The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-30 00:00:00

TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 30, 1850.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday closed
firmly, with American id. per lb. higher, Surat nearly
id., and all other descriptions at full price. The sales
were estimated at 12,000 haleF, of which 2,000 American
were taken for export, and 3,000 American and LOCO
Surat on sieculation. The sales corrpri,,ed 9,500 Ame-
rican; 800 Peream and Maranham, at 73-d. to Bid.; 500
Egyptian, at 813. to 9d.; and 1,200 Surat, at 5:11. to 6d.
per lb.—The Snare Market was steady, at fully former
rates.

At a meeting of parties interested in the Indigo trade,
held ycsterday, no thci,ion was come to respecting the
re-tare of the article, and the question stands over.
In the Amsterdam Stock Market on the 28th instant,
Mexican Bonfts were in request at 29 15-16. There was
an animazed inquiry also for Metallies. At Frankfort
on the 27th iost.snt Austrian Bonds were quoted 834,53-
and Spanish Th;C,"3 per Cent=. 3215-16 to 33 3-16.

The Australian Mining Company makes a very fair
report, and it is obvious that our southern colonies vvill
contrioute largely to the supply of the useful metals, end
the development of its resources is probably in is
infancy,

The-B;ighton report has upon the whole, and con-
sidering the adverse times for railway property, afforded
satisfaction, but there are points brought under conside-
ration in an anelysis by Mr. J. S. Tripp, that show
what improvements could be effected. The mortgage
debt bears an avenge rate of interest of rather over
4/. 105. 1011. per cent. per annum. Now, if this could
be reduced to 41. per cent., the annual saving on
1,486,3381 would be 8,094/. Now it is to the
cheapening of money generally that we look
for one source of improvement iu the value
of railway property, and while the capitaild,
who wen best afford it, will undoubtedly suffer
a little, the sha-eholder who finds his incense so misera-
bly curtailed will be a gainer. The whole amount, for
instance, reciaired to pay the dividend of 1/. 10s. p-r
cent. foe the half-year, on the Brighton shares, is but
69,315 L, and 8,1001. added to • this is more than one-
eigeth. The party just named who writes upon the
position of this liue, contends that the sum estimated by
the directors for maintenance of way is inadequate, and
remarks, that any one looking at the accounts simply
as rendered, and not being conversant with
the prior statements of the company, wield
be led to suppose there remained 301,3621.
mortgage powers not exercised; whereas the rest truth
is that the lolls power is already exceeded by 19,803/.,
and any further capital, it is contended, must be raj:stet
by preference shares. The directors state, referring to
the estimate of 7,200,0001. for the float capital, that
" they see no reason to apprehend any excess in that
estimate, unles:; a further considerable development of
traffic she old take place." Upon this Mr. Tripp oh-
serves:—"lt a further development of traffic does not
take place we should like to know from what source the
additioael income is to be derived to meet the additional
charges on revenue en the completion of the compan)'s
undertakings. There must either be an increase of tre,-
tic or a decrete.e of dividends; and if au increase of
tratin, then, ace tteliess to the direetore' statement, the
much vaunted estimate of 7,200,0001., and the final
elo;ing of the capital account into be moonahire."
The Stock Market continues firm, but the transactions
are as Etnitsd as for aurae time past. The decisive
etitle iu Denmark inspires a hope, whatever may be
the opinion as to the tight un either side, that further
bloodshed will be avoided. Consols have been 96;:i; to
57; the New Three-end-a-Quarter per Cents. have been
and the Three per Cents. 97i to Bank Stock
has been at 211 to 212; and India Stock 270. Exche-
quer-biPs have been marked 675. to 70s. premien:.
Foreign Securities have been rather more in request,
and at fuller prices. Portuguese Four per Ceti's. hare
feels 34 to 341, and Spanish Three per Cents. 37.
Brazilian Bonds have been marked 92 to 924. Chlhau
Stock has been at 103, end Peruvian Four-and-a-lialf
per Cents. hive risen to 82 and 83. French Three per
Cent,. have iron 57 75, with the exchange at 25 45.
Datsh Two-and- flait per Cents. have realised 57- to
Railway Shares are tending upwards again, and tee
account sts. erns Bearish. Great Northern, North Stef-
ford, Brighton, Great Western, Midland, North-Western
and Caledonian are all decidedly higher.
QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols 96i- 97
Ditto Account 96i 97

ONE CLOSING
intICES OF lIIIITISEI YUNDi O'CLOCK. PRICES.
aura Muc,,

3 ?!..r Ccat. liAuced Arms „. 97!., -;')i (4754
per Cent. C 3115013 Annuities........ 96% 97 9 :?-t3
.*..l,sw .11i per Cent. Antis- .... . 091%1 1. 4 t,9 y 4
,I.ong Anne.to expire J an.l 60 ...... B'4 8 t/A
[ndia Stock ••• 270 270
tali' 80nd5,1,000?....
Ditto under 1.000,.....,.. ......
South Sea Stock

Ditto Old Annuities

.;;ousuis for Account ..... 97
.9674,

9 6 7/8.

