The Express. — London, England, 1848-05-26 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, __ __. Fees, heilialt , n _Per ier.p. qr., nominal We. to 445. ; grinding, Pas 1961 •ba 136 ' t1'..1141. 6d. Lentils, per 1961b5., 12a. fa. to 14s. ed . l ' nditn Corn, per 1961b5., 12s. to 13.. Flour34s., per sack 280 1 b., English, fine, 39a. to 415.; seconds, to 37e. Butotrrost, May 25.-We have to report • dull market for all sorts of grain at this day's market. The inquiry ter Wheat was limited, consequently the trade was inactive. Barley, Oats, Beane, and Peas, maintain our q uotations. , Wh ea t, white, 12 1 . to 121 . s s. ; red,Barley, to 355. Oats, 19s. to 21s. Beans, 351. to 375. Peas, 345. to 365. BRISTOL, May 25.-The refreshing showers at the end of last week, followed by outshine, greatly improved the appearance of all our crops. No foreign Cern has arrived. and our supply coastwise and from Leland was moderate this week ; say 187 qrs. Wheat, 1, 328 qr s . 2,317 q Oata, and 470 sacks Flour. The demand for Flour ha Whes been very dull, and millers therefore find the q uaatity of at offered by farmers sufficient, though not excesaive. English Wheat, 4 is. to 48s. red ; 48s. to 50s. per qr. white ; foreign, low quality, 18s. to 415. rod ; line red, 465. to 48s. ; 50a. to 52a. white. English seconds Flour, 345. to 3fis. per sack ; barrel Flour. 245. to 285.; malting season nearly over. Bar ley, 325. to 365. per qr. • grinding Barley saleable ; Irish, 28.. to 29a per 4001 be.; 'French Barley, 30s. per qr. Welsh black Oats, 215.; Irish, black, 21s. to 21s. Bd. ; white, 225. to 235. per 3201 be., with a dull market. DITIZT , I, May 25.-Wheat was in rather short supply, and at the commencement of the market considerably higher prices, to the extent , i n tome instances. of 24. per qr , wire given. This advance, however, eras not maintained generally speaking, more money, probably to the amount of Is. per qr. above last week's prcee., was obtained, the trade being decidedly firm, and in favour of the seller : everything was cleared off. The malting season being or. r, little or no business was done in Barley. In Oat', Beans, and Peas there was no alterati on in price. Wheat, white, per qr., 495. to 535.; beat red, 48a. to 525.; middling, 13s. to 474. ; inferior, 40.. to 425. Barley. 284. to 495. Peas, 21s. to 265. Beans, old, 425. to 505. ; new, 40e. to 464. Peas, 365. to 40,5. Flour, fine, per aylk, 395. to 431.; seconds, 31s. to 385. FAMIRA)I, May 23.-A fair supply of Wheat. Trade firm at last week's rates. Wheat, from 111. to W. per load. Barley. 30a. to 37a. per qr. Oats, 223. to 28s. Bians, to 425. Peas, 38s. to 42a. GAINSROROVOR, May 23.-A good supply of Wheat was offering; the trade was very firm, without any alteration in value. Spring Corn was scarce, and fully maintained late HOUSE OF LORDS.—TuoRsDAT, MAT 25. The Loan Citarosw.os took his ceat at 6 o'clock. rRIVATE RUMNESS. Ilonatal Act Amendment BM. VIM) BEAutriu.—fase-- PUBLIC fiKOOSIDREADINCL—JewIsh Itteabillnea tint PISTITIONS. --By the Berl of RNE, from Bellsbointigh sad Aughaloo, against the national system of of in Ireland; als front Use p ou rdaw g uardians of the union of Waldo., sgaloat the mode of rawiessent of pfaw.ratea by the system of electoral &di atom—Uri of IIAIttIOWBV, from several lodges of thld Yellows in favour of the bill for lea -dieing their enelety. - Petitions in WOW of the Jewish Iflashilicire Bill were presented by Kul FOBTEirtIE, Karl of KAlthint, Eirl GREY, Furl of K u l and Mar quis of LANSIniWNE. Petitions figninst the bill by the Duke of 'RICHMOND, from Brighton and other ptooto the Intim of BUT. !AND ; Lord ItEliEsli t LE, from the parish of St. John the Baptist, Wodinlnster ; Earl VELAW ARK, tram the clergy of the d ean ery o f !birthed, swim, froin the elfish of Withinaree and the warden and brethren of Kerkcille College, Fast Otinstead; Lord STANLEY awl Earl Of °ALLOW AV, twin the Uenerel Assiut'', of the Church of Scotland. AFFAIRS OF SPAIN. Lord STANLEY asked whether ministers intended within a short period to submit to the two houses of parlia ment • full explanation of the circumstances ander which they were led to believe that her Majesty's minister at the court of Madrid had had his passport forwarded to him, with directions to leave that court The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said it would not be es• pedicnt to go into a discussion of the question at that time, but he entirely concurred with the noble lord that it was desirable that every p a per connecterl with the t ra nsaction to which he hail alluded amulet, in as short a time as possible, be placed before their lordships and the country. The papers referred to were in course of preparation. Ile found, on inquiry that morning of his noble friend at the head of the foreign department, that such papers were in a forward state, and he heeled to be able to lay tam before the house, if not to-morrow (this day !, certainly at the neat sitting of the house after to morrow. The Marquis of LONDON DERRY made some observe tious which were inaudibFßANCE.le in the gsllery. Lord BROUGHAM wished to know whether the govern. meet had received through our ambessader in Pens any au thentic report of a speech attributed in the newspapers to gentleman now very well known as M. De Lamartine, in which that gentlemen was stated to have announced to the National Assembly that if any people wished to obtain their rights from their governments, and were so weak as nt to be able to do untwisted, France was willing to aid them to o btain the ir rights, and that an army of 30,000 men was now. tumbled on the Alps, which would be in creased to 60,000, and the moment any appeal was made to France front Italy or Sardinia, those troops were ready to ernes the Alps. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE had seen no other au thority fur such a speech bring delivered but that of the public press. Ile had that day received a despatch from the noble lord the British ambassador at l'aris, but no men Do tio was made of such a speech having been deli dby ht. n lAmartino. ( Rear, hear.) JEWISH DISABILITIES BILL. The Marquis of LANSDOWN E, on moving the second reading of the Jewish Uiabilities Bill, said: I beg leave, my lords, to move the second reading of this bill—a motion which has been delayed for some time from an anxious de sire to meet the convenience of many members of your lordship" house. In the outset, I must freely admit to your lordships that this bill, important as it is as a question of pi inciplu —imrtant as it is as affecting the interests of many of her Majesty's most loyal subjects—is, never theless, not of a nature to eleite that interest which many other measures for the removal of civil disabilities have excited. lam well aware that it cannot be spected to excite the same amount of interest, nor can it be argued as other similar measures have been, with reference to aey passible danger diet may result fromeits becoming the law of the teed. lc is but a small nice which endeavours to wake dui(' heard at your lrdi' door ; but tke question is whether that voice is the ve o iac sh o p t justice. ( Hear, hear.) I think I cannot du better than in the outset of the observe. tious with which I shall deem it necessary as briefly as posaiblo to trouble your lordship.' to call your attention to the state of the law on this subject. leo are not called epee, to make any change in the constitutional law of this country. That constitutional law prescribes no disabilities whatever. It has been the character and feature of our constitution. and I trust will ever continue to lie the distiu peeling feature of that constitution, that it abhors exclu tione—that it rejects ; and that it requires those who propose exclusions and disebilitiee to make good the gruunds on which they propose to do so. For a long period of English history there 'was no I exclusion whatever, but in the reign of Elizabeth certain oaths were prescribed, there haviog been n ine re quired up to that time ; but thin certain oaths were pre- I scribed fur persons eligible to office or parliament. Sub'. quently, in the 7th of James 1., it was thought tit to pre scribe an oath for the putting down of popish recusants ; anal an act was passed, in which, and er i s a t e any allusion to the Jews or intention of excluding them, the words "On the true faith of a Christian" were introduced, which have excluded the Jews from parliament. The very first act of parliament of Wil liam and Mary was to consider the subject of oath.. The oaths prescribed were, is the language of the act, " hereby repealed"—that is telly , the oaths, including that particular security which it is contended by some persons is a principle of the constitution calculated to exclude the Jews, were upon full consideration at the very best time of our constitution eEstinctly and in terms annulled and made void; and for 13 years, being those in which the principles of the constitn tution were most weighed and most valued, Jews were ad missibie into parli intent. This did not continue ; but why ? Just before the cammencement of the reign of Queen Anne, it was thought expedient at a critical moment to revive the oath of abjuration ; but is there the least vestige of its having been made the object of that act to exclude Jews