The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-13 00:00:00

tare* indeed, the moat faresere
the Mere maeasees of parliament will of come be
hand on their neeezebee, in it not to be feared that
the people will suspect parliament of a wink to fling
dam is their eye., rather than to proemial' a really
eserching end eilloienesinqairy
The committee on the andantes lest year wee coup
paid of four whip, roar Petah* three preteetieniete,
one repealer, and three members of the popular party.
We need not point out in what a feeble minority
were the latter._ _ _

This year stir. COBALT, Mr. BARING, and Sir T.
Amain) dieeppear from the all-imloeumt ocemaittse,
cad eve replaced biaMr SIDNIT lialalaT. Mr. Val-
PON ibtrim, and Neuss WELLULZT. The
'image is decidedly against retrenchment, for Mr.
Bataan wee last year oat of plass, and was a !m-
-orass economist; Mr. CORRY was an inactive official;
and Sir THOMAS ACLAND at kart a MA Lade.
pendent man. Instead of these we have the
motive official, Mr. finomir lilaaalT, 010 rank whig,
Mr. Veanon Blurs, and the remeocutative of the
great military duke at the head of the War Depart-
mat, in Lord CHARLES WILLISIXL
The ohms • of military expenditure ham is fact
their ranks en committee; while op-
t* them the people have not one military
reformer. We will do Srl hitas Ousel( the Justice
to may that no more diciest partisan of retrenchment
co naval matters was to be bead on lest year's com-
mittee. bo that with an old First Lord of the Admi-
ralty on their side, the seekers after cetrenciuneot
were able to expose many abuses and put a stop
to much prodigality. Bat military abates axe
far more closel screened, sad we begin to fees
that even the clothing colonels may manage to obscure
matters, es as to reader investigation dank. The
• eoeatry, however, will be amend with a. evasion.
The lacerate dell are omeentrated in the doings of
this secret committee. And if its labours prove
abortive from its composition and from the
'brevity of officials, the people will visit
its diseppoiatimat and its loss on parliament itsol4
and upon that mock division el parties which
Illiabies it as jet to thrust the remise representatives
of the people into a corner. T hie at least will be, if
it is sot already, a crying argument for farther reform.

WIRT an unhappy fatality it is in the history of
this kingdom that peevents oar legislators Ikon over
doing •tally and with a good gram that which
they know well that right and jostles will ultimately
ehilge them to do. For twenty, we might say thirty,
pus before catholic entancipatio, was earned, the
lading an of all parties were inwardly convinced
that the demands of the catholic. were just,
mad that eventually they meet be granted.
Aad yet they went as Anne. _
_year after
year, the more liberal of them seerlicing their
aspemed Nations to coasideradens of maw-
chisel convenience or ministerial expedlesey i the lest
liberal of them shirking their private Moist/ens, and
eating for party parpossea seal and Welty of which
they were uawar&y ashamed, until the lima eine too
/ats to abolish the abases for whisk Me dada had
been the retext, and to abate whisk lice minesseies
was ultimately made. Had catholic
been granted in 1801, or oven in 1813, hew
wade be the condition of Ireland at this preeenthwer.
The quinine of Jewish emancipation is, we mina,
of Les moment to the safety of the empire this that
of cathslic emancipation. But the smaller the pco-
portion which the Jewish interest and community
bear to our entire wealth and population, the greater
discredit it reflects on the nation, that there should
have been so much delay in placing them on. perfect
equality with the rest of their fallow-citizens. The
election of Baron Itoenscnitn wee a fair oortz
nity, which the liberality of the city of
gd within the reach of the legislature, foe
with a good grape, and with a spontaneous
will, what it bad not courage to effect la a more
berate way. Twelve months ago the admission
of Baron Boruscitun to the privileges of a legislator
would have been received with warm gratitude by
ma lowish fellow-mibjects, and hailed by the Jewish
throughout the world an example held
rrteko:lll es
those coantries where their mos were still
sallected to penal disabilities. Bat now, instead of
leading, we shall be in the veer of European liberality
in this respect ; and the thanks and gratitude of the
Jews will be given, not to the English legis-
lators of either house, but to the German and
Italian radicals, who knocked off their fetters
when getting rid of their own ; and whose
operations and organs are now said to be very gene-
rally sabsidised by the wealth, and directed by the
talent and energy, which distinguish the Jewish
race in every pursuit they engage in. It rested with
the conservatives of the Continent to bind the Jewish

