The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-08 00:00:00

NEW MEMBER.

Mr. Romitmx took the oaths and his seat for Sheffield at
the room of Mr. Ward, appointed Chief Commissioner of the
lonian Islands. The hon. and learned gentleman was at.
campanied to the table by Col. Thompson and Mr. Hum
end subsequently took his old seat on the ministetiol side of
the home, immediately below the gangaay next to Sir L
Inglis.
MUNICIPAL OATHS.

The Sheriffs of London appeared at the bar, and pre.
tented a petition from the lord mayor, aldermen, and com-
mon council of the city of London, against taking the oath of
supremacy in certain municipal wee upon taking office.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE.
Oa the motion of Colonel TIitSVOB, love of absence was
granted to Mr. Saunders Davies for three weeks, on account
of urgent private Intense's.
EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY—THE CHARAC-
TER OF THE HOUSE.
CHARTERIS said—ln rising to ask the question of
which I have (given notice, I may state that considerable
misunderstanding appear to have arisen as to its object, it
being supposed that it is directed against some individual
member of this house, than which nothing is further from
my intention. (Hear, hear.) In addition to this, as very
probably many hon. gentlemen here have not directed their
attention to the report to which my question raters, I shall
read a short extract from it as published is the daily paws.
It is this :
In the investigation of the disbursements under the bead of per-
liamentary expenses, there are several Items the precise character of
which your committee could not arrive at. The Items retested to us
the following :
1646.—April 17. By parliamentary expenses a £5OO 0 0
April 24. Ditto a 3,000 0 0
April 2& Ditto a 2,406 17 6
Ditto a 1,700 0 0
1347.—June 23. By "Extensions"

£9,600 17 6
Ea reference to the amount of the items marked a, namely,
76061., 17a. 6d., the explanation given to your committee by Mr.
Wadoington and Mr. Duncan was, that the sum., a.s mated, were dia.
buried by the company through them, for Pervicer rendered, and in a
manner " which did not leave them at liberty to give pat titulars, as
, these could not be given without implicating other p.ithes."

Now I regret to state that it has come to be reported that
those parties are members of the legislature, end there are
rumours very prevalent that the sums to which I have re-
ferred have been expended in what is called facilitatingthe
passage of bills through parliament;" is other worth—in
plain English—in bribing members of this house. (Bear.)
I cannot believe that any member of this house has bem
guilty of conduct so disgraceful and dishonourable ; but,
inasmuch as those rumours are very prevalent, it appears to
be a matter which must not be passed by without some
notice on our part. I therefore think that we are boundto
institute a most searching and rigid inquiry into all du
circumstances connected with the matter. I confess my
belief is, that we shall find little or no foundation for those
rumours ; but if it unfortunrcly should turn out other-
wise, we shall have at least the satisfaction of discovering
the guilty persons, and of holding them up to the oppro-
brium and contempt of all honest and honourable am
(Cheers.) I will now ask the noble lord at the head of the
government whether his attention has been drawn to the re-
port which has been recently published by a committee ap-
pointed to inquire into the management of the affairs of the
Eastern Counties Railway Company, in so far as it affects
the general character of ibis house ?
Lord J. RUSSELL.—The words to which the hon. gentle,
man has alluded, and which I will give the house the trouble
of again hearing, are these—
In reference to the ainouat of the items marked a, namely
7,6061. 17e. ed., the explanstion given is your committee by mr.Was•
dineten and Mr. Duncan was, that the ennie, as stated. were disbursed
by the company through them, fur services rendered, and in a manner
" winch did not leave them at liberty to give particulars, as doe
could not be given without implicating other parties."
