The National Register. — London, England, 1819-11-15 00:00:00

UN PARISH REGISTERS. [VRoM "1:11P. P‘MPIII.ETEI R.l Even• Ain tir facilitating the means of verifying 'marriages, births, tout deaths, it is humbly presunnsl way have some claim to attention, especially when the inaccuracy of our present parish registers is so often and so justly complained of. In a country where the mild laws of religious to leration are so much► approved and so thoroughly 'established, it is surprising that the marriage cere mony should be confined wholly to the Established Church, except in two instances, via. Quakers, and Jews. Yet it cannot be denied surely that other dissenting congregations have an equal claim to si milar indulgence. However, it is much to be wished that, whatever ceremonies may be thought necessary by the con tracting, parties and their particular friends to render this union complete, there should be one firers in Live so simple in its structure and so easy of veria cation, as to he perfectly unoljectionable to every religious persuasion. As things now are, if a couple happen to marry in the Quakers' meeting, and afterward change their religion (a circumstance far from uncommon), their posterity, in few generations, entirely forget that their ancestors were of that society; and when it becomr:s necessm y to make out a pedigree, in or der to succeed to the estate or effects of a distant relation, they are astonished ut nut being able to prove some marriage, and the consequence is the loss of the whole property. But since it is admitted, that marriage, by the common law, is merely a civil contract, it is to be presumed that the most zealous Churchman would have no objection to its being solemnized between Non-confoiMists without the intervention of a priest, at least in hie sacerdotal character, particularly as the religious ceremony may still be had when re quired, and people of every persuasion be allowed to observe privately, in their own temples, such forms as may be thought necessary pro sa•ute (mime. Since experience teaches us, that the most sacred vows at the altar in Roman Catholic countries arc of no avail, and that, even in our own, it too often becogies necessary for the legislature to interfere between man and wife, to break those bonds which religion had sanctified; we have surely no cause to regret that the original contract is, by our law, less binding, especially as the temporal advantages re main the wale. But with regard to non•conformists, they seem, in this case, to have a claim on the justice of the nation; and since the satisfaction which those peo- plc would receive by the change would ultimately tend to the aavantage Of the laud, as well as render • more correct the occasional enumeration of popula tion, now so highly necessary and so much desired, it is to be wished that some attention might be paid thereto. It cannot be denied that, since the practice of the wedded couple's signing the register of their mar riage, it has secured the remembrance of it to a • greater certainty ; but it not being required by law that any one should sign the entries of births and baptisms, they arc in consequence neglected by the clergy, who often trust them to their memory from day to day, from week to week, and from month to month, till at length when they open the book fur the purpose of insertion, one half are forgotten and many are misnamed. Another cause of this neglect arises from its not being usual to register the birth, but the baptism ; and as the clergyman is repeatedly called on to give private baptism to new-born infants whom he dues not think of registering till brought to church fur the public ceremony, which is too often neglected. the consequences are, that the entry is nut made, and posterity wonders at the omission_ Theglariog defects and improprieties, we trust, will induce the legislature to take the same into s2rions consideration.' . The fidlowing is humbly offered as the outline of a bill fur directing u universal and auMenlic register of cnarrriages, births, and burials in every parish. ' I. Where — as ;;real iticonventruces arise from the %%Ala I/1 •ar general rind autliet.tte irgistet fur marriJges, birtlis, mud burials 41,1.1.01M0 lit t'Very 11'41011s iAlld tuat Co. •amt. 