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within the first week -will save ten or twen

times the amount at a subsequent stage of the
proceedings, and we can easily realise the accu-
racy of the well known Hiberniciam, that " the
best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump."
In fact, the most daring will also be found t(,
be the most prudent comae.
Certain papers have jet been 141 lefore both

Houses of Parliament relative to the mutinies. i
They certainly do not give any very exalted
notion of the activity or zeal of the Hon. Court,

at Leadenhall-street. We can only wonder at

the apathy and indifference manifested by the
magnates of Leadenhall-street, who appear to
have been busily engaged, doing nothing, with
Mr. B. VERNON SMITH and his coadjutors
of the Indian Board elaborately helping them.
All that they think proper to do is to pro-
mise that they will give the subject, of
the extensive and calamitous outbreak, their
best attention at the earliest possible period,
but this seems to be the stereotyped form for
postponing the evil day in accordance with the
most approved principles of red-tapisin. If the
difficulty is overcome by those on the spot, if the
smouldering fire be extinguished before its bursts
into flame—well. The Hon. Court will gravely
accept the congratulations that may be tend ered.
But if not, matters must take their course, and
nothing very important, one way or the other,
will proceed from the " King Log" of Leadenhall-
street.

The great, the vital question is, how the
troops under orders for India may he most rapidly
conveyed to their destination ! We are told that
the East Indian Company have chartered six
large screw steamers, which may probably be
enabled to carry some 4,000 men. There are,
in addition, seven clipper vessels spoken of as under
engagements to proceed as soon as possible. We
have, however, so recently pointed out the immense
difference in point of time in favour of those with
the auxiliary screw, a difference, amouLting on
an average to thirty-seven days, that it must be
obvious that mere sailing vessels cannot sufficiently
discharge the required duty. There is but one way
in which they could be made beneficially available,
and that is by obtaining the aid of steam in the only
practical manner. We shall point out how
this may be effected, albeit at the risk of having
our suggestions pooh-poohed, according to the
usual practice by the red-tapiats at Whitehall.
We have, at present, no less than 195 gun
boats, lying up in ordinary. These were pre
pared for the Russian war, but ware deprived of
t opportunity of displaying their utility by the
" lame and impotent conclusion" of the contest.

They cost a good round Burn for which no return

was made. Now by sending out a number of
Cies° boats along with the sailing vessels, they
would be able to take the latter in tow during
cairns, so as to prevent the deplorable loss of time
that too frequently occurs, while the clippers
might each carry a few hundred tons of coals
for the use of the gun boats. If they
should by any possibility be required a
home, it would be easy to build others, all
the models are available, and it could be done iu
a very short time. Their services in the way we
have pointed out would be peculiarly valuable.
They would not only materially expedite the ar-
rival of the troops, but when they had arrived at
the spot, they would be just what was required
for the Indian seas and along the coast of China.
Being enabled to run into the creeks and lagoons,
they would effectually suppress piracy, bring the
war to a speedy termination, and prevent any

consequences wh-n it was concluded. We must,
however, be stimulated before we can shake off
the unaccountable apathy that delays every suit-
able measure, and that stimulus, we trust, will
be supplied by the debate in the Commons on
Nlonday, and not by evil tidings from India,
which may be received before that debate can
take place.
We would also direct Mt -.lntim to an admirable
suggestion contained in a letter from" MALts,"
which appears in another part of our impression. It
is that the 40;11 Regt., over 1,000 strong, and now
in Australia should at once be sent to India where
it could arrive withi❑ little more than a fortnight
by means of steamers transmitted from Calcutta.
We trust that this obvious step may be resorted
to, but fear that such will not be the case unless
imperative instructions be transmitted by the
mail which may be overtaken via Marseillles up
to to-morrow evening.

