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fbirb .-,..,:-.l)ittl;in SUN OFFICE, Seven o►'Clock. MALTON RACES.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SCURRY HANDICAP. Notre Dame. "'imbed w Ten ran. WELECAM CUP. ,Bolden Pippin ~O ms by Redshank Nine ran. CONVIVIAL HANDICAP Maid of Dement Mosquito Medway Ean0ver.......................................................... 4 Four ran. Won by half-a-length Two lengths be tram second and third. Paletot and Angelo paid LANGTON STAKES. Martnion BratsPton Three ran. TALLY-HO HANDICAP. Atlieretone Droner Six ran. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(This Evening.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at the usual hour. Petitions against the Marriages Bill were presented by Lord REDEESDALE and the Marquis of BREADA.LBANE. The Duke of CLEVELAND presented a petition in favour of the bill. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Hali fax, complaining of the grievances under which women labour by the existing state of the marriage law. Lord OVERSTONE presented a petition from the metropolis, signed by upwards of 300 clergymen of the Church of England, in favour of the legalisation of the marriage with a deceased wife's sister, and also several other petitions, most numerously signed, with a similar praver. The Bishop of OXFORD presented a petition from Hampshire against marriage with a deceased wife's sis ter. Some of the petitioners were of the labouring class, and they stated the measure was un?.alled-for. The Earl of ALBEMARLE presented petitions of a totally opposite character—one was signed by upwards of 17,000 persons, and the others were also numerously signed—in favour of the legalisation of marriage with a deceased wife's sister. TRANSPORTATION. The Earl of STANH3PE said he had received a state ment from the Government which induced him to post pone the appointment of a select committee on the subject of secondary punishment, of which he bad given notice. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE could assure the noble earl and their lordships generally that her Ma jesty's Government had this subject under their consi deration, and that it was their intention to institute such an inquiry as he thought would be considered satisfactory to all parties, with a view to the placing the law with respect to secondary punish ments upon a more effectual footing than it appeared at present. The noble marquis concluded by moving for a return in reference to the number of convicts who had been committed to prison within a certain period, the sentence passed upon them, and the number that had been granted tickets of leave. Earl GREY said that if there was to be any inquiry at all before legislation was attem?ted, it ought to be gone into with the least possible delay. They were now ♦ery near Whitsuntide, and if it was intended to consi. der the subject this session, no further delay ought to be allowed to take place. Lord DUNGANNON said he trusted that the pre sent seseion would not be allowed to pass away without something being done on this subject. It had been ima gined that a person who had had a ticket-of-leave granted him had a certificate of good character, but, on the contrary, it appeared rather to be a stigma than • anything else. The subject then dropped. (LEFT SITTING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Evening.) The SPEAKER touk the chair at the usual hour. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Bath Gas bill and the Worksop Gas bill were seve• rally read a third time and passed. The Boston Gas bill, the Canada Company bill, the Eastern Union Railway bill, and the Leeds Water bill were considered, and ordered to be read a third time. The order of the day for the committal of the Barnsley Canal and Collieries Rail way bill was read and the charged. STATUTE LAW COMMISSION. Mr. L. KING moved for a copy of the memorandum of the Attorney-General to the plan of proceeding in consideration of the statutes.—Agreed to. Sir J. SHELLEY presented a petition from the parish of St. Martia-in-the•Fields against the Metropolis Local Management Act. THE NAVAL REVIEW. Mr. PALK wished to it , ,k the Secretary of the Ad miralty whether he would state to the house the number of tickets issued to the clerks of the Admiralty, and whether those tickets were transferable ? Mr. B. OSBORNE said the First Lord of the Admi ralty would be in his place shortly, when he would give an explanation on the subject. ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION. Lord 3. RUSSELL brought up the report of the Committee on the Ecclesiastical Commission. THE NATIONAL GALLERY. Mr. WELLS asked whether the Government had come, or was about to come to any decision as to the removal of the National Gallery of Pictures from Trafalgar-square to the site recently purchased at Brompton, in accordance with the recommendation of the committee of 1854 ; and whether any, and, if so, what opportunity would be afforded to the house of ex pressing its opinion on the subject of that recommenda tion? Lord PALMERSTON—The matter has been for four months under consideration of a committee of this house, and the result arrived at by that committee was that the present site was injurious to the pictures. The recommenda tion of the committee was that the collection of pictures ought nut to remain open to such injury. The commit tee also recommended that the gallery should be trans ferred to the site purchased at Knightsbridge as soon as it was possible. The Government intended to abide by that recommendation. It was therefore the intention of the Government to obtain plans and estimates for the erection of a suitable building. As the house would have to vote tho necessary funds, the whole subject would therefore be brought under the consideration of the house. THE KARS DEBATE. Mr. J. G. PHILLIMORE said it was his intention to move an amendment to the motion of the hon. mem ber for Enniskillen, to the effect th a t th e di sregar d b y L trd Stratford de tedeliffe of the directions of General Williams was the cause of the calamity. COMMUNICATION WITH DUBLIN. Mr. H. A. HERBERT asked whether there was any prospect of the proposed arrangements for accelerating the postal and passenger communication between London and Dublin being completed; and whether any proposals bad been made to the Government by the London and North-Western,.and the Chester and Holyhead Railway Companies, and the City of Dublin Steam Packet Com pany, for such acceleration, or by the Government to the said companies for the same purpose ; and also, whether the Secretary to the Treasury would have any objection to lay on the table of the house copies of any memoranda, letters, or proposals that had passed be tween the Treasury, the Post-office, and the said com panies on the subject of postal and passenger coinumni• cation between London and Dublin since the issuing of a Treasury minute, dated Oct. 19, 1355 ? Mr. WILSON said up to the present time no com munication had taken place between the Government and the railway companies. There had been some de lay, but he thought the time was come for the Govern ment to propose a tender upon the subject to these com panies. There was no correspondence on the subject to produce. WILLS AND ADMINISTRATION BILL. Mr. PHILLIMORE asked whether it was intended to proceed with the Wills and Administration Bill this session ? The SOLICITOR.GENERA.L said it undoubtedly was their intention to proceed with the bill, and as early as it was possible. REWARD FOR SERVICES IN THE TRENCHES. On the motion for the adjournment of the house, Mr. 0. STANLEY a sked the Under Secretary for War, if any distinguishing mark of honour or reward was to be given to those officers and men who hav e been engaged in the arduous duty of the trenches, and attacks upon the enemy's works during the siege of Sebastopol ; or if it was intended that the Crimean modal and Sebastopol clasp which is bestowed upon all, however employed, is to be the only mark of the enduring constancy displayed by those gallant men through all the hardships and dangers of that protracted siege ? Mr. F. PEEL said it was intended that the Sebasto pol clasp should serve this amongst other purposes, and reward those who bad contributed towards the reduc tion of that. place, and of those none had contributed more towards it than those officers and men who had. done duty in the trenches. THE MILITIA. Lord C. HAMILTON asked the Under Secretary of State for War the intentions of the Government as to the constitution of the permanent , tall of the militia, in the event of that force being disembodied Mr. F. PEEL said the question how the permanent staff should be composed, and what allowance or gra ttity should be granted to certain regimental officers o I Militia, was engaging the attention of the Government. 