The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-07-15 00:00:00

7 THE NEW MARRIAGE ACT. The Bill, as amended by the Lords, entitled, " Act to amend certain provisions of the 26th of George 11. for the better preventing of clandestine marriages," has be*. printed. This Bill, as it now stands, differs very considerably from that 'which was sent up from the House of Commons. It recites the Act of George 11. which enacted that all marriages by license, *here either of the parties (widows and widowers of coarse excepted, who are deemed by law capable ofjudgiag for themselves) was trader age, aid where the consent 'of the father, guardians, or "'rather was not had, should be void. These provisions it repeals, and farther enacts, that in all cases of marriage solemnis ed by li beforothe passing of the new Act, with out the consent specified, and where the parties shall have continued to live together as husband and wife till the death of one of them, or till the passing of this Act ; or shall only have discontraued their cobabita does in consequence of proceedings pending, touching the validity of such marriage, is such cases the mar riage, if not otherwise invalid, shall be deemed to be good and valid to &Illumine and purposes whatsoever. This clause, borrever t Is not to Mead to any marriage delared invalid before the passing of this Act, by any Court of competent jurisdiction; aer to any marriage where either of the parties shall have intermarried with soy other person during the life of the other part; nor to any marriage, the invalidity of which has been established upon trial, or the validity of which Mafioso duly brought into question ha any causes of suits In law*, equity. This Act is not. to affect any property or de* of honour which may have been en joyed by any person under colour of the invalidity of any marriage, by reason of its having been solemnised without the proper consent, although no sentence or judgmeot has bon pronounced against the validi t y o f • with marrlagi. . Not is this Act to affect or call la qnestion sof pfemeeding which has takes place under the authority of say Court, or in the administration of say pews's! estate or effects, or in the 'escudos of Say wilier testament, or in the performance of aoy Crest. The Act then goes on to toast that no license for ail marriage shall, from after thee Ist day of Sep tember seat, be granted until oath shall have been made by the parties applying for such license to the effect required by this Act. Where both parties are of twenty-ooe years each 'hall make oath that they ate respectively, and that each believes the other to be twenty-oaa years or upwards. Where both parties are trader age, but alleged to he a widower and a wi- dow, the allegation must be sworn to la the same manlier. Where only one of the parties is under age, and the minor is alleged to be a widow or widower, the allegation must be sworn to in the same maser. Where both. or either of the parties, shall be ander age, and Noisier a widow nor a widower, both shall make oath to the same m as-above specified— that is to say, each shall make oath as to himself and herself, and as to his and her belief with respect to the other party. In the latter case. both parties shall also make oath that the comet of the necessary per . son or persons has been given. Where It Is alleged that both, or either of the partira, are. or la, of the age of twenty-one, the license shall lot' be granted until the register of the baptism of sash parties, or party. Is produced, and proved upon oath by some other witness, to be a correct extract. If the register he net 1n England,ihs feet mast be proved on oath to' the satisfaction of the person authorised to grant the license. I. all eases, except caws of a special , oath shall be made of the residence of the parties ap plying, for the space of four weeks before the grant 'leg of each license. The consent of punts or par diens must be signified In writing, the signature must be attested by three or more witnesses, and the con sent. so signed and attested, must be delivered to the person or persons from whom the license is sought.