29 MAY 1880, page 8

Permissive Persecution.

I T may interest some of our readers to know exactly what it is that the Bill to make the application of the May Laws discretionary instead of absolute, which is now before the......

The Burials Bill.

L ORD SELBORNE'S Burials Bill is, on the whole, cour- ageous and satisfactory. We agree with those . who, criticising it less from the point of view of the Dissenters who demand......

Scepticism And Conservatism.

M R. THOROLD ROGERS referred, in his speech in th e Bradlaugh debate of Monday, to the well-recognised con- nection between religions scepticism and political Conservatism,......