or any persons but Roman Catholic re-cements from parliament? From the circumstance of the Pretender being recognised, and from the part which Leek NAY. took with reference to the Preteader's interference with the a ff airs of this country, it was then thought expedient to revive that oath of abjure. tion in order to exclude Roman catholic% from a seat in this I and the ether house of parliament ; but that being the ob ject alone, the very words of the eith and ith of James I. w. re copied and introduce l into that act, and then we find the words revived of swearing "on the true faith of a Christian." And from that incirle ntal intro duction of words of this description Jews have been exclwled from parliament. Well then, my lords, such was the state of things until • recent period'; and at no distant time, in the memory of all your lordships, I think in the year In after your lordships had admitted the Roman catholic. into parliament, prescribing oaths and particular declarations that Roman esthetics were to make—at that time petitions were presented by the Jews preying to be ad mitted into parliament, and a bill was then brought into the ether house of parliament by Sir It. Grant—the most religious bill I ever saw—for the admission of Jews into parliament. There were two divisions, in one of which there was a majority in favour of it, and in the other a majority against it; but in both I find the names of persons tanned for their attachment to the church, their great piety, and constitutional knowledge. That bill was loot in the House of Commons ; but at a subseq• tnt period it was again introduced by the same gentlemen, and then passed by a considerable milking% It came up to this house, and was proposed by • noble lord, whom I r egret not to see present, from his advanced years, hut a noble lord whoxecharactergave weight to the measure—l all nde to Lord Bexley. (neer.) I have now gone through what has passed up to the present moment; and this bill ee now sent up from the other house of parliament, having peeled by three successive large majorities ; and it is for your lord ships' consideration whethere question so repeateelly brought before you by the sanction of such men, the support of such authorty, end the cencurrence ol so many cimstances in the p re sent time, ought to induce your lord rcu ships to give a favourable consideration to any practical removal of any existing disability which you can enact with safety. (Hear, hear.) I will say this meseure, under all these fir. cums t an ces, calls upon you again and again for your sanction and support. (Hear, hear.) And what, my lords, are the objections to the bill ? I believe the opinion, more entertained out of doors than in this house, is, that this question is •religious question. I have, however, to contend, my lords, that there is no precept of religion—no revealed declaration of the will of God that can in the slightest degree pre ludo your lordships from veinier; a deliberee view of this question with reference to He being dangerous to entertain it. If there was such a pre cept I should be the first to leave this bill unnoticed on the table, if I did not move your lord-hips to reject it. But not only is there no such revelation of the Divine will, but on the contrary, front the beginning Christianity had the cha racter of connecting itself with existing institetioare although not of a Christian character. From the very beginning it found its strength, and recommend , d itself on that very con sideretion—thet it die: net interfere with political questions and political Aces. (Rear, hear.) But who are the people you are called upon to exclude ? Are they a people with whom you ha ve relations Although not a Christian people , they are a people between whom and Christians and Christianity there exists, I think, important end unquati viable relations. C.fit it be forgotten that this is a nation whose laws—whos- religious laws—you have adopted? Here is a nation that in ages past laid the foundation of year religion, — who for years and cente ries have been reverend by the Almighty—who have be:.n the nu tins of preeerving, in the midst of superstition, barbarism, and idolatry, the knowledge of ten eternal God, who went before his people with a pillar of tire, teaching Diem to avoid the dangers by which they were surrounded, and to hand down to you the holy laws which they have given to the world. (Hear, hear.) Thecommundments and laws°, that people are your laws and your commandments—engrav rs, ed moon the stones which arc let up Upil your alta to ?h at engraved, too, upon the hearts of the congregations who surround those altars. (Cheers.) Are they a people, then, whom you are minded to despise, and pronounce to be unfit to a emissible to the rights of their fellow-subjects, 3r ding U . : their ability to exercise those rights ? (Hear, hear.) A re t,,,sy not, on the contrary, a people who have filled an ican„riant etetion in history, who you are bound to mo o se ' , an d w ho you will never be able to ferget In the words of the poot May we not ray, Insula, dices count, Priam" darn regna manebant Althoug Nonear we, as etasChrisi:use, must a dd, talltUM 6.11111 A, latte inalefida curia's. (Rear, hear.) There were no. persons without the pale of Christianity 60 eminently distinguiseed by c harity and bent-' volence as the Jews. (Rear, hear.) It was but the other day ho found a most eloquent sermon, delivered by one of the most eminent divines lie bad ever heard—asermon point ing out what Christian virtue was as opposed to pagan virtue, and he would ask their lordship s . whether it did not apply to the Jews? [the noble manors here read a passage from a sermon by Mr. ,Anting out that the compusAonate consideration of the . formed no part of the lessons of prices. Gonatnixo. May 24.-The Whea tt sold at this markeex t rea li s ed about last week's prices, but h supply rather ceeded the demand. Red Wheat, 425. to 4Ss. ; white, 48s. to 54s • tine. 565. to 5 8 s. Barley, 295. to 3.35. Peas, 375. to 40a. Oats, 22e. to 24.. LEAMINGTON, May 25.-We have had a moderate supply to-day of Wheat ; late prices are fully maintained for good fresh samples. This tine dry weather keeps all .prom corn quite as dear ; we do not, however, alter our prices this week, as very few samples have changed hands. LOOTH, May 24.-A fair extent of business was done in Cora to-day, and at prices for all descriptions varying so little from lest week's that the quotations must remain the same. Wheat, 445, to 4 0 s. ; Barley , 265. to 30s. ; Oats, 16a. to 20s. ; B. ans, 355. to 41s. per qr. MaiosvoN it, May 25.-We had to-day a totter trade for Wheat at a shade more money, but make no alteration is the quotations. Beans, Peas, and Oats are the turn dearer. MARKET RASEN, May 23.-At our market to-day a greater vantity of Wheat was on sale the trade has re mained without much alteration in value, but the tendency was downward. Barley slow sale, but not cheaper. Oat., Rye, Beans, and Peas without alteration. MELTON MOWER:AT, May 23.-We have had a fair supply of Wheat off.ring at this market, at the rates of last week. Barley, Beans, and Oats Is. per qr .. . dearer. Wheat, 48s. to 60s. Barley, 335. to 365. Oats, to 2Ss. Beans, 425. to 455. per qr. NEE" ARK. May 24.-Oar market has been well supplied with all descriptions of grain, which met with • good sale at l a te prices. Wheat, white, 51s. to . 130 . ; red, Sns. to 10s. Barley. 34i. to 355. Oats, 221. to 28.. Beans. 40.. to 441. Rye. 38s. to 40s. Tares, 545. to 565. Malt, 58s. to 60s. per qr. NEWBURY, May 21.-We have again to report a large sup ply of Wheat, and, though the condition is much improved, the sale proceeded slowly, at a decline of from Is. to 3s. per qr. No supply or demand for Barley. Otte, Beans, and Peas without alteration. Averages to the 20th of May Wheat, 753 qtm., at 48.. Bd. Barley, 93 qrs., at 31,. 2d. Beans, 12 qrs., at 40s. PLTI(OI. - TH, May 25.-There was more inclination to pur chase Wheat at this morning's market, but. as holders would not give way in prices, but little business was done. Stocks are low and farmers' eupplks small. The weather continues very warm and tine. ROM6EY, May 25. - The downward tendency of the London markets during the past week prodmed the sutural effect amongst the buyers of grain this day. Where sake were effected, less mon y was given than st our market lost w eek; and every description may be said to have receded in price. ROYSTON, May 21.-The Corn trade sead, at fully the rates of last week ; eupply good. Wheat t , 2tis. y to 325. Bat -275. to 335. Oats, Ifts. to 265. Return poste, Wheat. 405 qrs. 5 bush., average l d. per qr.; Barley, 79, 11. 14s. Id. ; Oats, 58, 11. 2s. 6d.; Beans. 16 qrs. 2 bush., 11. 14s. 2d. SHEFFIELD, May 23.-At our market to day we were only moderately supplied with Wheat, in• which article a very small amount or Marlowe was transacted, at last week's prices. In other articles scarcely anything doing. STOCKBRIDGE, May 25.-The former rates for good red Wlll. Iheat a. to were with difficulty maintained sample+ selling at 0 121. per load. Superior quelities of Barley at 30a. to 345. per qr. Beans and Peas were without material alteration ; but Oats, of from 42111 e. to 441 be. per bushel, went a 28e. per qr.; sweet feed at 225, Gel. to 235. 