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OATHs.-A report has been made to Parliament o1 the subject of the expedl- ency of substituting declarations, in lieu of many of the oaths, now required by law 10 be administered and taken. The com mittee declare, that the practice of admin istering the latter on trivial occasions tends materially to diminish the respect paid to their sanctions, aud tine public reverence for the soIemnity of their obligation that recourse ought never to be hadso them where 1t can safely be dispensed with and never, where the purpose for which Il IS em- p.oyed is iot sufficiently important 10 war rant an appeal 10 the Deity. They there- fore propose, that the Lords of the Treasu- ". in all matters not ,,f jaaieial nature, as we'll as the Universities, and other Cor porations, shall be empowered to direct the substitution of declaration for an oath ;: that no accounts shall henceiorward be re- ouired or verified ny oath and that the legal penalties attached to perury shall be in future incurred by false declarations, thus eubstituted. .--BBostos .4dussssser.