Now I agree with the hon. gentleman that those words do
tend to excite suspicions affecting the character end credit
of this house. (Cheers.) For my own part, Ido net
give the slightest belief to the rumours to which
the boa. gentleman has alluded ; but I do arm
with him that it would not be right to leave throe
words given forth by a committee to the public —a committee
of persona known to be men of character—without insti-
tuting an inquiry. I think it is due to this house. (lieu,
heir) Ido not myself think that there would be any ad-
vantage in the inquiry being instituted on the motion of a
member of the government. If it were decidedly the wish
of this house, certainly I should not object to ask some mem-
ber of the government to undertake the inquiry ; but my
opinion is that the hon. gentleman, having turned has atten-
tion. to the subject, and the question being one affecting the
character of individual members of the house, it would be
better that the inquiry should be in the hands of the hon.
gentleman, &misted as he would be, I believe, by a leading
person with all parties in this house, than that it should be
undertaken by the government. (Hear, hear.) Therefore,
agreeing with the bon gentleman in the necessityfor an inquiry.
I trust that he, having considered the subject, and taking
what means be shell think proper to ascertain the opinions or
different member; as to the best mode of instituting and
conducting the ir quiry, will himself undertake that import-
snt subject,.and not let it rest until the whole truth shall be
elicited. (Rear, hear.)
Hr.-WADDINGTON.—I trust the house will pardon me
if Interpose with one or two observations. (Hear, hear.) It
isnot my intention ,to offer any remarks with the view of
*venting nay inquiry which the houseamay desire. But,l
assure the house that I was not aware, until I saw it in print
in the daily papers, that the committee had maderthis re-
mark, " The committee did not further press the question,
as it appeared to be one which Mr. Waddington couldtnot
'angers; jest it might be again asked 'in another place.' "e
' made no oNerration before that committee relating to any
member of this house, and that being so, I think the house
will agree with me that there was no reastn., for Any such
remark being
•made by the committee. As soon as thaton-
port oh the-oommittee was made public, the directors ihti-
, mated that it was their intention to issue observations in re-
, &relic* to it. That report has sinew been issued, and I
will read to the house the remarks which the directorotif the
Eastern Counties Railway make with regard to that 7,6061.

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In reference to an expenditure, however, of 7,6061., which is re'
ferrecleto in the committee's report, the directors think it right to ay
that.it wavnade to bring about Important benefits for the comPor.
by misting a committee in April, 1646, called the Size-Isno com-
mittee, formed for the purpcse of carrying oat the reheme of amalga-
mation with the Eastern Counties and London and York intros'%

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tiss PAdwey atm, end I mem this hews es • nu sad pa.
these that thme h* eat • mosabor of this his.. who either
&eel, or isdiresdy did lomat ewe shigioshilleg in reference
*mos 7.0061. (IlleA, boar.) I think Isis ins is the hems
te male that statement, and I ma thealdhl to the lea. gem
Meese for harbag given AA this polls egysetweily of sem
vormti, g ilas moms to whit BO boo Nikell4. If
bed bees mentioned is that sommilloe, when I was thin.
I impedes to any mother of this Mess that he bad
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s dello aiding, I shoeld ham repedmi it with in.
&ratios es a her insinuation sad ealunny splint every
member. (Hew, bow.)
Mr. CHARTURIS said be was is the beads abbe home.
lat he mid thought it would be most desirable that then
should be aa inquiry. (Hear, hear.) He therefore gave
NM* that on ?handily ant he should move bra um-
mitt« to inquire tate the subject. (Hear, hear.)

SICILIAN AFFAIRS.
Kr. DISRAELI inquired ekes the Shelia& papas would
be lad epos the table.
Lied J. RUSSELL was Reny He hem 'oedemas bad
ant wee meths or Me wedge. He wee with
•n, treble
mesa, the Semetuy of State Sze Foreiga Albin, • her
keen afore, sad if soda bad bees gime he should bass
bas reposed to answer the timed= ; but at present ke
wee not.
Kr DISRAELI should bass timed that so sodas
would lave Wee amemary es such a eabret. He had bees
iskneed es pretty rod authority out of doors, that three
papers wore already is the beads el some iadivideale.

PARLIAMENTARY OATHS BILL.
