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thought that the noble lord, in continuing to press it,
showed little respect for the religious feeling of the cowl.
try. The question sfas strictly a religious question, lacing
neither more nor less than whether they would preserve
kr the house its character of a Christian assembly.
Mr. PROSSER oharucterised ilia oaths taken in the
house as a mockery to religion and a snare to the con-
science. Ile confessed that the mtastirc had much to
recommend it, yet to his mind the subject was not free from
difficulties. Ile thought it the wisest policy for this coon-
, try to pursue not to impose any restrictions on men on ac-
count of their religion. Political privileges he conceived
I should be extended to all religious sects. (Hear.) It was,
however, fir the house to consider whether the ease of the
Jews was an exception. A great many people thought that
it was our duty to execute the vengeance of Almighty God
on the Jewish. nation. He (Mr. Presser) could not enter
into that feeling. Ile (Mr. Presser) did not, however,
think that the admission of a Jew to parliament would
uncristiattise the legislature ; and WI this country was not
exclusively Christian, though certainty it was generally
Christian, the legislature would not cease to be generally
Christian although Jews were introduced. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. NEM/L(IAV'. was surprised to hear the speech of
the hon. member for Manchester (Mr. Gibson), when he
had on the question of papal aggression, over and over
again, urged the house to do nothing, and quietly submit to
the insults of the Pope. The hon. gentleman (Mr. Gibson)
had risen with the greatest degree of energy, not only to
urge the government to press this measure with a vigour
which he (Mr. Newdegatc) felt persuaded was not in sym-
pathy with the feelings of this house, hut he had pressed en
the government, should the House of Lords dare to vindi-
cate its independence and reject the bill, to swamp the
House of Lords. (Hear, hear.) Ile hail to express
his regret that her Nlajesty's government and the noble
lord (Lord J. Russell) should feel bound to persevere in a
course of which he (Mr. Newdcgate) conscientiously be-
lieved they did not heartily approve. (Hear, bear.) lle
was, however, quite certain of this that it they did approve
of it, they were totally blind to the eireurn.tunces which
had lately occurred, and which characterised most remark-
ably the period during which this subject hall been in agi-
tation. (Cries of "Divide, divide.")
Strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the house di-
vided: the numbers were:

Fur going into committee
Agaiied
The house then went into committer, Mr. BERNAL in
the chair, A resolution was agreed to, and the house im-
mediately resumed, when
The CHAIRMAN reported the resolution, and leave was
given to introduce a bill.
Sir IL 11. INULIS asked the noble lord at the head of
the government (Lord John Russell) when he would brines
in the bill, and what day he would fix for the second

reading.
Lord J. RUSSELL replied that he would bring in the
bill so that it could be read a second time to-morrow week.
If he round that he could not do this, be would enemata
the same to the house.
CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS..

Mr. MULLINGS moved for lease to bring in a bill to
provide for the set-% ice by post of notices relative to tho
proceedings of charitable institutions, and to make further
provision tor the scrviee of such notices in future.—Leavo
given.
LAW OF LANDLORD AND TENANT.

Mr. !krtiLLISGS moved fur leave to bring in a bill to
improve the law of landlord and tenant in rclatiun to cm-
bleu:tents, to growing crops seized in execution, and to
agricultural teuanai liatures.—LetlVl` wax given.
PRINTING BIBLES AND PRAYER BOOKS.

III: ME moved for omits of the patents or authority
under which the Queen's printer, and the Universities of
Oxford and Cambridge, claim the exclusive right of printing
bibles and prayer books.—Ordered.
CEYLON. _

Mr. lIUME moved (or 17;a4.7,nirit of the expenses, stated
under separate heads, incurred in the commiasion appointed
to inquire, in Ceylon, into the alleged forgery purporting
to have been there signed by Capt. Watwn, of the Ceylon
Rittes.—Ordered.
AUDIT OP RAILWAY ACCOUNTS.

Mr. STANFORD moved for and obtained leave to bring
in a bill fur the more efficient audit of railway aeeuunta.
The house then proceeded to the ortler4 of the day.
COPYRIOII I DESIGNS EXTENSION ACT.

