LORD BUCKMA.STER'S DIVORCE BILL.
(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sta,—Will you permit me to call attention to an unfortunate blunder that has crept into the admirable review of the Life of Lord Gorell in your issue of the 8th inst.? You state that "the recommendations of the majority [i.e., of the Divorce Commission] formed, of course, the substance of the Bill which Lord Buckmaster succeeded in passing last year through the House of Lords, but which was thrown out by the House of Commons." This is not so. Lord Buckmaster's Bill has not yet been before the House of Commons. What was rejected in a thin House was a private Member's unfortunate motion of an abstract character in favour of legislation on lines similar to the provisions of that Bill. There is still hope that the Government may give facilities for Lord Buck- master's measure to be at any rate discussed in the House of Commons before the present Parliament is dissolved.—I am, Sir, &c., W. REEVE WALLACE. Savile Club, 107 Piccadilly, TT'.
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