Lord Chief Justice Cockburn.

"Doubtless it was very gratifying to our national pride to be told that a higher standard of morals prevailed in this country than could be found elsewhere; but surely it could not be denied that the rules of chastity were as strictly observed in the North of Germany, page 15 Switzerland, and the United States of America, as they were in England. He was entitled to say that the evils anticipated from permitting these marriages here had not manifested themselves in those countries, for, if they had, the law which had authorized them would not have been suffered to continue for twelve months."