The Bill permitting marriage with a deceased wife's sister, or,
as Mr. Beresford puts it, "for the abolition of sisters-in-law," has been withdrawn. It has been talked out by the party which opposes it on religious grounds, but will be reintroduced next session. Meanwhile, the friends of the measure are circulating opinions from leading members of the Dissentiug bodies, the Catholics, and the Jews, in favour of the measure. What is the use of that ? Nobody opposes it except a section of the aristo- cracy, the clergy, and men of clerical opinions, and their opinion will not be changed by anything priests, rabbis, or Dissenting ministers may say,—rather the contrary. The advocates of the Bill should appeal to the electors, who do not particularly want to marry their sisters-in-law, but who do dislike "man-made laws" interfering with their liberty of choice.
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