The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-20 00:00:00

E S U LONBON, MONDAY E VENINGQ JULY 20, 188 7.

Africa is neither more nor less than slavery, pure.

and simple.

We are told that it is but an experiment, by
means whereof an adequate supply of black labour

can be obtained where it is now deficient—that

it, is for the benefit (!) of the negroes who, being
slaves in their own country, will be redeemed or

purchased, and entitled after a specified time to

return home free and independent. In other
words, their penal servitude is to be but for seven
or ten years, in pla3e of being for life. It is also
said that the scheme, having obtained the sanction
of the French EMPEROR, it is useless to struggle
against it, and that we may as well participate in
the benefits to arise from the specious device. In
ther words, that Great Britain, to please its
ally, should enter on a retrograde policy, and

ignore all the struggles and expenditure
of the last half century—shod,' deliberately
abandon all its efforts for the suppression of the
abominable traffic, and recant the opinions, which
elevated the British name to the highest rank in
the scale of nations !

Lord BROUGHAM bas boldly grappled with the
specisus fallacy. In a speeoh distinguished by
all the vigour and energy that characterised his
early and most brilliant exertions, he has de-
nounced the scheme, and obtained the cordial 0)
-
operation of Ministers, and the unanimous assent
of the House of Lords, to the address to the
QUEEN, " that she would be graciously pleased to
withhold her countenance from all such schemes
among her subjects, and would use her best en-
deavours among her MAJESTY'S allies for engaging
them to discountenance all projects which have a
tendency to promote African emigration by any
means directly or indirectly connected with the
purchase of slaves or ransom of captives taken in

war."

There is apparently but one dissentient to this
decided course. But one journal that does not
feel that it is, at best, but "a mockery, a delusion,
and a snare," one calculated to revive the un-
holy trade, in all its glaring enormity ! The
Times asserts—" That taking that grand sum-
mary view of the question, whlch we c tnnot help
taking, after a quarter of a century, the process
was a failure," that "it destroyed an immense
property, ruined thousands of good fsmilies, de-
graded the negroes still lower than they were, and
after all, increased the mass of Slavery in less
scrupulous hands." It also sneers at Lord
BROUGHAM as " that distinguished representative 1
of the intentions and failures of the last genera-
tion." We are, however, still disposed, on such
a point, to pin our faith on the veteran
Reformer; the indefatigable fellow-labourer with
CLARKSON and WILBERFORCE—the consistent and
faithful philanthropist, who has so long defended
the rights and liberty of his fellow-man, without
distinction of race, clime, or colour—and wed
so the more readily when all the reasoning and
argument are on his side, and nothing, save a
ponderous and unworthy attempt at ridicule on
the other.
Lord BROUGHAM did not ascribe any wrongful
intention to the EMPEROR. He believed that he
had been misled, misinformed, and deceived," and
he clearly, distinctly, and unequivocally pointed
out the mode in which the scheme, if carried into
practical execution, "must end in a renewal of
the internal African Slave Trade." The
arguments of its promoters, including the
Times, were merely a rechauffee of the hackneyed
reasons that had been invariably used on every
occasion for the last 60 years, so long as any pro-
slavery men could be found with sufficient
hardihood to repeat them in his place iu
either House of Parliament. Lord BIIOI3GELAM
proved, beyond the possibility of doubt,
that the negroes would not understand
the plan, even were it to be carried out in the
most straightforward and bona fide manner. None
would voluntarily consent to ten years exile, with
compulsory labour in the interval, however spe-
cious
the promises that may be made respecting
the terms and prospects of a return. The demand
would only be met by slaves brought from the
interior. The King of DAHOMEY, and other
sable potentates, would unleash their respective
packs and pursue the human game with increased
vigour. A market was ensured for their captives,
and when once they could legally be purchased,
and legally conveyed across the seas, it would be
impossible to check those who would seek not t
ransom the prisoners, but to deal according to the
old piratical, system, and to carry off their victims
to permanent and hopeless slavery. As Mr.
FITZPATRICK, an unimpeachable witness, dealt., d,
" a limited demand in the way proposed would
bring more slaves from the interior than wore
wanted, and they would be starved in barracoons,
while it would unsettle the minds of the people,
and disturb, and destroy legitimate trade, as
much as an unlimited traffic under the old sys- I
tem."

