The Express. — London, England, 1849-05-08 00:00:00

Of yid& bed bees yeepeted W Mr. Rolm dile weft Isle* sed toles bed less siteleed vith emb pi a tedett by the i ii . . . 1,. 4 i ....: e is , : . ..lIb.II 1 0 I . a 6 Orb toss a hew kr. Ma the of lie eensillte sesesded, is arreasse reeest et red otherwise. mode hen kag welt ard 00 eat mph. h relicheekt allellillell ks ate a up= iB et via nepetee euy melt uses the lehmielee. — That - Is the some whisk the dheslon eithe Ewen Ceen tiss PAdwey atm, end I mem this hews es • nu sad pa. these that thme h* eat • mosabor of this his.. who either &eel, or isdiresdy did lomat ewe shigioshilleg in reference *mos 7.0061. (IlleA, boar.) I think Isis ins is the hems te male that statement, and I ma thealdhl to the lea. gem Meese for harbag given AA this polls egysetweily of sem v o r m ti, g ilas moms to whit BO boo Nikell4. If bed bees mentioned is that sommilloe, when I was thin. I impedes to any mother of this Mess that he bad =V s dello aiding, I shoeld ham repedmi it with in. &ratios es a her insinuation sad ealunny splint every member. (Hew, bow.) Mr. CHARTURIS said be was is the beads abbe home. lat he mid thought it would be most desirable that then should be aa inquiry. (Hear, hear.) He therefore gave NM* that on ?handily ant he should move bra um mitt« to inquire tate the subject. (Hear, hear.) SICILIAN AFFAIRS. Kr. DISRAELI inquired ekes the Shelia& papas would be lad epos the table. Lied J. RUSSELL was Reny He hem 'oedemas bad ant wee meths or Me wedge. He wee with • n, treble mesa, the Semetuy of State Sze Foreiga Albin, • her keen afore, sad if soda bad bees gime he should bass bas reposed to answer the timed= ; but at present ke wee not. Kr DISRAELI should bass timed that so sodas would lave Wee amemary es such a eabret. He had bees iskneed es pretty rod authority out of doors, that three papers wore already is the beads el some iadivideale. PARLIAMENTARY OATHS BILL. Os the motion for the seened mediag of this bill, Sir R. H. INOLIS moved r as 111141aakani that it be read a mead time that day six months. This bill removed all those oaths whit* had been oessidered essential for the good gmentseent of the realm. It altered the oaths of 'kitty, samemasy, and ablusatior. The sable lewd by this bill had hoisted neutral mitoses for the sake of erneeing the weirs goods The object of the sth clams was to provide for the admission of Jews to the how, sad, la es many wads, it took away from the legislating ot Rag land its nemessey and essential Christie* character. Bekaa been told that the words " es the trati faith of a Christie* " hat oaly bees hitrodsend wield& the lest twenty years ; but the words themselves were used so leog age as the 3 James I. Hie Mamie& friend would say, what benefit did you 'derive from the Christianity of such roes ea Huse sad Cilibboa ? We had this bereft', that they sever felt themselves at liberty to do anything 'salsa ear common Christianity, and he defied say one to produes from the records of parliament, or any other searee, any evi dence that them men used their power to th e detriment of the church. Bat the ems was different with the Jews. It was idle to say that their numbers would be small, and bring small, would be (aeCee tael we all knew the devotedans of a small body la respect to great measure*, and the Jew would torn a modem fur his owe opinions. lie might mat be able to sae end in the first instance, but there were may ban= M which • compact body might have an isithesse is the kid• aim of the house. It was said that the Jews were samai gaily small, being not more than 30,000. They hod never been invited to come here ; they came her. foe their own benefit. They sought wealth and they found wealth, and they had no right to expect that the noble lord the First Minister of the Crown should move to wait the words, "es the true faith of a Christian." For the sake of the Jew they were about to offend the scruples of the many ; to hurt the consciences of the met majesty of the people of England. If it were a quokka ofjasties, he weal& concede it at °see; but, believing it to be• question that could not be eoneeded without offence to the coaseleasse et many, without destroying the exclusive eharester the lesielaturei, be eernestly entreated the house fa laatilf Is resisting the farther progress of this measure. He UMW this the bill be read a esessed time that day six math* Major BERESFORD wooded the amendment. He looked spon this as a punka involving the reeogaitios of the eferistian faith, which he had ever considered - as bound up with the duties of the legislature. It was sot s matter of detail ; it was a bill opposed to the leered priacipies Oa which they had ever acted, and prospered and flourished. This bill would endanger the ebristianity of the legislature, sad imperil the best feelings of the country. The arganten's with which it had been introduced failed to bring conviction ID his mind ; he felt that there was no sufficient same for hazarding ea dangerous an experiment. There was a Sopron Ben, presiding over us all, whose wrath and displeasure we should all avoid. It was said that became the City of Loudon had chosen for its representative a wealthy Jew, they were justified in elteriag the law, sad allowing him to participate in their dellbseations. To do this would be to overrule the wisheeof lin vat of the mantry ; frr, in other instances, when Jews bed awed tbonmoltr s as candidates, they had bees rejected; ask in the owe of the warn for the City of London, the amber wend to the admission of the Jew was very newity equal le that which returned him by • tiding t el lilts said that he shoal net have vonand to oc say the time ad attend= of the Muse if be did sot con- Kelly rely on that ishilmesse whisk the besee wee ever Ned to email Is these who W sualea he apses their Is he tholes& si (Hew, brae.) Be steed more le need of that Welcome bans, be had the mhilanne to Ma after the ben. lenast wines elation la the been eel Mak passel aerator entitled bin to the utmost reopost, Mimi be bad the eras/arta. to have arrived at • sir dodos diesels area to that whisk he bad draws fres the hand esimmeas w his k were coiental WM* eonsibea the. Navies thasinikesrald his inteatise,he meal, with the the bone. Pad to state Ms reams whisk kad mainly istnenied his deskies. lie weld set bat trash Int a oleos NM WY Mk eat M hewer of the has lathes welkin etas rivilecesof one senallaien— lie they arched by tight se wog eatinilmis el the ealm. (Hear, boor.) Net Manse of kis e this ror that, hothouses,. his bolas sa labees , ea thare of the . trellstrames, ptiiesent z2ses aksa‘ trilorbig res 4 sind e Me essaltutiosal rights of the Jew by unterring ea him =mirights, civ il, military, end jelkdal. As • magic l l tr 7 exercised a judicial husetioa, end almost every dies of trust, every breach of civil and military adainistra des, INC spa to him. He might share is municipal can di, might rote at the election of members ot puha meat • but there remained after all this one die Zilifiblue that although • constituency might him as their member, although the returning officer might send he his name, he was still by the state of our law flea taking his seat as • member of the House of lort udsa meas. While this inespecity remained in form, the whole political status of the Jew was defective in itsmost important feature. (Hear, hear) And he (Mr. Peel) eon feliud that he was ensiles to find 11311 political grounds for admitting the Jew to municipal Mine and the elective franchise, while be remained excluded from any share in the sets or the deliberations of that house. (Hear.) True it was that gentlemen bad attempted to draw • distinction between ' filling a civil or municipal Aloe and the exercise of a public franchise. They had beta told that 'nil employment involved mealy administrative and instrumental office, and that to the state and pazliament aely was= the power of making those laws by which civil and in offices were regulated. He would not take apes himself to pronounce whether or not that distinction was founded on name, bat at least let him remind the home that the Test Aet of Charles 11. was framed on that principle, and that under that Act the eight of dissenters to vote was never die **bed. Tnere had bees, in the *nue of time, any cases of disability known to our law, but it did sot appear to him thatthey bore any analogy to