... The Parliamentary Oaths Bill is now safe in the House of Lords, where it was read a first time on Tuesday night, with a fair prospect of its becoming law. It is more than likely that some of the Bishops will speak against it, but the Earl of Derby will be more than ordinarily imprudent should he again commit the mistake which in last election lost him support among the Catholics of Ireland and ...

... Before a final judgment can be pronounced on the extent of the Jamaica rebellion, and the character of the measures taken for its suppression, it is necessary to wait for the conclusion of the very interesting inquiry which ia being conducted by Sir Storks and his fellow Commissioners. It may, however, he now stated, without any haste or impropriety, that the evidence of the ex-Governor cannot ...

... DISRAELI ON THE REFORM BILL. Holding the opinions which he avowed Monday evening, the straightforward course for Disraeli to have followed would have been to move the rejection of the Redistribution of Seats Bdl on the motion for its second reading. Disraeli's difficulties as to the bill are not merely difficulties in the matter detail ; they extend to the principle- of the measure, and ...

... The examination witnesses with regard to the lighting of the Tay was completed yesterday. The witnesses were members of the Seamen Fraternity, and amongst them there was also diversity of opinion. While two were in favour of a lightship outside the river, the others asserted that the Buddonness towers, improved, would do all and more than a floating light could do. It was admitted, however, by ...

... Nobody suspected, nay, almost accused, of very grave offence, has ever received fairer play than Mr Eyre, the Governor of Jamaica. When the news arrived in this country of the deplorable outbreak of African savagery at Morant Bay, all classes combined to praise the official for what seemed a wise measure of just severity. In many cases of popular discontent mildness is often only cruelty ; and ...

... It has been paradoxically asserted that the whole machinery of the British Constitution is kept in gear for the single purpose of putting twelve men in a box. Like other wise saws, this is true to a certain extent, and in a certain point of view. But what is the use of a jury if there be no constables to put the criminal into the dock ; what is the use of a jury and constables if there be no ...

... The two cases of Barned's and Overend's suggest a moral which should be carefully heeded. In both, old firm of repute -was taken off by a new company of great respectability, and in both cases the result was inconceivably disastrous. The case of Overend's is a typical case. Most respectable men, born to immense wealth, who believed that they had lost much of it, but believed also that they ...

... Jamaica is the great political puzzle of the day. Mail after mail has arrived since the news of the outbreak at Morant Bay, and yet no satisfactory explanation of the affairs has been received, nor of the measures repression to which it led. The belief in a plot to massacre the white and brown races seems to universally accepted in the island ; and the measures taken by the Government—those ...

... We give in our other columns to-day report of the melancholy and unwonted scene which took place at Montrose yesterday. It is not necessary in this place to make much further reference to the execution of the convicted murderer Brown. The convict paid the penalty of his crime, and once more the scaffold has taught its dread lesson to a company of spectators who were not disposed to receive it ...

... THE VOLUNTEER CUP. Before commencing the business of the meeting yesterday, the Provost exhibited the Corporation Cup recently voted the Council to the Dundee Rifle Association. The cup i 3 very handsome piece of plate, standing about inches high, and having suitable designs carved upon it. The selection of the design very creditable to Provost Parker's taste. town's claim tub are glad to ...

... The conviction of the young man Sweeting, for wilfully setting fire to the large drapery establishment in Liverpool, known Compton House, is not without a special interest in Dundee, where we have had reason for believing that at least two recent fires were the of unknown incendiaries, and where, at any rate, have always enormous masses of valuable and inflammable pro pert v lying exposed to ...

... Few things are more difficult than to form anything like satisfactory judgment upon, the merits the twin questions of unity and nationality. they are now used for political purposes. also by no means easy to understand why these questions should be popular, they undoubtedly are, in this country with regard to particular peoples, and yet repugnant with regard to others. Any one who knows how ...