Under such circumstances we rejoice that
her MAJESTY'S Government have had their
hands strengthened by the unanimous res.--
lution of the Uppez House, and trust that
the Commons will arm them with a similar
weapon. Against such remonstrances as they wilt
then be justified in forwarding, we cannot con-
ceive that other Powers will remain. insensibly.
It is the duty of every man, who desires the total
abolition of the infamous trade, to spare no effirts
that may conduce to bring about that great
desideratum, and prevent Eugland from undoing
all that she has achieved for the last half century.

which an oath should be taken, as in subjecting
to the legal penalties of perjury any who should
t tke one wrongfully, and wilfully and deliberately
make false statements in matters pertinent to any
legal inquiry then pending. It was, wo believe,
passed for the purpose of setting at rest the doubts
that arose respecting the evidence of some Chinese
witnesses who were sworn by solemnly breaking
a saucer in court. It is, therefore, not exactly
applicable to the present proceedings.
The resolutions suggested by the Honourable
Gentleman appear, "facto a dunguem," exactly
suited to the emergency. They are founded
on the unwritten law of the land, as ex-
plained in the leading case of " OMICHUND
V. BA Ras "—and the numerous authorities that
have followed that established precedent, and
many which were collected by the late eminent
Jurist, Mr. SMITH, in his well known "leading
cases." They are as follows, and we fancy will
command the universal assent of the Liberal
Members friendly to the principle of the Oath's
Bill, viz.:—
" Ist. That by the undoubted law of those
realms, every person called upon to take an oath
i 3 entitled to have such oath administered in the
form and with the ceremonies most binding upon
his conscience.

" 2J. That the question, Whether the oath
which the deponent is willing to take is really
most binding upon his conscience,' must, from the
nature of the case, be decided by the party who
administers the oath.

" 3d. That although any such decision by an
inferior court would be a proper subject for ap-
peal, yet it is the I►w of this land that there can
be no appeal between courts of co-ordinate•juris-
diction."

The first resolution is, as we have shown,
founded on the Common Law, and cannot be con-
troverted or impeached by any constitutional law-
yer. It follows as the natural consequence of the
decision in " OMICHUND V. BARKER." The sc-
cond shows who are the legitimate and proper
judges of the manner in which the oath should
be taken, so as to be " most binding on the con-
science of the recipients." Fur this purpose he
will be examined on the voir dire, as it is termed,
so that the presiding authority may deter-
mine whether the proposed form is suitable and
proper, according to the religious opinions of the
party.

That being determined, none but a superior
Court could subsequently impeach that decision.
But the House of Commons recognises no supe-
rior, and we cannot suppose that any of the
Superior Courts of Common Law would arrogate
to itself the right of reviewing or control-
ling its resolutions or judgments. Ex-M.P.
has, therefore, struck the right nail on the
head. The proceedings on Friday night will
show the utter absurdity of the RUSSELL
compromise, which can only weaken the
position of the representative branch of the
Legislature, without the slightest prospect of
averting the collision that sooner or later must
take place. We trust, then, that the members
who are again to meet to-morrow, will eventually

