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obligation by the sanction of religion; and, secondly,
to exclude certain persons who declined acceding to the
terms of the oath or affirmation. Was it to be said
that any human being, by refusing to take an oath when
about performing a duty, was to be divested of the obli-
gation under which he undertook to perform that solemn
titY ? Would anybody say that an oath was not as
lading and as strong in the case of a Jew as anybody
else ? The Jew said he believed in an oath, and pro.
lewd his readiness to give to his obligation the sanction
of religion. They eat, drank, and dealt with the Jew,
and he wanted to know why it was that they had not the
Jew among them?—(Hear, hear.) In all probability
,taey would find th,t Ilonourab!e Member for Ox-
ford to-morrow citing the auther,ty of the Jew
as a lawgiver on the marriage question. Ile thould
like to know how that inconsistency could be got
114 Of. He asked the common sense of the House and
of the country—be was fond of appealing to the com-
mon sense of both—what there was in the man, or
in the men, who believed in the Decalogue, to prevent
hem or theta from becoming a Member of the British
Legislature ? Jews were not aliens. There were many
Eoglishmen professing the religion of the Jew. They
were in that character honest men. They professed
that morality which Englishmen approved of and
learned, and he could not understand on what prin•
eiple or what reason it was contended they should not
le admitted to Parliament. He denied that the enact-
ment of the measure would in the slightest degree un-
hristianise !he House of Commons, and believing that
the Noble Lord at the head of the Government had fol.
low‘d a wise course in bringing forward the Bill, he
should give it his hearty and cordial support.
After a few words in explanation frtnn Mr. GOUL-
BURN the House divided, when there appear, d

For the second reading
Against it ....
Majority. —93
The Bill was then read a eecond time, and ordered to
be c.)mniittee.
Mr. GOULBURN inquired what course it was in-
tended adopting to•morrow with regard to the public
basinesi ? Would the adjourned debate on the mar-
riage question, or notices of motion, have the prece-
dence ? . "

Mr. -S. WORTLEY hoped that Horourable Gentle-
men having notics s of motion would alto' v the adjourned
debate to take precedence. lie appealed particularly to
the lion. Members for Newcastle and Lingford.

Mr. IIEADLAM observed that his not-ice of motion
fur IPnvo to introduce a Biil rendering lawful the forma-
tion of joint-stock banks, based upon the principle of a
limited liability of shareholders, stood first on the list.
If he were allowed to bring in the Bill without opposi-
tion, he was quite willing that the debate should be taken
on the second.reading. _ _ _ _ _

• Major BLACKALL said if it were the wish of the
Rouse, he should not interpose his motion, provided that
other Hon. Members having notices on the paper would
also give way, to allow the adjourned debate on the
marriage question to be resumed.
Mr. MACGREGOR couldnot consent to postpone his
motion respecting the incorporation of Kensington,
ChOsea, Fulham, and Hammersmith, into a Parlia-
tee itary borough.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, ho
intended opposing the introduction of tae Hon. Member
for Newcastle's Biil, and unless there was a decided ex-
pression of opinion by the House adverse to that course,
be should p'•rsevere in his intention.
Mr. S. W ORTLEY thought the opposition to the Bill
might be reserved till the second reading, in order to
allow the debate on the Marriage Bill to be proceeded
with.

Mr. G. THOMPSON, in reply to Sir R. Pod, said he
Lad already expressed hii intention not to stand in the
VI ay of the adjourned debate on the Marriage Bill.
LAND IMPROVEMENT AND DRAINAGE (IRE-

LAND) BILL.
The report upon this Bill was brought up
Sand re-
ceived, as oho was the report of the Committee of
Supply.
The Incumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill, and the
Estates Leasing (Ireland) Bill were read a second time,
and ordered to he committed.

Mr. dOUEBURN wished that the Hon. Member for
Glasgow would say positively whether he would or
Would not give way to-morrow.
Mr. MACGREGOR said he should positively not give
way.—(Greet laughter.)
ACCOUNTS OF TURNPIKE TRUSTS (SCOT-
LAND) BILL.

Mr. C. LEWIS moved tile second reading of this Bill.
Mr. FORBES MACKENZIE declared his intention
of dividing the House against it.
The galleries were cleared for a division, but none
toke place, and the Bill was read a second time.
__ LUNATICS (SCOTLAND) BILL.