'nitwid be rsguiated sib las to preVeut the like in futtire; lie it eitactril by the Kinv's niosi iscelleut :Majesty, by and ssith the advice and comma Ile like Lords Spiritual and rtiniltbral, mud Commun. to Ilia pre vent parliament :.bru+ulro,usid by Übe titllbority ut• the saute, that (ruin awl after Ow day ut all and every niatrni,e awl itiorriages uhirti shall be solemn se t in EnAlaiiri *ad $t mitt, or ton n of iterwitk up u Tr.eed, mu t , w i. t . tam, necurdint; to the farms pres robed by tin tit 1 1.1 site t%truit)-sixth ;c0..., bas late M.l jeety he. g (kurge tit, Secu ,, l, 'tattled •• •Au Act for the better pre veutiii4 Clattdestuse Alutrisige , ," sonil be. hull .ltd sold. .uu•ny; the Ire ple chlakere, ow Ihost• proles sing ttie Jevtls.l ur any ut,ier relax i WriaLoutVer. 14iVe 1111.1 except at are :mattes. Meintotwd. LI. Aud be II merrier eunc.ed, that from And after Ili: it I fur kit m ot every the riptitto of nun—rostfornosts Ili co•.tr.tct tout ;within the demituirms slur-..aid, by com e )iug wnn nit ►egulations tit t..e aid act at it., Issettly.s.ith year tor ll* Late :Majesty, 111 all respects *here the same are nut al.ereJ, to listeistatler par ly expressed and declared. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. lilt. Provided rato ay is, and be at fusttier enacted, that a believer it lawn lisebl,4ll.llell W Ilse bitable that the parties to be inerried arc isuo-cotiforaiists, unwilliog to ply *ilk the usual fibrins of the Church in the mat rlO4. -cerentoity, the ,1111te shall be dispenseit with, ..uu the following substituted 111 lieu titers . .. 4 rise aro and *valuta who ititeod to toter ina.ry shall , betweru the ho-re of eight and twelve in the monolog, repair to the vestry, or, where these is nu vestry, to such oilier room or place within the purists as Ilse alto...ter shall appoint, and there, In the po esence sit toe at mister, and two or auore ea edible witnesses, shall ['Wallet, decotre th sr ontract of mintage in these %Olds ; bist use 11140 sti II sa., " I take tuee A.) to be to nate," theit the woman shall say, take thee (N.) to u. my tawhdod ;" watch s. a l be bait sudicieet marriage to all 'Mesas and purposesabaisuever, any thitig Its any act ur acts of pftrhasucut to tat contrary notwithstanding • IV. And in order to preserve the evidence of such mar• riaArs thus coati - acted, and to render the proof tbeteof Snore certain and rosy, b 5 it furl lier enacted, that from tuid sifter the said day of and immediately aft. i the celehrmiun of eV( ry such marl iaae, an entry Mena sii..ll be shade to the regist•sr kept toe taut pur l aise, in %Writ rou t or teivi,t. r it atoll be expressed, that the slid mar riage arts celebrated by tllOlllllO 1/1' amid it limn 111 ett.ter of toe patties, misfiled by litchi - 1., he underage, way cootent us the parrot. or goal titans, as the rose sail tie ; and dill be signed by the Minister It%till los eroper additt• at, :mil also by the parties spurned, and at ti and -) such two %bilsses s.s. VI cutry shall be made to the lotto or to he edict fallowing; that is to as : A. Ili. of (toe or Ilan) Parish (Non conformists) were married iu tb* pat JAI by (banns ur licence) with consent of (parents ur guatiliatis) lbw day of in the y ear by me J. J. Recto.. Vicar or Conde. fiats marriage was r•ole wised Detaceu us A. 8., C. Lll, fur tnrsraee of E. F., 6. H. . orttl,4l always, nod be it further enacted, th wheurver it is propuoed by the parties about to intro mats", ta..t the mari iage of Vun Cooirm illl,l* before mentiaaed Nall he substituted tor that of the Lotablioned Cioncli, the perrom to be married sh all, beve'days at trait beiur the lime re qiiired tor toe ti.ot publicist of Such banoo, reovrtive.y orluet r or Ciliate to Us &levered to ►wch .1/ illillteir, a 110111,!C 111 atilt.