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who believes in the perpetual existence of the nobler
part of our being, who believes in the mercy of God,
and practices humanity to man, who fulfils the ten g,re2t
injunctions in which all morality is comprised—(llear,.
hear)—whose ear is never deaf to the supplications of
suffering, whose hand is as open as day to charity, and
whose life, perhaps, presents a better exemplification of
the precepts of the gospel than that of men by whom,
for the sake of the Christian religion, his dishonouring
disabilities are wantonly, injuriously, and hopelessly
maintained ?—(Cheers.) Where will you find authority
in the Scriptures themselves for the imposition of a tem-
poral penalty, with a view to the propagation of heavenly
truth ? You may find it in the writings of jurists and
divines, you may find it in the dogmas of aus-
tere theologians, who bring their testimony to the
truths of religion, or their authority to the traditions of
the Church, whilst in their precepts of discipline the
vanity of human wisdom is demonstrable and irresistibly
proved. But you will not find it in the New Testament;
you will not find it in the evangelic pages of Matthew,
of Mark, of Luke, or of John; you will not find it in the
Epistles, written by the meek and humble man to whom
the teaching of all nations was confided; and, above all,
you will not find it in anything that was ever said, in
anything that was ever done, in anything that was ever
suffered, by the Divine Author of the Christian religion,
Him who spoke from the mountain to the benighted
throng, who said he came to take the heart of stone
away from us, who said that the merciful were blessed,
and in plane of ratifying the terrible anathema which
the Jews invoked upon themselves, prayed for mercy
for those who knew not what they did, whilst in-
voking the great sacrifice offered up upon the cross
of trial. It was not by persecution—nay, it was in
despite of persecution, despite of exile, despite of spolia-
tion, despite of shame and death, despite the dungeon,
the wheel, the bed of steel, and the couch of flame,
that the Christian religion made its superhuman and
miraculous way. And is it not repugnant to common
sense, as well as to the elementary principles of that
divine religion, to tell us that the Christian religion is
to be maintained and propagated by an instrumentality
diametrically the reverse of that by which it was estab-
lished ?—(Hear, hear.) But, alas, for frail human
nature; No soener had the professors of Christianity
become associated with temporal authority, than they
practised and enforced a severity of which their prede-
cessors had been the objects. The Jew was selected
as the special object of their inflictions. His history
through centuries is one of blood, of torture, of every
form of cruelty and every art of extortion. Men of
mercy occasionally came forth to raise their voice in his
behalf. The great St. Bernard touk a part in his favour;
but the light that appeared in the Abbey of Clairvaux
was faint and evanescent. Centuries of new dark-
ness and new persecution followed the Reforma-
tion did nothing for the Jew. All of us—Catholics,
Protestants, Presbyterians, and the rest, who
had torn to pieces the sacred garments of the
Sovereign Pontiff, terribly sinned in this regard. But it
is some consolation to a Roman Catholic to reflect that
Roman Catholic countries were the first to repair this
injustice. In Belgium and in France all distinctions be-
tween the Christian and the Jew have been abolished; I
trust that Protestant England will follow that great ex-
ample. The force of prejudice once existing in this
country was insuperable, but it is beginning to disperse.
London has made a noble attestation of its will. Are you
prepared to throw back the Jew upon London, in order
that London may throw back the Jew upon you ?—(No,
no, and cheers.) But, Sir, not only do I think the di,-
qualifications that press upon the Jew inconsistent
with the spirit of the Christian religion, I think those
very penalties impede the progress of Christianity,
prevent the conversion of the Jew, and produce
effects diametrically the reverse of those they were
intended to produce. The disabilities imposed upon
the Jew are not sufficiently onerous to be com-
pulsory, but sufficiently vexatious to make conversion
a synonyme for apostacy, and to affix a stigma
to what is held an interested conformity to the estab•
lished religion. You bare struck off the massive fetters
by which the Jew was bound neck and foot, but the fet
tens which remain, though apparently light, were strong
enough to fasten the Jew to his faith, and to make it a
matter of discredit that he should desert his belief.
Nothing effectual will be done in this country for the
extinction of Judaism until yourselves shall have begun
by making a restitution of his birthright to every Eng-
lishman by whom that persuasion is embraced. I know
that an idea is entertained by some that there is no such
thing as an English, or a Spanish, or an Italian Jew—
that a Jew is a Jew and nothing else, that his nation•
ality is engrossed by the country of his hopes and his
recollections, and that the house of Jacob must remain
for ever in bondage. It is not wonderful that, when the
Jew was oppressed, plagued, branded—when he was in
the midst of a captivity worse than the Assyrian
--be should have felt by the Seine or the
Thames as did his fathers by the waters of
Babylon. It is not wonderful that in a land
of exile he should have felt as a banished and
homeless outcast; but what has been already done has
produced a most signal amelioration in his character and
feelings in this respect. In proportion as you hare
mitigated the laws against the Jews, the instinct by
which men are taught to love the country of their birth
has been revived and fostered; British feelings, British
patriotism have taken root in the heart of the Jew, and
nothing but perfect justice is required for their develop-
ment. Emancipate the Jew, abolish all distinctions
between him and the Christian, and you instil into his
heart the perfect consciousness of country. His exults-
tions and mournings will be the same as yours; his
heart will beat with the same joy at the tidings of Eng-
lish victory; and if there should be need, his life will be
poured out for his country with the same prodigality as
yours.—(General cheering.)
Mr. NEWDEGATE said, as it was now so late (25
minutes to 12), he should move the adjournment of the
debate.

