15 MAY 1886, page 8

The Penalty Of Death.

T HE division on Sir Joseph Pease's proposal to abolish the penalty of death is satisfactory, as showing that in this particular, at all events, the new House of Commons is not......

A Word For Greece.

T HAT Lord Rosebery has been in the right in compelling Greece to disarm, may be fully admitted without join- ing in the chorus of spiteful depreciation which is just now......