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Tin House of Lords having just got rid of one long
standiog quarrel with the Commons on a religious
cordon, have lost no time in finding another. It
seems to be the instinct of that Assembly to seek oat
anmaintainable positions, to lavish an infinity of
time and trouble on their obstinate defence, and then
to abandon them at the critical moment when
the contention has risen to a point capable
of demonstrating whether their boasted power
of resistance, or the popular power of progress,
is the stronger. For five-and•twenty years
they refused to acknowledge legislative liberty of
conscience as regards the Jew; yet on Thursday
night they agreed substantially to yield all they bad
been contending for, rather than risk a final struggle
on the matter with the other House of Parliament.
It took that time to work the Commons up to a de-
termination not to be baffled or trifled with ; but the
moment the tone and attitude of such determination

became perceptible the pertinacity of the Peers gave
way ; and by a majority of forty-six Lord
LIICAN'S Oaths Bill was carried on a ssoond reading.
Twenty-four honlis did not elapse, however, until
these consummate masters of suicidal strategy had
plunged into a new and deeper quagmire. The
Church Bate Abolition Bill having oome up from
the Wantons, backed by a large majority, as well as
by the overwhelming weight of petitions from all
parts of the country, Lord DE/BY resolved to reward
his followers, episcopal and noble, for their self-deny-
ing aberration into prudence and patriotism of the
preceding night, by offering to lead them off the
high road into a deeper and more difficult bog;
and he appears to have redeemed his promise
of mischief in the most approved manner.

The friends of the measure seem to have made no
injudicious choice when they committed it to the
care of the Duke of SOMERSET. While a member
of the Lower House, he had consistently supported
the abolition of this odious and unequal tax on
several occasions ; and though his Grace is neither
an orator nor the head of a Parliamentary sec-
tion —although habitually he appears to think
apart and act alone, regardless of political
sympathy, and at times almost ostentatious of
his self-imposed isolation—his sterling qualities
as a man of courage and consistency in assertion of
Liberal views naturally pointed him out as a
thoroughly reliable standard-bearer in the cause of
sectarian emancipation, if he would undertake the
charge. When asked he did not refuse. He had
made up his mind long ago that the thing wee
right. To tell his brethren of the Peers that it
was so, and that sooner or later they would be
forced to admit it, waa just the sort of duty he lass
to perform. He certainly did not mince matters
last night when dealing with the subject. His Grace
is essentially an anti-diplomatist. Whether he was
ever wheedled into doing anything he did not like,
we know not; sere we are that to coax or cajole
others into doing what they are averse to, is a func-
tion he never will assume. But in these days of nal-
venal ship-shod, temporising, and Peel-atry, it is
positively refreshing to hear a man of station and
experience come out boldly and uncompromisingly
for the right and the true. The Duke of Bowsaw
placed calmly and clearly before their Lordships
all the considerations of policy that ought to induce
them promptly and frankly to pass the Hill.
He warned them that if they waited until
the country had become excited about Parliamentary
Reform, they would find it far more difficult to deal
with the spirit of nonconformity. He reminded
them of their recent act of self-renunciation on the
question of Jewish Disabilities, and admonished them
against the evil of repeated humiliations of this
kind. Putting the :natter in a boainese aspect, he
told the guardians of the Church that this was a
bad debt, and the sooner they ceased looking alter it
the better. But over and above all these recom-
mendations, he advocated the statutable abro-
gation of the right of a parochial ma-
jority to tax their neighbours for purposes
of public worship against their will, and with-
out giving them any value in return, on the
broad ground of inherent and indefeasible jos-
tioe. To the half-hearted men of his own side of the
House, as to the impenetrable bigots of the other,
he seemed, of course, as one that mocked. Courtiers
and controversialists, trafficking politicians and time-

serving wanton, are sore to look on such a man
and such a way of putting a great cause as " im-
" practicable ;" but the grave and earnest people
of this country will regard both with very
different feelings, and will not readily forget the
service thus efficiently rendered.
There was little in the speech of Lord Sr.
LLONARDS that will remain in the memories of those
who beard it, or those who may read it. As one of
the supernumeraries of Lord DERBY'S Cabinet, in
confidence though not in office, his Lordship was
fitly selected by the Minister to head the opposition
to the Bill. AU the old stock arguments were
duly re-produoed. Whatever Lord Sr. LEONARD{
does, he does carefully and methodically. But his
speech was on the wrong side, and created no
impression, obviously because no impression was
to be produced. The conciliatory but vacillating
tone of the Duke of NawcAarte the determined
dash of Lord DERBY ; and the plausible rhetoric of
the Bishop of OXFORD, were eminently characteristic
of the respective speakers. The Debate, which was
animated and prolonged, terminated in a result at