The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-28 00:00:00

ber, and Gold Sticks in Waiting with uumistake-
II able wooden heads)—victorious ! As if to enable
us still more clearly to estimate the real value and
importance of the triumph won last night in the
House of Commons—there is the division list,
and there again is the report of the discussion.
What they do toll us, to be sure—if we only
examine them for a few minutes scrutinisingly !
Why, they tell us plainly, among other
things, that the triumph of yesterday
was a triumph won by independent opinion
and Common sense (or, if you like it better, House
of Commons' sense 1) over both Government and
Opposition, over both Court and Cabinet, over
the leaders of both sides, over the " powers that
be " under Lord PALMERSTON, and the " powerF
that hope to be " under Mr. DISRAELI 1 Look
at the opponents of Lord ELCHo's motion—each
of whom spoke, and, with the single and some-
what unaccountable exception of Lord JOHN
RUSSELL, not only spoke, but voted against the
Address to her MAJESTY praying for the issue of
this Royal Commission ! How many leaders of
public opinion (as they are called) spoke and
voted last night —in vain. Statesmen in
power, and Statesmen aspiring to it, bid-
ders for office, and men actually holding
it in high positions, how they all spoke and
voted—in vain—for the ALBERT Folly at Ken-
sington Gore ! There were arrayed in this way
against the Noble Lord the Member for Hadding-
tonshire, the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, and the Leader of the Opposition !
In vain ! Yes, and vainly, too, in the same
courtly cause was raised the once syren-voice of
my Lord JOHN RUSSELL—inaudible now (the
Noble Lord may possibly console himself by
thinking), because the Ulysses of England (poor
honest old BULL to wit) has (at the suggestion of
Mr. BRIGHT, perhaps), stuffed his ears up with
cotton ! However it may be, so it is—Lord
PALMERSTON, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Mr.
DISRAELI, Mr. LABOUCHERE, Sir G. CORNE•
WALL LEWIS., all spoke against Lord
ELCHO'S motion last night, and yet Lord
ELcno's motion was triumphant ! Triumphant
after the sturdiest application of the Parliamentary
thong of the whipper-in. Triumphant in defiance
of the combination to the same end of the influ-
ence of the Court and of the strength of the
Government. Leaving (at the end of this appa-
rently unequal race between the Favourite and
the Outsider) the PRINCE CONSORT'S Hobby (in turf
phrase) just "nowhere 1" Leaving H.R.H.'s
Hobby " nowhere"—and H.R.H. himself what
our Cousin across the water (Ile of the yellow vest
and the black choker) would call " catawam-
pously thawed up !" So terminate all such
preposterous schemes, schemes that would play
ducks and drakes, for the amusement of a Roya.
Pococuran te, with the Money and Treasures of ar,
overburdened and a long-suffering population !

The debate of last night in the House of
Lords on going into committee on the Oath of
Abjuration Bill shows how much some indivi
duals, both of character and position, are pre-
pared to sacrifice in the indulgence of a favourit(

crotchet. It is really melancholy to witness
Statesman like Lold DERBY degrading himself
as be is doing in a senseless, and, perhaps, of
that very account, relentless, persecution of hi:
Jewish fellow-citizens ; still mora to find him
having recourse to the pettifogging subtleties of
a sharp practitioner to accomplish his purpose.
It is perhaps fortunate that an indulgence of this
sort now and then involves the party so indulging
iu a manner and to an extent which he by no
means contemplated at the outset, PROVIDENCF
overruling even the culpable vagaries of men for
good. The effect of his Lordship's bill, if car-

ried through both Houses, would, as Lord
LYNDHURST remarked, be to add an additional
barrier to the admission of Jews, and thereby
leave them in actually a worse position than i
found them. By thus exchanging a defensive

or obstructive attitude for a new and of-
rensive one, there can be little doubt
the prospects of the Jews are really improved,

since the House of Commons are thereby fur-
nished with additional and most powerful motive:
for insisting on the due recognition of their
claims. The bill is a flagrant insult to the House,
which has already pronounced a decided opinion,
in favour of these claims, and is treated with
mockery by being called on to rivet more closely
the yoke of which the Jews complain, as well as
by being challenged for aid at this time of day
in a crusade of intolerance.

