The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-27 00:00:00

PAIL LOS TEI MIORT.
Earl of Sandwich Lord Eli hlratorie
Earl of Haddlagton Lord Carrington
Marquis of Albs Lord Willoughby d'Eresby
Earl of Lauderdale Lord Whitten
Earl of Shaftesbury Lord lie.tuvute
Doke of Cambridge Lord Stafford
Lord Vonbroet Lord Itortanore
Earl of itatifuriey Lord Do Yrryne
Earl of Eldon
.... _ _ laid Titlbut de NiaLiltide

Karl of Orkney Doke of Bedford
Viaeount lake Bishop of Durham
Earl of ErnaOAS WI of kiodnor

Earl of Raisin

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ELECTION COMMITTEES—YESTERDAY.
LeicesTEL—Evidence in rapport of petition mi.,
tinned.
CHELTENHAM.—The committee decided on Clow
ing the recognisance" to be amended, at in the Dicwhe
case. The recognisance& were then amendod, and after
hearing some formal evidence the committee adjourned to
this day.

the erproo.

MAILS.

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Zealand will be made up on they vening of the Sin May.
The mulls for the West West of Africa and Maleir.. oil: be made
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excluding those for Madeira, Jacroel, tiaritiagenn, tient' Baths.
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Nicaragua, will be made up on the mmning of the Ind June.
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Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the
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Egypt, madeyln, India, Hong-Kong, and ihine, via Suuthampi
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The number of STAMPS issued by the authorithte of the
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DAILY NEWS was 3,447,009
This, we believe, is within eight per cent of the number
issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, and
Morning Post, ALL FUT TOOETIIII/i.
In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Morning Paper, there were issued for the Evening &lino%
VIE EXPRESS 778,714
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LONDON, SATURDAY, MA I' 27.
TILE 1101188 of Lords has refused to un-Jewify the
Jews. We know no better way of doing that than the
making citizens of them, and Englishmen, and doing
away with the badges which much more than tradi-
tional opinion render a man a Jew. But the Boas
of Lords will not have it. As they long struggled to
render it a point of honour that every catholic should
remain a catholic, so now they are determined that
Judaism shall not be mitigated, that it shall not con-
form, that it shall not be absorbed in the ideas of an
age and the habits of a society to which Judaism
is so heterogeneous that every rubbing and colli-
sion smoothes away some one Jew particle
or another. Such considerations have no weight
with the Lords. Lord LANSDOWNE declared that
it is the " character of our constitution to abhor
exclusion." If so, the Lords make no part of the
constitution, for exclusion is the great principle of
their creed, their pride, their policy, and their exist-
ence. And we verily believe that the vote against
the Jews proceeded not so much from religious or politi-
cal scruples as from the pure love of exclusion—from
the desire to keep political rights as much confined to
the aristocracy and its caste as possible.
In the debate there were three kinds of objectors
to the admission of the Jews to parliament : those
who objected on political grounds; those v.ho objected
not so much upon religious as upon ecelesiadatel
grounds; and those whose hostility was, by their's"
avowal, founded upon superstitious fears. Lai
STANLEY represented the first; the Bishop of Olson
spoke the opinion of the second ; and Lord ELLENIIO.
ROI:011 was the mouthpiece of the third.
Lord STANLEY'S principles are those of political
exclusion. You require, he argued, a certain surd
money to be possessed by the man who claims a east
in parliament. This is the will and pleasure of the
legislature, who think the sum of money guarantees a
certain degree of education and fitness in a represen-
tative. The same will and pleasure excludes the
Jew, because he holds tenets that the majority dell"
No one has a right to be elected to parliament. The
law and the legislature give this right to those
they please, and none can claim the right where
it is withheld. The Bishop of OXFORD laid
down this doctrine in learned Latin. And what
is it after all but the divine right of the aria-
tocracy to create law and constitution, and inter-
pret both according to their power and wisdom?
We always understood that Englishmen had aright
to be represented in parliament—at least that area
possessed of taxable property had a right not to M
taxed save with the consent of the majority of their
representatives ; and this we believe to be the foun-
dation of English freedom, and the most sacred right
of every section of this country. In critical and dan-
gerous times certain classes of
oun Englishmen were
denied this right on the ground of specisl
danger and precaution: but these arc exceptions.
The principle of the constitution, and of something
higher than the constitution, viz., natural rights—is
that all men having a stake in the country should
contribute by themselves or their deputies to its mein-
tenance and government. The country is Christian,
not because the legislature wills it, but because the
country is so ; and if the country chose not to be
no legislative power could alter or conceal the fact.
All that legislation can do, therefore, is to repress cer-
tain tendencies. And then the question comes—did
excluding the catholics from the legislature repress
catholicism? Does the exclusion of the Jews tend
to repress Judaism? We say it has the contrary
effect; for exclusion has the character of persecu-
tion, and partakes of its undeniable result.
Passing (coin the political objections to the eccle-
siastical ones, we find their arguments summed up
in the warning of the Bishop of OXFORD, that this
bill was but a first step to the separation of church
and state. His lordship admitted that some pro-
gress had been made with this separation. The legis-
lature had become more and more estranged from
the church, and distrusted by the church ; and
if this bill were passed, it would bring
down the house of Commons to the Jewish level,
and bring all questions in which the church was in-
terested, such as education, to be treated in an anti-
ecclesiastical spirit. We must own that we never
foresaw all this as the result of Baron Ituruserilin
and Mr. SALOMONS getting into parliament. We
see, indeed, the progress that the right reverend
prelate points out with so much horror, bat we
always attributed it to the deep conviction and in-
creasing influence of men and of members of parlia-
ment zealously professing Christianity, and very
strong belief in it. Bishop TillitLM SSA
that as far as the worldly interests of the
church of England were oonceraed, he had
much rather trust them to a Jew than to a dissenter.
And, in fact, the miclesiastival objectors would ez-
elude the Jew, not because he is a Jew, but becausehe
is a dissenter; and what can more strongly mark the
utter futility of their opposition
With the third, or superstitious, class of objected
we know not well how to deal, at least seriouelp
Lord ELLENBOROUOTI reminded the house that this
was an epoch of revolution, that empires were daily
broken like potsherds, that Europe was in flames, and
but a small arm of the sea separates England fromthe
conflagration. To preserve England from revoluties,
therefore, Lord ELLEN noROUGU implored the House of
Lords not to let Baron ROTHSCHILD into parliament! Bat
how was the presence of the baron in the other home
to revolutionise their lordships ? " Because (argued
Lord ELLEN BOROUGH) you would deprive yoneeeleeo
of all right to heavenly aid." The Jews, or their due
franchisement, are thus to be the holocaust to prop
tiate the Divine power to keep revolution from crow
ing the channel!
Another fear of Lord ELLENI3OROUGII is, lest S
Mohammedan should find his way ints parliameet.
His lordship is anonvete politician. Ile took in
India the part ratee against the Mo-
hammedan, and brought back the gates of Somnauth Be
a trophy that he had avenged the idolatrous race by
humbling the unitheist. He would pursue hie vic-
tory in the House of Commons, where the remitted
of both Hindoo and Mohammedan may sit, but eels",
Baron ROTIISCIITLD must not, lest he should intro-
duce Freech communism am'c the ClanueL