The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-29 00:00:00

A CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE.

On Monday an interesting-looking young female at-
tended the Union Hall Police Court for the purpose of
soliciting the Magistrate's advice.
The applicant about six months ago came up from the
country on a visit, and while staying at the house of her
friends she became acquainted with a young man, whose
father was a retired tradesman in affluent circumstances.
They became mutually attached, and in March last they
resolved to marry, without the sanction of the parents on
either side. They were accordingly married in St. Pan-
cras Church, in the latter end of last March ; and when
the ceremony was over, and they were in the act of quitting
the church, the father of her husband drew up in his gig. He
immediately alighted, and having questioned his son as to
whether he had really got married, and the answer being
in the affirmative, he seized her husband by the collar, and
exclaimed, " I'll take care, although you are married, that
you shall never live with your wife," and then dragging
the happy man from her side, made him get up into the
gig, and drove off with him, leaving her to get home in
the best way she could, alone and shorn of her better half.
She added that she bad seen her husband twice since, but
it was only for a moment on each occasion ; and that,
being ashamed to return into the country or see her friends,
she had supported herself by mantua-making, never hav-
ing received the least assistance from her husband. She
had called at the house of her husband's father to endea-
vour, if possible, to effect a reconciliation, and to obtain
his consent to their living together; but the old man was
inexorable, threatening to disinherit his son if be lived with
her. Under these circumstances, she was at a loss what
to de.

Mr. JEREMY—Was the young man of age at tho time
you married him

Applicant—No, he was not quite 21. He was an ap-
prentice, ard, I believe, is not yet out of his time.
Mr. JEREMY said that the fact of the young man not
being of age at the time he contracted the marriage with
her absolved him from contrihuting to her maintenance,
and proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Courts would render
the marriage null and void.
Applicant—I would prefer that proceedings of that kind
were adopted, rather than having a husband and yet be
debarred from all the indulgences and comforts of the mar-
ried state. "It was very unfortunate for me," she added,
" that I ever formed such an attachment."
.Ir. JEREMY would advise her to make known her sen.
timents to her father. in-law, and there was very little
doubt that he would institute the necessary proceedings to
dissolve the marriage between her and his son.
The applicant, who appeared a great deal affected, left
the Court, expressing her thanks to the Magistrate for
his advice,

EVENING E D

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNAL't

FROM TUE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
There is one consideration which seems to have bcen
scarcely adverted to in the course of the recent debates on
Mr. Kelly's Punishment of Death Bill, but which ought
by no means to be overlooked, namely, the very Meetly°
state of our present secondary punishments, as -applicable
to those grave offences which it is now proposed see
exempt from the operation of capital sentences. Wef
are among those who earnestly desire the abolition of
capital punishment in every case, excepting the 011°
or two instances in which the common voice 0
mankind calls for the highest retribution that se"
ciety can inflict ; and we regard efforts like the
Bill of Mr. Kelly as most satisfactory proofs of the Pre.;
greas which humane and philosophical principles are
steadily making in the work of penal legislation. Yet w
must frankly say, that a degree of vagueness and unceri
tainty characterizes Mr. Kelly's substitutes for car"
punishment, which appear to justify the objecti ns enter;
tamed by Government to the Bill becoming law in 1,,`.
present immature stue. An offender now liable to the
chance of being hanged would by the present Bill be
subject, principally in the discretion of the Judges'
either to lengthened imprisonment, or to trans(
portation to Norfolk Island, whither, after the Ist °to
August next, all persons sentenced to transportation fr°i,
this country will be conveyed. Now, if it should be asked
in the first place, what provision has been made in the pr':
suns of this country for the confinement for life, or Or)
long periods, of offenders of the worst class—and, negri
what experience have we to justify any sanguine hope"n,
the success of the new plan about to be adopted, of trans
porting convicts generally to an isolated spot in tb,e
antipodes—it is plain that the Government is not Ye
in a condition to answer either question satisfacte;
rily. With the exception of a few experimental cells
Milbank Penitentiary, there is not a prison in the king'
fitted for the confinement of a criminal, for a pre.
tracted time, upon a system of separation. The founua;
tion has, indeed, been laid of a model of a prison on out
separate system, in the vicinity of the metropolis; bp
beyond this nothing has yet been done towards the es ~
blishment of a general system of imprisonment upon IP
most approved plan, viz , that of separation. Cense;
quently, little or nothing has been practically effected t,be
wards providing at home any efficient substitute for
punishment of death, in case it be the will of the Leese
lure that such punishment should at once wholly, or al°
wholly, cease.

