The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-26 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,
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Fees, heilialt,n_Per ier.p. qr., nominal We. to 445. ; grinding,
Pas 1961•ba 136' t1'..1141. 6d. Lentils, per 1961b5., 12a. fa. to
14s. ed. l'nditn Corn, per 1961b5., 12s. to 13..
Flour34s.,
per sack 2801 b., English, fine, 39a. to 415.; seconds,
to 37e.
Butotrrost, May 25.-We have to report • dull market
for all sorts of grain at this day's market. The inquiry ter
Wheat was limited, consequently the trade was inactive.
Barley, Oats, Beane, and Peas, maintain our quotations.
, Wheat, white, 121. to 121. ss. ; red,Barley, to
355. Oats, 19s. to 21s. Beans, 351. to 375. Peas, 345. to 365.
BRISTOL, May 25.-The refreshing showers at the end of
last week, followed by outshine, greatly improved the
appearance of all our crops. No foreign Cern has arrived.
and our supply coastwise and from Leland was moderate
this week ; say 187 qrs. Wheat, 1,328 qrs. 2,317 q
Oata, and 470 sacks Flour. The demand for Flour ha
Whes been
very dull, and millers therefore find the quaatity of at
offered by farmers sufficient, though not excesaive. English
Wheat, 4 is. to 48s. red ; 48s. to 50s. per qr. white ; foreign,
low quality, 18s. to 415. rod ; line red, 465. to 48s. ; 50a. to
52a. white. English seconds Flour, 345. to 3fis. per sack ;
barrel Flour. 245. to 285.; malting season nearly over. Bar-
ley, 325. to 365. per qr. • grinding Barley saleable ; Irish,
28.. to 29a per 4001 be.; 'French Barley, 30s. per qr. Welsh
black Oats, 215.; Irish, black, 21s. to 21s. Bd. ; white, 225.
to 235. per 3201 be., with a dull market.
DITIZT,I, May 25.-Wheat was in rather short supply,
and at the commencement of the market considerably higher
prices, to the extent, in tome instances. of 24. per qr ,
wire
given. This advance, however, eras not maintained
generally speaking, more money, probably to the amount of
Is. per qr. above last week's prcee., was obtained, the trade
being decidedly firm, and in favour of the seller : everything
was cleared off. The malting season being or. r, little or no
business was done in Barley. In Oat', Beans, and Peas
there was no alteration in price. Wheat, white, per qr.,
495. to 535.; beat red, 48a. to 525.; middling, 13s. to 474. ;
inferior, 40.. to 425. Barley. 284. to 495. Peas, 21s. to
265. Beans, old, 425. to 505. ; new, 40e. to 464. Peas, 365.
to 40,5. Flour, fine, per aylk, 395. to 431.; seconds, 31s.
to 385.
FAMIRA)I, May 23.-A fair supply of Wheat. Trade firm
at last week's rates. Wheat, from 111. to W. per load.
Barley. 30a. to 37a. per qr. Oats, 223. to 28s. Bians,
to 425. Peas, 38s. to 42a.
GAINSROROVOR, May 23.-A good supply of Wheat was
offering; the trade was very firm, without any alteration in
value. Spring Corn was scarce, and fully maintained late

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TuoRsDAT, MAT 25.
The Loan Citarosw.os took his ceat at 6 o'clock.
rRIVATE RUMNESS.
Ilonatal Act Amendment BM.

VIM) BEAutriu.—fase--
PUBLIC
fiKOOSIDREADINCL—JewIsh Itteabillnea tint
PISTITIONS. --By the Berl of RNE, from Bellsbointigh sad
Aughaloo, against the national system of
of
in Ireland; als
front Use pourdaw guardians of the union of Waldo., sgaloat the
mode of rawiessent of pfaw.ratea by the system of electoral &di-
atom—Uri of IIAIttIOWBV, from several lodges of thld Yellows
in favour of the bill for lea-dieing their enelety. - Petitions in WOW
of the Jewish Iflashilicire Bill were presented by Kul FOBTEirtIE,
Karl of KAlthint, Eirl GREY, Furl of Kul and Mar-
quis of LANSIniWNE. Petitions figninst the bill by the Duke of
'RICHMOND, from Brighton and other ptooto the Intim of BUT.
!AND ; Lord ItEliEsli t LE, from the parish of St. John the Baptist,
Wodinlnster ; Earl VELAW ARK, tram the clergy of the deanery of
!birthed, swim, froin the elfish of Withinaree and the warden
and brethren of Kerkcille College, Fast Otinstead; Lord STANLEY
awl Earl Of °ALLOW AV, twin the Uenerel Assiut'', of the Church
of Scotland.
AFFAIRS OF SPAIN.
Lord STANLEY asked whether ministers intended
within a short period to submit to the two houses of parlia-
ment • full explanation of the circumstances ander which
they were led to believe that her Majesty's minister at the
court of Madrid had had his passport forwarded to him, with
directions to leave that court
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said it would not be es•
pedicnt to go into a discussion of the question at that time,
but he entirely concurred with the noble lord that it was
desirable that every paper connecterl with the transaction to
which he hail alluded amulet, in as short a time as possible,
be placed before their lordships and the country. The papers
referred to were in course of preparation. Ile found, on
inquiry that morning of his noble friend at the head of the
foreign department, that such papers were in a forward
state, and he heeled to be able to lay tam before the house,
if not to-morrow (this day !, certainly at the neat sitting of
the house after to morrow.
The Marquis of LONDON DERRY made some observe
tious which were inaudibFßANCE.le in the gsllery.
Lord BROUGHAM wished to know whether the govern.
meet had received through our ambessader in Pens any au-
thentic report of a speech attributed in the newspapers to
gentleman now very well known as M. De Lamartine, in
which that gentlemen was stated to have announced to the
National Assembly that if any people wished to obtain
their rights from their governments, and were so weak as
nt to be able to do untwisted, France was willing to
aid them to obtain their rights, and that an army of 30,000
men was now. tumbled on the Alps, which would be in-
creased to 60,000, and the moment any appeal was made to
France front Italy or Sardinia, those troops were ready to
ernes the Alps.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE had seen no other au-
thority fur such a speech bring delivered but that of the
public press. Ile had that day received a despatch from the
noble lord the British ambassador at l'aris, but no men
Dotio
was made of such a speech having been deli dby ht. n
lAmartino. ( Rear, hear.)
JEWISH DISABILITIES BILL.
The Marquis of LANSDOWN E, on moving the second
reading of the Jewish Uiabilities Bill, said: I beg leave,
my lords, to move the second reading of this bill—a motion
which has been delayed for some time from an anxious de-
sire to meet the convenience of many members of your
lordship" house. In the outset, I must freely admit to
your lordships that this bill, important as it is as a question
of pi inciplu —imrtant as it is as affecting the interests of
many of her Majesty's most loyal subjects—is, never-
theless, not of a nature to eleite that interest which
many other measures for the removal of civil
disabilities have excited. lam well aware that it cannot be
spected to excite the same amount of interest, nor can it be
argued as other similar measures have been, with reference
to aey passible danger diet may result fromeits becoming the
law of the teed. lc is but a small nice which endeavours to
wake dui(' heard at your lrdi' door ; but tke question is
whether that voice is the veoiacsh opt justice. ( Hear, hear.) I
think I cannot du better than in the outset of the observe.
tious with which I shall deem it necessary as briefly as
posaiblo to trouble your lordship.' to call your attention to
the state of the law on this subject. leo are not called
epee, to make any change in the constitutional law of this
country. That constitutional law prescribes no disabilities
whatever. It has been the character and feature of our
constitution. and I trust will ever continue to lie the distiu-
peeling feature of that constitution, that it abhors exclu
tione—that it rejects ; and that it requires
those who propose exclusions and disebilitiee to make
good the gruunds on which they propose to do
so. For a long period of English history there 'was no I
exclusion whatever, but in the reign of Elizabeth
certain oaths were prescribed, there haviog been n ine re-
quired up to that time ; but thin certain oaths were pre- I
scribed fur persons eligible to office or parliament. Sub'.
quently, in the 7th of James 1., it was thought tit to pre-
scribe an oath for the putting down of popish recusants ; anal
an act was passed, in which, and er is ate
any
allusion to the Jews or intention of excluding them,
the words "On the true faith of a Christian"
were introduced, which have excluded the Jews
from parliament. The very first act of parliament of Wil-
liam and Mary was to consider the subject of oath.. The
oaths prescribed were, is the language of the act, " hereby
repealed"—that is telly, the oaths, including that particular
security which it is contended by some persons is a principle
of the constitution calculated to exclude the Jews, were upon
full consideration at the very best time of our constitution
eEstinctly and in terms annulled and made void; and for 13
years, being those in which the principles of the constitn-
tution were most weighed and most valued, Jews were ad-
missibie into parli intent. This did not continue ; but why ?
