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the' emblem of plighted -hearts ^ thout a violation of the dictates © fcot * scieWce /' Perfect order and regularity were main . * tainedj aud great cheerfulness and unanimity were displayed throughout the evening . The party , which was large , broke up about half-past ten o ' clock . *
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JtfNE 19 . Unitarian Marriage Bill . Mr . W . Smith moved the third reading of the Dissenters' Marriage Bill . Sir Thomas D . Acland declared , that , in the observations he was about to make , nothing was further from his intention than to throw any impediment in the way of his Honourable Friend , as
to the attainment of his object . But this Bill , in its present form , had introduced a new principle , different from that upon which the Dissenters' Marriage Bill , formerly brought in by his Hon . Friend , had proceeded . The present Bill proposed to treat marriage as a civil contract only . Now , not only did the general feeling of this country , as well as
the ritual of the Established Church , consider it as a religious contract , but it had been so declared to be , for he ( Sir T . Acland ) would not now enter upon the discussion of the religious bearings of the question , by some of the highest legal authorities in the kingdom , particularly by Sir William Scott , who , about twenty years ago , in a speech delivered by him on the Adultery Bill ; and again , in his celebrated judgment in the case of
• ' Dalrymple v . Dalrymple , " recorded his conviction that it partook both of a civil and a religious nature . After suggesting that it might be possible to make very expedient regulations for the registry of such marriages , &c , the Honourable Ba ronet proposed that the third reading of the Bill should be taken on Thursday next , which would allow time for obtaining farther suggestions on these heads , and for ascertaining the opinion
* In the preceding account we have made free use of the Reports of the proceedings df the Association given in ihe World weekly newspaper of the 7 th and 21 st of Juwe , adding aud altering in some instances Troinbui' own notes taken at they . tiwtv Th © World is a newspaper cAuxJwoted with considerable talent , and aiming , f , Ougive full reports of the pron coeUiwgs . of i ? € llgiou 8 bodies . It i& therefore well entitled to the encouragement oi ) snutome ^ QciMiouft ^ who- wishitoi ihM e thtiin < wvanurea «> aad& publics ,, 11 > . » u \ . /;< u
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of the Honse on ) that' principle of the BH 1 which he thought so objectionable . ' Mr . W . Smith contended that the Bill only restored the Marriage Law ' as it existed previous to the pacing of Lord Hardwicke ' s Act , in 1752 , whea marriage among the Dissenters ? was Merely a civil coutract . If he thought he could
obtain one vote more , or neutralize any hostility against the Bill , by postponing it , he would be satisfied < to do so , as he would rather carry the opinion of the House with him , than carry his Bill now by ten to one . But as he thought he could do no good by deferring ft , and as the session was far advanced , he felt it his duty to press the Bill forward *
Sir C . Wetherell opposed the Bill , on the ground that it was an outrageous violation of the ceremonies practised by the Established Church , and an imitation of the revolting ceremonies of Cromwell and Petion . The Bill would be , he conceived , a great assistance to the performance of clandestine marriages . Mr . Hudson Gurney defended the
Bill , and expressed his belief , that as few evils arose out of a system of £ ivil as out of a system of religious marriage * Dr . Phillimore supported the Bill , and coutended , that it would give no greater privileges than were now enjoyed by the whole people of Scotland , i He adverted to certain Catholio countries
where the intervention of a Priest' was not always necessary . In those Catholic countries , when the Council of Trent was not admitted , marriages * formed without such intervention , were to all intents and purposes valid . Hfe agreed ; that it was certainly convenient and proper to
have all marriages registered in the parochial books . After adverting to the different modes that had been at various times proposed by the Honourable Member for Norwich , he observed that he preferred the one now proposed by him , and he did not think the House could act
with consistency , and decline to support the Bill . Mr . Estcourt said , that as such amendments had been made in this Bill as protected the consciences of the Established Clergy , he could no longer oppose it . He thought , however , it would be desirable that it should not be pressed forward this session .
Mr . R . Grant professed himself friendly to the principle ofr this Bill . He conscieaftiousfyi differed : from . the creed i of the Otefledrters ^ but thought their scruples entitled to . consideration and ( 'Legislative relief ., He > knew I of ! no . < inconvenience aming fuomnthe practice of ( Roman Cathalicg atid-Dkaseiftcrg iu Ireland solemn
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1827, page 548, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1798/page/76/
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