6d. Peas, 38s. to 41e. STOCILTON•ON-TEES, May 24.-We had a very small sup ply of Wheat this morning frem the farmers, but a nu merous attendance of buyers. The demand was brisk, at en advance of fully 2s. per qr. on the currency of this day week. Foreign was also a free sale, at a like improvemendnt. Peas in Oats were in demand, and Is. per qr. dearer. Beans a in request, at full prices. Flour without alteration in price, and in good demand. The following are the cur rent prices:-Wheat, per qr., of 631 b. to the bush., south touatry, red, 51s. to 535.; mixed, 545. to 555. ; white, 565. to 585.; Durham and Yorkshire, red, 475. to 555.; white, 535. to 675. ; Dantzic, Stettin, and Konigsburg, 555. to 575.; Mecklenburg and Pomeranian, 545. to 56'. ; Holstein, Danish, and Hamburg, 525. to 5.5 e. Flour, line, per sack of 2801 h., 355. • extra, 375. ; superfine,4os. Oat Meal, Scotch, 31s. per sack o'f 2801b5. Oats, feed, per qr., 22.. to 245. ; potato, 25,. to 275.' foreign, 21s. to 265. Beans, new, 31s. to 38a Peas, 'boilers, 365. to 40a. Guano, l'eru . vis, per ton, 101. 10c I.:xeuiDoe, May 25.-A large market of Wheat, which met a dull sale, at 2s. per qr. lower; the best price given was 1.50. 104. The average this week is 51.. Gil. per qr ; Little done in Barley and Oa, without alteration in price. Beans in short supply, and I tx s. per qr. dearer. WORKINGTON, May '21.-The supply of Wheat at this day's market woe moderate, yet equal to the demand; and sales were slow for a time, until farmers submitted to a fall of Is. per qr. on last Wednesday's rates. Barley scarce, and at last week's prices. Oats, ha. to 10s• per three imp. buehels. The following are the averages p ced e for the week ended this day ..-Wheat, per qr., 555. Id.; Bari. y, 325. 6d.; Oats, 235. 4d. WATERFORD, Mays 4. W -At heat, O this mo arnnding's market we have hot a scanty supply ats, Barley, which ha buyers at last week's prices. Indian Corn is eought after, at a further impr. vement of Is. to 2s. per bri. No change in the value of Flour. EntNituren it, May 24.-There was • fair supply of Wheat at market this morning. The weather continuing tine, buyers showed little disposition to purchase ; and farmers, to effect a clearance, had to submit to a decline of Is. per qr. One choice parcel, 663 lbs. per bushel, brought however 625. Foteign participated in the general dulness, and the little business done was at a similar reduction. Barley was in short supply, yet the trade ruled dud, and sales were made with daficalty at hut Wedneulay's prices. Oats also were in moderate supply, but, the demand proving very limited, tae trade was slow at 6d. to Is. per qr. under last week's rates. Beans inquired for but not dearer. Wheat, top. 625. ; average, 533. Gd. Barley, top, 375. Gd. ; average, 345. 7d. Oats, top, 2-ss. 41.; average, 221. 10d. • Beans, top, 3Gs. ; average, 345. Gd. Gnut.ow, May 24.-Supplies into the Clyde since this day week arc almost entirely from Ireland: 315 ers. Wheat, 4,560 qrs. Oats, 1,115 gra Barley, 1,287 sacks Flour, and 920 loads 0 itrneal and at Graore.tnouth the principal arrivals are 734 qrs. Wheat, 1,676 qrs. B airy, 500 etre. Beans, coast wive and 3,065 h oar Whe eler from the Baltic and Li 'Yee Ger man ports. Without any elasticity in demand, there has been a fair consumptive sale for Wheat during the week, at steady prices. Oats have moved rather tardily, but their value has been firmly maintained. Barley has met a slow stile at late rates. Indian Corn has been scarce, and advancing in value; and Flour and Oatmeal arc the turn dearer. Beans without ceasge. At. thii day's market Wheat met hut a poor in quiry, and price+ general.} were the turn lower. Barley also was easier to pinch - tee, ant sales slow. Only a few transactions took place in Oats, which were held at full prices. Indian Corn may be called Is. to Is. Gd. per boll dearer, with little at market; and Flour and Oatmeal were without change. The present prices are:-Wheat, per 240 lbs., English, white, old, 265. to 275. ; new, 255. to 265. Gd.; red, old, 24 e . to 261. ; newt, .245. to Scotch, white, old, +ad white, old, 231. to "7 251. to 265. Gd.; Iran, new, g/s. 6d. to 245.; Dantzic , old, 2/s. to 28s. ; Pomera nian,-old, 255. to 265.; new, 255. to 265. 64.; Danish, old, 245. to '2ss. ; new, 245. to 255. • ' Odessa, soft, old, 235. to 24e.,• Russian hard, old, 225. to 23 1 . ; Canadian, old, 235. to 245. ' Vnitml States, old, 245. to 2.35. Barley l per 3201 b. Derwin* and Scotch, new , 235. to 25+4 siah, new, 225. Gd. to 21s. • Pomeranian, &c , new, 225. 6cl. to 245. Oats, per 2441, Irish, Wexford, Itc., new, 16s. to 17s. fel.; Limerick, &c., new, 17s. 3d. to 183. 6d.; extra, prepared, new, 19e.; foreign, Russian, old, 15s. 6d, to 16'.; Dania, 151. to 16s. Beans, Irish, per 2601b5., new, 17s. to 18s.; Egyptian, per 28011 w., old, 13s, Gil. to 14s. 3d. 17 Pew, per 2Solbs., w hit e , old, 18s. to 19s. ; l grey, s. to ; Cana d ian, F old, 18s. 19s. our, per 280Ihe. to English, super., old. 42t. to 42a. 641.• Irish ditto, old, 395. to 40a. ; fine, old, 3Ga. to 375.; extn, choice qualities,old, 425. to 415.; American, per Wand, sweet, old, 28a. to 28s. 6d. ; Canadian, sweet, old, 275. to 28s. ; sour, old, 211. to 2Gs. Oatmeal, per 28e1be., Irish, common, cut, new, 295. W3OB. Indian Corn, per 280!b5., 174. 64. to 190.6 d. In dian/ Corn Meal, per barrel, lts, 63. to 15s. For resisiaat's Markets me east oar. Christian legislature, the Jew could not be admitted to a 'herein is deliberations. Feeling as ho did, and acting ac cording to his conscience, he felt bound give his vote in opplon to the measure then before the ir lordships. Viscount CANNING felt that he could give a conscien tious sate In favour of the bill. He mode great courage from the speech of the noble earl who had ed the amend ment,and who had rested his easerather on an appeal to their lordships' feelings, • pinions, and prejudices, than on sound argument and the justice of his ewe. (Hear, hear.) As a religious question, the admission of Jews to parliament seemed sufficiently plain. They had opened their doors to the Roman catholic, who looked upon their ere , d as heres y ; .o the protestant dissenter, who looked on the chur ch with great jealousy • and to the unitarian, who c onsidered them as credulous a not superstitious believers in the Trinity. From all these Beets they had required a declaration on the I I faith of &Christian ; hut the unitarian took it, denying at the 1 same time the divinity of our Saviour, and our atonement by ' hie death. This disposed .01 the :;;;,,,,, u , part of the (p • won t estae) lie thoughtt mat we should follow the ex ample of other nations in admitting Jews to the priviliges of cilium, not only because the act was just in itself, but be cause the conduct of the Jew in every place where they had been enfranchised fully justified the experiment. (Hear.) The Archbishop of CANTERBURY, who was at times almost inaudible, oriel that if he had followed the dictates of his own inclination, ho should have given a silent elle on ' the present occasion, but since he had been raised to the re sponsible position lie then held, he felt that he bad no longer the privilege of being silent, especially on en occasion when the religious character of the house and the country was at stake. ( Hear, hear.) The subject before their lordships lay in a small compass, and therefore lie should compress into a small compass the observation , ' he had to make, and, in doing so, he hoped I ttlitiiesholo,iunllioniesop:efue.itilnisgsseorittutheents rra w s i w th ou a l s a riuc l l ew h deference t consistent twit the expression of his own honest couvietione. They were asked to remove disabilities which excluded certain persons from seats in either house of parliament, It appeared to him that those pecans laboured under • disability which that house could nut remove —that of being by their opi nions millet° take part in the councils of a Christian nation. I (Hear, hear ) They were unlit, because on many questions that might lie argued they could nut, if true to teeir own principles, avoid raising their voices against propositions important to the interests of the country and the welfare of the church. The Jew, if sincere, must have interests and opinions hostile to those of the Christian ; he must be op posed to the spread of Christian truth as much as their lordships would bo to the dissemination of Idahometan tenets, Even if the Jew were indifferent to his own due trines, he must be still looked Ilium as hos , ile to 0 10,1 . 