The LORD ADVOCATE moved the second reading
of this Bill.
Mr. F. MACKENZIE moved, as an amendment, that
the louse should adjourn.
A division took place, when the numbers were—
For the adjournment ... 24
Fur the second reading ... 69
Majority _ ... .. —45

PUBLIC- fIgALTII (SCOTLAND) BILL.
On our return to the gallery we found
Xr. C. BRUCE opposing the second reading of this
Bill. He wished it to be postponed to a more fitting
opportunity.
The LORD ADVOCATE did not think that a Bill
precisely on the plan of the law of England would have
been opposed at all. He did not object to a postpone-
ment, if such were desirable, but he should leave it to the
Rouse to decide whether any reason had been shown for
postponement.
After a short conversation,

'Sir GEORGE GREY said, that if any Honourable
Member objected to the principle of the Bill, ample time
-would be given before the Bill was pressed on through
the House.
Mr. OSWALD wished that time should be given for
the public opinion of Scotland to be known.
Mr. AGLIONBY supported the second reading. Ob-
jections to the Bill might be taken in Committee.
Mr. CHARTER'S hoped that if the second reading
was taken now, the Committee would not be hurried tor-
viard.• Them mere nine Scotch Bills on the table, and
the people of. Scotland were quite alarmed at the legis-
lative fecutdity of the Lord Advocate.—(A laugh.)
The LORD ADVOCATE reminded the House that
he was under a pledge from last session to force on the
Bill as fast as possible. It contained no new principle
Niliatever, and he hoped the House would consent to pass
the measure through its present stage.
After a few words from Colonel 6IBTHORP,
Mr. A. HASTIE supported the motion, approving as
he did the of the provisions of the Bill.
Mr. DUNCAN expressed himself favourable to the
Bill.
Mr. P. MACKENZIE moved the adjournment of the
debate.

TliWHouse divided, whon there appeared—
' For the adjournment ... 19
Against it ... 63
Majority against the adjournment —44
The second reading of the Bill, niter a short conver-
sation, was postponed to this day.
The other orders were then disposed of, and the
Rouse adjourned at One o'clock.

HOUSE OF LORDS, May 7.

The LO;CD—eHAITICiLLOR took his tient upon the
Woolsack at Five o'clock.

NAVIGATION-LAWS.
Petitions against the repeal of the navigation-laws
were presented by the Duke of Richmond, the Marquis
of Londonderry, the Earl of Harrowby, Lord Wham-
cliffe, and Lord Stanley, from certain bankers, shipowners,
and artizans of London, signed by 31,771 persons, and
from various other places.
Petitions in favour of the repeal of the navigation-
laws were presented by the Marquis of LANSDOWNE
from Manchester and Dundee.

EXCHEQUER-BILLS BILL.
On the motion of Earl GR&NVILLE, this Bill was
read a socond time.

SICILY.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE laid on the table
certain papers relating to Sicily.
NAVIGATION-LAWS.

The 'Marquis of LANSDOWNE then moved the
second reading of the Bill for the repeal of the naviga-
tion-laws. He felt himself relievedfrt length, trom aem the necessity of de-
taining their Lordships at au yea
know-
ledge that their Lordships
were
gr
already familiar with
almost all the facts and arguments of the case. He, how-
ever, must detail some of the reasons which induced him
to make his motion, because he knew that in many cases
the opposition to this
wfoeusu founded upon nap
seine
eae
rbelief,sincere,
b belief,
i he
fe,
Bbilultwbaes
believed an erroneous,
that this measure would affect the naval supremacy of
this country. It would behitobrudss oinefsstthostenbeedleiarurli,to
disabuse the minds of Noble
admitted that it was
portion of our liberty
necestosaryp
r tehs e r vseac r i thee some
,
so was it necessary to
sacrifice some portion
of the wealth and resources ofbethe
ted h
country
for
should the
purposes of defence. But trusted
laws were not shove their Lordships that such sacrifices as were desired
by the continuance of the navigation'
into
the history
re-
quired, lie could not go step
law Was
those Jaws. The first attempt at a navigation
by ste the of
in the time of Richard 11., butthe
destructive to
its enactment it was found to be so
commerce that the very Parliament which
founded in
was compelled to repeal it. These laws were .
com-
merce, it
the natural feeling of grasping at every thing in. 6-
which invariably brought with it its own punish-
ment. li__
ment. The prosperity of every country must be invari-
ably ably founded upon the prosperity of other commercial
eountrie3—(Cheers)—and, consequently, all those at-
tsunpts had tailed. Another attempt had been made to
enact a navigation-law by Henry VIII., and having
protected the shipowner, he protected the people
against the shipowner, by en ,cting that only a
certain
of thertain number of ships should be permitted
to ports of the kingdom. This scheme,
as might have been Fupposed fal d It wns not until
the time of Cromwell that the' present
e e
• navigation-laws
were enacted. Ths object of not purely of a co,„,oreiati "vigati"u'law was
nature, his object
was to punish the Dutch forreohnesidseurpporth which
they had given to Charles 11.
tionsghtevee
it)e, e
situation of this country there might p-,rh
the experiment hiow far by a
fair grounds for trying
p heresent sacrifice of wealth a stimulus might be given to
t development of our marine strength. Our
circumstances, with regard to Holland, were at
that time the very reverse of what they were now. But
though he admitted that the experiment
might have been at the time fairly tried,
he by no means admitted that that experiment had been
suceer,3ful. Fate• ti years after those laws had Jima
enact ml he fo!:nd it rtc!):ded in tho.t, most ~musing ht.a.k,
the " Diqry of M. St.erktazy l'ep3s," thut it n-a,! ina-
pt:4lWe to see toy hut women navigating boats, us the
men had all been pressed, and that as a remedy for this
mewlthings, himmediato ouspenlien of the RATipti(MiliPle.