the else of the Jew, became they were either temporary is their nature mannered in their ap plicadon,and in no way involved the legal degradation or want of civil worth in the person falling within their category. Haring said se much respecting the fact of the Jeo's exclu sion—a fact which the principles of political equality eon denised—he would now call the attention of the Louse to the mode in which the law operated. After the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot an net was framed for the purpose of excluding Haman **holies front the office of magis trates. The csth was one of allegiance sad abjars. lion, and coecluded with the wards, "on the tene Lite of a chrwine." Linn it wits imposed upon mem hers d parliament; but to farther MGM* was taken until the 30th Charles 11., when ore stringent mea sures against Roma catho l i c' were ad opted m by compelling members of both homes to qualify by taking the oaths of allegiance and abjuration, and by subscribing to a declare nen against transubstantiation. On the accession of William 111 , that oath was repealed, and is lieu of it • new oath of supremacy sad • new on. of allegiance were established, which, Mika being way easise, did sot contain the wo rds "on the WS. faith of • Calais." (Rear, hear.) TOlll- b eet sl is es legislation went, the Jews were admissible to parliament at that period, bat towards the close et the reign of William, Loais XIV. recognised the claim etthe Peolieseter, end the Pietender's adherents (*this country Mai prinicelly Roman attholies, an act was passed la in imam a the legislators the obligation of quali. ftwesiess by an addifinfil oath, iodating that kin eel doemsdaate bed forfeited sll right to the theme. But although that oath was stringent, it was ilemod on the same model, and cosoledel with the words, on the tens faint of a Christian." This. were the three man sf secoosegy, Allegan ce, and abandon to which Wight be added the tieclarcion against nessebstiatiat(on, wbleb was repealed in 1829. Now the sonsinding weeds of the cult of abjuration were each as ern amilentisell Jew weld surmount; but he (Mr. Peel)) _had inirevonrod to dam that that oath was never bawled ee wank Jews, or to snare for parliament at umitimese poisselea of Christianity. (Hear, hear.) So far *ma that the estis was intended to azelade °se great division, _pothers the gentest, of profemiag Chrietians, and it was diellehill gay ley • gra tuitous and sediment coniesquers of its egiseatien that Jews were excluded. lf, then, he Menke the ensbnia• of the Jews indefensible ea powele, Mumma mere lade fasible must he think it whin be on the leans by whisk it had been bee** abed ? (Load char.) He assineed, Men, that be add not was the posed. ea which admission was tamed to men who preheat Ask medium to take the tabs el all ad obreeerasy, end even of &banana seder • dliii.at most den ; onel he leered easy bora umber of thee be • wkst wee amid frees my eta es a he trail rights, s • declancion of hie isedinset to stand by the established order of things ha ohne* lei state, while be waned spank being marls the Walla of outdo wade which bad merely been inteadned he. the eelk se a master el hem (Hear.) Ma it vie on the salicions hogging ofreel undies Mat t a tv i esipel argnmina th ee p. w tatatlod, sad hi &gala, WM lb@ ponaiancot of the hem, passed to 00/11/11/1 wore of them ; and here he shield seetend kit the priesigle disk was to be collected Gem oat sari whisk he Meat eboold he anstristed ite epplisslien, and pset eye M its is sesame the prisapie eg re liberty. (Chem) He sanaled that diMeenes of religions =sith e shealil ea metitete way puma of dal . (Hear, hewn.) That it meld ever have beth se, mid My be isegned ea the suppesitise et the desist aim beanie *Ma mid sae, or rather he Medd say from these two amnia= being oaaiwiibls lam (Rear.) It wee! is ems these, of that kited ant wbeig devoid etude that die sests was time wads fie lest to the and that the W ens el the state wen attempted to be breed ea a the people k W mass of MU end legislative ktsa- Mnfrfis what me the unesqesese t Mesta be =more widely Mimi and stream sad at lest • feet whisk ft was imporibis M evernek. We had new neneadered She pelimipie that emmaion with Mama of P ath sem be the hesis of paled rights. (Illem bear.)met did es whin it passed the likura. mad Tests and lb, Callas Raid bills. He mkt .sly name, the., from dr esestitelion as is feud it; sad is Cog hit Me he dada Ode Ms maid by the •3110211&• dila* tiantedde, as they wen, with the pen=e ll resand sew sad onselatiseal kw—those ski- Mies whisk bid down that ear eased natation. were to be aeloyad_ wiliest rea ms to dames la re es.Prldier often.) Lad be would add, that whisk he derived is,. die comitetion as It stood at peseta, appeared to him to be quite reemil able with the Mau doctrine, which awoken peehibited the engaging le Mil affairs snag with Jews, or any ether .um by mein el their rays But the ariselpal asks seguessas ea the ic =s bearing of the euesto e :t ti ; Mime le dwalMei ea remit% whiek it was ea- OMANI Vial Mr/ 11411111111011*(111M into parliasseat. eggements of the bill represeated it as anodise str the la the Bewail of the chunk. Bat, had au the 1111•11 bon sad of every emperion whisk 'ire tape dna led seen it expedient to great ? one of those =lalbed ea to pew, and ke treated that the pre iesenedeise is the present ease would eventually yds to be madly iweginary (Hear, hear.) Let them Mk at the skew& of this new'eleseas whisk wes to week se math Maid It was sanaleted that at the outside • MW washer of Jews woad lad their way fate B e end even if any danger to the state should glegates from their amain, the eastitasecies retuning them being Christina would lan the remedy in the limb. (Hem, bust.) Another meat, head on re ligions expedioney, spine the progress of this amen was, that the inflame width, If it passed, st weal Stratus lath the empeatkin of parliament would sat it he that part of its mestitationd functions whisk emented the skunk. Bat he thought it meat be admitted that if that were a difikaity, ft existed fa the par liament es shady sonsatated. (Hoar, hear.) They should bear in mid that parenment only dealt with flea temporali ties of the Mai and the relations of its ailaistry with dal misty; bat the Meta answer to • warden at that kind Yes to be, that the inecagnity already existed, M iesi ber Wad in parliament ever Mee that peasant MI soma te be estlenvely peeetstant. (Cheers.) lie shoal new pas from these segments of religious expe. dam le ea which had been nsesented as involving a I greet pektelple. He referred to the volts set on a nominal of Christianity, those mad igne of a common &LlLity hung represented se pert of the law and practice of palbasat sod tbe eocaltution. Bat sines when, he 1111111111 sok, bail the oath of sbj unities been looked upon se a powesta of Obellienity ? At lint Anglican protestantiam alms bead fts way We parliament ; when asset found its way la the perikassit might still be celled protestant ; but when the Haase eatable were admitted they could only deka • amen Chrisdraity. It was his firm conviction diet they met part with their title to be and a pea'. met exciesively Chastise, bat that while dean so they meld still mem Chains in this sense, Meths greet end newerbelaniag majority add continue Christian, and that their laws would always continue to breathe the spirit of I Ciallea morality. (Loud cams.) But he could better esassamill the importance attached to this formula if it meld be 11111111,11 to him that it had mead to cream an im posedds barrier against sem seeteries ohm dogmas were at variance with what ha heaved to be the Best Important baton fa Chriiiimitty. It seemed that mask had sot tae the MIL They had admitted Nnitalem, theeelbee he amid Mt of what velem was es see whisk waded the pasha of Christianity addle it ondesimi GM d the saes Mel ementids of Christianity (Hear, Mr.) It inighl he mid, however, that no matter how lex a aminetina might be put upon the oaths, still, we hod, dime, the inenety that every member, on taking his mg, paned lima( • Chriaian. He was net m =B admit its vales as • security, but it would Met lila, after the forbearam with which he had ham listened to. to trusses* at any greeter length upon the Yeses. He would only say further, that, being midis to see any force sr conclusiveness is die argements against