Saturday 15 Feb 1845 (p. 2, col. 8) A GRETNA GREEN MARRIAGE.-Windsor, Friday.-Yesterday morning, John BARRON, 19 years of age, a private in the regiment of Royal Horse Guards, (Blue,) stationed at Windsor, was charged by the parish officers, before Thomas CLARKE, Esq., (mayor,) and Robert TIBBOTT, Esq., with having deserted his wife, who had, since the 16th of last month, become chargeable to the parish of New Windsor. The defendant, accompanied by the corporal-major of his troop, stated, at the outset of the proceedings, that the marriage, which took place at Gretna Green, was not a legal marriage, and that the female, therefore, was no wife of his. The wife replied, that they were married at a public-house at Gretna Green, upwards of two years' ago; that, as her husband was a Catholic, he had spoken to a priest on the subject, who told him he could not be better married, and that no man on earth could part them. Mary Ann BARRON (the wife) was then sworn. She stated that she was married to the defendant, at Gretna Green, in September, 1842, by a publican named Thomas LITTLE, and that the ceremony was precisely the same as she had seen it performed in England by a regular clergyman, neither more nor less. Mr. TURPIN, the vestry clerk, proved that the wife of the defendant had been in the weekly receipt of three shillings and two loaves of bread, since the 16th of last month, and put in the marriage certificate, which he had obtained from the "officiating minister," the publican, Thos. LITTLE, of Gretna Green. The certificate, which was a printed form, on half a sheet of letter paper, the blanks filled up with names, places, and dates, in written hieroglyphics, (not very easily to be deciphered, and the words curiously spelt,) ran as follows. The "written introductions" we have printed in italics:- "Kingdom Scotland, county of Dumfries, parish of Gretna. "These are to certify to all whom they may concern; that John BARRAN from the parish of Nuestal, in the county of Durham, and Mary Ann MABORN from the parish of Haton, in the county of Cumberland, being now both here present, and having declared to me that they are single persons, have now been married after the manner of the laws of the church of England, and agreeably to the laws of Scotland. As witness our hands at Gretna, this day of September, 27, 1842. "JOHN BARRON, "MARY ANN MEABORN. Witnesses { "Wellem IRVING, { "Jane LITTLE. "Thomas LITTLE." The certificate was surmounted with a wood-cut of the Bible and Crown. Mr. LONG, the magistrate's clerk, said, that according to the laws of Scotland, the marriage was legal. The defendant observed, that he never considered her to be his wife. She had lived with him, it was true, but not as wife; the marriage was an illegal one, and he had made up his mind, after having taken good advice, not to enter into any arrangement at all. The Mayor: Why, you have lived together as man and wife for a period of two years; and as far as we can judge, you were legally married according to the laws of Scotland. The further hearing was adjourned till Monday next, in order, in the meantime, to obtain an opinion as to the legality of the Gretna Green marriage.