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LOND4M, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1847

Notwithstanding the appeal made by the Home
Secretary; and even the remonstrances of avowed
Repealer* in the House, who earnestly desired &post-
ponement 'of the discussion until a more propitious
season, the Hon. Member for Nottingham persisted
in Isis intention of bringing on his motion for " a
Committee to inquire and report on the means by
which the dissolution of the Parliament of Ireland was
affected, on the effects of that measure upon Ireland,
and upon the labourers in husbandry and operatives
in manufactures in England, and on the probable
consequences of continuing the legislative union
between both countries." The House was conse-
quently occupied for the entire evening with
the subject, and the debate might (with some
few exceptions) have taken place at Conciliation
Hall, the Repealers had it so entirely to themselves.
The moderation of the anti-Repealers was rewarded
by the termination of the discussion in a single
bight, and the rejection of the motion by a majority
of 232, the numbers for the motion being 23, and
anst it 24%5. The greet question, which had ob-
tainedlo nistny new converts, and the speedy triumph
of 'which was a matter of pee' ect certainty, has thus
received a: quietus at least for the present. The very
sauigpnpifioretat silence
bowith
motion was received was far
which the arguments of the
more effectual
be,
theand
d
most brilliant oratory
could have
rebuke to those who conveyed a forcible
really urgent business, I°4
ani)ded eel
the progress of
detained
the several
Members at a most inconvenient
their respective dwellings.
It is to br time from
the proposition of Sir JOHN PAKlNGTollegretted that
the orders of the day precedence over formotoig:ilving
s on
Tuesdays and Thursdays, until after the Christina*
holidays, was riof acceded to. In such case a
valuable day would not have been wholly lost to the
country, Onfl a material advance would have been
made in ths legislation %%bid) it is 4b,olutely essen-
efore the trjournment of the
ttial to have enacted b

'House. -
Were it not that it Mould have been unwise to
foster in any degree the Repeal delusion, or to yield
any encouragement to its abettors, the House
could not have adopted a mere effectual course
for getting rid of the question than by
acceding 'to the motion, and granting the proposed
Committee. A wide field of investigation would have
been thereby opened up. " The means by which
the dissolution of the Parliament of Ireland was I

effected " would alone involve the history of the
entire nation for a series of years preceding the
union, more particularly the insurrection of 1798 and
the causes which led thereto. The secret histories
of the individual members of either branch of the
Irish Parliament should also be inquired into ; and
when, in addition thereto, the effects of the measure,
not only on Ireland, but upon the labourers in hus•
bandry and the operatives in manufactures in Eng-
land, for the last forty-seven years, and also
the probable consequences of the legislative
union, was to be reported on, we might
reasonably calculate that die labours of the Com-
mittee would be almost interininable,..and that the
question would be fairly -shel*ed, at least for the
present Parliament. Swine of the Irish Members are
loud in their complaints that the Government have
not as yet introduced the remedial measures which
are intended to accompany the Bill for the prevention
of crimes and outrages in Ireland, which has erro-
neously been termed a coercion Bill; but how is it pos-
sible that everything can be done when so much
valuable time is frittered away and wasted on subjects
which can certainly lead to no immediate result, and
which there would be ample opportunities of dis-
cussing under much more favourable circumstances
at a later period of the session ?

Again have the citizens of London decided to en-
trust their personal interests to an Israelite. After
declaring the Baron LIONEL DE RoTnscuinn to be
their representative in the Imperial Parliament, they
have now proclaimed Mr. DAVID SaLostoNs Alder-
man for the Ward of Cordwainers. There is some-
thing very significant in all this ; there is evidence in
it that the inhabitants of the metropolis of Great
Britain are resolved, even with a spirit of enthu-
siasm, to forward by every possible means the cause
of religious as well as that of political toleration. A
more propitious movement could scarcely have been
made for the removal of the Jewish disabilities than
that which displays the population of the capital city
of the empire among the fore Most of the requisi-
tionists, and the Prime Minister of England among
the foremost of the legislative advocates, of this extra-
ordinary measure of emancipation. There is one
consideration which attaches an especial importance
to the settlement of the civil liberation of the children
of ABRAHAM, namely, that with the abolition of these
unintentional disabilities, the last syllable of bigotry
will be expunged from the Constitution. Many de-
testable and contemptible flaws will unquestionably
remain upon the statute-book, but endeavours are
likewise making for their obliteration; and, supposing
they are still permitted to disgrace this liberal king-
dom and enlightened generation, they will be alto-
gether as innocuous as they are worthy of derision
and abhorrence. On this very forenoon the second
reading of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill
will have been forced upon the attention
of the Legislature by the laudable pertinacity
ofits originator, Mr. CHISHOLM Aim; and in the
event of his efforts for the abrogation of the old,
obsolete, and brutal penal enactments, proving as
ineffectual as those of Mr. WATSON during the last
session of Parliament, an additional amount of odium
will have accumulated round those villanous blots
on the national escutcheon, and their ultimate ex-
purgation will be rendered yet more inevitable.
By the almost unanimous manner in which Alder-
man SALOMONS has been invested with the municipal
authority inseparable from the suffrages of the ward
of Cordwainers, the invidious recollection of his un-
successful endeavours to be nominated for the
ward of Portsoken have been immeasurably more
than compensated. As a corollary to the decision in
favour of the Hebrew race recently declared before
the hustings of Guildhall, and sanctioned by the
approbation of the PREMIER and his constituents, this
election of Alderman SALOMONS to a seat in the
Common Council of London is most decisive and
significant. It is additional and emphatic testimony
that in this great City there is no dereliction of duty
in regard to that universal charity which is incul-
cated by the benignant genius of Christianity,
as far as the unfortunate race are con-
cerned who have writhed for eighteen
centuries, in exile, under the brand of the Ne-
mesis of Palestine. It is a fresh token that there
is little necessity to appeal to the understandings and
hearts of our fellow-citizens against that spirit of per-
secution which is still predominant in the conventicles
of Exeter Hall, and which would guard the portals
of the national House at Westminster with the
phantom obstructions of a preposterous Oath.
It has become perfectly manifest, from the abs