06 n" of Christianity. This was torcibly shown in one of the strangest protests which had app• ared against the measure, and hich was signed by one m a converted Jew. w The noble marquis had told ( them e it was but • Mali voice in the legislature that was asked her. True ; hut a very small voice might he sufficient on occasions to turn the balance against the interests of the church. ( Hear, he Sr.) With regard to the Roman cat holies who hail been alluded to, one of the first votes he had given was for the remission of these disabilities, and he weiti'd so vote again if the question were to be discussed ; but his reason wee, that he could not Wily ref use a batty who formeel a third part of the p telethon of this empire a share in the national deliberetions. They could nut mineral themselves a prou stunt legislature, hut they were still a Christian I...gis'a tore, and he thought it was necessary to the welfare ea the country that they should remain so. The measure before their lordships was looked up.m with great suspicien by a moat valuable partion of the community, who looked ups n it as sin insult on the religion th e y pro.lessr el. He did out look upon it in that light—he wholly acquitted the noble hall who had introduced the bill of say intention of casting a ',light upon the church ; hut nevertheless he re It it his duty as a member of that church to record his vote against it. (Hear, hear.) The Earl of \I INCHILSEA looked upon the measure as one offering a greater violence to the character of a Chillailln legislature than any tht haul evir been proposi thd, and concluded by exhorting the a house to thr ,ty out e Pagan philosophy, its genius b e ing too arrogant and lofty o I stoop to the children of poverty; it soared in sublime sperm lanolin but among the rewards to which it aspired it never thought of the blessedness of him who considereth the poor : and you might travel from the Euphrates to the Atlantic without finding a single monument inscribed to the poor. It was reserved for the religion whew basis was humility and whose element was devotion to exemplify the doctrine, " Blessed are the mercifu l, for they shall obtain mercy." Now, might he not ask their lordships whether the principle of mercy tad not been followed and imitated by the Jews ? Were there any persons in her Majesty's dominions who had b ee n more humane, charitable, and generous Hea r .) Aud Aud if he was told they were indebted to Christianity imbibing such virtues, he would ask, was it justice nut to give them the benefit of that virtue which they had followed, and that principle which they had known how to adopt ? (Hear, .hear.) If then they were not precluded by any Divine command, or by any just regard to the inters!! ef, Taristianitv• wbin h t:y wet* bound to con sult, where would lie the 'danger to the eentlitistt.oo or to Christianity which would arise from the admission of the Jews into parliament ? (Hear, hear.) It had been said that we sheuldno longer have • Christian parliament; but he denied the assertion. The parliament would continue to be Christian in the same sense as every body must lie considered in reference to its predominant feature and characteristic. It had been said that it was necessary, and indispensable that every particle of which the body consisted should be homo geneous. They might as well say that the stamina el their c immercial traneactions could not be culled gold because every particle which it contained was not of the same pure metal, as that the British parliament would not be • Christian parliament because a few Jews were admitted into it. Ile had never been able to discover that a tuna amongst numbers was more dangerous than when It could act alone ; and what had they done with reference to the Jews? They bail enabled them to act alone for the last ten or twenty ye a rs. The Lord Mayor of London might be a Jew—sheriffs had been Jews, and magistrates were Jews. (Hear, hear.) In a moment of great danger the constabulary of two wards in the City of London were at the disposal of a Jew, lawfully enabled to select that con stabulary. If a person dangerous to the state hod to be tried, a high sheriff being a Jew would have the selection of the jury ; and having given them the power of filling sta tions so high and important, what danger could possibly arise from two or three Jews being admitted into a large popular 'sunnily of different opinions from themeelves (Hear, hear.) Who could suppose they would Ito able to sway the councils of that assembly 1 Persons had been ad mitted iota it far more dangerous in • religious point of view—infidels more alien to the Christian faith, because they were ignorant of its precept., and did not work out its practical results—(hear, hear)—men more to be feared than the persons whom it was now proposed admit. admit. In the last war waged by Holland, • certain portion of its army and the officers of that army were Jews; but did anybody ever think •,f tanking the discovery that it was nut a Cheistian army i Jews in Canada and Jamaica were not eecludeil from a ny civil rights, and he had that day received information of the election of a Jew to the legislative council in Ceylon ; and why should they not be admitted to all the rights and i mmunities which as loyal citizens they were entitled to here (Hear, hear.) He would beg their lordships, in considering this question, to look to the charaett r of the I 'aristian religion which they professed and the suite of the law under w Inch they lived — to remember that their religion was humble and lowly in its birth and origin—that its Divine f ou nder in teati most e thims - I phatic and solemn words said,kingdom of world"—and that, heal upon that principle and winning its way not by force and veilence hut by lienienity and per. suasive influence it had extended its empire until it had brought the nations of the world under its sway. lie would a sk their lordships wheth er the principles which presided over its birth and development—its recognition of all exist ing authorities—should not lie upheld now that it had reached the zenith and maturity of its strength and power ; and whether they should not admit within the pale of that constitution is which it was and ever would be predominant, all 'screens entitled to civil right's, and who could show claims which ought not to be rejected by the advocates of the Christian faith. (Cheers.) He should therefore conclude by moving the second reading of the bill. I Loud cheers.) The Karl of ELLENBOROUGH rose to move that the bill be read a second time that day six months. 'r he noble marquis appeared to be sensible how very small the object of the bill was—(hear, hear)—for it affected in the first in. stance only one individual; but never did ho recollect an instance where the smallness of the object was so dispro portionate to the greatness of the sacrifice. (Loud cries of "hear, hear.") The noble marquis said it eras nut a religions question, but he affirmed that it was. (Hear, hear.) The noble marquis said there had been times when Jews might have at in parliament, but he'well knew that if a Jew had, at that time, aspired to such a station he would not have seen the sun go down upon his head. (Hear, hear.) Whatever might have been the law, practical!) , parliament had been in all times essentially Christian, and as such he trusted their lordships that night would preserve it. (Chum ) They were told that they should respect the Jews, because through them they derived s large ports n of their religious belief. Why, it was on that ground that he repudiated the Jew ese a member of a religious body. It was hi cause lie believed so much and no more—it was because having every means of informing,,himself, that he still retained the same opinions. (Hear, hear.) Mahommeillaism approached nearer to the Christian religion than Judaism, and if the meatiere was to be pained p-inciple, why was it not general ? Why was notjthe principle laid down—that it did not matter what the religious belief of any man was who might be admitted to parliament ? It hail be, n said that they had admitted quaker., Moravian', and others who dissented from the church f England, into parlia ment ; but there was a wide difference between them and Jews. Chi istianity was essentially identified with the state, and he took his stand on the verge of Christianity, and declared that it should not be parsed by Jews and infidels. (Cheers.) They desired to instruct the people and unite religion with such instruction, hut how could they do so if parliament itself admitted that Christianity was unimportant ? (lieu, hear.) They were told that they must nut visit on the present Jews the sins of their ancestors committed 1,800 years ago ; but it was not because they had been guilty of a geat crime at that period that he would punish their de serendante, but because those descendants hail the game un altered belief, having the same laws; and it the occasiou were to occur now they would Ise guilty of the same crime. (Hear, hear.) It had also been said that it wan hard to exclude a Jew from parliament poesessed of considerable pro perty in the state, but he thought a man hail as ninth cause of comlaint who was a Christian and had no property for being excluded teem a seat in perliament The same was the case with the Menelaus ; but to admit it in the case of tha Jews would be to admit men who were not Christians. A great deal had been said about the dimity of the Jews. Now he did not mean to deny that there were many amiable and benevolent persons of that creed, hut it should be recollected that men who were immensely rich might make • display of charity without inconvenience which would be ruin to their poorer neighbours. But they must look at what was the social churacter of the Jew. He was one of a nation within a nation, totally distinct and separate, living amongst our agricultural and maninacturieg populations without belonging to either one or the other. (Hear, hear.) The Jew did not labour, but bought and seer at a profit the fruits of th hem, ande labour of no othpaupers, a There w ere few poor amongst t