— The oaths to be taken before a surrogate, and if per jury be committed. it is to be visited with the MIMI penalties, and disabilities. If one of the con tracting parties should be convicted of such offence, such person shall forfeit to the King all estate, right, titie, interest, benefit, profit, and advantage, which such person may derive from, or be entitled to by vir tue of such marriage. The oaths to be preserved by the prove officer, and the license and other imam meats, to be entered in a calendar, to be open to the inspection of all persons. Officers deviating from the directions of this Act, shall be subject to punishumat af guilty of a misdemeanor; but after the solemnisa tion of a marriage by license, it Is not to be impeached On the ground of informality in obtaloing such license. With respect to marriages by banns, the Act requires, that been,e the publication of such banns io any church or chapel, there shall be delivered to the proper mi. sister of the said church or chapel an affidavit as to the residence, names, and ages of both parties. The beans not to be published until the saws and dente so stated ;hail be affixed on the principal door of the church or chapel, and also in some conspicuous place within said church or chapel, so to remain until the expiration of the three Sundays *a which such banns shall he published. Such affidavit to be then delivered over to the church-warden or chapel-warden, and to be by him deposited in a chest. Wb marriage shall not be had within three months, after the publication of banns, the banns moat he re-published, or a license must be obtained. This Act not to he is force until after the first day of Sep sember, iSie. Whenever a marriage shall not be had within three omeths after the license is obtained, • new 'ices,' mum be procured, or banns must be pub -1 lisbed. This Act net to extend to the marriage of any of the Royal Family, nor kraal marriage's assungat Quakers or Jews, or to any marriages solemmised be yond seas. The Act to be read at certain stated times in the chorales and chapels, and to extend only to Seemed. A report of Lord Hardwick° having been killed .sby a cricket ball has been contradicted from 'mho- A/YAIR or Ho/stmt.—A meeting took place on ' 84htrday evening, near Hampstead, between Wm, Wallace, Req. of Kildare, Ireland, and R. W. Jackson. Re4of Armagh, is cisoimpenstoo of a message sent by tbe -former gentleman, when, after an exchange of - alas, Mr. Wallace's second declared the hoarser of Isja friend guided, on which Mr. Jackson's friend with. deew him from the ground without explanation. Mr. Wallace was acceded by J. Rey aids, Rag. H. P. Rile Hrigade t it'd Mr. Jackson by Thomas O'Flaberde, Keg. of Caatlefield, Comity Kilkenny. : r4 " 6 `" 9 -0 , 0 1 THE :ST, PRICE OF STOrits ON SATURDAY. Balk 5t0ut...... .Y4ire , !edit Steels. . 11.141 Spa Ct. Red.... 1101 fife poses s. 435.01 ts pea. t par Ct: fens. Si per Cent.. 4 tor Ceets 4; I E vri o } a B ! 10041. '• 4. g Pa. I New Fears 4 porCett.l7o7 ..... ----SOK 4s 51 pm. LongAne 901 9-14 -Amen 41. Se. Po. rep. f pr Ct Cog. ter Amt.. 9011 RI 801 Irish A tier Crsit ' 1 r, ~~,,. wit Vt *tattontan. "Tei SRITIIIII OT•TillihN" ii I NCOIIIPORATID WITH "TUC ITATIMIA/4." LONDON: MONDAY JULY 13, 1822. STOCK EXCHANWI, TWELVK O'CLOCK. The market was brisk the earlier part of the morn• leg, and Console are at present 801 to VI. The Chaucer, bas bought 100 thousand for to-morrow. 11011,10 N FUNDh. Since the Spanish Lola has come to market, we sever witnessed each a confusion as took place at the Royal Exchange this meruleg, owing to the bad news from Spain. Spanish Sonde were doiog et 611. On an eminent Jeer Voiter, however, appearing, who, no doubt, wen sent by the parties who. find received an express, a great crowd of brokers itemedlatel,' tar-1 roundel him. and be purchased se • wary large almost. This raised the hoods to 621 for Money. It is re ported that the express from Paris brings very favour. able news from Spain, aid that the Oovernment is more firmly established thinnest. The Spanish mar ket is still !pokier •p. Spanish Old, . . . • . . New New Prussian, . . • . . Old Prussian . . . . . New Russia • • IA Chili Neapolitan Danish ALARMING STATE OF SPAIN. Paris papers which have arrived to the 13th inst., bring intelligence from Madrid to the 6th. At that time the insurrection from of the six battalions of guards, continued ; four of them had quitted their quarters and encamped outside the walls, sad the two others occupied the palace, where the King and the Royal Family still resided. Negocia- Cons had been carried on with the mutineers, and al though they had massacred I of their own of ken and soldiers whom they suspected of being Con stitutionalists, a general amnesty had a e leffered them. The negotiation, however, had failed, as they pretend. ed to dictate, instead of receiving terms. They de manded the abolition of the Deeret directing that the Royal Guard 'should receive a new organization. and the expelsion of all the " Tragalitis," or Ultra-Con• stitntionelists, from the Madrid National Guard. As it was thought that the King's presence is the police encouraged the Guards in their insubordination.