The following curious anecdote is told, in the Negoristan, of a famous lawyer of Baghdad, called Abu Joseph. It marks several peculiarities in the Mohammedan law, and displays some casuistical ingenuity adapting them to the views of his clients. The Khalif Haran Alrashid had taken a fancy for a female slave belonging to his brother Ibrahim. He offered to purchase her; but Ibrahim, though willing to oblige his sovereign, had sworn, that he would neither sell nor give her away. As all parties wished to remove this difficulty, Abu Joseph was consulted; who advised Ibrahim to give his brother one half of the slave, and to sell him the other. Happy to be relieved from this embarrassment the Khalif ordered 300,000 dinars for the moiety of the slave; which Ibrahim, as a mark of his acknowledgment, immediately presented so the lawyer. But a second difficulty now arose. The Moslem law prohibits all commerce between a man and the wife or concubine of his brother, till she has been remarried and divorced by a third person. Abu Joseph advised the Khalif to marry her to one of his slaves; who, for a proper consideration, would be easily induced to repudiate her on the spot. The ceremony was instantly performed: but the slave, falling in love with his handsome spouse, could not be prevailed upon to consent to a separation. Here was a strange and unexpected dilemma; for, all despotic as the Khalif was, he durst not compel him. But Abu Joseph soon discovered an expedient. He desired the Khalif to make a present to the lady of her new husband, which virtually desolved the marriage; as no woman, by the Mohammedan law, can be the wife of her own slave. Overjoyed that the Gordian knot was thus so ingeniously unloosed, the Khalif gave him 10,000 dinars; and the fair slave receiving a considerable present from her royal lover, presented him with 10,000 more; so that Abu Joseph, in a few hours, found his fees amount to 50,000 dinars, or nearly 15000l. * * * * * * * * * NEW-YORK. * * * MARRIED, On Sunday evening last, by the Rev. Dr. Foster, Mr. JOSEPH HANNAH, of this city, to Miss POLLY GRAY, of Brooklyn (L.I.) Let fortune on this blithesome pair, With cloudless aspect smile; Nor trouble e’er or anxious care, Their peaceful life beguile. On Monday se’nnight, by the Rev. Dr. More, B. PENROSE, Esq. of Philadelphia, to Miss H. BINGHAM, of this city. Last Sunday se’nnight, in the Methodist New Meeting, by the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper, minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Mr. JOHN WILSON, to Mrs. HESTER BLEECKER, widow of the late Mr. John Bleecker, all of this city. On Thursday evening last, by the Rev. Dr. M‘Knight, Mr. ENOCH ELY, merchant, to Mrs. KEZIA CAMP, both of Catskill. On Thursday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Dow, Mr. CORNELIUS DAY, to Miss ANN HAMILTON, lately from Trinadad. On Thursday evening Lft by the Rev. Dr. Kuntzie, Mr. JOHN AIM, to Miss PEGGY MOORE.