The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-09 00:00:00

TRADE WITH RUSSIA.

(From a Supplement to Tuesday's Gazette.)
At the Court, at Buckingham Palace, the 9th of
April, 1856, present, the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty in Council. Whereas a Treaty of Peace
and Friendship has been signed between her Ma-
jesty and her Allies and the Emperor of all the
Russias, it is this day ordered by her Majesty, by
and with the advice of her Privy Council, that
the order made by her Majesty in Council, bear-
ing date the twenty-ninth day of March, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, by which it
is directed " that no ships or vessels belonging
to any of her Majesty's subjects be permitted to
enter and clear out for any of the ports of Russia
until further order ; and that a general embargo
or stop be made of all Russian ships and vessels
whatsoever, now within or which shall hereafter
come into any of the ports, harbours, or roads
within any of her Majesty's dominions, together
with all persons and effects on board the said ships
or vessels ; and such parts of any other Orders in
Council as prohibit trade with Russia, be hence-
forth revoked and discharged.
And the Right Honourable the Lords Commis-
sioners of her Majesty's Treasury, the Commis-
sioners for executing the office of Lord High Ad-
miral of Great Britain, and the Lord Warden of
the Cinque Ports, are to give the necessary direc-
tions herein as to them may respectively ap-
pertain. C. C. GREVILLE.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 9th day
of April, 1856, present—the Queen's Most Excel-
lent Majesty in Council. It is this day ordered by
her Majesty in Council, that the prohibitions now
subsisting under her Majesty's Royal Proclamation
of the eighteenth day of February, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-four, and under divers subge-
(pent Orders of Council, on the exportation out of
the United li;ngdom, or carrying coastwise, .of
arms, ammunition, gunpowder, saltpetre and bri&-;
stone, marine engines and boilers, and the com-
ponent parts thereof, lead, nitrate of soda, sulphate
and muriate of potash, certain descriptions of iron,
and other articles mentioned in such Proclamation
and Orders, be, and the said several prohibitions
are, hereby, taken off.
And the Right Honourable the Lords Commis-
sioners of her Majesty's Tieasury, the Commis-
sioners for executing the office of Lord high Ad-
miral of Great Britain, and the Right Honourable
Lord Panmure, one of her Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State, are tp give the necessary direc-
tions herein as to them may respectively appertain.
C. .C. GREVILLE.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(This Day.)
The SPEAKEEt took the chair at twelve o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS
The Haslingden Water Bill and the Southport Water
Bill were severally read a third time and passed.
Mr. DUFF presented a petition from a place in the
north of Ireland against the Bleaching Works Bill.
The petition, which was read at length by the clerk at
the table, stated that certain petitions that had been
presented to the house in favour of the bill had been ob-
tained by misrepresentation, and prayed for inquiry into
the circumstance'.
Sir We WE BB presented severel petitions frOm North
Wales in favour of Medical Reform.
Sir F. THESIGER presented a petition from Stam-
ford against the Oath of Abj sration Bill.
Mr. E. LOCKHART presented a petition from Sel-
kirk against the Oath of Abjuration Bill.
Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition from the Man-
chester Commercial Association, and also a petition from
165 of the principal firms in Manchester against the
Bleaching Works Bill.
Mr. BROTHERTON presented two petitions against
the Maynooth grant.
ROCHESTER ELECTION.
The following members were chosen to serve on the
corninitt, e to inquire into the late election for Rochester,
viz. Mr. Floyer, Sir H. F. Davy, Mr. J. Smyth, Mr.
R. Inghatn, and Mr Bso.g.
EXPORTATION OF IRON.
Mr. WILSON, in reply to an hon. member, repeated
the answer he gave on a former occasion with respect
to the export of inaebinery and parts of machinery, but
with respect to the exportation of munitions of war, he
stated that to-day an order in Council would be passed,
by which all restrictions upon trade and navigation
would be entirely removed.
OATH OF ABJURATION BILL.
