These cases, you must remember, aro not to be treated like ordinary civil actions. The law requires a hus band who accuses his wife of adultery to say with what man she bas committed it, and to make that man a party to tho proceedings; aud the policy of the law is very obvious. It is con ceived that the public—regard being had to tho demands of public morality—is interested in taking euro that no marriage shall bo dissolved except upon the ground of adultery, and it is required that tho man who is charged with hav ing committed the adultery .shall be made a party to tlie proceedings, because it is thought that the necessity which he will be under of defend ing himself will afford some security that tho matter will be fully investigated before the tribunal charged with the duty of hearing such cases. In this case Sir Charles Dilke was accord ingly brought here as a party lo the proceedings. He heard the confession that had been made implicating him, and he said nothing, althongh from the point of view which he now asserts to be his he knew iliat the court was being grossly deceived; that the statement made by Mrs Crawford was a pore fiction ; and that, if the truth were known, the decree nisi could not ba pronounced. Well, you must put yourselves in his place, if I may venture to sug gest such an idea to you. If you wore to hear such a statement made involving your honour, as it would do morally, whatever might bo the legal view of the facts, would you accept the advice of your counsel to say nothing? Would you allow the court to bo deceived aud a tissue of falsehoods to be put forward as tho truth and to be accepted a.s such by a ej.irt of justice? This was not a novel position for a man or a woman to be in. Many of those present know that over and over again it bas been my duty to say that there has been no evidence against an accused person, and the accused person has asked leave to go into the witness-box to clear his character. I have always allowed such evidence to be given, and I am sure that Mr Justice Butt would have allowed it. 