Mr.Gladstone, it is well known, on the question of divorce is a very sound and very strong Conservative.

The sturdy fight he made against divorce still lives in Parliamentary history, and has often been brought up--sometimes in justification of equally stubborn fights--against him.

It is one of the points on which he does not seem to have much modified his opinions, in spite of the advance of time, and all that has taken place in the long stretch of years between now and the day when an unbelieving and pagan minister like Lord Palmerston enabled men and women to get rid of adulterous spouses.

But Mr.Gladstone declined to be drawn.
[Sidenote: Disestablishment.] On June 18th, Mr.Bartley proposed an amendment to a restriction in the Bill with regard to the establishment and endowment of any church.

By the Bill--as is pretty well known--the Irish Parliament are forbidden to confer on any church the privilege of State establishment and State endowment.