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London, England, 1849-07-09 00:00:00

LONDON MONDAY EVENING. JULY 9, 1849.

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HOUSE OF
The SPEAKER t bok the Chi r at Twk-Ive o'&ock.
LORDS' AMENDMENTS.

The Lords' iiin,Aidreems t i tle following Bills were
ficji,ed to :

Stoßukton and Darlington Rlilway (Consolidation of

Acts, &c., Alteration.if Line, Zk.o.)
Wisbeth, Chatteris, Tid Gate, and Downham B:idge
Turnpike. (Continuation of Act, Alteration of Provi-
sions relating to Repair of Waldersey and South Side
Banks, Abandonment as to Turnpike of Road over
same, Construction of new Turnpike Road.)
THIRD READINGS.
The following Biils were read a third time and
passed:—
Airdrie Police and Municipal.
Dean and Chapter of Canterbury's (Walworth) Estate.
New Road (Continuation Act).
On the motion of Mr. GROGAN, it was ordered that
the petition of Sir George Morris, Knight, lodged in the
Private. Bill Office, on Wednesday. 4th July, be referred
to the Select Committee on the Dublin Improvernentß ill,
alth,ugh such petition shall not have been lodged within
seven days atter the second reading of the Bill.
Mr. THORNELY presented a petition from mine-
owners in Lancashire against the Mines and Col-
lieries Bill. •
Mr. FORBES presented a petition in favour of a law
to punish persons trailing in seduction.
Mr. GLADSTONE presented a petition against the
Marriage Bill.
Mr. COWAN presented a petition from Edinburgh,
prating for certain alterations io the Australian Colonies
Bill with respect to the endowment of clergy meat of the
Church of I.i:wand.

13AILLIE presented a petition against the Scotch
Marriage Bil:.
MARRIAGE (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The LORD ADVOCATE moved that this Bill be
read a third time ott :Monday next.
Mr. MACKENZIE rose to oppose the further pro-
gress of the Bill. He said the feeling of the Scotch
Members, as evidenced in the recent division, was alto-
gether against it. Out ot the twenty four Scotch
Members who voted, eighteen voted against it, and
three who voted against it were subordinate
members of the Government. (Hear, bear.)
The Government were much to blame f'r the course
they had pursued with respect to this Bill. He cam-
planted that time Lord Advocate, in the Committee up
stairs, bad prevented that examination of legal gentle•
men who would have shown that the Bill was most ob-
tixi sus. Again, the Bill had never been taken et any
stated time, but bad been kept floating before them,
compelling them to -watch it nignt atter night, with-
out finding it brought on. Indeed, the
pu.ition of Scotch Membet s anxious to dis-
charge their duty was most harassing, and
he trusted they should not have again to complain
that the Scotch business was cenduct,d in an improper
manner. The Bill was introduced to prevent runaway
tnarriages—persons running across the border and get-
tiug mauled—by imposing a tine of 2001. upon the
registrar who improperly registered such mar-
riages. Why, if an adventurer ran away with a
wealthy heiress, did they think the adventurer would
nit pay the fine imposed on the registrar
and therefore render the Bill almost nugutor)
Ile Scotch people, he would not mince the matter,
did nut want the Bill. There were no measures now in
existence with respect to marriage, or any law relative
to it, that would and could not be evaded, and as
a proof of that he would refer to the evidence of Lord
Breeishem and Dr. Lushiugton. lie should give th.•.
Bill his determined oppositiot', and move that it be read
a third time that cloy three months.
Mr. ELLIO C defended the course that had been
pursued with respect to this f3ill, and explained
the course that had been pursued before the
Committee with respect to it. He believed
shat the marriage law as it at present existed iu Scot-
land would be a disgrace to any semi barbarous nation;
under the present law it was perfectly impossible that
there could be any certainty as to the legitimacy of
children. He believed that there were hundreds in
Scotland who did test know whether they were married
or not. He thought a state of the law so ruinous and
disgraceful ought to be altered at once.
Sir GEORGE CLERK could not give his assent to
the further progress of the measure. He believed
that there was no lawyer in Scotland but would tell
them in a mom, tit what was a I. gal marriage in Scot-
land. He thought Honourable Members, it they found
the fet brigs of the people of Scotland were against the
Bill, would not join with her Meks,y's Government in
iorcing down their throats a measure which they depre-
cated. They had been told that the law of marriage in
Scotland was a disgrace to any ciailized nation, and
that it was only lit for a semi• barbarous nation. He
believed that it was the law of marriage in almost
every civilized nation in the world. And such was the
state ot the law of England prior to the passing of Lord
ilardwicke's Act, in the reign ot George 11, What
was the law of marriage in Scotland? Why, the solemn
declaration of parties, which WAS consid. red binding it
(made in the presence of a witness, inst ad of the cere-
mony of marriage being made by a clergyman. Such
cases as existed in this country did not take place in
Scotland. In this country theheartless seducer prevailed
over a confiding female by a promise of marriage, but
such disgraceful acts did eot, and could not, take place
its Semiarid. Dr. Lushiugton stated before the Committee
that Lord Herdwicke's Bill was passed for the prots ction
of young men, but before they could apply such a
measure to Scotland it must be proved that cases of
young men being entrapped into ill assorted marriages
were of frequent occurrence there. He defied any one,
however, to make out a single case of that sort. True,
there was the ease of Dalrymple, where a gentleman
who had married a young lady in Scotland, looked upon
the marriage as illegal, and afterwards contracted a
marriage with a titled lady in this country, which the
courts decided to be but that was not a cese
that could be urgs d against the Scotch law, though
tt might with great force be urged against the
morality of she g' ntletnan. The law of Scotland at the
present moment receosieed but one uto'e of marrying,
•ind so far as Scotland was concerned it worked exceed
tngly well. The evils arising out of marriages so
lemnized according to the law of Scotland did
not result to Scotch people, but to young pt epic flying
from the southern law to be married on the
borders. But it was said that the system of giving
motice at the church of marriages in Scotland was con-
sidered as a grievance to the people of Scotland. Well,
this was the first time he ha-I heard of it, and he
doubted touch whether the statement was correct. The
feeling of the people of Scotland was, that the ceremony of
marriage ought to be solemnized in the house of God,
so that the Divine blessing might be implored upon it;
but pass this Bill- and there would be an end to the re-
ligious character of the marriage, as it gave parties
bypowertthe
s ope
operation,
pao
te o,pni
, i
he before r e a magistrate and sign a paper on the
marriage ceremony. At present the law was verterateo
thoughtpreven
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to young
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con-
sulted and as the people of Scotland were satisfied with
isuited before they passed this measure. This Marriage
13111 was to he accempanied by a measure for establishi
a registration of births, deaths, and marriages, and while
he tadmittee. that a perfect system or registration
wad . a good thing, he begged to remind those iiou.
Members who supp .rted the one and opposed the other,
that the Marriage Bill would be a perfect dead letter
without the Registration Bill, and he hoped therefore
that both Bills would meet with their opposition.
The LORD ADVOCATE wished to state the grounds
en which these measures were founded, and the rue sons
which induced him to press them at the present peruse
of the session; but before addressing himself to the
nature of the measures, he would remind the House
that they were not new, nor did they now come before
Parliament for the first time —(hear, hear.) Two of
these measures was substantially the same as one
that was introduced in 1847, read a second
time, and at terwards withdrawn, owing to th,
late period of the session at which they came before the
House. In 1848. however, they were revived in the
House ot Lords, and underwent the fullest discussioti,
and having been referred to and considered by a Com-
mittee, and having been amended by the Committee.
they were reintroduced and passed the House of Lords.
They then came down to that House, and were read
a second time, but at so late a period of
the session that it was thought better to
delay them for anther session, and give the people ot
Scotland another oppot Pettily of considering them. Ac-
cerdingly, in the present session they were revived for a
third time, and having passed the House ef Lords, they
were re-introduced into this House on the 30th 4)
April, but owing to the course of public business
it was only now that an oppartunity could be effsrd.
the House for-examining their merits. Now, while he
would not dispute that there was a strong feeling it.
Scotland against the Bill, he did most positively deny
that Scotland, from one end to the other, was opposed
to them, and in the course ot his speech, he should prove
this by a reference to the petitions which had seen
presented on the suhject.
(LEFT RPF.AKTN(L.)