Sir G. GREY hoped the House would not adopt the
practice of early adjournments. Great objections had
been already made to the adjournment of the debate so
often repeated, and certainly at such an early 11,.ur the
proposition would be very unreasonable.
After a few words from Mr. Newdegate, Sir R. 11.
Inglis, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the amund-
ment was withdrawn.

lir.NEWDEGATE laboured wader the greatest dis-
advantage in having so abruptly to address the llouse.
Retaining a deep impression upon this subject, he
thought the eloquence exerted by the Right Honourable
Gentleman opposite, when he compared the feeling
which opposed this measure with that which opposed
the Bill of 1829, came strangely from a Roman Ca-
ha member of the Church most exclusively Chris-
tian,tol
yet casting aside every consideration of Christianity.
They bad heard a great deal about the scenes which had
taken place in the City with reference to this election,
bat it had come to his knowledge that wealth had been
measure before the Hostse.—(Hear, hear, from some
Members on the Opposition benches.) The first price
broughtoffered to
was
iesa in
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6d g.
for
ring Up petitions in favour of the
one hundred signatures to a
petition ; the next price offered was 25., and the next
price offered was ss._—(Hear, hear.) Those were
facts which he could prove, and he thought it
right that the House should be informed of them. Had
it ever entered into the mind of Honourable Gentlemen
who supported the measure before the House that the
was therefore desirable to maintain the
majority of the people of this country were Christian,
it
character of the Legislature. It had been
stated by
dshbasyt a Right lion. Gentleman opposite that such a
measure as this would tend towards the conversion of
Jews to Christianity, but he (Mr. Newdegate) could not
see any such tendency in the measure. Was it reason-
able, he would ask, to suppose that the admission of a
few persons of the Jewish persuasion to Parliament
would have such a serious effect upon their faith and
tradition, and Christiania the Jewish community ?
For his part, he (Mr. Newdegate) did not believe that
the great body of the people in this country were
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de-
sirous to sacrifice the Christian character of the
Legislature. It was rather remarkable that the Prime
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thueyp,orly, thes Members of the
English Legislature to forget that they were Chris•
tiara ? Were they to forget that for so many years the
Jews had been the chosen
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people of God, and that for
1,800 years they had been scattered over the earth an
exhibition of the truth of what had been prophesied
concerning them ? Were they, a Christian Legislature,
to forgot all the predictions and prophecies of the Scrip-
tures, and not to regard the great monument of Divine
justice which the Jews presented ? Were they to admit
to legislate fur this country those people whom the Deity
thought unfit to legislate for themselves, and thus to
adopt the principle of a double conscience, and believe
that religion should he a guide to a man in his house-
hold and private concerns, but that he might cast off his
religious feelings and his conscience when he became a
member of a Legislature, and conform to every act
which might be in accordance with that repudiation ?
Upon what principle was it proposed to destroy the
Christian character of the Legislature ? Where was
this system of progress, as it was called, to end, which
had already broken down so many barriers, and which
tended to so much confusion ? He could not agree to a
measure of this nature, which was so much opposed to
his principles.
On the motion of Mr. C. PEARSON, the debate was
adjourned.
DISTILLING FROM SUGAR.

The following Resolutions were reported and agreed
to, and the Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Bernal,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Parker:-
1. Resolved, That it is expedient to allow the use of
molasses in the distillation of spirits.
2. Resolved, That it is expedient to make regulations
relative to the distillation of spirits from sugar and from
molasses in England, Scotland, and Ireland.
3. Resolved, That an allowance of twelve shillings and
tenpence halfpenny be granted to every distiller of spirits
in the United Kingdom for and in respect of every eleven
gallons of proof spirits produced from sugar, used by
such distiller in the making of spirits upon which the
duties now by law imposed have been paid, provided that
one hundred and twelve pounds weight avoirdupois of sugar
have been so used in the production of every eleven gallons
of such spirits; but if a less quantity of sugar has been so
used than after the rate of one hundred and twelve
pounds of sugar for every eleven gallons of such spirits,
then instead of Vic, allowance l•ist mentioled an allow-
ance of twelve shillings and tenpence halfpenny be
granted to such distiller for sod in respect of every one
hundred and twelve pounds weight of sugar so used.
4. Resolved, That an allowance of four shillings and
sixpence be granted to every distiller of spirits in the
United Kingdom, for and in respect of every seven
gaIiOVII and one half of a gallon of proof spirits produced
from molasses used by such distiller in the making of
spirits upon which the duties now by law imposed have
been paid; provided that one hundred and twelve pounds
weight of molasses have been so used in the production
of every seven gallons and one half of a gallon of such
spirits; but if a less quantity of molasses has been so