The Express. — London, England, 1853-04-16 00:00:00

IML EItIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LOItDS.—FaID.►T, APRIL 11 The Low) CHANCELLOR took kis seat at 3 o'eleek. PET' lONS PRESENTED. Anut•sion or Int Jews To l'auctauver.—By th.t Dub- of RICHMOND. from several planes in S.I.SCX. from Strathhogie and Dumfries; Lord COMDERIERE, from several plates; and the Bishop of ROCHESTER, from places io his di Tlfe against. The Bishop of Wachs-star said he signed en t he prayer of the petitions, but sot from any political feeling, it being solely on religious grounds. The Jews had never shown any uctire hostility against the Church of Eastland. In support of his opinii;us, however, he would refer their lordds4s to some porticos of the sermons of :Archbishop Tillotson, which he would re zimmend them to rezi. About 100 years sea the Dube of Newciitle, then prime minister, introduced a bill far the naturalization of Jews, but such was the excitement it caused, the' at the neat meeting of parlament, after the reading of the King's speech, he himself proposed the re peal of the act. TUB CARE OF MR. KIRWAN. - - The East of EGLIN gene not.ce that on Tuesday seat he would mon* for a copy of the report which induced the E trl of St. Germans to re.dore Mr. Kirwan to the commission of the pea-- in Ireland ; and on that c ceaeion be would lay the circumstances before the house. THE WAR IN BURDIAII. The Earl of ELLEN LtOItOPG II had rev' with great pain a rep rt in the newspapers, th it on the capture of a plies in Burnish the governor of the adjoining territory had retreated into thejunale. Ile had previou.ly defeated, with great hie., a body Maid men—sailor,, marines, and in fantry; and it was no repined that • reward of 1001. had been offered for has head. This showed • spirit of resent ment greatly to be deprecated; and he hoped we s.sonld not introduce Into our warfare habits of the most barbarous nations. Ile hoped the Lord President would make in quiry, and amertain if there was any foturistioa fur the statement. . . - EarlAN VILLE said lie certainly would do so. POOR REMOVAL AND LOCAL ASSESSMENT BILL. _ .. . Lord DERNERS, having presented some petition, in faveur of this bill, row to move its second residing. He re gretted the absence of the noble duke (Rutland), who would have brought the subject heron: their lowlehips ; and he also wished to say, that in refueing to agree to the pro position made to him flit evening by • noble earl opposite, to postpone the motion, he had not been aetoated by any feeling of discourtesy, hut his sense of duty would not allow hint to assent to the proposition. It was said, that a noble individu a elsewhere waled make a statement on the subject ; hut be had no aseuranee that the government were nrepareO to bring forward any measure on the subject. In deference to the opinions of the noble lords who bad attended that eveninc to support the emend reading of the bill, and bear-, in; in 'stied the sixty two petitiims which he had presented on the out+ et, be e mid not hesitate at once t o bring the subject before their I::.hips. Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY experesed a hope that the noh.e lord would not pre-a the second reading of the bill as it was the intention of the government next week to eomnsunieate to parliament their inteationt with regard to the law of settlement and the alterations they 'imposed to make. He could also point nut to the noble lord, that i• would be use:, es to pats the hill as it now stood, unless it was originated in the other house, for several of the clauses contained provisions involving taxation, to which the Hoots of Cosmos' would not consent as coming from their Inedshire, hence involving, at it did, a breach of their privileges. Such, for instance, wee the clause which proposed to transfer charces over which the guawlians had no control, each as met-in:slim, fees to the clergy, de., to the general taxation of the country. To this the House of Commons would never content, and if she bill was pro- Deeded with it would only be so ranch time wasted. Lost RERNERS was understood to say he would leave the matter in the hands of the house. The Earl of DERBY had no heeitstion in saying, that after the statement of the aolde lord oppodte, that at all events fur the pres:•nt, it would be advisable for his polar friend to pestpone hi. bill. It was a subject which could be but dealt with by the government ; and it was one which had been under the anxious eonsiderstion of tho govern ment over whieh he presided. It was found to be sur rounded with difficulties. He thought that hie noble friend would act wisely if ho left the question to the government, which wee best able to deal wits it. The order for the second reading "'althea about to he discharged, when Lord BEAUMONT said that if it was not intended that the noble lord shoot I go on with tho subject it was better that the bill shout -I he withdrawn. As it now stood the lull was almost unintelligible, and as regarded the object the noble lord had in view, it was impossible to arrive at any conclusion. The Duke of RICHMOND recommended his noble friend to withdraw the bill, for by doing so, he was not precluded, if he was not satisfied with the statement of the government, from bringing in au amended bill. The bill was then withdrawn. VACCINATION EXTENSION BILL. Lord LYTTELTON brought op the report of the com mittee on this bill. REPAYMENT OF ADVANCES (IRELAND). The Marquis of CLANRICARDE rose to present • pe tition of which he had given notice, from a poor-law union in Ireland relating to the repayment of advances to unions. He was not about to discuss the general question of the re payment of advances, but he would shortly advert to the position in which the subject stood. Hews one of a nume rous deputation of members, of bsth houses of parliament, who waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the sub ject, and pressed on him to direct the attention of the government to it, and urging that it should bo dealt with in a fair, liberal, and equitable manner. A committee of their lordship' house had sat last year on this question, and a more fair, dispassionate, and laborious investiga, tine was never carried on than by that committee. What the deputation urged on the right hon. gentleman was, that this subject should be considered on its merits, acd entirely free from financial considerations. He under stood, and he had seen several other members of the depu tation, and their impression entirely agreed with his own, tat the right hon. gentleman gave a pledge that it should be so considered, and that the only question which would weigh with the government would be, was it a sound and wise policy to remit that portion of the advances which kad been made for the purpose, not of carrying on works which had been presented by the landlords, or which were in any way for their benefit, but to meet what must be regarded e• a national calamity, and to preserve the people from starvation. It appeared by the answer reported to hare been given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to a motion brought furward in the House of Commons on the subject of the consolidated annuities, that the right hon. gentle man denied having given any such pledge, and that he intimated he would announce the decision of the government, when he brought forward the budget. It might be material, perhaps, that the right hon. gentle man, as the question involved the remission of a liability, that tie right hon. gentleman should avail himself of that opportunity of declaring the decision of the government, but what he and the deputation were anxious for was, that it should be decided as a question of policy, apart from considerations of finance and revenue arrangements. It was possible he might be wrong in his impression that the right hon. gentleman (eau a distinct pledge to that effect, but he had thought it right before the decision of the government was made known, to state what his understand ing and that of the other members of the deputation was as to the answer they received at their interview with the right hon. gentleman. The Earl of ABERDEEN, having no knowledge of the meeting to which his noble friend referred, or to any state ment which might have been made by his right hon. friend to the deputation in question, he could not say anything as to the pledge his right hon. friend was supposed to have given. All he could say was, that he felt perfectly satisfied, that whatever pledge his right hon. friend gave, or what ever statement he made, would be undoubtedly adhered to. Lord bIONTEAOLE confirmed the impression of his noble friend as to what took place at the deputation with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He thought that there was an equitable claim for tho remission of so mach of these advances as had been made, not at the instance of the land lords, but to preserve the lives of the starving people uf Ireland. The question was one to be dee;ded on its own