Just before the cammencement of the reign of Queen Anne,
it was thought expedient at a critical moment to revive the
oath of abjuration ; but is there the least vestige of its
having been made the object of that act to exclude Jews or
any persons but Roman Catholic re-cements from parliament?
From the circumstance of the Pretender being recognised,
and from the part which Leek NAY. took with reference to
the Preteader's interference with the affairs of this country,
it was then thought expedient to revive that oath of abjure.
tion in order to exclude Roman catholic% from a seat in this
I and the ether house of parliament ; but that being the ob-
ject alone, the very words of the eith and ith of James I.
w. re copied and introduce l into that act, and then
we find the words revived of swearing "on the true
faith of a Christian." And from that incirle ntal intro-
duction of words of this description Jews have
been exclwled from parliament. Well then, my lords, such
was the state of things until • recent period'; and at no
distant time, in the memory of all your lordships, I think in
the year In after your lordships had admitted the Roman
catholic. into parliament, prescribing oaths and particular
declarations that Roman esthetics were to make—at that
time petitions were presented by the Jews preying to be ad-
mitted into parliament, and a bill was then brought into the
ether house of parliament by Sir It. Grant—the
most religious bill I ever saw—for the admission of
Jews into parliament. There were two divisions, in one of
which there was a majority in favour of it, and in the other
a majority against it; but in both I find the names of
persons tanned for their attachment to the church, their great
piety, and constitutional knowledge. That bill was loot in
the House of Commons ; but at a subseq• tnt period it
was again introduced by the same gentlemen, and then
passed by a considerable milking% It came up
to this house, and was proposed by • noble lord, whom I
regret not to see present, from his advanced years, hut a noble
lord whoxecharactergave weight to the measure—l all nde to
Lord Bexley. (neer.) I have now gone through what
has passed up to the present moment; and this bill ee now
sent up from the other house of parliament, having peeled
by three successive large majorities ; and it is for your lord-
ships' consideration whethere question so repeateelly brought
before you by the sanction of such men, the support of such
authorty, end the cencurrence ol so many cimstances
in the present time, ought to induce your lord rcuships to
give a favourable consideration to any practical removal of
any existing disability which you can enact with safety.
(Hear, hear.) I will say this meseure, under all these fir.
cumstances, calls upon you again and again for your
sanction and support. (Hear, hear.) And what, my
lords, are the objections to the bill ? I believe
the opinion, more entertained out of doors than in this
house, is, that this question is •religious question. I have,
however, to contend, my lords, that there is no precept of
religion—no revealed declaration of the will of God that
can in the slightest degree pre ludo your lordships from
veinier; a deliberee view of this question with reference to
He being dangerous to entertain it. If there was such a pre-
cept I should be the first to leave this bill unnoticed on the
table, if I did not move your lord-hips to reject it. But not
only is there no such revelation of the Divine will, but on
the contrary, front the beginning Christianity had the cha-
racter of connecting itself with existing institetioare although
not of a Christian character. From the very beginning it
found its strength, and recommend, d itself on that very con-
sideretion—thet it die: net interfere with political questions
and political Aces. (Rear, hear.) But who are the
people you are called upon to exclude ? Are they
a people with whom you have relations Although
not a Christian people, they are a people between
whom and Christians and Christianity there exists, I think,
important end unquati viable relations. C.fit it be forgotten
that this is a nation whose laws—whos- religious laws—you
have adopted? Here is a nation that in ages past laid the
foundation of year religion,—who for years and cente ries
have been reverend by the Almighty—who have be:.n the
nu tins of preeerving, in the midst of superstition, barbarism,
and idolatry, the knowledge of ten eternal God, who went
before his people with a pillar of tire, teaching Diem to avoid
the dangers by which they were surrounded, and to hand
down to you the holy laws which they have given to the
world. (Hear, hear.) Thecommundments and laws°, that
people are your laws and your commandments—engravrs,
ed
moon the stones which arc let up Upil your alta
to
?hat engraved, too, upon the hearts of the congregations
who surround those altars. (Cheers.) Are they a people,
then, whom you are minded to despise, and pronounce to be
unfit to aemissible to the rights of their fellow-subjects,
3rding U.: their ability to exercise those rights ? (Hear,
hear.) Are t,,,sy not, on the contrary, a people who have
filled an ican„riant etetion in history, who you are bound
to moose', and who you will never be able to ferget In
the words of the poot May we not ray,
Insula, dices count, Priam" darn regna manebant
Althoug Nonear we, as
etasChrisi:use, must add,
talltUM 6.11111 A, latte inalefida curia's.
(Rear, hear.) There were no. persons without the pale of
Christianity 60 eminently distinguiseed by charity and bent-'
volence as the Jews. (Rear, hear.) It was but the other
day ho found a most eloquent sermon, delivered by one of
the most eminent divines lie bad ever heard—asermon point-
ing out what Christian virtue was as opposed to pagan virtue,
and he would ask their lordships
. whether it did not apply to
the Jews? [the noble manors here read a passage from
a sermon by Mr. ,Anting out that the compusAonate
consideration of the . formed no part of the lessons of

prices.
Gonatnixo. May 24.-The Whea
tt sold at this markeex-
t
realised about last week's prices, but h supply rather
ceeded the demand. Red Wheat, 425. to 4Ss. ; white, 48s.
to 54s • tine. 565. to 58s. Barley, 295. to 3.35. Peas, 375. to
40a. Oats, 22e. to 24..
LEAMINGTON, May 25.-We have had a moderate supply
to-day of Wheat ; late prices are fully maintained for good
fresh samples. This tine dry weather keeps all .prom corn
quite as dear ; we do not, however, alter our prices this week,
as very few samples have changed hands.
LOOTH, May 24.-A fair extent of business was done in
Cora to-day, and at prices for all descriptions varying so
little from lest week's that the quotations must remain the
same. Wheat, 445, to 40s. ; Barley, 265. to 30s. ; Oats, 16a.
to 20s. ; B. ans, 355. to 41s. per qr.
MaiosvoN it, May 25.-We had to-day a totter trade for
Wheat at a shade more money, but make no alteration is
the quotations. Beans, Peas, and Oats are the turn dearer.
MARKET RASEN, May 23.-At our market to-day a
greater vantity of Wheat was on sale the trade has re-
mained without much alteration in value, but the tendency
was downward. Barley slow sale, but not cheaper. Oat.,
Rye, Beans, and Peas without alteration.
MELTON MOWER:AT, May 23.-We have had a fair supply
of Wheat off.ring at this market, at the rates of last week.
Barley, Beans, and Oats Is. per qr... dearer. Wheat, 48s. to
60s. Barley, 335. to 365. Oats, to 2Ss. Beans, 425. to
455. per qr.
NEE" ARK. May 24.-Oar market has been well supplied
with all descriptions of grain, which met with • good sale at
late prices. Wheat, white, 51s. to .130. ; red, Sns. to 10s.
Barley. 34i. to 355. Oats, 221. to 28.. Beans. 40.. to 441.
Rye. 38s. to 40s. Tares, 545. to 565. Malt, 58s. to 60s.
per qr.
NEWBURY, May 21.-We have again to report a large sup-
ply of Wheat, and, though the condition is much improved,
the sale proceeded slowly, at a decline of from Is. to 3s. per
qr. No supply or demand for Barley. Otte, Beans, and
Peas without alteration. Averages to the 20th of May
Wheat, 753 qtm., at 48.. Bd. Barley, 93 qrs., at 31,. 2d.
Beans, 12 qrs., at 40s.
PLTI(OI.-TH, May 25.-There was more inclination to pur-
chase Wheat at this morning's market, but. as holders
would not give way in prices, but little business was done.
Stocks are low and farmers' eupplks small. The weather
continues very warm and tine.