(From the Times.)
It is pretty generally known that in the church of Se°t'
land there are no large preferments, very few pluralities;
and only a scanty number of Royal chaplaincies,
merely nominal salaries, connecting its clergy with ts'n-f
Crown. Most men have considered that this stete;,i
things in the northern establishment, especially as 00,1.7
no high rewards for ecclesiastical merit, is matter 0'
tional reproach ; and all the more, as the Parliamentilj
Committee on church patronage in Scotland reput`b,
their unanimous opinion, that the religious establigs,
ment of that country was Entitled to universal arlutifo
tion as one of the cheapest and most efficient institutionei
the land. However, it does so happen that there are tore
or four Queen's chaplains in Scotland, with a Deae,,.o
the Chapel Royal" at their head, having annual 50184
of 501. each. During Sir Robert Peel's Admitiistrseti°i,
the Rev. Dr. M'Gill, Professor of Divinity in the ulibo
versity of Glasgow (a clergyman of high character, wo
resigned the lucrative incumbency of a city parish
accepting his professorship), was appointed Dean bot
the Chapel Royal for Scotland. Well, it turns out "
the Whigs, on superseding the Right Hon. Barooet 5,
power, refused to give the Learned Doctor his salli;ir,
From that day till this, his friends, including .0
Goulburn, who was Home Secretary when the Belo
moot was made, have applied for it in vain. On rsibt
evening, therefore, the Right Hon. Gentleman brougo
the matter under the notice of Parliament; and wba,t,*lo
he told by the notable, and economical, and coosls"rs
Whigs? Oh ! an understanding had been come to etio,
promise given (no one could tell which), whoo bed
Liberals were formerly in office, that the salary attge•ea;
to the deanery—the mean, paltry, and insufgelly.
salary--should henceforth be discontinued. y
M'Gill, be it observed, had received the
pointment—an appointment which he holds
ring life and good behaviour, without any notice or slid
lation that its miserable salary was to be withheld; 0$
on this ground, were it worth while to demand freAir
Court of Law what may be contended for with more
nity on the mere point of principle, we are by no oesr
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certain that the Doctor could not compel the Whigll#
sury to act for once an honourable part—honoura"—foi
compulsion! But what we are chiefly anxious to Ull'sbe
upon our readers is the disgusting fact, that wheels esl
identical Whigs who made a solemn promise to Farlilibe
that they would not remain in office unless they carrie,
appropriation clause, still continue to retain their Pa
although that clause has been abandoned.

(From the Morning Post.) oitS
From the division which has taken place in the HBillr
of Lords on the Ecclesiastioal Duties and Revenues isif,
we can entertain but little doubt that it will pass 100,1 de'
We must confess that we do not find anything in no-
bate to reconcile us to this prospect. We honeurt7, tbi°
tives of the Archbishop of Canterbury in pronaotinlbf bill
Bill, and we admit the force and acuteness of inanY. t)gt it;
answers to objections which have been urged agele%bi
but we think he does not allow sufficient weight to ° to
objections which he did not notice. He does not geld
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own we do not like this revolutionising, however ISO
the motive may be, and however plausible the argilwed
in its favour. We make great account of the. of
of the change, merely as a change. It is an admis°loo,4
the point of the wedge. We fear that enemies. ..0
yet drive it home. We are sorry that true 01'00
of the Church ever had anything to do with it. uotiell
speech of Lord Melbourne was enough to make anY "
friend of the Church tremble for the consequeneteo°
measure so recommended. To us it seems to have "'poi
triumphant sneer from beginning to end, breaking %Jr°,
and then into undisguised vituperation of the ClergPargel
think it is to the honour of the Clergy that they have e and
the enmity of such a man as the Viscount Melbourlieh'e bol
that there is no mitigation of that enmity though
been upwards of six years a Prime Minister.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE'

(LLOYD'S.)

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
BEACON ON THE WOLF ROCK•id 21.
Trinity-house, London, satin'
The Corporation of the Trinity-house have inac";,scli
faction in stating, for the information of masters of %dot°
and mariners in general, that the difficult and 1050 i°
works which have, during the last four summers, ukepooll
operation, under their direction, for constructing a bopt
upon that dangerous rock called the Wolf, situate shoo
71 miles W. S. W. of the Land's-end of Cornwell' bet,
been completed, and that a conspicuous beacon has
erected thereon.
This beacon consists of an artifical cone, bearing °of 36
having a large ball upon its summit, at an eleication °poi
feet above the level of the sea at high water; and roar feet
are to observe, that spring tides rise at this station 19 cod
and that at low water of these tides the rock is nano/
to the heit of 15 feet.
The begarhings and distances of the undermentioned °fr
jects from this beacon are as follow, viz :
Longships Lighthouse, Nly. district 71
Scilly Lighthouse, W. by N. N. distant 21 "`h-;
01
Rundlestone Rock,which covers at half-flood, S. '''
1 N. distant 7 miles. 13
Seven Stones, centre thereof, N.W• f 4 N. distant
miles.
Lizard Lighthouses, S. E. by E. 4 E., distant 23 Alpo
It being of great importance that this beacon 510° csir
sustain injury, masters of vessels and others are beret/Idol
tioned and enjoined not to approach it on any cnillif tb°
tion, lest their own safety, as well as the security °A
structure, should be thereby unnecessarily endangcre"'
By order,
J. HERBERT, SecretBd.

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VESSELS SPOKEN wire. Economy, frail Kith
castle to Quebec, 17th inst., lat. 52, lon. i'srpitb'
the loss of maintop-mast, by the John Merrit. Deitb,
arrived in the Clyde ; Hebe, St. Vincent t° fjal'
Ist instat, lat. ,Cl ion. 58, by the Mrshird to e loy
Nicol, arrived in the yde ; Elizabeth, Waterford
ramichi, 7th inst., lat. 41, lon. 49, by the Pe'
Scurrow, arrived in the Clyde ; Kent, bounutl, Of.
York, 14th, lat. 45, lon, 29, by the Lewes, Pe"'"
rived in the Clyde.

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