mend, and not in reference to the ability of Ireland to pay— and especially he deprecated its twine considered u • re mission of debt, in return for which new taxes were to be impoud. After a remark from the Marquis of Ci atca um, the petition was ordered to lie on the table. THE MAYNOOTH DEBATE. The Earl of ABERDEEN announced that the terms of the amendment with which he proposed to meet the motion of the Earl of Winehileea on Monday neat were a. lows : " That an humble address be presented to her Ma jesty, praying that her Majesty will be graciowly pleased to issue • commission to inquire into the management provensmeint of the College of Moynooth, and into the dis cipline and course of instruction established and pureued therein, and to inquire isle° into the effects produced by the increased grant' conferred on the said college by parliament in the year I fici. (gear, hear.) Their lordships then adjourned at 7 o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAT, APRIL 15. The Sra►aaa took the chair at 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Blackpool and Liyten with Warbrick Improvement Bill was read a third time. The esmhridge University and Town Waterworks Bill wet enn. idered and ordt red to be laid on the table. Tropro;em t;(OwellingsOf the Work ing Chasms) Bill wan read a second time. The Devon and D triet Rad wile Bill, the Newry and En n4k;lisn Ittilway Bill, and the Warrington and Altrineham Junction Railway (Warrington, &c.) ,Bill were severally nod a second time. RAILWAY LEGISLATION. Mr. ( "ART/WELL. on rising to move the resolution on this anzlidect of which he had given notio.,sakl they had been unanimously agreed to by the committee selected by the house at the beginning of the session. Tho hotline would recollect that at the beginning of the session they had to deal with 167 railway tine. Of three bills 82' inr , lve I r”tuhination. of ialr r. st n ith difn r. •,t e mi.mien, and in order t'., t thee m';l2. un , leentand the run ~ itn k of the istereste at .tike he vmuld, with the permission of tho balm, refer to one or two atheist. There was an arrange ment coutemilated in Enennd with the London and North Wintelf Cway which laraircil a raised capital of about sixty millions, en annual revenue of about four millions, the possession of 1,2)0 mils of railway, and from the nature of the emend the towns with which them railways communicated, involving communication with the whole kingdom to the north of Devonshire. In Scotland ' there was a question so to whether the two 1 , lines which connected Edinburgh and Glaeotow, in stead of baring separate interests, eboald hate a combino tit,u of interttio. In Ireland there was another question, that the Midland and Oreat Western Hallway, already pos. wising the Hopei Canal of Ireland, should become pur chasers of the Grand Canal, and thereby become poseesud of all the water communication between Dublin and the West of Ireland. Thau questions were so grave that the House of Commons thought it improper that they should be dealt with by reference to select committees on separate bills, where the dee:dens might bo conflicting, since the whole case of railway amalgamation could not by possibility be 'Omitted to any ono of those committees. At that ;periodhe had not the honour of a seat in the house, but subsequent to that time it had been his lot chiefly to conduct the operations of the committee. They found that they were virtually considering questions with companies which had capitol of 250 million., with a power of raising more, which they had cot yet exercised. They were dealing with a revenue already amounting to five millions, and annually increasi g. They were dealing with the freedom of the travelling, and the convenience of the transit, of passen gers ha ail parts of the kingdom, of whom, by the last return, he had seen there were &i miLions in a year. They wars dealing with the transit of goods front all parts of the kingdom. Above all, they were dealing with the great question of public safety, and with the question how the lamentable accidents which had Immo ncd on railways could be avoided by pru dent legislation for the future. Whatever else might he the otinion of the house, he was sure they would be unani mous in this, that when an inquiry of this magnitude had devolved on a committer, that committee were hound to deal with it diligently and deliberately to investigate it to the utmost. They had had great arguments addressed to them by clout :Ole and competent men in favour of a greater consolii:otioa of interests and of more extensive amilgamation, and they had had strong apprehensions and Arguments on the dangers that might result to the commu nity if parliament gave the requisite power!. In dealing with that question they were not without ea idence of what had been attempted before. The first great name by whom it was considered was Mr. Huskiwin, and he dealt with it by laying down a general principle that profits should not excecO IO per cent. That general principle failed entirely ; it turned out in practice that railways did not pay that per centege. At a subsequent period the duty of endea vouring to disentangle this skein of railway politics de volved on a very able man, Lori Dalhousie, who did not lay down ony general principle, but with the greatest assi duity applied himself to the details of every railway in the kingdom, but his operations did not meet with success. At the beginning of this session the question was devolved by the house upon the committee. The committee thought the time had now arrived when it was absolutely necessary that the house should decide what they would do with the question of amalgamation. The committee had carefully eansidered the subject and were unanimously of opinion that they could not advise the hmse to part with any of their powers in respect to any amalgamation of the com panies. There was another question. There were many new works going forward, which were promoted by per sons interested in the locality, who earnestly desired those increased advantages of railway communica ion which were expected by the passage of bills now before the huum. The committee had been anxious to interfere with that as little as possible, or not to interfere with it all. There was another class of bills with which the house had great experience with reference to what were called fighting lines bills, promoted by compa nies who hail no intention of going on with them — bills promoted as a means of offence or of defence, or pro moted by some private person, some speculating lawyer or engineer, who wanted the sanction of parliament :to his bill, and then to put it up lay auctioa. They have thought whether a greater security might not be obtained against hill. of that kind. They had taken core that at least pend ing this inquiry no such mischief should go on, and they recommended that the house should put a stop to these bills by declaring that they ohould not be proceeded with unit ss the parties consented to give bail for the construction of the line. It appeared to the committee that the case of Ireland differed materially from England. England was already traversed by innumerable rail rays, while Ireland pate-wood but few, and these fighting lines did not exist in Ireland. Oa the contrary, the difficulty in Ireland was to obtain capital for local lines that were really wanted. That being so they thought they ought to exempt Ire land from the second resolution. The right lion. gentleman concluded by m ming the resolutions ' which areas follow: " Th it no railway or canal bill containing any powers of amalti :motion, purchase, lease, working arrangement, or other combination of interest between did rent railway or cared companies heretofore incorporated, be further pro ceeded with, unless the part, s interested in promoting such bill shall elect to proceed with the same on the terms of striking out in c , tontine, all such powers aforesaid, except when the combination of interest is limited exclusively to an interest in new works to be executed, or for the execu tion of which time is to be given, wide• powers to be con ferred in the present session. That it he an instruction to the committee on every railway and canal bill, in case any petition, duly deposited by the promoters of any bill or bills, which, in consequenco of the foregoing resolution, shall not have been read a second time, shall allege that such bill or belly involve a scheme competing with a scheme referred to such committee, it shall he competent to the committee to admit the petitioners presenting such petition to • locus stondi to uppose the bill so referred to them as aforesaid. That, in the present session, it be an insrtuction to the committee on every railway bill providing for the construc tion of any new railway, or for the extension of time for the completion of any railway in Great Britain, in cue they shall find the preamble thereof to be proved, to insert in the bill our or other of the provisions following, that is to say : In every railway bill promoted by an existing rail way company, being possessed of a railway already opened fur public traffic, whereby the construction of any new line of railway is authorised, or the time for completing any line already authorised is extended, a clause providing that after the expiration of a period to be limited by such bill, not exceeding are years from the passing of the act, no the ease of • new line, and three years in case of the ex tension of time for completing any line, the pay meat of any dividend on the ordinary and ungua waattsed capital of such company shall be suspended until amtli line shall have been completed and opened for public traße. In every railway bill promoted by an existing rail way company not being possessed of • railway already opened for public traffic, or by persons not already incorpo rated, whereby the construction of any new lino of railway is authorised, a clause to the following effect, six.: And whereas, pursuant to the standing orders of both houses of parliament, and to an act of the ninth year of her present Majesty, c, 241, a sum of 1., being one-tenth part of three - f ourths of the amount of the estimate of the expense of the railway authorised by this act, has been deposited with the Court of Chancery in England (or Ireland, or with the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, as the caso may be), (or Exchequer Bills, stocks, or funds to the amount of 1., have been deposited or transferred pursuant to the said act, as the case may be), in respect of the appli cation to parliament for this apt ; be it enacted that, not withstanding anything contained in the said recited act, the said sum of 1. (or the said Exchequer Bills, or other funds, as the case may be), so deposited or trans ferred as aforesaid, in respect of the application for this act, or the interest or dividends of such sum of money (Ex chequer Bills, rocks, or funds) shall not, except upon the execution and deposit of such bond as here inafter mentioned, be paid or transferred to or on the appli cation of the person or persons, or the majority of the per sons, named in such warrant or order, or the survivors or survivor of them, unless the said company shall, previously to the expiration of the period limited by this act for com pletion of the railway hereby authorised to be made, either open the said railway for the public conveyance of passen gers, or prove to the satisfaction of the lords of the com mittee of her Majesty's Privy Council for trade and foreign plantations that the said company have paid up one half of the amount of the capital by this act authorised to be raised by means of shares, and have expended for the purposes of this act a sum equal in amount to such one-half of the said capitol ; and if the said period shall expire before the said company shall either have opened the said railway for the public conveyance of passengers, or have given such proof as aforesaid to the satisfaction of the lords of the said committee the said sum of money (Exche quer Bills, Stocks, or Funds) deposited or transferred as aforesaid, and the interest and dividends thereof, shall im mediately, from and after the expiration of the said period, be forfeited to her Majesty, and be paid and transferred by the t fficer or person in whose name they shall then be de posited or invested to the aconunt of her Majetty's Exche quer, and when so paid and transferred, shall be carried to and form part of the consolidated fund of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland : provided that at any time after the pasting of this act, if a bond in twice the amount of the said sum of shall have been exe cuted by the said company, with one or more sureties (such bond to be orepazed to the satisfaction of, and such surety or suroies to be approved by, the solicitor to the lords commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury), conditioned for payment to her Majesty, her heirs or successors, of the said sum of £ if the sold company shall not, within the time limited for the completion of the said railway, either open the said railway for the public conveyance of passengers, or prove to the satisfaction of the lords of the .aidamownittes that the said company have paid up one half of the amount of the said capital by this act authorised to be raises! by means of shares, anal have expended fur the purposes uf this act • sum moot in amount to such one-half of the said capital ; and if such bond shall have been de posited with the out solicitor to the said lords commis oinnera, then such sum of money (Exchequer Bills, stocks, or funds), and the interest or dividends thereof, shall be paid or trousferrod to, or nn the application of the person or persons, or the majority of the persons, named in such war rant of order as aim:said, or the survivors or survior of diem; and the monies to be recovered upon such bond shall he dealt with in like manner as the said sum of money [Exchequer Bills, stocks, or funds], and the interest or dividends thereof, would have been dealt with under this act if such bond had not been exe cutest and deposited as aforesaid. In ease of any railway bill to which neither of the foregoing provisions may be 'maid to apply, a special provision for effectually securing, as nearly as may be, in accordance with the. mac s the cora pletion and opening for traffic of the railway to which the bill Malmo" The resolu'ions were ogve.il to after a short conversation. AIIIIERCIATE. NOT !INGO VT, AND BOSTON, AND EASTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY (Ne. 2) RILL. Bie7/71r. ZULLER moved that the standing order No. 190 be tsar tided, and thlt the bi.l keno' s would time cu Moab, aut.—digrced to. PUBLIC BUSINESS. PETITIONS PRESENTED. ADMISAION OF JEITA To PARLIAMIENT.—B Mr. GWYN, haul; a place not hel; Mr. J. K. KI NG, from the parish of Leintwardine. in the county of Hereford; Col. DUNCOSIIIE, from Hutton Rudley, in Yorkshire; Mr. PACKE, from Cadeby, in the county of Leicester; Mr. FARNHAM, from Breedon, in the county of Leicester; Mr. EVELYN, from the clergy of the deonery'of Stoke d'Ahetnon. Surrey, and the clergy of the deanery of West Stoke, Surrey; Col. BLAIR, from the presbyter, of Grin , wick (S.Natland), signed by toe Moderator; Mr. KNIO LEY, from Newnhom, Badly, and Preston Capes, in the county of Northataptou ; Sir J. TROLT.OPE, from Lead . enham, county of Lincoln; Mr. MUNny, fr 411 Tissington and Wigton-upon-Trent, in toe county of Darby ; Mr. NOEL, from Ookham nod Egleton, in the county of Rut , load: Sir J. Y. BULLER, from Upton Woodleigh, St. James. Exeter, Ashburton, and two other places ; Mr. CHILD, from Ilaulev and Shelton, Staftwdshire ; Lord HO f HAM, trout Welton-com-M, Iton, E ist Riding of Y•ultsli ire ; Mr. TOL LE sl AC E, from Birken head, Sanaback, and Church Iluime ; against.— ' Sir U. GOODMAN, fro:u the mayor, aldermen, and bur gesses of the borough of Leeds. in council assembled; Mr. COBDEN, from Durdey ; Lord D. STUART, from mem bers of the western synagogues of British Jews; Mr. WHALLEY, from Brt eon ; in favour. OPENINO OP THE CuacTAL PALACE ON SUNDATS.-13y Mr. TOLLEMACITE, from the deaneries of M.ddiewich, Nantwich, and Runcorn; Mr. A. I'ELLATT, from 416 inhabit:n[B of Edgware-road and its vicinity ; .elso from in habitants of Westminster, 216 signatures; against. TAXT.3 ON KNowLrooe. —By Mr. BEAUMONT , from Sir Walter 'frevelyau and others, for the repeal of. MAYNOOTH.—By Mr. FARNHAM, from Colaville, against. ATrunsie.s . CERTIEIC iTE DUTY.—By Mr. POLLE MACRE, from I.l:rk,uiteoil and Nuntwich Mr. B. STAN HOPE, from Epri'rth, Lincolnshire, for repeal of. BISTTZR UIATiON OF • Penlit: IlLusr.a (Scot- LAND) BILL.