On the mullet that the Speaker leave the chair fur the
purpose of going into committee on this bill,
Mr. ARKWRIGUT moved that the Speaker kayo tho
chair that day six months. (Laughter.) Ile knew no rea-
son why this bill should he introduced, and he thought
when he had read to the house portions of the evidence
given respecting the hill beltire the House of Lords,
the house would agree with him that it was altogether un-
necessary. The lion. gentleman then proceeded to read
extracts Cram the evidence in question, to the effect
that there were only from 10 to Et persons to whom the
bill would 1w advantageoes, and that it would ho giving ad-
vantages to foreigners which were not extended to English-
men. He was perfectly aware that this evidence related to
the bill us it was originally introduced into the House of
Lords, and that alterations had since been made in it; hut
it still gave great advantages to foreigners. Ile, therefore,
moved that the house resolve itself into committee ou the
bill that day six months.
' Mr. LABOUCII ERE said he hoped the house would not
nto the motion of the hun. gentleman, but would i.roes: the bill to go into comnattee. Ile would remind the
house that this bill had conic front the House of Lords,
where it had ben considered in a select committee of
• that house, and great alterations had been made
in it Ills lion. friend the Master of the Rolls would bo
prepared to defend the bill in committee, and he believed
that he hail 10/111C alterations to propose in committee.
Mr. SPOON ER said he hoped his hon. friend would not
object to this bill going into committee.
Colonel SIIITHORP said he should support his hon.
friend in his opposition to this bill. The right lion. gen-
tleman opposite said his hon. friend was the Lug person
who ought to have risen in opposition to this bill. Now ho
thought the honourable gentleman had dune himself
much credit, and had shown a proper feeling towards
his country, and that he was nut to be dictated
to by a mercenary Treasury bench. (Laughter.) They held
together perfect et tufts. Thi• right hon. gentleman said
there was a necessity for bringing in a bill of a similar
character to that before the house. Why, as he had before
stated, a committee had reported in 1129 that an altera-
tion in the patent laws was necessary, but nothing had been
done from that time to this by the President of the Board
of Trade, or any of her Majesty's government. And now
they proposed an alteration, all in consequence of this ex-
hiblth.lll. niechanies of this country had been too
much forgotten, notwithstanding that they paid rates
and taxes and had cluthea more than halt the treasury
bench. (Loud laughter.) With such, his honest, feelings
he should he ashamed of himself if he did not rise and pro-
test against such a system of trickery, fraud, and corrup-
tion. (Rear, hear.) lie should certaiuly support thu
amendment of his hon. friend. (Rear, hear.)
Mr. MUNTZ did not rise to complain of her Majesty's
ministers for iutroducing this bill ; but he must say that
he doubted the policy of the bill, and the wisdom of those
who sought fur it. (Hear, hear.) Ills experience of the
patent laws would prevent him from exhibiting anything
[or which he subsequently intended to take out 11 patent,
and every man who did would repent his folly. (Cheers.)
The Eng:ishman who exhibited under the protection of
this bill would have his patent in England secured to him,
but the foreigners could take away the invention and ob-
tain patents for it, if he chose, in every country in Europe.
(llear, hear.) The foreigner who exhibited would be pro-
tected by thus bill from English competition, and would
suffer no loss in his own or in foreign countries. In his
opinion, it was a bill decidedly to the advantage of the
foreigner. (Cheers.)
Mr. (MOGAN should also support the resolution, es-
pecially alter the evidence read by the hon. gentleman
who moved it; and the speech of the hon. member for Bir-
mingham, with whose remarks he completely concurred.
Sir J. ILOMILLY considered that the hou. members who
had spoken against the motion were under a mistake. The
truth was, that they could not make a law that could in
any degree affect other countries; nor was there anything in
the bill that would prevent Englishmen taking out patents
in foreign countries if they pleased; which was exactly
what they could do now. (Ilear, hear.) It only entailed
foreigners, Englishmen also, to protect their designs is Pas
country. lie (Sir J. Hominy) admitted that there might
be various little modifications in the bill, some of which
he intended to introduce in committee ; butjthe evidence
which the hon. gentleman had read was taken upon a very
different bill ; and the present measure was, in fact, founded
'won that evidence. (Cheers.)
The house then divided—

Fur suing into committee 132
Against it 42—JO
The house then went into cow :Witte.
The MASTER of the ROLLS proposed to hare the bill
reprinted, with the amendments and alteration. On the
motion of the right hull. and learned gentleman, clause 7
was struck out.

Sir \V. JOLLIFFE said, that by no provision.* could
ourown inventors be protected from foreign competition.
After some conversation,
The MASTER of the ROLLS explained that the object
of the bill was to leave the exhibitor in the same position at
the end of the Exhibition, us if he had not exhibited at all.
He also expressed the intention of bringing up a clause to
allow a public trial of agricultural instrumentalprevious to
the Exhibition, and that the exhibitors of them should not
be precluded thereby from the other advantages they might
denve from the bill. The right hon. and learned gentle-
man then proposed a clause in lieu of clause 7, for a pur-
pose for which that clause had been intended, and by which
any party who had obtained the right of registration for an
article he was to exhibit, which had been partly published
elsewhere, but nut publicly sold or publicly exhibited for
sale, still it might be placed in the great Exhibition.
Mr. ARKWRIGHT proposed an amendment to strike
out the words in the preamble referring to or describing the
Great Exhibition, as they implied the sanction of the
; House of Commons to that Exhibition, and might be drawn
I into& precedent.
Mr. LABOUCHERE said he could not agree to the
alteration proposed.
Mr. SPOONER said he should support the amendment,
on the ground that it was desirable not to recognise any
demand that might be made for public money for this

porporse.
The MASTER of the ROLLS, mid they had allowed a
bill to be brought in, of which the title was " An Act to
extend the Provisions of the Act of 1850, and to give
protection from piracy to persons exhibiting new inventions
in the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations
in 1851." They had passed clauses which had no other
object, but were professedly for the sole purpose of giving
protection to persons in that exhibition; and now it was
objected that the preamble should be, "whereas it is
expedient that such protection as is hereinafter mentioned
should be afforded to persons exhibiting," etc.