The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-27 00:00:00

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ileum it Partakes, and for improving the testae( Whittlmey ;
Boslaty for the Promention'tsflois' Distribtrion of Funds
bill ; Abdiee Estate Bill, Williams' Estate BM, sac James'
Divorce Lille.
The Lords ColleiglikOlterl wen the Earl of Shafbabstry,
the Earl of Mintivad Lord Campbell.
BIRMINGHAM BOROUGH BILL.
The debate es this bill was then resumed.
The Earl of WARWICK opposed the bill on behalf of the
magistrates el South Warwickshire is quarts', se-siove me
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umbled, who bad unanimously weed tnst it ought to b
=et. The sable serl moved *alum bill be mid &wood
day six months.
Lord CAMPBBLL said the bill ought net to be thrown
met without further consideration. Birmingham was under
the )I.aicipal Reform Aet, 'anvil; a separate jurisdiction
sad having erected a lunatic asylum of its owe, at a out of
100,00 W , it was very bard that it should be obliged to cos-
titbits nee.third of the eire nf eroctibg • new gag and lam'
tie asylum la the county of Warwick.
Lord REDRSDALE oppos 41 the motion on the ground of
the bill Wiest a i ;Irma °to, reek', g to get rid of public
tisanes. This bill had been opposed in the other house
by the Home &tottery on pubis grounds, and he was wry
berry it bad m-t with a different reception Irom the govern-
ment is their lonlehipe house.
The E ill of CHICHESTER woull have preferred •
general eseetuent If, however, this bill did not pew, the
borough of Birmingham would have to pay one-third of
lofte
'spare of tiniest tho proposed new gaol and 'il in
Warwickshire. He felt bauad, therefore, to support the
mead lading.
The Marquis of SALISBURY felt the great inconve-
nience of getting mid of public taxation by a private bill.
He, however, felt that the parties promoting this bill were
labouring under • serious grievance. Be thought a little
nate would allow of lk,Cllr aceont-sndation, and he would
thirst .re propose the adjournment of the debate until Thurs-
day seat.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE opposed the adjournment.
LYTTELTON said if the bill was thrown out now,
a public sot might bs brought in.
Lord HATHERTON sail the town of Birmingham had
'speeded 100,000. in the erection of a lunatic ass tuns, and
it would be • monor ins ll:justice to oblige the inhabitants of
that town to contrihote one third towmds the erection of a
kinetic asylum and gaol in Warwick.
Lord BEAUMONT objected to a private bill being pared
to &kat the ihj. cm of a publie co-. It the ease was es
*tress as was stated on the part of Birmingham. what diM-
coley was thore in passing a public bill this semi= ?
The Movie of SALISBURY haring withdrawn his
aides for satourantent,
The hews divined 31 the second reading 3l
Against it

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Thebiil was esseequentiy lat.
RAILWAY RETURNS.
Lord BROUGHAM inquired what pregress had lutes
aide in the repsratos ot the important miens far which
he bed moved, courrzion with railways; but the