decide on the course which the honour and dignity
of the Commons House of Parliament imperatively
demand, and that they may obtain the cordial
ccncurrence of Lord PALMERSTON' and his Govern-
ment therein.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager of the Netherlands
attended by the Dutch Minister and a numerous suite,
also the Duchess of Orleans, the Duke and Duchess of
Montpensier, and a large party, visited the Crystal Pa-
lace en Saturday, and dined in the Palace after the dis-
play of the great fountains.
The Earl of Derby returned to town on Saturday,
from Knowsley, Lancashire.
The Earl of Wilton came to town on Saturday, from
staying with the Earl of Derby at Knowsley.
Viscount Althorp, M.P., has left England, with the
ntention of making a tour of several months' duration in
the United States.
Lord and Lady John Russell have taken their depar
cure from Farrance's Hotel, where they have been mak-
ing a lengthened sojourn, for Pembroke Lodge, Rich-
mond Park.
Lieut.-General Sir Colin Campbell, the new com-
mander-in-chief of the English army in India, arrived at
Marseilles o❑ the morning of the 15th, and embarked
on board the Vectis, which started in a few minutes
after the Alexandria.
Tn ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—The following were
among the fashionables attending the performances on
Saturday evening :—The Duke of Wellington, the Mar-
quis of A ilesLury, Viscountess Dillon and the Hon.
Miss D lion, Lady Charlott, Denison and the Hon. Miss
Caarlotte Etlis, L'rrd and Lady. Ernest Bruce, Lord
Henry Thynne, Lord and Lady Boriton, Lord and Lady
Soutbaunpzon, Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley, Lady
Macfarlane and Miss Macfarla,,,e, the Ladies Fr z-
maurice (2), Sir William Somerville and Miss Somer-
ville, Sir George Armytage, Sir Charles and Lady
Morgan, Sir Charles Forbes, General the Hon. Henry
Cavendish, Hon. Mrs. Ashborne, Hon. Francis and Mr.,?
Stenor, Colonel Meyrick, Colonel Brownlow Knox,
Colonel Bigge, Count Corti, Captain Napier Stuart,
Captain Noel, Mr. and Mrs. Cavendish Bentinck, Miss
Longley, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wext,atn, Mr. George
Carpenter, C iptain Clay ton, Mr. Graham Smith, Mr.
E xen, Mr. Norbury, Mr. Archedeckne, Mr. Lane Fox,
Mr. Woodford, Mr. Peppick, Mr. C. C. Martyn, Miss
Burgoyne, Mr. Vyner, Mr. H. W. Currie, Mr. Bidwell,
Mr. W. H. Duff, Mr. Mil imay, Mr. Antrobus, &c.
Map Ams CELESTE.—We ( xtract the following from
Galignani :—" Madame Celeste, the directress of the
Royal Adolphi Theatre in London, is at present in Paris
for a few weeks' repose after the fatigues of an unu,u-
ally prolonged season. This lady, who is teemed the
Madame DeeJai of London, in tutbdrama, has also the
reputation of the first pantomimic actress of the present

day."
SURREY THEATRE.—" 11 Trovatore " has been pro-
duced, under the superintendence of Mr. Tully, and is
executed in a very creditable style. The chief novelty
connected with the performance is the appearance of
Mr. Henry Squires, a young tenor of much promise, in
the popular character of Maurice. He has a chest voce
of great compass, well suited to the gentle strains of the
romantic troubadour, which he sings with taste and
feeling, though he lacks force for the more violent de-
tooestrations of passion. Lecnera is represented by
Lucy Escott, who exerts all her ens rgiea to give force to
the passionate utterances of the character. The most
finished pee formance in every respect is the Azucena of
.Lanza, who not only sings the music in artist-like
style, but acts in a free unconstrained manner thet happi!y
avoids both tameness and exaggeration. Tue choruses
are executed with great spirit, and the manner in which
the -ehele work is done shows high talent for organise.
tier on the part of the musical director. He finds his
reward in an enthusiasm among the audience that is most
remarkable considering the warmth of the weather.
PRINCE NAPOLEON. LIVERPOOL, JULY 17. His
Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon returned to Liver-
pool from Manchester last niget, and proceeded on board
La Reine H eeense. This morning the Prince proceeded
on board the -United States steam frigate Niagara, where
he was received by Captain Hudson. He aas shown
over the vessel, with the noble proportions and capacity
of which be seemed highly delighted ; and his attention
was also directed to the process of coil ng the great At-
lantic submarine telegraph cable on board. Captain
Elude n expleined the properties of the cable and its
mode of manufacture, and presented his Highness with
a piece of it, and with a chart showing the pla-e where
it Is to be hid down. The Prince, who rs-
pressed the pleasure he had derived from this interesting
visit, sta.} eI on board about an hour and a half. Thin
' evening the Don y Meyor and Mr. Charles Turner will
dine with his Imperial Highness on board the Hortense,
which will sail tc-eight for the Isle of Man, from which
place it will probably proceed to Belfast.
THE ARMY IN IRELAND.—According to the Dublin
Eveniag Post orders have been received by the authorities
to increase the strength of every effective regiment in
Ireland to I,ooo"strong.
REGIMENTs ORDERED HOME.—The 30th, 47th, and
5551 x It•giments at Gibraltar, are under orders to em-
bark for England, as also the 63th Light Infantry from
Cephalo, ie.
LANCE REGIMENTS.—We understand that the several
corps of Lancers, the 9th, 12th, 15th, and 17th Lancers,
are to be Heavies, and that a new system of exercise is to
be introduced into that branch of the service.

