“The remedy of judicial separation had been extended and kept alive to satisfy the feeling that something ought to be done to protect the feelings of husbands and wives while not offending the ecclesiastical conscience. To his mind, JUDICIAL SEPARATION WAS A WICKED PROVISION OF THE LAW, WITH A VERY HIGH PROBABILITY OF ADULTERY BY THE SEPARATED PARTIES. “The vexed question of divorce appeared to have slumbered for about 50 years. In May, 1902, he introduced a Bill in the House of Lords to increase the causes for divorce, to assimilate the practice of the Divorce Court to some extent to that of other divisions of the High Court, TO RELIEVE POOR PEOPLE BY ENABLING THEM TO BRING THEIR SUITS IN THE COUNTY COURT, and TO PROVIDE FOR LEGITIMATION BY SUBSEQUENT MARRIAGE and for marriage with the deceased wife’s sister, afterwards dealt with in a separate Bill. “_The Chairman._--Would you recapitulate the grounds which you then proposed? “The witness said the grounds, in addition to adultery, were:--That since the marriage the other party to the marriage has been guilty of cruelty to the petitioner; that the other party to the marriage is undergoing penal servitude for a term of not less than three years; that the other party to the marriage has during the year preceding the presentation of the petition been found or certified to be of unsound mind under the Lunacy Act, 1890; that during the three years preceding the presentation of the petition the parties to the marriage have lived apart, and that throughout that period either of the parties did not intend to resume cohabitation; that during the year preceding the presentation of the petition the parties to the marriage have lived apart, and that the other party concurs in the petition. “He introduced three other Bills on a smaller scale providing for divorce in the case of desertion in 1903, 1905, and 1906. The first and second were unanimously rejected; three voted for the third; the Government whips told against the fourth, and it therefore received no support.