The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-24 00:00:00

REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY OF
LUND° Y.

A public muting of the electors of the City of
London was held yesterday, at the London Tavern,
to consider the steps to be taken in consequence of
the rejection of the Oaths Bill by the House of
Lords. There was a very full attendance.
The their was taken by W. G. PRESCOTT, Esq.,
who, in opening the proceedings, said they were met
there that day to assert their adherence to the prin-
ciple of freedom of elee.tion. (Cheers.) He would
not deta'n the meeting by making any lengthened
observations, but call upon the Baron Rothschild
to address them. (Cheers.)
Baron ROTHSCHILD then came forward and was
received with loud applause. He said when be
was lest returned a representative of the city of
London, he promised that, in the event of the re
jection of the bill for the removal of the Jewish
Disabilities by the House of Lords, on the very
first opportunity afforded he would resign the seat
to which they had elected him. He was there that
day to fulfil that promise ; and, in order to do so,
it was h;s intention that evening to take the ne-
cessary
steps, and the consequence would be that
a new writ would be issued for the City, and it was
for that meeting to determine what course they
would adopt. The legal authorities of the Crown,
he had to inform them, were still of the same
opinion that they had been for years. Sir Richard
Bothell, when Mr. Bethel}, gave it as his
opinion that Alderman Salomons, having
taken the oaths of supremacy and allegiance,
was entitled to take his seat in the House of Com-
mons. That was his opinion years ago, and it was
so at the present day, but he now thought it would
place the Commons in conflict with the Lords
if they allowed the Jews to take their seats with-
out an Act of Parliament was passed. That he
thought was a matter of secondary consideration.
(Cheers.) It was a question entirely for the House
of Commons to decide, whether their power was
secondary to- any other. (Hear, bear, and cheers.)
He,*as well as many other unprejudiced persons,
was of opinion that the power of the House of
Commons was supreme—(cheers)--and to the opi-
nion of the mass of the community he found op-
posed a section of the House of Lords—(hear,
hear)—a set of persons who seldom came amongst
the people—hear, hear)—and who did very little
else than attend to their own pleasure and
amusement. (Immense cheering.) The present
House of Commons, he felt certain, was in favour
of the removal of the Jewish disabilities, and if
they determined to go on with the struggle with
determination and vigour, success was in the end
certain. It was his opinion, that in the event of
the rejection of Lord J. Russell's bill, the House
of Commons would try to seat him by resolu-
tion, as they were determined not to forego
their rights and privileges. (Cheers.) He begged
to thank them for the patience with which they had
listened to him, and begged to say, in conclusion,
that he appeared before them as a candidate—(en-
thusiastic cheering)—for the representation of the
City of London in Parliament.

Mr. MoRLEY came forward to move the first re-
solution. It was to the effect that Baron Roths-
child having declared his intention of resigning his
seat in Parliament, and also declared his intention
of again offering himself as a candidate, this
meeting pledges itself to use its utmost en-
deavours to secure his return as a testimony
of their adherence to the principle of civil and re-
ligious freedom.

Mr. BENNOCH seconded the resolution in a very
energetic speech, in the course of which he said
their principal opponents were 30 recusant peers,
who, if they did not listen to reason, must be
made to listen to something else less palatable.
(This observation was received with immense
applause.)

A gentleman in the room advised the meet-
ing to wait until a decision was come to with re.
spect to Lord J. Russell's bill, but his remarks
were received with disapprobation.
After a few words from Mr. Crawford, M.P.,
the chairman put the resolution to the meeting for
adoption, which was carried amidst loud cheering.

Mr. W. J. HALL moved the second resolution,
which was as follows :—That the meeting- is of
opinion that it is the duty of Government, sup-
ported by the generous confidence of the liberal
party as a body, to forward by its entire influence
the immediate settlement of a question, which in
the present as in a former Parliament has been de-
clared by the large majority of the House of Com-
mons to be indispensable to the complete accom-
plishment of civil and religious freedom.
Mr. PRITCHARD (High Bailiff of Southwark), in
snondiug the resolution, urged the meeting to con-
tinue their exertions for but a short time longer,
and success would be certain, and by so doing they
would tear away the last rag of persecution.
(Cheers )
The resolution was carried unanimously.

Mr. AYRTON, M, P. for the Tower Hamlets,
moved a vote of thanks to the chairman, which was
carried unanimously, and the meeting separated.

PARLIAMENTARY OATHS BILL.

(From the Daily Fews. )

The inveterate obstinacy of the House of Lords
is proclucine: its natural result. The advanced intel-
ligence of the country, the sober and deliberate
common sense of the country, feels itself deeply
aggrieved by the folly and insolence of this repeated
rejection of its deliberately expressed will. Theo
masculine understendiug of all thinking Englishmen
resents this miserable perpetuation of rnedimval pre-
judices and superstitious alarms, for the mean pur-
pose of depriving the British Jew of his rights to a
se it iu the British Legislature. The thing has gone
a trifle too far. It is not only the Anglo-Hebrew
who is subjected to a fantastic denial of right, but
the liberal constituencies and the liberal represen-
tatives of this free country who are treated with
indignity and contempt. Let this course of pro-
ceeding he carried only a little further, and the cry
of Quousque tandem will peal forth on all sides
loudly and irresistibly from the "abused patience"
of the great Liberal party. Have we fought and
conquered only for this? Have we swept away, in
succession, Test Acts and Catholic Disabilities, atei
Rotten Boroughs and the Bread Tax—to be in-
sulted year after year by this miserable refusal of
,right—of clear and incontestable right—in the case
of the Jew ? Is that great fabric of civil and reli-
gious liberty—the hereditary boast of English
lieeralism—to wait session after session for its com-
pletion, till our peers have learnt to be wise, and
our prelates to be charitable ? Are a handful of
Tory lords and a batch of mitred Churchmen to
constitute themselves a perpetual barrier against
the admission of our Jewish fellow-countrymen to
their rights, with no other protest against their in-
justice than the annual repetition of a repeatedly
rejected measure ? Not so ; the petitionary period
has had its day, the time has come for rougher
speech and more decided action.
Baron Rothschild, taking the rejection of the
bill by the Lords for a rejection of himself as mem-
ber elect of London, is again a candidate for the
votes of the metropolitan constituency. Of course
he will be re elected. Four times the great City has
chosen him as a representative, four times the
house of Lords has declared that he shall not be
permitted to take his seat. It is time that this
mockery should come to a close.
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Campbell must be patient for a while. Hhn Lrd
e is
doomed yet for a little season to be peaceful and
inglorious. The crown of judicial martyrdom is
not yet within his reach. The morrow of All Souls
must find him still tranquil in hie pre-eminence on
that august bench which he has done so much to
adorn by his witand elevate by hisdignity, rejoicing
in all the honest splendour of that exalted position
which he has never compromised by buffeouety or
lowered by an exhibition of bad taste. That affect-
ing picture with which he recently drew tears down
the " iron cheeks" of Lord Cranwor'h, and painfully
electrified the nervous system of Lord Brougham,
will not yet be realised. The warrant is not yet
made out which is to commit John Lord Campbell
to the Tower by order of the House, and the " Peo-
ple" must postpone, till further notice, their antici-
pated rising in his defence. "Nobody shall save me
—I willbe drowned," exclaimed an ancient country-
woman of his lordship's, while desperately strug-
gling with a rising tide, and an imperfect knowledge
of the science of grammatical inflection as under-
stood on this side the Tweed. The "ancient Scotch
body" immortalised in this novel story did not pre-
, cisely mean what she said ; neither, perhaps, does
this other " ancient Scotch body." AA all events,