The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-14 00:00:00

MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASRD WIPES
SISTER.

The following bill has been prepared and brought
in the House of Commons by Kr. M. Milne., Mr. Spooner,
and Mr. Denman :

" Whereas it is expellent to amend the law es to ow-
doge with a deceased wife's sister : Bs it therefore enacted
by the Queen'. most excellent Majesty, by and with the
ode" and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and
sionimons, In this prevent parliament assembled, and by the
!authority of the same, as follows :
sunk, which has been celebrated since the
ol the 641 sod 6lh d Wm. W., chap. 54, at any
plum whatever, within the robs or without, between a
man and his &owed wife's sitar, or which shall hereafter
be celtrearbrated between the like yetis, in the office of say
reehaunder the preview= of the AW sad 7th of Wm.
p 85 or the Ist of Victoria, chap. 22, or
•
of the 3rd and 4th of Victor* chap. 72, or of the 7th
and Bth of Victoria, chap. 81 (Ireland), or of the 9th and
10th of Victoria, chap. 72 (Ireland), or of the 19th and 90th
of Victoria, chap.ll9' or the 23rd of Victoria, chap. 18, shall
be deemed to have been nor shall be void or voidable by
reason only of the amity of the parties thereto, or by reason
of any statute, or af any canonical or other objection or Im-
pediment, founded *sly on such affinity, to the validity of
&a vouch mallow er to the celebration thereat, or to the
validity of any Busse or certificate under which the maw
may have boss celebrated.
"2. Provided always, that nothing herein contained
shall render valid any manage with the sister of •
deceased wife where either of the parties has afterwards,
during the life of the ether, sad before the reship of this
act, lawfully intermitted with any other person.
massalso, that thie act, so far as it relates to any
with the sister of a deceased wife contracted be-
fore the paring of this set, shall not invalidateor affect any
right to any dignity or title el honour or any estate,
right, title, or Wisest, legal or equitable, in or to any
lands, bereffituesets, chsttele, or effects, vested in any
penes Wore the paring el this act, nor any ocean-
=rat= or iwienek,- legal or meltable, in any land.,
ts, chattels real, chattels or effects, created by
or derived from sey settlameet, grant, conveyance to nem,
release, appointment, or other instrument bona Ede exe-
cuted before the paring of OW act, or by or from say
devise or will winch shell have become operative by the
death of the divisor or testator before the passing of this
act.

" 4. No marriep between a men and his deceased wife's
sister ooatracted in Sootiand slaw the paring of this act
shall be void by rOSIIOD only of the affinity of the puttee
thereto, or by reason of any 'taste, or of any obionion or
impediment, founded only on snob affinity, to the validity
of such marriage or to the contacting thereof.
" 0. Cisme 4 only of this sot shall extend to Scotland."

Mr. O'Donogline intends to move on Tuesday for
ea
address for return of the number of British vessels, with
the muss, se far as can be ascertained, of their captains and
owners respectively, that have suaoseded, within the put
six months, in running the blockade of the Southern ports
of America ; a similar return as to the British vessels that
bare been captured or destroyed in the attempt to break
the blockade; and a return of the number end desoription
of British vessels that have put into the port of Noma,
N.Y., and other colonial ports, laden with articles contra-
band of war, and with supplies for the Confederate states,
and that have been permitted to mit and supply themselves
with stores by the authorities of those plasma, " in contra-
vention of Mte Queen's proslametisa, and of the neutrality
which it is the expressed dsdro kat Majesty's govern-
ment to uphold."

Mr. Bentinek, on Tuesday week, will move the
followieg shandies in the 57th paragraph of the rules,
orders, and forms al proceeding of the house :—" If it
appear oa notice being taken, at the close of the speech of
any member, or on the report of a division of the house by
the tellers, after 4 o'clock, that forty members an not pre-
sent, Mr. Speaker adjourns the house without a (protium
first put till the next sitting day ; and the name of the
member who has taken such notice, and also the name of
every member present when the house is counted, shall be
taken down by the clerk of the house, and published on the
following day in the votes and proceedings."

