15 AUGUST 1885, Page 2

The House of Commons has further amended the Criminal Law

Amendment Bill by a clause allowing a child's evidence, even though it be too young to know the nature of an oath, to be taken for what it is worth ; and, with several other useful amendments, the Bill was returned to the Lords on Monday for their assent, which it received after a speech from the Bishop of Winchester, doing fall justice—perhaps more than justice— to the Bill, of which we heartily approve, without hoping that it will produce any very great effect. The Archbishop of Canter- bury was not in his place, and reserved his far too lukewarm condemnation of the course taken by the Pall Mall for publica- tion in a different form.