The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-30 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, ILiRCII 30, 1881.

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THE ST. JAMES'S MACIAZINE,
orenincted by Mrs. R. C. HALL.
Designed to promote the Interests of Lime, the Refinements of
Life, and Du ARILLICIIIvot and Infonnatios of ad Claw*
oonorn.

1. Pt. Janice's. Fly Rolx7tisTl.
2. Can Wrong be Right • Tale. By_Wrs. S. C. Hall. Mar
traded with Etchings as steel by MA
& lieu.. By Owen Meredith.
A What 'formes le ightinspde has Done and Is Doing.
5. The trash All Souls' Night. By the author of • • Caul Ferrol."
g• Mabee and Magenta. By Robert Hant. P.B.P.
T. Ralph the Bald : *Tole. Is Three Parts.—Part 1.
& The Loped of 141 Cltriskpber. By the author of "John
Ball a; Gentleman.'
9. Note* ow Rasaysand Reviews:* By J. O. Halllwell, P. R.&
le Among tas Stsgs—ln April: By tptiga Liman; R.A.
IL miss 1 Lots! For Muir.
lt Pair Orissa : • Tale o' Pentland.
11. The Hills of lawdon. By Br. Doran, F.S A.
It. Need of naril Knowledge to Women. By If eb Manilla&
Pend of the Lads In the C1tf...42. Monism Hood.
IA. thennes Fraetleal
17. What We Did Without His I
In The Lamar= dif gossip.
15. A Story for the Young. By Yrs. S. C. Bak
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MA RRIAGS WITH A DICZASID wrYrs SISTER.

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-llnch misappreheusiou prevails respecting the
moral and social estimation in which the thou.
of marriages with a deceased wife's sister ex.
'rig among us, ought in be held. Many persona,
out due consideration, confound as I:mumble ,
*thi
• , from which lepl inaction is wrongfully with i.
held.' with the case of ama s and woman who might At any
lament be lawfully married, tat who evince the immoral.
Sty of their motives by Bytes In illicit intercom" without
marriage. The two *sees have no resemblanee whatever. 1
The one has all the essentials of holy matrimony as divineli
ilnstituted, the other has scow invalid marriage is noi j i
iseeemarily a dishonourable one. Owing to the confasiont
And oaterteioty introduced tato our marriage km by axle.
6iastical interference, circumstances have dam amassed ta,
deprive pure and blameless =Mammal mime al go trod
flea of law. In the reign of Heady VIII. it Tama 1
felony for a priest to many ; yet prima did marly4764
parliament afterwards made their Imainee gas& Who
validity of the marriages of Quakers wit demi is Sagbui
before 1837 was so doubtful, that ea act was weed la
1848 to . declare them valid. Yet ymemma us
were not therefore held in any theirs ailmeiM At=
English history, in the awe of the illill Dyke of Irrallso
affords • still more walk sameemi• le dr limo =
allowing that marriage may aim be easkary to the o
...h of an gnash statute, and *mks@ isahaaltallbl
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null and void, and the issue illegitimate by English law ; it
may be that all who were present at the eareniony
incurred the severe penalties of a peneneire, by
which they were liable to isspriummi, sad the
Lass of all they possessed ; and yeas sada reartinge.
not being contrary to the divine is.. may, under the
circumstances, be allowable ; it may be innocently and
honourably contracted ; sacredly binding on the parties; re.
igiously observed ; productive of domestic happiness ;
cognised es aserally pare by virtuous society; estsmod
worthy of the highest rank of nobility by the doveedgm.
the fountain of besear ; and eireitioeed without renew*
timeliest unblersiebod court in the world.
The Nikes ewe was this. By the Royal Marriage Act
(12 Geo. 111., c. 11), say marriage of a member of the
Royal Family, contracted without the coesent at the
Sovereign, signified under the great seal, and declared in
council, is pronounced sail and void to all intesta and pur-
poses whatsoever, and all who may be present, or siding
and abetting, ate exposed to the severest penalties. Under
these circumstances, We Royal Highness Augustus