Baron ROTHSCHILD has accepted the Chiltern
Hundreds, and again comes forward as a candi-
date for the city of London. This step was, it
appears, taken in redemption of the pledge given
by the Baron at the last election, and was ap-
proved of by a large proportion of the Liberal
electors who yesterday attended at the London
Tavern, and who emphatically pledged themselves
to support his re-election.
We have no doubt that this course has been
adopted in the most honourable and straightfor-
ward spirit, and in the anxious desire to prevent
the possibility of any charge being made by
the most captious opponent. It might also
have been agreed to, in the belief that the
additional demonstration by the citizens of the
metropolis might have some effect on the perverse
majority in the Lords. We cannot, however,
think that it was either necessary or expedient.
No new proof was required at the hands of the
electors of the City as to their attachment to the
great principle of civil and religious liberty, of
which Baron ROTHSCHILD has for ten years
been the representative. Nor, under exist-
ing circumstances, would any elector com-
plain of a broken promise had the Baron
awaited the result of the pending struggle
between th© Lords and Commons. If any com-
plaint could be put forward, it would not he
because he had delayed his resignation, but rather
that he unnecessarily tendered it, and thus given
an additional chance to those who cling to the
"last rag of intolerance that" still defaces the Na-
ional Statute Book. Since, however, the writ
aas been already ordered, nothing remains but
ror the liberal electors to adopt the most energetic
neasures to return Baron ROTHSCHILD once more
')37 an overwhelming majority, and to prove be.
yond the possibility of doubt, the futility of anv
,pposition that may be attempted.

Baron ROTHSCHILD declared that " if Lord
JOHN RUSSELL'S bill should be withdrawn,
if another bill was rejected as before by the
Rouse of Lords, he was satisfied that the
Rouse of Commons would then seat him by
resolution." This is an implied pledge that
he will be prepred to take his seat, and
to brave all the penalties that may be imposed
upon him for sitting and voting in Parlil-
inent. Notwithstanding, however, the decision
in MILLER v. SALOMONS (the appeal wherein is
yet undecided ;) we cannot think the danger so
very formidable. It is obvious that the words
"on the true faith of a Christian" are pact of the
,djuration intended to givo additional solemnity
to the oath, and not a portion of the oath itself.
The EX-M.P., to whose admirable commuui-
,iation we recently directad attention, and who
Lvays " strikes the right nail on the heal," aye,
and with a sledge hammer Wow, has placed this
•luestion in so clear a light that he who runs may
.ead. He has shown that the obj ction of
Quakers to the words " on the true faith of a
Christian" are because they consider it to be an oath
just as much as 1113 words, " so help me
and for that scruple an express Act of Par-
iatuont, GEoßerr, c. G, was framed.
on this point, he Lays—" The title of the

24 GEORGE 1., cap. 6, is among other '
things, for applinting the form of an affir-
mation to be taken by the people called
Quakers, instead of the Oath of Abjura-
tion ; ' in other words, an affirmation of
abjuration, instead of the Oath of Abjuration.
Surely, not merely law but common sense must
decide that the only possible way to ascertain
the words which KIT, Lords, and Commons,
considered to be the o,,th of Aljuration, is to
discover what words are in that oath, which they
omitted in the affirmation of abjuration.
And there can be no doubt that the only words in
the oath of abjuration, which they omitted iu
the affirmation of abjuration, are on the true
faith of a Christian, so help me GOD f so that,
notwithstanding Lord CAMPBELL'S asser-
tion, the very act which permitted Mr. Pease
to make an affirmation of abjuration, has also
decided that the words on the true faith of a
Christian, so help me Gon,' are words of oath,
and not the substance of that which is sworn to."
This is so clear and intelligible that it must convince
any unprejudiced and disinterested person. The
King, Lords and Commons, a few years (13 years)
after the oath of abjuration had been sanctioned,
passed an act which virtually separated the form
from the substance, and the omission of the jurat or
swearing portion was, and "this I swear on the true
faith of a Christian, so help me GOD." It has thus
received a legislative interpretation, which has far
greater weight that any judge-made law ever de-
creed. The course for the House of Commons is
clear, and we cannot think that Baron ROTHS-
CHILD will be suffered to sustain any injury for
iv...ting in accordance with a resolution of the
whole House.