Os the motion for the seened mediag of this bill,
Sir R. H. INOLIS moved r as 111141aakani that it be
read a mead time that day six months. This
bill removed all those oaths whit* had been oessidered
essential for the good gmentseent of the realm. It altered
the oaths of 'kitty, samemasy, and ablusatior. The sable
lewd by this bill had hoisted neutral mitoses for the sake of
erneeing the weirs goods The object of the sth clams
was to provide for the admission of Jews to the how, sad,
la es many wads, it took away from the legislating ot Rag-
land its nemessey and essential Christie* character. Bekaa
been told that the words " es the trati faith of a Christie* "
hat oaly bees hitrodsend wield& the lest twenty years ; but
the words themselves were used so leog age as the 3
James I. Hie Mamie& friend would say, what benefit
did you 'derive from the Christianity of such roes ea
Huse sad Cilibboa ? We had this bereft', that they
sever felt themselves at liberty to do anything 'salsa
ear common Christianity, and he defied say one to produes
from the records of parliament, or any other searee, any evi-
dence that them men used their power to the detriment
of the church. Bat the ems was different with
the Jews. It was idle to say that their numbers
would be small, and bring small, would be (aeCee-
tael we all knew the devotedans of a small body
la respect to great measure*, and the Jew would torn a
modem fur his owe opinions. lie might mat be able to sae-
end in the first instance, but there were may ban= M
which • compact body might have an isithesse is the kid•
aim of the house. It was said that the Jews were samai-
gaily small, being not more than 30,000. They hod never
been invited to come here ; they came her. foe their own
benefit. They sought wealth and they found wealth, and
they had no right to expect that the noble lord the First
Minister of the Crown should move to wait the
words, "es the true faith of a Christian." For the
sake of the Jew they were about to offend the scruples of
the many ; to hurt the consciences of the met majesty of
the people of England. If it were a quokka ofjasties, he
weal& concede it at °see; but, believing it to be• question
that could not be eoneeded without offence to the coaseleasse
et many, without destroying the exclusive eharester
the lesielaturei, be eernestly entreated the house fa laatilf
Is resisting the farther progress of this measure. He UMW
this the bill be read a esessed time that day six math*
Major BERESFORD wooded the amendment. He looked
spon this as a punka involving the reeogaitios of the
eferistian faith, which he had ever considered- as bound up
with the duties of the legislature. It was sot s matter of
detail ; it was a bill opposed to the leered priacipies Oa
which they had ever acted, and prospered and flourished.
This bill would endanger the ebristianity of the legislature,
sad imperil the best feelings of the country. The arganten's
with which it had been introduced failed to bring conviction
ID his mind ; he felt that there was no sufficient
same for hazarding ea dangerous an experiment. There
was a Sopron Ben, presiding over us all, whose
wrath and displeasure we should all avoid. It
was said that became the City of Loudon had chosen
for its representative a wealthy Jew, they were justified in
elteriag the law, sad allowing him to participate in their
dellbseations. To do this would be to overrule the wisheeof
lin vat of the mantry ; frr, in other instances, when Jews
bed awed tbonmoltr s as candidates, they had bees rejected;
ask in the owe of the warn for the City of London, the
amber wend to the admission of the Jew was very
newity equal le that which returned him by • tiding
tel lilts said that he shoal net have vonand to oc-
say the time ad attend= of the Muse if be did sot con-
Kelly rely on that ishilmesse whisk the besee wee ever
Ned to email Is these who W sualea he apses their
Is he tholes& si (Hew, brae.) Be steed more
le need of that Welcome bans, be had the mhilanne to
Ma after the ben. lenast wines elation la the been eel
Mak passel aerator entitled bin to the utmost reopost,
Mimi be bad the eras/arta. to have arrived at • sir
dodos diesels
area
to that whisk he bad draws fres the
hand esimmeas whisk were coiental WM* eonsibea
the. Navies thasinikesrald his inteatise,he meal, with the
the bone. Pad to state Ms reams whisk
kad mainly istnenied his deskies. lie weld set bat trash
Int a oleos NM WY Mk eat M hewer of the has lathes
welkin etas rivilecesof one senallaien—
lie they arched by tight se wog eatinilmis el
