The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-26 00:00:00

RAID IVA Y IN TELLIGENC E.
THE DUTCH-RHENISH RAILWAY.
A meeting of the English shareholders of this railway
was held on Monday at the London Tavern. The chair
was taken at two o'clock by Mr. W. Reed.
The CHAIRMAN made a long speech in reference to the
differences of the shareholders, which had led to the
convening of this meeting, and the history and general
position of the company. Adverting to the origin of
his own connexion with the line, he said that he became
a member of the London board of direction, in April,
last year; and, soon after accepting office, he endea-
voured to bring about an alteration of the statutes,
which he considered defective, and with this view he
proceeded, in the month of June, to visit Holland.
The dissatisfaction of the English shareholders at this
period arose chiefly from the circumstance that the
writ of expropriation for the purchase of land between
Rotterdam and Utrecht had not been obtained. This
difficulty was at length surmounted, and the site obtained
for the station at Rotterdam was the best that could be
granted. A committee was appointed to investigate the
subject of the statutes. One great difficulty arose
from the number of boards by which the company were
managed, the . head direction being in Holland; and
the object which he himself contemplated when he
visited that country was to ensure the exercise of
greater power on the part of the shareholders,
and to bring the statutes into more accordance with
those of the French companies. When he arrived in
Holland all his proposals for that purpose met with
opposition from the head direction. On inquiry, he
discovered that the cause of this was, that a report
had reached Holland that the Dutch directors were
all to be turned out, and that he (Mr. Reed) was
going to Holland to assume the management of
the concern. Under this impression, the head di-
rection determined to adhere to the existing statutes.
Negotiations, however, subsequently took place, which
resulted in the holding of an interview in London, be-
tween the Dutch direction and the English direction, and
each party having made concessions, an amicable arrange-
ment was entered into. It was agreed that an 'English
gentleman should be added to the direction in Holland,
and that the absent English directors should have a voice
in what was done abroad. This arrangement was not
however, as subsequently appeared, satisfactory to the
Liverpool shareholders, who, headed by Messrs. Har-
rison and Holland, sought yet further alterations in the
statutes. A Liverpool deputation proceeded to Hol-
land, in spite of his (Mr. Reed's) remonstrances ;
and the Dutch directors, feeling that there had been
something like a breach of faith, the arrangement
previously entered into was at an end. He did
not wish to impute any improper motive to any
one, but he regretted that such had been the result.
The Dutch direction had previously purchased nearly
all the land required between Utrecht and Rotter-
dam, and having urged upon the English directors
the necessity for that step, a call of Ms. was
made to meet the demand. When the French revo-
lution broke out, the English direction urged the Dutch
not to enter into new engagements which could be
avoided ; but in consequence of the alleged breach of
faith a second call of ten shillings per share had been
made, and a great pressure was being made to obtain
payment. He had felt it his duty thus to lay the past
proceedings before the shareholders, who must determine j
what course should be taken.
Mr. HOLLAND, the Liverpool shareholder referred to
by the chairman, addressed the meeting at some length,
and defended the course to which he had been a party.
After considerable discussion, a committee, compris-
ing Liverpool shareholders and members of the London
direction, was appointed for the purpose of endeavour.
ing to bring about an amicable settlement of differences.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS

NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1848.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... 390
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 54
Turbercular Diseases... ... ... 202
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 112
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 34
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... ••• 65
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion...
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. • •••
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations...
Premature Birth ...
Atrophy ...
Old Age ••• ••• ••• ••• •••
Sudden ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• •••
Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance
Causes not specified

