It is stated that there are 156 petitions to be
heard in the Divorce Court during this term. It is impossible that the Judge could get through them and the probate cases also, and the terrible injustice arises that a co-respondent perfectly innocent may be for twelve months under a charge which if he is a professional
1 man may ruin him. It is suggested therefore that Sir James Wilde should be relieved of the probate work, which should be trans- ferred to the next Judge of Admiralty. Even then it is believed the Judge-Ordinary will want an assistant, but perhaps something may be done.to reduce the mass of irrelevant evidence now admit- ted. How much time was wasted in that Chetwynd case over .hfanon Lescaut, yet if every woman who reads a French novel is to be held guilty of adultery half England may be in Court.
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