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.—The United States
h tea rn -fr gate Susquehanna arrived at Portsmouth yes-
terday afternoon. She is to accompany the Niagara in
laying down the cable.
Caors IN CANADA.—Letters from Canada say the
crops are magnificent, and an abundant harvest is looked
upon as a certainty.
TILE WELLINGTON MONUMENT.—The exhibition of
made,a for the monument to the late Duke of Welling-
ton in Westminster Hall, was opened to the pubic this
morning. It will continue open on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Fridays, and Saturday until further notice. The models
are valued at 25,0001.

LITEST NEWs

FRANCE.
PARIS; SUNDAY EVENING.

After some time spent in taking counsel and de-
liberating among friends and colleagues, it seems
to be settled that three out of the five Democratic
deputies for Paris refuse to take the oaths to the
Imperial Government. These three are General
Cavaignac, M. Goudchaux, and M. Carnot. The
List is said to have hesitated a good deal, the firs,
!ess so, but the second declared from the beginning
his repugnance to übmit to such a condition.
authoritiesloretwinenty-fours hours
pressing on the
interment
nduocft of the
Beranger
b
nad elapsed, is doubtless palliated by the maxim
that "necessity has no law." One can hardly
condemn the, precautions taken to prevent a repeti-
tion of the tumultuous displays and the serious
conflicts of which the streets of Paris have been the
theatre on similar occasions, though one may blame
as unnecessary the menacing intimation conveyed
in the ordinance of the Prefect of Police on the
morning of the ceremony. The haste with -which
the interment took place was, it is alleged,
owing to the fact of the authorities having
received information that revolutionary com-
mittees would meet on the night previous to the
funeral, and organise their plans of " manifesta-
tion." With the army that Paris and its envi-
ronshave at hand, anything like a successful attempt
at insurrection may appear hopeless : and the pro-
jectors of the " manifestation may have contem-
plated nothing beyond a strong mustering of
~eople with their appropriate rallying signs and
badges. A committee of tha secret societies,
was, we are assured, to meet on the day following
the death of Beranger ; and it was again to sit the
same night, ignorant of the resolution previously
come to by the Government that the funeral
should take place without delay. There is
something abhorrent from every feeling of hu-
man nature in converting affection and reverence
towards the dead into an occasion for disorder,
and in provoking a collision over the remains,
not yet cold, of one whose name has been in the
heart and on the lips of Frenchmen for the last 4.0
years and more, regardless of the dying injunction
of the deceased himself. The force ready to act in
case of emergency was very large. Independent of
the four regiments which kept the boulevards front
the Theatre of the Ambigu to the Chateu d'Eau
under General Blanchard on Friday, two brigades
were in readiness at the Bastille ; and, besides the
squadrons of the Paris guards in ebus'ant move-
ment up and down the line to keep the passage clear
for carriages and foot passengers, strong patrols
of Carabineers, who had come in from Versailles,
watched in the direction of Passy (the po,t's former
residence) and the places contiguous. Detachm nts
also occupied the streets leading to the Rue Ven-
dome, where Beranger lately resided. In a word,
the arrangements were of such a nature as to crush
instantly the slightest attempt at disturbance.
It is said that a Convention is to be signed be-
tween the Sovereigns of the Italian State, with
the exception of the King of Sardinia, to guarantee
each other against revolutionary attacks.
Prince Voronzoiv, only son of the celebrated
Prince Woronzow, late Governor-General of the
Crimea, has arrived in Paris with his family.
The Minister of Marine has decided that in
future no more cutters shall be built for the
French navy. They are to be replaced by advice
boats of 30-horse-power.
" The investigation into the plot against the Em-
peror," says a Paris letter in the Independance of
Brussels, "is still carried on with great activity.
The accusation appear; to be concentrated on two
of the Italians in custody; the third appearing not
to have known much of what they were about.
One of the two confesses—the other denies. The
affair, the precise gravi y of which has not yet been
ascertained, seems decidedly to have formed part
of the projects which have just come to light in