—By Cul. Mliltl-1, from the Ilceneed victual lers at.d spirit m•rehants of Paisley, against. TYNENIOUra ELECTION. Sir B. HALL hromOt up the report of the committee in thi. rise. It vs.!. That Hugh Taylor, DI., is not duly sleeted a member to Jerre in the present parliament for the borough of Tyne mnu•h ; and that the last election is a TOW election.' The committee had also agreed to tho following reso lution : _ .... _ . " That Hutch Taybir, Esq., was by his agents guilty of bribery and treating at the last election. " That it was purred that one Samuel Bell had been bribed by a payment in the form of refreshment tickets amounting to 91. lOs. ; and that SllOll tickets wen• issued by the committees of the candidates on both sties—narael lOs. Irons the committee of Mr. Taylor, an I!. from that of Mr. Ralph Wm. Grey. " That a system of corruption by means of refreshment tickets called' orders' prevailed at the last election on both " That it was not proved that the bribery and treating were committed with the knowledge of the said Hugh Taylor, but it appeared that the expenses of the said Hugh Taylor amounted to 1,900 i. (Sensation.) " That the committee have reason to think that corrupt practices extensively prevailed at the last electi m." Fir B. HALL subd he hau been instructed by the com mittee to move tsr a commission to inquire into the borough, and ;eve notice that, in due course, he :should move the proper resolution, with a view to the issuing of such con m'16;011. (Hear.) PROSECUTION OF ELECTION AGENTS GUILTY THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1853. OF BRIBERY. Lord D. STUART Vgge;ll.7iiWn)tice that on the Gest own day after the motion of the hon. member for West miubter for t`le prosecution of :1;r Fred. Smith had been disposed of, he should move that the Attorney-General be d'rected to prosecute all persona who as agents for candi d tt> s should be reported be any election cuminittee of the house to base been guilty of bribery. (Hear) DIETItarOLITAN BoRoUGIiS, Mr. CWAIU (wbo ;; ; ;i:;1.;*;i, - ;; , 4t..1ae0f v. ice as to he hardly iutellieibte in the Gallery) WM understood to give notice that on Thursday next he would le‘k the intention of the governmint with respect to granting municipal insti tutions to districts in the metroraha. HOP RETURNS. In reply to Mr. M. Mr. WILSON explained that the gevernm-nt could not be held responsible for certain errors which appeared in the returns of the hop acreages, because they were necessarily dependent upon their efficers in the country. The govern ment would now enjiin those ofli.:ers to be more careful fur the future. TOBACCO AND SNUFF. Mr. H. O. LANG lON moved for returns of the num- Irtr of pounds weight of leaf tobacco, unmanufactured to bacco, citrus, and snuff, paid duty upon, quarterly, in the yeses 18.50 and 1851, up to the ...Eh day of J .nuary 1853 ; also the gross marmot of duty received th. reon, distinguish ing England, &Wand, and Ireland, and the respective ports of importation therein, and the totals of each quarter of the year. Of the quantity of foreign manufactured to bum and snuff imported into the United Kingdom in each of the three years 1850, 1851, and 1852 ; stating the quan tity exported from the bonded warehowes as merchandise to the British colonies, and to what colonies; also the quantity exported as ships' stores in each of those three years. And, of the quanity of British manufactured to bacco and snuff exported as merchandise, under drawback, to the Britisk colonies, in each of the three years 1850, 1851, and 1852 ; and of the quantity exported as ships' stores, in each of those three years (iu continuation of par , liamentary paper, No. 323, of session 18.50.) —agreed to. ALLEGED REFUGEE CONSPIRACY. Sir J. WALMSLEY rose for the purpose of asking a question of the noble viscount the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to an illustrious exile in this country whom it would be the wish of this Luse and of the country to protect, so long as he conducted himself in conformity with our lowa. (Hear, hear.) He was induced to ask the question he was about to put to the noble lord in consequence of a statement in a " leading journal " this morning to the following effect : "We be lieve that we are correctly informed whoa we state that, upon intelligehee received by the Secretary of State for the 11. me Department and the Commissioners of Police for the metropolis, active measures have been taken to substantiate the charges which have king been vaguely preferred against M. Kossuth and his adherents. Upon this legal inferma tim a house is the occupation of M Kossuth was searched yesterd iy morning at an early hour by the competent autho rities, acing, we presume, under the Secretary of State's warrant, and the rasult of this investigation was the disco very of a 'arge store of arms, ammunition, and materials of war." (Hear, hear.) Now, the question which he (Sir J. Walm.ley) had to ask of the noble lord was this—Wu there any foundation for that statement with respect to Louis Kossuth ; and also had her Majesty's government given any assurance to Austria,or any other foreign powers, with respect to the surveillance of political refugees in this country ? (Hear, hear.) Perhaps it would be for the con venience of the house it the hon. gentleman, the Secretary for the Treasury, would permit him at the same time to move that the house at its rising de adjourn till Monday next. (Hear, hear.) Viscount PALMERSTON.—I am not going to second the motion of my hon. friend, although it is pretty obvious what is the reason why that motion is proposed—(a laugh) ; but I shall confine myself to answer the question miff no such proposition had been made. The facts are these— namely, that information had been received that there were in a house somewhere at Rotherhithe—not a house. own _ . pied by M. Kossuth—a quantity of warlike stores, and that there was a larger quantity of gunpowder than is permit ted by law, even to dealers in that article. A search war rant was issued in the ordinary course by a magistrate to the police, and the house was entered yesterday at an early hour. In that house were found upwards of 70 cases closely packed, intended apparently for transmission to sumo distance, and containing several thou sand rockets—not such rockets as are used at Vauxhall— (loud laughter)—but for the purposes of war. There were also found a considerable number of rockets in various stages of manufacture, and iron cases containing combusti ble materials. There were found 2,000 shells, not as yet loaded, and a very considerable quantity of the composi tion with which rockets are filled. there was also about 500 lbs. of gunpowder. These things were seised by the police, but who belonged to the house, and who was the permn employed in making them, I suppose the house will not expect me now to state. (Hear, bear.) These are questions which will require future consideration; but I think the house will be of opinion that the Secretary of State having been informed that there was reason to think that there was such an immense amount of warlike stores in a private dwelling. was justified in taking steps for the purpose of taking possession of those arms, and of founding ! upon them any such proceedings as the law officers of the `crown, whom we shall have to consult, may think there is ground for sustaining. (Cheers.) I can assure my hon. friend that he is entirely mistaken in supposing that her Majesty's government are acting under any pledge, promise, or en gagement to any foriign state, except those which were men force th in e the e w f s ofac e of o country t parliament , artiamen t prevent namely, thate shelter ew w hich, I trust, will always be girt n to foreign exiles, whatever may bo the political cause which has led them to take that shelter, from being abused for the purpose of organ ising or carrying on hostile proceedings against foreign powers. (Ii! ud cheers ) Mr. T. DUNCOMBE was very much afraid the state meat of the noble lord was much calculated to alarm the public. and therefore he would put another question to the I noble lord. Ile would ask the noble lord whether he did not know that a sort of manufactory of rockets had been I carried on at the house at Rotherhithe—e Lich was no house at all—for the last six years past? (Hear, hear.) He had ' made inquiries into the facts, and could detail the real state of the case to the house. As far as it related to Kossuth, i the whole statement in the Times appeared to lee • perfect i fabrication ; and he believed that there had been at Bother hit he a most illegal proceeding.of which an explanation would have to be given in a court of law. There was a certain gentlemen named Hale, and there was another named Capt. ! W arner. (A laugh.) Now, these gentlemen were rivals in ! the Flll3O line, except that Mr. lisle was the more success ful of the two. Did the noble lord mean to sae th a t h e did ! not know that six years ago Mr. Hie took out a patent for the manuf tcture et this wet of war rocket ; that he had offered them to our government ? The sale of them had been going on fur years. Various tureen governments— Denmark, Prussia, and others—had purchased them; and I , iter!t, , he Lad tit .oura-turc I them h, n hrtte amount. Ile (Me. hy.c Rabe) latgicvell that Mr. Hale had also received an order from Culm—(laughter)—and that et ry recently— within the Let few mouth:—lte hail dieted to the govern ment the whale of the prom.. stock w1..!;..h he pessessed of I these rockets, but which the government had refused, as they bad done Captain Warner's invention. lie (Mr. Dun comb') remembered that when Lord Ingestre was a mem ber of this house he took a great interest in Captain Warner ; he had taken him (Mr. Duncombe) to see all the gallant captain's instruments and implements of war that ' were at the house of my Lord Salisbury, in Arlington. street. (Laughter,) The government might, therefore. just as well have issued a warrant to search the noble lord's residence. (Hear, bear.) He was informed that Mr. Hale had not a single ounce of gunpowder on his premises, and that his rockets were originally made close to the arsenal at We lefich. (Hear, hear.) The premises at Itotherhithe were not a dwelling at all, and Mr. Hall resided at Chel sea. A very unlawful act had been committed by the police, and now they were trying to ride off on the plea • that the warrant was one under the Custom-house regula tions to starch for gunpowder. The rocket composition did not contain gunpowder at all, and therefore the custom house had no right to break into the premises. (Hear, hear.) He had had this statement from Mr. Hall's own son, and he believed it to bo strictly correct. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BRIGHT would also ask the noble lord a 11.1C , 1i00. Whatever K- muth might have done in Hungary, in this country, or elsewhere, no one could doubt that the cha racter of such a man must be dear to himself, and that none of them nor the press of England ought to defame such a man. (Cheers.) On that ground he wished to ask the noble lord whether there was any reason to believe that Kassuth was in any degree whatsoever comprumieeel in this matter more than any of the Orleans party now in this country ? (Cheers.) He (Mr. Bright) thought he had a right to ask that question, because he had been on a plat form—(lauehter)—with the distinguished individual in question ; and although nothing would induce hint to say that libe rty was more likely to be promoted by the course M. Koseuth had pursued, than by another course of pro ceeding which would more commend itself to his Olr. Bright's) judgment and principles, he should be extremely sorry it either there or elsewhere anything should occur that would induce him to disavow his connexion with or his admiration of that distingpished individual. (Cheers.) Ile therefore felt, like many other persons in this country, interested in knowing whether there was any ground what ever tor this statement, which had appeared in a powerful orsn of the press. (Hear, hear.) Ile must ask for an ,explicit answer to this question, because it was only just thet immediately alter the charge had been made which was now travelling over the wide world, if an answer could be given that would acquit him of doing what would have been an unjoetifiable r.ct, it ought to be given, PO that his character might be cleared, and the explana tion be as widely circulated as the charge. (Cheers.) Lord PALMERSTON—With regard to the question of my hon. friend (Mr. Duncombe) he really knows so much more than I do myself about the matter, that if tll,re were to be any interchange of questions and answers between us I think I ought to be the questioner, and he answerer. (Laughter.) It is, therefore, out of no disrespect that Ido not answer the inquiry which he has put to tne, and I refer him to his own knowledge. Mr. DUNCOMBE.—What I asked was, do you not know that this manufactory has been carried on there for some time? Lord P ALMERSTON —No, I really don't. (Laughter.) I can only say that I don't moan to dispute the hon. gen tleman's assertion with regard to these rockets. (Cheers.) It is very possible ; but I don't know any thing about it. With regard to the other question put by the hon. gentle man (Mr. Bright), I am quite sure that the house in the Present stage of the matter will not think it desirable that I should answer it. Ido not mean to cast any imputation upon any one. I have stated that it remains to be ascer tained who the persons are who are concerned in this great manufactory of rockets, and at all events it would be most improper to enter further upon the subject. (Cheers.) Lord D. STUART reprehended the tendency of the noble lord to treat subjects of every description with levity. Whe ther it was •j edge on the bench who was betrayed by his tem per into treating with cruelty an unfortunate criminal,or whe ther it was the character of a man like Kense th, the noble lord indulged in jocularities which the house, however it might relish them at the time, could not really approve of. (Hear, hear.) He (Ln•d D. Stuart) was enabled to state on the authority of M. Kossuth himself, that that gentle man denied all knowledge whatever of the transaction. M. Kossuth declared that ho had no knowledge whatever of the matter until he saw the article that morning in the paper which ha , l so hastily, to say tho least of it, given cur rency to it. (Cheers.) Mr. AGLIONBY knew nothing about the matter. (A laugh.) He should like to see the gentleman in the house who knew more—(hear, hear)—hut, though knowing no thing of the affair except what ho had heard that night, he thought that it bed been shown by the statement of the noble lord to be unfounded ; and it would only be due to the press, and to the character of the paper itself which had circulated the statement, that the contradiction should be immediate. (Hear, hear.) The motion for adjournment to Monday was then agreed to. CONDUCT OF INDIAN MAGISTRATES. Mr. KPIIILLIMORE asked the President of the Board of Control whether any steps had been taken to investiote the charges made by Iludall Seth, of Bellungury, 11th July, 18.50, at Agra, against Mr. C. B. Denison, and his imme diate superior, Mr. Gubbins, the joint magistrate and ma gistrate of Agra ; and whether those gentlemen still hold official situations in India. Sir C. WOOD said the Governor-General bad sent one of the chief judges of the Sudder Court of Calcutta to inves tigate these charges; and ho was anxious to as.nriate with him one of the judges of the Supreme Courts. Sir Robert Barlow was sent down to Agra for the express purpose of conducting this inquiry. It resulted in the complete excul pstion of Mr. Oubbins from all the charges preferred against him, except that of having demanded excessive bail. With respect to Mr. Denison, he had only used some intem perate language. Mr. PHILLIMORE asked if both those gentlemen were still holding official situations in India ? Sir C. WOOD said that Mr. nubbins was still holding office. Mr. Denison also continued t 3 act in a judicial situa tion, bat not in Agra. Mr. OTWAY asked whether intelligence had been re ceived of the dismissal of two judges of the Sudder Adaluut by the Bombay government, and what was the cause of their dismissal ? Sir C. WOOD said he had received by that morning's mail a private letter stating that the fact was so ; hut the papers would not come until the next mail, and perhaps he had better defer any further answer till ho received the official account. Mr. OTWAY—Then am I to understand that we are to have no information till the next mail arrives ? Sir C. WOOD—I have no information myself except by private letter, which merely states the fact. Mr, OT WAY—What is the fact ? Sir C. WOOD—I don't think it fair to the parties that I should state it, either one way or the other. Mr. OTWAY said he should take the earliest opportu nity of bringing the subject before the house. MAILS TO THE CAPE AND AUSTRALIA. _ _ Mr. MUNTZ asked whether the steam-ship Osmanli had not put back to Liverpool in a leaky state, and whether the mails she was to have carried for the Cape of Good Hope had not been transferred to the General Screw Company's ship Indiana, to sail for the Cape and Calcutta to-morrow; also, what arrangen'ent, if any, had been now made for the carriage of the mails to Australia ; are they to be taken b the Argo, belonging to the Screw Steam Company, which ship sails on the 4th day of May ? Sir J. GRAHAM, who spoke with his back to the gallery, was understood to say that the arrangements to which the question referred were not under the management of the Admiralty, but of the General Post office. As to the se cond question, the Admiralty had made a representation to the Poet-Ake ; but an answer had not yet been received. ARTERIAL DRAINAGE IN IRELAND. Col. DUNNE asked the Secretary for Ireland whether he had received complaints from certain proprietors inte rested in arterial drainage, that they have net received sufficient notices of the local meetings of a commission of engineers (appointed by the government to examine into the circumstances of such works), and have been thereby prevented making a statement to the commissioners of the objections they feel to the proceedings of the Board of Works with regard to those drainages : when the report of that commission will be made; whether it will be presented to the house before the end of the session ; and, whether there is any objection on the past of the government to refer all works of arterial drainage to this commission, as there is only a limited number by the present instructions. Sir J. YOUNG made a brief statement in reply, the pur port of which was not heard in the gallery, further than that the report was in preparation. RETURNS ORDERED. On the motion of Mr. ELLICE, returns for each year since 1840, of the number of barrels of cared herrings ex ported from Great Britain ; of the number of barrels so ex ported that have previously received the brand of the Board of the British Bening Fishery ; and, of the number of officers employed by that board in the process of brand ing, the annual expense of such officers, and the stations where they aro placed. On the motion of Mr. ENYART, return from the Ecclesi astical Commissioners for England of every