The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-29 00:00:00

VARIOUS MODES OF SOLEMNISING

2PIARRIAGE.

In the 20th annual report of the Registrar-
General there occurs the following note under the
head " Marriages :"
" The great facilities for marriage afforded by the
present state of the law will be apparent from the
following brief notice of the various modes in which
the solemnisation of matrimony may now be effected.
Parties may be married in England and Wales—
(l) according to the rites of the established church,
(2) in registered places of worship belonging to the
dissenting bodies, Roman Catholics, &c., (3) in the
District Register Offices, and (4) Quakers and Jews
may be married according to their respective
usages.'

The solemnisation of marriage according to the
rites of the Church of England may take place (1)
by special license, (2) by license, (3) after banns, or
(4) upon the production of the Superintendent Re-
gistrar's certificate. A special license can only be
granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury; it allows
the marriage to be solemnised at any convenient
time and place,' but the fee being of considerable
amount, not more than 11 couples, on an average,
are married yearly upon this authority. The
ordinary ecclesiastical license granted by a sur-
rogate is for marriage in the parish church or
in some public chapel of the parish or chapclry
in which one of the parties has resided for the
space of 15 days immediately before the grant-
ing of such license. No previous notice is required ;
the first application for the license may be made
and the parties may become man and wife within
the hour. For marriage after publication of banns
it is necessary that the banns shall be proclaimed
upon three Sundays in the church of the parish in
which the parties dwell, and when they live in
different parishes, in the parish church of each. To
obtain the Superintendent Registrar's certificate
one of the parties must give notice of marriage' in
the prescribed form at the register office of the dis-
trict, where such notice must be suspended or
affixed in a conspicuous place' during 21 successive
days, ant the particulars entered in the Marriage
Notice Book.' After the expiration of that period
the Superint-ndent Registrar's certificate for the
marriage is issued upon application. A previous
residence of seven days in the district immediately
before giving notice is requisite ; and where the
parties dwell in two different districts the same
forms must be gone through in both. Under a
provision of the Act of 19 and 20 Vic., c. 119, no
marriage by certificate can be solemnised in a
church or chapel without the consent of the offi-
ciating minister.

" Marriages in registered places of worship not
belonging to the established church can be solem-
nised either (1) by license or (2) by certificate,
both of which are to be obtained from the Superin-
tendent Registrar. In order to obtain a license a
notice of marriage' in the prescribed form must
be delivered to that officer, who enters the parti-
culars in the marriage notice book to be therein
open for inspection during one whole day, after
which the license may be granted upon being ap-
plied for. Either of the persons to be married may
give the notice and obtain the license, but one of
them must have resided 15 days in the district in
which the notice is given Where the parties live
in different districts notice given in one district is
sufficient. Although in ordinary cases the mar-
riage is celebrated in the district in which one of
the parties resides, the law allows them to marry
elsewhere, in the usual place of worship' of one of
them (provided it is a registered building, and
situated not more than two miles distant) ; they
may also be married out of the district when there
is within it no reg'stered place of worship in which
they may be married according to the forms which
they desire to adopt. The same freedom of action
is allowed with respect to marriages in dinent_
b
in.. chapels by certificate. In that case the 'notice
of the marriage' must be suspended or affixed
in the District Register-office during 21 successive
days after the entry of the particulars in the Mar-
riage Notice Book,' on the expiration of which
period the Superintendent Registrar may issue his
certificate. Only seven days previous residence is
necessary before giving a notice for marriage with-
out license.

"Marriages are celebrated in the District Regis-
ter-office upon production of the superintendent
registrar's license or certificate; the contract is a
purely civil one, as the use of any religious service
is prohibited. The presence of the Superintendent
Registrar, as well as that of a registrar of marriages,
is requisite, and both officers must sign the register.
" Marriages between Jews and marriages between
Quakers may be solemnised with or without license,
according to their respective usages ; the Jews may
marry either in a synagogue or in a private dwell-
ing, and at any hour of the thy ; the Quakers in a
Friends' meeting-house, between the hours of
8 and 12.

" These various forms and authorities may be re
capitulated thus :
" Marriages may be so.

1. According_to the rites
of the Established
Church.

2. In registered 'places
of worship not of the
Established Church.

3. in the District Re-
gister Office.