Frederick, the IM. Dubs of Sossea, Earl of Inverness,
without the required nosiest of the then reigning Sovereign,
married the Right Hon. Lady Cecilia Letitia Underwood,
eldest surviving daughter of the mood Fail of Arno, such
r menage being legally rmld and void.
moolopo, setwithstanding its manifest illegality,was
lot totoisolsoi by the people of flegland as immoral. It is
totattomoty to say that his Royal Highness, in an eminent
dorm, rolobiod the edema and ►dmiration of all classes,
to the dose of a loss life, sad the following extracts from
the Court Cinvier will show the social estimation in which
this legally void marriage has bees held :

March 30, 1840.—The Queen has been pleased to direct
letter, patent to he posed under the great seal, mating the
dignity of • Dachas of the United Kingdom to the Right
Honourable Lady Cecilia Underwood (eldest surviving
daughter of Arthur Saunders, mooed Earl of Arran,
by EMbath, his third wife, daintier of Richard
Usderwood. Eq., kW of Dublin), by the title of Dunham
of Inverness. Tteurday, Apra 9011, 1810.—Her lfaisety
hell • Drawing rem. demi the emptily were :
Duchesses: levemear, Booeleuch, Somerset, Northumber-
land, Rozherglia,Dowevr Rozburghe. Monday, April 13th,
1340.—Load sad lady _Dloorben entertained at dinner his
Royal Highs's, the Doke of Sasser, and her Ones the
Duchess of Levenson. The parties limited to meet them
wen their Royal Hig•amess the Prince sad Primo of
Gape, and man_ y_ ef tie Rio of the nobility. Monday,
kismet 1011, 1110.—Her Majesty gave a dinner party II
theme eumies. The miespeay masted of their Ma
_prim the
lamil Queue el the Rekiara, their Royal Highnesses
the Dasher of Irak the Umbels al Gloomier, the Doke
Orsol of Doss.,theDelle of sod the Deismells-
mum. Wednesday. Nara 11111.—The Dashers of
liven= eniestaid their illidtames the Dubois
of embiddie an Geo Princess at Eimer, al ILaisalat
tem Passe. • duet party wire invited to meet timer
ayal highamer."
It is, therefore, matter of historical record, that • union
legally void may bare the character of honourable matri-
mony, and such is the verdict which &ninth society pre-
nooses' on the marriages with a deceased wife's sister
which are every day taking place. The representatives of
the valise bars thirty times voted them lawful, sod prelates
and clergy hold them so disqualifirotioa for the communion
of the church.

M. ALSILNDIUI DIIIIIAIL—A letter from Naples
of the 21st, is the Prase, says :—" A challenge whkh Y.
Alexandre Dumas has nest to the director of the Maw
loured If Popolo dltalie has, skies yesterday, We the
Gabled of seemsteaties. Two &yea.° the repabillime
on areas astitled "Waste of the Yobbo
i=hichk *fanned that MIL Deers, Ceeari, and
Tearless had received the eironeses sum of 440,000 ducats
degas. each) without the employneset of that money
justified. &steely did W. Demme beer of
this aelietthaa be proceeded to N. to repeat from
bl sa Adel wry of the reesipt• which at the time of the
Eah.of samliale made by ceder at! the Dictator he had
mil to M. Decrees at Palermo, sad to General
Nadia' at Mesehm. That dose, he seat two of hie friseda,
Oohed, Tashi mid Winkler, to the office of the journal,
with the doable mimics of deolaricg to the editors that be
mas desided to bang ea action wan them for defionatisw,
sad of fiemeallats viesonal satidaritios. IL De Bali, as
ealeiset, mileamimeg ha the first place to justify the se-
Man of theleeseak by say* that miter the publication of
the anti& d.eranr is had beim eogairuaketed to him to
prows that N. Deems bed rewired only KAM as the
pries of the amiesie sad revolvers meld 1 Garibaldi. bet
had ant asemaledi he the net. It. De Douai &eland, at
the sane Mae h Mail& that Dot being able to wee the
maw of the Wide, he amemed the reponability if it. It
was thee %rooddMr the of the tribunal,
IL De Beni woad et this disposal of X.
Dame, who gore dlie=e shim of either sword
et pleat Ile the maim ammias at ipmeat."

