Saturday 07 Jun 1845 (p. 3, col. 2) A SERIOUS BLOW TO GRETNA GREEN.-The clause of Lord BROUGHAM's bill, "For amending and declaring the law of marriage," declares that after the 1st of January next, no marriage solemnized in Scotland shall be valid, either in Scotland or any other part of the United Kingdom, or of the dominions belonging thereto, unless both the parties were born in Scotland, or had had their usual place of residence there, or had lived in Scotland for three weeks next preceding such marriage; "Any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding." The bill also proposes to enact that all children who are legitimate by the law of Scotland, shall be deemed to be so in all parts of the United Kingdom; and, further that all marriages and divorces valid by the law of Scotland, shall be deemed to be so in all other parts of the United Kingdom. The bill finally declares that all persons forging marriage certificates are liable to transportation for life. RAILWAY ACCIDENT-On Wednesday evening week, a melancholy and fatal accident occurred upon the line of the Whitehaven Junction Railway, at a place called Walker's Brow, near Harrington. Three men were engaged in filling waggons with earth, and having cut away a considerable part of the soil, under a brow, which consisted chiefly of sand and gravel, a great quantity of earth rushed down upon them from a height of ten or twelve yards, by which the three men were completely buried. Two of them were got out alive; but the third, named William BIRKETT, was suffocated before he could be released. The deceased, who resided at Common Side, Distington, was in the 26th year of his age, and has left a wife and two children to lament their untimely loss. An inquest was held upon body of the deceased on the following day, when a verdict of "Died from Suffocation" was returned.