fact greatly to their mein ; few of them were rich, but some were immeasely rich. They could not intermarry with the people of this country, with wham, except the higher chivies, they nev er aseociated. They might be called citizens of the world, but hardly citizens of England. (Hear, hear.) It might not be uninteresting to observe how easily a Jew of the highs st class could transfer his allegiance from one country to another. He had some days since seen in one of the journals a review of the recently published memoirs of Sir F. Burten,in which the following p issage was f act extd and : We yesterday dined at Ilan) blouse, to meet the Itothischil very amusing It was. Ile (Rothnehild) told his lire and sdrentures. Ile was the third win of the banker at Frankfort. "There was not," he said, "room enough for us all in that city. I dealt in English goods. ihte great tinier came there, who hat the market to himself ; he was quite the great man, and did us a favour Übe sold us goods. Somehow I offended him, and lie refused to show stein.; patterns." Such was the circumstance which originated the transfer to this country of the great house of Rothschi(d, and aim the bill then before their Witold)), (Cheer' and laughter.) Nothing ballot nal by chance, every ac cident that occurred formed part of the means by which providence worked out its ends ; and certainly if it was the will of providence that this country about(' be unchristianiecil, meaner mean could not have been adopted than the refund of a Manchester traveller to show his pat terns. (Cheers and laughter.) The noble marquis had observed that at present all municipal iiillees were open to the Jew—that he might become sheriff, aiderinan, or lard mayor. Now he Olio Earl of Ellenleirough) was not one who attached much importunes:l to municipal dignities, but he certainly regretted that Baron Bothiiehild trod not, like another Cie or, preferred King 144 iq its • cri orsitiun to being last in the senate, MP he then mi r fht have worthily dis pensed the hospitalities of the city of London without en dangering, the Christian character of the legislature of this country. He begeed their lordships to take I a serious but not exaggerated view of the dun pees which were threatening this country. It was . impossible not ti observe that a great crisis was RI)- aro aching. Th , yha waving.: ha waving.: in famines, in goner distress, in pestile :ice, ar.d is divisions amongst the people. Around they saw nations' convuhed to their utmost extent, and in one instance the most ancient rind powerful dynasty In Europe crushed in one day. The great empire of Austria had fallen, crushed like the potter's vexed, and the most an cient combinations of territory had given way to new combinations, of which no one could tell the duration. They PEW all the great landmarks of nations displaced, and the widest schemes for future government pro pounded, without any reference to the experience of the past. With such convulsions surrounding us, how long could we expect to remain uncontaminated, separated as we were only by a channel, the whole extent of which could be scanned by the eye? (Hear, hear.) He trusted that their lordships would employ themselves dili gently to the means by , which aline the country could be saved ; that they would not forego the interests of the coun try for any temporary profit ; that they would forego legislating for the private purposes or temporary expediency of any man or any government—(hear, hear) ; that they would take a large view of public tdrails ; and, above an, would not deprive themselves of all right to heavenly aid by agreeing that night to the dee oration of parliament and the destruction of the exclusively Christian character of the British legislature. (Loud cheers.) The Duke of CAMBRIDGE, who was but indistinctly heard, said he felt it to be a dut y he owed to himse lf to Wens the sentiments be felt on that itmortant occasion. He had known za s u n y a J h e e w h e od in aitwheaycsounusetrdy hisi pets'—(hear, wiktitch,,,heerthiLlsretosidedrel7e4ontirm from hear)—but, looking csei ientiously s this question, he sit that, as Ion.; as the Biitigh parliament continued to hill. The Duke of ARGYLE had come to the determination to vote for the second reading of the bill. But lie dial so with feelings of a very different deecription hum those expressed by others who took the same view of the measure, both in that house and in another piece. The Bishop of ST. DAVID'S expressed his satisfaction at having beard the noble earl opposite denounce the bill before he had had an opportunity of addressing the houw. He was not blind to the threats which had been uetereil as to the consequences of paring the present ball. But he would answer the noble earl in the words of an intinitelv greater man than himself, " The lawel's will be alone ; I must do mine." It had been asserted, though there wax no proof of the fact, that the bill could only proceed on an assumption that the enuntry was actuated by an entire held% ference towards religion. If such was to he heti , some curious results would he obtained, looking at the places frem which the petitions in favour of this bill hid been sent. But for himself he must declare he had no confidence in such a reeigions thermometer. e feared he wee not altogethe guided by surmise when h ll e asserted that the Jews had not yet ceased to be the objectsof an unreasonable and hereditary dislike an the parts of numbers of enlightened Christian'. laenking, indeed, hark into put timer, it was morally impos tilde that such should not he case ; and although the evils immediately resulting from such a unto of things were abated, and had passed away, yet they had left deep traces' of their former effects in the existing habits and feelings of the country. If that was not the case ; if no noble lord who heard him was conscious of entertaining such feelings ; then he must confess him self to he one of the most pre pidioed persons in that house, for he certainly had experienced the feelings he had adverted to, and he had used his Minis, endeavours to get rid of them, so as to pre vent them from hay.og any influence upon his decision. Much an the question wide r cored teration had been debated, he was not sure that any great degree of attention h.al been paid to the particular sentiments to which he had referred. It had been urged as one of the strongest reasons for rejecting the bill, that it was the practice of the Jews to express tho utmost ab horrence of that divine person who was held by Christians in the utmost degree of reverence. Such indeed was the argument of the petition presented by a noble earl opposite from the General Aweuably, and that was urged as the strongest reason against the bill. The most revue: el prelate below him had adverted to it, and the late Archbishop of Canterbury had elm made that the maiu ground for the impossibility which he telt of giving his eon sent to a measure like the present. hut he must he allowed to say that in his opinion the charge, or rather the reason urged against the bill, had no adequate foundation. Ile might he told the Jews denied the divine character of the Saviour. lint in what respect, might he UK, did the Jew differ in this from an Arian ? Did not the unitarian alto deny the divine character of Christ, anal also what the church conceived to be the plain sense of scripture in the Saviour's assertions of his divine origin ? lie merely urged this as a reason why their lordship% should not reluse to admit Jews to arivileges which had been already granted to others who stood in exactly the same position as the Jews towards the Christian religion. Tle re was also another ground for not considering the Jews to be bonnd by their religion to any such ho stilit y to Christianity as had heen inferred by the most reverend prelates to whom he had adverted. lie found the Jewish historian who had narrated the events which occurred in relation to the Saviour speaking of our Lord as a person who fell a victim to the cabala of a particular sect of priests. And also a most distinguished writer, the Jewish philoso pher, had described Christ as one who had advocated a sri ritual religion in lieu of a religion of tunes and hypocrisies Anal he found some Jewish writer stating it to be his 'minim that a J. w might become a Christian and yet re main bound by the Jewish law of ceremonial. There was ample room for the difference of opinion that ezii.ed amongst the Jewish and Christian sects without necessi tating the existence of any special hatrad to Christianity such as had been imputed generally to the Jewish race. The bill W9R one most entitled in every respect to their lordships favourable coubleration, and if they re jected it, the grounds upoo which they did so must be o I the plainest and most intelligible description. The country would not be contented with airy speculations, though such might, by the ingenuity of some noble lord', he invested fur the moment with a seeming solidity. Their lordships must be reminded that a great constituency had deliberately mode choice of a Jew for their representative, end that the House of Common.; had shown a willingities to remove the (heal - ilia ties which prevented Jews from sitting in the legislature. It now remained for their lordships to determine whether