ROM6EY, May 25. - The downward tendency of the
London markets during the past week prodmed the sutural
effect amongst the buyers of grain this day. Where sake
were effected, less mon y was given than st our market lost
week; and every description may be said to have receded in

price.
ROYSTON, May 21.-The Corn trade sead, at fully the
rates of last week ; eupply good. Wheatt, 2tis.y to 325. Bat-
-275. to 335. Oats, Ifts. to 265. Return poste, Wheat.
405 qrs. 5 bush., average l
d. per qr.; Barley, 79,
11. 14s. Id. ; Oats, 58, 11. 2s. 6d.; Beans. 16 qrs. 2 bush.,
11. 14s. 2d.
SHEFFIELD, May 23.-At our market to day we were only
moderately supplied with Wheat, in• which article a very
small amount or Marlowe was transacted, at last week's prices.
In other articles scarcely anything doing.
STOCKBRIDGE, May 25.-The former rates for good red
Wlll. Iheat
a. to were with difficulty maintained sample+ selling at
0 121. per load. Superior quelities of Barley at
30a. to 345. per qr. Beans and Peas were without material
alteration ; but Oats, of from 42111 e. to 441 be. per bushel,
went a 28e. per qr.; sweet feed at 225, Gel. to 235. 6d. Peas,
38s. to 41e.
STOCILTON•ON-TEES, May 24.-We had a very small sup-
ply of Wheat this morning frem the farmers, but a nu-
merous attendance of buyers. The demand was brisk, at en
advance of fully 2s. per qr. on the currency of this day week.
Foreign was also a free sale, at a like improvemendnt.
Peas in
Oats
were in demand, and Is. per qr. dearer. Beans a
in request, at full prices. Flour without alteration in
price, and in good demand. The following are the cur-
rent prices:-Wheat, per qr., of 631 b. to the bush., south
touatry, red, 51s. to 535.; mixed, 545. to 555. ; white, 565. to
585.; Durham and Yorkshire, red, 475. to 555.; white, 535. to
675. ; Dantzic, Stettin, and Konigsburg, 555. to 575.;
Mecklenburg and Pomeranian, 545. to 56'. ; Holstein,
Danish, and Hamburg, 525. to 5.5 e. Flour, line, per sack
of 2801 h., 355. • extra, 375. ; superfine,4os. Oat Meal, Scotch,
31s. per sack o'f 2801b5. Oats, feed, per qr., 22.. to 245. ;
potato, 25,. to 275.' foreign, 21s. to 265. Beans, new,
31s. to 38a Peas, 'boilers, 365. to 40a. Guano, l'eru.
vis, per ton, 101. 10c
I.:xeuiDoe, May 25.-A large market of Wheat, which
met a dull sale, at 2s. per qr. lower; the best price given
was 1.50. 104. The average this week is 51.. Gil. per
qr; Little done in Barley and Oa, without alteration in
price. Beans in short supply, and Itxs. per qr. dearer.
WORKINGTON, May '21.-The supply of Wheat at this
day's market woe moderate, yet equal to the demand; and
sales were slow for a time, until farmers submitted to a fall
of Is. per qr. on last Wednesday's rates. Barley scarce,
and at last week's prices. Oats, ha. to 10s• per three imp.
buehels. The following are the averages p cede for the
week ended this day ..-Wheat, per qr., 555. Id.; Bari. y,
325. 6d.; Oats, 235. 4d.
WATERFORD, Mays 4.
W-Atheat, O this mo
arnnding's market we have
hot a scanty supply ats, Barley, which ha
buyers at last week's prices. Indian Corn is eought after, at
a further impr. vement of Is. to 2s. per bri. No change in
the value of Flour.
EntNituren it, May 24.-There was • fair supply of Wheat
at market this morning. The weather continuing tine,
buyers showed little disposition to purchase ; and farmers, to
effect a clearance, had to submit to a decline of Is. per qr.
One choice parcel, 663 lbs. per bushel, brought however 625.
Foteign participated in the general dulness, and the little
business done was at a similar reduction. Barley was in
short supply, yet the trade ruled dud, and sales were made
with daficalty at hut Wedneulay's prices. Oats also were in
moderate supply, but, the demand proving very limited, tae
trade was slow at 6d. to Is. per qr. under last week's rates.
Beans inquired for but not dearer. Wheat, top. 625. ;
average, 533. Gd. Barley, top, 375. Gd. ; average, 345. 7d.
Oats, top, 2-ss. 41.; average, 221. 10d. • Beans, top, 3Gs. ;
average, 345. Gd.
Gnut.ow, May 24.-Supplies into the Clyde since this
day week arc almost entirely from Ireland: 315 ers. Wheat,
4,560 qrs. Oats, 1,115 gra Barley, 1,287 sacks Flour, and 920
loads 0 itrneal and at Graore.tnouth the principal arrivals
are 734 qrs. Wheat, 1,676 qrs. B airy, 500 etre. Beans, coast-
wive and 3,065 h
oar Whe
eler
from the Baltic and Li 'Yee Ger-
man ports. Without any elasticity in demand, there has been
a fair consumptive sale for Wheat during the week, at steady
prices. Oats have moved rather tardily, but their value has
been firmly maintained. Barley has met a slow stile at late
rates. Indian Corn has been scarce, and advancing in value;
and Flour and Oatmeal arc the turn dearer. Beans without
ceasge. At. thii day's market Wheat met hut a poor in-
quiry, and price+ general.} were the turn lower. Barley
also was easier to pinch-tee, ant sales slow. Only a
few transactions took place in Oats, which were
held at full prices. Indian Corn may be called
Is. to Is. Gd. per boll dearer, with little at
market; and Flour and Oatmeal were without change.
The present prices are:-Wheat, per 240 lbs., English,
white, old, 265. to 275. ; new, 255. to 265. Gd.; red, old,
24e. to 261. ; newt,
.245. to Scotch, white, old,
+ad white, old, 231. to "7
251. to 265. Gd.; Iran,
new, g/s. 6d. to 245.; Dantzic, old, 2/s. to 28s. ; Pomera-
nian,-old, 255. to 265.; new, 255. to 265. 64.; Danish, old,
245. to '2ss. ; new, 245. to 255. • ' Odessa, soft, old, 235. to
24e.,• Russian hard, old, 225. to 231.; Canadian, old, 235.
to 245.' Vnitml States, old, 245. to 2.35. Barleyl per
3201 b. Derwin* and Scotch, new, 235. to 25+4 siah,
new, 225. Gd. to 21s. • Pomeranian, &c , new, 225. 6cl.
to 245. Oats, per 2441, Irish, Wexford, Itc., new, 16s.
to 17s. fel.; Limerick, &c., new, 17s. 3d. to 183. 6d.; extra,
prepared, new, 19e.; foreign, Russian, old, 15s. 6d, to 16'.;
Dania, 151. to 16s. Beans, Irish, per 2601b5., new, 17s. to
18s.; Egyptian, per 28011 w., old, 13s, Gil. to 14s. 3d.17 Pew,
per 2Solbs., white, old, 18s. to 19s. ;l grey, s. to
; Canadian,F
old, 18s. 19s. our, per 280Ihe.
to
English, super., old. 42t. to 42a. 641.• Irish ditto, old, 395.
to 40a. ; fine, old, 3Ga. to 375.; extn, choice qualities,old,
425. to 415.; American, per Wand, sweet, old, 28a. to
28s. 6d. ; Canadian, sweet, old, 275. to 28s. ; sour, old, 211.
to 2Gs. Oatmeal, per 28e1be., Irish, common, cut, new,
295. W3OB. Indian Corn, per 280!b5., 174. 64. to 190.6 d. In-
dian/ Corn Meal, per barrel, lts, 63. to 15s.
For resisiaat's Markets me east oar.

Christian legislature, the Jew could not be admitted to a
'herein is deliberations. Feeling as ho did, and acting ac-
cording to his conscience, he felt bound give his vote in
opplon to the measure then before their lordships.
Viscount CANNING felt that he could give a conscien-
tious sate In favour of the bill. He
mode great courage
from the speech of the noble earl who had ed the amend
ment,and who had rested his easerather on an appeal to their
lordships' feelings,
•pinions, and prejudices, than on sound
argument and the justice of his ewe. (Hear, hear.) As a
religious question, the admission of Jews to parliament
seemed sufficiently plain. They had opened their doors to
the Roman catholic, who looked upon their ere, d as heresy ;
.o
the protestant dissenter, who looked on the church with
great jealousy • and to the unitarian, who considered them
as credulous a not superstitious believers in the Trinity.
