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

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1849.

eassidered that hoses es the imperial rzeet,—as the
=%dm aseemblzhital great vanity,
there le assist • sovereign ia the dbeharge
• be Onetime dude% and he meld set deem it a &aka
ofezdtheeilghts of those who were she Chalet= if they were
from entering • parliament is emmituted. • seat
there we gives by the public ler the =
pails geed, ere
had so right to fern titoLZgo f the giber
of the country by the elements of
Mid lapmestative assembly, a= by is isle Ar
it elletiest4 le • defined= of the hid—that the Muse
'Meld is privileges se leapt ha essedesee with
dee essillenti= whisk we hued es eheimiesity. (Hun,
Mar.) He wietsd the bees to remember whoa the
=ea "on the true faith el a Christian" were in-
meted la the sash. They were keened Immediately after
the Gummier PIM and the suedes d William 'M—
t= perkiest dosser, when am dare se faint their wish-
bone, sad elms es impreedoe west firth Mat tbs duper
teensy et Me mesdames sherid be appareled tee, sr
Mat begiaborremight think of their rsepoodtaidos to the
Greet Creaser of ell whilst espied is the oillesiarge el
their senatorial duties. When the nation was Moseere, them
it was that these words were adopted is a tat ef stager_ ivy I
agd if daspr =Geld *pis make its appwssre we tMeY
have to lament, sad, perhaps, we ebesli la misesek be
nun to the sante mesas for asetetekdog our emerity, sad
lot claiming the Divine protection, to whisk we had n-
em= before. He nested we might still els= bobs seaside=
a =rinds& comsermity. He mimed that he cols
Bided with those who looked y es the present pro.
posal, became he believed that solos of this oath would
tempt NON Roman =blies to take the protestant oath
stead of the its prescribed by the cost ef 1849. Arending
to that est they booed themselves net to auk to wishes
or destroy the pre
_cadent government mid protestant
&Itch ss estahlehed ia these realm; asid wy
it. there were who entertained dorive as to
whether Raman sebelist =bared Aridly to the
ordinary asentaties of times words. It might he
that the words would be sought to be removed. At all events
the molls lord undervalued the danger which existed; be-
cause it was only fair, before we removed any of those sow
rides which guarded the asprommy of the British wows,
that the Pope Mould withdrew Met right whisk he ebbed,
to dictate se other miderieetisal pewees besides his own. In
his elloeudee dated 1'47, his bribes, reaseerted all the
rights his preemie!e had ever claimed, sad laeleded the
ball in cone dooms; sad seek beteg die eve, was this the
time to remove the safeguards whisk the mestimtion oi
England had provided ? (Heer, hear.) Is vbs.
favour were those safeguards to to remand ?
In favour of those who, with fell knowledge
of al that we as Christie= hold, dosed the tracheal Christi-
Amity nevertheless. It was rut the ismoreat ialidel, the
Mahomeden, or the Modem they were tow pepsin to
admit, but it was*/ Jew, who with the tallest knowlodp,
still refused to support the rots of Me great majority of
Di the eoilon of that home. • would be utter injustice
le denying &doled= to an infidel if they admitted a Jew;
and, he salted, was it likely to produce • salutary =premien
on the minds of Lb people of this country when they heard
that ber Majesty's goverment emoted an edeission of the
profession of Christianity. from Christian legislators, and
nfidel ?
yet sought to plaplacethose legislaten upon • level with the
An Box. Mum= moved that the house be counted.
Strangers amerdiegly withdrew, but then being upwards
of 40 members present,
Mr. NEWDEGATE resumed, and after stating that he
was not surprised, considerlog what was peed= in another
plea that many of his homourable hinds were listen-
Leg in the House of Lords, said the Jews were •
a ,rate people—separate sot only by ram, bet by
Their religion taught them to keep thasielves
• separate people, and to look at their prospects of be-
ing at last restored to their own homes as • on it
They were • standing monument of God's
judgments ; and by allowing them to enter par
Unseat, aliens by birth, by -Mood, and by religion,
would be admitted, and thereby they would impair the de-
cision of this country fee promoting Christiamity throughout
the world. If he were asked whether the state would be
safe when the house abandoned its religiose functions. he
would say, look at Frame, whisk had lately admitted Jews
to their assembly. When the present bill stood for a second
reading last swoon, he had restored to reeled bon. utembes
of the effect of admitting Jews to the French parliament.
And what were the sonesposets ? That before the bill of
last session was read a third time the state sovereignty of
Frame was wallowing in the dust. So long as the authority
of the crown reeled it religion he would oppose every such
attempt to deprive the state of its religious character.
The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY thought it ex-
tremely unjust to exclude any due of subjects from the re-
preventative assembly, particularly in • country where, like
this, there were so many different faiths.
Mr. SPOONER said that his opines was, and ever boil
been, that the Roman catholic church was an idoletieme
church, and he could not see how their having ad-
nutted the members of that church into their memo
cils at all altered its idolatrous cheese= He wsdl
not weary the house he regoetbil argsmsli
vie bill which had been so meek he= by
others, sad with which the rerastry wee quite iliac
Every argument against it was exhumed, and ha the present
state of the Louse [there were about 40 minabses present]
he felt it unnecessary to enter at length into the subject.
