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SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

In. the House of Commons last night, Lord
Palmerston brought on his Bill for the admission
of Jews into Parliament., apologising to Lord John
Russell for taking out of his hands a measure
which he had so long been endeavouring to pass
into law. His Lordship at full length entered into
the question, and while admitting that there were
words in the oaths now taken by members of Par-
liament that were fit and proper to be used, there
were, at the same time, expressions that were
revolting to the feelings of every sensible man.
The change which he wished to adopt did not
apply to the oaths taken by Roman Catholics.
His proposal would not only relieve
Christians from oaths which a Christian
ought not to be called upon to take, but
would also sweep away that portion of one
of these oaths which was the only obstacle to
the reception of Jews into Parliament. The three
oaths now taken by members he would abolish,
and substitute one single oath which would contain
all that, in his opinion, was necessary under the
circumstances. The oath of supremacy he would
totally expunge, with the exception of that portion
which denies that any Prince, Prelate, State, or
-Potentate had authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual,
in this realm. Id the oath of abjuration he would
leaver out that foolish paragraph respecting the
descendants of a person called King James 111. He
proposes to abolish the sentence respecting mental
reservntion, elso the words—"en the true faith of
a Christian." The terms of the oath, as it would
stand, would be nearly to the following effect:—
" I do sincerely promise to swear, that I will be
.faithful and bear true allegiance to her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and defend her to the utmost of
my power against conspiracies and traitorous
attempts against her person, her crown, and
dynasty, and that I will use my utmost endeavours
to disclose and make known all traitorous attempts
And conspiracies that may be formed against her,
&c., and faithfully to maintain, support, and
defend to the utmost of my power the succes-
'ion of the crown as it now stands by the Act of
Parliament in the person of the Princess Sophia
(.f Hanover, her heirs, &e." It then proceeds to
deal-ire that no foreign prince, prelate, or potentate,
Las jurisdiction or authority in these realms. It
concludes by an affirmation, omitting the words,
4` on the true faith of a Christian." Sir Frederick

Thesiger replied to the observations made by-the
Premier ; and although he had a great repugnance
to the measure introduced, he would not then
oppose it, but would assuredly do so with all his
might and main, on the second reading of the bill.
He admitted, however, that there were some parts
of the oath of abjuration that might be omitted,
but he thought the obnoxious sentences might be
• expunged, and otherwise leave the oaths as they at
present stand. He did not see any reluctance on
the part of the new members to take the oaths as
they are now framed. He replied to some remarks
of Lord Palmerston, who accused the opposers of
the measure as prejudiced and intolerant. Pre-
judiced they might be, but he denied that there
existed anything approaching to intolerance in
tha opponents of the bill now introduced.
Lord John Russell, in a short but tell.
ing speech demolished the arguments of the
previous speaker, and intimated his opinion that
even more reasons could bo found for the exclu-
sion of lawyers from Parliainent than could possi-
bly be urged against the Jews. Several other
members addressed the house, and the bill was
ultimately read a first time. On the motion for
going into committee on the Transportation Bdl,
Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest moved that the bill
be referred to a select committee. Sir George
Grey strongly opposed the amendment, and a
sharp discussion ensued, the result of which was
that the amendment was withdrawn, and the house
went into committee en the bill, and the various
clauses were agreed to.
In the House of Lords an attack was made- by
the Earl of Ellenborough on the method of keep-
ing the public accounts. Lord Monteagle followed,
on the same side, and Lord Stanley defended the
existing system, after which the matter dropped,
and the House adjourned.
Yesterday, Dr. Holland, the Government Inspec-
tor, sat at St. George's Hall, for the purpose of
hearing further evidence respecting the practices 1
at the Necropolis, St. James' Cemetery, St. Anne's
Burial Ground, &e , &e. We have reported the
proceedings at full length in another part of to-
day's paper, and need only allude to a very ques-
tionable statement made by Dr. Holland. He
said, ',lt had been frequently asked why it was he
did notrecommend Sir George Grey to prosecute
in this matter. He would state the reason why he
did not do so. He was convinced that from the
exposures which`had taken place, the parties guilty
had been severely punished. He felt that by the •
opprobrium and disgrace which had fallen
on them in consequence of those disclosures,
they had in fact been punished more severely
than any judge would like to punish them.
He was satisfied also that what had been done
would, without any, prosecution effectually
protect the interests of parties for the future, and
acting on that belief, he had not recomrnent!el Sir
George Grey to prosecute. As to whether it would
be expedient to prosecute at all, that Would be
a question for those on the spot. It was no doubt
an important question, but it could only-be deter-
mined by the ideal authorities." -We shall refer
at length to this-question in a dry or two.
The domestic news this morning contains the
record of another murder. About seven o'clock on
Thursday morning, a young woman, named
Hadley, was shot by her lover in front of the
cavalry barracks, Canterbury. The murderer is
described as a pleasant looking, intelligent young
man, about 25 years of age, named Stephen Fox, a
plane-maker; the object of his infuriated passion
,is a young woman of considerable attractions (the
daughter of a bricklayer), named Mary Ann
Hadley, about the same age as himself. It
seems that they had been keeping company for the
last two yeari, but owing to its being reported
that others had received his attentions, and that
in one instance a child had been sworn to him as
its putative father, the deceased had resolved to
break oft her connection with him, and accordingly
wrote a letter to him to that effect on Tuesday last.
This determination seems to have preyed upon
his mind, and led him to adopt the course which
has resulted in the death of the young woman,
and his own, committal on the charge of wilful
murder.

