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London, England, 1853-03-28 00:00:00

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to hurt Protestantism ; from the Dissenter, that
he. will abstain from all opposition to the Established
--Chtirch-; from-the Jacobin, that he will uphold the
Hanoverian suceeSsion=and, yet they.affect to be-
hove that no oath will bind the people who, of all
' others, are the most:tenacious of oaths, to promote
the interest of the country in which they and their
ancestors were 'bred, born, • and have their. sole
means of living, because they;'' have .a longing for
Jerusalem, and. pine for Syria. We might, indeed,
shggest,that the electors might be safely left to
deal with this" part of the candidate's predilec-
- There are many rich and travelled Jews
-=but they don% go to Palestine. Even Sir Moses
Montefidre, when he ,makes a trip to the Holy City,
takes very good care.to come back again to Rams-
gate. In fact, the ,whole. affected difficulty, of the
Church Parliamentary flunkeyhood on this point is
mere execrable fudge. If there were anything
real, in' it, why do they not go much further ? A
Senator without patriotiem is.surely infinitely 'less
clanprous to the constitution than an active enemy
-to its leading features. . Why Are not Republicans
excluded from Parliament by a monarchical oath,
or democrats by anroligprchical confession ? These
are real • peril% .but they are left, 'with' a thousand
other particulars, to be dealt with, by the electors,
who' will take very good care first of all to be satis-
fied of a man's loyalty. and patriotism before they
will tolerate him at the huStings. The only other
"-bit. of. blarney" for the notice of which we have
room, is a pretext, the very mention of which
appears an insult equally to the intelligence and
t the religion of he nation. The climax of the
Inglis resistance to the bill is that, "to admit
a Jew to Parliament would be to dishonour the
Christianreligion, by endowing, with political rights,
one who must believe that our blessed Lord was an'
impostor." Now, the proponent of this objection
calls the Roman Catholic religion anti-Christ, or
opposed to Christ. The _confession of faith of the
Church of Scotland, established by laW, calls the
Pope " that man of
.sin and son of perdition ;" yet
episcopacy and presbytery have both admitted
anti-Christ and the followers of the son of perdition.
to Parliament. All orthodox sects declare that
" Unitarians are deniers of the Lord that bought
them ;" yet Unitarians are admitted to Parliament.
Nay, the service of the Church of England so-
lemrdy turns its face to the East on Trinity Sunday,
and we know not how many other d4s, and de-
voutly consigns all Unitarians to eternal torments
—yet there in the Senate-house sit Mr. Thornley,
Mr. W. J. Fox, besides Sir R. H. Inglis ; and the
Archbishop of Canterbury beside Lord Lovelace
and other Unitarian Peers. But if the admission
of Jews to their rights isa dishonour to Christianity
what are we to think of the Church ? The Arch-
bishops of York and Dublin, the Bishops of Nor-
wich, Llandaff, and nearly a dozen more, have all
voted for the removal of Jewish disabilities—and,
therefore, either the Church dishonours Christi-
anity, or the emancipation of the Jews does not.
But here the calls on our space abbreviate the lo-
quacity of our polemics, and we must postpone
what more we have to say " until a more conve-
nient season."