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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23.

Orn fellow-citizens of Hebrew descent and of the
" Jewish persuasion," as the phrase goes, may take
our word for it that they will never make their wry
into parliament by legal quibbles and quidditics.
There can be uo doubt that the view taken of the
law, by which it is said that they are disqualified for
sitting in the House of Commons, is plausible—perhaps
something more. The opinion given by Mr. Serjeant
BETUELL on Monday night, coming from such an able
and experienced lawyer and cautious man, must have
great weight with many. But the lawyers in tho
House of Commons are so divided on the question,
that JOHN HULL, who piques himself on doing every-
thing legally, even when he isbent on evading the law,
is puzzled. The law of the case is doubtful, and that
is enough to give JOHN pause at any time. If the
Jews are to get into parliament, it must be by taking
the bu'l by, the horns, and getting the law repealed,
not by evading it.
The Jews when they seek to be admitted to par-
liament appeal to the reformers for aid. Our exclu-
sion, they say, is inconsistent with your principles,
therefore you ought to aid us in our struggles for
admission to parliament. To this the reformers
reply—Very true; but if you adopt our principles to
suit your own purposes, you must adopt them out
and out. If you maintain that a full and free repre-
sentation of the whole people is the only security
for good government, you must admit, in order to
prove your right to sit in parliament, that the
same principle is conclusive as to the necessity of a
searching and comprehensive parliamentary reform.
A bargain be it : we will aid you if you will aid us.
The reformersof Great Britain will exert themselves to
obtain the concession of the Jews' right to sit in par-
liament, but they expect in return that the Jews
will make common cause with them to obtain the
concession of the electoral rights of all, whether
Christians or Jews.

And we frankly tell our Jewish fellow-citizens
that their cause has been more lukewarmly sup-
ported than it would otherwise have been, on ac-
count of misgivings that arc entertained as to the
staunchness of their champions in the cause of gene-
ral reform. Baron ltorubalan and Alderman
I SALOMONS must declare themselves in favour of a
large and liberal measure of electoral reform—
without mental reservation, without equivocal
phrases—if they expect to be earnestly backed by
the reformers of England. They must throw in
their lot with those thorough-going reformers, who
are now anxiously looking for the new reform bill
which Lord JOON RUSSELL has promised, determined
to accept nothing but a real measure of reform at his
hands.

We yesterday assigned our reasons for believing
that the only chance the Jews have of obtaining
justice is by making common cause with the parlia-
mentary reformers. If the Jews take the field as a
detachment of the great public who, for one rea-
son or another, have cause to complain of our exist-
ing electoral system, their success is sure. If they
play the weak and dishonest game of standing aloof
nom parliamentary reformers, and pleading their
own case as something special and apart, they may
babble till doomsday without result.
Turning from them to Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who
professes to be anxious to obtain admission to parlia-
ment for the Jews, we concede to the noble lord that
we believe him to be perfectly sincere in this pro-
fession. Ho knows that his tenure of the represen-
tation of London would be brief and uncertain had
the Jews any reason to question his sincerity. Lord
JOIIN is doubtless anxious to see Baron ROTHSCHILD
and Alderman SALOMONS quietly seated in the House
of Commons. Now, Lord Jew( must be by this
time aware that the removal of Jewish disabilities
can only be effected as part of a general measure of
reform. He ought also to be aware that, to enable him
to carry his general measure of reform, he must make
it generally acceptable, and to that end must em-
brace in its provisions the cases of many who, like
the Jews, arc animated by special grievances.
Of one thing Lord JOHN may rest assured, that
his new Reform Bill must have a comprehensive
Schedule A appended to it. The measure to be
acceptable to the general public must make short
and sweeping work of the small boroughs. This'
may possibly be a bitter pill to whig statesmen, but
they must swallow it nevertheless. Indeed, if Lord
JOHN will reflect, recent events will show him that he
is more likely to gain discredit by continuing to lean on
the small boroughs than anything else. He has been
beaten in Knaresborough ; he has been beaten
in Scarborough. These paltry, venal, and whimsical
constituencies are not to be relied upon, and in
tampering with them there is Infinite loss of cha-
racter for the authors of the Reform BiU of 1831-2.
The only Reform Bill that can possibly be carried
lie one that shall unite in its support the enthusiastic
mpathies of reformers in all parts of the empire.
It must be a Reform Bill, not for England clone, but
ter England, Scotland, and Ireland. The same
electoral privileges must be extended to every part
of the empire. After what Lord Joii said lately on
the subject of property qualifications for mem•
bees of parliament, be will not be allowei

to shrink from placing England, in this
respect on a footing of equality with Scotland. And
if he grant this boon to England, Ireland will claim
it too. So, in like manner, if tho small constituen-
cies of England are abolished, or merged in larger
ones, Ireland will look for the same measure of jus-
tice. Striking an average, it will be found that the
borough constituencies of Ireland rarely exceed 250
voters. Constituencies on this scale are, and must ofi
necessity continue to be, corrupt. No Reform Bill has
any chance of conciliating the support of the Irish'
liberals which does not, either by extension of the
suffrage, or by a re-distribution of the electoral dis-
tricts, or by both, finally extinguish these nests of
corruption.