The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-30 00:00:00

Admiralty, and Secretaries and Surveyors, these
statements and counter-statements ! Admiral
PARKER takes charge of Sir B. WALKER'S letter
to the First Lord of the Admiralty. Subse-
quently Sir B. WALKER obtains, an interview with
the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND—when ho learns
from his Grace that he had never seen or heard
of this letter containing the tender of his resigna-
tion. " His Grace," this is the evidence of the
witness, " his Grace stated, with much. warmth,
that, had it been given to him, he should have at
once taken it to Lord DERBY. Sir BALDWIN WALKER
is naturally amazed when, as luck has it, Admiral
PARKER himself walks into the room during the
interview, whereupon " witness expressed his sur-
prise at hearing his Grace state that he had not
seen or heard of the letter tendering his resigna;
tion, upon which Admiral PARKER reminded the
Duke that he had put the letter into his Grace's
hand." He might as well have put it into the fire
as he actually did with another communication.
Again say we-0 these long yarns and short me-
mories !

Like everything else just now—except the Jew
Bill—the Committee of Inquiry was yesterday ad-
journed. The further examination of the Gun-
powder Plot at Rotherhithe is postponed. The
discussion on the Budget is delayed. Everything,
we repeat—excepting that Jewish Disabilities Bill,
which was defeated last night in the Lords by a
sweeping majority of 49 in a house of 279, in-
cluding proxies--everything except that is sub-
ject, it would seem, to reiterated adjournment.
Among the rest, this Committee of Inquiry into
the exercise of political influence and patronage
in the dockyards is doomed to what we cannot
but regard as a most judicious and wholesome
procrastination.

The annual ceremony of bringing forward in
the House of Lords the bill for the removal of the
civil disabilities affecting persons professing the
Jewish religion was last night repeated, and with
the usual result. The hereditary legislators once
more rejected the measure by a considerable
majority—there being 164 against the second
reading, and only 115 (including proxies) in its
favour. Had Lord JOHN RUSSELL really intended
to set the question at rest, and to carry out the
wishes of the important constituency of which he
was the representative, he would have adopted a
very different and far more simple course than
that which he delij)exttely pursued. The question,
so far as the House of Commons was concerned,
lay in a nutshell. There was no greater impedi-
ment to Baron ROTHSCHILD'S taking his seat than
had previousiy existed with respect to Mr.
PEASE. Then, however, the House acted boldly
and independently. The majority of its members
would not permit a question affecting their own
privileges only, and the discipline and regulation
of their own concerns, to be referred to
another tribunal. They took a broad and
comprehensive view of the subject. They
considered that it was the spirit and not the
letter of the obligation that should be regarded
—the substance and not the form. They, accord-
ingly, by a simple resolution, decided that the
Hon. Gentleman should be permitted to make his
affirmation, as he would have been authorised to
do in any Court of Justice, even in the highest of
all—the House of Lords itself. The matter was
thus disposed of in the easiest manner. The
Hon. Gentleman made his affirmation, took part
as one of the popular representatives in the busi-
ness of the country, discharging the important
duties confided to his charge, honestly and effici-
ently. No person ever thought that the British
Constitution, or even the Church of England by
law established, was endangered by the admiss n
of Mr. PEASE, or subsequently of Messrs. BRIGHT
and Maas into the popular branch of the Legis-
lature, and if a similar course had been resorted
to when Baron Itorxsellun presented himself at
the table, and having taken the substantial part
of the obligation, declining only the formal decla-
ration that "ho swore it on the true faith of a
Christian," inasmuch as the other form which he
was willing to pursue, was " more binding on his
conscience," there would have been an end of the
dispute—the obstacle would have been quietly
removed, without discussion or excitement, and
there might have been two or three Jews taking
part in the proceedings of the House of Com-

ions—a circumstance that would no more have

un-Christianised the Legislature than their tole-
ration in the country, and admission to civic
offices, has un-Christianised the nation.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL, however, wanted some-

thing to divert the popular attention at the mo-
ment, to prevent the impatience that might other-
wise have arisen at the undue procrastination
exhibited with respect to the various reforms
urgently demanded at his hands. Like a Necro-
mancer in the olden time, he had a potent
spirit under his control, but he was bound to
provide it in work. A Jew Bill, one that
would command a majority in one House,
and was certain of rejection in the other, would
answer the same purpose as twisting ropes of
sand or other equally useful occupations by which
the busy demon was prevented from doing mis-
chief. We have, accordingly, had a bill which
has answered the purpose for seven successive
Sessions, and which is good for seven years more,
unless the step be now ta.ken which might have been
so beneficially adopted in the first instance. If
Lord J. RUSSELL be really sincere in his intention
of carrying out the emancipation of the Jews, he
will now, albeit at the eleventh hour, bring for-
ward the resolution which he should have pro-
posed in 1847. The difficulties have, unques-
tionably, been increased by the vacillating
conduct above referred to ; but it is time that
what a morning contemporary has, with too
much propriety, termed " the annual farce,"
should be brought to a conclusion—that the Jews
should be admitted to the popular branch of the
Legislature without further delay—that the city
of London should no longer be partially disfran-
chised, and one of its most respected citizens de-
prived of the honourable privilege bestowed
on him by a majority of his fellows. If

Lord JOHN RussELL be in earnest, he will forth-
with bring the question to a summary conclu-
sion. If not, his conduct will afford another, and
by no means a favourable, illustration ofLegislative
and Ministerial " sayings and doings," which we
have no doubt the electors of the metropolis will
know how to appreciate when the fitting time
shall arrive.

DEPARTURE OF THE COURT FOR OSBORN"), THIS DAY.—
Shortly after one o'clock this day,-her Majesty, H.R.H.
Prince Albert, and the rest of the royal family, accom-
panied by the Lords and Ladies in Waiting, left Buck-
ingham Palace for Osborne. The royal party occupied
three carriages, and proceeded over Vauxhall-bridge to
the new railway in the Wandsworth-road. In conse-
quence of the Nine Elms station, from which' her Ma-
jesty formerly started, having been turned into an emi-
gration depot, the London and South-Western Railway
directors have built a short line from the main
line near the Richmond Junction to the Wands-
worth-road, near the tollgate, which will be
kept expressly for the use of her Majesty and royal
family. It having been found impossible to com-
plete the station in time for to-day, a large tempo-
rary one, in the shape of a marquee, was erected by Mr.
Benjamin Edgington, of Duke-street, Tooley-street, for
the accommodation of the royal party. Upon the arri-
val of the Court at the new station, the Queen was re-
ceived by the chairman and directors of the railway.
The royal party having taken their seats in the train, the
signal was given, and the party dispatched. Het:Ma-
jesty and royal family were looking remarkably well.
CHANDELIER FOR THE QUEEN.—A splendid chandelier
has lately been made at the works of Mr. R. W. Win-
field, Cambridge-street, Birmingham. It is for her
Majesty's marine villa, Osborne House, and was for-
warded on Saturday last, in order that it may be sus-
pended in the council-room before the arrival of the
Royal Family. It is designed in the later Italian style,
wrought in the most admirable manner, and is composed
of brass, matted, and in part relieved by burnishing.
From what is termed a jewelled shaft depends the body
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