Lord Darling has introduced in the House of Lords the
Bill which Sir Evelyn Cecil introduced in the House of Commons for regulating the publicity given to dis- agreeable details of divorce and other trials. It is satisfactory that the Bill is-in his hands because opponents of the Bill are accustomed to say that the result would be to weaken the principle that publicity is necessary to the true course of justice, whereas Lord Darling for many years has never tired in arguing that publicity, even when disagreeable, is necessary if it serves a good purpose. In divorce trials, at all events, all that is really necessary is that the charge should be described and that the names and addresses and the result of the trial should be stated. Nobody is helped, but on the contrary an infinity of harm is done, by filling columns of the news- papers with filthy facts. '
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