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

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them to pees it. But, even supposing! that the et ee
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lea been represented by the noble lord near It, in (Lord
smoky), did the present form of oath administered to Diem_
hers et the House et Commons answer the pur,,,esie that was
attributed to it ? Were all thews who took Para oath before
they took their seats, Christians? Ile could with
Wet), my no ; it did not answer the purpose.
(Bear, hear.) The oath heel The incurable vice of
ell testa—it let in tho dishonest and unprincipled
man and excluded the conscientious man. With regard to
the ergamehtt that had been urg.d respecting the impossi-
bility of telking about religion in the legislative houses if a
Jew were ad:anted into parliament, and thin the bill would
effect the separation et time, h and state, he would only
esclahn, God above torbbl that the church and state shout
ever be eeparateil, but if such a bill as the pro ent were to
effect that object. how did it- happen that the letting the
Bo nencathelir and t he diwont ers into the Mouse of Commous
did not produce that result? Letting in the dissenters was a
far moe dangerous step than letting mute Jews would be; for
the: dissenters had a much more active and bitter hostility
to the church of England than the Jews, who, to say the
truth, eared nothing al) out the matter. As for the oath
shutting out all but true Christians, let him remind the
bout that Shaftesbury sot in their lonlships' house and
Wiling in the other House of Patti iment. lie was firmly
of opinion that, even supposing the Jews were to be let into
parliament, the I, gislature would not be the less Christian
than it was h.l.,re, in the same 'limner that doing jewtice to
the dissenters had not in any way unchristianised it. Ile
again retested that he gave his ready resent to the bill, at
the same time he must say that he did not think it by any
means of so much importance as many other measures that
were under the consideration of parliament.
The Bishop of OXFORD said he was owry to end, upon
reflection. that in the beat of debate he had used a wend
with reference to the noble lonl at the head of the govern-
ment which was not j
ust, but which he had not certainly
uttered in malice. rise expression was drawn from him
in the heat of the moment by an observation
of the noble marquis near him. Ile, therefore, took
the tint pubic opportunity of saying that he never meant to
attribute to lard John Rus tell, or to any other member of
the government, the having participated in a job. Ho was
aware that the noble land had supported the Jewish disabili-
ties removal long before the Let election for the City of
London. Ills note friend (Lord Brougham) had, in his
playful manner, dealt rather hardly by him ; but he did not
object to the observation made by the noble lord, as he had
been afforded the opportunity of withdrawing the expres-
sions uttered by him, and of stating publicly that he never
meant to cast any slander upon the noble lord.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE replied, and acquitted
the right ler, bishop of any malignant intention towards his
noble friend st the head of the government, when conduit,
both with respect to the present measure, and, indeed,
during the whole of MS public raver, had been distinguished
by the purest patriotism and disinteresudness.
Their lordships then divided
Content—Present
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Non-content—Present 125
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Majority against the second reading
Their lordship+ then adjourned at 2 o'clock.

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