41.8.scori as 'their determination had been decided on, he Lord Lieutenant and the Commanders of regiments should be made 'acquainted . of it, and by that means made known to the public. MASTERS OF THE ROYAL NAVY. Mr. LAYARD called attention to the return that had been laid on the table of the house as to the inac curacy of that return with reference to the promotion of the masters of the Royal navy. By that return the names of two distinguished officers of that class had been omitted. He supposed they would have a supplemental list correcting the error, and that it would be laid on some poor clerk, who would be made the scape goat. Mr. B. OSBORNE expressed his regret that the hon. member for Aylesbury had not accepted his explanation of regret at the error, but that be should have seized that moment when the Admiralty were a little unpopu lar—(loud laughter)—to make this attack on them. The error arose not from the neglect of a clerk, but through the over anxiety of a gentleman at the head of a depart ment to produce them as speedily as possible, and he had been subject to a serious jawbation (laughter) for it.. THANSGIVING FOR PEACE. Mr. BYNG called the attention of her Majesty's Go vernment to the statement, made on Monday night, that, while no day of thanksgiving or special form of prayer has been proposed on the restoration of peace, inasmuch as the conditions of the said peace have not as yet been formally ratified, preparations for expendi ture, on a large scale, have been authorised by the Sec retary of State for the War Department in celebration of the above event. Sir G. GREY was sorry his former statement had been misconstrued, and explained that no such day had even been named for a thanksgiving until after the ratifi cation of peace. Communication had been had with the Archbishop of Canterbury respecting it, and at the ap pointed time it would be announced to the country. EMBARKATION OF TROOPS FOR CANADA. Mr. LANG asked the First Lord of the Treasury for some explanation as to the intention of the Government of sending troops to Canada Lord PALMERSTON said he disclaimed any respon sibility of information circulated through the newspapers which he characterised ai a left handed official source. The statement that 10,000 men were going to Canada was a gross exaggeration, and if they were so, he doubted if any man could ?eriously believe the Government con templated an invasion of the United States. When the war commenced, being on a low peace footing, it was necessary to strip the colony of almost every availa ble man, and amongst the other places, they were taken from Canada and our wide-extended North American provinces. The war being over, it was the intention to replace the number that had had been taken from them, and it was proposed to send back about 4,000 men to be scattered over that circle ex tent of territory—(hear, hear)—for the protection of the inhabitants. He thought there was no cause of alarm, and that none ought to be raised, at the Government doing that which was the duty of a prudent Government to do to protect its colonieQ. If there had been a re port circulated that the Government was about to send 10,000 men to Costa Rica to suppsrt Gen. Walker, as the hon. gentleman had stated he (Lord Palmerston) had not seen it, and tar being true he authorised the hon. gentleman to contradict it in his (Lord Palmerston's) name. (Hear.) THE PEACE. Lord LOVAINE complained that the country should be called on to celebrate the conclusion of peace by a wasteful expenditure of the public money in a dis play of fi re works before the house and the country were aware of the terms of that peace, and he proposed to submit a motion thereon, which was ruled by the house to be out of order, when the noble lord moved, as an amendment, that the house did not ap prove of the means adopted for celebrating peace pre vious to a day of general thaiaksgiving. The SPEAKER ruled the noble lord was out of order. Lord LOVAINE then gave notice that he would move it on another day. Colonel NORTH said, that the opinion of the noble lord was in accordance with the majority of themembers of that house. (Hear.) He thought there should be a day of general thanksgiving, before any public rejoicings for the restoration of peace. THE NAVAL REVIEW. Mr. LINDSAY asked the right hon. baronet (Sir Charles Wood) for an explanation of the mismanage ment at the naval review. He wished to know if the Transit, put at the disposal of the members of the other house, was the vessel that broke down some short time since, and had to put into Plymouth ; then afterwards broke down, and had to put into Brest ; and after that broke down, and had to put into Gibraltar. (Laughter.) Sir C. WOOD, who was received with ironical cheers, said that he had waited to offer an explana tion of the mismanagement alluded to, for every gentleman to have an opportunity of laying any state ments on the subject before the house first. No persons could feel more aggrieved at what had occurred than the Admiralty Board, who endeavoured to make arrangements that should give entire satisfaction. The Government feeling that the country had every reason to be proud of seeing that a larger number of ships and engines bad been constructed in a shorter space of time than it was thought possible they could have been con structed, were desirous that both the Houses of Parlia ment should have an opportunity of witnessing what had been done to support the honour of the country. Two things the Admiralty had no control over, time and tide ; and as regarded the former, much of the delay that bad occurred resulted from arrangements over which the Government had no con trol. It was intended to have held the review a week earlier, but as it would have been inconvenient on account of the tide to have it then it was postponed for a week. The time of review was restricted to between 11 and 5 o'clock. He met the first objection, that of the mem bers of both houses being sent to Southampton, instead of Portsmouth, by saying it was so arranged from a be lief it would be more convenient and satisfactory to all it should be so, from a belief that more incon venience would haVe been experienced at Ports mouth than at Southampton, from the greater number of persons residing there, who would take a deep interest in the day's proceedings, and in consequence 23 steamers were provided by the Go vernment to embark persons at. Portsmouth, and but six at Southampton. The greatest difficulty experienced at Southampton was the " middle passage " from the rail. way station to the spot of embarkation. [LEFT SPEAKING.] LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening.) LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 1. Notice is hereby given that ber Majesty will bold a Levee at St. James's Palace, on Wednesday, 7th May next, at two o'clock. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 14. Notice is hereby given that her Majesty will hold Draw ing -Rooms at St. James's Palace, on the following days, at two o'clock : Tuesday, 29th April next. Thursday, 29th May next' to celebrate her Majesty' s Birth-dy N.B. The Knights of the several Orders are to appear in their Collars at the Drawing-Room on the 29th May next. WAR DEPARTMENT, APRIL 25. The Queen hag been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of the following officer of the army of his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French, to be an ho norary member of the Military Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the M os t H onoura bl e O r d er o f t h e B ath, viz. : —M. George Eugen e Bl anc h ar d, G enera l o f Division. ---• WHITEHALL, APRIL 23. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. James McFaden to the church at Strontian, in the presbytery of Mull and shire of Argyll, vacant by the transportation of the Rev. John Tolmie, late minister thereof, to the church of Bracadale. COMMISSION SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT. County Palatine of Lancaster William Bradshaw Swaiuson, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; John Turner, Hopwood, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant. '2d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia— Ensign Henry Harrington Molyneux Steel to bo Lieute nant, vice Macnamara, resigned. Worcester Regiment of Militia—Lieut. Oldham to be Captain, vice Galton, resigned ; Henry Kerne Diprose Birchill, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Castle, appointed to the 3.l Regiment of the British Italian Legion. King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—George Humby, Esq., to be Captain, vice Dennis, resigned. Prince of Wales's Royal Regiment of Renfrew Militi a — Lieutenant J o hn Simons to be Captain, vice Reynolds, resigned ; Lieutenant James Anderson to be Captain, vice Cameron, who resigns, but, in consideration of his long service in the Renfrew Militia, is permitted to retain his rank and wear his uniform ; Ensign Frederick IV. E. Cameron to be Lieutenant, vice Simons, promoted; En sign Abraham Thompson to be Lieutenant, vice Ander son, promoted. The Galloway Rifles—Austin Heuston, Gent., to be Ensign. Rose, Caithness, Sutherland, and Cromarty Regiment of Militia —Lieutenant Godfrey Wentworth Davidson to be Captain, vice Fraser, promoted. [The following appointment is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of Tuesday the Bth of April inst.] Ross, Caithness, Sutherland, and Cromarty Regiment of Militia—Henry Diprose Herne Birchill to be Ensign. NATAL PRIZE MONEY. Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-house, April 21. Notice is hereby given to all persons interested therein, that preparations are now waking for the intended distribution of proceeds arising- from the cargoes of Russian sloops, captu re d on the 9th, 14th, and .sl.st July, and 18th and 3 I st August, 1855, by her Majesty's ship Driver. Agents or other persons havinc , any just and l ega l de mand unliquidated ag a in s t th e said proceeds are required to transmit the particulars of any such demand to the Re gistrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in order that the same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by that officer, and paid under the sanction of the Judge of the said court. Agents and a l: o th er persons holding powers of attorney, prize ord ers , assignments, of which th ey or other instru men t s , by v i r t ue may be legally entitled to claim the share belonging to any cap t or, arc requested, with as litiie delay as possible, to transmit the same, accompanied by the usual documents, to the Prize Branch of the Department of the " Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset House." Duo notice will he given, by future advertisements in the Loudon Gazette, of the date proposed for the com mencement of distribution; and, at the same time, the amount of an individual's share in the respective classes will be announced. BANKRUPTS. Foster Reynolds, silk merchant, Broad-street City, to surrender, May (3 and June 3, at . eleven, a t the ' Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Lawrance, Plows, and Boyer, Old Jewry-cha.mben. Charles Long, house decorator, King-street, Portman square, May 14, at half-past one, and June 3, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official (assignee; Goren, South Aloltou-street. George Chamberlain, jun., plumber, Crawford-street, Larylebone, May 6, at eleven, and June 1, at twelve, at NDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 25. 