% of their true 111.11011 e, mud of the house or lmat., of their respective abodes %hum aUCh parish or extraparuch al place, ul the time during which lacy have dart. in such house ur honors respectively, of their inteutiou to inter marry as ..ciinfutaiii.u, if a niurria.;e by banns he inters. dett. 4..1 in that case at copy of the banns, si.pied by the Clergyman, shal. be Whiled to the church-door immediately after divine-service on each of time uses of publicalluas -Ind la case the parents in guardian), ur one of them, o either cf she partite alto shall be under the age of 21 yt aro -11411 forthwith eiKuify his dissent to web mairiage iu al Sting to the Minute'', such publication of balm shall be *bradawl, void. 1. Aud it is hcrely further enacted, that whenever it lb intended by the partif 6 about to mare, that the c. resuutly 01 . MOO cuillorseast6 before aueinitmed shall be t.ubeittNied for Thal of the E tablurhed Church, and a marriage b) Iscence is proposed to be bad, it iUall be etoteiseil in tile said of marriage that the parties to be married are WU coistlot mists. VU. Aud he it further enacted, that from and after the day of it every parish chard' N 'thin EnAiand„ Wales. and ;own of Berwick - upooviored, there .hail be provided 41) the churchwardens, at. the (*barge of the parch, our o herriu voids be sutured the day ond year of tor tor: ii of every chid born withiu the parish, uucordiog to the faint hereinafter eutioned. LI L. Awl it is her. by further enacted, that n ithin thirty day , next sitt.sr the birth of no) child in any parish, the totoiT of the c:old shall pet moattily appear before the Minister, or iu the father's aineoce ur MO IA the mother, or 111 case of her haul le b. attend, then some peiwu to his sir ner bchetf , and declare the day of lOC 1:111.41 ' .1,11•111, toe name of toe rawer and ~,,, tea r, ( hut it a bastaid the winie of the mother wily), site acne it has rec. wed, worths r it lia • been bow izeo or nut, and nitro err su b . pi Ihed ; all Which pai t.colats the Li d eiuuarr shall ewer or came to be entered in tar said rt gister. sips the sir•im u iii, IBA 1,4111., Mid Cause true same to he vi uu,wed h, the prison :niacin,. the oeclarat . And if any throb A shall Janie cattier the still tleclit‘htioo be in ab respects true and jusi it shall be lawful fur the bald Maas's., to examine into (lie corruniviatices upon the instil of the party *nuking the raid de taratiou, or the with or than' of such other peison ur iterhous as the said Minister shall think tit to e 'Eamon., 11 alb or oaths the mai at mister is lierehy Mutdurisrd to ad minister. Arid irnu such “eclarution 111:111 he ..atle is ilhin (linty days next after the butt' as aforesaid, then the goods and chattels u. the father or mother, or person m n hose home the said hii th shall have take,: place *hull be bailie to the forfeiture of ti%e pouads, to he levies by distress by %arrant of one of the ju-tiers of tile peace, oue holt 111 be paid to (Ise aufortaer, and the other h.ll to the .N mister of ii,' parish; but Incii sllllll4er be the tuturiuer, their Ile /611a1I tie entitled Li tae o hole peoalt,• IX. And he it further enacted, that whenever any per son shall die or be buried in any plaids, anal not to' intei red isi the elporch yard there, I pets,m pircM . lll at the said boa i.il, or When the hod was pat into the i oluti, sawn ibiuydaysnextattersoca burial snake drciarat of tae male 111 the it:Ester uf tar pa: oh %throe the lo:cline:it took plat. ; urtd the said Aloi.ster shall eater ur rause the said repuiture to he imuseriately entered in the regist..r of bon - 6ea ... e, raid see the saint a,tuessrd lay the person maktil the de titration. Aud if air sor b d. clnratioo Ire made .a afares.id nilillit thirty days heat Wier suck dean m•, toe some penult. 