We have two days later news from the United
States. The majority of the select committee of
the senate of Pennsylvania on the resolutions in
the Dred Scott case had made a lengthy sad able
report, accompanied by resllutions declaring that
the opinion of the Supreme Court enounced prin-
ciples in palpable opposition to the judicial and
legislative history of the Union, and in violation
of the plain provisions of the cons'itution of the
United States; that the opinion, except on the
question of jurisdiction, being delivered in a case
over which the court admitted it had no jurisdic-
tion, may be justly regarded as obita dicta and
operative as law; that the five judges who con-
curred in the same opinion made a wanton attack
on the sovereignty of the Free States and an impo-
tent attempt to nullify the established laws of the
country, and, by extrajudicial action, caused
unnecessary excitement in the public mind in
regard to the subject of slavery, and had thereby
forfeited the confidence and respect due to their
exalted station. The United States Marshal has
seized another vessel at New York, which was
fitting out for the slave trade.

The news from the Continent this morning is
not of much importance.

A French telegraphic despatch from Malta,
of the 12th mentions that Admiral Lyons
was to leave that island about the 12th instant ;
that he was to proceed with the Royal
Albert and other ships of the squadron to
Palermo, and other ports of Sicily ; thence to
Algiers and Tunis ; and, after having visited
the coast of Barbary, that he would return
to Portsmouth. The Pays says that the latest
aceonuts from Turin state that the camp of
manceuvres of Marengo would not take place this
year, and that a circular from the Minister of War
to the chiefs of the military departments announces
the fact. 200 military medals have been granted
by the French Government to the Sardinian army.
By an Imperial decree in the Illoniteur, dated Fon-
tainebleau, 12th, the session of the Legislative
Body, which was to have closed 'on Saturday, is
prolonged to the 28th inst. inclusive. The Minis-
ter of Marine has sent to Toulon formal orders that
the Aniacieuse frigate, which is destined to carry
Baron Gros to China, shall be ready to put to sea
at the end of the present week,
The Moniteur tle la Flotte states that the Russians
are founding a great maritime establishment in the
river Amoor, which they call Port Imperial Port
Imperial is about 130 miles to the south of the
bay of Castries, in 48 degrees 58 minutes north
latitude, and 140 degrees 17 minutes east longi-
tude.

A despatch from Copenhagen of the. 13th ult.
states that Heinzelman having definitely refused
to become a memher of the new cabinet, the
ministry had been re-constructed pr,wisionally,
without a minister for Holstein, whose place is
provisionally filled by Unsgaard, and without a
foreign minister whose portfolio is provisionally in
the hands of the Minister of Marine. Hall is
President of the Council.

The Faedrelcincielities that letters to be re-
lied on have been received from Stockholm, stating
that the King, being worn out with the responsi-
bility of affairs, and, in addition, being weak in
health, has determined, on the recommendation of
his medical advisers, to withdraw from State busi•
ness, calling on the Heriditary Prince to take the
direction of affairs provisionally.
Telegraphic news from the East informs us that
ships and troops had arrived at Hong-Kong, but
that Admiral Seymour had not as yet undertaken
any operations.

Intelligence of the peace with Persia had been
received by the British Commander at Al°hammo-
rah ; and a cessation of hostilities was ordered.
The news arrived just after the capture of that
fortress.

The Bank of England returns of last night show
an increase of £249 300 in the stock of bullion, and
of £49,807 in the rest; a decrease of .£727,014 in
public deposits, and of £990,385 in Government
secutities.

THE walls of St. Stephens resounded last
night with eloquent declamations for and against
the admission of Jews into Parliament. Lord