4. Between Quakers and
between Jews

lemnised— Authority.
(1. Special license from the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury.
2. License from a Surrogate, &c.
[.3. Publication of banns.
4. Certificate from the Superin-
tendent Registrar.
l. License from the Superintendent
Registrar.
12. Certificate from the Superin-
L tendent Registrar.
r-1. License from the Superintendent
I Registrar.
Ceriificate from the Superin-
L tendent Registrar.
rl. License from the Superintendent
Registrar.
12. Certificate from the Superin-
tendent Registrar.

By the English law as it stood before the
passing of the Act of 6 and 7 Will. IV., c. 85, no
marriage could be lawfully solemnised (except
where both the parties were Quakers or Jews re-
spectively) in any other place than a church or
public chapel wherein banns might be published,
unless by special license from the Archbishop of
Canterbury. This law was enforced by severe
penalties; and if any
personsintermarried without
license from a competent authority, or without the
previous publication of banns, the marriage was
null and void to all intents and purposes. Thus all
persons (with the exception of Jews and Quakers),
whether conforming to the Church of England or
not, were compelled to resort to the Established
Church in order to, have their marriages lawfully
solemnised. The boon. conferred upon Roman
Catholics and. Dissenters generally by the amended
law of 1836, which enables them to marry in their
own.pltces of worship and according to their own
forms, may well be appreciated. The recent act of
1856, besides abolishing the objectionable practice
of reading notices of marriage before boards of
guardians, has sanctioned marriage out of the dis-
trict in the usual place of worship' of one of the
parties, and reduced the interval between the giv-
ing of notice of marriage by license and the grant
of the license from seven to one clear day."
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THE REVIVAL 310VE211ENT-11141RGES
OF RIOT AND _ASSAULT.

CARRICKFERGUS PETTY SESSIONS.
(Front the Banner y Ulster.)
Yesterday an extraordinary case, arising out of
the spread of the revival movement in the neigh-
bourhood of Carrickfergus, was heard shortly after
the sitting of the Court. The magistrates presiding
were—J. Barnett, Esq. (presiding), T. M. Birnie,
Esq., and S. Dunn, Esq. The first charges entered
for trial were those in which Nancy Costello en-
tered a complaint of riot and assault against the
Rev. James White, Presbyterian minister of Car-
rickfergus, and against John Wilson, Chas. Hagan,
Jas. Hagan, Wm. Johnston, Paul Rogers, Chas.
Johnston, Samuel Greenless, David Irvine, Mar-
garet Kennedy, and Sarah Hughes. This case arose
out of the conversion of the son of the complainant,
Alex. Costello (as will appear in evidence) from the
Roman Catholic to the Presbyterian faith. There
was a cross-case, in which Alex. Costello, the con-
vert, charged thee omplainant in the above charges,
Nancy Costello (his mother), John Costello (his
brother), and Mary Feeney, with assault, and with
having used threatening language. The court was
densely crowded during the proceedings, and the
utmost interest appeared to be taken in the trials.
The convert, Alex. Costello, is an exceedingly clever
and intelligent boy of 17 years of age, and his
appearance in court was the object of general atten-
tion.

