As for its effects, in so far as involved in MR. BRETT'S Query, no such provision exists, or ever did exist, in the Scotch law of marriage, as that children, to be legitimatised _per subsequens matrimonium_, must be under their mother's apron strings. In its effects, as well as in its constitution, the contract of marriage in Scotland is ruled by the principles of the civil law; and _all_ the children of the spouses, born before marriage, are legitimated _per subsequens matrimonium_, whether, at the time the ceremony is performed, they be "under the apron strings" or not. The old theory was, that marriage being a consensual contract, the constitution of the rights and obligations arising from it drew back to the date of the consent; which, in the case of parties who had previously had connexion, was presumed in law to be the date of the connexion. This theory has of late been somewhat impaired by the decision of the Court of Session, in the case of Kerr _v._ Martin. See Dunlop Bell and Murray's _Reports of Cases decided in the Court of Session_, vol. ii. p. 752. The soundness of that decision is still matter of controversy in the profession; but I may refer MR. BRETT to it as containing a full and able discussion of the whole principles on which the Scotch law of marriage is founded. AN ADVOCATE. I remember that my brother, when curate of a parish in Lincolnshire between 1838 and 1844, married a woman enveloped only in a sheet. He was of course startled at the slenderness of her apparel; but as all the requisitions of the law had been complied with, he did not feel himself at liberty to refuse. He contented himself, therefore, with addressing the numerous congregation on the behaviour he expected from them at a religious ordinance, and all went off well. The reason for the bride so presenting herself, was of course the popular opinion, that her new husband would not be liable for her debts. ANON. * * * * * PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES. _Mr. Weld Taylor's Process._--As I presume the object of publishing Photographic Notes, &c., is to aid those who are _not proficients_ in the processes indicated, MR. WELD TAYLOR must not take umbrage at his first communication being misunderstood, whether unavoidably or wilfully, as I am sure the former must have been the case with all novices in the photographic art at least; however, I had no intention whatever of offering any annoyance to MR. TAYLOR in my remarks, which were intended solely with a view to produce an effect which has partially been successful, that of exciting a more definite explanation of his meaning. That MR. WELD TAYLOR may "enlighten" me is not only possible, but very probable, and I can only say I shall be much obliged to him for so doing.