The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-03 00:00:00

pease, and a desire to punish Barrie RarUicatt,n sad
tore elm eters el the City of Loader foe distetbieg the
(Asia reps ofthe Premier is a matter of little
moment. Enough, the reselatioa is one which no
sineareliberal ese vote for, iaasmach as by doing so,
he would place his Jewishfellotraitineu la a position
less favourable for the assertion of their rights than
theiteoccupy at present.
mooed resolution, if not es misehiereste, is Jed-
aitely more ematemptible. It datives that the house
will, " at the earliest opportunity in the next swam
of parliament, take into its serious consideration the
form of the oath of abjuration, with a view to relieve
her Maptyty's subjects professing the Jewish tell-
gips." With a view to relieve them from what?]
The is merely • repetition of the ministerW promise
by which Baron ROTWOCHILD and his cosstitueots
were instead to leave their case during the session
now approaching to a close in the hands of ministers
—an act of conadeces which has been rewarded by
their being deceived and disappointed. At the be-
ginning of the session they were told that a measure
fur their relief would be more certain of success if its
introduction were delayed till a later period; when
the later period arrived they were told it was too late
to think of doing anything till next year. The stale
trick of telling en unfierternate dun to " call again to-
morrow" cannot be played twice.
Besides, the proceedings upon Baron ROTHSCHILD'S
claim to take hie seat have opened up a much wider
land more impot that question. What has to be done
next year is not merely so to mcdify the oaths ad-
ministered to a member of parliament on taking his
seat so that a Jew may take them—it is to re-model
these oaths, so that they shall no Longer bee mockery
and daring profanity. We are not going to tales
the question of the morality of Muting one's self
by psomissory oaths in the abstract, though mach
may be said—has been said, sad well—by Seamus
and others cm that subject. Oaths by which a per-
son binds himself always to believe as he now be-
lieves are absurd, for belief is no act of the will.
To take such an oath is voluntarily to incur the
risk of perjury. As for oaths to uphold say specific
institution or constitutional arrangement, men slip
oat of them under the plea that circumstance. have
changed, and they are no longer applicable. On
this plea Orkitoa IV. was induced to pass the
Cathola Emancipation Bill, notwithstanding the
*instruction he put upon his coronation oath. To
how many constitutions and sovereigns did FALLT-
RAND eerier allegiance in successicn ? How many
nonjurors were there after 1688? how many who
felt the oaths they had taken under the old regime
troublesome to their consciences? Promisecry oaths
may prevent a man trim acting as his conscience
dictates, but they are an eusory guarantee for
loyalty either to a sovereign or a constiiutios.
It is not, however, upon this view of the subject
that we are at present prepared to insist. Our argu-
ment is simply that the oaths administered to members
of parliament require to be reformed, because they are
unduly multiplied, and because they embrace matter
better omitted. In the ease of Roman catholic mem-
bers one oath has been substituted for three : why
continue to exact three oaths from others, unless it be
by their multiplication to indulge the lovers of pro-
fane swearing in the uttering of three oaths instead of
one ? The damnatory clauses in the oath of supre-
macy are tainted with a spirit of persecution and pre-
sumption utterly inconsistent with the iutelligence
and tolerance of the age. Again, in the oat 3 of
abjuration the party taking it is diligent to disavow
the claims to the throne of England of imaginary
beings, of persons not in existence. Ho might, with
as much reason, be called upon to abjure the claims of
PERRIN WAU!CK, or the Lady ARABELLA STUART,
or the Princess OLIVE, as those of the descendants of
the person who called himself JAMES 111. of England.
Again, honest Touchstone has taught us how the
knight why " swore by his honour that they
were good pancakes, and that the mustard was
naught," was not forsworn albeit "the pancakes were
good, and the =tithed was naught." In defiance of
the lesson of the " motley philosopher," our legisla-
tors persist in making men confirm the protestations
of the oath of abjuration by an appeal to their " faith
as Christians," whether they have any such faith or
not. Can there be • more frivolous or profane trifling
with things sacred than to compel men to swear by
what may have no existence that thew repudiate the
chime of people who do nut exist?
Toe business for next session is not merely to re-
lieve the Jews from an accidental obstruction to their
admission into parliament; it is so to remodel the
oaths taken by members of pat liamsnt as to diminish
the unnecessary frequency of appeals to the Maine
Being ; to expunge those damnatory clauses which,
by their prtsompti to, trench upon his prerogative;
and those which, making a man swear by nothing
against nothing, are sheer trifling with so eyeful a
solemnity.