Exchequer Bilk. 1141. & 2d
LOCO:. Jima
5001. June
Small. Jura 67 70 p 70 p

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. rnicr.s.
lirazthan tionea= 92 92% 92%

Ditto, Small
Buenos Ayres Bonds. 0 per Cent — 55
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent ..• lO3 103
Danish Bonds, 1825,3-per Cent,
Ditto 5 per Cott. • 10236 • 10314
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, 11/e per Cent —
Ditto Deferred
Max:can, 6 pnr (>3nt. 1846, with Coupons—
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons 23% 29.%
Ditto, Account
Peruvian Bonds, 41.1 per Cent i32A; 83 83
Ditto, Deferred .. / 357/ 36
s 36
Portuguec3 i per (3711t5. - -
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
Ruisian. Bonds ..

Ditto, 4% par Cent
Sparnah 5 per Cant. 1840 — 17'
Ditto. 3 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in Condon•

French 3 per Cent
Exchange
Dutc.a 2% per Cent., 12 Guild.
Ditto, 4 per Cant. CertificateP 891,4 891,4
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINE FI:•3 DONE CLOS IN •
RAILWAY SELAIZES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES
Aberdeen
Do. Preference • 8.3,- ..... --dig. .. 11,4 die.
Cstlec:louian 5O • 75/ ..- 75,G
Do. New 10/. Pref
6altern Counties...
Do., New Prc•fcrer.ce,
6 per Cent. ..---- 10 ...... 113
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ....,..
Great Northern
' Do. 1/2 A Deferred
ireat W estern ... ..... —.100......58% 59% 59 591 5 9 k'il
Lancashire & Yorkthire 100 ...... 36% ...... ..
• Do. Fifths... ....... .-.. 111;1'1 . 2 ~,, 2l
Do. ( giff. Riding Union) 1114 2 %:% . 2%
Lontion &Blackwall...lll. 6a. 3d 4%
...... 110 N 4324
8234; IA . ... ..... .. 83
111 ~4
iLioonnddsooonnu,Edroo:h.susitto7;:,:ca.n;d..llooo,l
Ditto, .N.:::7 Quarters 17
Midland . . . - -100 ...... 345,, 1./it :;,/~.,. ..
Do., 501. Shatz -.,5 ... .. 10;,''
U. Consolid. Bristo' &

irring., o per ct.... 100 ......1201/',14 ... 12014
?.+7srth Ilriti6n .• .... ... 25 .
.....
514
North St affor(l7;h:re ... 171 A
6%/i 6%
li,!zding, Guildford, and
Reigate
S'arewabury and Elam-- 13 1/1 ...... di5....• .. dis
Ditto,New Guaranteed 8
.. .. 9N3
South EAtit9rl
Do., No. 3 .—...- ...." 3O ...... _l4lB
•••
Do., Registered No. 4
':ork, N awcaeve, and

Berwick..... - 25 ...... 1434% l4
Do. Newcastle Eaten, 20
Do. G.N.E. Pre:arm:A 9 ... - 4 ••• 4
Vora and North Midland 5u —... 151A3% 15%
FOREIGN RAJ.L.wA V o.
aquiogne and Anlienik... 20 ...... 7%3/4 7%
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon)... 20 ...... 15 151 ._
East Indian ......
Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7
Paris and Rouen 2O ...... 21%.............. 24%
MINES.

4 .
Australian
IN• 3,
JOT STOCK BANKs.....
••. ••••••••• IJ ,4
London Joint Stock.-- 10
London & Westrnin3tor. 20 ...... 2714._ . . •
........... ..27 V 2

withev.
handsome Mackenzie,
richly-lcot
The parishioners of St. Margaret's, Westminster,
toin.AW.,e donfesEdxa ye t laste r
eo IpresentedCollege,
Oxford
ox therd Rev.
chased salver, on his relinquishing that curecy.
DISPATCH IN SHIPBUILDING AT BIRKENHEAD.
A remarkable achievement in shipbuilding has been com-
pleted at Birkenhead during the past week, On Tuesday,
the 9th instant, the keel of the Fidget, an iron yacht of about
fifteen tons measurement, was laid at Mr. Laird's building-
yan', and on Saturday last the launch took place. To-
morrow the yacht will be masted and sparred, and entirely
completed for sea; just three weeks from the day on which
the keel was laid.--Liverpool Albion.
A Blanes DEATIL—On Sunday afternoon the
residents at Thames Bank, Vauxhall-bridge-road, were
alarmed by lond shrieks and cries for help issuing from the
River; several boats put off; and five persons who had be-
come immersed were rescued. On the party recovering
from their fright, it was found that a Miss Ashton, who had
been married that morning to Mr. Harper, of 19, Little
Dean-street, Southwark-road, and whose wedding excursion
it was, had been drowned, and though search was made for
the body, it was not recovered. The accident arose from
the unskilfulness of the parties in the management of the
boat.