payment made to theta since the lit day of January, 1852, on account of any suspended stalls in the cathedral and collegiate churches of England and Wales; the return to give each church separately, and to state the number of suspended stalls on account of which each payment was made (in continuation of Parliamentary l'aper, No. 549, of session 1832). Return, (principally in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 309, of session 1850) from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, of the grants er reductions respectively allowed by them since the Ist day of January, 1850, to the several chapter a of England and Wales, wherewith to pay sub stitutes for performing the additional duties cast upon them by the suspension of eanonries, and of the names of the per sons who, as such substitutes, have received such grants. On the motion of Mr. BRIGHT, return of all sums spent on native education in India, since April, 1834, specifying the various forms, and other particulars, in which such expenditure has been made. Return of all sums spent on Ouldic works (not of a military kind) iu India, since April, MI, keeping distinct the amounts spent on the repairs of eld and on the construction of new works, together with the objects of the works newly constructed, and stating, when remunerative, the amounts received from such works. Copy of the statistical papers, illustrated by maps, relating to India, recentlT prepared and printed for the Court of Directors of the East India Company. JEWISII DISABILITIES BILL. On the motion for the third reading of this bill, a crowd of members rose to present petitions against it. Amongt them were Mr. Parke, Sir F. Thesiger, Mr. Newdegate, Sir J. TroHope, Mr. Christopher, Sir J. Y. Puller, and ablut *.:O others sviann we did not reeoanise. Mo.. of the peti;:eta are notL,d in the proper pike.-I,or+l Dudley Stuart, Mr. Ccbden, Mr. IlindleT, and some ethers prc *anted petitions in favour of the bill. Mr. C. BRUCE said he could not permit the thir 1 read ing to paw without entering his strong protest against it. T u attempt to pass this measure had been made four times in vain; the numbers opposed to it bad constantly in- creased, and the majorities in its favour had constantly dia.inished. On a former occasion the bill bad been op posed by the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose opinions then, at all events, whatever they were now, were in accordance with those of his coneti•uents. The noble lord the member for 13ridgnorth had also changed his opinion. These changes were to be regretted. on account of the opinion which vies formed of the house out of doors. The right hon. Secretary at War had e-olua leered a justification of these changes, so eloquent that those who heard it might almost base imagined that con sistency was a vice, and inconsistency a virtue. (A laugh.) Of Lord J. Russell it must be admitted that he had been consistent, and hail held by the undiluted traditions of whiggism, one of which was that no party but themselves was fit to hold office. Sir \V. Moleswerth had also acted in consistence with all his past professions as to religious equality. The hon. member then proceeded to animadvert at great length on the conduct pursued by the government lon the Clergy Reserves (Canada) Bill, in doing which he Was frequently interrupted by cries of " Order." were the Duke of (Wellington now alive and amongst them, they would not dare to play such base antics. Ile disclaimed any feeling.' of intolerance towards the Jewish people. As the aristocracy of races ho regarded that people with respect, and as still the peculiar people of God he en- I tertained for them even veneration. He said still the pccu liar people of God, because, though now tossed and scat tered by divine wrath, he believed that in the cud they would be rertived into the divine favour. But let not that house presumptuously accelerate tho period of their de liverance. (" Hear, hear," and a laugh.) Let cot " fools rush in where angels fear to tread." That WAS his view; and be put forward that view not in the spirit of medireval persecution, hut in the spirit of true humility. He would give to the Jews, as citizens, every equality with Christians; but it should always be remembered that, as Jews, they were disentitled to the ex ercise of the sovereign power which that house exercised. After some airy general and familiar remarks, the hon. gentleman concluded by meninx the amendment of which he had given notice, that the bill be read a third time that day six months. Mr. J. KIRK entered into the scriptural and later his tory of the Jews at great length and with much minuteness with a view to showing that, when favoured by Ged, those who had wronged them were invariably punished ; and that even when they came under Divine wrath, the nations which had persecuted them had invariably been scattered and destroyed. The moral of the narrative was, as he pre sented it, consequently against persecution now ; and ex clusion (coin parliament was a species of persecution. The hon. member then proceeded to laud tho Jewish race. It had produced the greatest men the worll hail ever seen. He looked to both sides of the house, and to both sido; of the other house, and he would search in vain for a lawgiver like Moses, a ruler like Joshua. a poet and prophet like Isaiah, or a statesman liko Daniel, who was •prime minister under five successive monarchs. (Laughter.) There was as much danger to Christianity from using the Psalms of David as there would be from admitting Jewa into parliament. The hon. member then quoted prophe cies in Am" Isaiah, and Jeremiah, with regard to the re storation of the Jewish nation to their own country. Tee time was not, he thought, far distant when that restoration would take place. Ile presumed not to prophecy, but there were certain marks of the last times which seemed to cor roborate his view. For example, it had been predicted in reference to those times, " Many shall run to and fro ;" and it was only in 1931 that the railway from Manchester to Liverpool was opened. By admitting the Jews they would prepare them for legislating after their return to their own land, when they would prove, he believed, the firmest friends and allies of England. Setting aside the religious questiou, public policy required that this hilt should be passed. Mr. WHITESIDE said ho had no sort of prejudice in reference to the Jews, as a nation—on the contrary, he felt the deepest interest in their welfare—neither had he any prejudice against a gentleman who aspired to a seat in that house : if the principles of the constitution entitled hint to that privilege, tho claim ought to be conceded. His oppo sition rested on the ground, net that the admission of Jews would he inconsistent with the words of an existing oath, but that it was inconsistent to the deep and settled princi ples of the laws and constitution of this country. (Hear, hear.) In the speech made by the Secretary at-War the other evening, there was one sen tence which was especially impressed on his mind ; namely, " Here is an individual excluded accidentally, the principles of the constitution being iu his favour." It the hon. gee lemon could establish that, he (Mr. Whiteside) would instantly vote for the removal of the accidental in justice. (Hear, hear.) There was, however, higher autho rity on this subject than that of the hon. gentleman. The noble lord the member for the City of London, said the argument against the bill was based on the ground that Christianity was part and parcel of the constitution of England, but that lie had never understood anything more to lie meant by the phrase than this, that it' a man published blasphemous publications he might be punished. It the noble lord could establish that limitation, he would vote for the bill ; at present, however, he maintained that not merely the law, but the whole policy of' the state was founded upon Christianity. That was the doctrine laid down by Fortescue in his instiactions to Henry the Sixth, that learned judge declaring that Christianity and the law of the land were identical, and that if any particular law contravened Christianity it could not be a part of the law of England. So, also, with regard to the law of tenure. By the old law a man could not devise away land from his heirs. An exception, however, was made in favour of Christianity, to the exclusion of every other system, under which one fourth might be deville d on certain religious conditions. The parties were to pray for the dead—(ironical cries of " Hear, hear ")—for the heirs of the devisor, their grand fathers, and so on. (Hear, hear.) When the Reformation came the thing was still regarded, though, as Lord Coke observed, it was done according to the new principles of the established church. The same principle was to be found running all through our system. To apply the argument. If Baron Rothschild were to publish to-morrow that " Christ was an imposter," and " the New Testament a lie," the