The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-28 00:00:00

IN RE SAUNDERS.

The bankrupt was an engineer at Brixton.
Mr. WILT IN now applied that the trade assignee
might be removed.
Mr. DUNCAN, who appeared on behalf of the as-
signee, Mr. Hoskins, said he would offer no oppositicn
to the proposal.
His HoNouit made an order accordingly.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, March 27.
(Before Mr. Commissioner LAW.)
His Honour sat to-day to clear the paper of the
arrears, and, on rising, his Court adjourned with the
other ourts for the holidays.
IN RE ISAI.kII HENRY COHEN.
This insolvent, who was a tailor and china and
glass dealer, in Blackmore-street, Drury-lane, was
• opposed by Mr. Cooke for Messrs. Bower, Messrs.
' F ell, and Messrs. Todd. He was supported by Mr.
Lucas.

The complaint on the part of the creditors was,
that the insolvent had obtained goods from them in
a fraudulent manner, and had made away with the
same. The case occupied the Court till a late hour
on Tuesday in consequence of the evidence given.
The debts of the insolvent, which were contracted in
a short period, exceeded 5001., and the material
question was the disposition of the goods obtained
from the creditors. He had a shop in Blackmore-
street, and a warehouse in the neighbourhood, where
he deposited goods, and which goods it was alleged
had been made away with. The insolvent had lately
been, as he alleged, a shopman to an earthenware
dealer in the Lower Marsh, Lambeth. It was urged
against the insolvent, that he had conducted himself
in a most fraudulent manner, and for the protection of
4,- trade an exemplary judgment was prayed.
Mr. Commissioner Law considered that it was a
rt,ivery serious case of fraud. Both complaints had been
established, namely, fraudulently getti❑g the goods,
and then fraudulently making away with them. His
Honour adjudged the insolvent for his fraudulent
conduct to an inapiisnument for tv.-enty calendar
months from the vesting order, which was made a
month ago.
The insolvent was removed to prison to undergo
the judgment.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
)•• •NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, March 2;.
CROWN CO URT.— (B-2fore Mr. Baron ALDERSON.)
• EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

The Rev. Aloorhouse James, perpetual curate Of

Redford, in the parish of Leigh, in this county, was
incliCred for having, on the 14th of August last, un-
lawfuliy refused to marry Henry Fisher and Ann
Hardman, on the production of the certificate of the
superintendent-registrar of the district that they had
. given the requisite notices, and complied with the
forms of the Act of Parliament in that behalf. The
defendant, who had surrendered to his bail, and who

sat near his counsel, pleaded Not Guilty.
. Ur. it: nowles, Q.C., Attorney-General for the

county Palatine, and Mr. Crompton prosecuted; and
Mr. Bliss, Q.C., appeared for the defence.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in opening the case, said
this was an indictment charging the defendant, a
clergyman of the Church of England, with a misde-
meanour in refusing to solemnize a marriage between
vvo.persons who had presented themselves to him for
that purpose, and who had previously complied with
, the, requirements of the Marriage Act (6 and 7
William IV., c. 85), and had obtained a certificate
from the superintendent-registrar of the district in the
• -place of banns. The case was one of some importance,
• not on account of any special difficulties which it
might involve, because he believed when the point
was fairly looked at, it would not be found to involve
any, but because he was informed that the defendant
and other clergymen had conscientious scruples as to
the line of duty which they were called on to follow ;
and it was therefore desirable that those scruples
should be settled by the right interpretation of the
law, and the defendant and others would then, no
doubt, act according to what was decided to be the
law. Until 14 or 15 years age the mode in which
Marriages were solemnized in this country was regu-
lated by an Act of Parliament passed in the reign of
• 'George 11. (26th of George IL, c. 33), and under the
. prOvislons of that Act all parties except Jews and
Quaker's might not then, as now, be married accord-
ing to their own usages, but they were required to be
married in some church or chapel either by banns or
by licence. By special licence or dispensation parties
might be harried in any place convenient. Some
classes of Dissenters found this a grievance. They
were not members of the Church of England, and
:perhaps had no very great fondness for any of its forms,
and they were anxious to be able to marry in their
own way, in their own chapels, and according to the
forms oI their own churches ; and for the purpose of
removing that glievance, and for other considerations,
an Act of Parliament was. pasaed 14 or 15 years ago
which introduced very great alterations indeed in the
_ mode by which marriages were then, and may now
be, celebrated, and at the same time an Act of Par-
liament was passed which provided for the better re-
gistration of marriages, births, and deaths. By the
last-named Act a registrar, a deputy-registrar, and a
superintendent-registrar were to be appointed, and for
• the purpose of marrying in many cases the Legisla-
ture availed itself of this new machinery, and allowed
• parties, if they chose, to be married before the super-
• intendant-registrar of the district. They might also
he married in their own chapels on following the
forms pointed out by the Act of Parliament. The old
forms were, of course, preserved in the church, and
parties might still be married by licence or banns in
church, and many respectable Dissenters still pre-
ferred to be married in the church, in face of the
church, and by a . clergymau of the Established
Church ; and he should have thought that it would
have been wise in any clergyman rather to foster than
to stifle that feeling.; for he did think it was
worthy of grave consideration for clergymen to en-
courage persons to go to church for any purpose,
rather than to close the doors upon them and expel
them. As the law now stood, if a person were minded
not to be married by banns or licence, the mode of
proceeding was this :—he was required to go to the
superintendent-registrar of the district, and to give
entice under his hand, according to the form given in
• the 'schedule of the Act of Parliament, in which
he specified his condition in life, rank,' or profession,
his age, dwelling. place, and length of residence in it,
• and then came a very important requisition as re-
garded this case, that he should state the building,
church or chapel, in which he wished the marriage
•to be celebrated. This was entered in a book called
" the marriage entry-book," and, after the expiration
of twenty-one days, during which period this notice
was hung up in the superintendent-registrar's-office,
and read at the meetings of the board of guardians of
the poor, the superintendent-registrar was required to
issue a certificate under his hand, which was also to
be in another form given in the schedule of the sta-
tute, in which must be stated the rank, age, dwelling-
place) and building, church or chapel, in which the