PERJURY AND PUBLICITY IN THE DIVORCE COURT.
[To MI EDITOR Or TUN "SPROTATOR.1 BIR,—Your correspondent Mr. Thomas-Stanford (Spectator, February 27th) suggests that the remedy for the discreditable state of affairs now existing in connexion with the Divorce Court is to be found not so much in the stoppage of publicity as in the putting into force of the law against perjury. That "the habit of perjury" is a great evil no one can deny, but to suppress it altogether, especially in the Divorce Court, would be most difficult, as the perjuries of lovers are proverbial, While the stoppage of publicity would be undesirable for many reasons. In my humble opinion, Sir, most of the evils of publicity would entirely disappear if the evidence in those often painful cases were kept within proper bounds and all irrelevancy and redundancy strictly suppressed. Our Courts exist to administer justice, not to provide sensational copy for the enterprising penny-a-liner.—I am, Sir, &o.,
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