Mr. Whalley intends to move, on Tuesday next,
for a return of the number of persons who have completed
their education at the Royal College of Blaynooth,
from the year 1845 to the year 1861, isehuive ; " specifying
their tames, and, so far as is knows to the authorities of
the college, their destination on leaving the college, the
position now occupied by them in the Romeo catholic
church, and the place of their ministry ; also stating whether
any, and, if any, which of the three Room catholic arch-
bishops and the twenty-four bishops whom tames have
appeared in the newspapers attached to a pastoral letter,
dated Dublin, Feast of St. Mark, 1861, annexing to their
signatures certain territorial titles, were educated at May.
nooth College, or are now officially connected therewith as
Mahon, trustees, or otherwise."
The Committee of Selection have nominated the
General Committee oo Railway and Canal Bills, as
follows:—Lord Stanley (chairman), Messes. Mowbray,
Adair, ficholefield, Duller, Woodd, and Huard.
Tea 1:110HWATII BILL—The preliminary clauses
of the bill for the better masagement of highways in Eng-
land defines the limits of the act with regard to cuuoty sod
borough. There are four clauses on the formation of high-
way districts, constitution of highway board, election of
waywardeor, consequences of formation of highway dia-
Mktg' ; followed by clauses relating to the appointment of
, officers, and detioing the works and duties of the board for
the maintenance of highways, and their protection from
eneroschineut : giving power to make any improvement
that may be deemed expedient, or to contract to repair
highways within other districts, and to levy rates for de-
fraying expenses OD each parish. The act is not to extend
to Scotland or Ireland.
CHI tteli BATZ ABOLITION BILL. —The bill
brought in by Sir J. Trelawny provides that from and
after the passing of this act no church rate shall be made
lor levied is any parish in England or Wales. Provided
always that in any parish where a sum of money is at the
• time of the passion of this act due on the security of church
rates to be owls or levied iu such pariah under the provi-
sions of any act of parliament, such rates may still be made
and levied pursuant to such provisoes for the puma. of
° plying off the money so due, but not otherwise, until tho
same shall have been liquidated. Any church rate made
j at any time before the pinion of this act may be col-
lected and recovered is the same way as if this act had not
I been passed.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE DT A DISATI.OINTED LOVER,
AT Ltina.—A young fellow of respectable appemance,
named John Habbeishaw, and who resides in Skinner-
lane, Lewis, has attempted ;elf-destruction. It appears that
be had been paying his attentions to Maas Caroline
' Deiglitoo, No. 12, Tulipstreet, but that his addresses
• had uut, recently been favourably received by that young
I lady. A little after ten o'clock ou Wednesday night,
Police-constable Silverwood, who was on duty in David's-
lane, mid that liabbershaw came up to him in a very
agitated state, took bold of his arm, and said iu faint
and broken tones, " I am dyiug, I, have been taking poison.
I bare swallowed a shillings worth of laudauum, and 1
wish_ you to fled me a place where I can lay myself down to
die." Pitts, another officer, stated that he went to the re-
sidence of Caroline Heighten after Habbershaw bad been
locked up, and obtained from her a small oblong meino•
ruuduni nook, which bad been sent to her by the prisoner
before he swallowed the poison. It contained the folluwiog
letter :—" Des Carry,—This is the last time you will see
me. You ars the cause of my troubles, but I forgive you,
and next time we meet 1 hope it will be in heaven.
Had you have taken my advice we should have
both been happy, but now it is COO late' You need not
umpire about me, for no one will know my fate. Dear
Curry, you must redeem that ring, and wear it for my rake ;
I hope you will grant me this request, it is the last I Farr
well ; you may god others who may love you dear, but sot
lore like mine.—l remain, a second George BanswelL
J. H. To Caroline DeiglAmi, Tulipstreet, No. 12."—The
over-dose of the poison appeared partly to have worked
its natural effect before Habbersbaw aceestedthe policeman,
fur be must have relieved his stomach of the greater part of
the laudanum when taken into custody. Under the tender
care of the policeman and the medical sus to the force, he
was soon out of danger, The magistrates thought the lad
required the proteciou of a parent, and they aceordhigly
seat for his mother, to whom he was coosigued in tbs course
of the ofteriseoa.