the ealm. (Hear, boor.) Net Manse of kis e this
ror that, hothouses,. his bolas sa labees,
eathare of the. trellstrames,
ptiiesent z2sesaksa‘trilorbigres4sinde Me
essaltutiosal rights of the Jew by unterring ea him
=mirights, civil, military, end jelkdal. As • magic
lltr7 exercised a judicial husetioa, end almost every
dies of trust, every breach of civil and military adainistra-
des, INC spa to him. He might share is municipal can-
di, might rote at the election of members ot puha-
meat • but there remained after all this one die
Zilifiblue that although • constituency might
him
as their member, although the returning officer
might send he his name, he was still by the state of our law
flea taking his seat as • member of the House of
lortudsa meas. While this inespecity remained in form, the
whole political status of the Jew was defective in itsmost
important feature. (Hear, hear) And he (Mr. Peel) eon-
feliud that he was ensiles to find 11311 political grounds for
admitting the Jew to municipal Mine and the elective
franchise, while be remained excluded from any share in the
sets or the deliberations of that house. (Hear.) True it was
that gentlemen bad attempted to draw • distinction between '
filling a civil or municipal Aloe and the exercise of
a public franchise. They had beta told that 'nil
employment involved mealy administrative and instrumental
office, and that to the state and pazliament aely was=
the power of making those laws by which civil and in
offices were regulated. He would not take apes himself to
pronounce whether or not that distinction was founded on
name, bat at least let him remind the home that the Test
Aet of Charles 11. was framed on that principle, and that
under that Act the eight of dissenters to vote was never die-
**bed. Tnere had bees, in the *nue of time, any cases
of disability known to our law, but it did sot appear to him
thatthey bore any analogy to the elseof the Jew, became they
were either temporary is their nature mannered in their ap-
plicadon,and in no way involved the legal degradation or want
of civil worth in the person falling within their category.
Haring said se much respecting the fact of the Jeo's exclu-
sion—a fact which the principles of political equality eon-
denised—he would now call the attention of the Louse to
the mode in which the law operated. After the discovery of
the Gunpowder Plot an net was framed for the purpose of
excluding Haman **holies front the office of magis-
trates. The csth was one of allegiance sad abjars.
lion, and coecluded with the wards, "on the tene Lite
of a chrwine." Linn it wits imposed upon mem-
hers d parliament; but to farther MGM* was
taken until the 30th Charles 11., when ore stringent mea-
sures against Roma catholic' were adoptedm by compelling
members of both homes to qualify by taking the oaths of
allegiance and abjuration, and by subscribing to a declare-
nen against transubstantiation. On the accession of William
111 , that oath was repealed, and is lieu of it • new oath of
supremacy sad • new on. of allegiance were established,
which, Mika being way easise, did sot contain the words
"on the WS. faithof • Calais." (Rear, hear.) TOlll-
beet sl is es legislation went, the Jews were admissible
to parliament at that period, bat towards the close et
the reign of William, Loais XIV. recognised the claim
etthe Peolieseter, end the Pietender's adherents (*this country
Mai prinicelly Roman attholies, an act was passed la
in imam a the legislators the obligation of quali.
ftwesiess by an addifinfil oath, iodating that kin
eel doemsdaate bed forfeited sll right to the
theme. But although that oath was stringent, it was
ilemod on the same model, and cosoledel with the words,
on the tens faint of a Christian." This. were the three
man sf secoosegy, Allegan ce, and abandon to which
Wight be added the tieclarcion against nessebstiatiat(on,
wbleb was repealed in 1829. Now the sonsinding weeds of
the cult of abjuration were each as ern amilentisell Jew
weld surmount; but he (Mr. Peel))
_had inirevonrod to
dam that that oath was never bawled ee wank Jews, or
to snare for parliament at umitimese poisselea of
Christianity. (Hear, hear.) So far *ma that the estis was
intended to azelade °se great division, _pothers the gentest,
of profemiag Chrietians, and it was diellehill gay ley • gra-
tuitous and sediment coniesquers of its egiseatien that Jews
were excluded. lf, then, he Menke the ensbnia• of the
Jews indefensible ea powele, Mumma mere lade
fasible must he think it whin be on the leans
by whisk it had been bee** abed ? (Load char.)