Mr. Alex. O'Rorke and Mr. Smith (Carrickfer-
gus) appeared for the Roman Catholic party in the
first-named charges; and Mr. Wm, Seeds (Belfast)
defended in the first cases, and prosecuted in the
second.
After the disposal of a few petty cases, the charges
at the instance of Nancy Costello were read, and all
the defendants (who appeared to be most respectable
persons in the middle rank of life) made their ap-
pearance.
Mr. O'Rorke then proceeded to state the case on
behalf of Nancy Costello. He observed that this
was the third case of the kind which had occurred
in the county in consequence of a movement re-
cently commenced. The complainant in this case
was a widow, and had for 12 years occupied that
station in life. She had been long resident in that
neighbourhood, and he believed no one could lay to
her charge that she had left any work undone
which she should have done in order to maintain
her family honestly. She had a son, named
Alexander Costello, whom she loved dearly, and it
would appear to the bench, in evidence, that, in
consequence of the influence of certain parties, that
child had been made to turn against his own
mother—he had actually been instructed to believe
that he was not bound to honour and obey her. It
would appear to them that Alexander Costello was
sent by his mother to carry letters for the postmis-
tress of Greenisland—a Mrs. Kennedy; and for
this he was to receive the sum of 2s. per week.
And now he (Mr. O'Rorke) should say that the
husband of complainant was a Roman Catholic,that
she was herself a Roman Catholic, and that her chil-
dren had all been brought up as Roman Catholics,
and taught their catechism as such. Mr. O'Roile
went cn to state that prayer-meetings were held in
consequence of this religious movement, which he
was glad to see was on the wane, in this neighbour-
hood ; that Alexander Costello was induced to at.
tend them, to forsake his parents, and to go to
Brysonstown, in this county. For a long time he
remained there undiscovered by his parent, and
when he at length volunteerd to go home with his
mother, he called on the way at the house of Mrs.
Kennedy. It was then the assault complained of
took place, which would be proved by the com-
plainant herself. In the course of the statements
which O'Rorke made he accused Mr. White with
tampering with letters which he addressed to his
mother, and he inveighed against the dangerous
character of the revival movement, and the conduct
of Mr. White in the course of the transaction, who,
he alleged, had wilfully kept the name of the boy's
place of residence from the mother while he was at
Brysonstown, near Kells, although at the same
time he made it appear he was using all his exer-
tions for its discovery.
At the conclusion df Mr. O'Rorke's statement,
A number of witnesses were examined ; after
which
Mr. Seeds submitted that, without going into the
case for the defence, there was no evidence what-
ever to sustain the complaint.
Mr. Barnett said there was no evidence against
any party except John Wilson, Margaret Kennedy,
and Sally Hughes.
Mr. Seeds said he would then ask their worships
to dismiss all the other cases with costs.
After some discussion on the granting of costs,
Mr. Barnett said there was no evidence whatever
of a riot, and as to the charge of assault, the Bench
dismissed the charges against all the parties except
those he had named, with 7s. costs in each case.
The Bench then went into the case of Mrs. Ken-
nedy, Sally Hughes, and John Wilson, and the
cross-cases preferred at the instance of Alexander
Costello agains Nancy Costello, John Costello, and
Mary Feeney.
Mr. Seeds said that, had not Mr. O'Rorke thought
proper to travel out of the legitimate bounds of the
case, he would not have thought it necessary to
trouble the Bench with any observations. Mr.
O'Rorke had not been satisfied with casting un-
worthy imputations on other parties—he was not
sat;,Sfied with assailing Mr. White, but he had at-
tacked his lady, and he (Mr. Seeds) must say that
that had been done in a manner which was not cal-
culated to add much credit to the case which he
endeavour,brou gh t intoi
n ctohuer t
course. It heafd
his beenpr hisfe professional
o),nlra .1 S eed'
career,s)
to avoid throwing disgrace on the religious opinions
of those who differed from him; and he couldi tel
Mr. O'Rorke and those who agreed with him, that
while they were always ready to claim free opinion
for themselves, they were not willing to give that
liberty to those who professed Protestant principles.
But, notwithstanding this, he could assure these
parties that th¢ opinions which he represented, and
which had been struggled for by their forefathers,
would be still maintained, and handed, undesecrated,
to other generations. Mr. O'Rorke had told their
worships a great deal about the duty which children
owed to their parents; and he, for his own part,
would never contest the point that all the duty
which was lawful and right should be rendered to
parents. But there was another duty which chil-
dren had to perform. They had a duty to discharge
to their Heavenly Parent, and this was not the age
nor the country where people had not a right to
think -and act for themselves—this was not the time
when people were to be pinned down to eae faith
of others, and especially to that set of opinions with
which Mr. O'Rorke and his witnesses so much
sympath sed. If a person thought proper to leave
a religion in which he was brought up, he had a
perfect right to do so, and. when this had occurred
in the case of Protestants, the members of that com-
munion had never interfered with such a change.
In the present case this boy had a perfect right to
adopt whatever opinions he pleased in the same
way as a lady who lived in their own neighbour-
hood, and was brought up a Protestant, but after-
wards adopted Roman Catholicism. Mr. Seeds
went or. to state that it would be proved in evidence
that the story of the old woman, Nancy Costello,
was very far from the truth, with regard to every
one of the leading facts of the case, and when he
proved that, the bench would see that Mr. O'Rorke
kad been entirely misinformed.
Evidence was given to support Mr. Seed's state-
ment, and the document to which Mrs. Costello
affixed her mark was as follows :
"I hereby undertake and promise, that if my son, Alex.
Costello, returns to my house, he shall have my full liberty
to judge and act as his own conscience may direct on reli-
gious subjects, and I will neither persecute him myself, nor
suffer him to be unkindly treated, by any other person, on
account of any views he may form or hold on the subject of
religion. " AG.NES COSTELLO (x—her mark.)
"August 4, 1859."
Mr. Seeds then said he did not think it necessary
to produce further evidence, and would here close
the case.
After a few minutes delay,
Mr. Barnett delivered the judgment of the bench.
He said that the charges against Mrs. Kennedy,
Mrs. Hughes and John Wilson, who were charged
with an assault, were dismissed, and on the
same terms as the previous cases, viz., 7s. and
costs in each case. In the complaint against Nancy
Costello the Bench was unwiiling to bind her to
keep the peace towards her own son. He (Mr.
Barnett) was instructed to state to her that if she
did not leave that lad to act for himself and think
for himself--Lif she did not in all time to come allow
him to E,7,0 where he pleased without using towards
him any threatening language—this Court would
v'isit her with considerable severity. She might
not be in a position to procure bail, but if she shagain
broke the peace they would know to deal with her.
Mr. Birnie—She is already under a rule ofbail.
Mrs. Costello—l only wished him to make my
house his home, and I would be a good mother
him.
Mr. Barnett—You have shownthatyouhhaLe notter
been a good mother, for you have_ chastised_for.
The he should not have been chastised for.
The
eer chargesdiauenee
The same rule was made in
preferred by Alexander cestellot.he
then proceeded to leave the court in the greatest
state of excitement, but
Mr. Seed said—Your worship, as a protection for
this boy, who is now more than 17 years old, I
him with whom he wishes to go.
Costello—With Mr. White.
want to
Alexander askk
Mr. Seed—Very well; you will be secured pro-
tection.
The boy then, in company with some friends, pro-
t, when he was immediately
ceeded to leave the cour