this bill, he should follow fa the seem of coestitatiosal precedes% sad ea emlighteed pay by giviag his hearty vote is Was d the issued reedit (Lewd ahem) Before he sat down be wisheil ai : n m i i v elet fir eve week ...resting the wanks Mimi ha Ma by thee. h Wm* the member fee Gad II . The haa. Mena bad told theta to beware how they interfered with the reiggions sentieseute of the purple. He (Mr. Peel) kadgaidahal that the religions sentlinents d the lapis were MOW to the fullest casideration, M= she Wad to give full weight to the dbleige of** own judgment, and if they 'aligned that the endedes 'Curtain irelividuals fits privileges which should be gimmes to all,eseld not be justified la candour fir public semi% Is woad be contrary es the easeiliatory spirit of • surYlNNes Nth,/ maintsined such exams He be lad deft a MK matiliany mares of policy wee the , Whims meet andelent with the spirit of Christianity, GM that is wee (numbest upse that base, however dke syssable it miebt be Miley deem el its mailers, *puthe all Glasses dher Idassere salsas a full swab is public privilege* and pain dudes. (Ts. boa. 111Sliber resat ed his seat amid bed sad general deeming.) Mr. TURNER, who was lean* audible, woe mar. sled t reaf t e lial ad that this was a quad rather of rams ef them pie, the point being whether Jews Mai be to Carden/ as representatives foe Aria flea matithemalies. He considered that in the low es it shad die Jews had every privilege they mid reesseabli claim in a Christian eanday. The first duty of the British parliament was to preserve Christianity maga the people. (Hear, hear.) An alien by birth was at permitted to eater the Hass ef Ceases., because it nu andirted that dermslenese siela mar in which he might lei it his duty toast against the GOMM. dal and tamped interests of this kingdom—bow much more did the NUM argument apply against the alien by religion, who, if Moen in his religious etenvictiees, would necessarily feel it to be his Bret duty to use his legatees as • member of the legislature to .mote his own religion at the expense of Christianity. (Hear, hese) flanices • proposition were before parhanwat to pass a vote for extending Christianity !.) our colonies, would it be possible for • Jew to participate in the necessity of such • measure, or could he be expected to vote the required sums for the planotion of a religion which In believed to be a fable, and wore' than • fable (Cheers.) There was amber conaideration of some importance—how for the passing of this mann might affect the (melees of deltas in that house. He had every confidence in those Jews who were at at lately to tom in under the bill; end, especisily, he had every tandem in that hon. gentleman whose election bad given rise to its introduction, to believe that co language they would me in parliament would offend the feelings a other member. (Hear.) But he regarded the 1111.$111111 Me one affecting act sa-rely the present but es applicable to all fume time ; sad he could not but conceive the pomibility of a period arriving when some Jew might find his way into that house who might ima g ine it to be his interest or plea sure to revile Christianity. If language of this chamfer were reported fa the newspapers it would suhjeet %bean penal conenowesee. The argument which bad been mash relied on is support of the preposition by the hon. gentle man opposite (dr. Peel) and others, was that it wu a sectary following out of the principle of the relief bill. That argument appeared to him to be Lindens. That bill merely restored the principle which bad existed previous to the mug of the penal laws. (Hear, hear.) It was pressed 1. the one et the Jew to omit from the oath required to be taken by . members of parliament cm taking their seats the weeds, 'ea the nue faith of a Maim." He looked upon that minks. as calculated to ream the r is zi te z for the manuals. of Christianitywhisk new If the words wen emitted the obligation would se lager be imposed of invoking the Christian God to wit ness the declaration to uphold the Christie& faith ; and if ie the eased the Jew that obligation were 10111“91, he saw no reason why the same privilege should net be was led ethers of her M•jesty's subjects who blind in ether gods. He was not prepaid teadisit ss a qualillestbasay obligation taken I. the name of any deity in whom ony individual might believe. Bach a change in the law he believed wield be prejudicial to Christianity, and therekee he should Via against the bill. Mr. WILLYAMB weld not believe that the Manion et Jews to fall civil lights would in any way weaken or affect the great principle, of Christianity in this country. The Jews, it was well known, were tot • noodylidest people—they had sot only no desire to make mum, bat refused to admit Mangers to their com munion. This wee proved by a in. that accusa l :a many years ego that of Led George Gordon—who to be otheitted • Jew, but was Weed, after the • had been fully sonsidered the gobble sad elders. (lIMJ He fir one hoped that bythe resegallisa of the,Pr this bill by parliament, Jews, the shiest" of her i a would beaseforth be admitted to the privileges of men. (Hear, beer.) Mr. TingRELAWNY, who was met indbtinedy head,after pee • high eulogy ea the speeds of tbe boa Ma bee for Leominster (Mr. Pal Mend that there was in the arguments whisk bed Ma admen= nothing the present emirs whisk bed net bion answered. Mr. HOPE mid that be should oppose the mooed readies of the bill, which in his opinion differed as is any rMoeet from that of lad pen exempt in ease. He disapproved of W principle of introducing a measure of this hied under the veil and semblenes of • baser bill. Mr. ROBABTEB would support the mooed reading. He thought that a the Jews bore • fair shared the burdens of W state, the legislature would be 'sag contrary to the diastole eg the Christian religion t which enjoined upon them to " treat othows sa they to be treated theaseslves," by exelredim them from pediment. Mr. NEWDEGATE mid the arguments of the supporters of the bill realaued him of the remark of Voltaire—" Look at the .:things ; men of all religions meet there ; the Hin der> and the Christian make menu together •' and religions differences are unheard." Bat the exchange was a very dir brut place from the House of Commons. He had ever THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1849. eassidered that hoses es the imperial rzeet,—as the =%dm aseemblz hi t a l great vanity, there le assist • sovereign ia the dbeharge • be Onetime dude% and he meld set deem it a &aka of ezd th e e i lghts of those who were she Chalet= if they were from entering • parliament is emmituted. • seat there we gives by the public ler the = pails geed, ere had so right to fern tit o LZ g o f the giber of the country by the elements of Mid lapmestative assembly, a= by is isl e Ar it elletiest4 le • defined= of the hid — that the Muse 'Meld is privileges se leapt ha essedesee with dee essillenti= whisk we hued es eheimiesity. (Hun, Mar.) He wietsd the bees to remember whoa the =ea "on the true faith el a Christian" were in meted la the sash. They were keened Immediately after the Gummier PIM and the suedes d William 'M— t= perkiest dosser, when am dare se faint their wish bone, sad elms es impreedoe west firth Mat tbs duper teensy et Me mesdames sherid be appareled tee, sr Mat begiaborremight think of their rsepoodtaidos to the Greet Creaser of ell whilst espied is the oillesiarge el their senatorial duties. When the nation was Moseere, them it was that these words were adopted is a tat ef stager_ ivy I agd if daspr =Geld *pis make its appwssr e we tMeY have to lament, sad, perhaps, we ebesli la misesek be nun to the sante mesas for asetetekdog our emerity, sad lot claiming the Divine protection, to whisk we had n em= before. He nested we might still els= bobs seaside= a =rinds& comsermity. He mimed that he cols Bided with those who looked y es the present pro. posal, became he believed tha t solos of this oath would tempt NON Roman =blies to take the protestant oath stead of the its prescribed by the cost ef 1849. Arending to that est they booed themselves net to auk to wishes or destroy the pre _cadent government mid protestant &Itch ss estahlehed ia these realm; asid wy it. there were who entertained dorive as to whether Raman sebelist =bared Aridly to the ordinary asentaties of times words. It might he that the words would be