MISCELLANEOUS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1586, 28 May 1861, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

A painful impression was produced in the Stock Exchange on Friday, by the announcement of the failure of an old' member, Mr. Henry Levvare. The defaulter has obtained from various membears loans io the extent of about £55©,000, of which £10,000 or £11,000 is stated lo be wholly unsecured, the money having been borrowed merely upon his 1 O Us.—T he Lord Chancellor Marriage Law Amendment Bill, proposed to enact that in Ireland marriages may be lawfully solemnised by a Roman Catholic priest between Catholics and Protestants, provided three weeks' notice be given' to the registrar of the-mar-riages, aud provided tho marriage is solemnised belweeu-eight ancl two o'clok,

in the presence of two witnesses, ma, Roman Catholic- Church, iv the Regis- 1 . trar-'s.jtdi^tfjot j. but a marriage is still to be ybid ifb'bth parties know that these

'provisions uro not observed. A clause is added enacting that no Catholic priest shall be subject to any punishment, pain, or penalty, for solemnising a marriage undor this Bill; — Three cominittcos of investigati mi have been appointed by the] Mouse of Commons to inquire into the working and management of the Colonial / C)fii_e, Admiralty, and the diplomatic services. — The Mouse of. Lords has cpu- ■ (irmed the judgment against tho validity 'of a marriage with a deceased wife's sister, performed abroad, the marriage beiug declared void wherever it may be solemnised. Obituary. — Duchess of Kem, Duke of Sutherland, Countess of linden, Lord 'Mil ford, Colonel Wrottesley, Sir George Cowper, Sir W. Payne, Sir T. B. Lovell. j