The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-24 00:00:00

traitors to the Church of which they profess to
hs members—are the most violent opponents
of the just and salutary measure of relief now before.
the country, endeavours to show that another part
of the same chapter has some bearing on the question.
" The sixteenth verse," says the Reverend Doctor,
" forbids a man to marry his deceased brother's wi-
dow, and, by parity of reason, it forbids him to marry
his deceased wife's sister,—the marriages are both in-
cestous." Now we most distinctly and pof;itively
deny that it forbids marriage with the brother's
widow ; it applies only to an illicit connexion during
the life-time of the brother.

By the 25th Deuteronomy, v. 5, such a mar-
riage is expressly directed. If the first husband
leave no children, the widow is forbidden to marry
without unto a stranger. The husband's brother
" shall take her to him to wilt-, and perform the duty
of a husband's brother unto her ;" and there is
a direct punishment to be inflicted on him,
if he " like cot to take his brother's
wife." The widow should spit in his face, and "loose
his shoe from off his tow.," and (v. 10) "his name
shall be called in Israel the house of him that hath
his shoe loosed." Is it no: ridiculous to say that
there is a prohibition against that which is ex-
pressly commanded by another part of the same law ?
The "parity of reason," therefore, falls to the ground,
and with it the argument of the Rev. Dr. Pussy and
his devoted admirers.

We owe some apolity to our readers for
touching on this point. The Rev. Pre-
bendary GRAY, Warden of Queen's College,
Birmingham (aided and abetted by the Rev. Mr.
MA.CKENZIE, of the Scotch Church), thought
proper to revive it ; and although we might safely
leave these gentlemen to our esteemed correspondent
" ALFRED," who, in a letter which will be found in
another part of this day's impression, has administered
a well-merited castigation, which they, or either of
them, will not speedily forget, we feel too deep an
interest in the greatest question of civil and religious
liberty yet unsettled, to pass the matter sub silentio.
We trust that a reasoning and intelligent people will
not again be mocked by having such wretched stuff,
such effete bleating, addressed to their understandings
as substantial. It is really too bad.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Ministerial crisis continues.
The Ordre contains the following statement of
what pas.ed between the PRESIDENT of the Republic
and M. ODILoN BARROT during their interview on
Tuesday :
" M. Odilon Barrot had the honour to see the Presi-
dent of the Republic, and in a general conversation
opened to him frankly and rebpect'ully the co❑ditions
upon which he considered that a new Cabinet could uu-

dertake to serve as a link between the executive and

1-gislstive p,,wers, and to offer to both such equal
security as would enable them to go on together in har-
mony that they might be ensbled to meet the difficult
trials of 1852. Thte President of the Republic, without
accepting or repelling in an express manner these dif-
ferent conditions, intimated to M. Barr(); his desire to
see him undertake the formation of a Cabinet along with
M. Billault, who had joined them at the clot;- of the
conference. M. Barrot, with great respect, declined to
be a party to such a c flabinittion."
The following from the Patrie is the Bonapartist
account of the same interview :

" We have hitherto abstained from mentioning any
name., although we were informed, as well as our con-
temporaries, of the steps which had been taken to bring
the crisis to a termination. It is, however, useful that
the country should be made acquainted with the over-
(tires which have been made by the President of the
Republic to different influential persons, in order that it
may know how far those personages have responded to
the confidence which the chief of the state was disposed
to grant them. We are assured that M. Odilon Barrot
was yesterday seat ior to the Ely ika by the President of
the Republic, who is said to have consulted him on the
present state of affairs, and to have proposed to him to
form a Cabinet. M. Odilon Barrot is said to have
accepted the mission, but on two conditions, which
consisted in the dismissal of M. Carlier from
the post of Prefect of Police, and of General
Baraguay d'Hilliers from that of Commandant-
in-Chief of the Army of Paris, and that he might
replace them by men the choice of whom he reserved to
himself in the most exclusive and absolute manner.
These pretensions are said to have put an end to the in-
terview. We are convinced that the intentions of M.
Odilon Barrot were perfectly sincere and honourable,
but we cannot but deplore the perpetual blindness of the
old leader of the dynastic opposition, which always leads
towards revolutions without' perceiving the road which
he takes towa,ds them, and without understanding that
he is the dupe of the intrigues which are in agitation
around him. If the President of the Republic bad ac-
cepted the conditions on which M. Odiloa Barrot would
have taken office, would it not have been a repetition of
the conduct of Rolland, who only arrived at power to
sacrifice Louis XVI. and himselt with hire? Nothing
is yet definitively settled; we nevertheless consider
that a step has been taken towards a solution. The
mission to torm a Cabinet was in the course of the
morning proposed to M. Leon Faucher, who has ac-
cepted in"
M. ',Box FAUCHER was engaged during the whole
of Wednesday evening and Thursday morning in
endeavouring to form a Ministry, and the following
list was circulated on Wednesday evening :
M. Leon Faucher—interior.
M. Daru—Finances.
M. Buffet—Public Instruction.
M. Drouyn de ',buys—Foreign Affairs.
M. Prosper de Chasseloup Lsubat—Public Works.
General d'Arbouville—War.
Bauchart—Commerce.
M. Lacrosse--Marine.

