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sion of the Jews to Parliament crier a gorge deployer '
as they list, their exhortations and arguments, theo-
logical and political, must fail with all those who re-
member, that as Christianity is now urged as an
insuperable bar to the emancipation of the Jews,
whose efforts it is asserted must ever be directed
against our faith, so our Protestantism was exhibited
as in the utmost danger—nay, as certain of destruc-
tion—if Catholic Emancipation were granted.
The argument against the Jew is, that this is a
Christian country, that its people is a Christian people,
and that the Jew, being neither a Christian, nor pro-
perly, an Englishman, is, and ought to remain, ex-
cluded from Parliament. The argument against the
Catholic was, that he worshipped the Virgin Mary
and saints, statues and images, and that in fact he was
an Idolater, and no Christian ; that, moreover, his
paramount obedience to a foreign potentate and spi-
ritual master would always neutralise his allegiance
to his native sovereign whenever it appeared to clash with
the supreme obligation of his exclusive religion. The
reasonings against the admission of either Catholic or
Jew are similar. But Parliament has disregarded
those admirable deductions of logic by the opponents
of Catholic emancipation, and by its acts has de-
clared them to be untenable. If the arguments
against Catholic Emancipation were deemed by the
Legislature as futile and irrational as the penal laws
themselves were oppressive and impolitic, those em-
ployed against the Jews are still more so, and a for-
tiori to be disregarded. The Catholic was looked
upon and designated, not as a Christian, but as an
Idolater. The Jew, however, though no Chris
tian, is not only a worshipper of the true and
only living God, but Christianity has its origin
in Judaism—its founder was a Jew his
apostles were Jews. The Jew, therefore, in a
religious point of view, must occupy a much higher
space in the veneration and confidence of the Pro-
testant Christian than the idolater Catholic ; but the
Catholic has, notwithstanding his idolatry, been ad-
mitted to a full participation in political rights—why
not the Jew, the worshipper of God, and the founder
of our Church ? He will plot, say you, against
Christianity, because he is no Christian ; so will the
Catholic against Protestantism, if difference in religi-
ous persuasion must necessarily create a desire in the
dissentients for the destruction of each other, a neces-
sity which is by no means evident. Nay, more, the
• Jewish senator is rather likely to become a juste milieu
arbitrator between Catholics and Protestants, not
without some leanings in behalf of his Protestant
fellow-subject, if historical recollections of persecu-
tions endured in the dark ages are calculated to con•
firm prejudice and hatred against Catholics, and the
sense of the toleration he has uniformly experienced
from Protestants in free countries produce attach-
ment, loyalty, and affection for the institutions which
have secured to him the fruits of his industry and his
rights as a man. In religious questions he must ever
side with that party whose object is toleration, libera-
lity, and knowledge ; on these depends his own conti-
nuance as a free citizen and legislator. Protestants, will,
therefore, always have him on their side when they are
engaged in promoting and extending the Protestantism
founded on the right of private judgment and pro-
gressive improvement. And should the Protestant
part of the Legislature for a moment forget their
principles, and be inclined to revert to any of the
slightest intolerance of the penal laws, the Jew would
see in this retrogression the precursor of his own re
newed degradation, and accordingly oppose them. Of
the Jew, therefore, neither the Protestant nor Catho-
lic has anything to apprehend as a religious oppo-
nent: That the Israelite will, by his admission into
Parliament, have facilities to subvert Christianity, or
corrupt it_by the introduction of rabbinical or Talmu-
die doctrines and superstitions, is a supposition too
absurd to need refutation. The objection against the
Israelite as being a foreigner is equally untenable.
lie is no more a foreigner here in England than is
the S axon population in Wales or Ireland. The
Welsh are the original Britons. The Saxons came
from Germany, as did the Jews from the Holy Land,
hut are either therefore to be deemed at this day
foreigners in Wales—are ti-'e Welsh the only subjects
of Queen Victoria ? The Jews are not more a dis-
tinctive race in England than are the Saxons in
%Vales. Yet the Welsh and the Saxons are deemed
native subjects, and why not the Jew ? Is he not
amenable to the same burthens and the same laws as
his Christian fellow-subject? The law constrains him
to perform all the dnties of a citizen, because it re-
cognises him as a subject. Why should it not entitle
him to ail the privileges of one? But the Jew him-
sell, it is sail, proclaims himself a stranger and a
snjoureer with us, and looks forward to be restored
to the land of promise. But does the law take this
belief of some or all of the Jews into account, and
dispense %%WI his obligations to the state as a citizen ? ,
Certainly not. Ile must perform them all, pa:
taxes, and submit to all the duties of a subject.
leaves him no option; at least it should allow hits
such as regards the higher privileges of a citizen, an t
leave him free to be a Member of Parliament. If sl,
it suits him and any of the constituencies of the
country to make him one. It can with truth be
affirmed that there is no argument or pretence of
argument against the admission of the Jews
to all offices of trust and honour that is not
capable of refutation. In France, in Holland,
in America, none of the inconveniences and
dangers have appeared from their perfect eman-
cipation. In those countries they are found to be
subjects as loyal, peaceable, industrious, and talented
as the rest of the community. They have proved
themselves so in England, and it is to be hoped that
we shall see, in the course of the ensuing session, this
remnant of a barbarous, cruel, and superstitious gene-
ration erased for ever from the statute book, and thus
remove from us a reproach to which the most glo-
rious institutions and the most renowned nation for
its wealth, its civilization, dominion, and power
ought to be no longer obnoxious.