Attorney-General must indict him; and yet the same gentleman demanded to be allowed to do that which would be equivalent to what he bad just stated. (" No, no.") Ile acquitted Baron Rothschild of the bad taste and bad feeling which could lead him to use such Ismaili; but his argument was that, by refusing to ho sworn as a Christian, he proclaimed that Christianity was a fiction, and did that indirectly which, if it were done directly, would be punished as blasphemy. (Hear, hear, hear.) But suppose this bill were allowed to pass, and it should so happen that in the progress of events Baron Rothtchild be came the successor of the noble lord the member for the City of London. If the Baron shout I then offer the Qacen any advice about the church he would be liable to be in dicted under one section of the bill, while the fourth clause excluded the Jew from sitting in an Ecclesiastical Court of law. Now, why was this? Why, simply because it would be absurd to place a Jew in a court, where affairs affecting There was another hon. member who had addressed the howl., the hon. member for Elgin, but the whole of his speech was ad's seed to the Clergy Reserves Bill. lie re minded him of an ancestor of his who was prisoner in the Tower of London. and who watched a spider :Attempting to ga i n t h e o ili ng , erten failing but at length sueereding, and that put courage into his mind. The hon. gent:e men seemed to follow in the lessen of perseverance, but. .:alike the spider, he hail not got the thread, and therefere could not succeed. }Laughter.) Mr. CIL LD concurred in many of the senti• ,ants uttered by the noble lord in introducing this bill, but thought they constituted no reason why cave member o: that house shoul I not be called on to declare his belief in Christianity. The noble lord 'poke of their being few iu number, and that therefore they could not detract from the Christianity of the assembly, hut he (Mr. Child) thought that was an argument estaiii-t their admission. To his mind itlooked more like an apology. The noble lord seemed to scorn an utility of oaths, and said an oath would not Jac. pout a man I who paid no respect to it. In tho same way milts and bar did not always keep out burglars, but was that a reason why they should not have bolts and bars Ile was uawilling to confide the government of the church to th • e who coml. dared it a blasphemous institution : and occ caons might arise, when parries were nearly balanced, whin the votes of two or three Jews might decide a question w th reference to the government of the church. Ho protested against a measure which by allowing the repreeentatives el the people to cost off the outward silos of their faith, made that as sembly repudiate it. Christian character. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said this subject bad oc cupied the house tor so many years that it was scarcely pos sible to found a new argument upon it. From this, how ever, he must except the speech of the hon. ae.l learned member for Enniskillen, who used arguments which, if they had not much law about them, had some inhenuity. The hon. and learned gentleman, in the first place, r e li e d upon the pneiiion that Christianity was part and parcel of the law of the land ; and he illustrated his tegument by historical statement of the law of marriage ue a religions ceremony, end altogether denying its validity in this ceou tgy es regarded civil contracts. Why they all knew per fectly well that such an argument might he addressed to that portion of our history when Roman catholicism was the dominant religion in this country, and when the state and the church were in that reap cat altogether one, and therefore the lew of the church was at that time the law of the state. Indeed all the arguments they had heard from the hon. and learned gentleman related to Itoinau catholic times, when that church was predominant in thi s c oun t ry. By the common law of Encland every natural tern subject of the realm was entitled to all the privileges that could attach to a Gee-born people. Then the inquiry was, was a Jew a natural born subject, end as such entitled as much as any other man ? li the Jew was a natural born enhieet, they were bound to show some reason which was consistent with religion and with true policy why they ought to exclude him ; because from the tune when the Romen aesthetic re ligion ceased to ho dominant iu this country, and when the principles of toleration were introduced, religion had been no diequalificetien of any individual who w IS a natural born subject of the country, save only as it haul been intro duced by some uaricular statute on the ground of some particular policy. The Roman catholic' leaned to a foreign potentate, which was sufficient to deprive them - of political power, and the dissenter was excluded on the ground so often stated, that the constitution of the ceuntry was identified with religion. All these reasons were political reasons. The religious reasons had been entirely abrogated. The onus clearly lay with the opponents of the bill, because not only did the existing law deprive the Dotard born subjects of the realm of their civil rights, but this de privation existed in the face of laws permitting them to exercise many important civil mid judicial funetiont. He trusted, therefore, that feelings of justice and of political propriety would induce the house to assent to t!,e measure, not more than a ii nee that some retribution was due to the Jews for that long-continutd series of persecutions of which they had must unjustly end most undeservedly been the ob jects. (Hear, hear.) In conclusion he hoped that this lest remaining erejudice agaiust the Jews would lie rooted out. and thee th bill would be teeepted in the is due and for the'sake of Christianity itself. (Cheers.) Mr. GOULBURN opposed the measure, in the belief that even in the administration of civil affairs persons imbued with the Christian faith were better quaff fied to administer it. But they had not only to deal with civil affairs; every set of the legisla ture was ece impaled with a religious ace' ire. They joined in prayer on their meeting every day. In seasons of calamity they went in a body to supelicate delivcrenee, and in moments of triumph and victory the two house, offered up their united thanksgivings. (Rear, hear.) What would it be but a mocks ry to sec half :a-dozen Jews kneeling in company with a body of Chris:lens, and affecting to adore that name which it WAS known they despised i• It would be worse that, a solemn tarce—it would be hypocrisy and profanation. (Loud cheers from the opposition.) He had ho prejudice egeiuet the Jews ; he would give them every advantage they could enjoy without injurin; our own Christian form of government; and he would go as far as the last speaker in his aline to enlighten their minds, and bring then, to a knowledge of the truth. If this bill were passed it would produce is most injurious effect as regarded the opinion el:dere:Med of that house by the country at large. (Hear, hear.) Mr. It. MOORE protested against this measure, because on religious grounds it was indefensible, perilous, and un called-tor in a political point of view, and as compromising the British parliament, for when Jews were admitted into ' that house it ceased to be an exclusively Christian legisla ture. Mr. BRIGHT said that, although this question had been diseue.ail in every session during which he had been in parliament, lie had never before troubled the house with any observations upon it, and hoping, most unfeignedly, that this would be the last occasion in which it would be necessary fur the house to discuss it, he begged their atten tion for a few minutes while Restated the opinions he en tertained on the subject. lie was once asked by an hon. member, on the other side of the house, why be had sot ripoken on the Jew Bill. lie gave him a candid answer. Ile told him that he had never heurd aaythin;: an the shspe of a fact or an argument from the opponents of the measure, .which, like facto and arguments relating to many questions that came before them, could be fairly grappled with, and which a man could lay hold of to answer. (" Hear, hear," and slough.) It appeared to him that the opponents of the measure were actuated many of them, and he hoped honestly, more by a sentiment than anything else, and the gentleman to whom Le had alluded, not the least distin guished among gentlemen opposite, said that ho (Mr. Bright) was quite right, and he admitted that they were actuated more by a eentiment than anything else, and it was very difficult is argue against a sentiment. That sen timent had now sank down into a phrase. It se tow un derstooi what was meant when they said that they were going to unchristianiso the H :use of Commons. (Hear.) He had endeavoured to trace whence that a xpression, that you were not to unchristianise the House of Commons, came, and he could trace it back through all the changes in the law by which successive --- • e and sects and sections - - . ~ , ....