The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-22 00:00:00

SEPTEMBER.

Warwick... 7, 8
iW
Hampton 21,, 2
Curragh (Royal) 7,8, 9 estern (Ayr)„......22, 2;
Abingdon 9, 10 I Hendon 23, 21
Doncaster l4, 15, Di, 17 1 Monmouth... •,. 23. 2-1
Richmond ''t, 22 1 Newmarket : st 0ct....28, &c.Lichfield

OCTOBER.

Bedford 5, 6 I
Edinburgh 6, 7, 8
Leicester

Cheltenham IP. 29
Curragli l9, 2G,
West Drayton 2

Bromley
7 8 Hereford 2l, 22
Newmarket 2d Uet...11, Sze. I Monmouth 23, 24
Chelmsford l9 20 I Newmark.t dre.
Kelso 19 20 I

NOVEMBER.

Harrow..

3, 4 I Liverpool

2, 3

Egliut on Hunt 6, 7

W0rce5ter............

St. Albans

o, 6 ; Shresisbury ..... . 15; 16

STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES.

NAY.
Limerick Hunt 4 I St. Albans
11
Eglinton Hunt ......6, 7 "." ,st Drayton 1
JULY.

Kingsbury.

OCTOBEu.

Bromley 7 West Drayton 2l, 21

NOVEMBER.
Worcester 2,3, 4 Shrewsbury 13,
I Harrow 2, 3 Leamington Hunt ...,23 &a
Lverpool 9, 10, 11, 12 I

COURSING FIXTURES.

AUGUST.

St. Albans 17
OCTOBER.
Ancastor and Willoughby, Lincolnshire 5, G.
Orinosby 19, arc
Huntingdon Club.. 26, 27.

IMPERIAL PARLIA RENT

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ROUSE OF COMMONS—YEsTERDAT.

The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.

There was a very small attendance at the meeting of the
House, there being only just the number present requisite
to form a " House."

Some petitions were presented for and against the Mar.
riage with a Deceased Wife's Sister Bill.
MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.
Mr. J. CHAMBERS moved the second reading of this
bill. Ho stated that thirty-three divisions in the house
had already condemned the law, and five times the house
had sanctioned a bill fur the removal of the present re-
striction, and on four occasions the house bad sent to
the HOUSJ of Lords a measure to do away with the re-
striction. No Divine laws prohibited a man marrying the
sister of his deceased wife, but there was a prohibition
against a man taking the sister of his wife during the life-
time of his wife to vex her. In all ages among the Jews
such a marriage was honourable, and was now permitted
by the Jews. With the exception of some of the Baptists
and Wesleyans, marriage with a deceased wife's sister
took place at the present time, and was acknowledged.
Taking the English laws, too, in the days of Henry VIII.,
it was there stated that marriages are to be considered
legal if not prohibited by God's law. In Ireland and
Scotland in 1588 a similar Jaw was agreed to, and
prevails to the present time. God's laws were
au authoritative appeal, and no ideas of men could
make a marriage unholy and illegal, if it were according
to God's word, holy and legal. The learned gentleman
quoted a portion of the words used in the marriage cere-
mony, and contended that he was backed by the laws and
by the doctrines and principles of the Divine Word.
Mr. M. W. P. O'REILLY spoke on the position of
Roman Catholics in such imarriages, and contended that
the house could not make the bill lawful or unlawful among
the Roman Catholics.
Visc,unt BURY said this -was a question of religious
liberty. If the law wore forbidden or allowed by God's
Word, so ought the command to be made legal in the
country.
Sir G. GREY said ho was perfectly satisfied there was
ssauicdhhae bfielllti nthtihsewDaisv
ai ncieuNeVstoirodn.
of
gtaiti-
of argument. He considered that the law
n"e3al
tr prohibitional. 31 :e ltlhlalnio
as it at present stood was very unjust. The right hon.
gentleman appealed to the house to pass this bill by a
decided majority.

The motion that the bill be read a second time.was then
put, and there appeared—
For the socond reading
Against it
Majority
—9O

There was loud cheering and clapping of hands, and
the ladies in their cage tapped their delight on the bars of
their don with their parasols and fans.

The house went into C.:mutilate° of Supply, and tho
house adjourned at five o'cil.eck.