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    < centralization' is create 4 of a different , but scarcely a beiter kk < J * $# i > that vyhich Napoleoo esUjtbli ^ bed in France . Mr . Brougham ' s Marriage Bill vyill , we preiiutte , eupers ^ Je ^ unfortunate abortion produced by Lpr 4 Jpln Re sell . It is an ug ! pror £ - nient upon its predecessor , bujt it goes a very little way Ipwaria placing that important contract on Us true foiipdatipn . TV validity of tie crv ^ T engagement is still to depend upon the performance ^ of a religious cere * mony , by a recognised Minister of some , though it may now be a Dissenting , sect , "flie Bill merely proyides for registering the perform * ance of the religious ceremony , Tiiis imperfect measure may satisfy the consciences and stay the

    clamour of a large portion of the Pissenters ; but it is impossible that such a settlement can be final . Tfre following intelligence , which we extract from a Nottingham paper , and which is not the first pf ifs kincj , i $ an & £ ~ ample of the opinions and feelings which &re growing up in the country on this subject :

    At Laurence-street chapel , Birmingham , on Sunday last , after theserrice was over , the congregation was desired to stay , when four Di * sent * r « took the marriage affair into their own hands , in a very short manner * Charles Bradley rose up and read the following document ;

    '' Before this congregation , I , Charles Bradley , jun . give you , Emma Harris , this ring to wear as a memorial of our marriage , and this written pledge stamped with the impressions of the United Rights of Man and Woman , declaring X will be your faithful husband from this time forward . " ( Signed ) Charles Uradley , jun /*

    * Emma Harris then in turn read as follows : — '" Before this congregation I , Emma Harris , receive this ring to wear at a memorial of our marriage , and give you , Charles Bradley , jun , this written pledge , stamped with the impressions of the United Jttights of ] &an an < J Woman , declaring I will be your faithful wife from this time henceforward . ' " ( Signed ) Emma ftabius :

    ' The same ceremony was gone through by Roger Hollirsworth and Mary Louisa Bradley , after which the papers were signed by several witnesses , and thus the marriage contract was made without the intervention of either pries or clerk . It should never be forgotten that two sisters , who married without a priest at Calverton , were incarcerated in the county jail of Nottingham , by the unrelenting severity of the ecclesiastical court , for more than twelve years They were released in 1798 . We opine * that the ecclesiastical court will ooi serve Mrs . Bradley and Airs . Hollinjworth in the same way /

    17 IA May . Sir Edward KnaichbulVt Beer Bill . —It is scarcely credible that ! in the second year after Parliamentary Reform , the reformed Parliament should , by an immense majority , be actually setting'itself to undo what a Tory Parliament had done towards the enfranciuaement of the working classes ; reirnposing that censorship over the social enjoyments of the rural population , which public indignation at the purposes to which U was perverted , had wrung out of the hands of the county magistracy , to wnorn it is now again proposed to be confide ^ under another najne and with a different machinery . Sir Edward Knatchbull ' s proposal is to make the opening of a beeij house depend upon the production of certificates from nix ten « pounjl

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    Mr . Brougham ' s Bilk fOP a Registry vf Births , fyc . 44 ?

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1834, page 447, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2634/page/65/