;newer of
The Earl GRANVILLE war not heard in the gentry.
PRISON DISCIPLINE.
Lord BROUGHAM, oz Tunis, next, to present a poll-
t io., from Dr. Reiss (re we understood), and to call the atten-
tion of the ham to the sue), st of prison discipline.
HOUR OF MEETING.
Lord BROUOH ANL ea as esey day, to call their lord-
ships' ateentia to the dmistbbraine of meeting at an earlier
boar for the chute& of pr:rate Weiner.
PARLIAMENTARY OATHS BILL.
The Earl of CARLISLE saidthat, in moving the second
readier of this ode be onaM act fail to be seasible of the
discarsgement under which he laboured. from. the feet that
on on. of the main provisivns of the bill, and which gave it
its decisive and distinct's,: character, their lordships' opinion
had been taken last wan, after fall debate, and was given
adversely tothat provision. This night undoubtedly spare
ha the neerrity cf going 60 fay iato all the antecedent
particulars and eireamsteaces connected with the Tuition.
se he should bare thought himself bound to do had it now
bees brought for the first time under their lordships' notice.
Tab not lair session deet excla-ively with the preposition for
giving relief to the Jews; the pant bill proposed to sub-
;date for the ash, of allegiance and supremacy, and din-
reties, now taken at the tables of both Douses of parliament
by all the Prole-taut mastitis, that was, by the great hulk
of menian compiling the litstore, one compendious
and simple form of oath, white believed wool Ibe found
to contain all that war really essential, pertinent, and de-
sirable in the other three oaths. He trued he felt a
proper reverence for any oath that might be tendered to him
ea did not think li,ht!y of the obegatiocs he took at their.
lordships' table ; bat he out say that he never felt less of
spontaneous inelineolon to eolemnity or suasion than when
forced to ran through a nue of phreets reality to the Pre-
tender, to the PrioClo4 Sophia, and to a family whose mem-
bers bad now totally disappeared from the face of the • meth.
ars hoer.l Another objsetion was to the oath of abjura-
tion, whicb data& that no foreign prince, Be., had or ought
to have any kind of power, awls, city or juriolic-
Moo, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within these realms'. How-
ever innocently and escurely this form of language might be
mud by many, it was knows by experience that there were
numb -re of their lordships' order, ratified to take their seat
by hereditary descent, qualified by their chars:ter and as-
%stoma& to bear a part in the business of that house with
credit to themselves and advantage to their lordships end the
public, who neverheless f.lt themselves debarred from exer-
cising their noostitusienal psiyikge, and diachaTing the
duties of their station, by their conscientious permenon that
the words of this oath were at variance with the actual truth.
(H'ar, bear.) He might mention, by way of illustration, the
Mee of a neat lord connected with the sister kingdom, the
Earl of Clanearty, who, for many years past, had attended to
the administratiou of the poor laws in Ireland with singular
se.l, intelligence, and shifty, and who, on that account
and others, would have been well qualified to take a most
useful part in th it 'outsides' past and pisding discussions
on the amendment of the Irish put laws. But he was pre-
vented from taking this part, natural t s himself sad advan-
tageous to the r loresbipe, b..eause be thought the words of
an oath lamely mint that which they naturally appeared
to do. (Hear, tune.) Those considerations ought is go far
to secure a favourable acceptance for those portions of the
bill relating to the oaths to be taken by Christians. But
candour compelled him plainly testate thsethe portion of the
bill which its promoter. considered most essential and cha-
ract,vistic of its principle, and for the sake of which it had
mainly been introduced, was that which related to the oath
which it was proposed to tender to a member of tee Jewish
personae if sleeted by the people, end sent by his caste
tu otts to marmot teem in parliament. Knowing the eel-
ratter and gravity of the objections entertained against this
portion of the bill, the go:ema and stately grounds on which
they rested, the scruples telt, and the sources whence they
arose, he must say that no one of their lord-
gape, however much oopmcd to this provision, was more
anxiously desirous than Etude if indeed the further pro-
gress of the bill should be in the least ds greet detrimental to
the trot interests of piety ornligion, that it might both new
and on any future occasion, meet with immediate and toal
failure. He would lay down, se the not and foundation of
the whole measure and the whole argument, that utilises
there existed •onac ground of overpowering necessity to the
°oaten!, in no wire ought civil disqualification to be attached
to religions opiniono. (Hear, hear.) He looked on this as
an essential condition of that perfect code of relisrous Whew
tlon which be mut always and everywhere wish to tee ea-
blisbed in all its breadth and &lam. (Rear, bear.)
As to the practical effect 'of the measure, aft bete 11011
any risk of mischief at all, would them mot
be less risk from one or two Jewish ginifiewma
taking their seats in the other house, where Mf
would be observed, watched, outnumbered,
subject to all the discipline of parliamentary Ueda'
party arrangements—than from what might new grew whoa
a Jewish magistrase sat on the bench alone, or in unruly
with one colleague only, and might be called on to decide
questions directly connected with volition, or the disturbance
of a congregation, an indictment for blasphemy, or the levy
of • church rate ? He was iaformed bye distinguished gen-
tleman of that persuasion, who most honourably discharged
the new officer which the keereasing toleration of the age had
erred to him, that chili oath was positively taken before
him by protestant data ministers :—" Ido solemnly de-
clare, in the pretence. of bey Oml, that I em a Chris-
tian and a protestant, sad that •believe that the scriptures
of the Old and New Testeamst, as commonly received
among protestant chordal, do contain the revealed will . f
God, and that I do receive the same u the rule of nay doe-
Wine and patios." (Hoer, hew.) The Jews ware the
only body of men now reddest in this country
who were excluded from an equal share of the
benefits of the cocas iation with all the other subjects of her
Majesty ; and seats is parliament were almost the °sly pri-
vilege from which even they were excluded, for they filled
other offices either by virtue of direct enactments, or under
the shelter of ea annual act ogiadonsuity. It had been ably
waged that the legislature bad never specially and pur-
-1 Deily *deeded any enactment, or embodied any declaration,
for tal purpose of excluding the Jews from parliament.
This could not be **inlayed t and he believed that from
the let to the 13th of Wm. 111., there was no venom damn
er indirect, why a Jew skald not take his seat in parlia-
ment. But he must admit there was no vestige of the &Os-
kar* having deliberately caimplated the possibility of
the Jaws taking their mute. • (Hear, beer) Still the fact
remained that their aon-adalmion wa 4 ocemioned by 'naivete
ad collateral enscinten's, sot specially directed easiest
themselves. He was sum teat the generosity of sato»
which characterised their lordships' house urea sot
incline them to lista lass &Tolerably to the anxious
and Weespeated wishes of the Hebrew pupa, M-
enage their data 'Wet not likely to lad to any gi-
ldsman of pepulte Waimea mad outbreak. The Jews would
esendelly net suer attar loodships' hands, Meuse there
was but little shuns of Moir descending into the streets,
throwing up a bank:ode, wastftstiag a provisioaal
ew raise the soy, "Ye you tents, 0 Israel !" And
it should be tomes bsant that when that cry was abed in
ewe Meats it was until Vog am of Israel. He was happy
Math& that, enne lihe' ssidhave the bad taste to Ileafeet
.tealeeeeeeble lo=u=pwer• entirely excluded
; gallica Ent mita wet do wrong
gif whe, wan looletagnetho Reneval swam of
gees egootry, ands at tas imam surest of fel=
nottea oaths subject walk hod prevailed is the weeld at
ases, saki is every day sea gad more upon the tide of
Inieration gad toneweies—knowing, too, that there
mire ream devoted and pledged to this taus,
who were gun Mit IS relax their hold of hi,
bet to bring it forward as oft** as wee/Wary,
yea after year, session after session—aring, too, that
the support which it received out of dews and in the