ABSTRACT
The Bill for legahsmg Mama~e With a. Deceased Wife's Sister passed second reading, but did not get
through the Committee stage. Thus the pressure on the time of our legislators has again checked a measure which, whatever may be thought of its merits, none can deny would affect twice as many women as men, and moreover would create a difference of treatment between brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, thus adding another to the inequalities of the law between men and women. So long as numbers of women are well known to regard the Bill with the distrust set forth by our correspondent E. B., it is emphatically one that should not be passed into law while as yet the majority of persons who would be affected by it have no power of giving expression to their opinion, whether for or against, by the legitimate channel of the Franchise.
