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Our Sting, Confititution, anb cabal.

• No. 1,379 —V oL. XV.]
HAMBLIRGN MAIL.
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CHRISTIANA, Jilin 24.—A fall of earth lately
covered to the depth of several ells the village of
Nbrdrelene, in the parish of Vent°. Nineteen per-
ikms who were.thore at the time, and all asleep, for
at was midnight, are happily saved, but a great
Insley cattle perished; of 30 houses, only two 10.
wain standing.
Aso, JUNE O.—Wasa Lan has obtained permis-
sion from the Emperor to import 6,000 barrels or
-corn duty free; Uleabargs Lan hopes to obtain the
same favour. The accounts of the scarcity that
prevails in o,terbotten are extremely distressing;
rye is at the enormous pike of 16 or 17 dollars.
Srtroaaie, JULY I.—The Deputies of the South
German States are expected to meet next week to
Darmstadt, to determine the manner of carrying into
efoct, by the whole union, the measures adopted by
Baden, Bavaria, &c. respecting the manufiictures
and produce of France.
The canton of Schaffhausen has now acceded to
the prohibitory measures adopted by some of the
&,visa cantons. Zurich seems as little inclined as
Basil to adopt these measures, though Berne has
done so. A Zurich Journal says, that the Great
Council, during its summer season, from the 17th to
the 21st June, Aliscussed, among other matters, the
commercial relations with foreign countries, which
were discussed with perfect impartiality, and in con-
formity with the experience of centuries, and the
peculiar situation of the Swiss cantons, and not with
a view to parsing events or to measures, the imitation
of which, though it would be called reprisal, would
have injurious consequences, and make bad worse.
BERLIN, JULY 6.—The committee for the anni-
hilation of the paper currency again burnt, on the
4th instant, to the amount of 892,499 dollars, in
bonds, &c. The whole sum hitherto burnt is above
137,366,000 dollars.
We are happy to say, that from the investigations
set on foot in theliniversity of Marburg, the students
are found to be wholly innocent of the charges lately
brought against them. At Grissen the inquiry is
not yet concluded.

MONDAY, JULY 22, 1822. _

As you Coolloi alter, I again respectfully, dutifully, bat firmly
Gall apes you to administer the law, !ad to suppress as illegal
sad insulting nuisance.
" My Lord, you do sot, osooet weed lbe mesas d suppcessieg
ebis saisance. Ooe word from yea will be abunclatitly esdleilint
beds) it. The expensive polies of Dublin is at your disposal—
With Ode 0004 JOU eau remove every one-of epees—frein Ibi
chief magisbeffills the chief .coM to the lowest retainer,lethia
patrol* berpeeetiee bee, W be son, timpower
is tionisole der way r. those situations. Met that ieihmecia,
which, alas, is deemed necessary ever higher assemblies, is
preaerved Imperfect posit, over the 4msepsratioa year Bead- ,
leucy's oudoshled right to dimities the samisen tithe corpo-
ration at your •pleasare from their lucrative situations in the
police.
" YO2 do not, my Lord, want the power to administer the
law. To say nothing of the military furoe at your disposal, you
CAR command, and it is within the limits (and would it were
within the practice dour constitution to command them) all the
liberal Protestants, constituting a most numerous and respecta-
ble body—and the entire Catholic population of Dublin, as
special constables to keep lb peace, and prevent a ,violation of
the law. You have, my Lord, ample power, and God forbid it
should ever he said that you wanted the inclination to admi-
nister the laws impartially towards all classes of his Majesty's
subjects.
I say nothing of his most various Majesty's parting admo-
nition—l say nothing of the disinterested and affectionate
loyalty which the Catholics showed to their Sovereign on his
visit to Ireland ; and I scorn to boast of the active pert which
so humble an inividual as myself took upon that important
occasion. My Lord, the Catholics forgot iojuriea, and what is
infinitely more difficult, forgot insults, to effect recroncilietion
with their Protestant fellow subjects. And is uo one instance
have the Cellulite since the Liug's visit violated us deal or eras
in word, the spirit of that amicable concord which they then
sought and believed they had attained. I now defy the most
active of our calumniators to point out any one single act, nor
even any one single word, by which the Catholics have violated
that concord. But alas bow speedily—how completely—bow
entirely has it been violated opuu the other side. On the other
side those even who were the loudest In proclaiming miwithsete
of amity, what has been their conduct since' But I aill not
dwell upon this painful 'abject —I will only say that the Catliii-
lies deserve and require protection flout insult and isjory—wiD
you, my Lord, refuse them list protectiou
" To-morrow decides the diameter of your Excelleuey's
ad-
minisiretien in Ireland. That your conduct then :.nil always
may justify the wishes of )oar admirers, and the fallen espee
Cations of this fallen country, is the ana.ious desire of,
My Lord,

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Your Excellency 'I
...jog( obedient,
!duet respectfr.il and bamble servant.

DANIEL O'CONNELL.

