this number of the Saturday, both in the political articles and in those on general subjects there is a lack of interest ing writing. The papers on the Home Rule question, and on the speeches which had been delivered in defence of the bills, are perhaps smart enough reading at the breakfast table, but there is nothing in them worth the quoting here. The merits of Sir Erskine May as an official of the House of Commons, and en authority on its unwritten laws, are acknowledged and made the subject of a lament on the decline of good manners in what used to be the first assembly of gentlemen in the world. But, although, it may be true that the House is now in some respects more of a democratic assembly than former Commons, if there has been a rapid degradation of te and manners it, as the Saturday says there has been, we do not know of any other axiating political Assembly to which the House could be sent to Jearn decorum and more polished ways, Not, certainly, to France, Germany or Auatria, perhaps not even to the United States, for in all these countries and in others occur in the national assemblies not yet been enacted in London.
May's knowledge of the forms of and his explicit setting of them forth in his Treatise, have had a great deal to do with the general propriety with which the proceedings of the lower house of Parliament are conducted. Memoirs of previous times (ell us that in their unreformed days the Commons were not and readers of Tre.
Life of Fox know how riotous could becom peerage offered on' his retire-and who is since dead, did good hie day; as the Saturday says The merits of a model officer of the House of Commons might comparatively little known beyond ite precincts if Sir Erskine May had not been public functionary. tional History, whil ted with hi respect for proc which is one of peculiar to a hich hat ion of Parliamentary machinery islatures which periodically come toa deadlock may learn that no system will be successful in the absence of good faith and loyalty. who was recently tried for poisoning her husband, and acquitted by what the Spectator says is an illegal finding—one equivalent to the Scots Not proven the Saturday. The Intter paper considers the verdict of "Not Guilty, but we gravely suspect that she was guilty, i mean verdict," and scolds forem jury therefor. The Spectator examines Mr. Justice Wills's charge at considerable length, and has some suggestive comments on it, and this one Mi. Justice W: the reputation of being an able Judge, aly has the power of expressing especially in reprimand, with quite unusual dearn gare the closest attention to the case; ntly tried to make his speech a model never find three men any' who agree whether be wished to acquit to condemn the prisoner. The newspapers on the following day were all at about that; the Bar puzzled about it to th last moment, especially when the remark about severity' and since the trial, everybody, whatever his opinion, quotes Mr. Justice Wills as on his ide, That is rare testimony to the impartial ity of a Judge who said he did'not think it his duty to give a "colourless" charge it seems singular, too, for thi tly we read it, always lat the Judge was fighting down a strong impression, produced trial, in order that the and even Englieh other words, he tried to be absolutely im-J, and was misunderstood on all han possibly even by the Jury, because all secretly expect a even in a Judge's charge, and when they do not tind it, grow perplexed, article on Burma the Satuday culetes on the effect which the approach ing majority of the Emperor of China may have in the Kachyen country, and in our Inst conquest,. It-says If the various Burin ing of Drooite, are their ground, and even iner by. well-atruc ion, the Chin The events of the 15th in Mandalay have brought the Myinzaing Prince much closer to the position of national hero, The events of the 1dth and 16th April were serious, but they have been succeeded by others of a still graver nature, as the grams from Mandalay of the 30th Ap show, and there seems to have been great feebleness displayed by the British authorities in Mandalay, on the two occa.
when attempts Was made to fire city. Those who read a very uncivil letter from Sir William Harcourt to the Times, two mails ego, on some remarks which Sir F, Milner had made on a ntatoment of the Chancellor's regarding a former condition of affairs at Nun Appleton, will enjoy an article in the Saturday entitled "The Deserted Village, Latest Editi and th called Littl Pi of Madrid gives some curious ious murders of High Ecclesiastios by and also of the peculiarly immoral which are led by most of the clergy in South America, Audin an article on the continued depression of (rade it is pointed out that the rer which was hailed towards the end of last year, has boon hindered b elections at home, and politics in the Bal-kana and the Levant, and by ate labour disputes; but it shows that wages are being adjusted to as to allow of production of manufactures of all kinds at low and that there really was a con improvement in trade in the United States, and during the first quarter of the year increased export to them of Bri An article in the Pall Malt Budget gives what is termed the moral of the fich ing dispute between England and the United States, and may refer to the pi in which the Canadians seized American boats, as recently reported to us by telegram. The paper open thus The capture of an American Gelling-boat in the Bay of Fundy by " Canadian arui reminder that it English-speaking plish a tribunal for the adjudicate disputes. By the Convention of 1818 Amer can fishermen renounced for ever the right of taking, drying, or curing fish on or within three merino miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of the British North American dominions, They were henceforth only to enter such or harbour purpose of shelter and of re]
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