The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-14 00:00:00

DEGREE.

A Mr. V-- lost his wife, who left him two
children. Wishing to give them a second mother,
he selected the sister of his former wife, who lis-
tened to his wishes. But both parties being aware
that it was impossible to contract, in France, a mar.
riage which the 162 d article of the civil code pro-
hibits as incestuous, went to England, where, de-
ceiving the Chaplain to the French Embassy, they
obtained from him the nuptial benediction. With
this certificate they returned to France, and after
some time the father announced to the civil officer
of his parish that he had a child, the fruit of his
legal marriage with his sister-in-law. The Pro-
cureur du Roi at Meaux being informed of these
circumstances, began a prosecution, at first for
fraud, but ultimately only for the dissolution of the
marriage as incestuous, and as having been per-
formed without the necessary notices, and without
obtaining the consent of the father and mother.
This Magistrate, at the same time, demanded that
an account should be taken of his complaint against
the Chaplain of the Embassy, as having, contrary
to the laws, given the nuptial benediction in
France to two persons who (lid not produce the
certificate of the marriage having been celebrated
by the Civil Authority. The Tribunal of Meaux
gave the following decision :—Considering that Mr.
V— and Miss Adelaide F-----, in presenting
themselves to the Chaplain of the Embassy to
France to be united and receive the nuptial benedic-
tion, did not pass a civil contract, but only perform
a religious ceremony ; considering, consequently,
that there never has been in the eye of the law a
marriage—considering, also, that the Tribunals can-
not declare null an act which is purely religious, and
in which no Civil Authority interfered, either
French or foreign—the Tribunal declares that there
is no ground for the prosecution of the Procureur du
Roi. The Tribunal at the same time declared, that
the child could not be considered as the lawful issue
of the marriage of Mr. V— and Miss F—, since
they were never married ; and that, considering also
that by the 335th Article of Code Civil, the recog-
nition of an incestuous offspring cannot take place,
and that it results from the documents that Ade-
laide F—, the mother of the child, is the sister
of Barbe F—, the first wife of Mr. V., and con-
sequently his sister-in-law, Mr. V— cannot
recognise the child, nor confer on him his name ;
the Tribunal accordingly ordered that the register of
the birth should be corrected, and that its judgment
should be inverted in the registers of the Etat Civil.
The Tribunal at the same time recorded the com-
plaint of the Procureur du Roi against the Chap-
lain, for having, in a dependency on the French
Embassy at London, and consequently in France,
given the nuptial benediction contrary to the law.
—French Paper.

A MARVELLOUS EGG.—On Saturday last,
a duck belonging to Mr. LUCAS, a respectable farmer at
Alderley, near this town, hatched nine fine ducklings, the
produce of 13 eggs upon which she eat for the usu d pe-
riod. Four of the eggs were addle ; and in breaking one
of them, Mrs. LUCAS was surprised to find a large pebble,
which appeared to have supplied the place of the yolk.
This is now in our possession, and may be seen by the
curious. It weighs one ounce and six drachms, and is i
about five inches in circumference n.the widest part. By
what means it became embedded in its singular situation,
we are at a loss to discover.—Macclesfield Courier.

On Monday morning, while the clergyman was
waiting to join a couple in the indissoluble bonds of matri-
mony at St. David's church, the loVe-'lsrn swain on his
way thither bethought himself on a sudden of the awful
change he was about to submit to, and thinking single
blessedness the more preferable of the two, on a sudden
took to his heels, and ran off, leaving the expectant fair
one in an extreme of surprise, to bewail the fickleness of
man. We hear the simple maid had, st. few days prior,
intrusted her little savings with her heartless deceiver, all
of which he -had managed to get rid of at Ide
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