nence of the Baron LIONEL DE Roffiscnan, from at-
tempting to take his seat in Parliament that he
(as the mouthpiece of the most venerable people on
the face of the globe) is resolved to meet the present
difficulty of his position with no injudicious quibble,
or unbecoming evasion. By his patient pro-
crastination he shows himself to be as earnest
if not as enthusiastic a champion of religious
tolerance as THE LIBERATOR himself. Sup-
`posing he were brought to-morrow before the
chair of the SPEAKER, and required to pronounce the
Oath of Abjuration before the assembled Commons of
England, we doubt not but that he would be as
resolute 'in his refusal as the first represen-
tative of the order of the Society of Friends.
Before many days have elapsed, however,
the question of the release of the Jews from their
-xisting civil disabilities will have been brought
ministerially under the consideration of our Legisla-
tors, and have found a noble and appropriate advo-
cate in the person of Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Until
then the expectation of the lovers of civil and reli-

gious freedom must continue to be of the most
sanguine character. It does not, certainly, require to
be demonstrated that a principle which has been decried
by the surly rhetoric of the Quarterly can, neverthe •
less notwithstanding, prove triumphant. That has been
demonstrated already a hundred times. Nor is it in
any manner essential that the predictions of fanaticism
should be proven idle and fallacious. That is long
ago notorious. But it is most absolutely and most
decidedly requisite that the question of the Jewish
disabilities should be calmly and boldly scrutinised
by the Legislature, and that a final. verdict should be

pronounced by Parliament upora the high crime o

religious bigotry.

Deputies from the various towiz in the island of
Sardinia have arrived at Genoa, to petition King
Cl/ARLES ALIBI/1T to unite that ;.slanci with his other
states on the continent.

Letters from Rome announce that the POPE has
appointed Signor PAIL/13151 administrative atatician
of the Council of State. Signor PARADISI is the
writer who, in the columns of tile Contemporaneo,
has never seated to denounce and expose the manner
in which the former Governments had, for years,
jobbed with Prince TORLONIA, in thq farming of the
tobacco and salt duties. Cardinal. FERRETTI has
written a letter to PARADISI, expressing to him the
approbation of the POPE of the mt inner in which he
has made this exposure of the pecTala tions of the former
Governments.

The following is a summary of the proceedings of
the Swiss Diet in its sitting of the 2d :
" The first vote was for sendias g Federal repre-
sentatives to the Valais, the capitult .tion of which was
recorded, aid that they should r es:eive the same in-
structions as those given to the Ccanamissioners to the
other States of the Sonderbuntd. M. Furrer then
brought up, in the name of the ci minsittee, the draft of
the note to be addressed by the ,Diret in reply to the
Prussian note. He said that the Prt tub:al note ought to
have been addressed direct to the Di et, instead of being
transmitted to the Directory to be c( ,mmunicated to the
states. Prussia could not, he said, be ignorant of the
act of annexation of Neufchatel to ' Switzerland, and the
committee thought right to mention in the note the ar-:
tieles in virtue of which Neulehate 1 forms an integral
part of the Confederation for all tb at has relation to the
believed
which only concern Switze Ha rid. The committee
obliged
that the Diet ought ene.'g-vrtically to resist tl.e
pretensions of Prussia bl Pt trrer recalled to mind
sit in the
what occurred in 1.833; w aen Neufchatel was
The committee in
of that.
to obe
Diet, the orders of the Confederation, and
spite of tl se protests of Prussia.
eireu believed it ri eat to remind Prussia
tion of thbe
einSgacter-17aeseatrir a'
Ici
of s in dispulustt:nee• 11( mover, the principal
peace was on the
se pled by the dissolu-
point of
diplomacy by intervention did n in Switzerland, if
tions. M. Furrer concluded bnot create new complica-
to adopt the note as drawn upies commending the Diet
Deputies of Glaris, Bale VAle, an
y-i raeAcommittee, The
the note, as did also the deputy et varugdatearproved of
lug', that it showed the acts of the, Governrnentatot;r stet-
chatel as regarded Switzerland had no need of theNellf-
tion of the King of Prussia, thri,t it rejected his threats
with propriety and dignity, and. that It proved that the
Powers had not the right to int( Irvene. The deputy a'