London, Wednesday, April ...
The Paris journals of Sunday arrived last night. The most im- portant feature of their contents-the discussion in thc Chamber of Deputieson Saturday relative to the reduction of the five per cents._- was described in our paper of yesterday : but there occurred in the sante sitting a proceeding which deserves to be briefly noticed. A report wvas made on two petitions from a Sieur DELOS CLE, of Bor. deaux, who prayed, Ist, that a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mlary, and corsecrated to Madame the Duchess of Angoulex e, should be built; 2d, that in the celebration of marriage, the religious cere. niony of the Church should precede that which takes place before the civil magistrate. The committee proposed the order of the day on both petitions, and this recommendation was readily adopted with reeard to the first. On the second,bowever,some discussion arose: All. de BLAN GY moved that the petitionibereferred tothe Minister of the Intexior; and Al. REBOUL, that it also be referred to the Bureau des Renseignments. Al. MECicHi and Ill. de GI RARDIX objecte4 to these references. The former observed, that the decision of the Chamber might induce some persons to consider the religious cere- mony sufficient. and to neglect the civil contract, which would probably occasion much trouble and confusion in families. The latter resisted the references, on the ground that the Charter secured liberty of worship to all sects; and as a consequenye of that liberty, the law required that a civil contract should precede any religious ceremony which the parties might chloose to superadd. He deprecated the alarm whiclh would be the resiult of the Chamber showing a dis- position to favour petitions of this description. These objections were received with tiiurmurs; a motion for passing to the order of tite day was rejected by a great majority; and the references proposed byMA1. BLAN-GY and RE1OUL ordered. LONDON. IWEDNTESDAY, APRIL 28, 182t