—.
WOOLWICH, JULY 29.—Captain the Hon. W. E.
Fitzrnaurice's engine was taken to pieces to-day to be in-
spaercistoend,waifttleir
Itiliesesrtsr.iaslsetwhaartd,s engines. Everything was
have taken place in com-
p
found in perfect working order, and the Lords of the Admi-
ralty have in consequence purchased the engine from
Captain Fifzmaurice. The engine, measuring internally
only 21 inches by 10 inches, is stated in the official report to
be of falasc-ohionrpsaerepT,4veirr,hant(hl
otheengdiniffees rence in size, weight, and
with which it has been
put in competition is highly in its favour. It is to be sent to
Devonport, where it will be tried under the immediate di-
rection of Lord John hay, C. 8., superintendent at that
dockyard, and will be plecd in a superior description of
boat to that in which it has been working here, as the boat
was in no way calculated to show its advantages. There
will shortly be a trial on a railway with one of these engines,
which is looked forward to with much interest by some of.
the leading engineers. The Emperor of Russia, with that
liberality which distinguishes his patronage of science, has,
through • the Russian Consul-General, made most liberal
offers to Captain Fitzmaurice, both respecting his engine
and gun
with the latter were concluded at Woolwich before the Select
.firing of the heavy ordnance, which,
carriage for heavy otdnance. The experiments
Cornniittee by firing eight rounds frcm 'an S-inch gun
mounted on a garrison-ca;-riage with iron trucks, and the
machinery for directing the gun and the supporting carriage
oii which it wag plo.ced were tot in the least atfecteu by the
with the garrison-car-
riage, was nearly 'four tons weight.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT
(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The House was again crowded to-day, I.t Twelve
o'clock, in consequence of the interest telt by Me m-
bers to witness tbe course to be adopted by Mr.
Baron Rothschild on account of the vole come to last
night. The galleries were also crowded to excess.
The SPEAIiEII, took the Chair shortly after Twelve
o'clock.

Sir ROBERT PEEL was introduced by Mr. Goulburn
and Mr. Cardwell, and took the oaths and his seat.
After the ceremony of taking the oath the Hon. Baronet
retired behind the Speaker's chair, where ho received the
congratulations of his friends.
ASHBY'S DIVORCE BILL.

This BR', as auseudel. was considored and agreed to.
SECOND READING.

Tice BLhop of London's Estate (Saint Gabriel's
Church, Pimlico) Bill was read a second titne and or-
dered to b

On :ho motion of Alr. BROTFIERTON it w•as or •
:lend that i. be an instruction !o the Committee of Se-
ection, thin they do appoint, if they thi►.k fit, tho Com-
mittee on the bishop of London's E,tate (Saint Gabriel's
Church, Pimlico) Bill, to meet any day after the ex-
piration c,f tim eighth day from the second reading of
trio Bin.

Ou the motion of Mr. FRE wEN., after a short discus-
ion, it was orthrod that the st mi in g order, No. 2UO,
requiring one clear day's notice to be givtn of all
amendments proposed to be rude on the third reading
of private Bills bo dispemed with in the case .ef the
Wo,,trniastrr T...imporary Bridge 13tH.
Mr. SCULLY postponed the following questions of
which he bad givEn notice till Friday, to ask the Chit
Secretary for Ireland the following qustions:—ls it a
last that true bills of indietra,nt were sent up and found
against George Mathews, alias Duncan Chisholm, at the
recent Commission in Grecia•street, Dublin? Will the
Right Hen, Gentleman explain the na',ure of the charges
against the said clerk; and if any and what steps have
been, since taken to arrest the accusod?
BARON ROTHSCHILD—TAKING THE OATHS.

At twenty minutes past twelTe o'cl.ck, at which tune
the benches on both sides of the House were nearly
filed, Baron Rothschild appeared at the bar, and im-
reedtately advkliced to the table in company with Mr.
l'isgti Wood and Mr. John Abel Smith, amidst loud
cheers from the benches to the right of the Sp.,aker.
The Clerk, having first handed him a small edition
f the Old Testament, which the Baron examined, then
proceeded to read the oath of allegiance. The Baron
.repeated the words of the oath Oh:tine;ly and emphati-
cslly 'after the clerk, and on coming to the conclusion of
i!, pronouwed the words "So help me God" in the
ustuil manner in which Jews take en oath in courts of
justice, viz by I;i6aing tt e book while covered.
The oath t f supremacy was taken in the same way.
The next, and laq oath was that of abjuration; which
it will be rrcolL cull contains the words " Oa the true
laith of