As a Christian number of a Christian sommenity he dared
not give it his support. If the boom sossested to dispense
with the woods" on the true faith of a Christian," it could
so longer all itself a Christie* amembly, and would be
opining its doors to the proles= infidel es well as to the
Jews, who regarded Christ as an Impostor ; and the
New Testament as • fraud and an imposition. His
faith was that national sins had our met, and ever
would meet, with maimed punishment; and, although he
might be charged with bigotry for his opinion, he regarded
it as a groat national sin either to =courage idolatry, on the
one hand, by admitting Roman catholic', or to &pangs
Christianity, on the other, by admitting Jews.
Mr. Serinnt TALFOURD did not think that many has.
stealers • pat= ie the opinions of the two hos. =ahem
foe W habits, that this SWUM would usebrisdesks the
home, sad the oesstitatiosois they had bet was if Me
teen hon. numb= to support them at present. (Ailatlegrei
Thom on his (Kr. Talfourd's) side of the Mese m g
rather a different position. They were making der as =-
eluded clam of her Majesty's subjects the acme share Mete
rights which were extended without limit or exception to
the amt; and looking to their femur success, he dngb
they Wild well be excused if they allowed the debataeegt,
perdurability when there was so much =reed= ia essiber
pimp ttbe Hesse of Lords). But what alleviate mid
be made ter gentlemen who considered this meson a
greet national ein,and orientated dimity to embellished's
country? (Hear, hear.) In laicise the emit of
allegiance they added the most solemn obliged=
known to them, not as a notession of faith, bat
as binding them more firmly in their allegiance. The ewes,
therefore, nojustios in the euggestian that it was a test el
faith asked of a Christian, and ought to be asked
of a Jew. It sight as well be said that
when he took an oath as • country justice
it was a test of his faith, and ought to be pat to a member of
the Society of Friends, who was allowed to make sa affirma-
tion. (Hear, hur.) The Jew was equally prepared to
swear dimities to the Queen. Her Majesty bad no better
subject. The Jews, in oemmen with every other case
of the people, were represented in that house; and,
by the course now sought to be taken the legislature would
remove the last fetter by which they were bound down in a
social or political view. Bat it was said by honourable
gentlemen opposite that, now, because the legislature was
about to make amends—to give • crowning pace to a long
succession of evils inflicted upon the Jews—sow that they
were about to give the most convincing proofs of the charm
teristio principles of Christianity, that it that bill passed into
a law our character as Christians could be no looser said to
islet. He regretted to be obliged to say it 11111 too much to
be apprehended that throe who urged that doctrine took the
woad for the spirit, and edeemed themselves better them
thine whom they wished to seclude from parliament. For
his owe pa he appnved of the measure, and was desirous
lY ionld be married. It would have the effect of removing
*el= owl wont remnants of intolerance. It was in oonfor.
man with the true spirit of him who Paid "Forgive them,
fie they know not what they do." Tits hon. MI
bars= gentleman concluded with an eloquent and pathetic
egged to the house in favour of the measure.
Led MAHON referred to the matements made that snu-
bs by the seek lord the timber for Mandel, who said that
the queden bribe the hems related not only to the admis-
sion =rely el the Jews into parliament, but that it affected
the aderiedbliity of every other unbelieving eget. The
noble lord the Ant sakister
]of the crown had
made a declaration ast sessini. That
noble lard acknowledged that the question was not
only whittler a men comparatively small in number, al-
though respectable ia character, should be admitted to take
put is the legislative peostedings of this country, but whe-
ther there should be for the future any religious ists at all.
(Hear, hear.) It wog also said by a colleague of that noble(Hear,
ford (the Earl of Carlisle) that if the bill then before the
hoes was passed. there would be no obstacle to the ad
relasion of the Malemseeden, the Hindi" or any other
prodeming unbeliever. They had that evening bud a very
abis sad leteresting review of the history of religious to=
from the hon. 11111111 an for Leominster (Kr. F. Peel), whom
he (Lord Mahon) had listened to with peat pleasure, =I
beg= ke Mould timpani, hear him take pert in the die
cussiems fa that home. Bat it was hardly fair to argue MK
the *Mann led been taken by surprise, and that then
wee so Went= to shut the doors of the House of Commend
=abet the Jew. Why, there =a • large party in title
country opposed to the =stied= of Roman catholis%
aed there were influential parties =peed to other disesteem
The only religious test now reserved was the expression
" Open the WA of a Christian." It was said that the
umber of Jews who could avail themselves of the privilege
sought to be conferred epee deem would be small—that
they would be very few, indeed bat it should be recollected
that the (Mai= at beta was purely one of principle, and
be for ono would take his snail spine it. It was not a
valid argument to say that the ember of the violators of
the principle would be but small, for since it was admitted
to be • principle, it should, at all heards, be up-
held. Why should the principle ozn for senses.
' rtes be violated for the mere object of admitting Jews
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come the possestor of so large an estate that, in fact,
he ogee% from its great extent, to be knight of the shire.
Although he had no cure of souls, and in every re-
epee he wai qualified to fulfil his duties as a representative
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