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LONDON. SATURDAY, JULY 25.

Twe vehement opposition which has been got up
against the Divorce BiU will surprise no one who
has sufficiently studied the history of popular, and
especially of clerical clamours, to be aware that
in these cues the magnitude of the effect is almost
always in inverse ratio to that of the canoe. The
famous hyperbole of DRYDEN, "My wound is
great because it is so small," correctly enough de-
signates the nature of those panic oommotioos
which, starting from the smallest possible ground-
work of reason, run out into the wildest possible
latitude of pamion and alarm. A certain portion of
the community appears just now to be going
through one of those periodical paroxysms of out-
raged propriety, which vindicate for this country of
conventions the character of being the most moral
nation on the face of the earth. Mrs. Grundy,
and that still more potent personage, Mrs.
Grundy' s spiritual director, have pat on the
steam, and all the usual ssaehinery of orthodox
terrorism has been set aping with exemplary ac-
tivity, in order to get tip an elands against the
Divorce Bill. The Quarterly Revise. has hashed
tip the House of Lords' sallies of the Bishop of
Oleoats into an article portentous in its fallacies
and dismal in its platitudes. The Deans and
the Archdeacons, the Canons and the Prebendaries.
the Heads of Houses and the parochial Clergy, have
got up a protest on their own account ; the
laity petition in platoons, under the vigilant inspec-
tion of their clerical leaders; and that taaoss Anglian
Divine, the Rev. Mr. KEBLZ, Author of the
Christian Year, is said to be actively employed in
getting up a demonstration among the women of
England against the Bill. The House of Commons,
as the debate of last night pretty clearly proved,
responds only too faithfully to this carefully culti-

rated clamour.
Let as clone oar ears a moment to this Babel of
false alarms, and ask ourselves soberly what it is all
about? What is this formidable project of law which
has gives rise to so much apprehension, eismialad or
real? Lotuses. It is portly and simply a roma to
sake that legal for all by a general law, while bras
he the hoe hop yews, been legal for all whOleil
afford to pay Ow a special law. It intseimet NOVO
ground of divorce whatever. The edalbry dit
wife, with or without aggravating eireemdmo,
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to release the hambead from the married. honk Ica
u her Weans esatnries it has nismed him
by Act of Porliesseof l the adultery d r basbead
is in like masses he Mew the wills NNW
ponied by the igswietiki eieseembresra et bust,
bigamy, protracted tlendlie. desoneet aeldy.
A new and simple pressibre is le les eihnitabi fir
the old and costly one. A dailb peens is MO
court is to accomplish whet Mai* sril
promisees in three amen laded et alba bit
damages there is to be as bambini bilearels •
conviction, by a fine.
Voiki tout : there it is in its full extent wail
enormity, this legislative monster, which b to I
break up the domestic life of Falsified, and oaf
the purity of her matronhood. Is it possible team.
ceive a more wretched waste of resgedekki beige&
lion than this measure has bees ark the um of
calling forth? We can readily seinelenieve eau
entirely sympathise with, the sentiments iff those
whose complaint is that this Bill lees not
go far enough. On principle we entirely
coincide with the protest of Lord LYanneitn, and
would advocate, as a measure alike of even-laded
justice and of sound policy, the extension to the web
of precisely the same powers of divorce u are now
enjoyed by the husband. But we own it to be
utterly impossible by any effort of the imagination
to conceive that a rational Englishman should really
believe the sanctity of domestic morality to de-
pend upon keeping two people linked to-
gether in the bonds of wedlock, after that has
passed between them which makes union in
marriage an utter and a frightful impossibility.
v Barely the known and proved immoralities
perpetually arising under the present state of the
law, especially among the poorer dunes, from the
necessary revolt of human nature against the in-
tolerable harshness of this rule, ought to open the
eyes (if that were possible) and abash the faces of
all the representatives of Mrs. Grundy. It is of
course perfectly conceivable that the illiaber for
Cardinal WISEMAN should, true to the narwerring
rule of his church, uphold the indieeniblilly of that
which the Romiab canon maintains as he a usiement.
It is equally conceivable that all those who repaint
the Romanising party in our own church amid en
the same ground take the same view. The Oases
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