Earl Russell.

"I must say that I have satisfied myself, that there is not any religious prohibition of these marriages." "I think that there is a great and practical evil which we cannot very well refrain from remedying. The evil is not among the upper classes of society; but there is no doubt, partly among the middle classes, and much more among the lower classes, a feeling that, after the death of the wife there is no person so fit to take care of the children as the beloved sister of that wife.." I think where persons feel that they can without scruple contract such marriages, that they should be allowed to do so."—Speech of Earl Russell.