A Paris letter, in the .Nord of Brussels, says :
"If I am well informed, a long conference took
place a few days ago between Count Walewski,
Lord Cowley, and Baron de Hubner, principally
turning on the affairs of Italy, and on the measures
to be adopted for preventing a recut rence to the s
attempts, so calculated to compromise European
tranquillity. The French Government is actively
engaged in organising means for watching mere
closely than ever the proceedings of secret societies
abroad, and to defeat their manoeuvres. Count
Walewski was authorised to impress on Lord
Cowley that England, of all the Powers, was
the one that could lend the most useful co-
operation to such views by not giving so readily
an wayluna to all the revolutionary propagan-
dists. It has been already stated that an Italian
Power had assumed the initiative in making
repreentations to England on the great latitude
afforded to political refugees in the British capital.
At present letters from Italy announce that it is
the Grand Duke of Tuscany who made an applica-
tion on the subject throngh his Charge d'Affaires at
London. The English Cabinet, it is said, replied
that the habits and legislation of the country did
not al!ow it to comply with the prayer of the repre-
sentation so made, but that, as it could not send
Mazz ni away, it would subject him to a strict sur-
veillance."
BOURSE, July 18.—The following were the last
quota t ions :
ft. c.
Cash. End of Month.
4. per Cents
3 per Cent 5........... 67 30 67 35
Bank Shares .........2,900 7 Credit Foncier —
Credit Mobilier ...... 937 00 Homan
Do. Account 947 50 Austrian
Belgian 4j
Fieclmontese (5) ...... 91i— Houle Debt -
RAILWAYS—FOR CASII.
fr. c, tr c.
Orleans 1,140 -- Western
Northern
Lyons - New Ditto
Mediterranean -- Grand Central -
Geneva
Midi

THE MEDITERRANEAN MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY NIGHT.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Pera, Captain John Soy, arrived at 9 p.m.,
with the heavy portion of the India and China
mails, in charge of Lieut. Rolton, R.N.' Admiralty
Ag€ lA. She, left Alexandria July 6; Malta., 10
and Gibraltar, 14. The Pera, outwards, met with
generally fine weather, but experienced fresh head-
winds from Cape St. Vincent to Malta, a distance
of 1,200 miles. Homewards she met with light
head-winds in the Mediterranean, a Levanter
through the Straits, light cap iable winds up the
coast and across the Bay, and calm smooth weather
up the Channel.
This steamer brings 132 passengers (67 first and
65 second class), among whom are Colonel Jervis
and family, Messrs. Lushington, Belli, Bailey, and
Polam, from Calcutta ; Mr. Smith, of the War
Department, from Hong Kong ; Dr. Mackenzie,
from Malt ; and Sir G. Leith, from Gibraltar. On
freight she has 4001. in specie, 1,159 bales of silk,
2 casks of wine, 14 cases of opium, 211 packages
of coffee, 120 packages of gum, 9 bales of flax, 36
bales of wool, 6 cases of shawls, 76 packages of
valuable, 5 cases of st..-mes, 2 casks of sugar, 20
packages of elephanq teeth, aid 132 packages of
general merc!ianclise.
Her Majesty's steamer Tartarus was at Alex-
andria ; the tiii.ernia and Arrow at Malta ; the
Vulture at Gibraltar.