THE " DODGES" OF MENDICITY.—AII know of
various " dodges" practised upon the credulous, and
even the suspecting, but a couple, which are now profit-
able to two individuals, are worthy eof record. There
is a hungry man, who prowls about the street with
bread-crumbs in his hand. He watches his opportunity.
Upon seeing respectable, charitable-looking people, he
flings down the morsels before them, far in advance, and
then manages to be picking up the food, and devouring
it with assumed voracity, just as the people pass. Ten
to one but he gets a sixpence for his performance. The
next is still more clever. A girl, of about 13 years old
or youeger, goes abroad with half a dok_in halfpenny
boxes of lucifer matches. In some great thoroughfare. -
and the most dirty part of it, she lets fall her wares.
The matches are strewed all about, and she falls to work
deliberately picking up, one by one•, the scattered
matches. The passers by, to whom she does not even
cast a glance, say, " poor thing;" and many of them
give her more than three times the value of her matches.
This industrious young lady was seen three times during
last Friday busily performing her profitable part, and
the public will do well to bear this in mind, for it is
a pity to encourage such deception, especially in the
young.

WESTMINSTER COURT OF SEWERS, FRIDAY.---.A General Court of Sewers for Westminster was held
at the Court-house, Greek-street, Soho-square, Captain
George Bogue, RN., in the chair.—The Lord Chan-
cellor and the Westminster Commissioners of Sewers.—
The Chairman wished to take the opinion of the Court,
whether, in so important a matter as that now before
them, the answer of the Lord Chancellor's secretary
being a verbal refusal to renew the commission, could in
point of law be received, and whether a written answer
should not be obtained from the Lord Chancellor on the
subject ? Mr. E. Willoughby said the court could not
be appointed at the whim of any Lord Chancellor, as
Acts of Parliament had declared that commissions of
sewers shall issue, giving power to the Lord Chancellor
for the time being to appoint the commissioners, which
provisions had been followed up, approved, and ratified.
If any legal enactment was made to supersede him, as a
loyal subject he should feel bound to obey it; but while
the law was in existence, he should like to kaow why
the commission should be thrown into abeyance. The
court had recently been invested with additional powers
by Act of Parliament, and these additional powers had
been granted with the concurrence of Government. He
felt assured the Lord Chancellor had not had his atten-
tion drawn to all these facts, and therefore he thought a
deputation should wait upon him to point out the diffi-
culty that would arise if the commission were allowed
to drop without some other course being adopted. The
Honourable Commissioner concluded by moving a reso-
lution, " Tbat a deputation do wait on the Lord High
Chancellor, respectfully urging him to renew the com-
mission." The resolution having been seconded, Mr.
Hawker thought they had done quite enough already,
and that it would be the most dignified course not to
complain of not being re-appointed. Mr. France was of
opinion it would be extremely indecorous to take any
further steps in the matter. Mr. T. Donaldson thought
the great question was whether the public should suffer
by their works being stopped at once. and it was a pity
the Lord Chancellor had not allowed matters to go on
until Parliament adopted some other mode of operation.
If the Lord Chancellor allowed the commission lo lapse,
he could not be aware of the consequences. Some other
business having been transacted, the Court rose at a late
hour.