... 65

... 26
... 27
•.. 34

... 36

1,096

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
GOOD WOOD RACES._TUESDAY.
In respect of weather, a more unfortunate commence.
ment of a meeting, which so intimately combines plea.
sure with business, cannot be conceived. The rain set
in before day-break, and fell without ceasing until about
nine'o'clock; after a short interregnum, it re-commenced,
and continued, with a strong wind and a mist so thick
as to render it impossible to distinguish colours at a dis-
tance of 100 yards, until after the second race, when it
cleared up, and remained comparatively fine to the close
of the races. The ground had previously been heavy,
particularly on the now ground; it now became very
deep in all parts; and, there can be no doubt that in
some instances it produced results which future running
will prove to have been anything but consonant with the
real merits of the horses.
The company, it will be readily imagined, was limited;
it was confined to the visitors at Goodwood, and the
sporting circles. The select few who were present, were
rewarded by some racing of extraordinary interest. The
competitors for the great prizes, comprising the winners
of the Derby and St. Leger in 1847, the winner of the
last Derby, one of the leading favourites for the next,
and many others of high renown. The results of three
of the principal events were adverse too the favourites,
and, in the instances of Surplice and Honeycomb, will
have immense influence on the betting on future events.
We repeat, however, that the state of the ground must
have had some effect. Subsequent running may lead to
results very different to those recorded underneath.
The Craven Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 50 added; two
yrs old, 4st 71b; three, 7st; four, Bst 41b; five, Bst 10Ib;
six and aged, Bst 121 b. One mile and a quarter.
(6 Subs.)
Mr. J. B. Day's The Hero „. , walked over
The Levant Stakes of 50 sovs. each, 30 ft; for two yrs
old colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 31b; the winner of the
July or Chesterfield Stakes at Newmarket, or any two
yrs old stake at Ascot, to carry 51b extra; the second
to save his stake. Half a mile.
Mr. Payne's Glauca
Mr. Wreford's Wet Nurse
Mr. Mostyn's Czarina
Lord Eglinton's Solon ... ••• 0
Duke of Richmond's Buffalo Gal :*:
Lord Strathmore's The Seraph
•.• ••• Betting—Even on Glauca, and 3to I agst Czarina.
Glauca took the lead, was never headed, and won cle-
verly by a length; a fine race ending in favour of Wet
Nurse for second place, by a head.
The Drawing Room Stakes of 25 soya. each, with a bonus
by an independent subscription of 10 sovs. each; for
three yrs old colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 21b.; the second
to receive 100 sovs. out of the stakes, and the winner
to pay 25 sovs. to the Judge. D.R.S.C. (19 Subs.
to the stakes, and 15 to the bonus.)
Lord Exeter's Swordplayer (Bartholomew) 0 1
Mr. Payne's Glendower ,„
0 2 Betting-6 to lon Glendower, who waited until oppo-
site the stand, got up in the last stride, and made it a
dead heat. Run in 5 min. 22 secs.
Deciding heat-6 to son Glendower. Swordplayer
made all the running, and won by three lengths. Run
in 5 min. 20 secs.
The Ham Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h ft; for two yrs
old colts, Bst 101 b; fillies, Bst 71b; those out of mares
or got by stallions that never produced a winner of
100 sovs. allowed 31b, both 61b; the second to receive
200 sovs. out of the stakes, and the third to save his
stake. One mile and a half. (54 Subs.)
Colonel Peel's cby lon, out of Palmyra, Bst 71b (Nat) 1
Lord Clifden's Honeycomb, Bst 71b ..• Lord Eglinton's Belus, Bst 41b 2
Lord Glasgow's Canada filly, Bst 41b 3
.. 4
Mr. Gratwicke's Rochester, Bst 71b .
..• Sir C. Monck's Vanguard, Bst 10lb 5
'" 6
Duke of Richmond's Jellyfish, Bst 7lb
••. 7