assailed by his mother and an eider brother,
and at
length rescued by the police. Mr Seed again called
i
upon the protection of the Bench ; here, he said, n
their very presence an assault had been committed.
The Bench directed that Nancy Costello and her
son should be brought before them.
In the meantime Mr. O'Rorke pledged himself
that the offence would not be again committed.
Mr. Barnett said the Beech would take Mr.,
O'Rorke's word in the case, but he must say that
any attack were made upon the boy again they
would deal severely with the parties.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.

A shocking accident, which has created a pro-
found sensation among the principal families and
the district generally, occurred on Friday afternoon
to Mrs. Harrison, wife of Mr. George 'Harrison,
Secretary to the Monmouthshire Railway Compaq,
and resulted instantaneously in her death. ?he
deceased lady with her husband resided by the side
of the line, about a mile and a half from Newport,
being, as well as the other members of the family,
in the habit of walking upon it whenever occasion
required. In the course of the day indicated, Mrs_,'
Harrison and Mr. Harrison had been out a 811"`"
distance by train, and were returning upon foot
along the railroad. Mr. Harrison, who was
40 or
50 yards in advance, had taken a side footpath'
while his ill-fated wife was walking upon the "$ll
foot," as the space between the up and down lines
is termed. They were within about a quarter of a
mile of their house, on an embankment between the
Malpas and the Crindan cuttings, when a downtrain from Hereford, consisting of 14 or 15 trucks
laden with timber, came upon them. The speed
inconsiderable,
was not more than five or Si'six Inll7
an hour. The engineer perceived them at 150 yards
distance, and gave a loud and continuous whistle,
but without attracting the unfortunate lady's
Mr. Harrison also turned round and made then3°,s.l
energetic motions, without avail; however, ut
the train was within half a dozen yards, when she
suddenly appeared to be frightened, and jumped
from the " six foot," a place of comparative sare'rf
to the down-line, in front of the engine. One
°d
the buffers took the poor lady in the back al
.knocked her forwards and down, and thew tet
train passed over her with the exception of the Ire
car, or break van, which, being lower than tu,
noticei
others, caught up the body of the hapless deceased,
and in its wheels completed the disraemberin.en
of the. previously mangled corpse. Mr. Harrison
had in the meantime fallen to the ground insensible-
His wife's remains—remains they literally wer
to
were carefully collected, and conveyed in cloths
the Three Horse Shoes Inn, Malpas, where an
quest was opened on Saturday before Mr. W. a
Brewer, deputy coroner, the Rev. Francis Forma.,
being the foreman of the jury. The facts narrate
having been deposed' to, a verdict of accidental
killed was returned, and the engine-driver, Bach°
Sargeant, was exonerated from all blame.