The Sun. — 1862-07-05 (London, England)

WORD UPON THE ROYAL MARRIAGE ACT.— The protests of the peers against this measure should be studied from generation to generation till the Royal Marriage Act is repealed. The two chief • grounds of protest are that the Act violates the great laws of Nature, in the first place, and constitutional principle in the next. It was called from the beginning• an " Act for the Encouragement of Royal Vice and Immorality ;" and there was no less objection to the unconstitutional powers which it gave to the Sovereign first, and to Parliament afterwards, by which the succession was en-. dangered, and every preparation was made for future discord and disorder. The act comprehended all the descendants of George 11., except the offspring of princesses married to foreign potentates ; and as there were then 30,000 persons in England, from the peer to the chimney sweep, who had royal blood in their veins, this law gave the Sovereign power over the domestic destiny of an incalculable and everincreasing number of his subjects. It was declared to be a radical vice in the law that it imposed no restraint on the marriage of the reigning Sovereign, or of any Regent who should have reached to age of 21. It was declared monstrous that Royal princes should not be of age, in regard to marriage, till '25 ; and that then they must depend on Parliament for permission to marry, and must wait a full year from the time of petitioning, for the chance of a prohibition by the legislature. Every effort was made to obstruct the passage of the law ; the records of the Peers were ransacked ; the Judges were invoked ; all the forms of both houses were made use of to obtain delay ; but the King put forth his resources also ; and by moral and political violence, the bill was carried in six weeks. At the conclusion of the protest of the nine lords, they claim to be for ever regarded as free from responsibility for the disorders and sorrows which could not but arise from the operation of such a law. Some of them lived to witness what they had foretold ; but the King and Queen themselves had to endure the worst of the retribution, in the spectacle of the corruption and blight which they had inflicted on their own children.— Once a Week.  SUICIDE WITH OXALIC AClD.—Yesterday morning a shocking act of self. destruction was committed by Eleanor Hawks, aged 40 years, the wife of a mariner, under the following circumstances. The deceased had teen F operated from her husband and lived in the vicinity of Limehouse, while the latter took up his abode at Green's Sailors' Home, East India-road, Poplar. On Wednesday deceased had been out drinking, and returned home at a late hour in a state of intoxication. At an early ! hour yesterday a groaning noise was heard in her room, and i when one of the lodgers went to her sleeping apartment she was discovered lying on the bed in a state of great agony. 1 Search was made, and two papers were found labelled "Oxalic acid, poison," and " Red precipitate powder." No  time was lost in removingthe deceased in a cab to the London Hospital, where antidotes were administered, but notwithstanding all efforts to save her life, she expired.