1856 the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Ba , Jinghall-street ; Stuart, New-inn, Strand. John B. Folkard, tailor, 69, Jermyn-street, St. James, 'estminster, April 30, at twelve, and Jane 4, at eleven, n 4 the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, I iasinghall-st ree t ; F raser an d May, Dean-street, Sohn, s ,nd Freeman, Bucklersbury. James Sandiford, draper and mercer, Hinckley, Leices -tershire, May 10, and 31, at twelve, at the Birmingham :District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Cowdell, Hinckley; James, Birmingham. William Henry Woollett and John Frederick Sanford NVoollett, ship agents, Lime-street-square, May 5, at one, nd Jane 3, at two, at the Court of B an k rup t cy . Ed wards, racial assignee, dambreok-court ; Jones and Blaxland, Crosby-square. John Styles, waterman, Putney, May 5 and June 3, at ;we, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official : assignee, Sambrook-court; Over bury and Peek, Frederick's. Place: _ _ John Haldane, corn factor, Leeds, May 8 and June 6, ►t eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Bond and Barwick, or Maud, Leeds. William Stubbs, braSsfounder, Birmingham, MayB, and 30, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittle gton, official assignee, Birmingham ; Webb, Birmingham. Thomas William Winfield andlErederick Charles Clarke, fa ctors, Birmingham, May 12 and 28, at half-past ten, at VI le Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official as signee, Birmingham; Metteram and Knight, Birmingham. to offer my opinion that theologically it is correet that such marriages should take place, and I see no ground whatsoever on account of which such marriages may not be legalised."— Evidence of Rev. J. Hatchard, Vicar of St. Andrew, Ply mouth. "I think it a great evil to insist upon a rule in which no sacred principle is involved, and which is found to be at vari ance with the feelings of large classes of the community."— Rev. Mr. Stainforth, " The three points upon which the petition was especially grounded were these —first, that such marriage was not for bidden by the Word of God; second, that there was no con sangu nity or blood-relationship existing between the parties; and third, that such a marriage was wholly unobjectionable on moral considerations."—Speech of Rev. J. B. Owen, St. John's Chapel, Bedford-row. " I believe such marriages as you wish to make lawful are already lawful, according to the letter and spirit of Holy Scripture ; and I hope the civil and eccle s iastical law will swedlly be made conformable to the Divine."—Rev, F. Close, Incumbent of Cheltenham. "My opinion of the law has long been, that it is impolitic restriction."—Archdeacon of Derby. " It appears to me, therefore that first, as Scripture shows that there is nothing immoral in such a connexion, and secondly, as it is obvious that much evil would be prevented -many poor children saved from misery and ruin, by having that person over them who, in a majority of instances, would be the next best substitute for a mother—my own mind is led to believe that the law of man ought to tally in this respect with the law of God."—Rev. Canon Chempue% s. " Has never had occasion to observe, eitherin the middling or poorer classes, any injury or immorality arising from such marriages ; never admonished any of those parties that they were acting in breach of the Divine law, because never be lieved it. The great inducement to these marriages is, that the parties have a better opportunity than is generally afforded of being acquainted with each other's real character and disposition."—Evidence of Rev. J. F. Denham, M.A., F.R.S., Rector of St. Mary-le-Strand. " Most heartily do I wish you success. I cannot believe, as has been sometimes said, that it is unscriptural that a man should marry his wife's sister. The law of man has made it sin ; but on cannot make the poor man believe that the law of God does."—Rev. Mr. Drummond. " In verse 18, the prohibition is only against marrying the wife's sister during the lifetime of the first wife, which of itself implies the liberty to marry her sister after her death."— Rev. Dr. Chalmers. " Is the marriage of a widower with his wife's sister within the prohibited degrees ?" In all frankness and honesty lam obliged to at ewer—No. It is interdicted neither by express veto nor yet by implication. Canonical austerity is not to be identified with moral purity or matrimonial fidelity."— Rev. Dr. Eadie, Glasgow. " Without pursuing the subject further, I shall give it as my opinion that the marriage in question is not against either nature or the law of God."— Rev. Thomas Binney. " That the enactments of the Levitical law are entirely misinterpreted, when applied in condemnation of marriage with a deceased wife's sister, was the decided judgment of Mr. We , -ley, the founder of our Societies ; and I believe that similar views have since been entertained by many of those among us who have been led by circumstances carefully to exam ne the matter, and whose competency to judge of such a question has given great weight to their conclusion."—Rev. Dr. Bunting, formerly President of the Wesleyan Conference. " The prohibitions of such marriages is, in my judgment, sanctioned neither by Scripture, nor by - physiology, nor by expo lieney."—Rev. H. Renton, Kelso, Scotland. " There was no prohibition of the wife's sister, except during the lifetime of the wife."—Rev. Professor Robinson New York. , " It is much to be wished that the wisdom of the Legisla ture would interpose for tl s satisfaction of the subject, and that the bishops, of whose liberal sentiments up , n the matter I have no doubt, would promote a measure, which as it will contribute to the happiness and security of many individuals, so wilt not fail to reflect an honour on the'Clinrch as well as the State."—Rev. Dr. Stennett, 1775. " Are marriages of this description considered in Germany to be at all contra bonos mores ?" " Not at all. So far from being considered contra bonos mores, the feeling of the peo ple of Germany is undoubtedly in favour of such marriages." . . . "It frequently happens that a widower marries his de• ceased wife's sister out of a pious and affectionate feeling for his departed wife ; and the feelings of the women of Ger many are so strong in favour of such marriages, that it often occurs that the last parting request by a wife on her death bed to her husband is to marry her sister in case he should feel inclined to marry again. This arises partly from affec tion for her surviving husband and relations, that he may not become estranged from her connexions, and partly from affection to her sister, and very frequently where there are young children, for their sake." . . " Are you are aware of any evil consequences from the celebration of marriages of this description?"—" None whatever. I have spoken with several of my friends, and I have written to some others, asking them whether they are aware that this power of dispensation is the cause of any mortality in families, and their rnswer is, None whatever.' lam not at all aware of any."—Evidence of A. Bach, Esq. " I have never heard upon what principle of policy the law was made prohibiting the marriage of a man with his wife's sister, nor have I ever been able to conjecture any political inconvenience that might have been found in such marriages, or to conceive of any moral turpitude in them."—Dr. Benja min Franklin. " Within the meaning of Leviticus, and the constant prac tice of the commonwealth by the Jews, a man was prohibited not to marry his wife's sister, only during her life ; after he might so the text is. This perhaps is a knot not easily untied, how the Levitical degrees are God's law in this kingdom, but not as they wero in the commonweath of Israel, when first given."—Cidef Justice Vaughan. "In the Indies—if a husband has lost his wife, ho does not fail to marry her sister ; and this is extremely natural, for his new consort becomes the mother of her sister's children, and not a cruel stepmother."- Montesquieu. " Nothing is more common in almost all the states of America than second marriages of this sort ; and, so far from being doubtful as to their moral tendency, they are among us deemed the very best sort of marriages. In my whole life, I never heard the slightest suggestion against them, founded on moral or domestic considerations."—Chief Justice Story. " The very strongest reason for engaging in a second mar riage contract is, frequently, to provide a suitable female head for a family of small children. In such cases, who is so likely to exercise the requisite maternal care and affection as the sister of a deceased mother? Te prohibit a marriage under such circumstances seems to me inhuman.—Hon. Judge Mason, U.S " I believe all restrictions upon the nuptial union, unless founded upon the law of nature, or the express authority of Scripture, unwise and unjust ; in neither of which sources have I found this interdict of marriage with the sister of a deceased wife."—John Quincy Adams, late President of the United States. " As far as I can judge, I do not believe one syllable of the unlawfulness of this marriage un ier the Christian dispensa tion."—chancellor Kent, New York, " I have perused, with much pleasure, your letters on the marriage of a man with the sister of a deceased wife, which not only confirm me in the opinion which I had long enter tained, but must, methinks, satisfy every candid mind, that there is not even a pretence for the assertion that such a connexion is prohibited by the law of God." —Judge Living ston, United States. " It is not only not considered as prohibited, but it is dis tinctly understood to be permitted ; and on this point, neither the Divine law, nor,the Rabbis, nor historical Juda ism, leaves room for the least doubt." "In all the countries of civilised Europe, where the law of the land offers no im pediment, marriages of widowers with their deceased wives' sisters very frequently take place. From the experience which I myself have had during the 20 years that I held the ales of Chief Rabbi, in Oldenburg and Hanover, I can affirm that the marriages in question were frequent, and that they have almost invariably proved happy. Even here, in Eng land, prior to the passing of the Marriage Act of the sth and 6th Will. IV. , such marriages frequ en tl y occurred."