-" the Municipality of the Capital mudded' es the drh int., and came to a determination to iseite his Majeat)% to repair to the Town Homan Itiflrlllt - 111Wgew. The Coaacil of State met is Op eveue4-4011 sat till a late hour to examine that proposition widen had been submitted by the Kies to its coasideratios. It resolved at last that it was ptfiper to invite the Ki ng to separate himself from his mutinous Guards ; and a deputation was seat to communicate that deter mination to his Majesty. The King answered, "My Guard* are not mutinous ; let me put myself at their head, and you will see whether they do not obey me." This reply filled the Counsellors with mtoulakissent : they made fresh representations to thedlEing respect. ing the state of the capital, and his Majesty announced " that he would attend in person the deliberations of a new Council, which was to he held it the night of the sth instant." It appears that the result of this last Council had not transpired in the forenoon s.f the 6,1 t iostent, for a letter of that date only says:—" At fire o'clock this morning affairs continued to wear SO Gal eeraln aspect. It Is feared in the Capital that tip two battailions of Guards, who still occepy the Pal+, may attempt a sortie to force their way out of town to the Pt ado, where the other four benefices bare takes a position. If the Guards carried away the King is their ranks, the consequences cannot be easily foreseen. Every thing a ould depend on the impression which such a spectacle would produce on the Regiment of AIMI111." This regiment, which, as well as the Cavalry, the Artillery, the Militia, and the national Guards remained faithful to the • Consti tutional Government, occupied one of Oill gates of the city, called the !rots Hate, and oh d the four battalions of Guards in the Prado, with whom, on the morning of the sth inst. i had some skirmishing. The two battalions who stay o the P a lace with the King, were surrounded ou a sides by a chain of, posts. consisting of troops of all arms, and as the ar tillery was wholly in the hands of the Constitution alists, and the military force at their command was in finitely superior in numbers to the whole of the mu tineers, no doubt was entertained of their being easily reduced if extreme tueasures were adopted. As in such a case, however, it would be impossible to answer for the safety of the Royal Family, evill" mesa was attempted to restore subordination and ankh witboat drawing the sword and shedding blood. lieetral Morillo, who had been appointed by the Kieg on the 2d instant Colonel by iistei ins of his two regiment*, of Foot Guards (the mutineers) had in vale presented himself to the Prado, and even to she Palace, to take their command. They refused to obey him sinless be entered into their views. and after remonstrating with them courageowsly on their rebellioi, he dreamed his ordinary post In thffcapital. It is said that itiego re turned to Madrid on the 21, and Wished for as imams• diate attack os the Guards ; but that his object woo suspended, if not defeated, by the prudence of Ge- neral Morillo, who resolved to try the effect of his per sonal interference before having recourse to open heir tilities. Accafling to the Ultra papers of Paris, the intelli gence from the Provinces is not more favourable than that from the capital.