The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-24 00:00:00

ROYAL PRINr.`,F.4W:4 TEIEA'CRE, OX 'GRD-:ATREET.

Under the Humement of 'Hr. CaLammAw.
T}IE EVE VINO,
A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR.

After whin.

TIE WINTER'S TALE.

ROYAL THEATRE ADELPHI.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.

Directress, Madame Celeste,
rHIS EVENING,
THE FLYING DUTCIIMAN.

Followed by
LIKE AND UNLIKE.

ROYAL OLY APIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manner, Mr. Alfred Wigan.

T-HIS EVENING
A FASCINATING INDIVIDUAL

After which,
RETRIBIT LION.

To conclude with
CATOIIING A hi• VED.

ROYAL SIMREY THEA.TRE.

Lessees. Messrs. Shepherd and Craw Ica.

TEI IS EVENING,

IL 13 taBIED,F; DI SIVIGLIA.

To conclude with
A BALLET s IVER r.

ASTLErS ROYAL A NIP EIITII tcAT It E.
Lessee and Manager, Kr. Wm. Cooke.
THIS EVENING,
The Romantic Equestrian epectacie, THE HORSE OF THE
CAVERN, or the M netted Brigands of the Abruzzi. with the novel
feature of the Italian Bandits on horse ,ack, the Neapolitan Dragoons,
and Mr. W. Cooke'i stud of trained horses.
After whith, ' •
The EQUESTRIAN* VEXES of ART in the CIRCLE. wits
Desarars celebrated performing Dogs and Monkeys, as exhibited
before her Majesty. _ _

Te conduce with
THE FESTIVAL OF PEACE; or Honour to the Brave.
A Mid-day Performance this day (Mond ty) at Two e'clock.
Box-office open fr F.,ev n ti I Fo .r. Ata,:e Manager, Mr
Went. Equestrian Director, Mr. Y. Coke. jun.

num WATER. AT LONDON Bitio3o,

THIS DAT—Morn. 57 min. aft. s—Evening 23 .tin. aft.
TI-Adonnow—Morn. 51 min. aft. 6 —Evening 18 min. aft

THE WEATHER,-Svx OFFICE, JUNE 24,

TIIRRMOIIRTER, IN THR SHADS.
66 -highest since noon yesterday.
55 -lowest this morning and during the night,
69 —this day at noon.

4AROWIEITIt-10-28.
WlND—Light and variable, from W. to S.W., with fio,
Warm weather.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1856.

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The Lords have rejected the compromise
offered for their acceptance. Although Jews
were excluded from seats in the Legislatur&
by a mere accident—although the parties against
whom the test was exclusively directed, have been,
deliberately and advisedly, exonerated from its
application—although repeated and decisive ma-
jorities of the House of Commons have affirmed
the principle of permitting Tifitish citizens of all
classes, without distinction of creed, to occupy
the seats to which they may be chosen, either by
the will of the Sovereign, the_fountain of honour,
or by the suffrages of their fallow-citizens, they
obstinately adhere to their former views, and
follow the intolerant path which they some time
since marked out for themselves. In their zea,
for religion they insist that every Member of
Parliament shall violate the Divine command,
which forbids the taking of the LORD'S name in
vain !

At present the frivolous, and we regret to be
obliged to add, the impious form of swearing
against the title of persons not in existence
enforced. The Oath of Abjuration, as it is coat
monly called, is directed against the issue of th
person designated as the PRETENDER. That issue
has long since failed. The Cardinal Yonx, or
HENRY the Ninth, as he was styled by the de-
voted adherents of the House of STUART, was the
last scion of the race ; and since his death the re-
tention of the form has been an impious mockery
—on insult to the DEITY, who'delivered in thun-
ders and lightning on Sinai the sublime preczp:
that His name should nckt be taken in vain !
But, say the opponents of the measure, we are
quite ready to abolish the substance the oath.
We only wish to retain the form. It serves, attho ugh
unintentionally, to exclude a certain class fr their
birthrights as British subjects. it is true that
it leaves everything open to unconscientious per-
sons. Atheists or Mormons may come in ; but
those who are most valued in all the private rela-
tions of life, who might efficiently and faithfully
serve their country, and to whom we are but to.,
happy to resort in any pecuniary emergency, an:
outraged and insulted. They may administer—
and the present Lord May;il.-OT L;ndon offers
iii-
contestible evidence how well they eta administer
--qm laws ; but they shall take no part in framing
or a.mendirig tlaes3 very laws. We will still take
advantage of the accident, and rather continue
to insult the DEITY than refrain from insulting
our Jewish fellow subjects. On this principle
they acted last night, and the wise and statesman-
like measure was rejected by a majority of 32,
notwithstanding the brilliant and convincieg
arguments of the veteran Conservative, Lord
LTNDHURST.

