At a meeting yesterday of the clergy of the Archdeaconry
of London, at St. Sepulchre's Church, Snow Hill, Dr. M'Caul and Mr. Gibbs were retarned as Proctors ; Mr. Scott, late President of Sion College, was rejected. The meeting was marked by a somewhat curious and un- expected circumstance. Dr. M'Caul, who is looked upon as one of the best, if not the best, Hebrew scholars in the Church, was pressed for an opinion on the question of marriage with a deceased wife's sister. He avowed himself, from conviction and experience, opposed to any change. He believed our recognized translation of the Scriptures was right in this respect, and that other translations of this particular passage which he had seen were contrary to the grammar and idiom of the Hebrew language. His opinion, therefore was, that according to the law of Moses, " Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister was lawful"- and he should belie his conscience and his allegiance to the word of God, which he held to be the Supreme law, if he did not unequivocally declare such to be his belief. But on the other hand, he would as frankly state that he had never been able to get over his previous feelings and the convictions which he shared with the greatest church authorities.
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