sought to be removed. At all events the molls lord undervalued the danger which existed; be cause it was only fair, before we removed any of those sow rides which guarded the asprommy of the British wows, that the Pope Mould withdrew Met right whisk he ebbed, to dictate se other miderieetisal pewees besides his own. In his elloeudee dated 1'47, his bribes, reaseerted all the rights his preemie!e had ever claimed, sad laeleded the ball in cone dooms; sad seek beteg die eve, was this the time to remove the safeguards whisk the mestimtion oi England had provided ? (Heer, hear.) Is vbs. favour were those safeguards to to remand ? In favour of those who, with fell knowledge of al that we as Christie= hold, dosed the tracheal Christi- Amity nevertheless. It was rut the ismoreat ialidel, the Mahomeden, or the Modem they were tow pepsin to admit, but it was*/ Jew, who with the tallest knowlodp, still refused to support the rots of Me great majority of Di the eoilon of that home. • would be utter injustice le denying &doled= to an infidel if they admitted a Jew; and, he salted, was it li kely to produce • salutary =premien on the minds of Lb people of this country when they heard that ber Majesty's goverment emoted an edeission of the profession of Christianity . from Christian legislators, and nfidel ? yet sought to pla place those legislaten upon • level with the An Box. Mum= moved that the house be counted. Strangers amerdiegly withdrew, but then being upwards of 40 members present, Mr. NEWDEGATE resumed, and after stating that he was not surprised, considerlog what was peed= in another plea that many of his homourable hinds were listen- Leg in the House of Lords, said the Jews were • a ,rate people—separate sot only by ram, bet by Their religion taught them to keep thasielves • separate people, and to look at their prospects of be ing at last restored to their own homes as • on it They were • standing monument of God's judgments ; and by allowing them to enter par Unseat, aliens by birth, by - Mood, and by religion, would be admitted, and thereby they would impair the de cision of this country fee promoting Christiamity throughout the world. If he were asked whether the state would be safe when the house abandoned its religiose functions. he would say, look at Frame, whisk had lately admitted Jews to their assembly. When the present bill stood for a second reading last swoon, he had restored to reeled bon. utembes of the effect of admitting Jews to the French parliament. And what were the sonesposets ? That before th e bill of last session was read a third time the state sovereignty of Frame was wallowing in the dust. So long as the authority of the crown reeled it religion he would oppose every such attempt to deprive the state of its religious character. The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY thought it ex tremely unjust to exclude any due of subjects from the re preventative assembly, particularly in • country where, like this, there were so many different faiths. Mr. SPOONER said that his opines was, and ever boil been, that the Roman catholic church was an idoletieme church, and he could not see how their having ad nutted the members of that church into their memo cils at all altered its idolatrous cheese= He wsdl not weary the house he regoetbil argsmsli vie bill which had been so meek he= by others, sad with which the rerastry wee quite iliac Every argument against it was exhumed, and ha the present state of the Louse [there were about 40 minabses present] he felt it unnecessary to enter at length into the subject. As a Christian number of a Christian sommenity he dared not give it his support. If the boom sossested to dispense with the woods" on the true faith of a Christian," it could so longer all itself a Christie* amembly, and would be opining its doors to the proles= infidel es well as to the Jews, who regarded Christ as an Impostor ; and the New Testament as • fraud and an imposition. His faith was that national sins had our met, and ever would meet, with maimed punishment; and, although he might be charged with bigotry for his opinion, he regarded it as a groat national sin either to =courage idolatry, on the one hand, by admitting Roman catholic', or to &pangs Christianity, on the other, by admitting Jews. Mr. Serinnt TALFOURD did not think that many has. stealers • pat= ie the opinions of the two hos. =ahem foe W habits, that this SWUM would usebrisdesks the home, sad the oesstitatiosois they had bet was if Me teen hon. numb= to support them at present. (A i latl e gr e i Thom on his (Kr. Talfourd's) side of the Mese m g rather a different position. They were making der as =- eluded clam of her Majesty's subjects the acme share Mete rights which were extended without limit or exception to the amt; and looking to their femur success, he dngb they Wild well be excused if they allowed the debataeeg t , perdurability when there was so much =reed= ia essiber pimp ttbe Hesse of Lords). But what alleviate mid be made ter gentlemen who considered this meson a greet national ein,and orientated dimity to embellished's country? (Hear, hear.) In laicise the emit of allegiance they added the most solemn obliged= known to them, not as a notession of faith, bat as binding them more firmly in their allegiance. The ewes, therefore, nojustios in the euggestian that it was a test el faith asked of a Christian, and ought to be asked of a Jew. It sight as well be said that when he took an oath as • country justice it was a test of his faith, and ought to be pat to a member of the Society of Friends, who was allowed to make sa affirma tion. (Hear, hur.) The Jew was equally prepared to swear dimities to the Queen. Her Majesty bad no better subject. The Jews, in oemmen with every other case of the people, were represented in that house; and, by the course now sought to be taken the legislature would remove the last fetter by which they were bound down in a social or political view. Bat it was said by honourable gentlemen opposite that, now, because the legislature was about to make amends—to give • crowning pace to a long succession of evils inflicted upon the Jews—sow that they were about to give the most convincing proofs of the charm teristio principles of Christianity, that it that bill passed into a law our character as Christians could be no looser said to islet. He regretted to be obliged to say it 11111 too much to be apprehended that throe who urged that doctrine took the woad for the spirit, and edeemed themselves better them thine whom they wished to seclude from parliament. For his owe pa he appnved of the measure, and was desirous l Y ionld be married. It would have the effect of removing *el= owl wont remnants of intolerance. It was in oonfor. man with the true spirit of him who Paid " Forgive them, fie they know not what they do." Tits hon. MI bars= gentleman concluded with an eloquent and pathetic egged to the house in favour of the measure. Led MAHON referred to the matements made that snu bs by the seek lord the timber for Mandel, who said that the queden bribe the hems related not only to the admis sion =rely el the Jews into parliament, but that it affected the aderiedbliity of every other unbelieving eget. The noble lord the Ant sakister ] of the crown had made a declaration ast sessini. That noble lard acknowledged that the question was not only whittler a men comparatively small in number, al though respectable ia character, should be admitted to take put is the legislative peostedings of this country, but whe ther there should be for the future any religious ists at all. (Hear, hear.) It wog also said by a colleague of that noble(Hear, ford (the Earl of Carlisle) that if the bill then before the hoes was passed. there would be no obstacle to the ad relasion of the Malemseeden, the Hindi" or any other prodeming unbeliever. They had that evening bud a very abis sad leteresting review of the history of religious to= from the hon. 11111111 an for Leominster (Kr. F. Peel), whom he (Lord Mahon) had listened to with peat pleasure, =I beg= ke Mould timpani, hear him take pert in the die cussiems fa that home. Bat it was hardly fair to argue MK the *Mann led been taken by surprise, and that then wee so Went= to shut the doors of the House of Commend =abet the Jew. Why, there =a • large party in title country opposed to the =stied= of Roman catholis% aed there were influential