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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3630, 14 August 1880, Page 2

A bill has been introduced into the English House of Commons to give effect to a scruple often felt by the clergymen of the Church of England when they are compelled to marry persons who hare been previously divorced. By the proposed measure it is to be enacted that no clergy* man in holy orders shall be compelled to solemnise, or to permit the church or. chapel over which he is the presiding minister to be used for the purpose of solemnising the marriage of any person who; having formerly been married and has been legally divorced, as long as the former husband or wife of such person shall be living. At the present moment when other countries are tending towards the legislation of divorce notwithstanding the clerical objection to it, it is strange that a bill should be introduced into the English Parliament to restrain the rights of divorced persons, and this is done out of defection to the feelings of a section of the Church of England which does not usually obtain much consider* tion. It is the High Church party which treat marriages as a sacrament so holy as to be indissoluble bjr the civil powers; and it will to some extent cripple the civil authority if the concession the church now Mies for is given it.

The bride who sings, "Do they misi me at home ?" is unreasonable. They speak of her as Mrs now.

Many capitalists desire to be under* rated only by the tax collector.