The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-07-04 00:00:00

Varltanuntarp Vrortf..bin

HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY

The Princess of Augusta's Annuity Bill was passed.
Lord CorreNHAM then moved for a select committee
to inquire into the operation of the Bankruptcy Act of
last session. The noble lord spoke at great length on the
evils which that act produced, by allowing the effects of
bankrupts to be administered in some instances at 70 or
100 miles away from the residence of the bankrupt and his
creditors, leading to enormous expense and prejudicing
smaller creditors to the benefit of the larger.
The Lord CHANCELLOR opposed the motion, on the
ground that it was taking the measure out of the hands
of the government before sufficient time was given to
judge by experience of its expediency. The motion was
premature, and he trusted their lordships would not agree
to it. Formerly the power of the commissioners extended
forty miles round London, and so beneficial was its oper-
ation found to be that it was deemed expedient to extend
the sphere of its activity. There were doubtless oppo-
nents to this plan, because it displaced 700 commissioners,
and also had various other interests to oppose it, all of
whom had it view that the old system should be re-esta-
blished. At present he, in conjunction with those who
were acting with him, was endeavouring to meet every
difficulty and to remedy every abuse as it betrayed itself
in the working of the bill.
After a few words from Lord BROUGHAM and other
peers, the motion was negatived.

On the motion of the Earl of ABERDEEN the house re-
solved itself into committee on the Scotch Church Bill.
Lord CAMPBELL complained that the bill in its present
shape was far more objectionable than it was when first
presented to the house, and if it should pass it would
prove the ruin of the Church of Scotland. The bill was
a declaratory one, and he hoped the noble lord would not
compel a majDrity of the house to vote that to be law
which was not law. He moved as an amendment that
the words " declared and " be omitted.
The Lord CHANCELLOR supported the bill, which was
not, he contended, open to the greater part of the ob-
jections urged by his noble and learned friend (Lord
Cottenham.) The question before the house was one of
Scotch law relating to the Church of Scotland, and upon
which, therefore, the opinion of Scotch lawyers should
have great weight. The bill had been therefore sub-
mitted to Lord Justice Clerk, to the Judge Advocate,
and the Solicitor-General, who were of opinion that the
bill was only declaratory of the law of Scotland, and was
in no wise at variance with the judgment in the Auchter-
arder case. Upon a question of Scotch law he was very
diffident in giving a decided opinion unless he heard it
argued, but he was content to rest his opinion upon that
of the very high Scotch authorities to whom he had re-
ferred, and whose weight fully justified his noble friend in
pressing the persent measure, which he hoped would not
be opposed by their lordships.
Lord DENMAN said that the grounds upon which it was
proposed to pass this declaratory law appeared to him to
be in the highest degree alarming, for it went to declare
that to be law which the highest judicial court in the
kiogdom declared not to be law. There could be no
necessity to declare such an untruth, and he protested
against the whole proceedings, for it appeared that the
law was to be superseded by private declarations made
by Scotch judges to the government. When the Lord
Chancellor declined to give his own opinion upon this
question, surely in the face of that fact they could not
think of declaring that to be the law to which the highest
legal authority would not venture to pledge his pro-
fessional character.

THE COURT.

MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS AUGUSTA.

The marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess
Augusta, eldest daughter of his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge, with his Royal Highness Frederick, the
Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, was
solemnized on Wednesday evening, with great splendour
in the Chapel Royal, Buckingham Palace.
The Ambassadors, Foreign Ministers, Cabinet Minis-
ters, and members of the Administration, began to arrive
at eight o'clock, and assembled in the library. Their
Excellencies appeared in their respective diplomatic cos-
tumes ; the Lord Chancellor wore his gold State robe,
the Duke of Wellington his Field Marshal's uniform, with
the Riband and George of the most noble Order of the
Garter (the latter set in brilliants), and the ensigns of the
Golden Fleece; Sir R. Peel, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord
Stanley, Sir J. Graham, Mr. Gladstone, Earl of Aber-
deen, and Sir E. Knatchbull, wore the full dress official
costume; the Earl of Haddington, a Lord Lieutenant's
uniform, with the ensigns of the most illustrious Order of
St. Patrick.

The Dukes of Beaufort and Devonshire, the supporters
of the Royal bridegroom, appeared—the former in a yeo-
manry uniform, and wearing the ensigns of the Garter ;
and the latter in his Lord-Lieutenant's uniform, and
wearing the collar and star (the latter set in diamonds) of
the Order of the Garter, and the Collar of another order
of knighthood.

Their Serene Highnesses Prince Peter and the Princess
of Oldenburg, his Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand
Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, the Crown Prince of
Wurtemberg, and his Majesty the King of Hanover, ar-
rived about eight o'clock.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta arrived at a
quarter before nine o'clock, accompanied by their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince
George and the Princess Mary. The Princess was at-
tended by the Baroness de Normann. The Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge were attended by Lady Augusta
Somerset, Baron Knesebeck, and Major Stephens.
The Royal Bride's dress was of very handsome Brussels
point lace over white satin, looped on each shoulder with
bouquets of orange blossoms, diamonds, and sapphires,
and very elegantly ornamented in front with a border of
orange blossoms and silver ; the train (of Spitalfields
manufacture) was of the richest white satin and silver
tissue, and was most tastefully trimmed down the sides
and at the bottom with festoons of orange flowers, finished
with a raised border of silver. It had an edging of deep
point of lace, having the orange flower in the pattern.
The Princess wore on her head a wreath composed of
orange flowers and myrtle, and a tiara of sapphires and
diamonds, and was covered with a very large and most
beautiful veil of point lace, remarkable alike for its size
and the elegance of its design. The lace handkerchief
carried by her Royal Highness was a present from her
august uncle, the King of Hanover. Of its kind it is
perfectly unique, from the great beauty and costliness of
the material. The initials of the Princess, 'urmounted
by a coronet, had been introduced in the design. Her
Royal Highness wore a necklace of brilliants. The sto-
macher was of sapphires and diamonds, and ear-rings en
suite.