The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-21 00:00:00

JEWISH DISABILITIES.

(Num the Del* Ifies.)

The Coat of Itzsbmisse Ims pronounced its long
awaited judgment is the ass of Alderman Sato-
woam, against whom an action for penalties under
the statute was brave:: term !r,
consequence of his having mrsreised his right to vote
as a member duly returned to arm in parliament for
the borough of Greenwich. The ease, as will be re-
membered, was heard at gnat beet b tho fall
court during last term; sad a di of
opinion being understood to prevail among the
learned barons, as to the true interpretation of the
law appertaining to the subject, judgment was de-
ferred until the present sittings. That judgment,
after duo deliberation, has been now formally given ;
and, wo regret to say, that by a preponderant* of
three to ono it is in favour of the plaintiff waking to
recover penalties which cannot and will not be
otherwise regarded than penalties for conseisnce
sake. _ _ _

Mr. SALONONS is admitted to have best Weeny
elected by a plurality of duly registered electors,
and to have been at the time of kis elestion Awe&
tied by no legal incapirity)kes eaning idasmigng
a candidate for that=filibod in The Rout
of Commons have with !wed to Green.
wich as they had previously detailed- with regard le
London,—that the seat le se Imager rant; ended
so soon as the last-eleetsd re. for those piano
shall comply with the statute requiring them to take
certain oaths, these gentlemen will be recognised in
every respect as members of that aliembly. Baron
BAJTIIbCIIILD and Alderman BALOMONS have each
takes the oaths prescribed in the manner most bind-
ing on their consciences; but inasmuch as they can-
not without hypocrisy pronounce the formal words
of attestation which occur in one of these oaths,
they
.are held not to have yet complied with the
appointed form. Baron Ilirrnecrin.o has not attended
in his place, as member for the city of London, since
his introduction to the house, although upon a call of
the house he might, undoubtedly, be compelled to do
so. Mr SALONONS on the other hand, believing
sincerely that he his complied with every substan-
tial requisite, and with everything that the
legislature ever intended to prescribe, has both
spoken in debate and voted in division. For these
acts he has been sued for enormous penalties in the
Court of Exchequer, and by three out of four of the
learned judges presiding in that high tribunal he
has been declared to have forfeited the same.
We shall not recapitulate the varied reasons given
for their judgment by the Cnrai Baiton and by
Buren PARKE. In substance, they are iden-
tical with that delivered by Baron ALDER-
SON, which, upon the whole, is that likely
to prove the most intelligible to general readers,
and in many respects the most likely te tli
attention and regard. For ourselves, having
in the controversy expressed the conviction width
has been tlaboratay and cogently enforced by Berea
MARTIN, we need hardly reiterate that opinion ter-
then than to say how little our judgment is shaken by
the arguments ea which it has been overruled; and
we gather from the tone of the remarks that fell
from the thme learned personages that tlti=
rather yielded to the inveterate habits of
essetrnstisa in the interpretation of en obsolete law
them perilmesed a willing duty as eoodters et any
istelligilie or intelligent rule of right. The obese-
vadat' at Baron Ammeter to this effect are "m-
-etal], worthy of careful permal. He trams the origin
of the restated phreee--0 en tie true faith of a
Chriellite—to the dismay d a manuscript pam-
phlet ea mental reammAka in the taking
' oaths, the romposidea et the Jesuit Warn, de
was executed tor his Awe in the Zee BM
Inv t/Egget JAMBI L In this
et it was laid limit
'Was: given cirenmemitem be
resorted to, ex always such as threw doubt
or dismal on the religious faith of the person
swomizignAnd Baron ALDO'S= mojectures that
the et that mast ruttier sad bookish
of pedantic memarchs thought they hod hereby got
hold of an alastaal maims, teat, they
might exclude fee ever *MR erase sad
all those who eheriabed Saadi. daddies. He

Suds the words "on the true faith of a Christian"

iTnitiisoonafterwards for the Hrst time in the
Jura of one of the oaths prescribed by statute: and
L ascribes the novelty to the hint taken from the
alleged treatise of GARNET.
So this is then the upshot of the whole case as
made out in point of law for Jewish exclusion. A
Jesuit was hanged for political conspiracy three
hundred and forty years ago ; among his papers was
found a mischievous and immoral pamphlet, which,
had it been ever printed and circulated among igno-
rant persons of his peculiar creed, would very likely
have done much harm. A law was made to meet
such perversions and evasive swearing on the part of
such persons; which law has so long ago been re-
pealed, that everybody but Baron ALDERSON bad
utterly forgotten its existence; and therefore a man
who it is notorious holds none of the suspected doc-
trines of 13Aawor, is to be fleeced and fined to an
extent which would render him little better than an
outlaw ! The quibble-snaring phrases of an obsolete
adjuration have been imported for another set of
purposes altogether into another form of oath
of somewhat later date ; but it is not
prefisied that in the oontemplaticn_ of the
paillinsats of WILLIAM OE douses it was
over slant to exclude the sons of Ina& Yet this
outstationsl and unmeaning penal law is declared
to be la full force ; and it will actually require an
indemnity bill to save Mr. Sounions from its cense-
queens.
To this omodit of Bares ALDERSON it &OW be ob-

served fist be •a* urged the policy sad propri-
ety diansdhis legishitioa as the eakject, and
haeoreaelaly avowed the psis be felt is easing to s
esesbaita width be weadhatly esasidered to be ne-
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