—The Political Chief of Snake, it is said, announced on the 28th of June that the Royal carabinrers, whose auppeession had been decreed by the, Cortes, were in a state of rebellion at Castro del Rio. and that several corps had Imen sent against them. Re ports had since been receivid that a regiment of the Provincial Militia of Coidova, which bad been marched; against them, hail joined them, and that they had won" ed the National Gaeta in an engagement, A Wes MAN, force, however, Wag assembling older the command of General O'Daly, to reduce them to subjection, aid it was reported at Madrid on the Stit, says the Conslitti- Kowa!, that the insurgent carabieeers had accepted the amnesty offered to them ; others pretend that they bad been reduced by the regiment of Akantara. It was af firmed also, the same day, that the Government had re jected the propositions and the sonditions of the batta lions of the guards, revolted in the Predo. la other respects every thing was quite tranquil in Madrid ; the troops of the garrison occupied the same posts. Their sentiments, as well as those of the inhabitants, were al ways of the same degree of patriotic excitement, and there were heard every instant on different points the cries of " Liberty and the Coostitution." The Previsional Greek Government has drawn op an address to the Beropeas Governments, explaaatory of the motives which isclueed the Greeks to rise, and expressing • firm determination to ecuscpter or perish is the struggle. liked, as they welt observe, they have no option, as there is so alternative but victory or ezternsinatios. They end , to show that they - - - • • oily rose against the Take. wires the iron yoke of those men became altogether issuffersb;e; and tell the Holy Alliance that it is only injuring the cause of legitimacy to consider the Turkish govern. meet a legitimate one., The Paris papers contain nothing of interest re •pecting the interior of Fraoee. The new law on Ca nets passed the Chamber of ()rimless on Thursday by a majority of 200 so 137. nano' FUNDS. JOLT 12.—Fies per Cents. opened at 91E; lowest at 90f. 80e.; closed, 91f.—Bank Stock, 1595 E—Exchange on London, one month, 25f. 50c.; three months. 25f. 30c. On Friday last (the 12th of July, the Anniver sary of the Battle of the Boyne, which was fought on the Ist July, 1690,) notwithstanding the die tress in the South West of Ireland continues to he of the most appalls( description, and the Friends of Conci liation had met and urged the expediency of avoiding the annual exhibitions which irritate the majority of I the peeplm we learn by the Dublin papers received Ithis morning that the Statue on College Green, Dub lin, was dressed. Towards evening the trappings of the Statue were beginning to be script, when the Orange party mustering strong, rushed down among the populace, and having dispersed them, carried on daring the reamisier if the evening an offensive war time, is which many outrages were as usual com mitted, and many serieus accidents took place. At Bandon a similar provocation was offered on the Ist inst., and a poor woman was shot while sitting quietly at her own door.—The reputed• real Captain Rock is stated by the Limerick CAronicle, to have surrendered himself on Friday sennight, to Gerald Bleasteriluset, Many of the principal Underwriters at Lloyd's hays refused to underwrite a ship now about to proceed from the Thames, with warlike stores, direct to Torkey, sad have thereby strongly marked their abhorrence of the cause of the Barbarians. The papers by the Liebe* Mail are principally filled with discussions bathe Cortes, on the additional articles to the Constitution of Brazil. Thu Commlitoo. to 'whom the object bad Wen 'offered. declare in their Report, that an absolute thion betweee the two king doms was impossible, sad restenumeuded that there should be two Assemblies of Cortes, one in each king dom. Some censure was elm upon the conduct of the Prince Royal. After two days discussion, the farther consideratioa of the subject was adjourned. . . _ According to advices - from Saot; Fe do Bogota, of the lith April, the Colombian Coogress had passed a decree for coetinaing a iiierina the paymseat of tythes. A negociatiou was to be opened with the Holy See for a coocordate as to ecclesiastiCal matters. A friendly interview was appointed to take place between Generals Si, Martin and Bolivar, at Guayaquil, to establish a •utual understanding on various points involving the general interests of South America. San Martin had sonsmoned a Constitutional Assembly to meet at Lima tie the let of May. He reserved to himself the right of appointieg supplementary deputies for the three &striae which were still in the hands of the Royal• iits. He had established to Order of knighthood, denominated the Order et the Soo, upon the model of the French Legioi of Honour. It bag ►best