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LORD CHANCELLOR'S SUGGESTIONS
An oficial report was issued on March 8th of the deputation which waited upon the Lord Chancellor on Monday in reference to the reporting of divorce cases. The official . port states that: "The Lord Chancellor, who
was accompanied by Mr. Bridgeman and Sir Archibald Bodkin, received a de- putation of members of Parliament upon the question of the publication in the Fress of
full
reporta of divores and similar cases. The deputation attended to press the viewa stated in a letter to the Freas of February 20th from members of the House of Com mons, to which members of all parties were signatories
Sir Evelyn Cheil, introducing the deputation, pointed out that the extent of the evil of reporting these proceedings xas very widely admitted, that it lowered public murals and taste, that it depended on the discretion of the Press, and that
from
ertain remedies were possible aparator!
Any action taken by the Public
or any prosecution which might lie under common law,
aw. It WILS Rot so much specifie indevent phrases
which were objected
but that the whole tone of the reports was often derogatory and revolting. He wondered sountimes whether the Press themselves could not get together and
Referring agree,
to possible remedies, Sir Evelyn mentioned the French law, where judgments only a and names of
partins are
published.
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Royal Commission on divorce, 1812 suggested giving statutory power to judges to close the court or to order non-pablica
tion of certain evidence. They
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advocated no publication till the enti of the case: also the" prohibition of pictures relation to the case. Another suggestion from sonic Press quarters themselves was that a brief oficial report only shpifd be published. He though: that there was so much agreement so widely spread in the country the evil needed remedy, that with suficient determination and, courago the nettle could be grasped and some ad. vance made.
"Sir Thomas Bennett added his testimony to the very wide feeling on the subject in the country, and the growing expression of opinion in favour of some action being taken. A petition had been presented with about 4 quarter. of £
millien signatures, and these signatures had been given spontaneously,
The Lord Chancellor said that there was no doubt as to the law, which was clearly laid down in particular by Sir Alexander Cockburn, and in the Law of Libel (Amendment) Act, 1888, As to the Director of Public Prosecutions, his duty act- ing under the instructions of the Attorney General, was to take action on such
matters notice where ho thought the to
it was in the interests of the public that he should do so. But it
would be most unfortunate for him to prosecute in any case in which it did not appear reason- ably certain that conviction would follow, since failure eight reader any further action impossible for many years. The Lord Chan he drew attention to the history of
attempts to embody the Gorell's Commission in certain bills when they
proposals of
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clause giving effect to those suggestions was
opposed and withdrawn. In the Lord Chan-
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with the newspaper proprietors and
And in the second to view
opinion in favour of their
this purpose he suggested that they should bring the matter before the House of Commons either on a private member's motion or in the form of a private member's bill. He himself felt the objects at which
impathy with
they
"Mr. Bridgeman expressed his sympathy with the object which the deputation bad in view, and emphasised the advantage of discussion in the House of Commons which. would reveal the weight of public opinion which was behind this movement."
BISMARCK'S THREAT.
SUICIDE IF HIS SON MARRIED DIVORCEE.
That Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor, who played with men as if they had no more teeling than chess pawns, once threatened to commit suicide if his son Herbert made a arriage of which he disapproved, will be
tok in the memoirs of Prince zu Eulen. burg, to be published shortly:
Herbert fell in love with the beautiful Princess Elizabeth Carolath, whose mar. ringe was exceerlingly unhappy.
The two determined to marry when the Princess had gained her freedum. The nows was a blow to the Chancellor, for the Princess came from. the. Catholic house of Hatzfeldt-Trachenburg, which
opposed to the political and religious leas for which Bismarck had fought. Moreover, ho loathed the idea of his heir marrying divorcee.
He forbade the marriage and threatened to kill himself if it took place Herbert,
torn between passion and filial duty, un burdened himself to Prince zu Eulenborg, who appears to have suggested that if he married the Princess, reconciliation with his father would be possible.
Herbert points out in a letter written in April 1881, when ho was 32, that such a hope Was void.
My father told me in floods of tears, ho writes, that if this marriage took place, he was firmly determined to live no longer, that he had had enough of life, and that it was only bis hope in re that gave hun confidence in all his battles, and that if these hopes were
it would be over with him. gone,
The Princess was unable to understand that her lover would not morifice everything for her, and finding that she had been deceived in him, refused to write or com- municate with him.
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