A PuzzLEn.-A writer in the Baptis, Register
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A PUzzLER.-A writer in the Baptist REGISTER
proposes the following inquiry


''lf Mr.. Randall is blessed with son. whom
be names Ezra, and Mr.. r., upon the death of
Ezra's mother, marres tho daughter of MIR. Alvord
who few years before had lost his wife, and
who subsequently,, by.a second wife is blessed with
daughter that is named Mary, but lives not long
to lament the early daeIh Of his first daughter.
Mrs. Randall, or ENJOY the society of his compan-
ion and daughter Mary; and if, after his death,
Mr.. Randall takes for his third wife the former
wife of his falher-naw, and If his son Ezra
choose TO marry the daughter of his fathers third
wife, Miss Mary Alvord, will any law. human or
divine, be broken, aud what relation will Ezra be
to his father, or his children TO his fathers wife?


Seventeen thousand six hundred ard sixty -four
immigrants arrived at New York during the last
month. Of these, ii ,o74 were from Great Brit
ain and Ireland,