parties =peed to other disesteem The only religious test now reserved was the expression " Open the WA of a Christian." It was said that the umber of Jews who could avail themselves of the privilege sought to be conferred epee deem would be small—that they would be very few, indeed bat it should be recollected that the (Mai= at beta was p urely one of principle, and be for ono would take his snail spine it. It was not a valid argument to say that the ember of the violators of the principle would be but small, for since it was admitted to be • principle, it should, at all heards, be up held. Why should the principle o zn for senses . ' rtes be violated for the mere object of admitting Jews su i prin Cabli :::ri pi pl r e i s ansi r e inen l a l: l::e e n clH ot ur vrare ed a hltallian ele c r y l a th ergi r m inegil en "s h l,a a tu p " frewor n eu in reP F ths t: n:le be rala: . come the possestor of so large an estate that, in fact, he ogee% from its great extent, to be knight of the shire. Although he had no cure of souls, and in every re epee he wai qualified to fulfil his duties as a representative B in ees th was ue • H hil ou th d e e n o °l ge fC a t : nd om b ! a p radsbia r Gus in Par th aipl i peo lasneal : A o n l a pttre'inwitehcvutlyeenvriiigoiumamiagiumendlderrincoaust benbresi'slattottigiblandpmenot be do- laud for Woad Cam or particular iadividuala Thera was moths( Lansaw of a:clacks, spa a quarks which the home !mood desirous to caswider.. this ascul?a, be the enos which tws (Lori dishos) row offered to the bill wr Pirreatly eoasisteret with the support whisk be years les had given to the elitism of the Baa.e ealhoiloyier it should be weelleated they were, at ell swat•. &Arian& The remittance he wonld give the present amours end the eon cessions he had assented to in favour of the Bases minas were feuded epos what he conceived to be *psi& prin ciples. He bad considered the natter sandy end dehbastslY. end be was Nero tbet the vote which we be sow remedial against the bill would be based spout the nest upright mo tives, sad net /a the slightest degres_preentillaff from Pall' neel hostility ass religiose meow. (Rm. beer.) The Marquis of GRANBY thought the question as to the alienate of tha oath had very little to do with the important question before the home. Ho nought it was only toe Banana to an end—that end Wait the introduction et Jews ae reembens of that house. He dieapproved totally of the prinaiple sad °Meant the bill. From his earliest nen hi Dal boss taught that it was un wise, and Itafee Steil, to allow the Jews, who were dinar Wall append to the Misting religion, to ginto in their legielatin grosgrain. the *Men upea this esigest h il eM ilis arwa isa r ma atertaiallys In coselndo• no would to tha Mese, whilst they treated the Jews with all , to take OM that osier the sane of that Arne they not ► peal their Manisa hitk es whisk depended then hopes of engin salvation. (Rear, hear.) Mr. FAGAN, se nib:roan catholic acting upon the prin ciple of doling sat Others as be would be ooze nano, was enzione to give to ell hie fellow creatures otesplete religious libettl. He congratulated the motile lord that by this sea son he had pissed the arowslag asp spot the great alma of civil sad raging liberty. He union to me also to his place the right has. hart. the member he Tanweetb, whose ockinansats is the same gloriosa eases were if pert. lie neater then these of the noble lord, sad it must be gratifying to that right km. gentleman that one of his run • who hog would vesture to say gemmed • lane portion of the rain of his father, sad was likely to take • prominut ponies is that home, was there also to aid to the promotioa of that great masa sum (Ham.) He objeand ntogethee to the oath taken by Roan Whelks, sad believing that the oath of allegiance should be such es every loyal man might take without doing violence to hie enowdenee, he should support the Knead read lag °lns bill. Mr. PLUMPTRE teas amidst very genial grin for a divi sion. He &clad that those who opposed this 111111111111, were amend by any hostile, hitt:r, or perucatiag spirit towards the Jews. Mr. X. lIILNES was unwilling that the house shmld go to • division when thus were so few suraters present. as It would effort but a very poor illustration of the great interest taken is the question by the etenta7, bath ea me tide and the other. The qualm they had se dims was not the eenjeetaral ntara of some member hy a *um sea stituesey ; but whether a =a of the hyper* Medea and there ter, elected to that house two years ige by the mot powerful and Intelligent constituency et tbb Iraqi= was, be the legislation of that boom. to be debarred hem taidag his seat and joining in their deliberadeast If sash were sew to ha resolved it would be a direst thane wield the iie. ei of London that they were imapahle of ItX .t. . with propriety their gleam! privileges. The real B and intention of the bill was that them timid sew to any body of men shut oat free in the logielatare. They had propated step ehep, and their advance had beta upward until now ;with thie saga excep• Um, the legislature was open to all. Ia acting as they had done, he believed that they bad acted wisely, because he believed that by enlarging the base of the constitution they had added to its permanent security. Let them follow up that principle—let them peas this law—and there would not remain one class of men who could complain of ex clusion from our institutions. (Hear, hew.) They could not continue upon their present principle ; they must go forward, or they oust go back. It was impordtde to say that they would hold every other intercourse with the Jew, but would not admit him into the hoses. Mr. BANKES said that he should net offend members who were most experienced in the bore if be said that In the present debate the speech white bad pembard mastiff et had been the speech of ma hon. washer who beg spoken for the first time fa the house, the lea member for Leominster. In that speech be found all the argumeet, ever adduced in favour of the propositiara—argumeate expounded by him with that diffidesee which belonged to talent, and that modesty which belonged to the situa tion of one who was speaking for the tier time ; but he did not agree in ell the conclusions to which the hoe. member had arrived. It was perfectly trite that in early periods there was no legislative enactment excluding Jews from seats in parliament; but they had not those rights which we had found it our duty to concede to them. The hon. member for Leominster and others of greater ex perjure than he had, had argued that there was a period when the Jew might have taken hie seat in this house of puliament, subsequent to the time of the revolution when hon.remben who studied the parklamentasy, legislative, OA gal history of this kingdom were refeetly aware than although there were none of those reetristre rules resin in the statute books, the Jew could mask Moues he masmet naturalised. Till the year 18110 be seal& not hold frashokl property fa this real. • ft was, thershre, imrssible for • Jew to take a seat. W hen hon.:member talked of disquali fication, he asked, was it more an ham& to exclude a Jew than it wee to exclude a man who had set SOU per annum freehold property, which qualified him to take a seat? Why l ees that qualification required? Wes It not a test that members 01 the house should not question or disturb the est , dement of property ? If they required security for property, they should require security for a reverence for ehrutianity. • seat was no privilege ; it was a duty imposed on them by thsk seastituents, who were to elect those who were pro. petty qualified te represent them. Who were those con ' sift:eats ? Members of the Christian religion, They were to select persons qualified to sit in a parliament which was a Christias parliament—which had the duty thrown' upon it of regulating all matters relating to the Christian church, and they could not get rid of the obliga tion. If they neglected or repudiated those duties, they had no power to which they could commit those import ant questions which related to the stablished church, end a Jew, however wealthy or benevolent, owed not discharge those duties when we knew that he regarded our faith, to say the least of it, as an error. Under thews circumstances, he could not vote for the bill. Lord J. RUSSELL, as the house