The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-20 00:00:00

LAW AMENDMENT SOCIETY.

Last night a meeting of numbers was held at
the satiety's teem, Watertorplace ; Mr. SWIG HAN in the
chair.

The minutes of the previous meotiag having been read,
Mr. Enoaa brought up the report of the spacial own-
unities appointed to comidor " the ~rip taws of the
UAW Kingdom.* The paper reviewed at Leith the pre-
med stets of the marriage law in Ragbuod. Seotisad, and
Inlaid, and pointed out the womanhood dangers arising
from the difference which existed Is the law of the throe
countries. It coooluded to favour of giving to the
marriage ',oohed more certainty, publicity, and a
permanent record thereof, accessible to the public by mesas
of ragirtration. Mr. Edgar, at the conclusion of the paper,
moved that ft be pristed.
Mr. ALL= ssociadd the motion, and said that in the
thou empty state of the beaches be should sot discuas the
subject. but worm himself for a future oceasioo.
Mr. lisertiroa said that be had no don at the magmatic*
emptiness of the beechen time from the fact that they had
on this occasion held a meeting at the interval of a week,
instead of a fortnight, which was the usual intarvaL Ha
was rejoiced to find that the coaclusious to which the
committee on ths marriage law had come were
those which he drew himself in the paper he read
before the society on a farmer romairio. The odatestod
Yelvorton owl was of itself sufficient to show how wrath.
hickey was the present dabs of the law, and how nindi
it required to be amended. He considered the state of Ni
law in Scotland on this subject was perfectly diagraidaL
He heard that law defended on the ground that it protected
the interest of the woman. It seemed to him that the law
of Scotland did not promote morality, hut the ; sad
ourinnaly enough the Scotch law was Isended on lb aY
network created by the mediaeval minenkiks: The mem ha
thought on this subject the more firm err his onnolueicsa
that all marriages should be celebrated la the marriage
registrar's office, leaving it to the pasties to add what
glom ceremony they pleased afterwards.
Mr. STIWARD mad, that though a Scotch lawyer ha was
disposed to apes in the main in the °occlusions of Mr. Heat-
hy'. But Uwe was some evidence in the fact that whom
for eduction and bread of promise were very rare is ass&
Led, that the Scotch law protected the interests of the
wawa. He thought it would be well to circulate the en-
mrt, among the elarity sad others in Scotland. with a view be
bring about a chimp of opinion in that country.
Mr. EMU did not think that the Scotch system pss-
moSsd morality. He thought the diffisulty of the liria
marriage law might be to a peat extent obviated by maids,
the Roman catholic amp the registrars of the ir.arrlese,
and attaching a smell payment to the office.
After a few words from the Cumulus, the motion was
aimed to.
It may he mentioned that at the last meeting of the
socisty Mr. Hastings drew attention to the fact. that the
name of Lord Brougham, the president of the society, was
omitted from the royal commission appointed to inquire het
the convict system, which was the more singular as meify
all the other law lords wore ssandiars of it.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT ELEWICK ORDRANCR
Wow—One of the most terrible of the many fatal mad-
dest' which have occurred to individuals in the great 'maw
factories in this neighbourhood took place on Sunday, at
the Eliot&/Ordnance Works. About a qmuiee-peet ale
o'clock on Saturday morning • man named Jobe Tim
was engaged in repairing a piece of the working mariAnery
in one of the gunrooms of the Ordnance Works. lame.
Stately beneath the apartment in which he was working
is placed the driving machinery, the belts from whkili are
mrried through elite only wide enough to allow of Om
=to the drums above, and thus giving motion to
rims machines in that and other rooms. A few fees
behind him one of those belts issued from the lower room,
and at that place, or very near to it, there was a trap door
which was occasionally opened for purposes connected with
the working of the machinery, but which even thee dis-
closed an aperture insufficient to allow • man to pass below
without difficulty. At the time mentioned this trap
door was open for some purpoee or other. and Tino, whilst
engaged with his back towards it in repairing his machine,
was kneeling on the floor and allowing one leg, ap.
parently as a relief, to bang down the aperture. In that
positioo he was last seen alive ; for in a few minutes after
he had been left alone it was discovered that he was miss.
Mg. Those who dreaded that an accident bad befallen
him quickly had their suspicions confirmed by the belt
throwing up from below the bat which he had been wear.
log. An alarm was immediately given, and an examination
made of the machinery downstairs, and then underneath
the trap, the unfortunate man was found quite dead, with
his body fearfully mangled. The bead was almost torn
from the body, one-half of the face torn away, one of his
arms off, and there were other *erica It is conjectured
that the deceased bad allowed his leg to fall so far down
the trap that the machinery had caught it and dragged him
down, and then, as we have stated, almost crushed him to
pieces. Than was at one time in business for himself ss •
millwright is this town, but for many years he has been
employed at the Flivrick Works, bearing, we believe, • good
character as • workmaa. He has left • family.-4Thecasae
Chronicle.

TRILL OF ♦ LIFIBOAT. —Yesterday, some intermit-
hig trials were made in the Regeot's Gaud dock with a
beautiful lifeboat, 35 feet long, beloogiug to the Natiooal
Lifeboat I ustttutiou. Her quwlitwo of mlf.righting cud self-
ejecting at water were found to be in every way satidiatacy.
The boat is celled the Thomas Chapman, after the &pat),
chairmen of the sonoty, in eckoowledgment of Mr.
mah's loag sad valuable services to the Lifeboat Insanities.
She is to be sent to-chiy to Newhaveri oa the Soren end,
in lieu of s smaller lifeboat at present ea that Asti's. •
free ariaveyanee hoe Noddy, as owl, been gives to bath
boats by the Brighton and South Cart Railway Company,
who, like all the railway onrummies, are always ready to
help forward by such meow the great wed natured objects
of t►e Lifeboat Institution.

Importing tea without colour on the leaf pre-
vents UN Mama off leerier brews Wirth se to the
venal kinds. If ss Tee le thootharth, t►erefore abrays
Pal *UAL sold O M•U•t• by Lai yrote.-{t♦dwtlesimert.l