—Evi deuce of DrAdler, the Chief Rabbi of the Jews in the British Empire. " Irthe act has notoriously failed in its operation; if these marriages, though discountenanced by the Legislature, have become more numerous, not only among the lower classes, a large proportion of whom must ever remain ignorant of the existence Of this and similar interference by law with freedom, but among the cultivated, the thoughtful, the conscientious, the exemplary ; if the stigma set by the law is not stamped by the public opinion; if the offenders are as well received as before, and are even respected for acting on a just view of Scriptural texts, perverted by erroneons interpretation ; in such case it will surely be more politic to make the law con sistent with reason, than to persevere in a fruitless endeavour to bend reason to arbitrary law, to vex and persecute where we cannot prevent to curse whom the Lord has not cursed, and defy whom He has not defied.' "—The late Lord Chief Justice Denman. " The petition from the city of London, in favour of this marriage, was signed by a large number of persons, and among others, by the Lord Mayor, the Governor and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, and a considerable num ber of the Directors of that establishment, by 59 private bankers, by the Cbamberlaiu of the city of London, by 237 merchants, 146 solicitors, 124 barristers, and 61 physicians. It was his good fortune to be acquainted with a large number of the persons who signed this petition ; and he could say from his knowledge of their characters, that their opinions were entitled to the greatest weight and attention."—Speecb of Lord Overstone, 1851. " He declared, most conscientiously, he could find no pro hibition of this marriage in the Holy Scriptures."—Speech of Right Hon. Stuart Wortley, M.P., Recorder of London. " I shall endeavour to show that the marriages it is sought to legalise are not forbidden by the Word of God ; that they are not contrary to the law of nature ; and that they are not inconsistent with the interests of society."—Speech of Ear St. Germans. " He was sincerely favourable to the object of the Mar riages Bill " Speech of the Earl of Ellenborough. In 1835 a most important statute was passed by that House under somewhat peculiar circumstances, and he might also say t , f baste and want of due deliberation, materially affecting a portion of the marriage laws of this country. In this case the voice of Heaven was silent, and that of man had been given with a hesitation and confusion of utterance that deprived it of its due authority."—Speech of Lord Franci Egerton (now Earl of Ellesmere), in the House of Commons, 1812. " Those who call themselves the friends of civil and reli gious liberty ought to support a measure that sought to get rid of one of the most serious interferences with social liberty that existed under the English laws."—Speech of Viscount Braskley. " Se ing that it was not against the law of God—seeing the great social evils which arose from the restriction, and believ ing that there was no comparison between the s cial advan tages and the social disadvantages arising from this cause, he should give the measure his cheerful assout."—Speech of Earl of Arundel and Surrey. "Socially speaking, if a ease was made out that morality . would be endangered by the bill, that would be a reason for rejecting it ; but ho had not heard it established that such danger could arise. Marriage being a civil rita, they were bound to make that civil rite co-extensive with the feelings of the country. He had, therefore, come to the conclusion that it was his duty to support the second reading of the bill."— Speech of the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., 1850. " I have known probably several scores of such marriages. I have counted a dozen within the last three or four minutes. Most of these dozen belong to the highest class of society. One of them is a doctor of divinity. Several of them are ministers of the Gospel. One is a member of Congress. Am brose Spencer, the eminent chief justice of this State, died a few years ago. He married two sisters of De Witt Clinton, the distinguished governor of this State. The Presbyterian Church of this village has probably not more than 50 mem bers. . Two of these married sisters of their wives."—Gerrit Smith, Esq., of the United States. " In the time of Henry VIII., though Christendom was then much divided, there was almost a general consent upon this proposition, that the Levitical decrees do not, by any la v of God, bind Christians to thetir observance."—Bi s h op Jeremy Taylor. Natioral Testimonies from the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Aca demical Authorities of various Foreign Countries in which this Marriage is Permitted, not only without Injury, but with most desirable Consequences, and with full Approval of all Classes of Society. Grand Duchy of Saxe-Coburg. "From various considerations, such marriages hero Iwo INICOMIVT4II7 common. So far are 11101112arriapili ii* being SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS, William Robertson, contractor', Glasgow. John Hay, wine and spirit merchant, Glasgow. Gavin Eglinton, grocer, Glasgow. John 111‘Corkindale, steam-boat steward, Garelochhead. William Roy, jun., and Co., calico printers, Cross Arthurlie Print Works, Barrhead. BANK OF An Account purraant to the Act the Welk ending on Saturd, t NGL AND. rth and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for y the 19th day of April, 1856. LZTMINT. ISSUE DEI.. A Notes tune .• 23,683,205 4 Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities...... 3,459,900 Gold coin and bullion 9,208,205 Silver bu11i0n........ - 423,633,205 Z 23,683,2 MARSHALL, Chief Casnier.os Dated the 24th day of April. 185 i C?A TD[LNT. BANKING DB A Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000 I Rest ........ .. Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Say ing's Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 2,958,753 Other deposits ...... 11,907,623 Nwen Day and other Government securities (Includg.Dead Weight Annuity) 13,117,833 Other securities 15,929,: , 63 Notes •• . .••• .. .. 3,668 600 Gold and silver coin.. 667,527 Bills •• ••. 796,057 X 33,383,323 I 433,383, K. MARSH 323 ALL, Chtef uutu er . i 6. Dated the 24th day of April, 185'1 AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made in the week ending April 22, 1856, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain : From the British Possessions in America 26s. 4d. Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies Average of the three foregoing descriptions COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—TaiI DAY. Amsterdam .......• .... 12 Gibraltar • •• •• •• •• Ditto, three months .. 12 2% Leghorn •••• •• ....•••• 30 15 Rotterdam ....... .12 24 Genoa Antwerp .............. 24 67% Mil an Brussels .............. 25 674 Venice ............ „ Elamburgh ............ 13 11% Naples Altona ................ Palermo .... Pari5........ .. • • .... 25 47% Messina .. •.. i 20% Ditto, three months .. 25 77 Lisbon ......... 53Ni Marseilles .•••• • .. 25 77% Oporto .. .... •...•. • • 53 Bourdeaux ..•• Bu Janeiro ..... .•• .... Frankfort-on Maine •• 21% Buenos Ayres.. •• ••.• .. Berlin ................ New York,6o days' sight Vienna ..........•• .... 10 24 Philadelphia Trieste •• 10 26 ?aic sea SULLICN, PER oz. Petersburg ............ 36% Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 Madrid ••49% Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Cadiz • • 50 Mexican Dollars .... 00 0 Barcelona ............ New Dollars .....• 0 0 0 Seville .......• Silver in bars ...... 0 0 0 Country Markets. DERBY SMITHFIELD.--APRIL 22. --- A large supply of fat beasts to-day of the best quality without any alteration in price. The number of sheep was about the average, most of which were out of their wool, and for the future will be quoted accordingly; the demand was good and a clearance effected. Fat pigs were scarce aid dear. Fat and store calves plentiful and heavy sale. The following were. the quotations :—Beef, 6d to 6id ; mutton, 6id. to 7d ; lamb, Od to Od ; veal, 6d tc 6P per lb. ; pigs, ids Od to 103 6d per score ; rough fat, 4s 61 to Os per 141 b. ; hides, 3.1 d to 4d per lb ; calf-skins, 3;d. to sial per lb. EDINBURGH GRAIN.—APRIL 23. A large supply of grain to-day. Sales were dull, and prices back for all sorts. Wheat, on the top, 3s down, and on the average is Od down. Barley, 5s down on the top, and 4d down on the average. Oats on the top 2s Od down—on the average, 8d down. Beans on the top 2s down—the average, 2d down. AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat , £3 8 2 I.l2ths. Do. new -12ths. Barley -12ths. Oats 1 8 4 6-12ths. Beans -12ths. BOSTON --APRIL 23. We had a fair supply of wheat, the best samples selling readily at prices equal to those of last week, but inferior qualities met a slow inquiry at a decline of is to 2s per qr. A very small show of barley, which was the turn clearer. Beans a trifle cheaper. Oats and peas without change. Prices :--Wheat, red, 50s Od to 68s Od; white, 63s Od to 703 Od extra, 72s Od. Barley, 38s Od to 43s Od. Oats 17s to 275. Beans, 37a Od to 45s Od. Peas, 37- to 42s Od, per qr. NEWARK—ArRiL 21. We had a good attendance to-day, and a good show of grain of all descriptions. Wheat, white 72s to 745, red 685 to 725; barley, maltin 44s to 465, grinding 38s to 40s; oats, 24st. 30s to Us, 22st, 26s to 28s ; beans, 40.3 to 463 ; malt, 72s to 765; peas, 40: to 41s; tares, 60s to 64s per qr. GLASGOW —APRIL 24. CATTLZ.—We had a large supply of cattle today, 965 beasts. 'The demand was fair, and prices about the same as last week. Sheep a small supply; only 1,037, which sold readily at td. advance per lb. over last week's prices. Best Scotch beef, 4,d; second q ua lity, 6d ; middling, 54c1; inferior, 4§d to ; best mutton, 81d. CORK --APRIL 24. White wheat, 355; red, 28s to 34s 6d ; barley, 16a 6d to 21s; oats, 12s to 15s. SHARE MA RKETS. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 24. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has been steady to day, and transactions limited, closing at the following rates :—Great Western of Canada, new 2d issue, 3t p.— Lancashire and Yorkshire, 89a —South Eastern, 214 — Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 284—Blackburn, 3/. 13s. 9d.—East Lancashire, 19i—Luxembourg constit., 161. 18s. 91 MANCHESTER, APRIL 24. STOOS EXCHANGE.—This market was doing a rather dull business to-day, and prices rather lower. Dovers, 214—Leeds, 88i—London and North Western, 10s.— Mancheste r Sheffield, and Li nco l n , 284 Sh ropsh i re Unions, 3—Crystal 2 Palace, 3i—Union Bank, 2 pm. SCOTCH COLLIERS' STRUM—GLASGOW, April 21.—We regret to learn that this strike continues, and extends without the slightest prospect of an amicable adjustment. This state of matters has led to a strike over all the western counties of Scotland, and we believe that nearly 30,003 men are now idle from this cause. The masters are meeting the resistance by blowing out their furnaces. Already 20 per cent. are out of blast, and they threaten to extinguish the whole of them. Hitherto the men have, generally speaking, conducted themselves in an orderly manner; but it is needless to dispute that such a large body of men, ranging over the country, and assembling daily in masses of from 2,000 to 12,000, is likely to lead to mischief, and calculated at least to excite great un easiness. The authorities are accordingly taking mea sures to meet any disorder that may be attempted. Meanwhile a detachment of 250 men of the let Lanark shire Regiment of Militia was marched on Saturday from Hamilton to Airdrie, the eentre of the strike. Yesterday the Commissioners of Lieutenancy for the county of Lanark served an order upon the yeomanry cavalry, both of the upper and lower wards, to hold themselves in readiness to support the civil authorities. These two regiments muster 500 sabres. Ties CAMP AT ALDERSHOTT.-1 he officers of the dif ferent regiments have subscribed a day's pay towards the getting up of theatricals, and Lord Panamre has placed a building at their dispo-al for that purpose, and has given the handsome donation of 1001 tewarda a fund. The project has been taken up with much spirit by the officers, and it is expected to be most successful. The first performance was appointed to take place last night, and was announced to be under the especial pa tronage of Lieutenant -General Knellys, the entertain ments to the musical burletta of " The Sentinel "and the farce of "To Paris and flick for Five Pounds." A splendid ball is in preparation for the 9th of May, at which the elite of the country are expected to attend. Games of football, cricket, and horse-racing are in pro gress of formation, and bands of music will play for two hours daily at the club-house, and it is hoped that during the summer Sunday evening will be included. Music has been introduced into the church service with much effect. A third church is in progress of erection—a very elegant style of building, in the neighbourhood, with stained glass windows, and with a gallery at one end for the accommodation of her Majesty and the Royal family when in camp on Sunday. Part of the church service will be chanted. The clergy are said to be indefatigable in their exertions, and the General takes much interest in everything connected with the welfare of the soldiers , . One regiment has already pitched its tents in front, and thus adds greatly to the pictu resque appearance of the camp. It is expected that in the course of the summer the whole of the regiments will be under canvass. Both camps will march to Sand hurst on the 3d of May, to assist in laying the first stone of the now Wellington College, by her Majesty, and all the troops in and near Lendon will be brought together to witness that national ceremony. The gravel is now nearly all spread on the parade-ground and the roads, and a palpable improvement has taken place in every department of the two camps within the last 12 months. [.] MARRIAGE WITII ADVERTISEMENT A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn,—The Committee of the Marriage Law Reform Association are desirous of again calling the attention of the British public to the following facts, opinions, and national testimonies, tending to prove the Scriptural lawfulness of marriage with a deceased wife's sister, and the consequent desirableness of again affording legal validity to such marriages in England and Ireland, in accordance with the law and practice of other Christian countries.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, JOSEPH STANSBURY, M.A., Hon. Sec. 26, Parliament-street, April 25, 1856. " It seems to be established and admitted, that the moral feeling of the community at large is not with this law—that the law, in fast, is not obeyed, and that a great number of persons, not considering themselves to commit any moral offence, do contract marriages which the law prohibits. That is not a state of things which ought to exist ; and not being of opinion that there is any moral objection to the contracting of these marriages, and believing that the law, as it stands, is the cause of a great deal of misery and social evil, especially among the middle and lower classes of the community, I shall with great pleasure give my vote for the motion."— peech of Lord Palmerston in the debate on the motion for leave to bring in a Bill to Amend the Law as to Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister or a Deceased Wife's Niece, March 13, 1856. FACTS. I. Marriage with a deceased wife's sister is nowhere pro hibited in express words of Scripture, and the Jews under stood their law as permitting it. 11. The Jewish interpretation of the Levitical prohibitions was never condemned by our Saviour, though their errors on divorce and other matrimonial subjects were so remarkably denounced by him. is 111. There nothing in the New Testament to authorise an extension of the Levitical prohibitions. IV. Marriage with a deceased wife's sister is not known to have been prohibited in any age or nation before the fourth century of the Christian era. V. The marriage of priests has been condemned, or prohi bited, by the same Ecclesiastical authorities over a wider space, and during a longer period, than the marriage with a deceased wife's sister. VI. In all Christian countries, the ancient restrictions upon this marriage have gradually been relaxed, and in most entirely removed, in modern times. VII. This marriage may be celebrated, by dispensation or otherwise, in every country in the world, except England and Ireland, and the Greek Church in Russia. VIII. This marriage is permitted among 700,000,000 of the human face. IX. In no country has it been proved that the permission of this marriage has been attended with injurious conse quences. - X. Thousands of such marriages have been contracted in this country. They are found in almost every town and neighbourhood in the kingdom. XI. Numerous clergymen of the Church of England, in cluding nearly 400 of those resident in the metropolis, have petitioned fir the removal of this restriction. Xil. More than 250 clergymen of the Church in Ireland have expressed a conviction that these marriages ought to be made lawful. XIII. Protestant Dissenters regard the permission of this marriage as Scriptural and expedient. XIV. The Roman Catholic Church does not regard this marriage as forbidden in Scripture. XV. The Greek Church permits these marriages to Chris tians of ether churches. OPINIONS. " But has it never occurred to you, my dear Wynn, that this law is an abominable relic of ecclesiastical tyranny ? Of all second marriages, I have no hesitation in sayii,g that these are the most suitable, and likely to be the most frequent, if the law did not sometimes prevent them. It is quite mon strous, judges and lawyers speaking as they have done of late upon the subject."—Robert Southey. " All and every such , marriage within this Church of Eng land as shall be contracted between lawful persons (as by this Act we declare all persons to be lawful that be not prohibited by God's law to marry) shall be lawful, good, just, and indis soluble," &e.-32 Henry VIII., c. 38. " Centuries of mistake as to the validity of the marriages in question will not render them invalid." --Mr. Justice Erle, in 844. " The prohibition of taking two sisters was meant for the lifetime tonly."—Milton. " These persons alone (of relatives by affinity) has Gocrfor bidden to me : the wife of my uncle, my son's wife, my bro ther's wife, my wife's daughter, the children of my wife's sou or daughter, the sister of my wife, while my wife is living. With none of these can I contract matrimony, with the rest I may, even without paying money for a dispensation; as with the sister of my espoused or married wife, when the latter has departed this life, with the daughter of the brother of my wife, with the daughter of the uncle of my wife, and with any other of my wife's cousins, nieces, or relatives."—Luther. " The union of husband and wife is of Divine right, which ; is binding, however contrary it may be to human laws, and the laws of men ought to yield to it without reserve. For if ! a man leaves father and mother to cleave to his wife, how much rather shall he traniple under foot the contemptible and unjust laws of men, and cleave to his wife? And pope, bishop, or officer, if be dissolve any marriage contracted is opposition to merely human law, is antichrist, a violator of nature, a traitor against the Divine Majesty ; for that sen tence still stands—' What God hath joined, let no man put asunder.' Perish, therefore, those cursed traditions of men, which have been brought in only to multiply dangers, of fences, and miseries in the Church.'—Luther. " In her life time,' because when she was dead he might marry her sister."—Menochies. " In her life time.' This sufficiently indicates that he permitted it when the wife was dead, otherwise than in the case of two brothers."--Janseuins. - " The ancient Roman law permitted the marriage of two sisters in succession."