LITBRATUXIL

3fy Share of the World. An Autobiography. By 1
Faeroes BRAWN& In 3 vols. Hurst and,.
}Beckett.
Miss Frauces Browne, whose share of the world
of nature is "no sun, no moon, but ever-during
dark," and of the world of fortune that of a poor
relation of the blind goddess, has in the volumes
before us proved her share of the world of imagina
Lion and fancy, of sit and pathos, to be ample and
brillinut Her work is, indeed, remarkable on
many accounts. Its style, as occasion offers, is
easy, vigorous, epigrammatic. The construction
of the story shows great care and skill, while the
incidents see startling, but not unnatural. The
characters are drawn with a firm handand from the
life-school. They are not shadowy beings of un-
certain form and lineament, ".men as trees walk-
ing, but real flesh and Wood, who love and bate,
plot and counterplot, worship mammon or anything.
I else, and call their idol enterprise, honour, Janie, is
true and unmistakeable human fashion. Indeed,
we think the principal defect of the narrative ia,
that, like many of the older novels, too large • 1
number of persons figure in it. It the remark of
Ole philosopher be just, that three are, after all, I
Iritt two hinds of beings in the world, men and
tannedt a work which dont/hie' the poirmitil et'
lung like a hundred must present .similarr
he army*. For example, than is a clues
ee in the charasters and purauitaof the 1
Penton' and the Miss.fitollinaoss, who are led
will by the Baptist and. ladepeadent ministers,
dietribite trade, gingered advice, sad "Airt.in ;
c...mating Wayo' with consideut uniformity.
time, it is true, play only • easendefy in
stOr7 ; and there is no lack of enigma' y or
r m Ilse leading drwmatia perm , ti" the.
eireumeranene in which they appal% Pr... 111 the
catastrophe whit* awaits them. .„ ..

Fade-riot Favoierabant, the hero of the story,
who relates his own adventures tom * time
when his only share of the world was three oyster
'shellsc it tarn pinafore, and the floor ei .a hula*
dwelling in Liverpool, to the period, long delayed
end never hoped for, when be is the owner of
broad lands and funded thousands, is, even in the
t money and acre days, nay then most, one of the
world', 'tickles& ones. He is unlucky in his
friends, unlucky in hie love, unlucky in his pur-
suita—m a word, unlucky in his form of character.
He "often keeps the vigil but never the feast
of success ; tome screw becomes loose in the machi-
aery, some cord snaps in the system of pulleys, the
milk pail falls from his highly tossed head, the
glory turns off at an acute angle." In truth, he
has a strong *dam to the weaker and losing
i side. His chivalry, however, is not the chivalry
' of genius, which does a noble action without regard
' to self or consequences, but the chivalryof a MSS df
high spirit, mingled wither considerable whereof pen-
deem, which counts the con, strikes the, belentai ,
and ants etoerdingly. He is therefore often ,
lessiiinly inoonsietent with himself, sometimes
moulding circumstances; sometimes yielding to
them. Thus, be offers marriage to a girl whom
be does not care for and who he fancies is in love.
"'Wain ; but, though commended to his ears by
I tie dearest friend, he leaves the same 'girl, witk,
I only, e feeble warning, to certain destruction;
i "keeps judiciously out of UM& clultrterz" his own
• Interest depending upon her betrayer, in the same
I I rest, 111(13eraishetf.a t'D
ciwistenth=e4fo a fat
was vii
and friends desert them ; but be map* *, mien,
nonipense for his fidelity, a lucrative situation
f =me of •their **fives, mho had slandered his
• invalid his der en the downward I
road, :lit one woman he had proposed to, ant'
was the favoured lover of another. Yet the lesseas
of the hero's life were learnt mostly from hard.
teatimmeen, on the lower forms, and among coin-
pinions of the earthly stamp, whose only aim was
to get money or to spend it, to repose beneath the
dignity of a deaconship or the safe shelter of an
alias • creatures who had neither sense nos
1 honesty, love nor friendship worthy of the name ;
till, in the bitterness of his experience, he eases
to the conclusion that man's friendship mad,
wmaan's love depend not on worth of heart or
wealth of mind, but ou fortune's favour. And
fortune, as we have said, is no friend to Frederick.
She not only casts him among people with whom he
has no sympathy, but binds him to occupations for
.which he has little talent and lees inclination. He
begins his career in • painter's studio, where his
;master, being partial to strong waters and boxing,
moil goes to the dogs, and his pupil, having no caste
for design, into another situation, his office being
to read "Foxe's Martyrology" and "Inquisition
Displayed "to • pima prodigy of fifteen. Frederick
is next thrown among phrenologists, whose science
was rampant in Britain soon after the general piece,
about which time the story opens, and becomes ea
assistant in the Dilworth Institution so called
from the name of its founder, Dr. Dilworth, a man
"who lived by his watch, moved by his table-
book, and believed in training." His sojourn at
the Institution la, however, brought to • close by a
coquettish widow, a broken east of Minerva, and
the doctor's heir apparent, who, contributing to,
the fracture of the goddess, got well kicked for his
pains. The press is now Ins calling, and the me-.
tropolis the scene of his labours. He reports
criminal cases for the Planet, then one of the most
successful of the daily papers, and becomes the
" sub " of a person who doss the fires far the Mid
journal, and remarks, "there is soniethiag grand
about the devouring element above the touch of com-
mon reporters ; • lire brings out the heroic qualities."
The speaker's heroic qualities, by the way, consist
in sponging upon Frederick, getting the credit of
his reports, and keeping him at work behind the
curtain. We then find our hero lecturing on
phrenology and breaking down ; unwittingly re
porting his father's trial for bigamy ; as unwit
tingly causing the death of his friend ; coming too
late to prevent the suicide of his first love, and
thereby securing his own title to a large estate and
a fortune of ninety thousand pounds. " I have
cursed that money through my alesphies nights for
the way by which it came to me, and rims and paid
my taxes with it. The coin rings as true end
bus asmuch, however it may come."
Such is a meagre outline of the story, but it
wants the striking episodes, the endless variety of
dialogue, the gradual unfolding of the drama, the
wit, the eloquence, the pathos, which illustrate and
adorn the pages of "My Share of the World."