Betting-3 to lon Honeycomb, sto 1 agst Vanguard,
and 6to 1 agst the lon colt, laid, to a small sum. The
lon colt made all the running, defeated the crack half
way up the distance, and ran home a gallant winner by
two lengths. Belus a bad third. Run in 1 min. 25 secs.
The winner has been named Tadmor.
The Gratwicke Stakes of 100 soya, each, h ft; for three
yrs old colts, Bst 101 b; fillies, Bst 51b; mares that never
bred, and stallions that never got a winner of 1002,
allowed 31b, both 61b; the second to receive 200 sovs.
out of the stakes, and the third to save his stake. One
mile and a half. (50 Subs.)
Lord Chesterfield's Distaffina
Lord Clifden's Surplice ••• •.•
Duke of Richmond's Hornpipe ..•
Mr. Bowes's Wiasma ••• ••• . 4
Betting-5 to 2on Surplice, and 3to 1 agst Wiasma.
Hornpipe took the lead at starting, followed by Wiasma,
Surplice and Distaffina lying off; there was no change
in this order until they came to the turn, where Wiasma
took up the running, which she carried on to the bend
of the rails; here the favourite went in front, and was
leading until half-way up the distance; Distaffina then
showed ahead, cleared the crack opposite the stand, and
won easily by a length, a neck between second and third,
Ran in 3 min.
Sweepstakes of 300 sovs. each, h ft; for four yrs old
colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 21b; the second to save
his stake. About three miles five furlongs. (26 Subs.)
Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp ... (Marlow) 1
Mr. Pedley's Cossack ... , 2
Betting-6 and 7t04 on Van Tromp, who took the
lead, was never approached, and won by at least 150
yards, Cossack giving up some distance from home. Run
in 7 min. 48 secs.
The Innkeepers' Plate of 50 sovs., added to a Sweep-
stakes of 5 sovs. each; two yrs. old, sst 71b; three,
7st 91b; four, Bst 41b; five, Bst 111 b; six and aged, 9st,
The winner to be sold for 100 sovs., if demanded, &c
T.Y.C.
Lord Clifden's Carbuncle, 2 yrs .
Mr. E. R. Clark's Coronet, 2 yrs „, ... 2
Mr. Payne's bf by -Muley Moloch, 3 yrs (21b over)... 3
Mr. J. King's cby John o'Gaunt, 2 yrs ... •••
Duke of Richmond's Nectar, 3 yrs „, „, ... 0
Mr. Thompson's Latchley, 2 yrs
.„„ ... 0
Betting-7 to 4 agst Carbuncle-3 to 1 a
and Nectar, and 4 to 1 agst Coronet.
Won by three parts of a length; a neck betweenen o
second and third, the others beatff. Run in 1 min.
47 sec. agst Latchley
The Goodwood Club Stakes of 10 sovs. each, for three
year olds and upwards. Craven Stakes Course.
(5 Subs.)
Lord Clifden's Sagacity, 4 yrs, lOst.
LATEST BE £TING ON THE COURSE.
GOODWOOD STASES.
agst Reflection 10 to 1 agst Remembrance
agst Pillage
(taken freely)
agst Plaudit 10 to 1 agst Chanticleer
agst Gaiety—t 40 to 1 agst Sheraton
THE Cup.
Even on Van Tromp—not p.p.
8 to 1 agst Emilius.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, 1848.
FRIDAY.
Lord Exeter's Carissima, 6 yrs, Bst 71b, agst Sir J.
Hawley's Touchy, 2 yrs, 6st 71b. T.Y.C. 200, h ft.
Lord Exeter's Swordplayer agst Colonel Peel's Sesos-
tris, Bst 71b each. D.M. 200, h ft.
Sir J. Hawley's Liston, Bst 71b, agst Duke of Bedford's
Minto, 7st 131 b. Criterion Course. 200, h ft.
SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, 1848.— FRIDAY.
Duke of Bedford's Minto agst Mr. Payne's Cervus,
Bst 41b each. A.F. 200, h ft.
HOUGHTON MEETING, 1848.---WEDNEsDAY.
Duke of Bedford's Justice to Ireland, Bst 71b, agst
Mr. Payne's Glendower, Bst 2ilb. A.F. 900.
The Match in this meeting between ;St. Rosolia and
Alzire, is for 200, h ft.
NEWMARKET, 1849.
The following sporting races have been made for the
Second October Meeting, 1849;_
Sweeps of 1,000 sovs. each. 440 ft. A.F. Lord
Eglinton's Van Tromp, Bst 121b..---Lord Clifden's Sur-
plice, Bst 5114—Duke of Bedford's Justice to Ireland,
7st 131 b.
Match, 1,000, h ft. D.M. Lord Eglinton's Flying
Dutchman, Sat 71b. Lord Clifden's Honeycomb,
Bst 41b.