they were prepared to tell the concituency of the metropolis that they should not declare man ef their choice to represent them, and also to to the House of Commons that they were not to be permitied to declare what classes of per. sons were to he permitted to take their seats in that assem bly. Their lordships hail been told that the hill wets moor *latent with the exist nee of Christianity, anal that it would prove danacrous t t;a' interacts of the church. New, as thew us Whets were meant to l'und as reasons for not passing the bill, he should like to know in what the danger to the church consisted. Was it because the special province of the legislature was to regulate the doctrines of the church ? Such an assertion eauld not he seriously male ; anal, if so, wherein did the a me g,t cousist of admitting a Jew to an assembly which , h a t no I whatever es , r the doctrines upon which th e 1 Christian faith was based Would it also ba maintained I that a Jew would so utterly disregard the feelings of his 1 constituents as to offer an insult or attempt an injury to their religion? It had also been urged that the coun try would incur the risk of the Divine displeasure by showing favour to the objects of the Divine wrath. lie ' would abstain, from obvious motives, from elating any ridi- I cute up , -11 such an argument, least that which was meant for the latter should be wilfully or mistakenly applied to the I sacred subject of discussion. But with respect to the rent of the Jews, he was quite sure that the present genera I don had, by means of their ancestors, incurred a very heavy debt towards the Jews in this respect, of which he was not quite sure they would ever be able to acquit themselves. It was his belied that, upon the common priaciples of our I nature, the interests of the church were quite as likely, or I more so, to be assailed by a dissenter as by a Jew. This was said to be a question rather of principle than of expe diency. He had fully as much respect for principle as any maw in the house ; but lie must confess that he could see no thing of the dignity of a principle in any of the arguntente which had been used against this Insasure, and which, in deed, seemed to him less argume uts than sophistical fallaciu, which had over anal over again been disposed of. It had bee u insisted upon that the measure would un-Christianise the legislature, whereas the legisla ture would never be un-Christianised to any greater extent than the country itself should be tin-Chris tianised. Jt was said that if we admitted to the le gislature persons who dial not profess the same religioKn d for with ourselves we should part from the only security we i th e conscientious discharge ae the duties that iegumeturc. No one denied the influence of religim over awes MUMS views of morality ;but there was a common ground on which try. It was said that the few diseentientt,,,pisutilti,iin'iolinisAaanuLidditled:bhaen... men of all religions could meet, and come to a tolerably dim that feeling to be in favour of the bill ; but he considered tinct and unanimous opinion uto abstract right and wrong. the silence to have a significance the other way. There we e b It was equally fallacious to mutt that the measure would be auother reason which increased the imp.irtanes of the g ess as an inuation upon the constitution of this country, lion before them. The relations of the church to the state one on the principle that Christianity was held to be this country afforded at the present time q uestion, not th o b part and parcel of that constitution. No doubt the easiest for solution, or the safest to defer Nettling. li e th ough * CI principle of the old English constitution was that absolute that in those difficulties a reasonable man would tract t • t exclusion, which rejected alike not inerel Jew, Turk, and that the legislature, by a slow yet certain peeress, had be. infidel, but heretic and schismatic ; but t is principle had come s t radually th m l o t r eTi e di u twi l h an att g heo ld up f l. ro d pA tu inr, t gr h ,,, e . church of the cone ( (nu the parexteorfcitteoß(r(ititisuhnoodonsutitudtu- a I dan y. tly N in o c w rease he t lion.long e n inon legislature b e en had,abandoned right, from time to time, modified, and modified still further, they considered the present tint:l:natty in adjusting chu rch t te is exclusive principle ; and to say now that the legislature matters, there could be no doubt but that the adpi n a J could not, without a dereliction of its duty, still more modify the measure would eventually lead to the separation ete - o f - I the principle, or destroy it altogether, was the real attack church and state. He, for one, was not ie favor of such n as such, was keeper:o'l, and that the nation null' would certayse re fr es - u upon the constitution. Then, as to the question of Jewish separation, as he believed that the church would suff er such on nationality, it was said that tho Jew, eimenti v al ti lv .o. 7 . al z, it : n i t'aekniingbypathrtat in fect m e .,., seenee l h e en egidstit e o o: 1 ent t u n t, : i m iy o c r o o ni . the had inThe li f i o l re l th .' e u m b R i rre n:o t l i ved b* the w sat tl qire ' s r ti e nn c4 , n and ' And Dr. Arnold been cited as an authority for the pro none more so than that of national education ; and because position that a Jew had no MOTO right to legislate for us the passing of the bill now under their censideration woe ln than a lodger to managethe household affairs of his handlord. render the settlement of those querions almost imposeible, With every respect for Dr. Arnold, he must express the feel- he beseeched them not to pass it. (Cheers.) ing, that the reverend gentleman's theory on this subject The Bishop of St. DAVID'S explained. wan derived rather from Inapplicable analogies in Greet and The Earl of St. GERMANS, with all respect to the , should Roman history, than from any view of the actualstate of the prelate (the Bishop of Oxford), mid hi must dissent i n : . case, or the actual circumstances of this country said its some of the propoeitions which he ad laid down. RI present people. Dr. Arnold's opinions on this particular believed the Jews to be a loyal, peaceable, and industrious - question were carried to an extreme, which he (the Ltiehop body ; he saw no reason why they sheuel not be aemit of St. David's) thought very few of their lordships to complete participation in civil right", mid he c inteased he would lie disposed to adopt, for the reverend doctor con- had heard nothing is the speech of toe right rev. entered that it would be no departure from justice were our late opposite at all calculated to shake his opinion in favo - government to do with the Jews that which the Spanish go- of this bill. 112 vernment of old had done with the Jews and with the Moriscocs, namely, to expel them the country altogether. It was urged, further, that nut only was the Jew an alien in • The Earl of EGLIN TOT:hi, for the a' of aye the religion he revered and the Saviour whom he wombipped this country, hut that he was unsusceptilile and incapable certainly vote against this bill. nf the ties which bind an Englishman to the land of his berth. Lord LYTTELTON was quite sure that the Jews were entitled to the privilege on the ground of It was assumed that the home of the Jew must be always in was just could never he wrong. j usti ce , and what a foreign land—that his heart must be ever in Palatine. Doubtless the religion of the Jew was • religion of hope, , The Earl of HA ItROWBY had always felt the utmost I teaching him that at some time or other his race would repugnance to allow any obstruction to a privilege On Sc. count of religious opinion ; hut having reviewed this he restored to their original abiding place ; but there was . pee m nothing, in theory or in fact, which justified the statement liar question with great care, he must confetti' he had ones that the Jew, as the member of a political state, did not to the conclusion that it would not be right to Watt the . • Jews to parliament. (Hear, hear ) take the same interest in the welfare of that state with his fellomcitizens. The right rev. prelate concluded by The Earl of YARBOROUGH had not looked at the fell. earnestly exhorting their lordships to pus this measure. As he question under this bill without anxiety, but the mere a believer in the unerring cour-e of God's authority and he looked at it the more he felt that it was his duty ra a power, and in the ultimate triumph of Christianity, he was Christian to vote in its favour. firmly persueded that in adopting the present measure their The Earl of DESART said, the legislature being called lonian's', while consulting the intereits of justice, wou"d upon to dide on question' both spiritual and temp Ural, b e not lie impairing those of the Christian religion, would be could not c h ink that a Jew ought to be fArmitted to stare h isuning, rather than impeding its triumph. lie considered with Lhristians the administration of those affairs. that every exclusion which distinguished the Jews from their The Earl of ELLESMERE said his vote that night tellowsubjects hadthe effect of creating an additional fold in would be the result, not of impulse ' but of such retiree the veil which shut them out from the light of the true faith. as his ability allowed