3 APRIL 1841, page 13

Topics Of The Day.

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION LAW. THE law of England is full of rules for the admission or rejection of evidence : some persons are, according to it, admissible witnesses, others not......

Counting-out.

THERE is a North-country proverb to the effect that children and persons of weak intellect ought not to be intrusted with edge-tools. There are persons whom it seems equally......

What Is Blasphemy?

Ma. GOULBURN opposed the third reading of the Jews Declara- tion Bill, on the ground that " a Jew could not enforce the law against blasphemy " ; and Sir ROBERT INGLIS declared......

Some Thoughts About Duelling.

Loan CARDIGAN'S mock trial does not seem to have given so much encouragement to the practice of duelling as some good people anticipated : at least the " fighting intelligence "......