Her Majesty's steam sloop Gorgon, Captain AV.
Towsey, five days f+ mu Malta, arrived at Gibraltar
on th,, 90, and left for the west on the forenoon of
the 13th.

T►te Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Co;ombo, Captain Black, with the outward mails
of the 4th, arrived at Gibraltar a little before 6
p.m. on the Bth, having made the run from South-
ampton in four days and three hours, one of the
quickest on record. She resumed her voyage to
Malta and Alexandria the same evening.
The Alhambra, with the mails of the 7th from
Southampton, arrived at Gibraltar as the Peru was
leaving at 9 a.m. on the 14th.
The steamship Araxes arrived at Gibraltar from
Alexandria on the 14th, and would leave the same
day.
The British ship Uncas put in at Gibraltar on the
6th, with topmasthead sprung and topmast carried
away, having experienced very rough weather in
the channel.

Exchanges at Gibraltar on the 11th were quoted
as follows :—London, 90 days' date, 50 to 501.; ;
Paris, ditto, sf. 35c. ; Marseilles, ditto, sf. 35c. ;
Madrid, 8 days sight, ig dis. ; Cadiz, ditto, dis. ;
Malaga, ditto, dis. ; Seville, ditto, A- dis. ;
Alicante, ditto, dis. Valencia, ditto, 4 dis. ;
Barcelona, ditto, dis. ; Spanish pillared dollars,
4 per cant. premium (none) ; and Carolus, 58 per
cent. (none); both in dymand.
The Pera exchanged colours with the following
vessels during the voyage home :—July 11th, off
the Cane Rocks, the stearm-r Mel ta, steering south
east ; off Galita, the Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany's steamer Colombo ; 24 miles west of Galita,
the schooner yacht Fairy Queen, steering west ;
45 miles west of Galita, Her Majesty's steam-frigate
Curacoa, steering west ; 15th, 30 miles north of
Cape St. Vincent, the bark Alexander Grant,
steering north; at noon, off the Rock of Lisbon,
the European and Australian Company's steam
ship Jura, steering south ; 16th,- 30 miles south of
Cape Finisterre, Her Majesty's steam frigate Gor-
gon, steering north-east. 17th, 70 miles south-
west of Ushant, the auxiliary screw steam ship
Isfainboul, from Londou for Melbourne ; 18th, 50
miles south-west of the Start, the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Sultan ; 30 miles
south-west of the Start, the ship Ellenborough,
standing down channel, with troops on board.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY.

Her Majesty's sloop Frolic, 6, Commander L. W.
Peyton, from Table Bay, May 14, arrived this
mo. ning.
It was reported. at Cape Town that Pretorious
with 500 men had crossed the Orange river frontier
to claim certain lands held by the cluef Boshoph.

The German Legion, with full pay, are scaling
on their several allotments, and Berlin, Potsdam,
and other continental cities are 3pe,:dily obtaining
village namesakes in South Africa.
East London is quiet, and the heal-quarters of
the 89th are removed therefrom to Cape Town ;
that regiment is relieving the 731 at Fort Pato,
Murray, Grey, &c. •
A new and shorter road to King William's Town
is in course of formation, and forts Jackson, Ame-
line, &c. are erecting on various favourable paints.
1 The Castor, 6, flag of Rear-Admiral the Hon.
Sir F. W. Grey, K.U. 8., and. the paddle-wheel
steam sloop Herine-,, 6, Commander William E. A.
Gordon, were at Sin Pin's Bay. The steam frigate
Penedo: e, 16, Captain Sir William S. Wiseman,
was at table Bay. The steam sloop Geyser, 6,
Commander Arthur Tower, was on a survey.
The Frolic spoke, May 31, off St. Helena, the
paddle-wheel steam sloop Scourge, 6, flag of Sir
John Adams, Commodore of the 'West Coast of
Africa, and, July 17, off the Lizard, under topsails,
the Boscawen, 78, Captain Richard A. Powell,
from Plymouth for the Cape of Good Hope.
The Frolic was commissioned in 1853, and has
been constantly employed on the Cape station.
She was engag..d a fortnight in a fruitless effort to
d:scover some remnants of the lost brig Nerbulda.