It never can be too much insisted on that the

very fact of the Abjuration Oath, in its present
form, operating as an impassable barrier to the
Jew, is one of the most powerful arguments that
can be urged in favour of his admission into
Parliament. The man who prefers exclusion
from a much-coveted position to the violation of
his conscience, displays precisely the sort of moral
calibre which a member of Parliament, invested
as he is with the gravest responsibilities, ought
to possess, and which, to the injury of the public
weal, so many have given proof they do not.
The entire history of the Jew, since the disper-
sion of his race, affords additional testimony
in his favour, while the certainty that the
words "On the true faith of a Christian"
have not prevented Infidels and Atheists
from taking the oath is in our opinion conclusive
of the matter. If the reader will turn to the
speech of Lord LYNDHURST he will find sufficient
prOofs of the impotence of an oath to bind unprin-
cipled men---using even the word unprincipled in its
least offensive sense. Under all the circumstances,
therefore, we look not merely for the rejection of
the bill, but also for some more decided step being
taken by the House of Commons on tie earliest
opportunity, and with no less confidence because
the introduction of the words " without evasion,
equivocation, &c.," in the proposed oath is likely
to be offensive to a certain class of members.
Would not the House be fully warranted in ceasing
to trouble the Lords any further about the matter,
and in expressing regret at having troubled it at
all, and thereby contributed towards its humili-
ation ? The question is one within its own pro-
vince, and it has quite as much right to act up to
its own notion of its privileges as the House cf
Lords, which did not scruple to do so on a recent
occasion. All that is wanted seems to us to be a
vote of the House admitting Baron ROTHSCHILD
on taking the oath required, deprived of the
offensive words,
which do not add a tittle to its
force. It was a
mistake to incur a waste of time
and much national
reeaptrionauchnfbya
ma
erroeunbdluanbdouert
too,pro
pro-
cedure (in tbeoreeaitifi
for the exclusion of the Jew in point of fact arises
from nothing more),
when a direct one, unattended
by any such disadvantages, would have answered.
In Mr. PEASE'S case the
Souse dispensed with
oaths altogether.

What is the proper time for an inquiry into
the operation of the Bank Charter Act? Accord-
ing to the red-tapist financiers, and wealthy mem-
bers of the moneyocracy, a fitting opportunity can
never be discovered. The parties seeking discus.

sion are always too early or too late—before or
after the suitable time. If the Money Market be
easy there is no necessity for immediate action.

In fact, in times of ordinary prosperity, the
Ict remains almost a dead letter. Extra-
)rdinary facilities for obtaining money are afforded
Go all legititna.t* awligants. It icheap and
4bundant, and speculation is fostered and encou-
raged. It is at this very time, however, when
All is apparently couleur de rose, that the seeds of
mischief are scattered broadcast on the way side,
that the danger is really imminent. The mone-
tary cycle is moving onwards, the time is approach-
ing when the Old Lady must contract her issues,
when to enhance her own profits, or secure her
,wn safety, she must deal forth her blows impar-
ially on every side, until a panic is excited,
and sauve qui pent becomes the universal rule.
Chen the demand for investigation becomes urgent.
\Ten feel that the welfare and happiness of them-
ielves, and of those dearer to them even than life
itself, are sacrificed at the shrine of the insa-
tiable demon. Ttiey eagerly grasp at any change
that offers a prospect of temporary relief. But
the cold-blooded red-tapist discovers that there is
too much excitement to admit of immediate legis-
lation, and proceedings must again be postponed
until quiet is restored.

No such excuse is, however, available at this
moment. The minimum Bank rate is still rather
high, it having been 5 per cent, until Thursday
last, and then reduced to 41 per cent., and it is
generally believed that there will be a fur-
ther movement in the same direction. The
pecuniary barometer is manifestly rising, and
we may hope that the index will speedily point to
fair. The fever heat has not yet arisen. It
would therefore be perhaps impossible to discover
a, more opportune time for impartial inquiry,
when extremes of every kind are so completely
avoided.

Surely, then, the remainder of the session
ihould not be altogether wasted, without some-
thing being done to arrive at the solution of the
tll important problem. The "Old Lady" is en-
titled to twelve months' notice before her mono-
poly can be abolished. Should not that
notice be forthwith given, although Parlia-
ment had not yet decided on the nature
of the substitute to be provided ? In private
affairs men do not exhibit su?,h extraordinary
apathy. If a landlord has a bad tenant, or a
tenant a harsh and exacting landlord, steps are
taken to abrogate the existing contract, although
the one has not obtained au eligible occupant, or
the other a desirable residence. They are aware
that there will be full time for making the ne-
cessary arrangements, and, -therefore, unhesitat-
ingly take the preliminary steps.
So it ought to be with the Government.
they must know that a sounder system may
easily be inaugurated during the first six months
of the next Session. It would be difficult,
indeed, to discover one worse in all its de-

