The Press.
London, England, 1858-06-19 00:00:00

Commons has accepted the proposals of the
Government, awl thus negatived at once the
idea that Lord PALNIF:RSTON had a majority of
supporters in that House.

We would not, however, overstate the case,
or represent that the present Administration
has gained, fur all purposes, a sure working
majority in Lord PALMERSTON'S House of Com-
mons. The fact is not so. But at least this is
clear, that no other party in the House has a
numerical superiority over the present. Ministry.
The prospect, then, is on the whole a satisfac-
tory one. As far as present appearances go,
Lord DERRY'S Administration is likely to endure ;
at least until it has had an opportunity of
developing its views of Reform; by which ques-
tion, obviously, any Government propounding a
bill must be content to stand or fall. The cry of
" a Government by sufferance" ought to be heard
no longer. It has now no meaning.

llostile menaces will now cease to alarm us. If
perils there be, they must he found within, not
without, the Conservative camp. The threats of
our Liberal foes we can bear better than their
taunts. Thus we feel painfully such allu-
sions to the Jew Bill as the Times favoured us
with last Monday. To wit :
" Thus, that which was the greatest of all pos-
sible abominations so long as Lord DERBY and
his friends were in op ..sition, has become practi-
cable, and even ex . • sent, so soon as they find
themselves install- • in office. The very measure
which for fifteen years they have steadfastly
resisted, they are now ready to promote. So
long as there was nothing to be got by yielding
they were inexorable, for yielding would not have
obtained them office. But, though yielding would
not obtain office, resisting might chance to lose
it ; and so the Jews are to have their birthright,
because their old opponents love their places
more than they hate the Jews, or the civil and
religious liberty which their cause in this in-
stance represents."

The only real dangers that we dread are of this
class. We are old enough to recollect Sir
ROBERT PEEL, triumphant when firm, but de-
feated when conceding. Thus, in 1829, and
again in 1845-6, he gave away a noble posi-
tion. Nothing could ever have deprived him
of the reins of power but his own needless

concessions. With a fact so recent and so
striking, it does appear somewhat strange that
there can be even a thought of a third instance
of folly resembling that of 1829 and 1845-6.
When two noble ships have been lost upon the
same fittal rock, we naturally expect that future
pilots and commanders will take especial care to
keep at a safe distance from so perilous a spot.
But we understate the case, when we cite only
the cases of 1829 and 1845-6. The combination
which we now witness, of all the enemies of the
Church of England to carry one Liberal measure,
is nothing more than a repetition of the politics
of 1686 and 1687. When a besotted creature of
the Jesuits took his seat upon the British throne,

the one object of his life was to undermine the
Church of England, and to bring the realm again
under the dominion of the " Holy See." And
what was the course which, under the coun-
sels of the most wily of mankind, he was
instructed to take ? It was a Liberal one.
" A declaration for liberty of conscience " was
his chief reliance. Nor was it a vain reliance.
It immediately brought to his aid all the
BRIGHTS and MIALLS of that day. Then, as
now, Quakers and Independents were prompt to
combine with Jesuits and the friends of arbi-
trary power, if the result might be a nominal
Liberalism, but a real triumph over the Church
and over Protestant Christianity. In fact, from
the days of ELIZABETH down to those of JAM= 11.,
there never was an hour when the Jesuits were
not actively scheming against the Church and
the Monarchy ; and in most cases, the garb of
Puritanism and of an assumed Liberalism was
that which they preferred.
Hence it can be no matter of surprise to find
the like game going on now. There bas
not been a division, we believe, in either House
on the admission of Jews to Parliament, in which
every Roman Catholic has not been found at his
post, ready to vote for the most Liberal pro-
posal that could be made. And what a singular
contrast ! In Rome itself—the holy see—the
pattern city—the children of ABRAHAM have been
for centuries confined to one dismal corner, and
commanded not to pollute with their presence
any other part of the city. But in England the
adherents of the Pope are eager for the admis-
sion of the Jews, even into the Legislature
itself. The motive is sufficiently obvious.

The Protestant Church of England is the
grand obstacle to Rome's universal dominion.
Just as, in the palmy days of NAPOIXON 1., he
complained, that wherever a ship could swim he
was sure to find the English counteracting him ;
so now in the East, in Sardinia, in Switzerland,
in Florence, in Belgium, and in all heathen
countries, England's flag of freedom and Eng-
land's Bibles check the advances of Popery, and
encourage freedom of thought and religious
inquiry. Unable to cope with England abroad,
Rome, by her most subtle agents, aims to dis-
organize her at home.

The Jesuits know well how to manage the
most stubborn of the Dissenters and the most
meekly sly of the Quakers. Into the Church
itself they can creep, and
they can seduce and poison.
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