... 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 ...

... Friday Evening. DUNDEE TRADE REPORT. The panic which prevailed in the money market in London a fortnight ago, and which had begun to subside, has within the last day or two again deepened in intensity, and its sad effects areriowshowing themselves in mercantile circles. Houses in Liverpool and other places with whom some of our manufacturers have been dealiiig have succumbed to the storm, and ...

... If it be true, some assert, that the amusements of a people form an index their character, some of the amusements popular in the present not warrant very flattering estimate modern Britons. every large town what are called sensation amusements have become so much the rage, that unless we can assure ourselves that they are only the effects a temporary bad taste, they are calculated make ...

... Politicians in this country hare been deeply absorbed in the great battle of parties that extrinsic questions of a deeply interesting nature have not received that attention which is their due. It iB inevitable that this should be so. The capacity of the human mind to bear excitement is limited, and even were it not so, more good is obtained by the faculty our countrymen seem to possess of ...

... Thk decision which the General Assembly of the Free Church came to on Monday, in the case of Mr James the Glasgowcompositor, who was charged with violating the sacred n ess of the Sabbath by working on that day his ordinary occupation, in the office of our contemporary, the Herald, will not have taken anybody by surprise but, notwithstanding, many persons will regard it as scarcely ...

... The spirit of disaffection which undoubtedly pervades portion of the lower classes of the Irish nation has recently ceased to manifest itself in such an open and direct manner as formerly. It may be that the ignorant dupes of Stephens and his coadjutors, have had their eyes opened to the madness of the scheme in which they had embarked ; or their hearts may have sunk, and not unnaturally, at ...

... and teachers will compelled exclude from religious instruction ail children of a denomination different from that of tho teacher, an obligation, they say which their never accepted, and which the •Board never sought to impose them since the adhesion of later The rule has actually been altered by the Board a division, the Commissioners in favour of the change being two, to one against. ...

... It is highly gratifying to find that the course which the Ministry have resolved to take on the of being all but unanimously appcOived by the persons who, up to Saturday morning last, were denouncing knot of dirty conspirators those who urged the expediency of that Gourse being taken at first. We scarcely expect that Mr Bright will be pleased that his mode of dealing with- Reform has been ...

... [From, our London Correspondent.) A Committee has now been appointed for the Scottish North-Eastern Amalgamation Bill, and day fixel for the hearing—viz., the 29th inst. The following is the grouping of the bills : -- First Called—Group 18. 1. Caledonian and Scottish North-Eastern. 2. Forth and Clyde and Caledonian. 3. Forth and Clyde and North British. 4. Highland Railway. 5. Great North of ...

... Whatever may be said of the religious life of the country, the ecclesiastical spirit in Scotland has not for many years been so vigorously displayed as at the present time. Of course, it to a large extent takes the form of contention, and the air seems to be heavy with wars and rumours wars between, and in the midst of, the Churches. It is a singular and by no means premising circumstance that ...

... our best and most respected citizens. Mr Symers, whose health had been visibly failing for some time past, had severe attack about fourteen days ago, which left him very weak, and afforded but slender hopes of his ultimate recovery ; and although for a time he made favourable progress, there was too much reason to fear that his constitution had sustained shock which it would be unable to ...

... (Before Bailie room of Bailie Hay—Wednesday.) Malicious Condi:ct.—Richard Nolan, tailor, Millar's Pend, was charged with maliciously breaking pane glass at two o'clock on Tuesday afternoon in the shop door of Thomas Adams, spirit dealer, Overgate. He pled not guilty. From the evidence led it appeared that Nolan came into Adams' shop asking for whisky, but he was very much th) worse of liquor ...