—e successive parties w e Christianity ould have to be demo sed of ; but this exclu- of the people of this country had in the last fifty years been sion proved the very principle for which he was contend- admitted to participate in the rights of citizenship. The ing. The law of the country was opposed to the profession same feeling operated when you excluded the Roman of Jewdism, and a Jew could not be admitted to a seat in catholic, from parliament ; the same feeling operated when parliament, if the laws and customs of the lend were to be the unitarians were subjected to the oppressions of statutes continued. He might be told that the Jew was already against them ; the same feeling operated, howeeer it might admitted to the office of magistrates ' • but there was a have been attempt e d to disguise it, pr e viously to the repeal wide difference between permitting the Jew to ad- of the Test and Corporation Acts, which excluded dissenters minister the law, and converting him into a law from municipal cud other offices. It all seemed to him to maker. (Hear, hear.) The law distinctly provided that be derived from tee same appetite for eupre none but those who consented to take the Christian oath macy ; springing from tho fact that we had a should be permitted to sit in parliament, and, though it powerful and ruling church connected with the might be hard to enforce the law in this case, he yet could powerful and dominant class; and it was step by step not consent to find a remedy for it at the expense of the that the people wrested from that church and that class the constitution. The country had become great and the rights of citizenship which they claimed and now enjoy. people happy, though upholding the principle of Chris- What could be less marv e llo us th a t the same men should tianity. Christianity had been the animating principle of make doctrinal differences of religion the test of political all oar public off sirs, and the basis of our institutions for rights ? Doctrinal differences had always existed, and Centuries past. While under its influence we had been would probably last far ever ; but if they were made the enabled to reclaim the mistime and free the slave, and would test apolitical right., it would be to admit the fatal prin alter a system which bad produced such vast results ciplo that sewed and political distinctions must he eternal, simply for the sake of admitting the Jew into paella- and could to Ter he eradicated. The hon. baronet the ment. (Cheers.) member for the University of Oxford had been as consistent Mr. Serjeant MURPHY had no reason to complain of an opponent of this measure as any one. He would ask the the spirit in which the last speaker had approached this hon. baronet if there was any difference between Min and question. His object seemed to have been to divest it of a Baron Rothschild—(t hear," and laughter)—in any matter polemical character, and to view it as being opposed to the which could affect the rights of citizenship—(hear, hear) — political dogmas which laid down that Christianity was part or anything relating to the duties of cilium., or auy and parcel of the law. The hon. and learned gentleman thing whatever of which the law of the country could gave his own interpretation of that rule, but be (Serjeant take cognisance as relating to the actions of any Murphy) having, from the nature of his profession, had oc- subject of the crown ? lie watched the course onion to look closely into the subject was more disposed to pursued by the hon. baronet for many years with ad opts with the interpretation which the noble lord miration ; not on account of his principles, but for the the member for the city of London bad given of the law. manner in which he always maintained them. If all men That interpretation was this—Christianity being closely who held what he (Mr. Bright) believed to be sound prin identified with the system of our constitution, the law ciples would mike the hon. baronet their model, things treated as blasphemous all writings that wilfully reflected wield march on faster than they did. Looking at the upon the professors of that religion, or called fa question its morality of his politics, it would be found that the hon. truth, but, on the other hand, it refrained from interfering baronet drew all his opinions from the same source as Baron with religious opinions and objections which were held on Rothschild did his. (' Hear, hear," and a laugh.) Take oonsciontious grounds; but in discussing this branch of the the subject of capital punishment. When it was before the subject, they must first ascertain what was Chritianity, and house, the hen. baronet rose with that bland dignity width in the nest place, what was the common law of England. The so well became him, and (noted most triumphantly a pas common law was not the fixed, immutable, unchangeable sage from the fth chapter of Genesis. lie (Mr. thing which the hon. and learned gentleman opposite had Bright) ksd a strong belief that the notions of the attempted to represent, but accommodated itself to eircum- hon. baronet with regard to the priesthood were stances from time to time, as occasion required. If that taken Irons the book of Exodus. When the ques were not so, how could the judges have decided that it was tion of marriage with a deceased wife's sister was not inconsistent with the rule which said, Christianity was before the house, the hon. baronet referred them to Le part and parcel of the law, to allow the Jew to swear in the 1 viticus ; and he believed that the hon. baronet would not manner that was most binding upon his conscience ? (Hear, I dispute th st his opinions on the law of tithes, were derived hear.) The Lollards and the Wickliffe, were executed from the same book. (" hear," and laughter.) If it was as heretics under the common law, because they 1 a question of the administration of oaths, although it had held the opinion which the reformation afterwards esta- 1 been said by the highest authority—" It has been said by blished, but the common law had changed since then, note them of old time, thou shalt perform the oath thou bast withstanding that Christianity still formed part and parcel • made unto the le , ,rd thy God ; but I say unto you swear of it. So much, then, for that argument, and new for that part ! not at all "—the practices in that respect, which the hon. of the hon. and learned gentleman's speech which related to I baronet advocated, were precisely the same as thaw which the holding of a judicial office by a Jew. The Jew was al- existed iu the time of the Old Testament; and if the hoe. lowed to fill the office of sheriff, which was the represent.), I baronet did no' defend the practice of war, )et he (Mr. ties of in ijesty itself; and why should not he, upon the Bright) knew writers who professed the same faith as the same principle, be admissible to the judicial bench / He hon. baronet, who have defended the practice of war, be would only have to administer the law as he found it, and 1 cause they said it was, if nor inculcated, at least permitted not in such a manner as to gratify hie own religious feel- !in the Old Testament. It' the hon. baronet took his lugs, The constitution placed him within such limits that political morality from tee:, hooks, and if Baron he could not do that; while, like the Roman catholic, Rothschild did the same; and if the rights of citizenship his mind would be so free from bias, that in matters it. ct- did not depend on doctrinal questions, but on the due W ing the church his interpretation of the law would be the formance of duty to the state, he (Mr. Bright) could not more impartial. (Hear, hear.) But the hon. and learned see why the hon. baronet should have sat for forty years is gentleman objects to the admission of Jews into perliament that house, and yet that Baron Rothschild, who had been because the religious opinione of the Jew would prevent ! elected ::)• the lire constituency in the country, should not his attending the house on S iturday., and otherwise die. -be allowed the same privilege. (Hear, bear.) It seemed charging the duties that would devolve upon him. If they 'to him to be as easy for a man to quarrel with his own sha were to argue in this strain they might as well say at once 1 dow as for the hon. baranet to towel with Baron Rothe that Baron I: el. whil , l ,sou' Ihe precluded by conscience-tee . child on t`: .te greurle. (" Heir, hear," and le•tehe'e / scruples foots voting on the navy estimates, becalm part of • Its what s lu•lierma position was the home place' They Mashed used in the navy was not recognised by his religion. I had had net only Baron Rothschild but another member of (A laugh) The one areunit nt was just as goad as the Ibis persuasion at the bar of the house, who was permitted other, but the fact w.,. n• ither of them ought to .to take all the oaths on the Old Testament till he came to I have any weight with ' the house. (Rear, hear.) : had words " on Cue true lane of il christien." ii lee oath