THE LATE GENERAL
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death of the venerable Marshal Oudinot. The loss of a
mange in whose name ranked among the
first at a period so
fertigreat captains cannot but be strongly felt by all
who render homage to talents and military glory. 'The
noble deeds and honourable eharacter of the Nlarshal
had gained the esteem anti affection of my late brother,
the Emperor Alexander, and I know that the marks of
honour which he receivtA from him had always left in
his wind a grateful reminiscence. This is an additional
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reason fur mo to regret him, and to sympathize in the
atiliAion which his death has caused to his country and
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large squib was lit and put
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for prompt assistance

FRIGHTFUL EFFECTS OF FEVER
ON BOARD AN EMIGRANT SHIP BOUND
FOR CANADA.

" St. John's, New Brunswick, Oct. 19, 1847.
" You probably have learned, ere this, part of the
dreadful story of the ship Avon, Nicholas Johnson
master, of 1,100 tons register, with about 500 pas-
sengers, which vessel arrived disabled at Miramichi.
No fiction (for it would require a perverted or dis-
torted mind to give birth to so horrific a tale) could
pourtray the frightful scenes that occurred on board
of that ill-fated vessel, or relate the extent of misery
and suffering which were borne by most of the pas-
sengers in listless and mournful despair, and by others,
including the captain, with a fortitude bordering on
the most romantic heroism. Already, at the onset,
the vessel's doom seemed sealed, for, encountering
heavy weather, she lost several spars, and suffered in
her rigging, which retarded her progress during
the voyage ; still, all would have been compara-
tively well but for the quality and perverseness of the
passengers themselves, who were the most unruly, tur-
bulent, and wildest set that ever Ireland sent forth. In
vain did the captain and mate exert every nerve, and use
every means and persuasion to bring them under some
kind of rule for their own preservation's sake. They
would harken to no remonstrances, adopt no sanitary
measures, and even resisted and repelled with main
force every attempt that was made to ventilate and
clean the steerage. Listlessly they would behold the
violent typhus fever spread among them and cause
immediate death. But this was not all; the infatuated
beings, moved by some inconceivable and demoniacal
spirit, would rot separate themselves from the dead,
until the infection rose to such a pitch on board, that,
frantic with despair, the captain, uniting with the
Presbyterian part of the passengers, and a few able
hands of the crew still remaining, assailing the unruly
in their stronghold and giving them regular battle,
succeeded in overcoming them, when to their horror
and dismay they discovered above sixty dead bodies
stowed away in chests or sewed up in beds !! The
deep received them, and many a fresh victim soon
followed, until the largest portion of the passengers,
'
including all the crew except two hands, died away !
" The emigrant agent, Mr. Perley, has just re-
turned from Miramichi, where he instituted, by order
of Government, a most searching investigation re-
specting the immense loss of life sustained on board
the Looshtauk, which catastrophe attracted so much
attention at home a few months ago. It now officially
appears that out of 462 passengers
There died on the passage out ...... 153
And shortly after arrival ...

249
Sent to Quebec
Discharged at their own request, after per- 213
forming quarantine - .. 160

462
But of these surviving 213 emigrants only 190 are
still in existence ! presenting a total loss of 272 lives
out of 462, or about 60 per cent., independent of the
numerous crew and worthy mate, who, with the ex-
ception of five hands, have all perished.
" It has been established by the unanimous evidence
of many of the surviving passengers, that far from
any blame being attached to the captain, both he and
his deceased mate exhausted every possible means to
alleviate the boundless misery and suffering of their
passengers ; but in vain were their humane and un-
ceasing efforts directed towards arresting the deadly
distemper aboard ; it was written above that they
should not succeed. Not only did the greatest por-
tion of the emigrants succumb under the virulence of
the disease, but all the crew gradually sickened, and
were consigned to a watery grave, until none of the
ship's company remained, rbut the captain and his
mate, the miserable though not idle spectators of the
melancholy scene around them, providing for all and
for everything as long as their noble souls could resist
the moral afflictions they endured, and the bodily
fatigue they underwent. host liberally and gratui-
tously did the captain distribute all the stores to those
who stood in need of them, and he even at last was
forced to perform the office of cook in his own cabin
For the sick ; with his own weak hands he cut holes
in the deck for the purpose of ventilation, and left no-
thing untried which humanity could suggest, for
such was the violence of the fever among the pas-
sengers, and their consequent weakness, that scarcely
any one could rise from his couch to come on deck to
breathe a purer air.

