Mr. Ricetook that opportunity to express a hope that the unanimous feeling of the country with respect to the law affecting Divorces would have a due weight with the Government, and that a repetition of those proceedings which they had recently witnessed on another Divorce Bill would be avoided by an immediate alteration of the law. It was the unanimous opinion both in the House and out of the House, that the House was not a fit tribunal to try such causes, and it would be more advantageous to the public, as well as more creditable to Parliament, if a particular tribunal were established, to decide and determine all such cases cheaply and expeditiously.
§ Mr. Hume, before the Bill was disposed of, begged to say, that he regretted much no Member of the Government was pre- 125 sent, that he might urge on him the necessity and the propriety of putting an end to such a mockery of justice as these bills presented, by some effectual alteration in the Law of Divorce.
§ Dr. Phillimoresaid, that if the Government did not come forward with some proposition on the subject, it was his intention to move for leave to bring in a bill to amend the Law of Divorce.