The Alexandria Herald

The English marriage act seems to have excited the scorn and contempt of all parties. Those who can agree in nothing else, unite in endeavouring to render its provisions ridiculous and detested.

The marriage notices which have been exhibited on the doors of the churches in the metropolis have been pulled down during the night-and as the act requires that they shall remain stuck up during a certain period, many lovers have taken serious alarm lest their marriages should be rendered invalid.

But the greatest annoyance has occurred to that valuable and most respectable class of the community--the old maids. The act requires that not only the grosser but the fair sex shall be catechized, and make affidavit as well of their respective residence, as of what all things is most provoking-their ages-preparatory to entering their names for banns in the church. On a recent occasion, a group of mischievous young men were heard hovering at the town hall at Liverpool, bandying their jokes at the mature lily-faced damsels approached to kiss the book: and the editor of the Advertiser seems to think that the act should be entitled "An act to increase the fees to the clerks of justices and the parish, and to prevent matrimony by unnecessary delay and expense!"