The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-28 00:00:00

NAMIAGE WITH A DECLARED WIFE'S SISTER.

The First Division of the Court of Session in Scot-
land, in giving judgment the other day in the well-known
awe of " Fenton r. Livinptone" (lately before the House
of Lards), have unanimoully decided that, by the law of
Headsad, marriage with s deceased wife's sifter is civ;lly
hall 1113 OMB is question relates to the succession to the
Bedlam& estate, in Linlithgowshiru, belooging to the late
Admiral dir Thomas Livingstone, who died ID 1853. There
were two claimants, Mts. Fenton, sister of the demised, put..
mar, and whose title to emceed the judges have sustained;
and Alexander Livingstone, defender, eon of Thurstarius
Livingstone (a brother of deceased), who, after Lis wife's
death, married ber sister, and had this son by her. The
parents of the defender were domiciled in England, and in
16564 the Court of Session decided that, according to the
law ef which forbade inquiry into the validity of
seek tmaee after the death of both parties, the legitimacy
of Alessetkr Livingstone Gould not be challenged, and the
410111114 111111111104 ft seisined his title. The ease was appealed
be the Howse efLerds,who found that the assumption of the
Oeurt of Smoke as to the legitimacy of the defender was
esesseous, and deslared that the rule of F.nglish coolie
by which posthumous inquiry was prevented was Limber(
merely upon Fag,* and not on the courts of foreign
countries ; and that in this case the Court of Swaim was
setit4d to deride for itself upon the validity of the mar-
siege and the legitimacy of the defender. In giving their
pressat assidon two point. came up for judgment. In the
OM place, ths Quirt (Lord Dees dissenting) held thst, as
the &feeder was the Moue of an unlawful marries, by tie
lewd Idegisad, his place of domicile, he could not be er
cognised as • legitimate child in Scotland, and entitled to
summed to • leaded estate there. In the second place, the
judges were unanimous that by the old statute law of
&Wend the =retype of a man with his deceased wife's
sister was civilly null, and that the defender was therefore
illegitimate, and not entitled to succeed.

THN ROYAL ACADZNY AND FINALS ANTININ
Since the days. of Ansabat Kaufman, csne of the original
Royal Academicians, the recognition and esseinungement of
female art in this wintry has been much slanted, and
many ishelaeles have interfered with the tall development
of talista, which emir r cultivation might bays pro-
duced ia Itegiand aeliele of equal eminence with Rosa
Deedsfed efed Thendenta Diserne. It cannot be too generally
knew* that the reddedone which have so long prevented
ladies from participating in the advantages offered by the
Royal Academy to art students have at length been with.
drawn. At the council in June last the best drawing sent
in by candidates for the studentship proved to be the
work of • lady, and on the recommendation of Sir
Charles Eastlake, she was at one admitted. Since then
three other ladies have been equally successful. On Monday
last fourteen drawings were approved of by the council, and
in this case also the best drawing was sent in by a lady, who,
with aye other successful competitors, made her drawing
under the superintendence of Mr. Thomas Heatherley, of
the School of Art in Newman-street, the able successor of
the late Mr. J. M. Leigh. All impartial lovers of art must
rejoice at the practical refutation which the Royal Acad.-
maims have thus made to the charge of exclusive teoden.
tie', by this spontaneous recognition on their part of the
right of women to be treated on an equal footing with men,
a liberality which contrasts most advantageously with thi
conduct ot the inedicalaiiwta in this country with re-
spond io Dr. Illisabsib a

CALLS TO TSB BAR. LING`OI.II'B- I tiN, Jas. 26.
The nodermeetiosed gleam= were this day called to the
degree of berrister-at Mw, by the Hoaourable Society of
Li noolit'sina, cis.:—Deans Parber hawthorns, EsiViel.,
Cambridge • Percy &havoc., Esq., M.A., Cam ' ;
Arthur Giles Puller, Esq., M.A., Quakidge ; Joseph il-
item Dunning, Fog., M.A., Cambridge ; Gawp Worthier
ton. 4. Robert Fletcher Latwidga, Esq., 8.A.1
Cain • • ; Paid Pantos, Eeq., RA., Cambridge ;Ed
Robert calsboum, E Chariot Cons“., Faq. ; Horace
Davey Esq., M.A.., Oxford;sq John Udder, Esq.. ILA.,
Odsrd ;
Arthur
Duos, Esq. ; Cimino Bungs Cbriatopher
Bwmai 1•11.1 B.A. Oxford ; llemw leidall Johnson,
Esq. RA., Cbasbridge ; Bernard Crecroft, Esq. Y.A.
RL.
Csimieidglellilliant Hal/hide Allem, Fog, 31., b. sad
C., ; Frederick James Quiet, Esq., 8.A., Cam-
bridge ' • Behest Smith, req. ; Almelo John Lewis, Esq.,
8.A., Oxford; Charles &ems* Esq. ; Mask William
Hunter, Esq., 8.A., Cambridge ; Henry Augustus Clever-
ing. Esq., sad John Bell, Esq., M.A., Cambridge.