PALMERSTON brought forward his proposed mea-
sures for the abolition of the oath taken by
Members of the House of Commons, rendering
it compulsory that the asservations should be
made "on the true faith of a Christian." There
is hardly any subject connected with politics
which has been more debated, both in Parlia-
ment and by the press. Orators of the highest
order, Statesmen of the profoundest cast, in the
pulpit, and on the platform, the exclusion of our
Jewish fellow citizens, has formed the theme of
many able argumentative and convincing dis-
courses. Great progress has been made by these
annual displays on behalf of religious freedom.
What at one time was deemed the doctrine of
infidelity, has been adopted and advocated---aye,
and earnestly too, by a Sir ROBERT PEEL, a
BENTIXCK, and a DISRAELI. The same earnest-
ness and sincerity which marked the pleadings
of a RUSSELL, a MACAULEY, or a ROEBUCK, in
their anxiety to rid our statute book of an objec-
tionable, and, at the same time, indefensible
enactment has shone forth in the eloquent
speeches of the Conservative advocates of Jewish
emancipation, Sl,)wly, but steadily has been the
progress of this good cause. Truth has wrought
upon ingenuous minds. In silence have the argu-
ments advanced, operated, and withotit any
physical force demonstration, the Commons House
of Parliament has frequently declared by telling
majorities that members of the Jewish persua-
sion are eligible to occupy seats in the House of
of Commons. Nothing shows the anxiety and
determination of the people at large on this mat-
termore than the fact that their representatives are
more and more becoming its earnest and zealous
advocates. London has, for the fifth time,
returned a member of the Hebrew persuasion as
its representative. Well, indeed, might the
Jewish Chronicle exclaim : " such an event is unpa_
ralleled in the constitutional history of England."
We are glad, therefore, that the Premier has taken
the matter in hand, and trust that he wilt be
able to bring to a successful issue the struggle
which has been going on for a quarter of a cen-
tury on this great and important topic.

We believe the exclusion of the Jews from
Parliament to be not only impolitic, but contrary
to that which forms one of the main principles of
true morality—justice. Parliament, like the
nation, is composed of varieties ; there is differ-
ence of opinion ; difference of moral, political,
and religious opinion. It is a congregation of
Representatives, but that representation is not
complete if one class be excluded solely because
they will not bind their conscience by a certain
religious dogma. If a man is fitted to be a
Justice of the Peace—if he can be entrusted with
the high office of Sheriff of a county, and be
empanelled on the Grand Inquest of that county
—if he can occupy a position in the social scale,
which for wealth and influence cannot be sur-
passed by, and with the approval of our laws, what
is there to hinder or prevent him from taking
part in the framing of the laws We can see
nothing. And although cotemporaries, like the
Morning Herald, may write against Jewish
emancipation, the time has come for the aboli-
tion of Jewish oaths.

We see that our cotemporary alluded to this
matter yesterday, and feels somewhat wroth at
the rumour that Lord PALMERSTON intends to
swamp the Lords in order to carry the bill which
he brought in last night. This is certain
evidence that our cotemporary feels that Lord
PALMERSTON will carry his measure. We might
as well justify the exclusion of Unitarians from
Parliament as that of the Jews ; and it would be
equally as fair to repeal the Emancipation Act,
as to continue in refusing Baron ROTHSCHILD to
take his seat, simply because he cannot agree in
the Protestant opinions of our forefathers.

We have confidence that not only will the
measure pas's the House of Commons, but that
the peers will now be inclining to defer to the
wishes of the nation, through their newly chosen
representatives. The oft repeated assertion, that
none but Christians should make the laws of
Christians, should be exploded. There is no
settled form of Christianity which has not its
opponents. The doctrines of the-Jews do not
contain anything detrimental to those who hold
a contrary belief, and it could be easily demon-
strated that, of all other people, the Jews have
the least possible interest in an attack on
Christianity, or in altering the Protestant forms
of the constitution-

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.—By the New York steamer
arrived at Southampton, with dates of the 2nd, from New
York, accounts have been received of the, passing of the
two Grand Trunk Aid Bills, with capital and interest
accruing on the Provincial Boudr. The aict will be equi-
valent to four millions sterling by the time the line and
the Victoria bridge will be completed. Ths legislatur4/
has now at length houourab!y carried out The Original
intention of the Ministry of Mr. Hincks, which
gives a six per cant. value to the _ stock.
The railway policy of Canada is extremely popular
throughout the province. The New Brunswick govern-
ment also are making great efforts to push their Provincial
Railw,y up to the Canadian frontier—when this is done,
the Grand Trunk will bo the most valuable loop line in the
world, from the seaboari to the lakeboard. To have con-
cFived such a magnificent enterprise, and to have success•
fully prosecuted it in defiance of an adverse money market.
and the prejudices of people ignorant of the resources of
this splendid country, redounds to the credit of the pro-
jectors. Canada appears destined to become one of the
richest and most powerful states of the world.

NARROW ESCAPE PROM Suirwagoic —A letter received
from Plymouth, dated 13th Nay, says—Her Majest3's
Ship, Exmouth (90), arrived there that morning in 13
dais from Lisbon, after a most providential escape from
shipwreck. She was standing up channel in a very thick
fog, when suddenly " breakers a-bead" was sung out. Sail
was immediately shortened; the helm was put down, but
it was too late, for she took the ground almost immediately.
After trying to get her off by bracing the yards round)
and finding it fail, during which time she bumped her keel
off, the anchor was let go, which fortunately held her,
as her stern was within a few yards of the cliffs, which
towered about 300 feet above the ship. 'The boats were
hoisted out, the steam got up, and the maindeck guns
transported forward, during which she bumped one of her
hoilers in. When steam was up the ship was hove a-head
to give room for the screw to work, in 'doing which she
nearly thumped her masts out, and knocked her cutwater
to pieces ; but after some little time, as the tide was rising,
she steamed off. We under stand the accident took place in
one of the bays a few miles west of the Lizard.