... (Nat

... (Nat) 1

(Collins)

COURT CIRCULAR.
The unfavourable state of the weather this morning
prevented her Majesty and his Royal Highness the
Prince Albert from taking their usual early walk, and
the Royal children from taking their accustomed walks
and rides in the pleasure grounds of Osborne.
The Countess of Charlemont left Osborne yesterday
forenoon for town. Her Ladyship has been succeeded
as the Lady in Waiting to the Queen by the Viscountess
Canning, who arrived at Osborne in the afternoon.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were present at the
evening party given by her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Gloucester on Monday evening at Gloucester House,
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the
Duchess of Gloucester visited her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Cambridge yesterday, at Cambridge House.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday at
Clarence House, St. James's.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent (attended
by Lady Augusta Bruce, Sir George Couper, and Ge-
neral the Hon. Arthur Upton), and her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Cambridge, honoured the performance
at the Royal Italian Opera House yesterday evening with
their presence.
The annual inspection of the corps of the Yeomen of
the Guard, in full uniform, under arms, took place yes-
terday in St. James's Palace by the Marquis of 0011 e.
gall, Captain of the corps. The other officers were also
c vei.ew with Sir George Grey
in attendance.
r. Win. Beckford had an interview
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Meadows. Rochfort Clarke,
Mr. Steward, Mr. Lee, Mr, and Mr. Steven-
son, had an interview with the Commissioners of Rail-
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yesterday,
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yesterday, at their office in the Board of Trade,
respecting an application for an extension of time made
by the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway
Company.
Sir Robt. Ferguson had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official resi.
dence in Downing-street.

PENSION TO LIEUTENANT WAGHORN, R.N.--The
Court of Directors of the East India Company have
granted a pension of 1001. per annum, for life, to Lieut.
Waghorn, R.N., as an acknowledgment for the services
he has rendered the cause of steam communication
between this country and India. We understand Mr.
Waghorn, after a long and laborious public career, has
retired into private life. We trust he may be long
spared to enjoy the fruits of his perseverance and zeal.
His agency business will in futuro be carried on by his
late partner, Mr. Wheatley.—Allen's Indian Mail.
ELIZI PENNING.—An "Original Correspondent"
reminds us that this day is the anniversary of the death
of Eliza Fenning, whose case excited so much public in-
terest many years since, from a belief of her innocence.
She was executed at the Old Bailey, July 26, 1815.

THE TITHE COMMISSION.
The following is a copy of the report of the Tithe
Commissioners to Sir G. Grey, M.P.:—
" Tithe Commission-office, July 8, 1848.
" Sir,—lt is our duty to report to you the pr.)gress of
the commutation of the tithes in. England and Wales to
the close of the year 1847.
" We have received notices that voluntary proceedings
have commenced in 9,631 tithe districts ; of these no-
tices four were recived during the year 1847.
"We have received 7,053 agreements, and confirmed
6,753; of these nine have been received, and four con-
firmed during the year 1847.
" 6,424 notices for making awards have been issued,
of which 352 were issued during the year 1847.
"We have received 4,847 draughts of compulsory
awards, and confirmed 4,332 ; of these 377 have been
received, and 454 have been confirmed during the year
1847.
" We hare received 10,173 apportionments, and con-
firmed 9,860; and of these 608 have been received, and
598 confirmed, during the year 1847.
" In 11,085 tithe districts, as will be seen from the
above statement, the rent-charges to be hereafter paid
have been finally established by confirmed agreements or
confirmed awards.

" We have in our possession agreements and draughts
of awards as yet unconfirmed 'which will include 815
additional tithe districts, and make a total, when com-
pleted, of 11,900 districts in which the tithes have been
commuted.

" 299 altered apportionments were made by the Tithe
Commissioners up to the 31st December, 1847, of which
212 were confirmed. •

" At that date exchange of glebe lands were effected
in 169 places, and 51 such exchanges were in progress.
" At the close of 1847 we had confirmed 8,260 distinct
mergers of tithe. A considerable body of tithe had also
been merged by parochial agreements.
" We have to report the assurance which we have
happily been able to give in all our former reports, that
the processes of commutation are going on, on the whole,
tranquilly and satisfactorily.
" We have adverted in four former reports to the
state of the law, under what is called Lord Tenterden's
Act.