0.1 eumieg to those words the Baron paused and said,
" I emit these worth, as they are not binding on my
vonscience."—(Liud and prolonged eheerieg from the
Mi..hteriel side of VI.; during which the Hon.
Member put on his hat and concluded the oath by say-
ing " So h,;.lp me God.")
A paper v, as then handed by the clerk to the Baron,
which he signod amidst conjeued cheering.
The SPEAKER request,d the lion. Member to with-
drlw.—(Loud cries of No, no.")
The lion: Member, however, withdrew behind the bar.
Mr. HUNIE rose to or&r. As the Hon. Member had
taken the oaths at the table—(Loud cries of " No,"
from the Oppsition beuches)—in that form which he
thought most Vuding on his conscience, he put it to the
House whether it was right that he should be required
to withdraw.—(Ci.eers.) Ile concluded by !moving hat
the Lion. Mernher do take his seat at once.—(Cheers.)
The SPEAKER thought the lion. Member had risen
to " orde7."—(Cheers and laughter.) He (Mr. Spcalter)
undento.,d that the Hon. Member for the city of Louden
did not cement to take the three last words of the oath,
on the true frith of a Christian," which were prescribed
by the Act of Parlistnent—(Hear, and cheers)—and he
therefore requested the Hon. Member to withdraw that
the House m;ght come to a decision on the question
which that om:ssien involved.—(Cheers.)
Sir F. THESIGEH—Sir, I bog leave to move that the
Baren Lionel de Rothschild, one of the Members of the
city ti London, having refused to take the oaths pre-
scribed by I,e-N to be taken, before a Member can sit and
vote in this House, Mr. Speaker ba instructed to issue a
new writ for the election of a Member in the room of the
said Heron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild.
Sir R. INGLIS seconded the motion.

Mr. ANSTEY wished to know from the Speaker if
this would be the proper time to move the ant.,ndments
of which ho had given notice?
No answer was given to this question.
Mr. P. WOOD—Do I understand that the motion has
been seconded?

Sir it. INGLIS—I hal the honour of seconding it.
Mr. P. WOOD said the Honourable and Learned
Member had moved for a new writ; but he had stated no
reason for it—(Cheers)—and he should take leave to
move by way of amendment that the seat of the lion.
Member was full.—(Cheers.) He apprehended that
this was a question of extreme and deep im-
portance to the privileges of this House, and one
which not only concerns the privileges of this House,
but concerns most deeply the country at large and the
rights and privileges of the electors cf this kingdom.—
(Cheers.) The electors cf the city of London had shown
extreme forbearance with respect to the whole of this
matter ; it had been no wish of theirs to bring the ques-
tion upon the Houze, or to throw the House into collision
with the courts of law. So long as they were satisfied
that there was an intention to treat the question fairly
in Parliament they were quite content not to in-
sist on a right which ary party could question;
they still believed it to be their right to send the Baron
to that House as their representative, and to be their
right that he should take his seat.—(Cheers.) Yet they
were perfectly ready to have the question of right placed
beyond the possibility of doubt, so long as there was
any serious intention on the part of Parliament and Go-
vernment to deliberate and decide upon the question.—
(Hear, hear.) But what had happened? A
bill was brought forward to remove all these
doubts, which was passed by a large majority,
of that House, but was rejected elsewhere.—(Hear
hear.) Baron Rothschild, with thut straightforward con-
duct which he had pursued throughout the whole pro-
ceeding, thought it right upon that to resign his seat
and lay the case again before the electors of the city of
London, with a request to know if it was their wish that
he should again contest the question.—(Elear, hear.)
The answer of the electors of London was
an immense majority in the affirmative, and
that being so they waited patiently an-
other gear; a second Bill was passed by a consider-
able majority of that House, and again rejected by the
other place.—(Hear, hear.) A third time tbey resisted,
and perhaps too patiently this time. In the mean time,
some facts transpired with reference to an admission of a
gentleman in a much stranger case than this. It trans-
pired that Mr. Pease Was admitted to a seat in that House