614.1.1 be' lev.rd nod applied ill the some 111.1tilll'i as is bertiol 1114011* directed fur nut nutkiii‘ for deelaral of birth. Ana the .thiiistrr shill' be its all eams u cant o n trot win.. se ant w itlistandiiig his beili o ; the at thriorr or omitted to the And the .m1,1(11011 for either of the 011eurr■ thts art d be in the I. now i.i turn, ur in :al other form of %yetis to tar same elf , CI, usestati, wardroom: fir it rrau ulbrn LI, 1.t.,t on the day of in toe ;ens' of uui buil In Inr CoUllii Of A U. jth.t.e., ut lOC prilee hot llie Said couuly of f•• ui.ll I lir •a.d A. O. (bro.. Ante In.• •Grucr LllOllll4 II•e 1%11,11'1., Ur the bUILI of I“r p Vigo*, I" 4.4. ti.. I thrrt And n • Wilt el, .1,1 11,1. h. 'mom &nye iit 11110 nil ,ball be til,,,raitll IV. Oolbt 11 1 1.)1.11 is. t ie j X. •,o.iOrt ma I e •111• .1 .tlo:t)s to ,t•Cello. for this and I d• I •tio.. O•tth tl.oar tee •••• , •.1 5 .4,11 I . ol* Itt•o••, I•iti116111b, :...d 11111iith., • no.. 11411.i1, to be occuvered before tnie Jo.tice, 00d,,-.8 of toe go,,ds alid cliottas of the part) , refuel.% to pa), the saint. NOV. 13 XI. And be it fucher enacted, that in all rase hem au With is required by or in respect of 11111 . milt:. mentioned of reierred to by this act, toe iiolettin athi twit i n of Quakers shall be allowed, os like wise thr WOO, it J "r any caner rettg. ou s recotasion, ac• ortling to rite u•titiit of their faith. any thing besets, or in any other net of parbinnent to the contrary nut% it. standing. EARTHQUAKE IN INDIA. [Frutu the " itonsba; Gough" of July 7.] We hasten to lay before our readers a selection from the numerous communieutions we have re ceived respecting this awful visitation. It was. slightly felt at Yeonah, and we believe it did not reach to the southward of this city, ur extend much beyond the tropic. CAMP, 31100.1, JUN& 19. Al seven o'clock on the evening at the ltith of June, an eat thipiaxe destroyed the whole district and coma') of 4011 . 0.1.111 , that have been received mention, that from Luck put Busisivr lit Ameba°, lie whole of the towns and villages are mote or less iu ruins. The towns of davie, Aluuuduia, mid Artier, have sultesed extenvively and severely ; but the city or Bhoojonal the tort of lioojin, between which our force is encamped, ate reduced, tht former to ruins, and the latter so breached as to he u•elru as a ramification. This, however, is the least rasa o f sh e evil: at the moment of the crash, it is apprehended, and fear not any way exaggerated, that VA* of the 181111 Mere li , ried in the 15145*. Even 1191* the edicts of this horrible visitation are felt (though three Jays since the first shock) in constant and boort) , vibrations of the earth. The inhabitants hare been obliged to forsake what were sure their hallo, and encamp ou side upon some Sandi hills Their distress cannot be well described ; bruised, maimed, and agitated with fear. they go daily into the city to work upon their several houses, to try and extricate the mangled remains ot wives, children, and relations, whilst in their pion. labour the putrid *fetich nearly exhausts them ; cause, which have fallen in numbers, add greatly to the noisome evil. The walls, from the sandy nature of the none, are ci um bled In a Mass, and the narrow streets of Bbouj, entirely lust, thus adding to the difficulties of the sufferers. The tipper sinner of the palace fell, and hurled, amongst others, the mother of the deposed Rao: what houses stand are s 0 shattered as to be halite to tall in the ruins; and Ike very complete voted. of ;he wall on the southern side, as well as the demolition 64 nearly all the towers and gateways, render it impossible fur 111 j to be a city again. The iota of lines cannot be confined to the city. 1 fear, in all the towns and villages, nun tality hits been guest. I am inclined to think, from the circtim.t ante 01 a 1101 '4llO hay. big opened on a Mll, 30 miles hum Ithuoi. that the coma try will not experience a repetition ut the evil. . . Ftolll our C 41111) being in a 111410,110 Val y material de. 