He assineed, Men, that be add not was the posed.
ea which admission was tamed to men who preheat
Ask medium to take the tabs el all ad
obreeerasy, end even of &banana seder • dliii.at most
den ; onel he leered easy bora umber of thee
be • wkst
wee amid frees my eta es a
he trail rights, s • declancion of hie isedinset to
stand by the established order of things ha ohne* lei state,
while be waned spank being marls the Walla of outdo
wade which bad merely been inteadned he. the eelk se a
master el hem (Hear.) Ma it vie on the salicions hogging
ofreel undies Mat tatviesipel argnmina thee p.
w tatatlod, sad hi &gala, WM lb@ ponaiancot

of the hem, passed to 00/11/11/1 wore of them ; and here he
shield seetend kit the priesigle disk was to be collected
Gem oat sari whisk he Meat eboold
he anstristed ite epplisslien, and pset eye
M its is sesame the prisapie eg re liberty.
(Chem) He sanaled that diMeenes of religions
=sitheshealil ea metitete way puma of dal
. (Hear, hewn.) That it meld ever have
beth se, mid My be isegned ea the suppesitise et the
desist aim beanie *Ma mid sae, or rather
he Medd say from these two amnia= being oaaiwiibls
lam (Rear.) It wee! is ems these, of that kited ant
wbeig devoid etude that die sests was time wads
fie lest to the and that the Wens el the state
wen attempted to be breed ea a the people
k W mass of MU end legislative ktsa-
Mnfrfis what me the unesqesese t Mesta be-
=more widely Mimi and stream sad at lest
• feet whisk ft was imporibis M evernek.
We had new neneadered She pelimipie that emmaion with
Mama of Path sem be the hesis of paled rights.
(Illem bear.)met did es whin it passed the likura.
mad Tests and lb, Callas Raid bills. He mkt .sly
name, the., from dr esestitelion as is feud it; sad is
Cog hit Me he dada Ode Ms maid by the •3110211&•
dila* tiantedde, as they wen, with the
pen=ellresand sew sad onselatiseal kw—those ski-
Mies whisk bid down that ear eased natation. were
to be aeloyad_ wiliest rea ms to dames la re-
es.Prldier often.) Lad bewould add, that
whisk he derived is,. die comitetion
as It stood at peseta, appeared to him to be quite reemil-
able with the Mau doctrine, which awoken peehibited
the engaging le Mil affairs snag with Jews, or any ether
.um by mein el their rays But the ariselpal
asks seguessas ea theic=s bearing of the euestoe:tti;
Mime le dwalMei ea remit% whiek it was ea-
OMANI Vial Mr/ 11411111111011*(111M into parliasseat.
eggements of the bill represeated it as anodise
str the
la the Bewail of the chunk. Bat, had au the
1111•11 bon sad of every emperion whisk 'ire tape-
dna led seen it expedient to great ? one of those
=lalbed ea to pew, and ke treated that the pre-
iesenedeise
is the present ease would eventually
yds to be madly iweginary (Hear, hear.) Let them
Mk at the skew& of this new'eleseas whisk wes to week
se math Maid It was sanaleted that at the outside •
MW washer of Jews woad lad their way fate
B e
end even if any danger to the state should
glegates from their amain, the eastitasecies retuning
them being Christina would lan the remedy in the
limb. (Hem, bust.) Another meat, head on re-
ligions expedioney, spine the progress of this
amen was, that the inflame width, If it passed, st
weal Stratus lath the empeatkin of parliament
would sat it he that part of its mestitationd functions
whisk emented the skunk. Bat he thought it meat be
admitted that if that were a difikaity, ft existed fa the par-
liament es shady sonsatated. (Hoar, hear.) They should
bear in mid that parenment only dealt with flea temporali-
ties of the Mai and the relations of its ailaistry with dal
misty; bat the Meta answer to • warden at that kind
Yes to be, that the inecagnity already existed,
Miesiber Wad in parliament ever Mee that peasant
MI soma te be estlenvely peeetstant. (Cheers.) lie
shoal new pas from these segments of religious expe.