without takieg the prescribed oaths. That circumstance
hod only recently transpired owing to the records of the
case having been destroyed by the fire which burnt
down the Houses of Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) Upon
that information it struck him and others that this was
a most important feature in the case, and accordingly
he took upon himself the taslc of moving for a Com-
mittee to consider the subject.—(Hear, hear.) The in-
vestigation of that Committee fully established the
truths of the case, but from a technical
cause the Committee was precluded from
going into the circumstances of the matter in their re-
report. Still, he thought, he should be We to show,
from the report and the state of the existing law of the
case, that the House was called upon to take no active
step in this matter after what had taken place, and after,
ac tie contended, the oaths had been duly administered
and taken.—(Cheers.) The seat was unquestionably not
taken; and, even supposing that the oaths heel not been
duly taken, the House would have a difficulty in
determining that the seat was not filled.—(Cheers.)
He had already stated that the electors of London had
exhibited the utmost forbearance in this matter : they
had manifested no desire to bring the House into colli-
sion with the other House, orwith the courts of law.
(Cheers.) They were persons wbo had all along, as a
body of electors, been distinguished in a most remark-
able
manner; as much so as any body of electors in the
kingdom ; and they bad shown it in this instance.—
(Hear, hear.) But when Hon. Members found at the
close of the session that that Bill which had been
so introduced was about to be withdrawn, it was
impossible that the electors of London could remain
in that position during this third session of Parliament,
without bringing the case to a decision.—(Hear, hear.)
Be (Mr. P. Wood) thoUght he should be able to bring
conviction to the mind of every Hon. Member that the
oaths had been properly taken—even to the mind of the
Noble Lord himself (Lord John Russell).—(Cheers and
disapprobation.) And even if that were not established
to the satisfaction a every Hon. Member, the House
would see by the stet utes that there was no vacancy of
the seat. They mus t divide the oaths into two distinct
classes with reference to this question. By the 30th
Charles 11. the penselties were enacted which now regu-
lated the oaths of allegiance aed supremacy. That ste-
tut(e directed those oaths to be solemnly taken at the
table of the House; and the statute Ist of William an i
Mary; cap. 1, repeafted in words the Act of Charles, but
re-enacted that the oaths of supremacy and allegiance
should be taken under tee penalties of the statute Charles 11.
Now if those oaths had not been taken in this case it
was perfectly clear the seat would have been vacant.
--(Hear, hear, and cheers.) If those oaths had not been
taken the penalty would have been that the party not
taking them would be deemed a Popish recusant to
begin with, and would be disabled to sit and vote in
the House of Commons, and without further conviction
proceedingor his election would be declared void. So
clear c;id the Legislature speak when it was intended to
move for a new writ. He came now to the oath of abju-
ration, and with regard to that the case was most res
matkably different. The 13th William 111., c. 6. first
imposed penalties with respect to that oath, and the
penalties inflicted by it were, that if the oath of abjura-
tion were not tukeri as therein prescribed, every person
net taking it should be considered A Popish recusant
convict, end be disabled from exscuting any office or place
of profit, civil or military, and should be disabled also from
thencerorth to sit or vote in either House of Parliament.
The 17th section of the Act of George I. had all the
same penalties as the Act of William, except deeming a
man a Popish recusant, coo! disabling him from holdincy
an office of trust, evil (Sr military ; and it also excepted
and passel over the di.iabline to sit and vote in Path's-
went, wlrch way met remsricable,—(Cheers.) When,
therefore, the Leg:Medi:re insisted 'bat a Mee h
setelJ L!,t sit to vote in Rinhiment, it Wild so in pleas
and distinct words—that was to say, if he did not take
the oaths of supremacy and allegiance, his teat was to

