The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-10 00:00:00

MIXED MARRIAGES.

The Evening Mail has the following remarks on
the re-marriage in Rome, according to the rites of
the Roman Catholic Church, of the -Marquis and
Marchioness of Sligo. Dr. Cullen having deter-
mined to carry out the decrees of the Synod of
Thurles to the very letter, all efforts to procure a
dispensation from the Court of Rome proved abor-
tive, and every obstacle to prevent the marriage
from taking place was thrown in the way by the
church authorities at home and abroad. The lady
however, remained firm, and eventually the cere-
mony was solemnized by. a Protestant clergyman.
The intolerant decree being thus practically set at
nought, it doubtless struck Dr. Cullen and his abet-
tors that the next step on the part of the recusant
would be a total secession from mother church, and
as the latter has an especial love for her titled chil-
dren it was deemed the safer policy to strike after a
faint show of resistance. Hence, probably, the
reported good offices of Monsignor Talbot in the
adjustment of the delicate difficulty. " The Papal
prohibition of mixed marriages," says the Mail,
"having gone forth in Ireland, one condition was
intimated on which the strictness of the law might
be relaxed—namely, that the whole family of the
next and of all future generations should be given
over to the exclusive tutelage of Rome. Had the
Marquis of Sligo submitted to that modest stipula-
tion he would have found no obstacle that a £lO
note could not remove in the allegation of kindred
which was set up against his proposed marriage
with the lady on whom he had placed his affections,
for her sister had been united by episcopal hands,
but a short time before, to a gentleman who stood
precisely in the same relation. The noble lord,
however, was firm, and the young lady, with a spirit
and intelligence which reflected the highest credit
upon her bringing up, disregarded the flimsy pre-
text, and gave her hand as freely as it had been
asked, without abandoning principle on her side,
or requiring a base abnegation of it on his. The
gross and ribald defamation which was, forsooth,
launched at her ladyship's good name from a privi-
leged quarter it must be painful to her and her
friends even to remember ; we, therefore, shall no
further refer to it than to state that the indignation
which it provoked was not confined to a single
family. The. Roman Catholic gentry of Ireland
highly resented it ; and it was the expression of
their disgust and displeasure, conveyed very plainly
throuqh Monsignor Talbot on the occasion of his
late visit, which brought the Pope to consider the
impolicy of lording it too imperiously over that im-
portant class. Hence the invitation to Rome, and
the amende honorable which has been there offered
for the scurrilous invectives of " Mee Lard of Clon-
fert."

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