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POLITICAL SUMMARY. OF THE

MORNING JOURNALS.

The Morning Advertiser Of ye-terlay thus comments on
Mr. Gladstone's late Speech in the Commons, on the third
reading of the Jews' Declaration Bill :—" Mr. Gladstone
appears to entertain an opinion that the honesty- and 03c-
Reientiousness of the Jews might become too conspicuous
in the House cf Commons, where those qualities are so
g!aringly deficient amongst its soi disant Christian Mem-
bers. Mr. Gladstone assumes what the whole duty cf
corporate bodies is "the promotion of Christian objects,"
and for this the Jews as a class "are disqualified. Faith, or
the profession of faith, in the Christian dispensation, as is
daily evidenced by the High Churchmen, is far different
from the practice of Christianity. Faith, however, is not
to be forced by Acts of Parl'ament."
The Times, sPe.akieg of Thursday's debate oa the
Poor-'aw Bill, says--" It is true that Ministers were
compelled, reluctantly enough, to abandon certain clauses.
But what does the country gain by this? To suffer so
much evil less than we were threatened with iit:oot to gain
a victory, or to obtain substantial relief. ..EVery man in
the fieuse of Corrimons knows that the 140,000 persons
who have sent in their remonstrances againet this bill,
did so, not because they wished to expunge this or that
claw, but because they were dissatisfiedioith the working
of the existing law, and required a relaxation of its se-
verity, instead of a further development of its principles.
Let those who desire to give such an account of their
stewardship as may prove satisfactory to those 140,000
petitioners, be able to show that their votes have tended
to introduce some positive arneadment into the existing
system."
The Morning Post allude* in the following terms to Mr.
Macntilay's speech on Wednesday night in The House of
Commons :—" He either produces laughter by his pom-
pous arrogance, or disgust by his servile malignity. It is
his misfortune to mistake insojence for intrepidity, nand
noise for energy. Thus he roes dorig--frat` ienteueelto
sentence, exhibiting the shallowness of his conception,
and the bi cotry of his party feeling, while you may read in
the gross conceit imprinted upon his vulgar visage his own
opinion that he has been showing off the liberality of his
knee ledge, at the same .time that he has been spreading
the knowledge of his liberal ty."
The Morning Chronicle observes, in the course of a
leading article suggested by the Jews' Declaration Bill :
" Whither a person of one religion should be taxed for
repairing, or building, or endowing, the churches of an-
other religion, is a question of common justice, not of
theological creed. He who answers it one way for his
own religion, and another for his neighbour's religion, thus
making money's worth of his faith at others' expense, is
quoad hoc a dishonest man. His " religious associations"
are a very pa!t-y apology. Nur does the excuse become
more sound if, instead of a direct and gross transfer of
cash, the monopoly c rvetird is one of municipal office, or
legislative authority, or any other of the forms of temporal
good in which a monopoly has been claimed on the pre-
text cf peculiar spirituality."

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
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The Poor-law question brings no luck to those who use
it for oblique purposes; and if it helps to inflate the double
she •t cf the Tithes, it does not help its readers through it.
We a.c also glad to see that those who act independently
ate not injured with the public, nor apparently with their
constituents. This is the case ie the metropolitan be-
rouell, where the greatest (irons have been made to
agitate the popular feeling on this much-vexed subject.
Mr. Howes, the Member for Lambeth, has always ex-
pressed himself most decidedly, in Parliament, and at
election ineetirgi, on the side stigmatised as unpopular,
without losing any support in that extensive suburban
constituency. The same might be said of Mr. Ward,
the Member for Sheffield, and many others ; and
Mr. Grote staved last night to the House, that
" whatever might be said of the unpopularity of the
New Poor-law, he could say that in the three unioriS which
he bad the honour to represent—the three unions of the
City cf London—tf e feeling that some time since existed
against the New Poor-law had almost altogerh,r sub-
sided." There can be no doubt that the better-informed
classes in agricultural districts regard the new law as
having produced good moral as eel as material effect
so far as Lnteaching tl e mischievous lesson of parochial
dependence to the labourers generally. We say nothing
at present on a mere disputed point, the affect of the
bastardy clauses—except that we think a gri vance has
arisAl to families which have been injuted by seduction
-.2 grievance for which the law of the land, if not
specially the Poor-law, should affo. d a remedy. Our appre-
hensims as to the permanence of the benefits expected from
th.! New Poor-law proceed from other considerations than
arc usually bestowed on the subject. A poor-law can work
well or ill in a country only as the other laws, by which that
country is gov,rned, render it prosperous or the reve. se, The
be.;t Poor-law in a country whose prosperity is declining,
cannot possibly work well, because the pressure upon its
machinery tai I be such as no machinery of the kind can
support. In such a country, the fund from which wages
are paid is dirnini,hing. Able-bodied labour thr.rws itself
on compulsory charity. If that charity is given liberally,
the pressure is felt more and more upwards. The end is a
real confiscation of property, and sacrifice of all classes to
the bee it—and gra hie' dec ty becomes precipitate ruin.
If r..litf is given sparingly (as it must be, in such circum-
stances), then the demagogue's harvest ripen=. Double
she( is of the Times expand. Finsbury sends forth her
apostles of Liberal pauce:ism. The wrong; of paupers
are made to engross the a;teatien due t) the public
interests.