discovered that the Preach Geotletnan s i gise l alkd Memel( M. Graves, and was lost in the tired Albion Packet, off Kinsale, in Ireland, was the celebrated Count Lefebre Desoouettes. Private advises from Madrid, dated the evening of the 6th, hat no cenression had then been made by the mutinous troops, nor bad any thing occurred to loapire koppaof bringing the artily to, ,on Immediate amicable accommodation. Frequent interviews are said to have taken place between the King and his Mi• sisters, in which the latter sirongly urged his M a jesty to sanction with his name the promulgation of some official document, declaring his disapprobation at the conduct of the Royal Hoards, and designaling them by the title of rebels to their eouatry. It is added, that with this proposition Ferdimanil has firmly refined compliance, declaring that his Hoards were his friends and should never be stigmatised or brought into peril by any act of his. An apprehension, to which the vacillating conduct of the King gave some-cause, ap pears to have been entertained by the Ministers, that Ferdinand might suddenly adopt the resolotioo of placing himself under the protection of the refractory troops; and they urged him, therefore, to repair to some place of safety, where his person, should the troops be incited to so daring an attempt, might be se cure from seizure. To this proposition also the Kieg returned a decided negative, with the remark, that his guards were faithful, and that he had nothing to fear from thesis. In this situation affairs at Madrid were left on the 6th iost., the conduct of time King inspirin g dm roost serious alarm among that portion of the people who are well affected to the constitution. Tug LATE " Reacom."—On Wednesday last, in the Jury Court, on a motion being made for expenses in the cause Lord A. Hamilton v. Stevenson, their Lordships unanimously declared that full expenses were _duo to the pot , and appointed an account thereof to he given into Court to he taxed. At a sale last week of the property of a bankrupt, en extensive and commodious freehold house and gar den. within fire miles of Plymouth, and which ocas• pies upwards of half an acre of grounds, was bought in by the estate for four hundred pounds, no person hawing bid higher than three hundred and ten,--en.l this too, for a house, for which, in the year 1614, fourteen bsndred pounds were offered and refused. • TO LORD MILTON. ON TILE DEBATE ON MR. WESTERN'S RES 1. LUTIONS. demi:titan, July 14, 1522 Mr Loan—The debate on the resolutions prop° .1 by Mr. WESTII/4, oa Wednesday last in the Mous . Commons, contained mitten which I think wo of some particilar remarks; and as your to .k a very conspicuous part in this debate, I thi .c proper to address those remarks to you, not mi. standing your " llooottrable and Learned F,1,, the Member for Wincbelshea," has thought I . right to denounce the doing of precisely •uci. . thing as this, as a breath of the privilege Lf hotly to which you both at present belong, Mr. WatTEPIN brought forward resolutions, in tur .. der eighteen, and in length, quite surprising. 7 1 ,• . were by no means anal, as, in my opiaiou, suited to the intended purpose; some of the faae in them are not true ; several of these facts, even true, lied to confusion and error, ea iag to as emu selection, and an obscure sort of statement ; sat upon the whole, formed a motion against which shoed certainly have voted if I had been in tao House. A simple declaration of the fact of the is crease of the value 'of money. in consequence legislative measures, aid the conseseent enriclaint tax-eaters at the expense of all the rest of the cis. osanity, would have been sufficient. If ally Oda ; had been added, it ought to have bee. a distil . : declaration of the justice and necessity of speedi:. reducing the receipts of the tax-eaters, the fen. holders included. Instead of this Mr. WILMS tee yelled into comparisans about gold ■nd gloat, and Goat knows what besides; sad he concluded with. resolution, not clearly pointing oat any thing t•, done; but hinting, broadly enough, at a briogin; back of the infamous paper-money, or at an alive don of some sort or other in the raise of the au. ney of the conotry. The motion was lost without a division ; but that is nothing as to the question; that is nothing is do in deciding the opinions of the public. It u not the result of the