BARON ROT.HRC_HI RIGHT TO VOTE
UsDOUBTED.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR, —lt is most wond rful to observe the loa•1s
of rubbish with which lawyers, and, I am sorry to
say, Statesmen--at any rate, these who piss as
such—encumber and mystify cases affecting the
public wed ; and undoubtedly the one under con-
sideration has received its full amount, and this
hecius3 some men lift up the whites of their eyes
And call it a question of consience.

At the public meeting on Thursday, Sir James
Graham endeavoured, and, I am sorry to say, suc-
oeeded in frightening the M.P.'s, by treating the
case of Aldet man Salornons as one in point,
whereas, in truth, it had no bearing whatever on
the question respecting Mr. Diliwyn's resolutions,
for Mr. Alderman Salomons took no legal oath,
and it was proposed that Baron Rothschill should
take one.

Lord John Russell's proposed bill is, ace:Taint,-
to his own showing, both ; for he said " it was to
clear up the ambiguity, whether the words, on any
occasion, are confined to courts of justice, or extend
to higher authority." Such a sentence from a
Russell ! How are the mighty f4len ! For surely
the words, "on any occa,ion," are wide enough to
admit everything, from Buckingham Palaca to a
cobbler's stall.

Mr. Dill wyn's res'Autions are very bad ; they are
either too large, or not I,rge enough. Those which
I would suggest are these

Ist. Thai-by- the undoubted law of these realms,
evcry person called upon to take an oath is entitled
to have such oath administered in the form and
with the ceremonies most binding upon his con-
science.

2J. That the question " Whether the oath which
the deponent is willing to take is really most bind-
ing upon his consciewe," must, from the nature of
the case, be decided by the party who administers
the oath.

3d. That although any such decision by an in-
ferior court would be a proper subject for appeal,
yet it is the law of this land that there can be no
appeal between courts of co-ordinate jurisdiction..
These resolutions being adopted, and who could
gainsay them, then Baron BOnschild would apply
to take the oath, when the usual one would be ten-
dered to him. He would thou state to the House
that the words "on the true faith of a Christian,.
so help me God," were not thore most binding upon:
his conscience.

Mr. Speaker---State to the House the words
which would be most binding upon your con-
science.

Baron Rothschild—The words which would be
mast binding on my conscienco are, So help me
Jehovah, omitting those "on the true faith of a
Chi istian, so help me God."
Whereon it would be moved and seconded that
the words "on the truo faith of a Christian, eo help
me God," being the form of oath, and not the sub-
stance of that which is sworn to, the oath be admi-
nistered to BAron Rothschild by the omissinn of
the above words and the substitution of these, "So
help me Jehovah," being those which Baron
Rothschild has declared to be most binding upon
his conscience.

Assuming this question to be carried in the affir-
mative, for, if not., the question falls to the ground,
the Baron is called on, informed of the decision of
the house, takes the amended oath, and votes.
A qui tam action is brought to recover 5001.
for having voted without taking the oath required
by law ; and the plea wculd be that the Baron had
taken the oath required by law, as appears by the
journal of the House of Commons.
This would, in truth, be an at erupt to-raise the
question whether the words " on the true faith of
a Christian" were part of the substance of the mat-
tsr sworn to, or the form of oath, and undoubtedly,
upon this question, a fair difference of opinion may
arise—a difference which, as is well known, ex-
tends to the judges of the land.
But what would the Court hold ? Can there be
any rational doubt in the mind of any laWyer
that they, would say we hare no jurisdiction on the
question whether the oath was or not properly
taken, because thit has already been decided by a
Court ofco-ordinate jurisdiction and equal authority
with ourselves. Surely this is thi straightforwakd
mode of settling the question.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
July 18, 1857.