dam le ea which had been nsesented as involving a
I greet pektelple. He referred to the volts set on a nominal
of Christianity, those mad igne of a common
&LlLity hung represented se pert of the law and practice
of palbasat sod tbe eocaltution. Bat sines when, he
1111111111 sok, bail the oath of sbj unities been looked upon se a
powesta of Obellienity ? At lint Anglican protestantiam
alms bead fts way We parliament ; when asset found its
way la the perikassit might still be celled protestant ; but
when the Haase eatable were admitted they could only
deka • amen Chrisdraity. It was his firm conviction
diet they met part with their title to be and a pea'.
met exciesively Chastise, bat that while dean so they
meld still mem Chains in this sense, Meths greet end
newerbelaniag majority add continue Christian, and that
their laws would always continue to breathe the spirit of
I Ciallea morality. (Loud cams.) But he could better
esassamill the importance attached to this formula if it
meld be 11111111,11 to him that it had mead to cream an im
posedds barrier against sem seeteries ohm dogmas
were at variance with what ha heaved to be the
Best Important baton fa Chriiiimitty. It seemed
that mask had sot tae the MIL They had admitted
Nnitalem, theeelbee he amid Mt of what velem was
es see whisk waded the pasha of Christianity addle
it ondesimi GM d the saes Mel ementids of Christianity
(Hear, Mr.) It inighl he mid, however, that no matter
how lex a aminetina might be put upon the oaths, still,
we hod, dime, the inenety that every member, on taking
his mg, paned lima( • Chriaian. He was net m-
=B admit its vales as • security, but it would Met
lila, after the forbearam with which he had ham
listened to. to trusses* at any greeter length upon the
Yeses. He would only say further, that, being
midis to see any force sr conclusiveness is die
argements against this bill, he should follow fa the
seem of coestitatiosal precedes% sad ea emlighteed pay
by giviag his hearty vote is Was d the issued reedit
(Lewd ahem) Before he sat down be wisheilai:nmiivelet fir
eve week ...resting the wanks Mimi ha Ma by
thee. hWm* the member fee Gad II . The
haa. Mena bad told theta to beware how they interfered
with the reiggions sentieseute of the purple. He (Mr. Peel)
kadgaidahal that the religions sentlinents d the lapis
were MOW to the fullest casideration, M=
she Wad to give full weight to the
dbleige of** own judgment, and if they 'aligned that the
endedes 'Curtain irelividuals fits privileges which should
be gimmes to all,eseld not be justified la candour fir public
semi% Is woad be contrary es the easeiliatory spirit of
• surYlNNes Nth,/ maintsined such exams He be-
lad deft a MK matiliany mares of policy wee the,
Whims meet andelent with the spirit of Christianity,
GM that is wee (numbest upse that base, however dke
syssable it miebt be Miley deem el its mailers,
*puthe all Glasses dher Idassere salsas a full swab
is public privilege* and pain dudes. (Ts. boa.
111Sliber resat ed his seat amid bed sad general deeming.)
Mr. TURNER, who was lean* audible, woe mar.
sled treaftelialadthat this was a quad rather of rams
ef them pie, the point being whether Jews Mai be
to Carden/ as representatives foe Aria
flea matithemalies. He considered that in the low
es it shad die Jews had every privilege they
mid reesseabli claim in a Christian eanday.