TILE NEW MARRIAGE ACT.
The bill, as amended by the Lotds, entitled •• An Act to
amend certain provisions of the anth George 11. for the better
preventing clandestine marriages," has been printed. It recites
the act of George IL, which enacted that all marriages by
licence, where either of the pries (widows and widowers of
course excepted, who are deemed by law capable of judging for
themselves) was under age, and 'where the consent of the father,
guardians, or mother, was not bad, should be void. These pro-
visions it repeals, and further enacts, that in all CARS of marriage
solemnised by license before the passing of the new act, without
the consent specified, and where the parties shall h ire continued
to live together as husband and wife till the death of one of them,
or till the passing of dint act; or small only have discontinued
their cultabitations in coosequeuce of proceedings pending, touch•
ing the validity of such marriage, in such cases the marriage, if
nut others ise invalid, shall be deemed to be good and valid to all
intents and putpuses whatsoever. Thi, clause, however, is not
to extend to any marriage declared invalid before the passing of
this act by any Court of competent jurisdiction, nor to any mar-
riage whine either of the patties shall have intermarried with any
other person during the life of the other party; nor to any mar-
riage, the invalidity of which has been establishc-d upon trial, or
the validity of which haii beet duly brought into question in any
causes or suits in law or equity. This act is not to affect any
property or title of honour which may have been enjoyed by any
peison under colour of the invalidity of any marriage, by reason
of its having been solemnised without the proper consent.
although no sentence of judgment has been pronounced against
the validity of such marriage. Nor is this net to affect or call in
question any proceeding which has taken place under the autho-
rity of any Court, or in the administration of any personal estate
or ethwts, or in the execution of any will or testament, or in the
performance of E.y trust. The act then goes on to enact, that no
license for any marriage shall, from and alms the ist day of
neptember next, be granted until oath shall have been made by
the parties applying for such license to the affect required by this
act. Where both parties are of 21 years, each shall make oath
that they are respectively, and that each believes the other tube
21 years or upwards. Where both parties ate under age, but
alleged to be a widower and widow, the allegativa must be sworn
to in the same manner. Where only one of the parties is under'
age, and the minor is alleged to be a widow tit a widower, the
ailegatiou must be sworn to in the same manner. Where both
or either of the parties shall be under age, and neither a widow
uor a widower, both shall mac oath w the tame manner as
above specified—that is to say, each shall make oath as to hint•
self and herself, and as to his or her belief witu respect to the
other party. In the latter case both parties shall also make oath
that the consent of the necoasary person or persons has been
given. Where it is alleged that both, or tither at the parties,
are, or is, of the age of Set, the license shall nut be granted uutii
the register of the baptism of such parties or party is produceil.
aid proved upon oath by souse other witness to be a correct
extract. If the register be not in England, the fact must be
proved on oath tu tine ss'isthetiou of me person authoria.d to
grunt the license. In all CAWS, except eases of ,p.cial license,
oath shah be made of the residence on the parties applying, tor
the space oh four reeks benne the granting or such ii.:.atse. Inc
conscitt it parente or guardians oust he signitital iii twining, nod
ilia si.4nature unlit. utLested three or loan: Wltllt:Ssell. and
CAC :mist bn deh),..nl ui the

COUNCRLLOR O'CONNELL'S LETTER TO THE
MARQUESS WELLESLEY.
" TO HIS ['MEERUT MARQUESS WEI.LESSLEY, &O. &C.
" Merrion Square, Jody 11, 1822.
" MY Lora,—To-morrow you will finally decide the cha-
racter of your administration. The oppressed and neglected
Catholics of Ireland had thudly hoped that they might have ob
tamed from a friend placed to the exalted situation which your
Racellency occupies, a recommendation in favour of then.
Yon took an early opportunity to crush that hope for ewer. In
your reply to the address of the Catholics ef the county ot Clare,
you toll the Irish people, that you came here • to administer
Cie laws, ant to alter Mean.'

" My Lord, but s few weeks elapsed when you deemed it
expedient to recommend We insurrection art, and We act to
suspend the Habeas Corpus. That the latter was not wanliag,
is now admitted by every body—and that any neeersity is a
justification of We former, remains in my humble judgment to be
proved. But lel these pass.
" It still remain* for your Excellency to administer t,, lams.
Hitherto the C./o°lles have felt IA advantages from your Ex-
eellency's administration.—The system by which we ate go-
♦urned—the cold system of exclusion sod distrust is precisely
tote same with that o. the most rigid of your predecessors. One
principal actor, to he sure, has been withdrawn from the scene.
and we may deem the alteration a compliment ; but I am yet
to learn what benefit we are to derive from it--and I appeal to
your Lordship whether the change to which I allude, has nut
been amply compensated fur to the exclusiussists by the la moy
by the removal of the oiliest, kindliest mid best public man
Ireland has yet ever yet seen—Mr. Grant.
Your Excellency came to administer tAs I•nass—my Lord, I
moat respectfully, but at the same time moat firmly call upon
you to administer them. The exhibition intended (it is said)
for to-morrow, is plainly a violatiou of the law. It is an open
and public excitement in ab, sack of die peace It is a d rest pro-
vuootion le ticoult. It obstrm ts toe public street by colectimi on
the one side an insulting, and on the other an i, ritoted cuiiconrse
of persons. It is, my Lord, for these and other obnoxious ree.ons,
I manifest violation of the law.
•' I pledge my sell to prove before any Court or to soy impar•
till jury, that the usual annual exhibition n the 12th of July, is
illegal. 1 wake this pledge wider no small risk. I Nate
taiuly as large, probably a larger professsional income, than any
man, in a mull gown, ever had at the Irish liar. iko income
depending mainly upon the public motion that I uudermand
something of toy profession. I could not afford to lose that
public confidence• and yet I freely consent to forfeit it all, un-
-I.;ss I am able to deiumistrate to any judicial tribunal, that the
mutual exhibitions of tlie I2th of July are illegal.
" Ilvv Mg given this pledge, I again respectfully call urn
yule Lacoltency to vindicate the eaalted etrinseter you hare
heretofore to do justice to the name you ;
and 10 fulfil the dotiei ail the exalted station • L.° .
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