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London, England, 1858-07-02 00:00:00

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. When the Duke of Wellington elpselk._s_kc fenerikin' ee4": '
ago his long and' patriotic career,. there Were Km n6l:''s' s-
who pe6dict&l. 'we -should mist, not so miler *s,,
advice in military affairs, or any positive assistance
that lielitcf-been wont to render to domestic degieL ''s:' :I
lat'onee-as lei; remarkable power a timely and s 'I
gra,cefeh concession. .It was said that he knew -
when • te• - yield ; he know when futtlier re- !'- 71.
' sistance would be useless and mischievous,
and when an untenable position must be abar -
cloned for the safety of the whole cause,
.w,:
b But
towne ';
who
-was there to supply his place when he
possesst d that immense weight of authority.
with the stubborn Conservative portion of the Lessis-
e
lature that could make them trust him to advance,
to resist, or toretreat,-as Aber was best? It seemed
quite impossible such a man should ever springup.
It reouirelaitother European war, another huudred
betties, another period of critical dang,er, another
gloriotii termination of the struggle;followed by a
psa,ceful career of equal
,glory. That predicting,
hewever, went on the usual error-of supposing that
trte !uture must run in the very groove of the past.
It also escribed too- much •to the charac'eresf, an'.
ex tre.ordinary preen age. - When -the Duke-of We 1....
Avg on entered the House of Lerds 'on a grand fors
night with 50 or 60 proxies in his pocket,litfiii-
tied not Merely so many blauk papers to be 61144 '''';'t
as he pleased, or so tinny expressions el blind un-
reeedeable coufideoce, but, what was. Much more,
the cinAtlence:of rten like him, who thought and frit
with him, and believed him to represent ,boeb their
-own notiohS of Political Wieitiona Theee were then, nu
;there are neweand as we trust there' always will
be, a' lab-tie holy of Peers who,- after a eeriaie
time; wilt iejit prolong a uso'ess quasi el. They wilt
feel so I:6ll6'respect for :the opinion of 'the ;other •
house, arid for, the nation at large, as net to sey.
ageinstit for etier;the;rown, private pecdileertione; -
Havieg these predileetie ne, however, and feeling
iherribe—N-e-S—re-Sperisible for the light within them .
to--a -a cee,tain' point, they will tied themselves in
a strait between- opiniou and discretion, I,etweens •
their duty to thenaSelvei slid to the Stat4,' between
p laical coustaney, and the no lower duty of
politeel ;nesdesty.- This is just a 'diflioulty of that
.sort which requires•theint- rveution or agt eat per-
sonal atitherOy,-anillseeinest be a. man t o combine -
political power, high ,persanal qualities, strong vat-
pathies, judicial habits, and sound common sense. •
If any. man can be found who will approach to. such .
a descriptien;he Will receive a large amount' of Cori-. •
fidence from the.Conesevative party of the Lords,
even though he doeserei bring with him the adventi-
'tioue glory of a prey iona military ca,eer. Relying,
then, on the House of Lords, and ti e character of • -
this country r:onsitiitig the saute, .we were not
among those who thought hat the L eels, no longer
led by the DUke, and trained to yield in time,
would fall into a fatal self-will and te, stinacy. We
believe 1 that the spirit would remain the same,
And that a leader would shcw himse!t. Lord Derby.
—it is evident from what passed last nighteie just
such a man.
. Exactly- as the Duke would have done in the
same state of affairs, L-ird Derby has postponed his -
own great atereicn to the measure parsed in the
Lords, and ell the feelines that promp•ed li'm to an
obstieattresist.nce. He has sat do vu, and deli-
bera.tele estimattd the public iuterest in the ques-
tier). The-evil of standing out for ever is obvious.
Teen is the question always coming up .from the
Ooinutous to the Lords, always dividing both
houses; each in itself, andi each sgainat the other,
an I generally importing ,- issensions into the heart
of the CiOinet i,sell: Tl,ere is the annual loss of
st-tvt•rul n4LlitP, some hues many nights, in pt try
di cessions, hitle see endine in it 'aline. Nobody
'iv 111 the least value friar time, tilers', and feeling,
c 111,1 think this '-tlierwise than - a waste of the se
ci
tliings. . There is; too, the- hypocrisy. of religion ,
leling always steked on the exclusion i' f one or two •
Jeeish gentleuaen from Parliament, in which it is -
notorious that there are a good warty etre leMea
who don't believe nearly so much as the Jewe, and
ape much less Christian. Such is the inevitable
cost of a protracted resistance. A surrender of the
principle, ie, is true, will enable Baton Rothschild, ,
and perhaps ona er two other, to vote end make
speeches iu the house, and to give as many voles
and make as many speeches as metebe s wins value
these privileges-are apt to do. 'the :4g:tine:ince. of ,
a few Jewish speechee and votes in a session; Orra-
ther of _a few' - epee:lees and ! votes from 'Jews
upon points wholly unconnected with Chtiettanity
or Judaism, does not admit of easy calculation.
And Lord Derby would seem to be of opi-
nion that he can risk that result. He is not
afraid of any ye y fearful couseqneocc from Baron
lite hsehild vi til; on gm. stiens of finauce; or of war, '
or; of dr titiageeereef etteterebesesrent- to-the -Artie -or-----
any otdinary subj- ca Se, weighing the actual
evils of the pre• ent resistanee with the problemati-
cal resul-s of a timely concession, he has tlueight it
best to give up 11 s ideal of a perfectly Christian •
Legislature, and allow tie Commons to let a Jew
sit, and sere, and speak among them. Toe con-
cession declared, the word given, and the.trausac-
tion agreed ore it is remarkable how quickly it was .
completed and how little was said against it at this
lest closing scene of this very long controversy.
Toe B chop of Oxford delivered his testimony
against tae surrender, but, insteal of arguing it
ont from any grounds of his own, be at once Went
into the beaten track of authority, and the only
authority he could adduce was that of the very ex-
cellent, liberal, but by no means consistent divine
and p litician, the late Dr. Arnold. Th s writer
thought that if a man denied the fundamental point
of Christiani'y it was impossible to trust hire with
the discretionary power of legislating for a Chris-
tian nation. Tne Bishop of Oxford, however,
gives only a part of Dr. Arnold's opinion and difti- •
entities on this point. In fact, that writer did not '
so much advance any certain opinion on the sub-
ject as avow himself utterly perplexed and beaten
upon it., If he could venture to have any opinion
at all, it went a good deal further than the Bishop
of Oxford, anti a good deal further than the ex-
clusion of Jew; from the Legislature. He did not
see what right they bad in a Christian country at
all. He regarded them merely as intruders and.
aliens, remainibg on eufferaute. His remarks on
the point leave the impression that he would have -
thought us quite justified in compelling the Jews
to repeat that Exodus which they took. for them-
selves from the land of Egypt. He could not see
what business they had hero at ad. We are a
Christian .:eamanunity. All the world. k.uotxa.ite
We have been so the greater part of two thouitaid
n fault if he comeseitsfeo
years, and it-is a Jew's -ow
the midst-of s 6 masked and distinct a detnetryiestefe:
he
so hardship that the JolVs,- if Wb
allowed them tolemain at all, should be simply
strangers and sojourners among. us. This, at all
events, is, a consistent theory. But we doubt if
the House of Lords would go 50 far, or even the
Bishop ofOxford. -The cause of intolerance must
indeed be in- a bad way when it is driven to Dr..
Arnold for eititholity, for if there is any autho-
rity really fatal to the cause of intolerance it is
his.