seemed desirous that a division should now take place (hear, hear), was ready to offer such answer as he could to the objections that had been made to this hill. He lamented, however, that in the course of this debate he had not had the advantage which he had had last year, viz., the assistance of the hon. mamba who sat opposite to him, the hoe. member Ise Ileschieghanulaire—(hear, hear)—who last year with so web eiromee, sad so much force, argued in favour of the memense them introduced. He trusted, however, that if the bar member had forborne from urging any arguments to eight, ft was that he thought that those arguments urged by bis be& friend who set near him—(Mr. Baakesj—were so en destitute of force that they did not merit the reply tilde his power and his eloquence could give—(hear) ; but, if be (Lord J. Russell) hod been disappointed is that re =had been gristly gratfied at hearing 'grab from • who had not before addressed the house— =hear), bat of whom, knowing his name and they were prepared to expect much. The M. member had much to do te fulfil the expectations of this bees; bat be mu t say that those expectations were sure than fulfilled. (Hear, hear.) The hon. gentle men went completely and accurately over the historical part of this subject. He should not have alluded again to any pert of that question were it not that the hon. and learned gentleman who had just sat down seemed to have fallen into se error, which be should not have expected. The hon. gen tleman hardly attempted to deny that the exclusion of the Jews was not direct and the result of purp see, but that it was one effect of the intention of imposing the eanctien of an oath without say direct in'entien of excludieg the Jew, and alluding to tbst period of our hbtory in the reign of Wm. 111., when these words, " on the true faith of • Christian," were not. contained in the oath, it seemed to be forgotten by the hon. gentleman that the Jew being at that time unable to hold land, was excluded by the freehold qualification which members were obliged to posers. Now be thought that the hon. and learned gentleman, with his knowledge of the eortitriens, ought to have reroolleeteii that it was not till the 9th Lane that the qualification was regulated. Kr. BANKES—The Jew was not naturalised. Lord J. RUSSELL—That was another part of the qtrs. tire. It was not till the 9th Anne that the bill pasted, a proof of tho jealousy of the landed interest against the com mercial interest—a proposition which, so far as regard , d the cities and boroughs of this country wee totally opposed to the spirit of our mastication, and was not a point in favour of the hon. gentleman, as far as his constitutional argument was concerned. His hon. friend, the member for the Uni versity of Oxford, who began this 'discussion, diseased the proposal which he (bard J. Russell) had made with regard to an alteration of the oaths, and insisted that it was de sirable still to keep that part of the oath by which protestant members of this house denied that the Pops had any eccle siastical or spiritual authority in this realm. In bring ing forward this question he (Lord J. Rumen) had argued that the denial was evident'y intended as a security against Roman catholics ; that no protestant was likely to promote the eadesiestical and spiritual authority of the Pope ; that you hal parted with the ee.urity r regarded Roman catholic., and as you did not require the security against Roma catholic,, of whom you might have reason to be palms, it was absurd to keep it up as to those of whom yea could have no reason to be jealous. He mild not be lieve that toy of or courts, because any member would be disposed to admit such authority, would own that by law such authority old exist. His hon. friend in the same way argued that it was a lees of security ; that in referring to the act of succession to the croon he had not ment'oned that, by the act of snoompidon, the inheritance of the crown was limited to certain persons being protesters. His hon. friend was so sersonnel of a declaration that he seemed to think that, where a matter was settled by law, a declaration ridded to the force of our obligations. If en hoe. member, when he come into the hours, was to be made to say that two ad two rade four, there would be the same krai in the obvious troth that there was now. His hon. friend thoarht that if they dastard the crown to be limited to protesters, they added en additional obligation to an set of parlia ment; but the act of parliament being good in itself, he (Lord J. Russell) thought it required no further force. His hen. friead, and those who care after him, had attempted Me chew that some peso .ical evil would arise from tuts bill. They_ oil it would be dermas to Christianity, but that it soda be Nations to Chtiatianity they by no means proved. Onlylmigine three or four Jews transit by their Country men in making some motion in this house hostile to Cbrit tianity, or attemptirg to carry some measure by which Christianity was to be injured : could any one believe due. would be the smallest chance of success in any each =saw. ? and could say one believe that any constituents would send Jews to parliament capable of so imam an opinion ? ==elie, it was said it would occasion theological la this louse we had pumas who were units semi we hadothers who were Rosa esthetics; but we did net hear the unitarian sneering at the doctrine of the we did not bear the protestant. arguing spina itaatietion, or any part of the faith of Raman cathi. Hun No more would a Jew ever think of reviling that whisk he knew to be reverenced by a great majority ; ha had too math of forbeennes and charity—that charity which we called Christian charity —to attempt to throw babe ea another. His honourable friend said that It wee a proof of the jealousy of the parasitise molest Jews, that by a certain act of parliameat, with whisk he (Lord J. Burnell) was not acquainted, they were not ad witted into parliament That might be the ease, but he did sot think for his own pert, if that were the esee,that Ireland had been a gainer. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) The hoe. prudent= the numb= for had used ea argument, which he (Lord J. Russell) believed was at the bottom of a great dad of this opposition, although he heard no one freahly own it except the hon. gentlemea ' that they were not threatened with any dungen on the part of the Jews. That the ROOM catholic+ night have been alienated by any longer nascence to their Maims; that as to prates. teat dimmers, they were so powerful that the discontent on their part, at being =chided from the privileges of thsesestitndon, might have threatened the pesos and wel. fun of the country ; het here were the Jews, they were few k number, they wore not likely to make an insurreetios, or to have bilimace ia discontent in this country. They did aft seem d need to do it ; they behaved them. l eases quietly as milks. under the= grievances and die ' abilities, and therefere, as there was no danger, there was a peeper etimmesse dike embalm. At all meats, that was seta gessoes stituasst. He said that that argument spoke milker ter their judoists ace their libereity. Hie with wpm this whale abject was that there shoal& be no adman on assegai of That religious aviation. should be se pawl ihr whims= or waW. Bat oak the Jan ware mfreadieed they mak set ray that that end was Waked. Oat sentlemes had urged that Rama sahebs might avail themedese of this milt bat he had leaked main at the sea, melba end that Roman sethelies were still to be admitted ea es moth already pireeeribed. He had made no alteration In the oath, end he seatemplated se meats, neither did bethink It likely that the &MY Catholics who had remained excluded kr mere than a century, in consequence of their mania lime mingles, mead be guilty of any. (Hear, beer.) Tom bad hosed nosh also about the effect of ibis Mil weeheistimiskg perliament, but that point had Imes well essweral by the IBM that ear corporations had thusly been amdeteil of their eamative character, es well as many ethers Mawr klethatime. Re bed beard one swedes deep kis the Ma. neuter kr Warwickshire, which ebeekd kat the amalgamation of all sects of Christiana which had hem so much talked of, was not so complete as same ka. amebas would lead the house to imagine. The has. member had mid that he would always maintain the Wotan= character