EX. M.P.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO ALDERSHOT.

On Saturday last another imposing military spec-
tacle, in the shape of a grand field-day or review,
took place at Aldershot' in which her Majesty was
not only a mere spectator, but a prominent actor.
The troops, under the command of Lieutenant-
General Knollys, Major-General Lord W. Paulet,
Major-General the Hon. J. Scarlett, and Major-
General the Hon. A. Spencer, took up their posi-
tions shor ly after nine o'clock. They consisted of
the Ist Dragoon Guards, the 6th Inniskillings, the
4th Light Dragoons, the 7th Huisars, 15th Hussars,
the Coldstream Guards Ist Battalion, the 60th,
the 54th, the 22d,- the 15th, the 96th, 20th, and
97th Regiments of the Lino, the Ist and 3d batta-
lions of the Rifle Brigade, two troops of Horse Ar-
tillery, one troop of Foot Artillery, with field bat-
teries, three companies of Royal Engineers and
Sappers and Miners, and pontoon train, &c.,
amounting altogether to about eleven thousand
men.

Her Majesty left the Pavilion precisely at ten
o'clock, and shortly after the booming of the can-
non announced the arrival of the royal cortege on
the ground. The Queen, instead of being present
in an open carriage as on the previous day, was
mounted on a splendid charger, and attired in her
equestrian military costume.
As soon as her Majesty reached the plateau on
the west of the south camp, the first division of the
army, under the command of Major-General the
A. Spencer, consisting of the Soo' s Fusilier Guards,
the 3d Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, and the 06th
and 22d Regiments, took up a position on the
north bank of the Basingstoke Canal. The evolu-
tions of the troops continued in that direction, the
cavalry t eking up a position on the right and
of the long valley, whilst the artillery having
gained the ridge of the various hills, kept up a heavy
tire in the direction of the supposed enemy. By
this time her Majesty, the Queen, the Prince Con-
sort, the Commander in-Chief, and the royal Cor-
tege, had gained the point of an immense hill, from
which a splendid view of both armies in the valley
benelth, as well as the pontoon practice on the
Basingstoke Canal, at a place called the " Cove,"
was obtained. it was at first supposed from each
division throwing out its skirwi-hers of Rifles that
a general shamfight would take place ; but this
notion was speedily dissipate 1, for no sooner bad
the pontoon bridge been completed than the Cold-
streams and the other regiments which held the
north side of the canal marched over and joined
the anticipated t nemy. The cavalry then threw
out their videttes, and after manoeuvring for some
time charged at full gallop across the valley.
The Queen and party then made their way in a
south-westerly direction to the ridge of the splendid
hills known at Caesar's Camp, and which commands
a view of the entire valley. Across this the in-
fantry, after a vast number of evolutions in con-
junction with cavalry, flanked by the artillery,
formed in one immense line, which kept up a suc-
cession of volley and file firing which filled the
valley with smoke, until the want of ammunition
put a stop to the tremendous fire of infantry and
artillery.
Shortly after one o'clock the sound of the bugles
intimated that the review was at eud, and her
Majesty and the Royal cortege having descended
the hill to the plain, the whole of the troops marched
past the Queen, each regiment being headed by
its respective band, playing lively ars, and it was
not until nearly two o'clock that the royal party
left the ground for the Pavilion.
H. r Majesty quitted the camp at Aldershot,
and 'started with the Prince Consort, the Royal
family, and suite,-at four o'clock, under an escort
of the 7th Hussars, for the Farnborough sta'ion,
to proceed by special train, via the South-Western
Railway to Gosport, and from thence to her Ma-
jesty's marine residence at Osborne.
The Hon. R. Dutton, M.P., and other directors
of the company, attended her Majesty from Fat n-
borough to Gosport. The eng ne was driven by
Mr. Beattie, locomotive superintendent ; and Mr.
Scott, manager, and Mr. Croinbie, secretary to the
company, travelled with tl:e train.