It appears, however, that M. DARU refused to ac-
cept office, and so many other difficulties presented
themselves that, on Thursday eve❑ing, M. LEON
FAIJCUSR gave up the attempt, and the PRESIDENT
would, it was said, endeavour to bring about an ODILON
BARROT and LAAIARTINE ci,mbination, sacrificing to
the former M. CARLIEIt, who is to be removed from
the Prefecture of Police to some other post, and con-
senting, in order to conciliate the latter, to a repeal
of the Electoral law.
We read in th• Constitutionnel

Several journals. being ill-informed, have an.
nounced, like the Indeperidance Beige, tnat the club of
the Rue des Pyramiees was dissolved after the vote of
Saturday, and had reconstituted itself at the Council of
State, under the name of the Club of the 286, or of the
18th of January. We ate authorised to declire that
this news is erroneous, and that the members of the
Club of the Rue des P)ramides have not ceased to meet
on their former premises, and that they are all to meet
on the 24th instant. If the club has lost M. Thiers, it
has gained M. Mathieu de la Redorte, who had his
name inscribed the evening of the vote on M. Ste.
13euve's amend ment."

The Pays says—" In reply to the attacks which a
morning jonrnal has made on General PERROT, we
have only one remark to make. Out of one hundred
and two officers of the staff of the National Guard,
twelve or fifteen only hare retired, and the special
manner in which they had thought proper to compro-
mise themselves with regard to General CHANGAR-
MER renders this step on their part as natural as
honourable for themnelves. The others remain firm
at their post, and are happy to see General PERROT
at their head. A 4 far as regards the different legions
of the National Guards of Paris, we can affirm that
several of its distinguished chiefs have an intention of
protesting against the insinuations of the journal in
question, and that one of them has even already
done so."

PARIS BOURSE, THURSDAY, JAN. 23.
The market has been less buoyant today, bpaculutora
appearing to hang back to wait for the formation of a
Ministry; prices, ho, ever, have given way but little,
Threes for the account closing at 57f. 10e., and Fires at
95f. 15c. The market closed as follows:—Threes, for
cash, 56f. 95c.; fur account, 57f. 10c. ; Five per Cents.,
for cash, 95t. 20c.; for account, 95f. 15e.; Wink of
France Shares, 2,220 f.; Neapolitan, 97f. 50c.; Spanish
Threes, 38f.

RAILWAYB.—Shares have been rather offered to-day.
but prices have not very materially declined. Orleans
closed at 8-171. 50c.; Rouen. 675 f.; Avig on, 1861: 25c.;
Vierzon, 390 f.; Boulogne, 225 t.; Bordeaux, 395 f.; Basle,
1401.; Northern, 4671. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 3251.
50c. ; Nantes, 246 f. 25c.; Dieppe, 1961. 25c.
BUSINESS in IN fOttElliN RAIL vr Arb AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 23.
Boulogne and Amiens, 914—Dutch Rhenish, 3k—Great
Indian Peninsula, 2:14 ex int.—Luxembourg, 2'-9—Namur
and Liege, BJ/4—Orleans and Bordeaux, 3X—Paris and
Strasbourg, 91,13—Rouen and Havre, Is%—Sambre and
Meuse, 2%.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 17th have arrived.
Ic is generally expected that the new Ministry will
meet a rather strong opposition in the Chambers.
In consequence of some interpellations put to M.
MATANs, the President of the Chamber of Deputies,
at the close of the sitting yesterday, rdative to the
interruption of Parliamentary labours during the
late Ministerial crisis, that functionary resigned
office. At the opening of the sitting to-day a propo
sition was presented to the Chamber, signed by the
tenir wase confi-
dence
voted Count DE SAN Less and a number of other Deputies,
declaringo
f
unanimously.
MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 17.—The Three per Cents.
thatthe C M.isanalAbeYr. Meyers
sTAhe merited
proposition entire
op the
were done at 33 13.16, for time; the Four per Cents.
at 12i ; the Five per Cents. at 124 ; the Debt with-
out interest at 4 ; and the Coupons at 7-1.