" When off Prince Edward's Island, the Loosh-
tauk fell in with a vessel, of which the captain
beggPd assistance, but self-preservation taught the
oth-r to decline acceding to his request. The former
bore up for a neighbouring port in the island,
it the pilot who came alongside sheered off imme•
.lately he heard the fatal condition of the ship, and
the wind springing up favourably for the opposite
mainland, he at last got into Miramichi Bay, where
a steamer towed ,the vessel up the river, after the
most frightful voyage on record, Completely wor-
ried out, and a prey to the intensity of his feelings,
the captain became delirious on his arrival, from
which state, he happily recovered after a month's
able treatment on shore.

" Such is the horrible picture I have to draw of
these two ships, to which I might add a sad tale of
many similar disasters; but my pen refuses to pro-
ceed in so doleful a task, and I shall close my letter,
already too long, by warning emigrant how they
proceed to this hemisphere, where they can expect
little or no sympathy, as sufficiently evinced by the
blunt report of the commissioners, which I have
enclosed, and to which, I am satisfied, you will give
publicity in the cause of humanity."

HAMBURGH MAIL.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

HAMBURGH, Nov. 15.—With very little business
on the Bourse, there has been no essential variation
in the price of the funds. Exchange on London was
in great request.
FRANKFORT, Nov. 12.—1 n some of the funds only
was there any activity. Amsterdam Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. were more in demand, as were like-
wise Moscow and Darmstadt. All the other funds
were in the same state, and yesterday Spanish Funds
were without animation. On the whole, business was
very insignificant.

ALTON-A, Nov. 15.—Our little fair was extremely
well supplied, but scarcely more than the half was
sold.

BRESLAU.—No change of importance has taken
place here since our last report, except that there is
a general tendency to depression, especially in the
case of rye. Several purchasers from Upper Siberia
helped to keep up the prices yesterday, otherwise
there must have been a considerable abatement. The
best qualities of wheat still maintain their price.
STETTIN, Nov. 12.—Our supply of herrings has
been considerably augmented by fresh arrivals, in
consequence of which there has been considerable
reduction in the prices.
BRESLAU, Nov. 13.—We have had many pnr-
chasers in the wool trade within the last week or ten
days, and within that period about 1,000 cwt. have
been purchased in the market, the prices, however,
were very low, cheaper even than last month.
STETTIN, N0v.12.--Our corn market was not only
firm this week, but there was even a tendency in the
prices to rise.

ST. PETERSBURGIT, Nov. 5.—A spirit of speculation
begins again to manifest itself in our corn trade.
The price of rye remains firm at 18r. ; very little
business is doing in wheat.—llanzburgh Papers, No-
vember IL

THE THOROUGH IMPROVEMENT or THE METRO-
POLIS.—However the proposed new street may be car-
ried out, it will have the effect of further burthening
Cheapside, if that is possible, unless, at the same time,
another direct street is formed from London-bridge to
St. Paul's. But the reply would be, the Improvement
Commission must not venture within a small space in the
heart of the metropolis, called the " City," as that is
" forbidden ground." Again, therefore, this must be left
to the Corporation; and what will they do? Nothing, or
worse than nothing! And so things go on, arid ever
will, unless the " thorough improvement of the whole of
the metropolis, upon one specific and well digested plan"
(without respect of persons, as Benchers, Aldermen,
Common Councillors, &e. &c.), is entrusted to one
efficient Improvement Commission, with ample powers,
so as to obviate the necessity and consequent delay and
cost of applications to Parliament in each case; and then
Southwark, Lambeth, and the outskirts will receive a
due share of attention, as well as the more wealthy
quarters of the City and West•end.—Builder.
THE STEAM-VESSEL ACT.—It gives us pleasure to
state that the provisions of this Act, which was of so
much importance to the public, are likely to be rigidly
enforced by the officers deputed on the part of the Crown
to see that all steam-vessels going to sea, and carrying
passengers, are provided with the proper quantity and
description of life-boats, not failing to take care that
such as are not so provided, and therefore not enabled
to make the periodical return required by this salutary
eractrnent, are brought specially under the notice of the
Government authorities, in order that they may be
forthwith required to furnish their vessels with the re-
quisite complement. Without specifying particular yes-
bels, we may state this supervision has been found to he
called for with regard to some of the steamers in imme-
diate communication with the continental ports from the
ports on the south-eastern coast, which have now been
amply supplied with all the requisites for the safety of
the public, in case of probable danger at sea requiring
abandonment of the main craft; and the same interfe-
rence has been found requisite in respect to steam ves-
;k!ls trading from the port of London with cargo, but
which also generally carry a considerable number of
p t;.seng.,rs to the foreign port of destination. This
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