The counter-tesolwion of which Mr. Hume has
given notice seems to us entirely free from the objec-
tions we have urged against those of the ATTORNLT-
GENERAL. It leaves the casts of the Jew, exactly as
it had hitherto stood ; recommends no movement that
may bring the hones into collision with the courts of
law: and pledges it to undertake next session such a
revision of the ostbs as will make them all more C3ll.
sistent with the changes which have taken place since
the passing of the acts enacting them.

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DENSIARK AND THE DUCHIES.

A telegraphic deepa•ch, dated Rendsburg, July 31,
in the Cologne Gazette, says:—" It is said that our
army will again advance. Punishment by martial
law is decreed against two i,fliceis of the 13th batta-
lion, and &1s) against the battalion collectively."

REVD BURG, JCLT 29.
The battle has rot yet recommeuced, but I hare no
doubt that ..• shall bare a wand and a third fight,
for believe me the Schleswig army cannot so soon be
annihilated. In the meantime the volunteers are
coming in from all parts. The war-cry has not yet
been heard all over Germany; but, notwithstanding.
the number of officers and soldiers who are arriving
is very great. Already upwards of 30 new officers
bare been enrolled. All Germany is stirring—some
from fear, others from anger. Up to the
present time all the governments have been
hostile to; Schleswig- Holstein, but all the
people are in favour of the duchies. Whilst
for instanoe the Hamburg Senate refuses leave to its
officers who ere desirous of fighting in Schleswig-
Holstein—a step, by the way, which dee, not pre-
vent the said officers from coming over to us—lour
commercial houses is Hambnra have subscribed above
45,000 marks. All Hanover is in motion, and it is
doubtful whether the government can long resist.
The city of Berlin is also stirring, and the Prussian
army iss*aken by the shock of the 25th of July. The
rumours of an approaching war between Austria and
Prussia are considered by many as a diversion against
public opinion, which demands with great force that
assistance should be sent out to the duchies; and the
four camps into which the Prussian army has been
distributed are rather dictated by the fear of govern-
ment lest the soldiers should become infected by con-
tact with the enthusiasm of the population.
Be assured that this little was will not be moon
ended ; but be assured also that if it is not over in a
few weeks nothief can resist the general sentiment
in Germany, which everywhere is pronounced in
favour of Schleswig-Holstein. The army is the only
force of German governments, but many of these
armies have had contingents in the campaigns of
1848 and 1849. These are all impatient at being
obliged to remain with their arms crossed, whilst
their old brothers in arms are exposed to the rage of
a power which is superior to them. The consequences
of this, I repeat it, will be greater than the mere
battles between the Schleswig-Holsteiners and the
Danes. The government of the duchies knows this
mysterious force, and yet hesitates to help it into life.
But if no other course is left it will appeal to the
German people, and when that goes forth a move-
ment will, I am certain, commence in Germany, of
which no one can foresee the consequence or the end.
This is what diplomacy has prepared for us. It may
let loose, but cannot confine, public spirit, like the
sorcerer's pupil in the romance of Goethe.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY Reexixo.
The following are the main features in the new
bill on the organisation of the National Guard : Com-
plete control is given to the executive over the nomi-
nation of the eaneeit de reeensement. This council is
to be composed of members appointed by the sub-
wafter, halt In the municipal council, half among the
National Guards, in number equal to the half of the
number of the municipal council. The revising
juries do not preserve their jurisdiction relative to the
appeals against the elections of officers, which are
now to be carried before the councils of
prefecture. Toe bill suppresses the cavalry,
and restricts the corps of @spoors pompiers, of artillery
and marine w,thin narrow limits. Toes* corps cas-
not be assembled in battalion or legion, and are
placed under the orders of the commander of the
communal, or cantonal circumecriptiou. A minimum
of votes is fixed for the election of officers. The votes
of half the National Guards inscribed are neoeseary
for the election of superior officers, and the third for
Geier officer.. Moreover, for toe election of superior
officers, the bill introduces a double system of elm-
lion, by the formation of a college of delegates of the
composite, composed half of (Aura and half of Na-
tional Gouda elected for this object. The adjourn-
ment of the reorganisation of the dissolved National
Guards is fixed for two years instead of one.
