12 MARCH 1870, Page 3

The question whether insanity can be pleaded as a bar

to divorce will be argued next term before a full Court. Lord Penzance, in making the order, observed that whatever the result of that argument, the petitioner ought to be prohibited from pro- ceeding while there was a reasonable probability, as in the Mordaunt case, of the respondent's recovering. The hardship inflicted on a woman who may recover and find herself divorced without a defence, is greater than the hardship delay could inflict upon the petitioner. If it is reasonable that insanity should not be a permanent bar to divorce, it is also reasonable that the suit should not be pressed during temporary derangement.