To Correspondents.

New Zealander, Volume 10, Issue 865, 29 July 1854, Page 2

To Correspondents.

‘ A Citizen’s” Letter on the Marriage Bill must share the fate of several communications which we would most willingly insert, but for which we cannot find room during the present unexampled demands on our space. Wc will spare a line or two, however, to intimate, with all courtesy to our correspondent, flint, on the subject on which he writes, he seems to have just that “little learning” which is proverbially “a dangerous thing.” It so happens that the very provisions which he singles out as objectionable and “ revolutionary” in the “ New Marriage Bill,” are taken almost verbatim from the existing Law of the Colony, into which most of them were transferred with but slight alteration from the Law of England! As to the publication of Banns, the Bill docs not propose either to enjoin or to discountenance it, hut simply leaves that as one amongst the various ecclesiastical arrangements which may, or may not. he adopted by each Beligious Body’at its discretion —with regard to the members of its own communion.