Glasgow Courier. — 1861-03-28 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MARKIAIIF. LAW A MKNI,MKKI BBL.--The Lord Chancellor's Bill proposes to enact that in Ireland a marriage may be lawfully solemnised by a Roman Catholic priest between a Roman Catholic and a Protestant, provided three weeks' notice begiven to the registrar of marriages, and provided the marriage is solemnised between eight clock and two, in the pre'once of two witnesses, in a Roman Catholic church in the registrar's district. But a mixed marriage is still to be void if both parties know that these provisions are not observed.  At Alford, last week, a man who had wagered to eat three pennyworth of soft biscuits in five minutes, was suffocated to death whilst eating the sixth. It is said that the body of the Duke of Kent will hereafter be removed to the mausoleum at Froginore, to lie with the body of the Duchess of Kent. A noble duke, °nee Secretary for War and the Colonies, and now more happily necretary for one of those departments, is not considered to he gifted with an original and inventive mind. Yet he in pointed out by common report OA the mucconsor to Lord Canning firstly, because you must have some one; and, secondly, because you must have a lord. —London Bruiruy. The Duchess of Kent was in the room in which she conducted her correspondence, familiarly known an her writing-room, when she was seized with the attack which was the precursor of her death. Her attendants conveyed her to a large couch or sofa in her bedroom, where she remained till she died. The fit of rigour was succeeded by • stupor, from which it was almost impossible to rouse the sufferer. Court Journal.  Mrs }trough, the Prince of Wales' nurse, who murdered several of her children at Esher, some six years ago, died the other day at Bethlehem Hospital, where she hail been confined eversince her trial. It will be remembered that this wretched weman was acquitted on the ground of insanity On Monday evening fifty-eight mon were appre• heisted by the Manchester Police atone effort, for being engaged in a (log fight. The Budget has been arranged satisfactorily, it is said, and Mr Gladstone and his friends have given way to the majority, so that there will be no paper tax reduction, and the Government will meek the goodwill of the country by a reduction of the income tax a penny. There has been a serious disturbance again at the Post Office, and the officials threatened a strike if, once for all, justice were not dealt out to them; so :overnment ,A as forced into a concession at last, which has now mut with approval, and settled this moot point finally. The Education Commissioners' Report is now completed by the printers, and copies will be delivered to members of Parliament before the Easter recess. The appendices are not quite ready, but will be placed in the hands of both Houses on reassembling. The whole publication extends over many volumes, and the commissioners' own report extends over six or seven hundred pages.  The (London) Guardian, which is understood to speak with authority on all matters relating to Mr Muintone's connection with thetiniversity of Oxford, throws discredit upon the statement that the right hon. gentleman is disposed to abandon his Alma Mater. Our contemporary states that "no deputations from South Lancruiliire have seen or proposed to see the ChancoUor of the Exchequer, and that no ques tion has been put or answer given between any such deputation and him; nor is he a party to any pro• °eroding* that may have been taken in that quarter."  EXTRA Olt IIINA ItY