.IEI . SPAPER

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The great compromise has been carried out.
The battle of the Jewish Disabilities has' been
fought for the last time. The. motion for the so-
cowl readiug of Lotd Lucan's bill has been car-
ried by a majority of 4.6. No leis thin 240 peers
voted en the occasi.)n, and 74 paired. LOrd
Lucan'sbill, our readers will retnemher, empowers
either house t., dispense with the famous words,
" ou the true laid' of a Christian," whenever the.
member cowing to the table to be sworn declares
thst•the words are" not binding on his conscience.
This practically solves the difficulty. The deirlara-
Con will of course be made by every Hebrew re-
presenistive whom this form of words has hitherto
operated to exclude. Directly the act has received
the royal assent, Baron Rothschild, for instance,
will be enabled to tske his seat for the City-of Lou-
don. As la, as the House of Commons is con-
cerned, the passing of Lord Ludati's act will throw
open the popular branch of the Legislature to the
Jews. As to the House of Lords, it will be time
enough to speculate op the result when the fir-t
Hebrew peer presen's himself for, admission into
that house. lc is not, however, to be conceived
that hose who have based their opposition to the
admission of the Jew on the grounds of principle
will refuse to dispense with theformula, out of mere
lore of persecution. It is impossible not to feel a
lively sAisfaction that this concession to good sense
and common ju-tice has at length been made. It
is a legitimate triumph to Lord Derby that he has
been able to set tit's vexed question at rest. It cer•
tainly is to he numbered among the curiosities of
• British legislati, n that the Jew,
who
stood knocking vainly at the door of hsci. so 101:g
the Const
tiou while his old friends the Liberals held the key,
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should have been at once admitted witbio the sa-
cred pale when
prY:.or was handed over to his in-
veterate eueuti‘s the Tnei,s. What a pity that ,
own liberality,
Taken fright at his
Lord Derby brio
and (In the Chutoh-rata qt:o•stion\
) is disposed, like .`
Fear in adlins's We, to " back tecoil, be knows
nit why, eve;" at the sound himself has made "
But for this we might have heen des p; sed to wish
th it he in.ght lave a long day oiven him to 'try
experiments-on-'the patience of "the Squirearchg. •
;f we are, to be col/II:el:el to choose Letwten the
measures,w ithoot fhe men, or the men without the
meisures, our choice is sole niade. Give ire re-
forming Tories rothor than Obstinctis4o Whigs.",te,o-t

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