The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-04 00:00:00

MARRIAGE STATISTICS IN ENGLAND.

A report of the Registrar-General to Sir G. Grey,
Just insued, supplies a singular amount of information
relative to births, marriages, death., and diseases, in England
and Wales. The statistic. relate to the year 184.3, but the
repast is dated the 10th of June last. A few
particulars as to English marriages will be found interesting.
8,386 young men and 27,207 young women married under
21 years. Of 100 men who married nearly 6 were minors, of 100
woo= 18 were minors; or, taking 100 persons (50 men and
ewasso), 12 married under 21 years of age.

ll* number of young worsen marrying under age has
ineenned rapidly within the hat seven years. The pro-
portion disetnated only from 13.18 to 1313 per cent. in tho
seven yeas 1841-47. It then rose from 14-08 in 1848, and
16'76 is 1831 to 18.99 in 1832 ; 1718 in 1853; 18*03 is
1854; end 17'89 in 1855. Tito proportion of young roux
to young women who marry under the age of 21 is as 1 to
3; but the early =Maps of teen increased nearly to
the same extent as the early marriages of women.

The proportion of early marriages of women exceeded 20 in
100 in the following countiee ; and it was 21 in the county of
Northampton, 24 in Huntingdon, 25 in Bedford, 23 In Cam-
bridge, 21 in Ewes; it was 28 in Stafford, 2; in Durham,
and 22 in Monmouth, the great coal districts ; 21 in Not-
tingham, 21 in Derby, 21 in taximeter, 25 in the Weet
Riding of Yorkshire, 21 in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
The increase in the proportional number of marriages of
young women under the age of 21_wee great
_in Cornwall,
Durham, end

and Wales ; in Herefordshire,
Shropshire, and Worces'ershire ; in Nottinghamshire end
Derbyshire ; in the East Hiding of Yorkshire, Nortliumber-
landorad Ctunberiand. And the Menem wee not only Mille
proportional, but elm in the absolute number of such mar-
riage.. London, Middlesex, Devon, and North Wales, have
remarkably few marriages of misers.

21,940 widower end 14,435 widows re-married: 14,280
widower married spinsters, and 7,660 married widows, and
6,776 widows married bachelors. The proportional number
of widowers (1412 per cent.) and widows (9.49 per cent.)
exceeded the average.

In London, Bucks, Norfolk,Wilts, Notts, Chester, Lancas-
ter, and the East Riding of Yorkshire, more than 13 in 100

men who married were widowers. In London, Hants, Here-
ford, Stafford, Warwick, Lancaster, Durham, and Mon-
mouth, more than 10 in 100 women who married were
widows.

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44,848 husbands and 62,672 wives made their marks;
while 107,267 husbands and 89,441 rites wrote their
name in the marriage registers. A certain number of
the women who make their marks are deterred by timidity
from writing their names; upon the other hand many thou-
lands of these who write their names, write very badly, and

are evidently little practieetlinthe art of writing.

means of education must still be deplorably defective in
England and Wales, when we find 41 In 100 women nod 29
in 100 men making orogen, instead of writing their names in
the registers of their marriages. It is consolatory to find
that within the fifteen years 1841 to 1855, the proportion of
men who write their names ha. lone /wed from 67.3 to 70.5;
and the proportion of women has increased to • still greeter
extent, namely, from 51.2 to 58.8 in 100.
A girl of 15 was maned to a boy of 15 ; 6 girls of 16 were
married to youths of 16; • lei of 16 was monied to • girl of
18. A widow of 17 laid aside her weeds for a second hus-
band aged 17, while no less than 207 widows of 20 were
wedded to bachelors of the same age. Two widowers of 25
forgot their griefs in • ,cond union. one with •
lass of 15 and the other with a girl of 16. A vener•bla
widow of 80 was induced to re-enter the matrimonial state
bye widower of the mature age of 60, and a spinster, who
owns to 70 years, accepted the hand of a widower of 65. An
old bachelor of 75 was converted to matrimonial views by
the charms of • spinster of 60. An immense majority of
marriages take place at the age, in both seam, of 20.

SOUTH KENSINGTON bluenat.—During the week
ending August 1, 1857, the visitors have heen as follows :
Oa the threshes days, 4,088; two free evenings, 7,444. On
the three andante' daps (admisehn to the public GI), 784 ;
one Masa evening, 186—total, 12,489.
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