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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2582, 27 May 1871, Page 3

A meeting in favor of legalising marriage with a deceased wife’s sister was held in Willis”s Rooms, London- Hr Brewer, M.P., presiding, Hr. Alder, Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Church, who was unable to be present, wrote; — “I am convinced that marriage with a deceased wife’s sister is not prohibited by the Word of God. 1 know that for 3000 years such marriages have b en contracted among my own people, except in those countries where they are prohibited by the law of the land; and 1 have {learned, by my own experience, that such alliances have proved happy.” Resolutions were passed condemning the law as inflicting a great social hardship on the poor, who cannot satisfy their consciences by foreign marriages, and also on the ground that their prohibition over the where kingdom was unjust to those who arc not members of the Church of England, which has prohibited such marriages by its canon law. It was also resolved to petition Parliament and the Bishops in favor of Mr Chambers’s bill on the subject. Among the speakers were Mr Chambers, M.P„ Mr G. Hey wood, M.P., the Rev. Lo.d Bevan, and others.