—Heineccius. " Thou shalt not marry two sisters at the same time, as Jacob did Rachel and Leah, but there is nothing in tnis law that rendered it illegal to marry a sister-in-law when her sister was dead."—Dr. Adam Clarke. " Though it is certain that the case of marriage beween brother and sister-in-law came before our Saviour (Matthew xxii., 24), yet we do not find that He spake one word against it."—Fry. " No man has examined this subject more diligently than Fry, the author of a pamphlet which you justly commend, and you see my opinion perfectly coincides with his."—Sir William Jones. " I have read over the 18th chapter of Leviticus in He brew, with a view to discover the true mean ng of the words which you desire me to interpret ; and I have examined all the passages that I could find, in the historical and prophe tical parts of Scripture, in which the same expression occurs. The phrase of ' uncovering the nakedness' is literally trans lated from the Hebrew. It is surprising that the chapter before us should ever have been taken for the law of mar riage, since it is apparent that all the laws contained in that chapter relate only to the impure lusts and obscene rites of the Egyptians and Canaanites, to tha abominable customs and ordinances, as they are called, of the idolatrous nations, who were extirpated by the chosen people. These doings are enumerated with a special law against each of them ; and, lastly, the general command is resumed—' Defile not your selves in these things, for in all these things are the nations defiled which I cast out before you.' "—Sir William Jones. " You are at liberty to refer to me as approving of the abolition of the restriction on marriage to which you allude." —Archbishop Whately. " He did not regard the measure as infringing on any di rect scriptural command or precept. He could not bring himself to understand even the passages from the 01(1 Testa ment which had come under discussion that night as pro hibiting the marriage of a man with his deceased wife's sister." "At the same time I admit that the existing law does press unfairly upon some portions of the community. It does seem hard, and savours of religious intolerance, that we should put an interpretation on the moral law of the Jews contrary to theirs, and compel them to abide by it. If the noble earl (St. Germans) had based his measure on the broad principle of religious toleration—if he had claimed exemption for the Jews, or for any other body of religionists besides them, who may complain of these laws as contrary to their religious tenets—l should not have been indisposed to sup port the bill."—Bishop of Norwich's Speech, 1851. " The view which we had heard taken in that House respecting the operation of Scripture must, after all, be a mere matter of inference and construction ; and applying himself to that view of the subject, he should say that such marriages as the Bill was intended to legalise were not pro hibited, but were tacitly permitted by the words of the chapter which had been so often quoted?. , He protested against the opinion s expresse d by th o se who contend e d th a t there existed any Di v i ne pro hibiti on ." --Bishop of St. David's Speech, 1851. . , " The petition was probably entrusted to me in conse quence of my having declared, without hesitation, that the marriage of a sister of a deceased wife was not prohibited by the Levitical law."—The late Bishop of Llandaff. " So far as the poor are concerned, I believe that an alte ration in the present law is much to be desh ed."—The Hon. and Right Rev. the Bishop of Bath and Wells (Lord Auck land.) " i admit that marriage with a wife's sister is not for bidden in Leviticus."—The late Bishop of London. " I know of no social disadvantages attending on such mar riages. The apprehensions expressed in England on this head are entirely dissipated by our experience."—Right Rev. Bishop Burgess, Maine, United States. " Such marriages, I apprehend, are nearly as frequent as the circumstances which usually give rise to them. I have known several cases, and they created no surprise, nor did they receive any censure from public opinion. I have not known any social disadvantages attending such marriages." —Right Rev. Bishop Wilvaine, Ohio, United States. " I am not one of those who hold that such marriages are forbidden by Scripture. They are permitted by the laws of Pennsylvania. Several have occurred within the sphere of my acquaintance ; and I am not aware that any special dis advantages, social or domestic, have resulted from them."-_. Right Rev. Bishop Potter, Pennsylvania, United States. " Bishop Moore, the predecessor of Bishop Hobart, was distinguished as rubrical and canonical, and, I may say, con. rectl:y evangelical ; yet this species of marriage met his full sanction ; nor did I ever hear one word of disapprobation ex pressed in regard to this matrimonial connexion."—Rev. D r. Barry, New Jersey, United States. " My opinion is certainly in favour of the relaxation of the law prohibiting the marriage of a widower to his late wife's sister."—Chancellor Martin, of the Diocese of Exeter. " I have no doubt that according to Leviticus xvii., is (Fiebrew and English), marriage with a deceased wife's sister is permitted."—Dr, M'Caul, Prebendary of St. Paul's, and Professor of Divinity, King's College. " Are you of opinion that there is any prohibition in Scrip tare against such marriages'" " No; lam quite satisfied of the contrary."—Evidence of Rev. J. Garbett, Hon. Canon of Worcester. ' " From all I have been able to learn on the question, `whether a man may marry a deceased wife's sister,' my opin ion is, that neither does Holy Scripture anywhere forbid it, nor ever did the Jews."—Rev. Dr. (late Professor) Lee. "He asked them to reflect that the parting request of many a dying wife was, that the man should mar y her sister, which was the best testimony to the feeling of woman in this matter, Such marriages were not repugnant to na ture nor to Scripture ; and, if they did but look calmly at these facts, sure he was that the day was not far distant when the obnoxious law would be repealed."--Speech of the Rev. J. C. Miller, Hon. Canon of Worcester, Surro gate, &c. " I cannot perceive that it is forbidden in the Word of God ; on the contrary, the limitation of Leviticus xviii. 18, seems to me to be a sanctioning to marry a sister of a wife when de ceased. lam decidedly of opinion that the present law, while it may partially, and very partially, affect the habits of society among the upper classes, will remove a barrier to m rriage which now exists, but which I do not believe God ever set up. It will prevent much immorality among th e poor, relieve many a burdened conscience, and tend to the increase of happiness amongst largo numbers of o ur fellow couutrymeu."—Hon. and Right Rev. 11. Montagu Villiers, Bishop of Carlisle. " I speak advisedly whoa I gay that I come bore prepazed - - - contrary to public opinion, that people are, on the contrary, inclined to consider them both natural and desinible. We express our conviction that there ought to exist perfect lib rty between widowers and the sisters of their late wives to contract such marriage."—Grand Duchy of Saxe-Coburg, Ministry in Council. • Grand Ducby of Weimar. " Public opinion in the country of Weimar, and in the whole Thuringia, regards such a marriage as unobjectionable, and only aims at abolishing the necessity for asking permis sion iu each individual case, and at the introduction of perfect liberty in such matters. That the same may be obtained in England, the land of liberty and of order, based upon a respect for the laws, is our sincere wish."—Clergy nd University of the Grand Duchy of Weimar. Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. " The old law prohibited the marriage with the sister of a deceased wife, except by a dispensation, which was easily granted. The law - , however, now in operation, of the Bth March, 1830, declares such marriages as valid without dis-. pensation. Such marriages are frequent, and public opinion thoroughly approves them ; as no one can see the reasonable ness of the former prohibition, placing the wife's sister in the same category as the own sister."—Consistory of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. Grand Duchy of Saxe Weimar. " The highest ecclesiastical authorities here approve such marriage without reserve. They are frequent —arc almost always happy ones- and, as far as our knowledge extends, by no means disadvantageous to domestic life. As far as known to us, such marriages do not appear in any way improper, but are natural, and, in many cases, even necessary, for the well-being of a family."—Council for Ecclesiastical Affairs, Grand Duchy of Saxe Weimar. Brandenburg. "It cannot be shown that marriages between a man and the sister of a deceased wife, which in these realms, (Prussia) are not infrequent nor contrary to public opinion, have pro duced disadvantageous consequences for domestic life."— The President of His Majesty's Consistoi7 for the Provinco of Brandenburg. Wurtemburg. "Public opinion in our country is entirely in favour of such marriages, and when, very lately, this subject under went discussion in both our Chambers, all our six dignitaries of the Protestant Evangelical Chur3h, as well as the two of the Roman Catholic Church, pronounced themselves in its favour ; nor were there any voices raised by the strictly reli gious community (of which, ttank God, there are many) against it."—Professor Kapff, Stuttgart. , Switzerland. " Generally, chiefly an;;;lfieEcotestants, such marriages are c .nsidered as very desirable and productive of much good to society. It is thought that the only canton where such marriages are prohibited will not be long before modifying that law. As to our population, it can be affirmed that the prohibition of such marriages no longer has its seat in the manners and feelings of our people."