From all these Beets they had required a declaration on the II
faith of &Christian ; hut the unitarian took it, denying at the 1
same time the divinity of our Saviour, and our atonement by '
hie death. This disposed
.01 the :;;;,,,,,u, part of the (p
•
won testae) lie thoughtt mat we should follow the ex-
ample of other nations in admitting Jews to the priviliges of
cilium, not only because the act was just in itself, but be-
cause the conduct of the Jew in every place where they had
been enfranchised fully justified the experiment. (Hear.)
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY, who was at times
almost inaudible, oriel that if he had followed the dictates of
his own inclination, ho should have given a silent elle on '
the present occasion, but since he had been raised to the re-
sponsible position lie then held, he felt that he bad no
longer the privilege of being silent, especially on en occasion
when the religious character of the house and the country
was at stake. ( Hear, hear.) The subject before their
lordships lay in a small compass, and therefore lie
should compress into a small compass the observation,'
he had to make, and, in doing so, he hoped
I ttlitiiesholo,iunllioniesop:efue.itilnisgsseorittutheents
rraws iwthoualsariucllewh deference t
consistent
twit
the expression of his own honest couvietione. They were
asked to remove disabilities which excluded certain persons
from seats in either house of parliament, It appeared to
him that those pecans laboured under • disability which
that house could nut remove —that of being by their opi
nions millet° take part in the councils of a Christian nation.
I (Hear, hear ) They were unlit, because on many questions
that might lie argued they could nut, if true to teeir own
principles, avoid raising their voices against propositions
important to the interests of the country and the welfare of
the church. The Jew, if sincere, must have interests and
opinions hostile to those of the Christian ; he must be op-
posed to the spread of Christian truth as much as their
lordships would bo to the dissemination of Idahometan
tenets, Even if the Jew were indifferent to his own due-
trines, he must be still looked Ilium as hos, ile to 010,1.06 n"
of Christianity. This was torcibly shown in one of the
strangest protests which had app• ared against the measure,
and hich was signed by one m a converted
Jew.w The noble marquis had told (
theme it was but • Mali
voice in the legislature that was asked her. True ; hut a
very small voice might he sufficient on occasions to turn the
balance against the interests of the church. ( Hear, he Sr.)
With regard to the Roman cat holies who hail been alluded
to, one of the first votes he had given was for the remission
of these disabilities, and he weiti'd so vote again if the
question were to be discussed ; but his reason wee, that he
could not Wily ref use a batty who formeel a third
part of the p telethon of this empire a share in the
national deliberetions. They could nut mineral themselves a
prou stunt legislature, hut they were still a Christian I...gis'a-
tore, and he thought it was necessary to the welfare ea the
country that they should remain so. The measure before
their lordships was looked up.m with great suspicien by a
moat valuable partion of the community, who looked ups n
it as sin insult on the religion they pro.lessr el. He did out
look upon it in that light—he wholly acquitted the noble
hall who had introduced the bill of say intention of casting
a ',light upon the church ; hut nevertheless he re It it his duty
as a member of that church to record his vote against it.
(Hear, hear.)
The Earl of \I INCHILSEA looked upon the measure as
one offering a greater violence to the character of a
Chillailln legislature than any tht haul evir been proposi
thd,
and concluded by exhorting thea house to thr ,ty out e

Pagan philosophy, its genius being too arrogant and lofty o
I
stoop to the children of poverty; it soared in sublime sperm-
lanolin but among the rewards to which it aspired it never
thought of the blessedness of him who considereth the poor :
and you might travel from the Euphrates to the Atlantic
without finding a single monument inscribed to the poor. It
was reserved for the religion whew basis was humility and
whose element was devotion to exemplify the doctrine,
" Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy."
Now, might he not ask their lordships whether the principle
of mercy tad not been followed and imitated by the Jews ?
Were there any persons in her Majesty's dominions who had
been more humane, charitable, and generous Hear.)
Aud Aud if he was told they were indebted to Christianity
imbibing such virtues, he would ask, was it justice nut
to give them the benefit of that virtue which they
had followed, and that principle which they had known
how to adopt ? (Hear,
.hear.) If then they were not
precluded by any Divine command, or by any just regard to
the inters!! ef, Taristianitv• wbinht:y wet* bound to con-
sult, where would lie the 'danger to the eentlitistt.oo or to
Christianity which would arise from the admission of the
Jews into parliament ? (Hear, hear.) It had been said
that we sheuldno longer have • Christian parliament; but he
denied the assertion. The parliament would continue to be
Christian in the same sense as every body must lie considered
in reference to its predominant feature and characteristic.
It had been said that it was necessary, and indispensable that
every particle of which the body consisted should be homo-
geneous. They might as well say that the stamina el their
c immercial traneactions could not be culled gold because
every particle which it contained was not of the same pure
metal, as that the British parliament would not be •
Christian parliament because a few Jews were admitted
into it. Ile had never been able to discover that a
tuna amongst numbers was more dangerous than when
It could act alone ; and what had they done with
reference to the Jews? They bail enabled them to act alone
for the last ten or twenty years. The Lord Mayor of London
might be a Jew—sheriffs had been Jews, and magistrates
were Jews. (Hear, hear.) In a moment of great danger
the constabulary of two wards in the City of London were
at the disposal of a Jew, lawfully enabled to select that con-
stabulary. If a person dangerous to the state hod to be
tried, a high sheriff being a Jew would have the selection of
the jury ; and having given them the power of filling sta-
tions so high and important, what danger could possibly
arise from two or three Jews being admitted into a large
popular 'sunnily of different opinions from themeelves
(Hear, hear.) Who could suppose they would Ito able to
sway the councils of that assembly 1 Persons had been ad-
mitted iota it far more dangerous in • religious point of
view—infidels more alien to the Christian faith, because
they were ignorant of its precept., and did not work out its
practical results—(hear, hear)—men more to be feared
than the persons whom it was now proposed
admit. admit. In the last war waged by Holland, •
certain portion of its army and the officers of
that army were Jews; but did anybody ever think •,f tanking
the discovery that it was nut a Cheistian army i Jews in
Canada and Jamaica were not eecludeil from any civil rights,
and he had that day received information of the election of a
Jew to the legislative council in Ceylon ; and why should
they not be admitted to all the rights and immunities which
as loyal citizens they were entitled to here (Hear, hear.)
He would beg their lordships, in considering this question,
to look to the charaett r of the I 'aristian religion which they
professed and the suite of the law under w Inch they lived—
to remember that their religion was humble and lowly in its
birth and origin—that its Divine founder in
teati most e
thims
- I
phatic and solemn words said,kingdom of
world"—and that, heal upon that principle and winning its
way not by force and veilence hut by lienienity and per.
suasive influence it had extended its empire until it had
brought the nations of the world under its sway. lie would
ask their lordships whether the principles which presided
over its birth and development—its recognition of all exist-
ing authorities—should not lie upheld now that it had
reached the zenith and maturity of its strength
and power ; and whether they should not admit
within the pale of that constitution is which it
was and ever would be predominant, all 'screens entitled to
civil right's, and who could show claims which ought not to
be rejected by the advocates of the Christian faith. (Cheers.)
He should therefore conclude by moving the second reading
of the bill. I Loud cheers.)
The Karl of ELLENBOROUGH rose to move that the
bill be read a second time that day six months. 'r he noble
marquis appeared to be sensible how very small the object
of the bill was—(hear, hear)—for it affected in the first in.
stance only one individual; but never did ho recollect an
instance where the smallness of the object was so dispro-
portionate to the greatness of the sacrifice. (Loud cries of
"hear, hear.") The noble marquis said it eras nut a religions
question, but he affirmed that it was. (Hear, hear.)
The noble marquis said there had been times when
Jews might have at in parliament, but he'well knew that if
a Jew had, at that time, aspired to such a station he would
not have seen the sun go down upon his head. (Hear, hear.)