him to give to this important subje ct. m Still longer to irritate the Je ws b y invidious distinctions If he could b e li e ve with the right rev. prelate that a great was the precise way still longer to retard the triumph of indifference to the safety of the country could alon e indu ct Christianity, and to prevent it from accomplishing its high a vote for this bill, no degree of reap et for am { , 2 3,, • NtigtiM on earth, glory to God, peace and good will amone tuenc would induce him vote that night in " cc) y men. (hear, hear.) but looking at the probable cot...mean-ft that would follow The Bishop of OXFORD opposed, the bill. Those who from this measure, all he could foresee was that, at most advocated the measure insisted upon it as giving to the Jews about a score of i espectable gentleme i of the Hebrew our Meow-subjects, rights of which they were unjustl y nation would be admitted to seats in parliament. deprived. Nothing could be more painful ta an beinourabie Lord STANLEY was as much °weed to perseeution ea mind than the idea ot such an injustice as this, and he for any man ; but he was at a loss to know hew oppositien to the one, did he believe that the measure ave the Jews rights to g present bill could be designated be that name. To the &pa. which they were really entitled, would nee for it, regard- vation of civil rights on the groundsot religious opinion hems less of ultimate considerations, but he wholly denied as much opposed as any man; but the protectien of the laws th it the Jews were entitled to the priviloees proposed to he was one thing, and the privilege of making those laws was centerred upon them. (Hearn Ile considered that to give another. (Hear, hear.) That was • privilege, not a right, them them pleges would be destructive of the principle of the abnce of which irivolved neithi I' perneutioe ew our constitution and set the best intereas of the ceuutry. The penalty ; and it was, moreover, a privilege which the lan. eusperiteenis was no correlative of thefts., rioilatis or thejus !attire was bound to fence round with every security neces suefrogii. lite right rev. brother who last addressed their sal y for the rights of the couutry. (Hear, hear.) rap noble lordships, and who had charged all the arguments against marquis who Introduced the hill had said that to the the measure as being sophistical fallacies, said, "It time of Elizabeth there was no exclusive system in this is nut te birthplace of tato Jews which mak country on the grounds of eligion, and !hat when tuna* them another nation from us, hut their religion." Wh y, did commence the terms ' T on the true faith of a Christian" this was the precise point, the very thing which gate them had no reference whatever to t persons far from aof the Jewis ighth pen a uationality inconsistent alt o g ether with the claim now set suasion. Why, before thame, rto up fur them. The Jew, if he be a real Jew, cannot be- sit in the an legislature, a Jew lied no right to lng to any other ntion th his own ; the distinct injunc hie foot on British soi ght even l. (Hear, hear.) The noble nammis ' ti o ons of his religion o are that he shall not blend with o th e r said that the set of William and Mary abrogated the rile peoples; that, when dwelling with other peoples, he &believer gious penalties, and that for thirteen years there was no legal remember that he is wholly diverse from them, and he is obstruction to the entry of Jews into parliameie ; but the elperially enjoined to the practice of his peculiar religious noble marquis should recollect that at diat time the Jew had . observances, to the purpose t hat these may keep up the din no means of getting naturalised in England. (Hear, hear.) tinction, and preserve him pure from mixture from those He could hold freehold, no property ado which he nunht with whom he may he otherwise in daily contact. What become qualifi ed; and the oath was administered on the said Mr. Van Hoven, a Jewish writer, in a recent work New Testament, on which it win impossible that a on Judaism ? Why thus: that the peculiar prepare- Jew could be sworn. And yet the noble unman thins of food among the Jews were designed for told their lordships that because certain words had been a setect and holy natien, that so it might remain obliterated from the statute-book there was not in the time tur ever uadefiled by intimate communication with the of William and Mary any legal obstacle to a Jew entering people of another faith. Another recent Jewish writer, the parliamait. Next came the question of wh .t constituted a Milne l'ruhl, emphatically reminded his co-religionists here proper qualification for a seat in a Christian legislature. If thet, however born in England, they were not Englishmen, such seat was the inherent right of every Bnash subject, for that Jews, of whatsoever land natives, were of the Jew- why require pecuniary qualification ? why exclude melon ish nation only, and had no national relation with the people or women : (Hear, hear.) With the exception of the rieht around them. Thus inculcated the rabbi, and such was the rev. bench, who sat there because parliament was aChristun universal feeling of the Jews. Infinite examples might be anembly—(Cheen)--every clergymen of the church of adduced to prove the fact. Let him mention two that oc- England was excluded from a seat in the legislature ma cuffed to IliF mind. When Napoleon desired to bring back yet no one complained of the violatioh of an inherent his shattered army from Russia, money was essential to him. right . (Hear, hear.) Had not all those persons a rieht to Who supplied this money ? A Russian Jew ; yet, as a complain of persecution as well as those who were lensing Russian, national interests would have effectually kept fur in this hill ? (Hear, hear.) Nthody disputed the right hint from extending this aid. When war between England of the legislature to enforce a peeuniary qualification, and lie and France raged with its most intereeeine fury, would boldly ask whether it was a greater disqualification at and money was needed by France to enable het to sustatn the Christian assembly of a Christian country fur a 1010 the struggle, who advanced this money ? An English Jew, to be without •certain income per year, or to be a Jew, re. in whom English nationality would have futbidelen the pudiating all you worshipped, despising all you looked loan. (Hear, hear.) fhe right rev. prelate proceeded to up to with veneration, &MI, ii he was a sincere contend that, if the Jews had no title to the proposed boon Jew, wishing that your blasphemous religion ebould as of right, they had as little claim to it under any other be trodden to the earth ? (Loud cheers.) He eared consideration. The noble marquis who introduced the not what might be the o, inion of the nominal Jew or measure celled upon their lordships to pass it 13 a matter the nominal Christian, whose religion was but a garment of kindness. The conceasion, so far from being a kindness which might be taken off at pleasure ; but he contended that to the Jews, would be fatal to them. What the Jews were the sincere follower of the law of MOM must know and be 'peculiarly in danger of at the present moment lieve that, to assert that any one shared the throne atlas War infinelity, the result of decaying hope and expiring God whom he alone worshipped was that crime which by expectation. For Christisna to grant them the his law should be punished with the utmost severity. right of legislating for a Christian community would (Hear, hear.) He (Lord Stanley) did not wish to ate too be at once to tell them that those Christians had as little deeply into that solemn question ; but the Jew must faith in revelation as themselves, and the example would be either believe that the founder of Christiosim instantly effective in the destruction of what remained to was co-equal with God himself, or he must look them of riligious belief. The Rabbi Pruhl to whom he had upon him as a malefactor justly condemned by the laws of sa already referred to, expressed, in his pamphlet, the surprise offended country. (Hear, hear.) lle had no hereditary which tilled his mind when he observed the disposition of a hatred of the Jew, whom he looked upon as for many ca. Christian body to emancipate the Jews, a disposition which curies the depositary of the word of God. With roped to he distinctly attributed to a regardleasness for the worJ of the cracter of the Jew of athe present day, he believed big God. The Jews here were spoken of so though they were to be au the main as good ci ti z en s as any other Br itish sob the descendants of Jews long settled in the land, whereas jest; but w itn respect to his religious views, he could not in paint of fact none of the Jewish families in England consent to place him on • level with way denonenh were of older dote here than two hundred years. lion of Christians. The case of the Continua had In addition to the of right which the noble marquis been quoted ; but they would be offended it called , (Lansdowne) had u rged , he had spoken of the advantage by any other name than that of Christian, and the Roma ' which would result to the nation from bringing Jewe into catholics held fuadamental principles similar to those of the parliament. The noble marquis had not, however shown protestant. Yet those were