The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-10-02 00:00:00

antipodes of theeurate. Crowds of our female parishioners
flocked to hear himi at first; because he was so odd-lOok-
; ing, xo expressive, then because he- preached so
! and at last, because they really thought that, after all,
there was something about him which it was quite ion-
possible to describe. As to the curate, he was all very
well ; but certainly, after all, there was no denying that
• —that in short the curate.wasn't a novelty, and the •other
clergyman was. The inconstancy of public opinion is
proverbial; the congregation migrated one by one; the
curate coughed till he was black in the face—it was-in
vain. He respired with difficulty—it was'equally in-
effectual in awakening sympathy. Seats are once again
to be had in any part of our parish 'church, and our cha-
pel
of ease is going to be enlarged, as it is crowded to
suffocation every Sunday!

THE CYCONNELL COMET.

TIIE LIVERPOOL STAN DA [U)

UNNECESSARY OATHS.

The new act for the abolition of unnecessary oaths comes into
operation to-morrow, and as no voluntary declaration will be
received by the magistrates except in the form prescribed by
the statute, without alteration or omission, because an indict-
ment could not be sustained for...making a false declaration, if
the prescribed form, were not strictly adhered to, it. may be use-
ful to present it to our readers :
"I, A. B. do solemnly and sincerely declare that
and I make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing
the same to he true, and by virtue of the provisions of an act
made and passed in the year of the reign of his present Ma-
jesty, intituled, 'An act to repeal an act of the present session
of parliament, intituled an act for the more effectual abolition
of oaths and affirmations taken and made in various depart-
ments of the state, and to substitute declarations in lieu thereof,
and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extra-judi-
cial oaths and affidavits; , and to make other provisions for the
abolition of unnecessary oaths.'
" Declared and subscribed at this- day of
1835, before me."
It is to be observed that the blank as to the year of the King's
reign is not.to be filled up by referring to the heads of the pages
of the act "sth and 6th Gulielmi IV., cap. 62." It would he
correct to say that the act was made and passed in the session
of Parliament, but to the particularyear in which the act was
made and passed; and as it received the royal, assent on the
9th of September, which day occurred in one and not in two
years of the King's reign, the blank must be filled up with the
word "sixth." And seeing that the bill was not concocted till
long after the sixth year of the King's reign had commenced, it
is puzzling to account for the blank having been left, it being a
matter.of certainty that the word sixth must be inserted.
• The 18th clause gives the magistrate unlimited discretion as to
the matters which may be declared before him. It recites that
it may be necessary and proper in many cases not enumerated
in the act to require coufirmatiun of written instruments, alle-
gations, proof of debts, execution of deeds and other matters.
It therefore anthorises the magistrate to receive a declaration
on those matters " in the form in the bc tied ule to this act an-
nexed, imnd if any declaration so made shall be false or untrue
in any material particular, the person wilfully making such
false declaration shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour."---
London paper.

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

Durand() saecula v cit."—Virgil.