The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-23 00:00:00

NLTTENY BILL.

On the order of thedaiiin ihethirdreading of this bill,
Colonel Sr KU said there was one clause of this bill affect-
ing the discipline and marsh of the troops, which he hoped
the Secretary of State for War would be prepared to modify
when the Mutiny Bill was introduced again. He alluded to
the clause which obliged publicans and licensed victuallers to
entertain troops billeted an them. The practice was equally
destructive to morals and discipline. (Hear, hear.)
The bill wee then reed• third tints sad passed.
GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH (SHIPTON, ko.)

BILL.

This bill vss reed • third time peed.
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY MATRICULATION

AND DEGREES BILL.
This bill erne abo road • third time end paned.
OATHS BILL.

On the order of th;iello; tie—cona ideration of thla bill
as amended..

Mr. COG AN , on behalf of his hon. and learned friend the
member for the county of Cork (Mr. Deasy), begged to
move the amendment of which he had given notion. It
was substantially the same amendment se had been moved
last session, and the object of it was to frame one uniform
oath which should be taken by all clams. (Hear, beer.)
If the present measure was simply one to enable Jews to sit
in parliament he would not have proposed such an amend-
ment, but the bill of the noble lord opened the whole gum-
Mon of the parliamentary oath. Three coulees were open to
the noble lord one, simply to bring in a bill for the admission
of the Jews. If he had done so no extraneous question
could have been raised. Or he might have adopted the
mune he had taken in 1834, and proposed one uniform
oath ; he had, however, taken the third, and as he (Mr.
Cogan) coasidered the most objectionable course, to omit
from the oath taken by protestant members many most
offensive passages, but to resin them in the oath taken by
Roman catholica, and thereby place them in • new position
of inferiority. Against that invidious inferiority he (Mr.
Cogan) appealed to the justice of the house.
Mr. WALPOLE hoped the house would not agree to the
amendment ; the object of it was entirely different from that
of the noble lord, and was simply to do away with the oath
established by the Emancipation Act, which had lose drawn
up after great deliberation. Sir Robert Peel declared that that
oath afforded certain safeguards,and hrd resisted any attempt
to alter It, on the ground of compact. He (Mr. Walpole)
therefore hoped the house would not now sanction any
alteration in it. The noble lord would materially damage
his course if he accepted the amendment.
Lord J. RUSSELL was not prepared to epee to the
amendment, bat would not argue the qumalon in the same
way as his right hon. Mend. He owned he would
consider It a great benefit if there were but one oath. (Hear,
hear.) He had proposed such an alteration in 1854, but the
consequence was be found he did not help the came of the
Raman catholic*, whilst he very much injured the cause of
the Jews. Oreat objection was mimed against the mission
from the Roman catholic oath of the words "ecclesiastics/ or
spiritual," and the bill was lost. He would not say that
members who wished to retain this part of the oath were
not justified by the laws tithe realm. 'The statute of the let
of Elizabeth, passed to repeal the act of Mary, by which the
papal supremacy was reestablished, declared no foreign
prince or potentate shall have any authority In this realm.
He had before discussed the question whetbm • member
might take this oath. In hie opinion ba might fairly and
properly de so. The oath was a mere denial that there
was b law any emit authority or jurisdiction.
If • foreign prince appointed as ambassador to this country,
who presented kis credentials here, that prime exordia
authority but no jurisdiction. He should be very glad to lee
es se& widish all members could take, but is the miseat
Wyse of the country sad parliament, U he adopted the
samishosist he did not thick he should at all erre the muse
he had at Mart. The Roman catholis should mobs* that
by this oath they were enabled to Mt in parliament, sad inn
P1111111111111k• of privileges which the Jews were desk&
Xr. COLLINS hoped that the house, by depth, the
would &ohm that all sambas who 01•111 to the
falls tab the ease oath.
Ll 4. Y. anaox was one Ot those who some short time