of the church of Rome, and if that was ' the case what became of his general amalgamation M Christians ? (Hear, hear.) One gentleman had mid that the existences of 40,000 Jews in Ragland did not diAnitide it to the character of a Christian country. Granted ; but might it not be said, with greater force, that the of three or four Jews in the House of Commons wo not dissuade it to the character of a Cht bass paras itise,. (Hear hear.) He hoped, then, that such arguments would not weigh with the house, as ap4set the bill, which he believed was founded on the true principles of Christia nity. He hoped that they would admit the Jews into the boecia of the legislature ; that, not denying, as they did not deny, that the Jews had the character of geed subjeos— they were loyal and peaceable, ready to defend the sovereign of thaw realms against any attack—that they were faithful adherents of the coostitution under which they lived—that the house would not commit the injustice of depriving them of such righb and franchisee es belonged to their positioa es British Bulimia. (Cheers.) Mr. GOULBURN, amid loud arks of " Divide," car I plainad that this bill was essentially different from the mea sure of last year, and that the noble lord ought to have ex plained the nature of hie alterations to the house. This bill had been called the greet keystone of the arch of religions =franchisement As he had already expressed his opinions with regard to this bill, he should not further detain the hense than by declaring his conviction that they could not permit it to brooms law without compromising their character sea Christian eaeembly. Mr.RORBUCK appealed to the common sense of the house and the country, and asked what there was in the men or men wto beloved in the great deadpans which should prevent the Jew being *legislator. The Jews had been called aliens, bat they were no aliens —they were Englishmen proles•irg the Jewish religion. They were honourable men ; and being but mall flies, they were caught in the mesh= from which the large flies escaped. (Hear, hear.) He could sup pose a ant who had no relisti 311 at all combs; to that table, and looking upon their whole paraphernalia as a matter of indifference, laying his hand upon the book as if it were so much waste piper, end curling his lip while he uttered the words cremated. They could not catch such a man, al though they aught the conscientious Jew. (liar.) He (Kr. Roebuck) voted for this bill, not because tt contained an oat', but because it was a =Medea. He cemented to proceed step by step, because he believed that that was the mode meet acceptable to the people of England. After a few words in explanation from Kr. Goutnoaw, the house divided. For the second-reading 278 Against it The bill was then read a second time. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Mr. GOULBURN was anxious to know whether the ad journed debate on the Marrirthe Bill of his right hon. friend the member for Bute wou'd be brought on to-morrow evening ? Mr. S. WORTLEY was anxious to bring it on if those hen. gentlemen who bed notices on the paper would give him precedence. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HEADLAM had no objection with regard to his no tice, which stood first upon the paper, to agree to an ar rangement which might accord with the convenienee of the house, and give the right hon. gentleman the precedence for the adjourned debate—that was, that his (Mr. 'bedlam's) motion far leave to bring in his bill (to limit the liability of shareholders in joint-stock basks) should be permitted to pass unoppotted, and that the discussion should be taken on the second reading. (Hear, hear.) Major BLACKALL would give way with regard to his motion (for providing the means of employment in Ireland), if all other members who had motions on the paper did the ems. Mr. M'OREGOR considered his motion, which stood third.. f great importance, its object being to enfranchise 120,000 people. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could not consent to forego his opposition to the introduction of the bill of the hon. member for Newcastle (Mr. Headlam), un less it should be the general wish of the house—the house having already considered at the commencement of the ses sion that it was for the general convenience that bills which were to be opposed in their future stages should not ho in trod iced without a decision being taken on the motion for leave. Mr. 8. WORTLEY suggested that iu this particular case the object being to bring on an adjourned debate, the conve nience of the house might be best consulted by the under stood rule being departed from ; if this were objected to, probsbly the hon. member would postpone his motion till 'Thursday. Sir R. INGLIS observed that there was a dozen notices on the paper toe to-morrow, and unless all were postponed it mattered but little what was done with the first two or three. Sir R. PEEL asked if the fru. member for the Tower Hamlets meant to bring oz his motion as to the state of the Punjaub ; suggesting its postponement until the papers on the subject should be before parliament. Mr. G. THOMPSON intimated that that was the course be intended to pursue. Mr. GOULBURN was anxious to know whether the adjourned debate wu understood to have precedence en the next (this) evening. Mr. M'GBEGOR.—Mr. Speaker, I shall certainly not give way with my motion. (" Hear," and a laugh.) LAND IMPROVEMENT AND DRAINAGE (IRELAND). The report of the oommittes on this subject was brought up and agreed to. LUNATIC ASYLUM (SCOTLAND) BILL. The LORD ADVOCATE sawed the second reading of this bill. M. F. MACKENZIE objected on the ground of the late ness of the hour (half-past twelve o'clock), and moved the adjournment of the house. The house divided—For the adjournment 24 Against it The bill was then read a second time. PUBLIC HEALTH (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the motion for the second reading, Mr. C BRUCE objected that no explanation had been given of the nature of the bill, and she of the Ist. period of the evening at which it was brought forward. The LORD-ADVOCATE raid the object of the bill was merely to assimilate the law of Scotland to that of England. in regard to sanitary matters and to introduce the same regulations u to the expenditure, assessment, and machinery generally in the one country es existed in the other. The necessity ( or sanitary improvement was evidenced by the frightful mortality which had occurred in Glasgow and other towns in Scotland in year. Sir 0. GREY said that if any hon. gentleman wished to state his objections to the principle of the bill, the necessary delay for that purpose would be granted. Mr. AGLIONBY said the mains object of the measure war to increase the cleanliness of the Scottish towns, and that he had not anticipated any opposition to so desirable a bill. Mr. CHARTERIS observed that there were sire Scotch hills before the house at present, and that Scotland was becoming perfectly alarmed at the fecundity of the Lord Advocate. (Loud laughter.) He hoped the second reading would not be proceeded with. The LORI) ADVOCATE said, he was under a pledge to tarry the bi'l in the present session, and that it contained nothing new. Colonel SIBTHORP was at a lots to know what pledge his lorlship could be under, or to whom, or why he rhonel introduce so important a m easurei at that late hour (20 mi. antes to one o'clock.) He dared say it was a bill of gnat interest to Scotland, but he did not like to be taken with surprise on the subjee., like a 'stickiest assassin or a burglar. (Great laughter.) Mr. A. HABiIE thought that Scotland wu greatly in- &bud to the Lord Air‘cate for the inteoduction of the bal. to wi.ich he would dive his support. Alta a few words frosa Mr. DUNCOMBE, Mr;MILENZIE moved the adjoursuaent of the debate. The house divided— For the adjournment l2 Against it 63-44 Mr. F. MACKENZIE said he objected to the bill as principle ; and on that ground he should oppose its prosperi. 