The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-02 00:00:00

THE ABOLITION OF JEWISH

DISABILITIES.

CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 1.- A meeting, convened by
requisition, was holden yesterday evening in the
Town-hall, the Mayor in the chair, "to consider the
propriety of petitioning the Houses of Parliament to
pass a Bill for the relief of the Jews from the civil
disabilities under which they labour.
The Mayor presided.
Mr. W. ASHTON (Clerk of the Peace), in moving
the first resolution, said that he considered the re-
moval of the Jewish disabilities a measure of justice
to the only portion of his fellow-countrymen who were
excluded from a seat in Parliament. This was not a
time to contend that the Jews were not as respectable
a class of society as any other. The matter had been
treated as a religious question, but in his idea wrong-
fully.
Mr. P. BEALES seconded the resolution.

Mr. R. M. FAWCETT considered himself entitled to
move an amendment. He should do so, that it might
be known not only to the inhabitants of Cambridge
but to the world at large, that they were not unani-
mous; also to strengthen the hands of their respected
member, Mr. Shaft() Adair, who had promised his
consistent opposition to this innovation upon a Chris-
tian people.—(Hisses, and cries of " We'll vote for
Adair no more.") He had attended to propose an
amendment as a matter of duty, and not with any
idea that it would be carried. He merely meant to
enter his protest. The measure had not been desired
by the Jews as a people, no agitation had been raised
by them like that which preceded the repeal of the
Test and Corporation Acts, Catholic Emancipation,
or the Reform Bill, and it was his firm belief that the
honest and straightforward Jews did net want it.—
(Laughter.) He would move—
" That this meeting views with dissatisfaction a
Bill now before Parliament to relieve the Jews from
the disabilities under which they now labour."

Colonel GLOVER seconded the amendment.
Mr. T. MORTLOCK declared his unqualified opposi-
tion to the object of the meeting.
After some few observations from Messrs. W. Ekin,
H. S. Foster, R. Foster, J. D. Fetch, and R. Newby,
in speaking to some minor resolutions, having for
their object the obtaining of signatures to the petition,
and its presentation in the House of Lords by the
Duke of Bedford, and in the Commons by Mr. Shafto
Adair and the Hon. Mr. Campbell, the petition was
read. From its brevity it is somewhat a curiosity :
" To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal in Parliament assembled.
" The petition, &c., showeth,—That your peti-
tioners have observed with satisfaction the introduc-
tion of a Bill into the Legislature for the removal of
the Jewish disabilities, and do most earnestly pray
your Right Honourable House to pass the same into
a law." .._
The meeting then broke up, Mr. Fawcett having
retired some time previously.

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