To the Editor of the Nonra-Cuma Daly News, Sm,—I have read with much interest the lucid article on Marriages in China in your issue of the29ch ultimo. Your editorial utterances are so widely read and carry 80 much weight, that I think it would be well to point out that Vice-Consuls and Pro-Consuls have not, as your article states, authority to solenmise Consular" mar-nages. If any one of them were to take upon himself to perform such " function, it would be followed by much grief both to him and te the Indy and gentleman who fondly and wrongly imagined that they had been united in holy matrimony. "What the above-mentioned Consular officers can Inw-fully do, is to register a marriage which has taken place in their presence and. is valid according tu t'.e /ex loci.
Tam, ete., A Consvn.
2ud April.
[By the warrants lately issued, " Vice-Consuls, Acting-Consuls, and even Consuls' are now empowered to sclemnise marriages," if they are in charge at the time and the paragraph in our leading article referred tu above should have been qualified with these words.—Ep.}
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