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LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 4.

TUE Bill for the Removal of Jewish Disabilities
has been read a third time and passed by the liouso
of Commons, without a division, or discussion : for
the low and unintelligible moan raised on the occa-
sion by Sir ltonnur INGLIS and Mr. PLUMPTRE in
uo way deserves the name.
The motive of the tones in this silent and acquies-
cent maticeuvre proiessedly was that the bill might
be sent to the Upper House with an apparently
I weaker indorsement this vear of representa-
tive approval than it had. borne last. Instead
of a majority of fifty or upwards, the mea-
sure, as may be remembered, was affirmed
this session, on second reading, by a preponderance
of but 25. The opposition, afteeting to fear a less
favourable result if they ventured to divide last
night, made what they termed a solemn protest
against the anti-Christian bill, and suffered the third
reading to go without further impediment. As if
the bishops or the lay bigots of the chamber of ob-
stacles were really influenceable by such transparent
tricks—as if any human being could be duped into
believing that any change of sentiment or purpose
had really taken place during the last twelvemonths
in the Rouse of Commons—or as if the voice of
public opinion were not as audible as ever demand-
ing the emancipation of the Jew•. The policy was
an obvious one, but it would have been too obvious
for any other than a protectionist party. We must
seek for the solution of the dull riddle elsewhere.

It has for now a good while been very generally
whispered that, to use an expressive though some-
what homely phrase, there was " a screw loose" in
the machine. The old Carlton omnibus has been ob-
served to travel heavily along, and, though often
not half full, to come repeatedly to a dead stop
Grumblings and recriminations were overheard be-
tween the passengers and the driver. He was
not making way, they said, though incessantly
putting them in terror of their lives by his
unwary short turns. What pace precisely tho
disorganised company would have had their
unhappy driver go, it were difficult, indeed,
to say. Probably the worthies of protectionism
would not have found it easy to agree upon either a
gate or a road, had they been allowed to give their
heterogeneous advice in council. Certain it is, how-
ever, that nothing is harder than to convince men of
their inaptitude and incompetence who are never so
consulted ; and this is reported to have been the case
with the gentlemen in cluestion.
For Mr. DISRAELI, like others of his intellectual
kind, began to show symptoms of conscious superio-
rity. How could it be otherwise ? Ile found a party
of 150 country gentlemen in the year 1816 in a stato
of inarticulate rage, and he undertook to speak tbr
them. He found them wholly destitute of ideas and
reasoning faculties, and he engaged to invent new
notions, and to reason about them. He found their
anger disregarded and their spite incapable even of a
sneer ; he undertook to do all the frowning and
likewise all the fun. And what he undertook he
certainly performed. For live long years he has
scolded and scoffed, lashed and laughed at their an-
tagonists by turns, until in the present session, avail-
ing himself adroitly of the mutinous °audition of the
liberal party, he twice succeeded in leading his men
to within 15 of absolute victory in the House of Com-
mons. Yet at this very moment his miserable clients,
with suicidal stupidity and unexampled ingrati-
tude, began audibly to affect to bo ashamed of the
man that made them whatever as a political
party they are, and almost without disguise avowed