" Although the law is not yet formally declared, an
approach to a decision has taken place; that is, the
Barons of the Exchequer have given a certificate of the
opinion of their Court on a case submitted to it by the
Lord Chancellor; on that certificate we have thought it
best to proceed at once, without waiting for its ultimate
confirmation.
" Some inconvenience may, perhaps, result from this,
but we think it obvious that much more intolerable in-
convenience would be caused from our delaying still
further our own decisions.

•
"We have, &0., •
"T. WENTWORTH BULLER.
" WILLIAM BLAMIRE.
" RICHARD JONES.
"To the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, M.P., &e."

MARRIAGES OF AFFINITY.
In a letter, full of point and pith, upon the subject of
Marriages of Aflinity, which is published in the Ap-
pendix to the Commissioners' Report, the Archbishop of
Dublin says:—" I think you will find four in five mis-
take the real question—i. e., they will consider the real
question to be, whether it be an advisable sort of marriage.
But ask the same persons whether they think it advisable
for a man to marry his servant-girl, or a woman young
enough to be his daughter, or old enough to be his mo-
ther, &c. ; and when they answer No, ask them whether
they would have a law to prohibit such marriages, and I
think they would then perceive that it is absurd to keep
men in leading-strings, and to take away all right of pri-
vate judgment whenever it is possible for men to judge
wrong." The desire to enact one's own sentiments into
a law for other people is, indeed, the essence of all
bigotry and the germ of persecution. In the present
instance we have no doubt that the feeling of the
great majority of the English public, entirely ir-
respective of the law, is, and will continue to be,
averse to marriage with a sister-in-law ; a similar
feeling exists in many minds against a marriage
between first cousins. But the opinion or feeling of the
majority upon subjects of this nature cannot justify a
prohibitory statute against the smaller class, who aro in-
fluenced by no such sentiment, or in whom it has been
over-ruled by the force of circumstances, or by such a
peculiar domestic position as we find illustrated in many
painful instances by the evidence before us. A recent
controversy supplies us with a close analogy. No
doubt a large majority of the people of this kingdom
will always prefer, if you give them the choice, a Chris-
tian representative to a Jewish one. We do not blame
them for this, but we do blame those who seek to perpe-
tuate a law which forbids all the rest of the community to
do otherwise. The Commissioners, after referring to
the continued prevalence of the prohibited marriages,
notwithstanding the legal penalties, observe—" The
common foundation of such marriages is the familiar
intercourse which necessarily prevails between a man
and his sister-in-law, when, upon the death of a wife,
she assumes her sister's place in the care of the
children, and in the superintendence of the domestic
establishment. We believe that among persons who have
not passed the middle age, attachments will be very
frequent whenever the sister of the deceased wife comes to
live under the roof of the husband." " The end of such
a state of things," they add, " among the poorer classes,
in a great majority of cases, is either marriage or con-
cubinage." These conclusions of the Commissioners are
powerfully borne out by the evidence, especially by that
of members of the clerical profession, both in the Church
of England and other communions, whose ministerial
duties, performed in populous districts, have brought
them into close contact with the poor. We extract the
following passages from Dr. Wiseman's evidence—not
that it differs from the statements of other witnesses to
the same effect, but because it forcibly depicts a case of
ordinary occurrence, and because the organization of his
Church, and his position in the central districts of Eng-
land, give a value to his experience of the habits of the
poorer classes. Dr. Wiseman says—"ln the middle classes
it generally results from the sister having lived, perhaps
for some years, in the family with the wife, the health
of the wife perhaps being delicate. The wife
dies and leaves a young family : the husband
has his business to attend to, and has no one
to take care of his children ; and the sister-
in-law has no other shelter; probably has lost her pa-
rents, or has been living for many years in her sister's
house. I had an instance where she had been living 17
years in the family, and had been a second mother to the
children. The case is very trying for both parties. There is
an attachment naturally between them from their having
lived so long together. To bring a stranger into the
house wold probably be disturbing the peace and happi-