Mr. M. GIBSON then rose to move the second read-
ing of a bill to aeiolish the oath of abjuration and as-
surance, and, in doing so, contended that no ill could
fellow such a measure. The measure was of precisely
the same character as that of Lord Lyndhursts, and had
the approbation of that noble lord. The passing of the
measure which be advocated would not in the slightest
degree interfere with the others now on the statute-book,
but it would be a relief to all classes of her Majesty's
subjects who objected to take that oath, which
was a political one, and passed by Parliament to meet a
political danger. That danger no longer existed, and,
therefore, be contended that the oath ought to be
abolished. By a single act of Parliament one hundred
and twenty-five useless oaths had been abolished, and
not the slightest inconvenience had arisen in consequence
of such a proceeding. He had taken the opinion of a gen-
tleman learned in the law—not a Parliamentary lawyer—
with respect to the persons who were called upon to take
the oath of abjuration, and he found that all military
officers, all common soldiers, and sailors were called upon
to take this oath. The only persons who were required
not to take the oath were those persons in the Customs and
Excise, who were only required to take the oath of alle-
giance. All schoolmasters were required to take the
oath of abjuration, and if the law was strictly carried
out at the present time there would not be a single
teacher of the Jewish religion—in fact, an immense num-
ber of her Majesty's most faithful and loyal subjects
would be altogether 'outlawed. He might be told
they passed the It demnity Act, and by that act you
exempted the great crowd, but refused the same ex-
emption to a member of Parliament. He had been
looking over Boswell's " Life of Johnson," and he
there found that the profligate person who framed
the oath of abjuration boasted that he bad framed
an oath which would damn one-half of the population
and starve the other. lie maintained that the oath of
abjuration was utterly useless, as it was perfectly cer-
tain that none of the descendants of the Prince of
Wales (the Pretender) existed at the present moment,
and it was absurd to continue on the statute-book
such an oath. The Pretender died in 1765, and the
Parliament of that day did not continue abjuring the
Pretender, but they took out the word " Pretender,"
and inserted in place of the word, " his descendants,"
so now that all the descendarit4 were deal, it was but
proper that the words, "his descendants," should
be expunged, as by doing so the house would
only be followings the strict rule of precedent. The oath
of allegiance and supremacy, he contended, were perfectly
sufficient for the purpose for which they were
renttake, and
after they were taken it was palpably absurd nsiet
upon the taking of the oath of abjuration, as
the whole of the provisions of the oath, that it was
thought necessary by some parties to retain, was to be
found in the oath of allegiance. He had thus gon
through the oath, with the exception of the concluding
paragraph, which stated that the oath was to be
taken without reservation on the true faith of a
Christian. If it was the will of the Parliament that such
should still be the declaration, then they must submit
to take the oath, but he did hope that the honourable
member for Stamford would not say that such
was the case until he had taken the opinion of Parlia-
ment that it was intended to impose religious tests to
exclude some portions of her Majesty's subjects from
their civil rights. If it was wished to exclude some par-
ticular persons from Parliament, he insisted that it
ought to be done by statute, and not indi-
rectly, for he insisted that no British subject
ought to be deprived of his civil rights,
except by act of Parliament. (Hear, bear.) The effect
of this oath had been for nine years to keep the city
of Lonion, to a certain extent, unrepresented ; but it
mii,t not be supposed that by mentioning that cir-
cumstance he was there as the advocate of Baron
Rothschild. He was instigated to pursue the present
course by his feelirgs as an Englishman and a member
of the British Parliament—(hear, heart--and be for one
would not allow the fag end of this oath to debar his
Jewish fellow-subjects from their civil rights. (Hear.)
He trusted he should receive the support of some por-
tion of the Conservative party in the house, considering
that Lord Derby and several prelates had been in favour
of the adrui-sion cf the Jews into Parliament. Ho
claimed the relief the bill affirded those Christian mem-
bers who felt that it was a desecration to take any oath.