Whatever might have been the law, practical!), parliament
had been in all times essentially Christian, and as such he
trusted their lordships that night would preserve it. (Chum )
They were told that they should respect the Jews, because
through them they derived s large ports n of their religious
belief. Why, it was on that ground that he repudiated the
Jew ese a member of a religious body. It was hi cause lie
believed so much and no more—it was because having every
means of informing,,himself, that he still retained the same
opinions. (Hear, hear.) Mahommeillaism approached
nearer to the Christian religion than Judaism, and if the
meatiere was to be pained p-inciple, why was it not
general ? Why was notjthe principle laid down—that it did
not matter what the religious belief of any man was who
might be admitted to parliament ? It hail be, n said that
they had admitted quaker., Moravian', and others who
dissented from the church f England, into parlia-
ment ; but there was a wide difference between them
and Jews. Chi istianity was essentially identified with the
state, and he took his stand on the verge of Christianity, and
declared that it should not be parsed by Jews and infidels.
(Cheers.) They desired to instruct the people and unite
religion with such instruction, hut how could they do so if
parliament itself admitted that Christianity was unimportant ?
(lieu, hear.) They were told that they must nut visit on
the present Jews the sins of their ancestors committed 1,800
years ago ; but it was not because they had been guilty of a
geat crime at that period that he would punish their de-
serendante, but because those descendants hail the game un-
altered belief, having the same laws; and it the occasiou were
to occur now they would Ise guilty of the same crime.
(Hear, hear.) It had also been said that it wan hard to
exclude a Jew from parliament poesessed of considerable pro-
perty in the state, but he thought a man hail as ninth cause
of comlaint who was a Christian and had no
property for being excluded teema seat in perliament
The same was the case with the Menelaus ; but to admit
it in the case of tha Jews would be to admit men who were
not Christians. A great deal had been said about the dimity
of the Jews. Now he did not mean to deny that there were
many amiable and benevolent persons of that creed, hut it
should be recollected that men who were immensely rich
might make • display of charity without inconvenience
which would be ruin to their poorer neighbours. But they
must look at what was the social churacter of the Jew. He
was one of a nation within a nation, totally distinct and
separate, living amongst our agricultural and maninacturieg
populations without belonging to either one or the other.
(Hear, hear.) The Jew did not labour, but bought and
seer at a profit the fruits of thhem, ande labour of
no othpaupers, a There
were few poor amongst t
fact greatly to their mein ; few of them were rich,
but some were immeasely rich. They could not intermarry
with the people of this country, with wham, except the
higher chivies, they never aseociated. They might be called
citizens of the world, but hardly citizens of England. (Hear,
hear.) It might not be uninteresting to observe how easily
a Jew of the highs st class could transfer his allegiance from
one country to another. He had some days since seen in one
of the journals a review of the recently published memoirs of
Sir F. Burten,in which the following p issage was factextdand :
We yesterday dined at Ilan) blouse,
to meet the Itothischil
very amusing It was. Ile (Rothnehild) told his lire and sdrentures.
Ile was the third win of the banker at Frankfort. "There was not,"
he said, "room enough for us all in that city. I dealt in English
goods. ihte great tinier came there, who hat the market to himself ;
he was quite the great man, and did us a favour Übe sold us goods.
Somehow I offended him, and lie refused to show stein.; patterns."
Such was the circumstance which originated the transfer to
this country of the great house of Rothschi(d, and aim
the bill then before their Witold)), (Cheer' and
laughter.) Nothing ballot nal by chance, every ac-
cident that occurred formed part of the means
by which providence worked out its ends ; and certainly
if it was the will of providence that this country about(' be
unchristianiecil, meaner mean could not have been adopted
than the refund of a Manchester traveller to show his pat-
terns. (Cheers and laughter.) The noble marquis had
observed that at present all municipal iiillees were open to
the Jew—that he might become sheriff, aiderinan, or lard
mayor. Now he Olio Earl of Ellenleirough) was not one
who attached much importunes:l to municipal dignities,
but
he certainly regretted that Baron Bothiiehild trod not, like
another Cie or, preferred King 144 iq its • cri orsitiun to
being last in the senate, MP he then mirfht have worthily dis-
pensed the hospitalities of the city of London without en-
dangering, the Christian character of the legislature of
this country. He begeed their lordships to take
I a serious but not exaggerated view of the dun-
pees which were threatening this country. It was
. impossible not ti observe that a great crisis was RI)-
aroaching. Th, yha waving.:hawaving.: in famines, in goner
distress, in pestile :ice, ar.d is divisions amongst the people.
Around they saw nations' convuhed to their utmost extent,
and in one instance the most ancient rind powerful dynasty
In Europe crushed in one day. The great empire of Austria
had fallen, crushed like the potter's vexed, and the most an-
cient combinations of territory had given way to new
combinations, of which no one could tell the duration. They
PEW all the great landmarks of nations displaced, and
the widest schemes for future government pro-
pounded, without any reference to the experience
of the past. With such convulsions surrounding us,
how long could we expect to remain uncontaminated,
separated as we were only by a channel, the whole extent of
which could be scanned by the eye? (Hear, hear.) He
trusted that their lordships would employ themselves dili-
gently to the means by, which aline the country could be
saved ; that they would not forego the interests of the
country for any temporary profit ; that they would forego
legislating for the private purposes or temporary expediency
of any man or any government—(hear, hear) ; that they
would take a large view of public tdrails ; and, above an,
would not deprive themselves of all right to heavenly
aid by agreeing that night to the dee oration of parliament
and the destruction of the exclusively Christian character of
the British legislature. (Loud cheers.)
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE, who was but indistinctly
heard, said he felt it to be a duty he owed to himself
to Wens the sentiments be felt on that itmortant
occasion. He had known zasunyaJheewheodin
aitwheaycsounusetrdy
hisi
pets'—(hear,
wiktitch,,,heerthiLlsretosidedrel7e4ontirm from
hear)—but, looking csei ientiously s this question, he sit
that, as Ion.; as the Biitigh parliament continued to

hill.
The Duke of ARGYLE had come to the determination to
vote for the second reading of the bill. But lie dial so with
feelings of a very different deecription hum those expressed
by others who took the same view of the measure, both in
that house and in another piece.
The Bishop of ST. DAVID'S expressed his satisfaction
at having beard the noble earl opposite denounce the bill
before he had had an opportunity of addressing the houw.
He was not blind to the threats which had been uetereil as
to the consequences of paring the present ball. But he
would answer the noble earl in the words of an intinitelv
greater man than himself, " The lawel's will be alone ; I
must do mine." It had been asserted, though there wax
no proof of the fact, that the bill could only proceed on an
assumption that the enuntry was actuated by an entire held%
ference towards religion. If such was to he heti, some
curious results would he obtained, looking at the places frem
which the petitions in favour of this bill hid been sent. But
for himself he must declare he had no confidence in such a
reeigions thermometer. e feared he wee not altogethe
guided by surmise when hlle asserted that the Jews had not
yet ceased to be the objectsof an unreasonable and hereditary
dislike an the parts of numbers of enlightened Christian'.
laenking, indeed, hark into put timer, it was morally impos
tilde that such should not he case ; and although the evils
immediately resulting from such a unto of things were
abated, and had passed away, yet they had left
deep traces' of their former effects in the existing
habits and feelings of the country. If that was not
the case; if no noble lord who heard him was conscious
of entertaining such feelings ; then he must confess him-
self to he one of the most pre pidioed persons in that house,
for he certainly had experienced the feelings he had adverted
to, and he had used his Minis, endeavours to get rid of
them, so as to pre vent them from hay.og any influence upon
his decision. Much an the question wide r cored teration had
been debated, he was not sure that any great degree of
attention h.al been paid to the particular sentiments to
which he had referred. It had been urged as one of the
strongest reasons for rejecting the bill, that it was the
practice of the Jews to express tho utmost ab-
horrence of that divine person who was held
by Christians in the utmost degree of reverence.
Such indeed was the argument of the petition presented by
a noble earl opposite from the General Aweuably, and that
was urged as the strongest reason against the bill. The
most revue: el prelate below him had adverted to it, and the
late Archbishop of Canterbury had elm made that the maiu
ground for the impossibility which he telt of giving his eon-
sent to a measure like the present. hut he must he allowed
to say that in his opinion the charge, or rather the reason
urged against the bill, had no adequate foundation. Ile might
he told the Jews denied the divine character of the Saviour.
lint in what respect, might he UK, did the Jew differ in this
from an Arian ? Did not the unitarian alto deny the divine
character of Christ, anal also what the church conceived to be
the plain sense of scripture in the Saviour's assertions of his
divine origin ? lie merely urged this as a reason why their
lordship% should not reluse to admit Jews to arivileges
which had been already granted to others who stood in
exactly the same position as the Jews towards the Christian
religion. Tle re was also another ground for not considering
the Jews to be bonnd by their religion to any such hostility
to Christianity as had heen inferred by the most reverend
prelates to whom he had adverted. lie found the Jewish
historian who had narrated the events which occurred in
relation to the Saviour speaking of our Lord as a person
who fell a victim to the cabala of a particular sect of priests.