bo void, and a new writ was to be issued.
'The statute altered the oath, and altered also the penal-
ties, and omitted the penalty of disability to sit and
vote. Therefore he said, that if this oath of abjuration
had not been taken by the Hon. Member, he has still
not disqualified himself, and though he may be liable to
penalties for sitting and voting. still he is not disqueli-
tied from sitting and voting. He wodld now turn to the
amendment, that the seat was now full, and he would say,
with regard to that, that the question arose in this
manner—had the Hon. Member taken the oath of abju-
ration or not ? That would turn mainly on this,
whether the words en the true faith of a
Christian were a portion of the invocation of
the oath, or were a declaration of the Christian
faith contained in the oath. He bad read to the House
yesterday, and would not trouble them again to-day with '
the universal concurrence of all jurists, that it did not
matter how a man was sworn, but va healer he was sworn
or not. The question now to to considered was whether
the oath had been taken. Let the Hunt° remark the
case of Quakers, and he thouela that that would show
them that these words were a portion of the oath hich
was sworn by, a.nd not a portion cf that which was sworn
to. The ease of the Quakers was this:—There was first
the general statute of the 7th and Bth William and
Mary, c. 34, by which it was enacted that the solemn
affirmation and declaration of the people called Quakers
should be accepted in the place of the usual form
of the oath. Let the House pause at this
point ; by this statute they had indulged the
peculiarities cf these people, and made a solemn affir-
enit,on in lieu of an oath. This statute freed them from
.the things by which they were to swear, but not from
the things to which they .wore; and though it justified
aim in omitting the form of oath, it aid not juetify lam
from anything contained in the oath. Then they came
next to the 6'h Anne, c. 23, which was a special statut-,
and enacted that the oath of abjuration should be taken
with regard !e certain matter.; in Scotland, with penal-
ties against those who refused to take the cash, and
against those who, being Quakers, should refuse to de-
clare and affir.n the substance of the oatb. How
did the case now stand? Here the Quakers
were in precisely the same position its Baron Roths-
child—there-was the oath of abjuration to be taken--
there was the statute of William and Mary, which•seid
that quakers should make affirmation instead of oath;
and there was the Act of Anne, which said that Quakers
should declare the effect of the oath of abjuration.
was remarkable that in this oath the words " on the true
faith of a Christian" occurred, and also the words " I
swear" in the middle; and when the 1 Gco. I. cap 6
was passed, which recited these statutes, and provided
for the form of abjuration to be taken by Quakers, as
directed by the 6th Anne, they found that wherever
they were obliged by that statute to take the oath they
were allowed to declare the effect of it, leaving
out the very words " on the true faith of
a Chrietlau." Here there was Legislative declaration
of the points which he contended fur, that the whole
substance of the oath inns embodied wi,heut the words
" on the true faith of a Caristian." The Legislature
plainly said that these words were no part of the things
sworn to, but simply part of the oath to which they
swore. The Legislature had split the oath into two
t arts—the thin; sworn to, and the thing sworn by—be-
cause the Quaker would riot swear to anything, and
would only affirm the substance and effect of the
eats.—(Hoar, hear.) The Honourable Gentleman then
alluded to the case of Mr. Pease, and obteeved
that in the reign of George I. a statute was passed to
relieve Quakers of some of the particular diflieultics
under which they lebeured. That Act was the Bth
George 1., c. 16 ; but the abjuration oath which was
taken by Mr. Pease was not the one which was pre-
scribed by its provisions, but was an oath similar to the
one imposed on Quakers by the 6th of Geo. 111. Wawa
Mr. Pease came to take his seat in the House, he could
not refer to any statute which prescribed a
declaration that would be binding on his con-
science ; and according to the evidence of that
gentleman it appeared that a new form of declara-
tion was prepared fur him.—(Hoer, hear.) Now this
was most important, especially when they came to con-
sider the form of oath which tied been taken by Mr.
Baron Rothschild at the table of the House. On the
occasion of Mr. Pease coming to take his seat the House
did not resolve on the adoption of any special form of
declaration, but it came to the following resolution:—
" That it appears to this House that Joh Pease is enti-
tled to take his seat on making a solemn affirmation and
declaration to the effect of the oaths which arc
directed to be taken by the House."—(Cheers.)
Now, there was no law whatever that allowed an oath
to be taken in that form.—(Hear.) This, therefore,
involved the whole question before the House.—(Hear.)
Had Baron Rothschild sworn to the oath ? Mr.
Pease was allowed to escape from affirming, and thus
to avoid the words " in the true Lite, of a Christian."
Beron Rothschild said he wished to be sworn in the
mode most binding on his conscience, and the Howe
had s dd he had a right to be so sworn, viz., on the
Old Testament. Baron Rothschild said the words
" on the true faith of a Christian" were not binding
on him, but he had taken the whole oath wills the
exception of those words, and had, therefore, done
more than a Quaker would have consented to do.
The authorities he had quoted the other day laid it
down that all the questions they had to ask were, • had
the party sworn upon an oath which he believed would
subject him to the penalty of the Deity if he told au
untruth—(Hear)—and did he believe in a state of
future rewards and punishments ? and if he did that
was enough. As to the declaratory statute of
Victoria that had bean so much relied upon,
