom un-unkind destiny has not, even after many adver. tisemente, allowed the psychic cumploments to mingle, The possession of a title evidently does not alway ensure a sullicient circle of acquaintance, for more than one counters in her own right ndverrises for a husband, while poers uro apparently sufficiently run afier. Que advertisement la very touching. It la from a widowed Countess of ancient title with only £150 0 year, but with every moral excellence, who desires with Gods blessing to get a second husband " oars
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