the men whom some cone them the nature of those advantages. If it could be . preyed lords and right rev. prelates would put on • footing with the that it was necessary for the constituencies that the Jew unbelieving Jew. (Cheers.) The noble marquis had re should exercise the right which was said to belong to him, of minded him (Lord Stanley) that in 1832 he had voted for sitting ia parliament, then there would be some argument ; the removal of Jewish disabilities; hut civil and munitipil but he would maintain that such was not the case. There disabilities were different matters from a scat in were, to be sure, certain advantages to be gained at election the legislature of the country. It had been slid times—( hear and laughter)—which the Jews could sup. that they; should defer to the wishes of the ply ; and he knew enough of the history of the last constituency which had thought fit to mhos s City election to enable, him to form an opinion Jew. Suppose the City of Loudon had tbougfit fit to re ef their character. lie was of opinion that the election in turns pauper, a minor, or a female, would t h rum gia have queatiou was a lent of business trausaction, in which ce e been admitted, or would their selection lee allowed to oven candidate supplied the character and the other the capital. rule the Lew of the land ? (Hear, hear.) He c ontended (Cheers and laughter.) The noble marquis, had e course of that the Jew was not of this nation, bet of a nation apart. his argument, had said that their lordships better pass He had no interest in British interests any more than heal , house to a nonentity, than by so doing. (Cheers.) What racier of that essembly, or adopt a course which, iu spite si question of how far the passing of the act would tend to would be again and again introduced. If such should be unchristianise the leonlature. lie ( th e Bishop of Oxford) the case, he trusted that its fate would be to be again sad entertained a strung opinion that such would be its effect. It again rejected by their lordships' house. (hear, hear.) seemed to him that they were now asked to take the greatest Lord BROUGHAM coneratulated the house on the tele step which could be demanded of • Christian legislature , perste manner in which thee question hal been discussed Sy Tney were asked to admit those who came amongst the people all its members, except a distinguished occupant of the right the bill at once, or woula have it reiterated again and in Germ in or French. Suppose that instead of a seat in Me again, until they did. they lie thought ho might leave that ar- other house the Baron Rothschild had obtained a pane. gument to their lordships' own consideration. If a would not his presence interfere very much withehe freedon measure which they believed to be morelly wrong of diSCUTaion in that house? How could he express insuring or morally questionable, were to be passed on such terms their adherence to Christianity in the presence of a grounde, he said that they could not perform an msn to whom every word spoken in favour of Christianity act which could more utterly stultify their Was a direct offence . (Hear, hear.) The great question 01 own character—Omar, hear)—and tend more to reduce the principle War, whether they would retain the Christian ca -Ihe had stated appeared to him to be the main arguments o the paucity of petitions, would he believed alienate the U' [ the noble marquis. The noble viscount (Canning) had font- tionnl Affections from the national legislature. The noba lowed on the same side, and hail entered into the difficult marquis had told them that if tne bill w. re thrown oat it rat this nation en the protession either that they were not rev. bluets. The bitter spirit hail not proceeded hem the Christian, or that they were haters of Christianity ; sod most rev. prelate who so tidy re ail the iuterests of to it would be impessible if the act was pawed to, refer any church, but from a right rev. prelate who hail based to mere to aCM istian principle as governing that assembly. opposition on the slanders which had appeared in certain o He would tell them of the difficulties which they would hove I the public a n apers. Certain attacks on the prime minis to encounter. When the British Association was sitting lasti ter, appeng in those papere, had ben & leader year to relieve the great distress in In land, a body of the I, onsly used, and but that a ri r Mint Weneyan dissenters raised a large SUM Of STOUTS MW :Or I hail useil tuem he would sly Eig ht y r everendChees) that object. A sub-committee of the association was appointed llt was not true that the bill before their lordships mienned to dr 1 V up a letter of thanks to that body ; and in that ;in a job set on foot in the City of ' A uden. It was cot trio letter they expressed t heir acknowledgmeata " for the act of 'I that Lord John Russell owed his election to the llama Christian charity which they hal performed." NOW there • Rothschild. There was the noble lord's letter ettantel was on that cenmittee a moisten of the Jewish body, ' who prove it. But it was true that the noble lord's as vs! took exception at the word Christian, and begged that it much injured by Baron Rothschild's candidature; ate might be struck out. The member in questim said to the it was only in consequence of the solictatims n o . committee, " You have admitted me on a level with your- his partisans that Lord John Russell conseuted. ::: selves, and I will not admit charity to be a Christian virtue. to withdraw himself from the contest. fie dil a 1 You are charitable in spite of your Christianity, and not believe that the right rev. prelate meant to any L because of it." The end of the matter was that the word l thing malignant, but he thought he had been ledeidal was struck out, and the letter sent thanking the Wesleyans l the cheers from the benches behind him (Lord Brongasn i simply for their charity. He said, ex into direr °notes.' and had incautiously said fur name than he mien The same difficulties would arise in other matters; and from (Cheers and laughter.) But even supposing al bs or the day when they legalised the admission of the denial of I right rev. prelatelaan. mid about the bill were tru e ,. __ Christianity, they could no longer appeal to Christianity as postng it originated ini the most impure motives, 'ln In n nee their guide. (Cheers.) He asked them if the laws of Eng- Iso good a measure a itself, t iat nothing cou n . 1 If land were based upon anything but the laws of God, revealed I it, and he should therefore vote for it wan 7; through the medium of Christ Jesus ? There was no doubt 1 greatest ardour. During the whole night he ne • e that on that such was always the ground on which the validity of 1 bato had proceeded upon the omen _ en , , every English law was based. Something had fallen from the , legislature had advesedly excluded the Jews fromennj 1 , right rev, prelate who had preceded him, that had given him lin parliament. This was not the fat, eith er 1 (thellishopolOxford)real pain,although there was nothing in lor otherwise. There was not even a declaration role _ it. The rtv. prelate had spoken of the direct, important, I from a Jew or any cne elm, be they Calvinists, Social's; and unquestionable relation which he alleged to east be • Arians, or any other sectarians, to the effect that thery.thee twcen Judaism and Christianity. Now, that there had been the slightest belief in any ene docum. at, upon the _vi t a . M . s a direct, important, and unquestionable relation between of which the Christian religion was supported. All i des them was well known, but he denied that any such relation m' - mber was required to do evee to ainute the l' e Lo gan, vented at present ; and he hoped the right rev. prelate would and to uphold the succession of the bo o ...te chow him (the Bishop of Omord) to remind him, that had Brunswick; and he was required to make these . p not _ Judaism been suffered to remain in the ascendant, it would on the faith of a true Christian. But that form aid e h la: have provedthe tomb of Christianity. A more dangerous argu- quire him to declare himself a Cnristian, althoug prole: runt could not be promulgated. In point .if fact Chr:stianity (Lord Brougham) did not mews to deny that a very per' was not a settled doctrine, but a belief of the heart in cu hi- connsientims feeling had operate' ins deterring [h o e , . nn dividual, the Savour of the world, and who formed the from tekieg the oath preseribed to the nt. mbers i r..(!r. heart of religion and the centre of faith . Judaism win an houses of parliament. What, thentore, became c an , r ,t entire denial of the whole system. and a Jew accordingly arguments by which their lordships had been hlyn n believed the o ho in question to be nothing mare then nauseated, to the effect that the p a rtial's. ut would g, se weo an impostor, whom his ancestors slew. It was the christianised by the admission ot Jews . towiga scat is apparent that theoe two mita could not be reconciled the House of evilness I The Heine .11 C i woo good. l - 1 Wins nenera to one petitions witch hail one. " c " cllt ' li c Y unchrlitimused itielit if till' arg"" °a gni* there win something ream nbott the leeling of the conn- seeding tan On bill sow boX• tibia THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1848.