it only provided, that in any case in which
the oath had been lawfully administered, the person
taking the oath was bound by it, provided it was admi-
nistered in a manner which the party declared to be
binding en his conscience.—(Hear, hear.) The Baron
Rothschild had taken the oath in the manner in which
he had declared it was binding upon him.—(Hear, hear.)
It was idle to talk of the danger of incurring these ques-
tions, for they would always arise, and the Rouse
must take upon itsei to decide them without any con-
sideration as to the course that ought to be adopted in
the courts of law, it might be as well for the House to
keep within the course prescribed by the courts of law,
but it was not ound to pay a slavish adhesion to the
construction t might be put upon questions by courts
of law. It was necessary on swearing a Jew that be should
not be sworn upon the true faith of a Christian, and
Lord Hardwicke, on the question that came before him,
dashed out with the stroke of his pen the words " upon
the Holy Gospel," and permitted the party to take the
oath upon the Old Testament.—(Hear, bear.) Formerly
an Act was passed ruling that a legacy left to a party
who was a witness to the will, which will had relation to
real property, was null and void, because as the
law then stood the fact of the legacy being left
to the witness would preclude the will being proved. But
a doubt afterwards arose as to wills relating only to per-
sonal property; and in a case where one of the witnesses
was a legatee, it was sought to deprive him of his
legacy. At that time, however, witnesses were not re-
quired to such a will. and the courts held therefore that
the reason for the deprivation did not exist in this case,
and the legacy was declared. to be good.—(Clear, hear.)
Well, that was the way in which he wished the House
to say the common sense and mode of law does not
exist in this case.—(Cheers.) When they found a thing
doubtful they ought to take the common sense and
common reason of the thing.—(hear, hoer.) In a court
of law if such a point arose the Act would be looked into
to see if it applied to Jews, and it would he found that
the Act was directed against Papists, and could nut there-
fore apply to the Jews.—(Cheers.) An abominable pro
vision of the Act of George 1., which no one denied was
directed against Papists, still remained in force, which
ought to have been referred to in the report, and which
would illustrate the inconvenience of construing such
Acts as these strictly, and nut according to their plain
common sense reason and meaning.—(Hear, hear.) By
that Act any two magistrates who took it into their
heads that such and such a person was disaffected, might.
call upon him to take the oath of abjuration, and if he
refused it, to inflict upon him all the penalties which it
provided for.—(Hear, hear.) Now could it be supposed
that under that provision two magistrates would be jus-
tified in going to a Chartist meeting, and, selecting a
Jew, require him to take the oath, and yet that was
how it was proposed to act in this case.—(Cheers.)
He came now to the only argument which had been
urged against the case of the Baron de Rothschild, and
that was that in two instances Acts of Parliament had
been passed to protect the Jews from the operations of
an Act directed against Papisty, which required all
Catholics who held real estates to take the oath of
.abjuration upon the true faith of a Christian upon
pain of forfeiting their estates. Now one of these, the
10th of George the First, was passed in the year ful-
lowing the passing of the Act requiring all parties to '
take the oath to whom it might be tendered, and as the
case case of Hireton v. Baiker had nut been decided,
it was thought proper to pass this Act to
prevent its applying to Jews. In the other Act, how-
ever, the 13th of George 11., which had reference to the
Act for the Naturalization of Foreign Protestants and
others, was passed to give the Jews the benefit of that
law, but it did not affirm that Jews could not take the
oath prescribed by the original Act, but simply declared
that it was passed because " Jews may be prevented by
the oath from receiving the benefits of the Act."
What he (Mr. P. Wood) said was, that the House had
only a prinu2 facie case, suggested at the time when the
principal law was nut clearly understood. They ad-
mitted Mr. Pease on a resolution, and they passed an
Act afterwards, saying that the oath must be taken in
the very way in which Mr. Pease Leek it.—
shnmeaoittte t
conflicts
nci
way. There
het
aocanrcyee
it.--
(Cheers.) And
ooatfhttaaintoyusieovnefasthaodt
oe ith
s thento t
nothf?ear
rruwwthhiitchahnandpaydseibf the higher or lower branches
iDo:;ahiteurteilipinclaarcteueak ote,
t ranee apprehendednce
inr.
Pease'sthis cage.
l
was, that the House acted on general principles.—
(lleer, hear.) The House allowed Mr. Pease to
'name 2. declaration, that declaration was made an
Act of Parliament after they admitted it, and not by
a declaratory proms-, and not by au enacting process.
Therefore, by their own argument, he contended Hon.
Members opposite were all wrong in admitting Mr.
Peace.—(Cheers.) He (Mr. P. Wood) hoped he had
now grappled with every difficulty in this case; and it
tvoul..: be for the House to se.y whether or not, in a case
of this gravity, they would hear it solemnly discussed
and argued by counsel, if the House was to be a
judicial tribunal. But he said it was a very
soierera duty they had to perform. They were about
now to exclude, at gootlemsn who, by the zeiielutions
they hail pa,ised, was admitted to have ia clear tied dis-
tinct right to a teat in that House. lie had been elected
twice by large bodies of hie constituents; he was ad-
mitted rot to be proscribed on the old pretence of his
being an :alien, or of that being a Chrisienl4gislature.
They had gon. be all th,t, read they had resins to the
whether, that being a statute which introduce'd
into the oath the words " on the truefaith cf a Christian,"
following in the wake of it statute of James intended to

