That Irregular Marriages cost nothing (!!).

That they are diminishing in number, and may therefore be trusted, in course of time, to exhaust themselves (!!!).

That they act, on certain occasions, in the capacity of a moral trap to catch a profligate man (!!!!).

Such is the elevated point of view from which the Institution of Marriage is regarded by some of the most pious and learned men in Scotland.

A legal enactment providing for the sale of your wife, when you have done with her, or of your husband; when you "really can't put up with him any longer," appears to be all that is wanting to render this North British estimate of the "Estate of Matrimony" practically complete.