And also a most distinguished writer, the Jewish philoso-
pher, had described Christ as one who had advocated a sri-
ritual religion in lieu of a religion of tunes and hypocrisies
Anal he found some Jewish writer stating it to be his
'minim that a J. w might become a Christian and yet re-
main bound by the Jewish law of ceremonial. There was
ample room for the difference of opinion that ezii.ed
amongst the Jewish and Christian sects without necessi-
tating the existence of any special hatrad to Christianity
such as had been imputed generally to the Jewish race.
The bill W9R one most entitled in every respect to their
lordships favourable coubleration, and if they re
jected it, the grounds upoo which they did so must be o
I the plainest and most intelligible description. The country
would not be contented with airy speculations, though such
might, by the ingenuity of some noble lord', he invested fur
the moment with a seeming solidity. Their lordships must
be reminded that a great constituency had deliberately mode
choice of a Jew for their representative, end that the House
of Common.; had shown a willingities to remove the (heal-ilia
ties which prevented Jews from sitting in the legislature. It
now remained for their lordships to determine whether they
were prepared to tell the concituency of the metropolis that
they should not declare man ef their choice to represent
them, and also to to the House of Commons that
they were not to be permitied to declare what classes of per.
sons were to he permitted to take their seats in that assem-
bly. Their lordships hail been told that the hill wets moor-
*latent with the exist nee of Christianity, anal that it
would prove danacrous t t;a' interacts of the church.
New, as thew us Whets were meant to l'und
as reasons for not passing the bill, he should
like to know in what the danger to the church consisted.
Was it because the special province of the legislature was to
regulate the doctrines of the church ? Such an assertion
eauld not he seriously male ; anal, if so, wherein did the
ameg,t cousist of admitting a Jew to an assembly which
, hat no I whatever es, r the doctrines upon which the
1 Christian faith was based Would it also ba maintained
I that a Jew would so utterly disregard the feelings of his
1 constituents as to offer an insult or attempt an injury
to their religion? It had also been urged that the coun-
try would incur the risk of the Divine displeasure by
showing favour to the objects of the Divine wrath. lie
' would abstain, from obvious motives, from elating any ridi-
I cute up, -11 such an argument, least that which was meant for
the latter should be wilfully or mistakenly applied to the
I sacred subject of discussion. But with respect to the
rent of the Jews, he was quite sure that the present genera
I don had, by means of their ancestors, incurred a very heavy
debt towards the Jews in this respect, of which he was not
quite sure they would ever be able to acquit themselves.
It was his belied that, upon the common priaciples of our
I nature, the interests of the church were quite as likely, or
I more so, to be assailed by a dissenter as by a Jew. This
was said to be a question rather of principle than of expe-
diency. He had fully as much respect for principle as any
maw in the house ; but lie must confess that he could see no-
thing of the dignity of a principle in any of the arguntente
which had been used against this Insasure, and which, in-
deed, seemed to him less argume uts than sophistical fallaciu,
which had over anal over again been disposed of. It
had bee u insisted upon that the measure would
un-Christianise the legislature, whereas the legisla-
ture would never be un-Christianised to any greater
extent than the country itself should be tin-Chris-
tianised. Jt was said that if we admitted to the le-
gislature persons who dial not profess the same religioKn d
for with
ourselves we should part from the only security we i
the conscientious discharge ae the duties that iegumeturc.
No one denied the influence of religim over awes MUMS

views of morality ;but there was a common ground on which try. It was said that the few diseentientt,,,pisutilti,iin'iolinisAaanuLidditled:bhaen...
men of all religions could meet, and come to a tolerably dim that feeling to be in favour of the bill ; but he considered
tinct and unanimous opinion uto abstract right and wrong. the silence to have a significance the other way. There wee b
It was equally fallacious to mutt that the measure would be auother reason which increased the imp.irtanes of the gess as
an inuation upon the constitution of this country, lion before them. The relations of the church to the state one
on the principle that Christianity was held to be this country afforded at the present time question, not tho b
part and parcel of that constitution. No doubt the easiest for solution, or the safest to defer Nettling. lie though *
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principle of the old English constitution was that absolute that in those difficulties a reasonable man would tract t • t
exclusion, which rejected alike not inerel Jew, Turk, and that the legislature, by a slow yet certain peeress, had be.
infidel, but heretic and schismatic ; but t is principle had come straduallythmlotreTiediutwilhanattgheoldupfl.rod
pAtuinr,tgrh,,,e. church of the cone (
(nu
the parexteorfcitteoß(r(ititisuhnoodonsutitudtu-
a
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lion.long eninon
legislature been
had,abandoned
right, from time to time, modified, and modified still further, they considered the present tint:l:natty in adjusting church t
te is exclusive principle; and to say now that the legislature matters, there could be no doubt but that the adpi na J
could not, without a dereliction of its duty, still more modify the measure would eventually lead to the separationete
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the principle, or destroy it altogether, was the real attack church and state. He, for one, was not ie favor of such n
as such, was keeper:o'l, and that the nation null' would certayserefres- u
upon the constitution. Then, as to the question of Jewish separation, as he believed that the church would suffersuchon
nationality, it was said that tho Jew,
eimentivaltilv.o.7. alz,it:n i
t'aekniingbypathrtat
infect
me.,.,seeneelheenegidstiteoo: 1 enttunt,:imiyocrooni.
the
had inThelifiolrelth.'eumb Rirren:otlivedb*the wsattlqire'srtiennc4,nand
' And Dr. Arnold been cited as an authority for the pro none more so than that of national education ; and because
position that a Jew had no MOTO right to legislate for us the passing of the bill now under their censideration woeln
than a lodger to managethe household affairs of his handlord. render the settlement of those querions almost imposeible,
With every respect for Dr. Arnold, he must express the feel- he beseeched them not to pass it. (Cheers.)
ing, that the reverend gentleman's theory on this subject The Bishop of St. DAVID'S explained.
wan derived rather from Inapplicable analogies in Greet and The Earl of St. GERMANS, with all respect to the
, should
Roman history, than from any view of the actualstate of the prelate (the Bishop of Oxford), mid
hi must dissent in:.
case, or the actual circumstances of this country said its some of the propoeitions which he ad laid down. RI
present people. Dr. Arnold's opinions on this particular believed the Jews to be a loyal, peaceable, and industrious-
question were carried to an extreme, which he (the Ltiehop body ; he saw no reason why they sheuel not be aemit
of St. David's) thought very few of their lordships to complete participation in civil right", mid he c inteased he
would lie disposed to adopt, for the reverend doctor con- had heard nothing is the speech of toe right rev.
entered that it would be no departure from justice were our late opposite at all calculated to shake his opinion in favo -
government to do with the Jews that which the Spanish go- of this bill. 112
vernment of old had done with the Jews and with the
Moriscocs, namely, to expel them the country altogether.
It was urged, further, that nut only was the Jew an alien in •
The Earl of EGLIN TOT:hi, for the a'of aye the religion
he revered and the Saviour whom he wombipped
this country, hut that he was unsusceptilile and incapable certainly vote against this bill.
nf the ties which bind an Englishman to the land of his berth. Lord LYTTELTON was quite sure that the Jews were
entitled to the privilege on the ground of
It was assumed that the home of the Jew must be always in
was just could never he wrong. justice, and what
a foreign land—that his heart must be ever in Palatine.