We must confess that Lord Jonrr RUSSELL is the
party chiefly responsible for the protracted ezeiusio,
from Parliament of our Jewish fellow-citizenS•
Had he adopted the straightforward course of
allowing the House of Commons to be the sob:
judges of their own privileges—A point on which
the hereditarybranchhas so strenuously.insisted—
the matter would have been summarily disposed
of and the vexed question for ever set at rest.
There was a distinct precedent for such a course.

In the case of Mr. PEASE the House accepted hi:,
affirmation. And why ? Because the substance
Sof the oath was complied with in a form binding
on his conscience—although not in that prescribed
by Parliament. But the Noble Lord. wanted
to create an excitement from which he might
derive considerable political capital. He there-
''fore diverged from the straight and nar-
row path, and those whom he affected to take
under his protection have ever since been the
victims of his unfortunate decision.

It is surely time that the chorea reprc•
sentatives of tko §491i13 rotaca

their footsteps, and remedy the unfortunate
error into which they were betrayed. Their
L)t dships have been tried in every way,
an xi have continued insensible to all the milder
E.( ,sins of reasoning. Why then should Baron
ROTHSCHILD not once more present himself at the
table of the 'louse ?—again offer to take the ridicu-
ms oath, in that form which he declares and con-
si,ders to be most binding on his conscience, and be
accepted as a duly qualified member ? This simple
proceeding would smooth down every difficulty,
and next Session the Bill, which was last night
rejected by a majority of nearly three to two,
would be unanimously carried. There is nothing
but the political pedantry of the Noble Lord the
Member of the City of London to prevent this
consummation so devoutly to be wished for,
namely, the unequivocal admission of our Jewish
brethren to all their rights and privileges as
British citizens.

The King of NAPLES will have his own way,
though at the risk of the pevle having theirs long
enough at the very least to make short work with
him. It would be an error, notwithstanding, to
give him credit for " pluck." Courage he has
none. A more dastardly craven, probably, does
iiot exist. Louis XI., of France, was a coward.
The difference between the two is—FERDINAND

[I., of Naples, has no redeeming virtues—a
tyrant, a faithless, lying, cruel, vindictive tyrant,
steeped to the very lips in crime ; so far from
-seeking a great end by vile means, all he does is
vile, all his instruments are vile, and all his aims
vile and despicable. Naples to him is nothing
the welfare of any portion of his subjects nothing.
Vain, irritable, and inhuman, he lives day by day
for no other purpose than the gratification of his
-,grant will. The morrow is removed from him—
he cannot look so far—a judicial blindness is on
him, his ears are alike shut to the voice of
reason and the claims of humanity. His
kingdom is given over to the police, and
he wise and good rot in prison, or live in
)erpetuil apprehension of the dungeon or the
,caff.)ld. Never did absolutism show itself more
Aideous—never tyrant existed more deservedly
tated, and more thoroughly undeserving of pity,
[t is hardly an exaggeration to say, the very
,xistence of the wretch is a reproach to our

lornmon humanity.
France and England have much to answer for,

If FERDINAND does not play the tyrant after so
.evolting a fashion with.their cennivauce, he does
o exclusively by their sufferance. If they did

heir duty his. reign would be broit4bt to a '4peeiy

'erinination. No need to despatch an army for
4is dethronement—the apoearance of a French and
English fleet in the Bay of Naples would serve the
urn. His oppressed subjects would accept the.
-spectacle as a signal to revolt, and once risen there

vould be an end of FERDINAND, at all events in
N.iples. The execrable horde of cut-throats who
•xecute his behests would be too anxious to secure
• heir own safety to be very careful of his. Aad
urn elsewhere as he may none will confront him
'tilt exasperated enemies, and nothing will greet

',is eats but cries of " vengeance," from lips
hoarse with whispering it. One has to go back
tho declining empire of Rome to find a parallel
5o the wanton tyranny, the all-pervading, fretting,
Ind incessant persecution which the Neapolitans

'aye had to endure at his bands. And yet,
:mowing all this, France and England have suf-

'ered him to persevere—have contented them-

,elves with mild expostulations an 1 rose-water
-hreats. Of course the tyrant has laughed them
-o scorn. What else could have been expected ?
it is the nature of such predatory animals to do
The entrapped wolf will snap at his silly
leliverers. The ignoble tyrant must hold in con-
empt those who hold him up. His instinct
i'oreshadows his righteous doom, and gratitude he
is incapable of.
Matters appear, however, to be coming to a
,trisis. The Governments of France and E iglan 1
have recently, we are told, severally addressed
rho Neapolitan Court in the strongest language (a
.cord too mild, doubtless), urging upon it a change
..)f policy, and the adoption of reforms requisite even
:Jr' the safety of the State, i.e., KING FERDINAND.
The " little treasure,' who 33 safety causes th
';o much anxiety treats them is return with ut;ttsr
;ontempt. Ho feels they are fools for their p tins,
cud is taking especial pains to ahow it. A rascal
informer (the wreto is as deserving of a t.n
in.
his master), one' PIERRO, in obedience doubr,-