—Official Report from the Cantons of Switzerland. Russia " These marriages were formerly permitted only by dispen sation; but by a law of 1832 for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Russia, they are perfectly free to parties contract ing them. Such marriages are indeed frequent, particularly among the rural population, where members of families are more thrown together. It is more than mere supposition that such marriages are happy ones. Experience has net shown any evil consequences to domestic life from such marriages ; at least, such has not become known. Public opinion in this country is more for than against such marriages."—lmperial University of Dorpat, Russia Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. "Publics opinion, which feels no scruples. of any kind as to such marriages, approves of them most particularly when there are young children of a first marriage, as giving them in the sister of their late mother a second loving mother. The permission of such marriages has, with us, been productive in no way of evil consequences."— Consistory Court of the Grand Duchy of Meckleuburg-Strelitz. Marriage with a deceased wife's sister is not known to have been prohibited in any age or country before the fourth cen tury of the Christian era, at which period the churches had widely departed from the simplicity of earlier times. The most exaggerated notions were entertained respecting mar riage and celibacy, and, influenced by the doctrines of the ascetic Basil, Bishop of New Caesarea, the Greek Church, without scriptural warrant, prohibited marriages of consan guinity, of affinity, anti even of spiritual affinity, to the seventh degree. At the present day these marriages may be lawfully cele. brated in the following countries, each of which has an inde. pendent jurisdiction in the matter, and the united popula. tions of which amount to more than 700,000,000; viz.— In the Empires of 4 axe-Meningen Indiana Austria Anhalt- Dessau Illinois Russia (for the Lathe- Saxe-Altenburg M issouri rans and Catholics: Amhalt-Bernberg, and. Florida France ' Anhalt-Coetheu 'Texas Brazil In the Landgraviate cf fo , a Turkey Hesse-Homburg, Wisconsin Morocco, and in the Prinel ~ alities of Galifornla China Lippe-Detmold New Granada In the Kingdoms of Iteuss-Greitz Chili, and Prussia Reuss-schleitz Peru Spain Schwarzburg-Son- . In the Republican Portugal der-hau-en Swiss Cantons of Sardinia +chwarzburg-Rudol uerne (Jura) Naples stadt lucerne Sicily Pyrinont, and Uri Hungary Waldeck Schwitz Holland In the Republican Unterwalden Sw den States of Glaris Norway Maine Z ag Denmark New Hampshire friburg Belgium Vermont Appenzell Bavaria m assaohu setts St Gilt Wir emberg Rhode Island rfrisons Hanover, and Comic ticut Valais Saxony New York Tessin In the Grand Duchle, 'few Jersey 401eure of Pennsylvania Basle De aware A rgo vie Maryland . . Thurgovie Virginia Neuchatel North Carotins ~en va • south Carolina Zurich, and Georgia -chaffhausen Alab ma In the Free Hanseatic Mississippi . Towns of Lou , siai la Bremen and Arkansas Lubeck Tenne-see And in the Free Cale! Kentucky Oaio Michigan Baden Luxemburg liesQe-Darmstadt Saxe-Weimar Oldenburg M eektenburg- Schwe- rfn, and Ntecklenburg-StreEtz In the Electorate of Ilea4e-Caasel In the Duchies of Saxe Coburg Brunswick Holstein A a.saa Hamburg an! gratikfort Groat Britain is such manages are tol denominations. the only country in the world in which tally prohibited to persons of all religious Numerous other testimonies might be adduced from almost every country in the world, affording conclusive evidence that the judgment of all civilised and Christian cations is favourable to the free permission of this marriage. • when, if'the terms of the compromise had been f& the case might be withdrawn. MAR LBO ROUGH-STRE Ingrao o George Smith. Owen, and Edward Owen were b rew before Mr. Bin g h am f or f urther examination, 07 with carrying on a system of fraud and forgery b° immense extent. Mr. Zfullens appeared for the prosecution', Mr. for the prisoners. • Robert Dougl2v, No. 184. Piccadilly—l knoll prisoner, Edward Owen. On the 4th of Jann i l f called up on m® and said h e was s till i n th e serv l 'd Mr. Jeak es , stove-maker, and that he had been 11° :, taking a lar ge j o b i n I re l an d , and, having paid gr?, tention to the job, M r . J ea ke s h a d g i ven h i m a 11°1,' He had asked, he said, fur some money in advaacel Mr. Jeakes had given him a crossed check for 18 1 : expressed his annoyance at having the check cros: and said it would delay him fora day or two ante : would give him my check in exchange. I gave bit check fir th e c h ec k I produce, purporting to be °1". by Mr. Jeakes on Herries y.nd Co. I paid the che,. to my hanker, and in a few days it was returned to marked "no effects." E :ward Kesteven, Milk-street, woollendraper -A i iti partnership with my brothers. I am acquainte d John Ingrain Owen, of Shrewsbury, th e f a ther , prisoner. On the Ith . Oetober last the prisoner, '' ic; Ingrain Owen, called upon me, and produced a cbe c t o Nlesers. Beck a nd Co., of Shrew s b ur y, f or 20/., st't. t that he had received it from his father, who had him to get it cashed. I gave the prisoner a cbe?, Prescott and C o ., an d on t h e f o ll ow i ng day I rece'/di letterirom th e p r i soner w h ic h l ed me to believe t b e c" , as it afterwards turned oat, was a forgery. Thomas Denni s o n , c l er k t o M essrs. Prescott--.T I.botOcr ber last some person presented an order for a ebec!,, signed' Kesteven aid Co. I gave the person a nook numbered 43,601 to 43,800. Frederick Needham, clerk to Messrs. Prescott 14th October a check for 1501., purporting to be by Kt s:even Brothers, was presented and.paid la al note and a 501. note. Ed ward :fits even—The order for the check-b O4ll forgery —so is the cheek. _ - Edward Tanner—l am in the service of Mr. Bdw irr O butcher, Tunbrid ge - we ll s . O n t h e 25th February 181, .01 prisoner Edward Owe n came t o my master ' s s ho p inquired for Mi ss C au lfi el d , a young lady who had u°"- fovernessin Mr. Edwards'fainiiy, but who had left... A prisoner said h e b a d b een d o i ng some work for lAnio Lisle, at Penshuilest, and th a t hi s l or d s hi p had gillice a check for 32/ , drawn on Messrs. Prescott and and he wanted Mr. Edwards to give him cash e s "' tlr. Edwards sent me t o M r. B eech i ng ' s bank to r;,' cashed. I took it th ere an d got t h e money, which Ivi to Mr. E !wards, who afterwards gave it to the,Pri ° , John Henry Webb, Trowbridge, woollen rhanulawi —I have known the prisoner's father for 31 year) m failed in Shrewsb ur y s ome years ago. I was ac " And was net paid in full. 'ln March last a letter brought to my counting•house, enclosing a card " G e° Smith Owen, Peel River, c Australia." In consequen'ib , that letter I went to the George Hotel, and there se i itt prisoners Geo rge S m i t h an d E dward Owen. la' s' Edward Owen if h e wou ld come down and take fig with me. H e sa id h e was very tired, and would r 3, not. I asked him t o come to b rea kf ast, but he desiir!e: And said he would wait upon me at 10 the next mor° l i ii I told him to bring hi s f r i en d w i t h hi m. H e rep lied er fentleman was no friend of his ; he was only a coni n te s t' cial traveller he had pi c k e d up on t h e road. On t he ) tr i if March the prisoner Edward Owen called on me, i/ o at his request, I got the ledger out and l o oked ° , r its father's acco un t. Th e pr i soner sa i d he would r'f', soother dividend of 64. Bd. i n th e poun d , and he cPetioa eis pocketbook and took out a check for 601., pUrP r c ed r,o b e dr awn by M essrs. G r i n d ley and Co. on Pr:° i 0 And C.). I deducted the dividend, 321. 10s., and the prisoner my check for 271. 10s., payable at SO" ; rrowbridge ; and also a receipt to give to his.father,„' -ent the prisoner' s c h ec k t o L on d on, and was inforvty by telegraphic message that it was a forgery. 18511, °r , two prisoners rec e i ve cas h f or my check at the 'l' bridge Bank. James Thomas Rutter, umbrella-maker, Chell i i —On Wednesday the prisoner, Edward Owen, 0 ,„) upon me and s a id h e h a d come to pay his ht.!" lebts. The amount due was 71. 10s. The Orb sroduced .a check for 151., d rawn on H err i es an d i s rid I gave him th e b a l ance on my check for 71. , rhe check was prese n t e d an d re t urne d as a forge ry' Mr. Mullens intimated that he proposed first tow forward a series of cases affecting George Owen. t J A clerk from Coutts's, named Mason, proved t&' check for 371., p ur p ort i ng t o b e d rawn by a .d samed Elizabeth Lloyd, was presented and P ° ,l l l June, 1854. Thi s c h ec k was a f orgery, as was *Li, taking for a check-book, and another note inqn;s l into the state of the account. Miss Lloyd had, lead about 10 months. Mrs. Thompson, of Walcot-square, proved that o d irisoner Gesrge Owen took lodgings at her house, while there, a b an k- note was changed by t h e y o ; goner. This bank not e was p rove d to h ave b een re cet a payment of one of the forged checks. Will am Bonham Sewell, merchant, Mincing-lan e !snow a lady named Ed war d s , res idi ng i n Sl oane aerro e ) received a letter on the 4th of April, enclosing a C in Messy,. Williams of Buidport, drawn by Jame s ,oll mania, for 201., and req ues ti ng th e l avour o f t h e o te s Jeing cashed. Sh ort l y a ft er I rece i ve d a secon d let 0 1 ourporting to come from the same lady, asking 01° ;, imy the bear er th e c h ec k . I gave the bearer the ellee:r And he endorsed it B.cking. The order for acb 'wok now produced is riot in my handwriting. i s s John Waldeck, errand-boy to Messrs. Veni'stiti proved that he seas accosted in the street by one of 0 , aicioners, who requested him to go to the Post-o w e o end ask for letter. He did so, and aft erwar d s was', , o Lombard-street with a floss w h ere h e rece ive d :heck-book, which he was to rake back to the sender °t , be note, who promis e d t o wa i t i n Th ames - eteee t ; a te iitidieg the person lie took the parcel to Mr. Sewell Mincing-lane. When he saw the three prisoners i! ) , J OI dock together he at first said th a t h e cou ld not say It( '.f the three prisoners had employed him. He was, ever, now certain that George Owen was the person. le John W. Jeakes, 51, Great Russell street, stove.c r manufacturer—The p r i soner was formerly in my sal meet, and he left in April, 1855. I discharged hito. o , never banked with Messrs. Prescott and Co. The eigo cure to the ch ec k g i ven to M r. D ouglas is not ill handwriting. A Mr. Idulleng said be had completed two cases ago l o i Edward and one a ga i ns t G eorge O wen, an d h e 'p oi wanted a further remand in order to sort the e ll against the prisoners, they being so numerous. Remanded till Thursday next. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—UntiI the introduction, by Mr. r , Barry, of the Revalenta Arabica Food, both as a reginteri,d invalids and infants, and a reme dy f or a ll di sor d ers cot:Mee: o - with the stomach, nerves, kidneys, liver, and intestines ge't rally, it might have been asserted, with truth, that the tre:!, ment of patients, in sonic of the most obstinate, barest; and painful cmnplaints, to which the human frame is lis v ai r was one desperate game of hap-hazard—different praeti t At 'r ers playin off different systems, involving indescribable 8 0 P - p , lug and expense, and ending in failure. Ali this is now 1 11,, pily changed. Without laying out money in doctor's 131.„j -without enduring the horrors of "doctor's stuff," but 01 ,'",, ply by the adoption of a pleasant and pAatable r este!' t i tive food, disease is banished, and health and act/ 11 0 take its place. It is on no mere theory that these things I 'd asserted. When fifty thonsand persons are referred to, 01 „1 of whom has separ a t e ly d escr ib e d th e won d rous healing effee'-, the preparation in an infinite variety of maladies, the theori rd t solves itself into ascertained and demonstrated fact—A ;t neither to be hushed up, nor explained away on any o "'"ty ground Mao that of the unparallel e d efficacy of the Revale" r Arabica Food, in extir ating al mos t ever y d escr i p ti on o f ra;, bid action or condition from the system. The public are n j turally " slow" i awakening to an appreciation of a nevl i :o better state of things; ant much excuse there is for l' slowness, so often has expe c tati on b een b au lk e d b y the Po re teo.Aons of contending theorists. Here, however, we tp before us proof of the most p o siti ve an d comp l e t e ki n d can be conceived by human reason, aid coming from su e t o multiplicity of sources as show the testimonials received to each the genuine outpouring of joyful gratitude. An advert' went, which appears in our paper of to-day, contains a sl i° o resume of a few of the letters of thanks, which constit!, altogether such a b o dy o f un d en i a bl e evidence as v'i never before brought together upon any subject s"0 ever, and form a noble national monument in illustrat's of the maxim—" Honour to him to whom honour is dee' In canisters, 51bs. Ils.; 121b5., 225. The 121bs. carridj free, on receipt of post-office order. Barry du Barry Co., 77, Regent-street, London ; Fortnum, Mason, and 0 '; Purveyors to her Majesty, Piccadilly ; also at 60, Gill church-street ; 33,4 and 451, Strand ;4, Cheapside ; 6 e ; Ccrnhill ; 49, Bishopsgate-street ; 55, Charing-cress ; Upper Baker-street ; 63 and 150, Oxford-street. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-April 24. BOW-STREET.—The attention of the sitting magis trate was called by Sergeant Hughes, of the E to a charge which appeared on the police-sheet and hi which the defendant bad not been sent to the court. He stated that, on the'previous night, a Mr. Jones, a gentleman about 50 years of age, residing in Store-street, Bedford-square, was found by the police in Tottenham- court-road in a helpless state of drunkenness. He was removed to the station and the charge was entered, the defendant being just sensible enough to hear it and to give his name. He then relapsed into a state of uncon. sciousness, and, all attempts to rouse him proving inef fectual, it was judged advisable to send him to the hos pital. Here r 'course was had to all the usual remedies, equally without effect. After using the stomach-pump and cupping him, the medical officers had applied the galvanic battery, but he appeared quite insensible to the shock. He still lay in the same state of unconsciousnese, and in short no hopes were entertained of his recovery. The magistrate observed that this result was very shocking, but really ought not to excite aiiy surprisv. He rather wondered that such things di:l not occur oftener. The sergeant further stated that a considerable sum of money and some valuable rings, &c., were found on the prisoner. It appeared that be had lately had a legacy to a large amount left him, and it was supposed that the sudden improvement in his circumstances had affected his mind and had been the cause of his taking to drinking. The magistrate inquired if there was any suspicion of poison ? Sergeant Hughes replied that there Wa3 not. The pump was only used to relieve the stomach of the liquor he bad been drinking. Ultimately it was ordered that an entry should be made on the sheet, that the prisoner was removed to the hospital without having been brought before the Court. John, Tong, a master plumber, carrying on busing Is is Upper Wellington-street, and having several lodging hobses in the neighbourhood, was summoned for an as saelt upon Mrs. Catherine Eycott, the wife of a clerk at Somerset-house, who holds apartments of defendant at .12, York-street, Covent-garden. It appeared that Mrs. Eycott had hired the rooms in question, not of defendant himself, but of a Mr. Shirlock, tOs partner in business, and had stipulated fur the use of coal cellar. Thi s coa l ce ll ar , among o th er t hi ngs, had ince been the subjecti of dispute, and defendant had given complainant notice to quit on the 25th of March ; but, as that notice was given a day too late, complainant, not having been able to find apartments to suit her, had de termined to remain. On Wednesday, the 16th inst., the defendant renewed the dispute about the coal cellar, de siring Mrs. Eycott to clear the cellar and give it up. On her refu-al he said he would kill a couple of pet fowls which she kept in the kitchen, and, aster throwing a piece of wood at one of them, and killing it on the sp t, he jumped on a table to strike at the other, which was escaping by the window. Mrs. Eycott t rie d t o pu ll h i m back by the skirt of his coat, which was torn in the struggle, and he turned upon her an d ki c k ed her under H the chin. Ike. then jumped to the ground, flew at her with sudden fury, and beat her in the most barbarous manner with his clenched fists. In giving her evidence Mrs. Eycott showed her arms, which were very much bruised, and a black eye. At first she was quite over whelmed by the shower of blows, but after a while she caught up a stick and was making a feeble attempt to defend herself when defendant's wife and a neighbour in terfered and got him away. Afterwards he made his way to her rooms, where he loaded her and her husband with abuse, the latter being a cripple and unable to turn him out. Mr. lienry, several times in the course of the hearing, and again at the close of the case, suggested to Mr. Duncombe, who appeared for the defence, that he had better induce his client to make some offer of compensa. tion, a proposal that gentleman showed no disposition to adopt till his worhip nitirnated that, if the matter could not be arranged, he must either send the case fur trial or deal with it under the recent act of Parliament. In fact, his only reason for permitting a compromise was, that he would wish the money to go into complainant's pocket, which would not be the case if he inflicted a fine. The case, after being adjourned to allow au opportu nity of arrangement, was brought a second time under his worship's notice by Mr. Doncombe announcing that his client had agreed to pay 1.51. on that day week. Mr. Henry said if he had decided the case he should have inflicted the full penalty of 201. Mr. Wontner, for the complainant 'said, that his client was willing that the rent up t o t h at date, about 4/. or 6/., should be deducted. Mr. Henry ordered the def3ndant to enter into his °nu regoguitatioefi for iio/, to appear on a future day, BIRTHS. Or & SON. On the 23c1 inst., at Walton-oR-Thames, the wife °I Charles Mott, Esq. O❑ the 2.:d inst., at Brighton, the wife of G. A. Schee l der, Esq. ON A DATIGHTICE. On the 23d inst., at Ryde, the wife of R. Gordon, Ee On the 19th inst., at Manor House, Lyndhurst, the i'vz of the Rev. Paulet Mildmay Compton. MARRIED. On the 24th inst., at St. Margaret's,Westminster, Bobt:, Courtenay Bell, Esq., of T orr i ng t on - square, to Clara, ill cddest daughter of Ambrose Poynter, Esq., of Park-stree t, Westminster. On the 24th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square Ge" . Kenyon, Esq., Commander R.N., son of the late'llo l P l Thomas Kenyon, of Pradoe , Salop, to Mary, daughter °' the late R Usherwood, Esq., of Bagdale House, Whitby' Yorkshire. DIED. At Quatford Lodge, Stephen Wolryche, Esq„ C. 8., Spector-General of .tirmy Hospitals. Cf On the 2 , lth inst., Henry Clutterbuck, Esq., M.D., New Bridge-street, Bluckfriars, aged 90. At 50, Istertolk-road, Briglhon, Mrs. Bentley, aged B°' On the 22d inst., at Hasiar, Hamilton Henning, EBV surgeon, R.N., aged 49 On the :?2d inst., at Greenwich, Miss Jane Lethbridg e ' aged 79. On the 20th inst., at Edinburgh, the Rev. James Moo teith. On the 22d inst., at the Elms, South Norwood, Charle t/ Hayward, elder son of the Rev. C. iii. Arnold, aged four months. On she 22d inst., at Brighton, Richard Benj. Adnia' Esq., of 27, Cross-street, Islington, aged 32. LONDON: Printed and Published by lEURDO YOUN C ' or 112, Strznci, Printer, at The Sun Oflice, No. 1 1 `" st ran o, in the Pr e c i nct of the Savoy, in the counl- ° ' , Ididdlamex, Friday, April 26,..180, 11. currc days, ne , Thre: LC The ] Pant. ei of the I statetnt Ilay. 5, Seale 'n on of The Secre Cl 3 it(o w.v.) Bishop UDR SE r< UP DIN* Slx. . ~~ a Piit ot II• Lau] .----:__ a n d — 6 O Camille Private Charg e . Perfurn IT] may) he 4 a nd Pre 1 th 2 , 4, an by fir. Shilling Itt. Trn. Irenry Lire N.R. 33 W, ~~ street, S° Polk accord, The are low are fui tdditiq ?remit polii Pios Londo: 8' The Wands The rnairg 3 on the ducted Wht other Which lovret is tern