ness of the little family. The children are attached to
their aunt, and it appears altogether the most natural
arrangement for their happiness, as well as to prevent
the sin, probably, of cohabitation without marriage, that
a dispensation should be granted. That, I should say,
is the history of nine out of ten cases which I have
had to deal with." These Dr. Wiseman describes
as the ordinary cases, but there are others, as the
personal statements of some deeply interested par-
ties testify in the higher and more conspicuous
walks of life, where the pressure of motives urging
to these connexions derives an intense force and sanction
from the most touching of all inducements, the death-
bed request of the wife anxious for the children she is
leaving behind her. We may refer to the evidence
of a witness, reported at page 24, whose name is not
disclosed. The particulars are shortly these :—The
wife of this gentleman, who is a stockbroker,
died in 1840. " She had said before her decease,'
that she should die happy if I could marry her
sister, who had lived with us during our married
life, and who, she said, would be as kind to her chil-
dren as herself." The wife died in 1840, and the mar-
riage of one daughter and the death of another, at
the age of twenty-four, left the witness with three
young girls in the school-room. After this event it
became a question with the sister-in-law's family
whether she should remain in the widower's house or
not. The wish that the difficulty should be removed by
their union was first suggested by her brother, repre-
senting the feelings of the family. The widower at fir fik hesitated how to ask. Ho consulted the rector of his
parish, now a bishop. The rector consulted the
Bishop of Loadon, who answered, " that no individual
case could alter his general views of the subject." He,
however, went so far as to consider the matter with
another prelate (who, we may infer, took the opposite
view), and the rector reports that the two bishops both
agreed in not resting the case upon Scriptural grounds,
which the Bishop ofLondon said he thought "by no means
sufficiently certain to rest upon." The fact that two bishops
thought the marriage not unlawful on Scriptural grounds,
decided the witness as to his course, and he married his
sister-in-law in Denmark, where such unions are autho-
rised by law, with the entire approbation of her family,
in 1844. The opinion of society seems to have sanctioned
the step, for all the friends and acquaintance continued
their intercourse as before. Many similar cases, but
some attended with more painful circumstances, are re-
corded in this volume. The argument, as far as it turns
upon expediency, urged by Dr. Pusey and other advo-
cates of the present law, is, that by maintaining the
restriction you "extend the domestic relation." By
making a marriage with a wife's sister legally impos-
sible, you place her, say they, in the position of a real
sister, you prevent the occurrence of any feelings
towards her but those of pure natural affection, and
you enable her to remain nnblamed in the house of
her widowed brother-in-law, which otherwise she
could never do. We deny the soundness of these
positions in toto. They proceed upon a thorough
misconception of the power and functions of human
laws. Statutes cannot control human sentiment,
nor Acts of Parliament operate either against, or in
the place of, the laws of nature. The desires and
affections of mankind are founded in the laws of their
physical and moral being, not in those of society, and the
latter will never possess a binding force unless they are
in unison with the former. In the present instance ex-
perience has proved this to be so. For centuries these
marriages have been under the ban of the law in England,
yet, from the highest to the lowest class of society, they
have been more or less prevalent. Twelve years ago it
was found necessary to enact a new and more stringent
law: still, in the face of its tremendous social and civil
penalties, these marriages have continued to take place,
as the statements of this report and the very existence
of this Commission abundantly testify. And when it is
suggested, as a matter of fact, that the law at
present actually controls social opinion, and is an
operative remedy against scandal, let us appeal to the
opinion of any man who knows this censorious world,
whether it is really possible, safely and blamelessly, for
a young and attractive female to live along in a house
with her widowed brother-in-Jaw, under the present state
of things, and whether any prudent family would sanc-
tion such an arrangement? No. The Commissioners
have stated the conclusion of truth and of common -snse
in the concluding paragraphs of their report:—" These
marriages will take place when a concurrence of circum-
stances gives rise to mutual attachment. They are not