The measure suspending the forced circulation of
the notes of the Book of France, was unanimossly General Willfsen has published the third army
senctiosed by the council of the Bank. The corn- report, which codeine the account of the late battle
mitts, of the budget examined yesterday the bill on of Idstedt, and is as follows:
this abject introduced by the Mioiatter of Finance, GENERAL WILLI/MOPS REPORT OF THE BATTLE
sad proper, the adoption thereof, saving some slight OF IDSTEDT.
modification in details, which will be indicated by the The may, after having eneenerseed his forms up to
, M. °yin. the 23rd last. Is the neighbourhood of Flensburg, promoted
himself In front of our advanced guard, which had retreated
reporter,
of General Preval, destined to define the „,"i won from theatiorop and swationswoo to
the respective attributions of the Minister of War and Hattiakask,
the Comnsaader.in-Chief of the army of Paris, and A smartish affair assessed with our Mussed guard,
thus to put an end to the frequent cinflicts between which bad received orders not to undertake anything of ey-
siquesee,milate: usedrryidendeme?eare tode draw the seamy Generals d'Hautpoul and Changarnier continues to
be a subject of much curiosity in political circles. It totheir order tees" eta!, weirther pgr:fthek wee
seems pretty clear that this report is a weapon forged reallyli sa earnest on.. It was also ordered sot to lees sight
for the purpoar of being suspended over the head of of the enemy.
Omura! Cnangarnier, which mutt for the present re- Resolved to await the enemy's attack is position and not
COcommence the offessi
main sheathed. Later, when the consolidation of vs until a favourable opportanity
useentol itself, with Its
wu disposed as follow.: The
order shall have rendered some relaxation of theme- knee, d, with right wing, is sad near Idstudt,
sure of the military force upon society a male measure, sad its main body on the Choose leadkeg to Fleasbarg.
the authority of General Changsroier, which, according The let brigade is its nods avow whim at Lahrsobau.
The 4th brigade is reutemous polities so the sos Merest
to the Bonapartiats, is derived from an exceptional
te of die ms. Tee Si is paned ind
situation of affairs, will naturally sink to the ordinarytt IdiA
14 weds o
. TOO brigade et Wearispeas. beh
let
level of other commanders ; and then the supremacy hrhtads, with one asccomost 800. =tau ed oats-
of the Minister of War will be unquestionable; but Innlung, Gan with c
until then the latter functionary must be content with Oar pukka kai she Mrssss MrorNaleft swesgthened
plains second Addle. General Peeves report sods r Melia•Ad Waskydwlt the &Id% kr *same, ntlf
these elgsalleant words: were la teassor se es eat to DO
ups two
without gnat diffieue.
The Misalse of War never mates to las chief of the army
as lug as hi is Ia WIN. The great commands which he the purpose ,;`fu'''st;Ti7g'lsr a
suoTstoootato d071.Z.
Mims Me Wig deles of the authority which he Midi te Dour the debosehment of the troops. At the Ohisii-
lielm-lloishtes there is a ford woes the bags's, and to
NM the ~b The ereir, ell powerful mbe was, would
bon magell beam ale •••••••• Points which hays bees gable lb) 3rd brigade to debauch and acaaessues h, attack,
mewed se the semessadas-la.skiet of the army of Paris. a pontoon wart " thrown same it. This v..ddie
would
Only eau, after Wsemptrecry of Georges Cedosterd, be eon- else be available for the second brigade, If found best
castrated the sommend af the trays of the first military ,A,thed for tae
divides divides in the same bead, bat this had was Mutt's,, The =deposition at Idatedt was d, easel,:eareki. wa aaa4 in
irlead, his bather& law, whamno primal ambition nett sommq„,,,,, te, morass i°baa,d.
on
mounted
render daagerewL tie great beat, Moms passable, et ;nut Keletnetry. TM
In the Assembly's sitting of to-day, M. Gouln pre- On weed MI6 00•9••‘.4 a mat Mu, its semmie
minted the report of the committee of the hart on al.atir74ll °woe enured by a stone
the brook flows from the
the bill for abolishing the forced eireuletion of the Mais
ea": at'
she 1,z7 •Micoa laic*, thrown fee tile
notes of the Bank. The discussion of the budget of she this the Teat wood
wouldow bo
noliptg woo roused. M. Litre& proposed spon far the tiskeeshassat elate 4th brigade.