people to them bythe strongest- ties of interest and
affection ; but they would not do so ; and now the
whole energies of that long-proscribed race are thrown
into the opposite scale. And if similar results do not
exhibit themselves in this country, it is simply be-
cause the stability of our institutions does not offer
those temptations to ambition, or those prospects of
advancement and retaliation which the lottery of con-
tinental revolutions holds out to the more embittered

members of a MOM Wog pamdbell and trampled on.
Th. Kim** d a guasaal revision of the oaths
taken by members or the legiablare, oa which the
till to be inundated by Lord RUSSELL on tie 191
bun. ie inisrolsoi to be founded, seems u
poisibis. It is the best and the least invi-
dious husk which such a ammo could be introdased
bat adathart it will peas muster with the House of
Lodi eat more than its predecessors is another gene-
tics. We calculate on hearing it opposed by the
aims amount of taloa; and irrelevant twaddle which
was inflicted on both homes a twelvemonth ago.
And there is nothing that we know of to prevent
bigots, lay and clerical, from throwing it overboard,
jest as they did the last.
If, indeed, we are to take the vaticinatiooa of the
Monday Herald for gospel, we must infer that the
bill, in its present form, has has chance than ever of
becoming the law of the land. Oar contemporary de-
clarer, in a very authoritative way, that " among con:
servatives no difference of opinion whatever exists on
the subject" If this be the fact, our contemporary MOSS
place minimally narrow restrictions on the use of the
term "conservative" The Morning Herald con-
tinues " One or two members of the party. who
voted aith Lord Oaoaoa BESTINCI last session on
the Jewish Bill, • • • will certainly not give their
sanction to a oolitrivance recommended by nothing
but the spleen of the contriver," &c. This is certainly
as extraordinary a mode of expressing a negative
as ever we met with. " One or tee members will not

trovltsir amain P By dint of repeated attempts,
our senamporary makes his meaning's little
planer. 1.
He bed Mated the day before that " usa-
mislay provaßei II that quarts: r whose want of
unanimity had boas =ilea at flu opening of the ses-
sion by patties hipadissmatery leadership into cons-
missies between tines as Olresstated and us-mini-
-111011• gentlemen se seer sat sa the same benches.
" The friends of to
and the upholders of reli-
gion" are hies to be "identical." " The time
has arrived wins It Moos evmy man to merge his
Pima proponent's§ ite a maniple, unselfish desire
to defend the institutions et the land, &c. &o.' Now,
if all this ;rlrdonsentirb has any meaning at all, the
gist of it is that Mr. DISRAELI is expected to
vote against Lord Jolts Roseau's bill. All we
can my is, that the party are very unfortunate, if this
is the dist test to which their unanimity is to be sub-
mitted. Mr. Disiazu, we are convinced, will
do as much as any man to ansolidate the party
whin has now moored hie leadership. But that
the seeker of " toeingeby " and " Tamed," the
champion of the oppressed race from whin he boasts
' to be sprung, the chivalrous vindicator of the supre-
Macy of the Moan-Arab or Hebrew-Cmcmian intel-
lect, will so stultify linage, and "sacrifice his per-
°seal Pseposeemices," we do sot believe. If any em-
ceed= be required en attar side to cement this late
adherence of the peonstionlet romp to the only man
who is able and bed don it is may limb
sod sot be, that are aIW spa fs sake soh a ma a-
le% seeing that without bin they leave little AMOS
of .satiating to exist se a yultaneatary piny at ill.
Poe oar pet, it is set se mash the weaned soo.
Wait, of the proteWeehlnote the indliferamee and
neril/nion et mivisf.as nil thetruggsrlen fist aithe
opprobsonve for *a Anon Ye 1 the bill. The
reOri'y of the annalmn 'theft beano ere known le
I. is tam, of it; salllisowneted but
Lard lons Room sheath is dee mom
SW is the sesame ci wan his IMO
ienreeted. Really his lordship owes ft to
tarots to ere that the likrality thi7 has
sad the lemon they have read the •
shall sot be Int. Aad even though the