VAUXHALL GARIMNS.—Un 1 ri.,uy night a grand
Lel masque, the first of the season, was given at Vaux-
hall Hardens, and attended by the usual crowd of rest.
less funhuaters. Fur the first few hours alter the (-toils
opened the usual entertainments at the place, in song.
eqaettrianism, and pyrotechnical display, sufficed to
keep the audience amused ; but after inidutght and sup-
per had wrought up the spirits of the throng to somv
thing near the boiling point, more active measures be-
came necessary, and the onlookers turned actors in a
succession of dances and gyrations, both with and with-
: ut music, which lasted until long after they midsummer
sunrise had redtived the forty thousand lamps of the
gardens to a most inglorious glimmer.
STxAm COMMUNICATION WITH DEAL AND DOVER.
—The communication by steam-boats between Deal anti
Dover and the metropolis, which has been susp,nded
since last summer, in consequence of Mr. Napier having
withdrawn his steam-vessels, has been again opened up
by the Herne Bay Steam Packet Company, who have
placed on the station their last and extaili.mt sea bolts,
Herne and Fattier Tnatnes, the former of which has mad:-!
some extraordinary passages. The aecgramodaiion is
very much approved of by those persons ,ho prefer the
trip by water, with the splendid scenery of the coasts, to
the trsnsit by railway-
UNWIIoLESOME MEATS IN NEWGATE MARKET
At the London Sessions, on Saturday, Thomas Hobbs
of Newmarket, was sentenced to pay a fine of 51. for
sending for sale in Newgate Market a beast that had
died, awl was unfit for human food, being putrid inside.
The detendint's statement was, that the beast Wai
" blown," by overfeeding on turnips, and was killed, and
was sent up to London.
Mr. Roebuck, aI.P.,
hid an interview with the Righ
Hon. H. Labouchere ou Saturday, at the Office of the
low of Trade.