'stage has been siodained t ilie tiles of a liw tempuras y erected houses were knocked oil, and the walls shattered. I shall allieurpt to give you the sensation felt by atom hulls Ist camp and city. In the WWI, l was 'Wormed by o Gentleman, what nearly 61db-tell try a house failing over him, that, riding oil without au idea of what was to hap. pen, upon the first notice, a heavy appalling deaGened noise, lite motion of Ilse earth, W 4114 of .he liti*ea tilt each side of the street loitering and fatting inittv•tris, aup,. sited upon I an idea, 4101 he c Merl out, 11141 4 sprung; whereas, another tleertienian linagiond the haul ul the tank was forced by the waters; mese ideas accom panied with an tiopleasissit giddiness 'if tire head, ansl st‘inesti of si den, fiinn the liras Mg of the grutruil— " In one wild roar expired! " The shattered town,—the wall thrown down, " The wares a moment backward bent, " The hills that shake, although unreal, " As if an earthquake passed. tliyron's "Siege of Corinth.") In camp a slimier sickness aim e, e eipr rirsced; and to ignorance, until the 4.10 - was over ( which lasted a iiiii lute) of tne ei.titre of the noise below the earth, some sat dawn iristinctively, others 'Mew them. selves Joan. Oue was paying work-people in a circle, and upon sceilig I squat, she whole ft:allowed the exam plc, sod sat tumid ham, " the very picture of despair." 'lite sensation I felt was a girld.ness and horror at perceiv_ rug a small close to which I was siding to short distance lions the camp), completely agitated, mid at the same time my house plunged, from the ground moving.. This was the ease also with au officer I was riding with. 1 have, on ',misery , maces tanned that many plots demand in the ieurembrame of the oldest inhabitants, an intailulte nig motion has steels telt before in Kir:ch,but never, I hope, aid again be :vitiated with such a horrible catastrophe; the dials es. of which has been so great upon the intsabi. taut., that I COnlena I fall short of ability to describe it. Camr nc4r Bhooj. Ane 17. We are at present in ft shocking state of ;burn. Last evening, brines:is sit and *even o'clock. oc were visited by ti dreadful earthquake. The null that unsound. 1i IS jis intents( levelled wills the Kruund, and tie few towers which ore left standing are nivrt I) broken rrmaias ; .lie houses ti,rtinfed, others in ruins, soli maul of the Luxe taallttalo.s, including the palace, arc:illy the P 4 ;al of the (till-foil Is down in many snares. and there it a cum ailtt bleach near the gateway. The riAlut our camp tests a short itiotaiice on the left of the Later. limiting the town, and extends along the Minima of the hal to a little tie mid the 1 age so w er on the south-nest ;mint. lam happy so tay that we have had 11111IC su.iteriallv hint, roar 3eitpu)s nal) hruist d, a bu'sere tin sup the moil; hut l fear that agreat mail) Ir:winkles 11.1$l• OCCuricit g tie poor slat rvtst S oul e liuMheit , are mid to tare last their lives.— nierr is at present so Lunch cuulusiou dial tar norm n?,s can not he nu es tamed. . . . . 11 e had several shocks airing the tnis,h , , and they hate ermtiuue.l4.l i,ii,-rv,116 tisk ila) 1 ilia. I:4,1 MA' ablIUl 1%10 huiii ;:go, when I cbulit pciirisel) keep upon in% k 4.; ion I. I..irritilv while musty. fltey.have chilli red, we ututerittind, ill lite "...mu - 14 I' S. -- ihs.s p. a. There ii r 1.114 1 shut. ut 11)6 morwriti I irit•t w God wsti eras, eilt.9rel Eztract of a Letter from a Corresi ielli at Itaroda, dated Jar, WI. the 161'1 ahoul /WA ell in. wlvile of I lir city -and asossost s. were Intoun emu tue io.eutfrt by a ter' wane snuck of att rarthqua►e, %Irk's emsiumied with out intenni •iou between (nu maid three miu-tes. I wet ut ((Scud's hum: at the time; we were &kiwi; iu ha upper b4uk• 373