A Wife's Influence After Death

ine question wüetuer nn -faiDgluhinan ruay many ths sister of a deeaased vrife, whic-li has been discus?cd by British éourts and clergy for years, is now varied by ote wb.ich Boem 8 more ridieulous to American. A. wido.flrer reocntly offered hirunelf asa candida te for :v vacant fbllowBbip at Jesus College, Oxford, but a mijority of the resident follows objected on the ground that he was iiieligible, being a " married man." Probably no other oiganizalión, in wbich celibacy is a conditinfi, oan oompare with this for strictn A man may rünounce hia wife and the worlff, and become a monk, and theie will certainly ba no objection to receiving hini i( his wife has bsencaJled henee, and he is at liberty to tako new vows and assume new obligations; but thedietum of thig jolly bachelor club seems to be thftt once married always married, and admission to their exclusivo ranka is thereby forfeited. The priioary obj'ection to resident fellows within college walls is that their wives would be in tho way, and would distraot the loyalty of their hupbandB from the corporate body of which lin-y ivtre members ; but why a ma who8e ■ id should be exchided ia parent, uñlesi the dons hold tha a womnn's inlluynce li-có after hor body ■ uri dtoitsnativedugt. Theyotini Earl of Pcmbroke has the matter to de-i cide, and his sympathies will doubtlefj range on the sido of tnavried meu.