ROTAL.COLLaGI 07 131711080 NS OF ENOLAND..—The
following Fathoms woad their first or primary examina-
tions in Aastomy aad Physiology on the 2dth inst., :
MOIR O. T. Ma J. Jamie, R. T. Thorne, T. 8. War-
boys, W. Daaderdals, W. 8. Hodes, T. M.
Tam, J. K.Da4Zisa, T. Fairbsak, E. H. Edlia, H. S. Ro.
Masa% O. Jeaffressa. J. B. Whom*, C. Y. Calk G. T. M.
Bnsitham, E. IL Pettlfar, A. T. Ansley, F. L. Heston, A.
Worry sad IL 8. Storm of St. Dirtholomew's Hospital;
C. F. !LAMAR. G. Freeman, B.Cookson, H. E. Hutchings,
G. M. Ashf ,E. Hawkins. C. Smith, E. Made, E. Moore,
F. Woodmisi, B. Tamar, J. lamb, J. St. T. Clarke, T. Ste.
MIMI% H. Rieke, E. H. L Pratt, P. H. P. Smith, and J.
H. Evans, of Guy's Hospital ; 8. aster. P. C. filispheard,
A. G. Cox, J. J. Barrett, J. D. Swallow, W. Adam., G.
pees, A. TOWIIIO, O. M. Nampo, T. J. Jefferson, C. A.
Watemrorth, 0. H. Ward, and a Lloyd, of fff. Thome,
Has ;B. W. Davies, P. J. Simpson, T. J. Jams, H.
Ta ,W. Rkirsos, F. Warr, J. R. B. Gibson, J.
3-11. ihrtlett, and Z. O. Daly, of Dolversity
College Hospital A.
W. R. Hammier, C. T. L Smith,
H. N. Watt., A. Beadles, p. P. Edis, B. Bay, and H.
Miller, of the Wailadaster Hospital ; H. Willey, H. N. M.
&I WO* A. L. Oldoppiai, T. C. Jeekson. W. Maraud,
C. H. Er* sad J. It. Crater, of Hines Colley ; J. L.
Newtosit. H. Oliver, F. Carter, sad W. Dais, of the
i
=Pita ; Gamey', W. J. Boanor, sad T. Jones,
erd"Midolleam Hospital ; W. o.Welfeed, H. IL.
end T. Massy, of ft. GeenevHospital ; 0. 111=
a. A. D. /gawk al s Haspitsl; T. Foster sad
i. Fr/gar. Noway& ;B. . Newbeld sad J. Wawa.
of Ilaaolkenter ; J. &filth, of York ; W. lama, al MB*
burgh ; H. C. Bowser, at Oileatia ; J. W. We, of Mir
• saw ; and F. Riff*, ef Blinisllllll.