dames, but certain thins that are said by the speakers, that I tbiuk wort ! of attention. Mr. %STULL in his descriptive of the state of the country, as produced by the cash payment measures, mild nothing that was not pr.. pared to bin bands even before t►e panieg of PERL . I Bill. He asserted that thole measures had violstal all existing contracts, and said, that they cos:4 Lave proceeded only from igaOIIIIACC. & thing whicil have said about ten thousand times. ag an •sICAIDa mime next ; for the Ministers /Om k have taken no part in the discussion, exempt as fir a related to Mr. Peat, who made a single remark, a which I shall ob bye-and-bye. Mr. RICARDO. who is so well known to have bee. the priseipal dimity on which Peat's Bill was founded, did lice montane repeat those alwarditiel which have been D often published under bit name, and es often expel by me. Be denied that Pszz's Btu, bed bees WA ellen of the distress; sad asked, whetkerfamarre eat a ootorions fact that, is before Met Billow p.asd, " pAces had eat gristly fallen." It le yet fir to Call this disloyal:mis or to givi an • ranter whatever; but, though this fret is astoriii it is sot mere notorious thaa the fact that it bee met been cleated ; bat always mated ; sad that it Is se more setoriotts than the fact, that the fall in •• has the whole series of measures, beginning with the BLI that provided for Cash Payments is six menthe afar the Peace, and ending with Piet's Bill. Hr. RICA& usiitiet„ therefore, have saved himself the trouble or Gettiag to this species of argument. The fallacy he long Imes exposed; and if it still has the power of dr eeixiag la the boaourable House. be may be absent that it has that power in no other place. This gentleman is abundant in absurdities ; ani Ea has now bond oat that the distress may be tratri to the greet Wen of Gold into Mit country; to 61 l improoements lea egrieeltere; and to .Mee p i on which he did not mention ; and bevies said this, ho, with all the self complacency i mm e g l an bk, m a t t " how, then, could the distress of agriculture be in. " pelted to the alteration is the value of agricaltarer Just as if his assertions about the Influx of fell and the improvements of agriculture, bad bees, *P" his barely making them, taken and sofversally to knowledged as medesialtie troths t whim. I pledgee)! life, that there is not use siagle man in England, pct of Bedlam, besides himself, that regards them in OW light. _The speech of this gentleman wu s tissue of se meaoing phrases that I should hare thought it who unworthy of notice, had it not Ivrea for the two Ginn• rations upon which I ant now *boot to retnark. TO fitst of these was, that, if, as Mr. WSITIIIIOI had mud, the rents bad been wholly taken away by tia Lion, it would be better for the laadlords to comets his plan of paying off the debt, by giant, alp part their Lomas! Having proved, in my letter to Lid LIVIRPOOI. of 1620, that .this plan would take awat the whole of tAr Lai de, I shall not waste the time yutir Lordsaip, and of say readirs, by going over Co proof again here ; and shall only farther remarii, this part of the speech, that the perfect ease aid can tentless, with which Mr. iticattoo talked of the ma' ter; of its being better for the landlords to have Jct.: property, than no property at all ; and of his rep* ing their rents as be did every oiler arti c le in tb market; 1 shall only ob that this carelessmo• ' this as the French would call it, - amicite/a,re, which this gentleman talked of the property, of tt. estates, of the Landlords ;,ibis cho:ness, this sort • gibing. with which be tallied of its being better t leave them something than nothing : 1 have only remark, that tlosi, *his wisdisut and justice, provided a 'lore suitable pm:lien:tent for those *lwo' up the *Very vete:false, the base, the hypocriti. al os en', against the Riot. Siteteacarts in Ih17; And iti applauded tneir bring shot up in prison on a Idly: , of High Treaaos, because ilav, in their reveries ; • their abstract nonsense, talked of a y land • The Spenceans called the land the people.; I: , They mixed np their political mummy with Oef . said were the ptintlples of the Christian religiv• But, be their absurdities what they might. did at go/err/ice titan to take the land from th e lan.:1.00 Was mere a man in England. who believed that flat was real danger from the rojeoes of the Speuta‘t'