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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 the labours of the Com-
mittee would be almost interminable, and that the
question would be fairly shelved, at least for the
present Parliament. Some 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 ROTHSCHILD to be
their representative in the Imperial Parliament, they
have now proclaimed Mr. DAVID SALOMONS 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 foremost 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
of its originator, Mr. exiguous ANSTY, 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 absti-
nence of the Baron LIONEL DE ROTHSCHILD, 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
•hair of the SPEAKER, and ?squired 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. i
Before many days have elapsed, however,
the question of the release of the Jews from their
existing 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 thata 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 upon the high crime of
religious bigotry.

Deputies from the various towns in the island of
Sardinia have arrived at Genoa, to petition King
CHARLES ALBERT to unite that island with his other
states on the continent.

Letters from Rome announce that the POPE has
appointed Signor PARADISI administrative statician
of the Council of State. Signor PARADISI is the
writer who, in the columns of the Contemporanao,
has never ceased to denounce and expose the manner
in which the former Governments had, for years,
jobbed with Prince TORLONIA, in the 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 manner in which he
has made this exposure of the peculations of the former
Governments.

The following is a summary of the proceedings of
the Swiss Diet ill its sitting of the 2d :

" The first vote was for sending Federal repre-
sentatives to the Valais, the capitulation of which was
recorded, and that they should receive the same in-
structions as those given to the Commissioners to the
other States of the Sonderbund. M. Furrer then
brought up, in the name of the committee, the draft of
the note to he addressed by the Diet in reply to the
Prussian note. He said that the Prussian note ought to
have been addressed direct to the Diet, instead of being
transmitted to the Directory to be communicated 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-
ticles in virtue of which Neufchatel forms an integral
part of the Confederation for all that has relation to the
acts which only concern Switzerland. The committee
believed that the Diet ought energetically to resist the
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pretensions of Prussia. M. Furrer recalled to mind
Whato_. occurred in 1833, when Neufchatel was
obliged to obey the orders of the Confederation, and
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