18 JUNE 1842, page 13

Topics Of The Day.

THE GOLD COINAGE. THE proclamation respecting the gold coinage has occasioned con- siderable annoyance even in town : in the suburbs, it for a time almost put a stop to buying......

Lord Eliot And The Irish Jobbers.

LORD ELIOT has pushed on the Lagan Navigation Bill, to which we adverted in our last number, another stage. He took for this purpose the "genial hour," as IVIocuis says, for......

Scotch Judges And Witnesses.

WHAT is the law of Scotland with regard to the examination of irreligious or heterodox persons upon oath in criminal trials? " In the trial of Lowe and others for treason,"......