Doubtless the religion of the Jew was • religion of hope, , The Earl of HA ItROWBY had always felt the utmost
I teaching him that at some time or other his race would repugnance to allow any obstruction to a privilege On Sc.
count of religious opinion ; hut having reviewed this
he restored to their original abiding place ; but there was . peem
nothing, in theory or in fact, which justified the statement liar question with great care, he must confetti' he had ones
that the Jew, as the member of a political state, did not to the conclusion that it would not be right to Watt the
. • Jews to parliament. (Hear, hear )
take the same interest in the welfare of that state with his
fellomcitizens. The right rev. prelate concluded by The Earl of YARBOROUGH had not looked at the fell.
earnestly exhorting their lordships to pus this measure. As he
question under this bill without anxiety, but the mere
a believer in the unerring cour-e of God's authority and he looked at it the more he felt that it was his duty ra a
power, and in the ultimate triumph of Christianity, he was Christian to vote in its favour.
firmly persueded that in adopting the present measure their The Earl of DESART said, the legislature being called
lonian's', while consulting the intereits of justice, wou"d upon to dide on question' both spiritual and temp Ural, be
not lie impairing those of the Christian religion, would be could notchink that a Jew ought to be fArmitted to stare
h isuning, rather than impeding its triumph. lie considered with Lhristians the administration of those affairs.
that every exclusion which distinguished the Jews from their The Earl of ELLESMERE said his vote that night
tellowsubjects hadthe effect of creating an additional fold in would be the result, not of impulse' but of such retiree
the veil which shut them out from the light of the true faith. as his ability allowed him to give to this important subject.
mStill longer to irritate the Jews by invidious distinctions If he could believe with the right rev. prelate that a
great
was the precise way still longer to retard the triumph of indifference to the safety of the country could alone induct
Christianity, and to prevent it from accomplishing its high a vote for this bill, no degree of reap et for am {,23,, •
NtigtiM on earth, glory to God, peace and good will amone tuencwould induce him vote that night in " cc)
y
men. (hear, hear.) but looking at the probable cot...mean-ft that would follow
The Bishop of OXFORD opposed, the bill. Those who from this measure, all he could foresee was that, at most
advocated the measure insisted upon it as giving to the Jews about a score of iespectable gentleme i of the Hebrew
our Meow-subjects, rights of which they were unjustly nation would be admitted to seats in parliament.
deprived. Nothing could be more painful ta an beinourabie Lord STANLEY was as much °weed to perseeution ea
mind than the idea ot such an injustice as this, and he for any man ; but he was at a loss to know hew oppositien to the
one, did he believe that the measure ave the Jews rights to gpresent bill could be designated be that name. To the &pa.
which they were really entitled, would nee for it, regard- vation of civil rights on the groundsot religious opinion hems
less of ultimate considerations, but he wholly denied as much opposed as any man; but the protectien of the laws
th it the Jews were entitled to the priviloees proposed to he was one thing, and the privilege of making those laws was
centerred upon them. (Hearn Ile considered that to give another. (Hear, hear.) That was • privilege, not a right,
them them pleges would be destructive of the principle of the abnce of which irivolved neithi I' perneutioe ew
our constitution and set the best intereas of the ceuutry. The penalty; and it was, moreover, a privilege which the lan.
eusperiteenis was no correlative of thefts., rioilatis or thejus !attire was bound to fence round with every security neces-
suefrogii. lite right rev. brother who last addressed their sal y for the rights of the couutry. (Hear, hear.) rap noble
lordships, and who had charged all the arguments against marquis who Introduced the hill had said that to the
the measure as being sophistical fallacies, said, "It time of Elizabeth there was no exclusive system in this
is nut te birthplace of tato Jews which mak country on the grounds of eligion, and !hat when tuna*
them another nation from us, hut their religion." Why, did commence the terms 'Ton the true faith of a Christian"
this was the precise point, the very thing which gate them had no reference whatever tot persons
far from aof the Jewis
ighth pen
a uationality inconsistent altogether with the claim now set suasion. Why,
before thame, rto
up fur them. The Jew, if he be a real Jew, cannot be- sit in the an
legislature, a Jew lied no right to
lng to any other ntion th his own ; the distinct injunc hie foot on British soi ght even
l. (Hear, hear.) The noble nammis '
tioons of his religiono are that he shall not blend with other said that the set of William and Mary abrogated the rile
peoples; that, when dwelling with other peoples, he &believer gious penalties, and that for thirteen years there was no legal
remember that he is wholly diverse from them, and he is obstruction to the entry of Jews into parliameie ; but the
elperially enjoined to the practice of his peculiar religious noble marquis should recollect that at diat time the Jew had .
observances, to the purpose that these may keep up the din no means of getting naturalised in England. (Hear, hear.)
tinction, and preserve him pure from mixture from those He could hold freehold, no property ado
which he nunht
with whom he may he otherwise in daily contact. What become qualified; and the oath was administered on the
said Mr. Van Hoven, a Jewish writer, in a recent work New Testament, on which it win
impossible that a
on Judaism? Why thus: that the peculiar prepare- Jew could be sworn. And yet the noble unman
thins of food among the Jews were designed for told their lordships that because certain words had been
a setect and holy natien, that so it might remain obliterated from the statute-book there was not in the time
tur ever uadefiled by intimate communication with the of William and Mary any legal obstacle to a Jew entering
people of another faith. Another recent Jewish writer, the parliamait. Next came the question of wh .t constituted a
Milne l'ruhl, emphatically reminded his co-religionists here proper qualification for a seat in a Christian legislature. If
thet, however born in England, they were not Englishmen, such seat was the inherent right of every Bnash subject,
for that Jews, of whatsoever land natives, were of the Jew- why require pecuniary qualification ? why exclude melon
ish nation only, and had no national relation with the people or women : (Hear, hear.) With the exception of the rieht
around them. Thus inculcated the rabbi, and such was the rev. bench, who sat there because parliament was aChristun
universal feeling of the Jews. Infinite examples might be anembly—(Cheen)--every clergymen of the church of
adduced to prove the fact. Let him mention two that oc- England was excluded from a seat in the legislature ma
cuffed to IliF mind. When Napoleon desired to bring back yet no one complained of the violatioh of an inherent
his shattered army from Russia, money was essential to him. right. (Hear, hear.) Had not all those persons a rieht to
Who supplied this money ? A Russian Jew ; yet, as a complain of persecution as well as those who were lensing
Russian, national interests would have effectually kept fur in this hill ? (Hear, hear.) Nthody disputed the right
hint from extending this aid. When war between England of the legislature to enforce a peeuniary qualification, and lie
and France raged with its most intereeeine fury, would boldly ask whether it was a greater disqualification at
and money was needed by France to enable het to sustatn the Christian assembly of a Christian country fur a 1010
the struggle, who advanced this money ? An English Jew, to be without •certain income per year, or to be a Jew, re.
in whom English nationality would have futbidelen the pudiating all you worshipped, despising all you looked
loan. (Hear, hear.) fhe right rev. prelate proceeded to up to with veneration, &MI, ii he was a sincere
contend that, if the Jews had no title to the proposed boon Jew, wishing that your blasphemous religion ebould
as of right, they had as little claim to it under any other be trodden to the earth ? (Loud cheers.) He eared
consideration. The noble marquis who introduced the not what might be the o, inion of the nominal Jew or
measure celled upon their lordships to pass it 13 a matter the nominal Christian, whose religion was but a garment
of kindness. The conceasion, so far from being a kindness which might be taken off at pleasure ; but he contended that
to the Jews, would be fatal to them. What the Jews were the sincere follower of the law of MOM must know and be-
'peculiarly in danger of at the present moment lieve that, to assert that any one shared the throne atlas
War infinelity, the result of decaying hope and expiring God whom he alone worshipped was that crime which by
expectation. For Christisna to grant them the his law should be punished with the utmost severity.
right of legislating for a Christian community would (Hear, hear.) He (Lord Stanley) did not wish to ate too
be at once to tell them that those Christians had as little deeply into that solemn question ; but the Jew must
faith in revelation as themselves, and the example would be either believe that the founder of Christiosim
instantly effective in the destruction of what remained to was co-equal with God himself, or he must look
them of riligious belief. The Rabbi Pruhl to whom he had upon him as a malefactor justly condemned by the laws of sa
already referred to, expressed, in his pamphlet, the surprise offended country. (Hear, hear.) lle had no hereditary
which tilled his mind when he observed the disposition of a hatred of the Jew, whom he looked upon as for many ca.