!ess to instructions, has hal some fifty individuals

;aid up by the heels on pretence of being engaged
;n a conspiracy for the overthrow of the existing
government. How little foundAtion there is fi
he charge may be inferred from fly.) Elct tint not
more than eleven of these h tva been pat iheir

rial. Brought before illegal court on perjured
evidence one would have thought that sufficient to
decide their fate. Fur appearance sake, or in obe-
dience to some freak something more has been
lidded. The lash has lieen employed, as the sbirri
oil' Naples know how to employ it, and its use per-
iisted in, until some of the poor prisoners have
,:tonfessed themselves guilty to spare their lacerated
Oacks from further fl,)g4ting. The result will, in
d 1 probability, be the condemnation of all eleven
either to death or a more ignominious and in-
human punishment. This sort of thing can't go
ni much longer. The people had better b., slain
:ii fair fight than_used in this way. Endurance,
,vithout hope, somewhat resembles despair ;
And there are no terrors to keep an out-
raged. and despairing people in bonds.
The end, in all probability, will be a
revolution, characterised by excesses which
tyranny can alone provoke or wautonly commit ;
in armed occupatio-ii- On' false pretences, and
the indefinite postponement of justice to the peo-
ple ; or a general insurrection throughout Italy—
mud what next ? Possibly the Governments of
France and England may come to regret not
having effectually interfered when their inter-
ference would have been to their interest as well
as to their credit. Why not at once consider the
i hroue *as good as vacant, and offer the people
VICTOR EMMANUEL for a king ? Here would be
a direction as well as a stimulus to action, and
escape from great dangers beside.

We have indeed much cause to be thankful for
the decided failure of the intended military occu-
pation of Great Britain by German troops. Had
the Coburg coup d'etat been accomplished,• we
Imight have had but too often to repeat accounts
"I"jous affrays between German and English
s'idi-n,- The English people might also become
engaged hi the quarrels, fur they are not as yet
=c cooled to submit to the insolence of mercenary
')Ands, who have but little notion of the
Freedom on which we pride ourselves, and
the earnestness and determination with which
we would resist armed domination in any
shape even from our fellow-citizens. : The
Austrian troops earned for themselves an infa-
mous
notoriety their in the Principalities by
arro-
gant audacity. But they had not Englishmen to
deal with, or they might possibly have found. that
thy would speedily have been expelled fronl the
country, the laws of which they habitUally
deVised. Many valuable lives might .bava (been
iiii4"44;941•464.1ay iiiAti44 oalrail at tio s, ha 0 of
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"the prevailing influences," but the object would
have been achieved at any cost.
it is but a short time since the nation was
excited by the accounts of the insubordination and
virtual mutiny of some of the German Legion,
stationed at Shoreham. Since that period the
3d Regiment of Jagers have been removed from
Aldershot, at a very brief notice, in consequence
of serious disturbances in which they were impli-
cated, and now we have the 21 Regiment of
Jagers following in the same course, and wantonly
assailing the English troops and the English
peeple, apparently thinking that they can d ) as
they like in a German-ridden country.

From the accounts that have been received
from Aldershot, it would appear that a large
body of men belonging to the 2d German Jagers
left the encampment on Saturday evening, armed
with sticks and other offensive weapons, that they
visited the public-houses and other places where
some English soldiers were quietly enilying them-
selves, assailed them without the slightest provo-
cation, and turned them out of the houses, in
which they afterwards smashed the windows and
furniture, committing a large amount of wanton
mischief.

These are the men on whose account we
became involved in the American difficulty, and
submitted to the outrage inflicted on our Minister
and Consuls in the United States by, the PIERCE-
MARCY Cabinet. These are the men on whom we
are now showering benefits in which the merely
English heroes of the Crimea—those who bore the
brunt of the encounter, and freely shed their
blood for their country—are not allowed to par
ticipate. They are not only to receive a handsome
gratuity on their discharge, but a grant of land
in the colonies ; and yeb their only deeds of arms
have been against smaller parties ofEnglish soldiers
—they would scarcely like to meet them on equal
terms—or unarmed English civilians. It is easy to
see that, according to the vulgar but expressive
phrase, they calculate ou having " a friend at
c mrt," or they would not venture an such vaga-
ries. We trust, however, that the matter may
receive a stringent and searching investi-
gation, and that the ringleaders may not
be suffered to escape with' impunity from
the penal consequences of their misconduct.
One thing, at least, is obvious, that German Gar-
cisous or German Government will not suit the
spirit of the English people—And the sooner we
get rid of both the better. Get rid of them
quietly, if p tssible—but at all events get ri I of
them, I