27 AUGUST 1870, Page 3

We are informed that our article of last week on

"Civil Marriage in Ireland" would have been true a month since, but is not true now. A Bill to remedy the very evils complained of and others was introduced into the Commons a fortnight before the close of the Session, and having been framed by Mr. Chichester Fortescue in concert with Dr. Ball, Sir R. Palmer, and Lord O'Hagan, passed without opposition and almost in silence. Sec- tion 41 of this Act, called 33 and 34 Vict., chap. 110, provides -expressly for marriages among Plymouth Brethren and other sects not having Ministers or Chapels. The civil registrar is to adver- tise such marriages twice in the principal local paper, as the easiest form of giving notice.