Christian body to emancipate the Jews, a disposition which curies the depositary of the word of God. With roped to
he distinctly attributed to a regardleasness for the worJ of the cracter of the Jew of
athe present day, he believed big
God. The Jews here were spoken of so though they were to beau the main as good citizens as any other British sob-
the descendants of Jews long settled in the land, whereas jest; but w itn respect to his religious views, he could not
in paint of fact none of the Jewish families in England consent to place him on • level with way denonenh
were of older dote here than two hundred years. lion of Christians. The case of the Continua had
In addition to the of right which the noble marquis been quoted ; but they would be offended it called ,
(Lansdowne) had urged, he had spoken of the advantage by any other name than that of Christian, and the Roma '
which would result to the nation from bringing Jewe into catholics held fuadamental principles similar to those of the
parliament. The noble marquis had not, however shown protestant. Yet those were the men whom some cone
them the nature of those advantages. If it could be. preyed lords and right rev. prelates would put on • footing with the
that it was necessary for the constituencies that the Jew unbelieving Jew. (Cheers.) The noble marquis had re-
should exercise the right which was said to belong to him, of minded him (Lord Stanley) that in 1832 he had voted for
sitting ia parliament, then there would be some argument ; the removal of Jewish disabilities; hut civil and munitipil
but he would maintain that such was not the case. There disabilities were different matters from a scat in
were, to be sure, certain advantages to be gained at election the legislature of the country. It had been slid
times—( hear and laughter)—which the Jews could sup. that they; should defer to the wishes of the
ply ; and he knew enough of the history of the last constituency which had thought fit to mhos s
City election to enable, him to form an opinion Jew. Suppose the City of Loudon had tbougfit fit to re-
ef their character. lie was of opinion that the election in turns pauper, a minor, or a female, would thrum gia have
queatiou was a lent of business trausaction, in which ce e been admitted, or would their selection lee allowed to oven
candidate supplied the character and the other the capital. rule the Lew of the land ? (Hear, hear.) He contended
(Cheers and laughter.) The noble marquis, had e course of that the Jew was not of this nation, bet of a nation apart.
his argument, had said that their lordships better pass He had no interest in British interests any more than heal
, house to a nonentity, than by so doing. (Cheers.) What racier of that essembly, or adopt a course which, iu spite si
question of how far the passing of the act would tend to would be again and again introduced. If such should be
unchristianise the leonlature. lie (the Bishop of Oxford) the case, he trusted that its fate would be to be again sad
entertained a strung opinion that such would be its effect. It again rejected by their lordships' house. (hear, hear.)
seemed to him that they were now asked to take the greatest Lord BROUGHAM coneratulated the house on the tele
step which could be demanded of • Christian legislature, perste manner in which thee question hal been discussed Sy
Tney were asked to admit those who came amongst the people all its members, except a distinguished occupant of the right
the bill at once, or woula have it reiterated again and in Germ in or French. Suppose that instead of a seat in Me
again, until they did. theylie thought ho might leave that ar- other house the Baron Rothschild had obtained a pane.
gument to their lordships' own consideration. If a would not his presence interfere very much withehe freedon
measure which they believed to be morelly wrong of diSCUTaion in that house? How could he express insuring
or morally questionable, were to be passed on such terms their adherence to Christianity in the presence of a
grounde, he said that they could not perform an msn to whom every word spoken in favour of Christianity
act which could more utterly stultify their Was a direct offence . (Hear, hear.) The great question 01
own character—Omar, hear)—and tend more to reduce the principle War, whether they would retain the Christian ca-
-Ihe had stated appeared to him to be the main arguments o the paucity of petitions, would he believed alienate the U'
[ the noble marquis. The noble viscount (Canning) had font- tionnl Affections from the national legislature. The noba
lowed on the same side, and hail entered into the difficult marquis had told them that if tne bill w. re thrown oat it
rat this nation en the protession either that they were not rev. bluets. The bitter spirit hail not proceeded hem the
Christian, or that they were haters of Christianity ; sod most rev. prelate who so tidy re ail
the iuterests of to
it would be impessible if the act was pawed to, refer any church, but from a right rev. prelate who hail based to
mere to aCM istian principle as governing that assembly. opposition on the slanders which had appeared in certain o
He would tell them of the difficulties which they would hove I the publican apers. Certain attacks on the prime minis
to encounter. When the British Association was sitting lasti ter, appeng in those papere, had ben &leader
year to relieve the great distress in In land, a body of the I, onsly used, and but that a ri r Mint
Weneyan dissenters raised a large SUM Of STOUTS MW :Or I hail useil tuem he would sly Eighty reverendChees)
that object. A sub-committee of the association was appointed llt was not true that the bill before their lordships mienned
to dr 1 V up a letter of thanks to that body ; and in that
;in a job set on foot in the City of 'Auden. It was cot trio
letter they expressed their acknowledgmeata " for the act of 'I
that Lord John Russell owed his election to the llama
Christian charity which they hal performed." NOW there • Rothschild. There was the noble lord's letter ettantel
was on that cenmittee a moisten of the Jewish body,' who prove it. But it was true that the noble lord's as vs!
took exception at the word Christian, and begged that it much injured by Baron Rothschild's candidature; ate
might be struck out. The member in questim said to the it was only in consequence of the solictatims
no.
committee, " You have admitted me on a level with your- his partisans that Lord John Russell conseuted. :::
selves, and I will not admit charity to be a Christian virtue. to withdraw himself from the contest. fie dila 1
You are charitable in spite of your Christianity, and not believe that the right rev. prelate meant to any L
because of it." The end of the matter was that the word l thing malignant, but he thought he had been ledeidal
was struck out, and the letter sent thanking the Wesleyans l the cheers from the benches behind him (Lord Brongasn i
simply for their charity. He said, ex into direr °notes.' and had incautiously said fur name than he mien
The same difficulties would arise in other matters; and from (Cheers and laughter.) But even supposing al
bs or
the day when they legalised the admission of the denial of I right rev. prelatelaan. mid about the bill were true,.
__
Christianity, they could no longer appeal to Christianity as postng it originated
ini the most impure motives, 'ln
In
nnee
their guide. (Cheers.) He asked them if the laws of Eng- Iso good a measure a itself, t iat nothing cou n
.1 If
land were based upon anything but the laws of God, revealed I it, and he should therefore vote for it wan 7;
through the medium of Christ Jesus ? There was no doubt 1 greatest ardour. During the whole night he ne
• e that on
that such was always the ground on which the validity of 1 bato had proceeded upon the omen _ en,
, every English law was based. Something had fallen from the , legislature had advesedly excluded the Jews fromennj
1, right rev, prelate who had preceded him, that had given him lin parliament. This was not the fat, either
1 (thellishopolOxford)real pain,although there was nothing in lor otherwise. There was not even a declaration role _
it. The rtv. prelate had spoken of the direct, important, I from a Jew or any cne elm, be they Calvinists, Social's;
and unquestionable relation which he alleged to east be • Arians, or any other sectarians, to the effect that thery.thee
twcen Judaism and Christianity. Now, that there had been the slightest belief in any ene docum. at, upon the
_vita. M. s
a direct, important, and unquestionable relation between of which the Christian religion was supported. All ides
them was well known, but he denied that any such relation m'- mber was required to do evee to ainute the l' e
Logan,
vented at present; and he hoped the right rev. prelate would and to uphold the succession of the boo ...te
chow him (the Bishop of Omord) to remind him, that had Brunswick; and he was required to make these. p
not _
Judaism been suffered to remain in the ascendant, it would on the faith of a true Christian. But that form aid
eh la:
have provedthe tomb of Christianity. A more dangerous argu- quire him to declare himself a Cnristian, althoug
prole:
runt could not be promulgated. In point .if fact Chr:stianity (Lord Brougham) did not mews to deny that a very per'
was not a settled doctrine, but a belief of the heart in cu hi- connsientims feeling had operate' ins deterring [hoe,. nn
dividual, the Savour of the world, and who formed the from tekieg the oath preseribed to the nt. mbersi r..(!r.
heart of religion and the centre of faith. Judaism win an houses of parliament. What, thentore, became c an,r,t
entire denial of the whole system. and a Jew accordingly arguments by which their lordships had been hlynn
believed the oho in question to be nothing mare then nauseated, to the effect that the partial's. ut would
g, se weo-
an impostor, whom his ancestors slew. It was the
christianised by the admission ot Jews. towiga scat is
apparent that theoe two mita could not be reconciled the House of evilness I The Heine .11 Ci
woo
good.l-1
Wins nenera to one petitions witch hail one. "c"cllt'lic Y unchrlitimused itielit if
till'
arg""
°a gni*
there win something ream nbott the leeling of the conn- seeding tan On bill sow boX• tibia