The first duty of the British parliament was to preserve
Christianity maga the people. (Hear, hear.) An alien
by birth was at permitted to eater the Hass ef Ceases.,
because it nu andirted that dermslenese siela mar in
which he might lei it his duty toast against the GOMM.
dal and tamped interests of this kingdom—bow much more
did the NUM argument apply against the alien by religion,
who, if Moen in his religious etenvictiees, would necessarily
feel it to be his Bret duty to use his legatees as • member of
the legislature to .mote his own religion at the expense of
Christianity. (Hear, hese) flanices • proposition were
before parhanwat to pass a vote for extending Christianity !.)
our colonies, would it be possible for • Jew to participate in
the necessity of such • measure, or could he be expected to
vote the required sums for the planotion of a religion which
In believed to be a fable, and wore' than • fable
(Cheers.) There was amber conaideration of some
importance—how for the passing of this mann
might affect the (melees of deltas in that house. He
had every confidence in those Jews who were at at
lately to tom in under the bill; end, especisily, he had
every tandem in that hon. gentleman whose election bad
given rise to its introduction, to believe that co language
they would me in parliament would offend the feelings a
other member. (Hear.) But he regarded the 1111.$111111 Me
one affecting act sa-rely the present but es applicable to all
fume time ; sad he could not but conceive the pomibility of
a period arriving when some Jew might find his way into
that house who might imagine it to be his interest or plea-
sure to revile Christianity. If language of this chamfer
were reported fa the newspapers it would suhjeet %bean
penal conenowesee. The argument which bad been mash
relied on is support of the preposition by the hon. gentle-
man opposite (dr. Peel) and others, was that it wu a
sectary following out of the principle of the relief bill.
That argument appeared to him to be Lindens. That bill
merely restored the principle which bad existed previous to
the mug of the penal laws. (Hear, hear.) It was
pressed 1. the one et the Jew to omit from the oath
required to be taken by. members of parliament cm taking
their seats the weeds, 'ea the nue faith of a Maim."
He looked upon that minks. as calculated to ream the
riszitez for the manuals. of Christianitywhisk new
If the words wen emitted the obligation would se
lager be imposed of invoking the Christian God to wit-
ness the declaration to uphold the Christie& faith ; and if
ie the eased the Jew that obligation were 10111“91, he saw
no reason why the same privilege should net be was led
ethers of her M•jesty's subjects who blind in ether gods.
He was not prepaid teadisit ss a qualillestbasay obligation
taken I. the name of any deity in whom ony individual
might believe. Bach a change in the law he believed wield
be prejudicial to Christianity, and therekee he should Via
against the bill.
Mr. WILLYAMB weld not believe that the Manion et
Jews to fall civil lights would in any way weaken
or affect the great principle, of Christianity in this
country. The Jews, it was well known, were
tot • noodylidest people—they had sot only no desire to
make mum, bat refused to admit Mangers to their com-
munion. This wee proved by a in. that accusal:a
many years ego that of Led George Gordon—who
to be otheitted • Jew, but was Weed, after the •
had been fully sonsidered the gobble sad elders. (lIMJ
He fir one hoped that bythe resegallisa of the,Pr
this bill by parliament, Jews, the shiest" of heria
would beaseforth be admitted to the privileges of
men. (Hear, beer.)
Mr. TingRELAWNY, who was met indbtinedy head,after pee • high eulogy ea the speeds of tbe boa Ma-
bee for Leominster (Mr. Pal Mend that there was
in the arguments whisk bed Ma admen=
nothing
the present emirs whisk bed net bion
answered.
Mr. HOPE mid that be should oppose the mooed readies
of the bill, which in his opinion differed as is any rMoeet
from that of lad pen exempt in ease. He disapproved of
W principle of introducing a measure of this hied under the
veil and semblenes of • baser bill.
Mr. ROBABTEB would support the mooed reading. He
thought that a the Jews bore • fair shared the burdens of
W state, the legislature would be 'sag contrary to the
diastole eg the Christian religiont which enjoined upon them
to " treat othows sa they to be treated theaseslves,"
by exelredim them from pediment.
Mr. NEWDEGATE mid the arguments of the supporters
of the bill realaued him of the remark of Voltaire—" Look
at the .:things ; men of all religions meet there ; the Hin-
der> and the Christian make menu together •' and religions
differences are unheard." Bat the exchange was a very dir
brut place from the House of Commons. He had ever