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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 189, 14 August 1867, Page 2

• -A royal proclamation of no ordinary appeared in a supplement to "the Gazette, published May 22. It declares that after Juiy I the British North .American Colonies shall be one dominion, -with the name of Canada. Further, it names the Senates for the differeut provinces. Thus, therefore, the great work of Confederation is completed. The Paris Correspondent of the Argus, in describing the restaurant on the exterior- of the -Exhibition Building, of which .Messrs. Spiers and Poud, late of the Criterion, Melbourne, are the proprietors, says: — If you ask me whether this restaurant is usually as crowded as we find it to be to-day, I answer, yes,' aud if you don't believe me, look at the London papers for a corroboratiou of ray assertion Some of them tell you the reasons why — ' the first being, that it is the place where you are best served, and the second that it is where there is most beauty to wait upon you. Spiers and Pond ransacked Loudou for pretty girls, each to lie above a certain height, each «o have golden hair, and each to be really handsome. And here behind the bar, ai e twenty of them. Their comely English faces, their joyous looks, and amber tress.ee, have driven all the flaneurs of Paris mad. Not one of the youug ladies but has had an offer of marriage from a count, baron, or Russiau noble. All of them tell me so, aud, of course, I believe them. Only Spiers and Poud have so contracted with them that they are precluded from marrying until the last day of the Exhibition shall have come and passed. Then they will give up. the bar, aiad take to the ring.