tails than that now in operation. Any
change must be an improvement, for bad as
was the Act of 1819 that of 1844 materially
aggravated its evils. Even if a permanent ar-
rangement could not be entered into, the Bank
would, in case of need, be very glad to continue
its agency for another year, until a really na-
tional one could be established, and to give us its
five-pound-notes, possiblyits promises, to pay such
inconsiderable sums as 11., 21., and 31., on de-
mand, until the issuing of a sufficient quantity
of Exchequer paper, receivable in payment
of taxes and du'ies of every kind. Unless
that notice be given before the prorogation
nothing can be done next year—nothing will be
done for many years to come. The Currency Re-
formers must be prepared to take the " Bull by
the horns" if they anticipate a satisfactory result.
Let some independent member then move
an Address to the Crown, praying that the requi-
site notice may be given, previous to the proroga-

tion, to terminate the contract between the Bank
if England and the nation. By this course
Ministers will be bound to bring forward
301110 proposition at the very commencement of
the next session—and also to make provision for
paying off the debt to the Bank, so as to
remove that obstacle to a satisfactory settle-
ment. The stereotyped objection to such
a course will of course be urged,
but unless something of the kind be adopted
nothing will be done for a series of years. The
nation will still groan under the incubus that
paralyses its energies, and subjects it to periodi-
cal convulsions. In all foreign affairs Ministers
&aim to act for themselves, and earnestly depre-
cate Parliamentary discussion until the emergency
has passed away. Let them for once do so
in a domestic matter, and they may rest assured
that the vigorous proceeding will be hailed with
enthusiasm, and that they will receive every as-
sistance which they could reasonably claim or an-
ticipate.

VERY LIKE PEACE.

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The Russian force to be permanently stationed in the
Crimean peninsula after its evacuation by the allies is to
be the third armee corps, under General Wrangel, con•
ei,thig of about 50,000 infantry and 8,000 cavalry.

A Vienna letter or the 23d says :—"Tbe accouche-
merit of the Empress is now every day expected."
The Empress-Dowager of Russia left Stutgardt on the
21st for Wildbad.

The Opinione of Turin states that a subscription has
been opened in Tuscany for the execution of a bust of
Count de Ca.vour, by the eminent sculptor Vela.
The French troops are arriving very rapidly from the
Crimea, and in one ship alone, the Great Britain, 2,300
have been cmveyed home.
General MacNlahon has arrived in Paris, as has
General de Bazaine, who, it may be remembered, was
lately commandant of Sebastopol.
The rumours of a protest of the Count of Paris on the
subject of the "fusion" are contradictory. Some affirm
that the protest realty exists, others that it exists a
fetal de projet, and is not yet put into shape or form.
Baron de o,v, Envoy Extraordinary of the King of
Wurtemberg to the Holy See, arrived at Rome on the
16th. He is charged to negotiate considerable modifi-
cations of the Conc ,rdat of 1827.

THE TIPPERARY BANK.—DUBLIN, Friday Evening.—
Master Murphy has this day issued a notice making a
call of 40!. a share a peremptory call on the share-
holders on whom the call is made. Those shareholders
are thirty nine in number.
Some sensation had been caused at Barcelona, in con-
sequence of the arrival of the Austrian war steamer
Count Radetzki, that being the first Austrian vessel of
war that had entered the port since the accession of the
Bourbon family to the thr•ne.

A letter from Stutgardt of the 23d, in the Cologne
Gazette, says :—"lt is stated that M. de Manteuffel had
accompanied the King of Prussia in his visit to this city
lir a politico•commercial object, namely, to induce
Vurtemberg to lay aside the opposition which she has
hitherto made to a reduction in the iron duties."
The Nezo Prussian Gazette says :—" We hear that his
Royal Highness Prince Frederick William intends leav-
ing England about the end of this month and returning
here. In accordance with the most recent arrangements
his Royal Highness will be present at the coronation in
Mosco w."

IRONMASTERS' MEETING.—The usual preliminary
meeting• of the ironrnasters of S )uth Staffordshire and
East Worcet Le:shire was held at Stewponey on Thursday,
when it was unanimously determined to maintain exist•
ing trade prices, as settled in April, during the ensuing
quarter.

THE OTTOMAN BANK.—A telegraphic despatch from
Constantinople, of the 18th, says :—" The concession
for a Constantinople Bank has been grantsd to an Eng-
lish company, of which Mr. Layar I is the director.
Messrs. Ede and Co., and Black and Stanson, will con-
duct the business at Constantinople. There is a consi-
derable improvement on 'Change. The quarantine at
Odessa, for veagels coming from Constantinople, has
been abolished."

The telegraphic accounts from China yesterday are to
the 9th of May. Tne exports of tea to date were
79,000,0001 b., and of silk, exclusive of shipments to
Mar-eilles, 43,600 bales. The rate of exchange had
experienced a decline of 2d. at Hong King, and a rise of
2.1. at Shanghai, the quotation being is. 101. at the
former place and 63. 9d. at the latter. Silk was scarce,
and prices were high, the expart, according to some
estimates, not being likely to exceed 55,000 bales.