84 G. GREY said that until then no hon. gentleman bad made Noah a statenaat. Mr. F. MACKENZIE said his objection on principle was that the area of texation was not sufficiently defined. The second reading was then postponed until this day. The home adjourned at 1 o'clock. Eke Orproso. OUTGOING MAILS:_ Mails for British ilObtitit;Oblas aneitaa - 1/afted &eta, will be wade up on the seeming of** 11th Maw. The meets Mee. Opeele. gosh. Maas. Ches. Onesitee, will be =de up ea the men Jog of the nth at Mg Non Lw.tha Mai* eidwiwe tformega. BMWS. Mammy loader's. New Odom, and Mean% sad inelediag these for Wsdatra, Pt. Jsan.de.telanaenta, New Grawada, Oilli. .o Pim 141 be mob up on the taansing ct the 17th May. tee matte let Cantatas, Malts, Arena , tun Intim Islands, Aden. Ceylon, Ind* Lent-Roan. seed Mins. Ina tiouthaniptow ligi A be made an on the 'mains of the 19th May. The nails, sia Marseilles, to the Idadltarrensan, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong. Kong, As, will bens& up on the evening of tha fith ot May. The Isiah* RN Madeira, the linuells, and Banos Ayres, willbs made vim the mein et thee& et lore. nom WATER AT LONDON HAIM& Tar —llandAs, 44 W. put 9: Attonoza, 0 IDIA P. 03 3 . 2*-31arum•—lianiair. I/ MA pelt 3; AAWSON6 NSA PM 2. LONDON, TUESDAY, MA Y 8. AT tte battle of Hastings a juggler rode at the head of WILLIAM the Bastard's battle, performing tricks of sleight of hand. The charge made last night on Saxon industry by the descendants (by courtesy so called) of the Conqueror's Norman knignb, was, there fore, appropriately beaded by a juggler. Lord Bworrousu repress reed TAILLEFER, &I the men in armour at Coronations and Lord Mayors' shows stand for the champions of the de) s of chivalry. The occasion, it must be owned, was en inspiring one. Lord BROUGHAM ha, been an actor from first to last. He played a part when he published his paregyric on the colonial system; he played a part whe3 he moved the repeal of the orders in council; he played a part when he signed the CAterwaicirr oonfeesion of political faith, on his admission into the Westminster Reform Association ; he played a part when, in realtation for his attacks upon parliamen tary reform, Major CARTWRIGHT shook that signature over his head on the Covent-garden hustings he played a part when he wrote to the Times, " The Queen has done it all ;" he played a part when he carried the seils with hint through the highlands and despatched conservative epistles to WILLIAM IV. " by every post"; ho played a part, when as advocate of Queen CAZOLINI, he spoke with complacency of overturning the Leeds, the throne, and-the altar ; and he played a part when he addressed the Rouse of Lords as " the chosen temple of liberty." ":One man in his time pays many parts." With the exception of MATHEWS, scarcely any man has played so many as Lord Buouuucu : and, like MATIIEViS, a monoplyiegue has always been his favourite performance. For so experienced' and versatile an actor the opportunity of figuringin such • theatrical display as that of last night had attractions irresistible. Theatrical, hollow, and unreal the whole proceed ings are. There is palpable falsehood in the affec tation of STANLEY the dictatorial to rest his cause on numerously-signed petitions; and these petitions with their eignatuve are as unreal as the paint and pasteboard groves of the stage. Of the 182 petitions, with 111,710 shmitturce, which an organised and un scrupulous agitation bad contrived to pour in upon the House of Lords up to the sth instant, all, with one exception, proceeded from the shipownere, the sailors they employ, and the tavern-keepers patronised by both in sone fifty or sixty of our seaports. At best, they are petitions from those who actually enjoy a semi-monopoly of the carrying trade to have the whole nation bound down in perpetuity to employ their ser vices exclusively. Butthe number, both of petitions and signatures, has been skilfully increased by the same persons and places petitioning in different characters. The protectionists of Liverpool first petition en mane; a number of the same individuals then petition as the Liverpool Shipowners' Association ; others of them as the Shipbuilders' A4sociation: others as licensed pilots —the same individual occasionally figuring in two or more of these cepaci•i- 8. Lastly, Mr. JAMES ATKIN has a petition of bin own. Again, one or two partners of one firm petition from London, the others from Quebec. The same game is played in all the ports; the same individuals being again and again marched over the stage like the supernumeraries who coact armies in our theatres. The public see through the trick, and despise it too much to take the trouble of getting up counter-petitions. But the aistocracy, male and fen ale, flock to the spectacle with as much gusto as to any other private theatricals. And Lord BROUGHAM—whom the blandishments of " his order" have transformed into a courtier rather late in Me— ss the blandishments of a mistress made a petit maitre out of the clove .ly Prince RUPERT in his old age—catching animation from the bright eyes which " rained influence" upon him, frisked and fidgetted with all the pertness, if not with all the agility, of youth—showered his stale jokes about him with the air of a man who has made, instead of only spoiling them in the telling and wee, in short, "in most admirable fooling." The charge made by Lord STANLEY'S followers on tho LANSDOWNE army, was scarcely so irresistible in weight and im petuosity as that of the Normans at Hastings, but the Corqueror's jester was a fool indeed compared with Lord BROUGHAM. When the certain drew up, hie lordship was descried, flitting about from bench to bench, in a state of preternatural excitement ; his nose was in every man's ear, his finger on every man's button. These vagaries lasted during the for mal preliminaries, and while Lord LAN SDOWNIi was speaking. He thus attracted all eyes, and contrived that even the few to whom he might be unknown were drawn by curiosity to inquire and learn his name. Having thus made him self the centre of observation, or rather the all-per vading genius loci, he claimed the general - ear before Lord LANSDOWNE had well done speaking. and poured forth a rhapsody, so diversified, so startling in its transitions', that panting reporters toiled after him in vain. Suffice it to say he magnanimously repudiated the suspicion of having bestowed any attention to Board of Trade statistics, but *hewed by au-Lemma unacknowledeed quotations how persevering and extensive had been his researches in the pages of Joe Miller. Tare vapid repetitions of the leading speaker on the protectionist U&—his display of all the pertness and presumption of youth, without ita fire and graceful ness—is worthy of the hollow attempt of our aris tocrats to enact the parts of tribunes of the people. It would be matter for laughter to see these men attempt to turn back a great popular movement by a bad masqui, a aenatorial EOLiNTON tournament; but merriment is checked by the reflection that possibly the mania may have seized a majority of the House of Peers. Men wear their brains in their head, but it is yet uncertain whether the " column of p dished society " have its brains stowed away in its " Co rinthian capital." At the utmost, the Lords can but p stpcne for a time the inevitab!c repeal of the naviga tion laws. Free trade is the conveyaroe of ocean-borne freights is a necessary part of a general system of free trade. Since the time of liusersso• cot a year has passed without seeing some branch or other of the old pro'ective system lopped off. Whigs and tortes —according as either party was for the time in office —have had equal hand in the work. No hankering after change for the sake of change—no ruffles+ desire to experience untried conditions—but the pressure of necessity prompted each successive into which in the eman cipation of commerce. A career nto which the na tion was drawn half-consciously--which has often been reluctantly followed out—bat from which it has been found impossible.to recede, until the crowning work of abolishing the corn laws was achieved, can not be reversed. The man cannot creep bark into his swaddling clothes, and the na tion which has outgrown the baby liga ments of protection cannot again contract its enter prise within their puny limits. Hecceforth free trade is a social necessity for Great Britain. And a mono poly of ocean carriage cannot 00-exist with free trade. This, indeed, is admit'ed by the mole enlightened supporters of the navigation laws, who advocate them as a necessary element of national defence. The fal lacy, however, to which this class of reasoners resort when driven from economical ground is as t r ansparent as that to whica their more thick-witted allies still