In these days, when a good deal of nonsense, and,
it must be said, also parochial nonsense, is talked and written about Home-rule for Scotland, attention may be directed to an article on "Jurisdiction of the English Courts over Scotsmen"—apparently from the pen of a Scotch advocate—which appears in the new number of the Scottish Review. Oar own notion is that the beet Mug that could happen for Scotland and England would be the assimilation of the legal systems of the two countries, say by a Special Commission, and (there being good in both systems) on the principle of give-and- take. In the meantime, however, as the writer of this article points out temperately, and yet not without force, Scotch- men connected with England have a genuine grievance in the matter of jarisdiction ; and to a less extent this is also true of Englishmen resident in Scotland, and of Irishmen resident in the sister-Kingdoms. There could, therefore, be no harm in the adoption of the !suggestion of the writer, that a Bill dealing with this question be " prepared by a Committee or Commission appointed by Parlia- ment, composed of a few Judges and practising lawyers, drawn equally from each of the three portions of the United Kingdom." A curious paper of the behind-the-scenes order, on "Egypt on the Eve of the English Invasion," and an article on " Byzantinism and Hellenism," also appear in the new number of the Review, and are well worth reading.
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