30 MARCH 1844, Page 7

The agitation about the marriage-question in the North of Ireland

grows more formidable daily. At one of the meetings, in Newry, on Tuesday, a Reverend Mr. White remarked that the adverse decision rested upon a musty Saxon document a thousand years old. " It would seem as if they saw we did not participate in the cry raised against the Saxons, and therefore they rake up papers a thousand years old, to make us hate Saxon laws, and Saxon justice, and every thing Saxon."