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suppress Popery, that Act, though a court ()f
tion to.thielaw roigh.t
sue for penalties, had any particular applica
case. ' The House had also something else to consider.
It had been put to the House by the Noble Lord at the
head of the Government that the House must take oa
itself a dispensing power to get rid of the difficulty.
That was the strongest way in which the case
could be
put. The courts of law took on themselves no dispene-
temhleeamnsierilgveosftaons
lug power, but they acted with large liberality in the
construction of statutes. The courts of law took upend
a.nedet and spirit of its intention, and rule accordingly ;
in doing so they would exercise no dispensing
AayA,waendwiwileewntiellr idnetcoidtehen;b:tv ;Due
power. They would take the meaning of the Actin
iThere were many points which could be raised, in f
that House. For instance, whet would they saY
court of law which he had thought below tbe digntY O
point? The statute of George 111. said that the esti!
d
should be taken under all the old penalties, to be stle.
out in the courts of law. Now that House was no coon
of law. The courts of law, indeed, would strain every
technicality, not against Baron Rothschild, but in his
favour. Let them look at their own rsitit°,l3i;
Here was a rerson suing for their determtea-
in this matter, a person deprived of a great privilege, and
they were bound to give every reasonable latitude to p!e_.
vent hi! being disabled. Again, they had this collet°
to this
lion arising from the whole, putting a liberal con,:ttew;
tion on the statutes, they had t 9 ice whether the tir°o„
lock at.
to give it. That was the
had that security which these oaths were I,_
.i. at. They found these Acts
"ere
ftorir•ir preambles that there oaths were entirely
their all
the purpose of preserving the succession. an ~
that they wanted we. to secure that. Baron Rothsebila
had taken those oaths in their full sense; he bad gils.
every pledge which was required, and which tbe Leg
lature, of which the Crown W3S a part, had onoctedstegto
protection to which both Crown and lubje
oleo.
were entitled, and be asked could any Bon. be
that
her say
.., . after looking at all the Acts, sod
gre3t question to
whole substance of the oaths had not been taken% the
whether Baron Rothschild had not fairly fulfilled all
conditions? The Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst
and continued cheering.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL rose and was
(LEFT SPEAXING.)
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lIANOVER-SQUA liE 1t0ut,',.,:-.
_ THE BLACK MALIBRAN'S CONGBD,'3O.
Donna Maria Loretta Martinez, the Black' by
bran, gave
_ a concert here last evenings assisted ,
.DeosnJ. and Don R. de Ciebra, the celebrated guitareoea
imo e and achieved an immense success. She stage'seabed
sher at home in the concert room than on tbe or'
was'n not labouring under the excessive -0014:0s
h Hess from which she suffered when she elVe6ri a to'
der Majesty's Theatre, and was therefore 00 ee of
tiole full
justice to her powers. 1114 °icizatei
room, moreover, is much better adapted
for the singing of a melody vvith si vot
a guitar accompaniment than can possibly be the of
area of a theatre, in which the more delicatolooio
that most delicate of all instruments, the goltar'e yeti
tboSortiog
notes,a great measure lost in space, and it is nn
and on their harmonizing with and oiliPP iritof
the
l voice, that the expression and feeling soudlf,ctioth
amost all Spanish melodies depends. Tile 5i)0044
tioor Martinez gave us three Spanish sonr,
too,Ms tN.vas not confined to Cuban melodies, t1ie.,,,„01.
the comb
. this j°t:isacn:fmfoieltolleiti:
of Sanz, and executed them with such tas'e'cb ia'
spoawner, and such expression as to secure in each pi
c.,l:c. a fund of
then
a rapturous and an unanimous eneore•edioto
bdheertmhCeeuelbraanitighsuaoatngghese,i 141 13 dw
hii Dc :gabt:te 1
jstscciih.tioniiduertngsbari;-:irnnnaliognst.rfacsunc
understand
infectious,
herself
aea
Innfd; tthhei s a usdoine
4,n c ai 5 was
eine inrfvr ititi nileetncli prey 1 Itbt
it such''ling one
gthraao4taosna:st
_laughter,_ although the great majority of th°6n-be 11
gAentestha,eaceoenocrelupsaintdt
thes n g u ,
the
ri
gtlliet ereslevpithe.
aenxteih(aebditlayofthsiinsgJiontga
national melodies of Old Spain, and t'lted ill 11
Thee measure the successful defence of 54;113 is
Maid of Saragossa and her compani°l/009 er
citings_a their countrymen to the highest pito!)
withof go,
Whether Weancdonslgesr
of national mein
,i. stn. .It was rendered by Lonna--M eines ill or
8 040. itoist
spirit and expression
elliter as ii gotta
plauded.
Or a singer dies, the
is a very accomplished artiste,and her perdr.„, the
a . 110arwildsl
may be attribu...o,osoo
are most originaland - - d sev- ;r
course of the evening the Ciebras pee;forranhe io tbeh'e
fantasias
hands is and
duets on the guitar, whiLiiitig.,t-4
inis really an instrument of music rc slot( '-
barpower, and superior to it in elPtraldecl-
flexibil
Ay. The concert was very well litwe-
A

OLYMPIC THEArrIb-d: 10137);S:
The opening of this house, after it
closed for several months, created last 134,,,- ou'/Ste'
cation Wych-street. Tho present 8019"-oices.,%00i
to last for six nights only, is under the alls„r410;,-0
George Bolton, who seems to entertain 0, gr:ii
John Marston's Malcontent—an old 009 this 10'4
every reader of Dodsley's collection. 14°1°'
some tier
ore of the many old plays which furnish to stipi
extracts,
as, for instance, the caustic oslfnlyll/400
by the Malcontent himself but which 80.— to 10°
0
out the interest or closeness of construct,o dolt Or
to make a piece popular in the present mobil?, for
house
was crowded last night, and it is P";
as a dramatic curiosity,, the Malcontent 1130
the
remainder of the six nights, but es for
htian.
apiece of the repertoire, it is out of the 'v

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CHICHESTER, MONDAY EVENING
tinned horses have arrived since our firs`,:gool,
lished:—Strongbow, Cockermouth, Li
years old filly by Envoy out of Lady RicireiloPofo2:.
Ban, Teddington, Venus filly, Merry reti";nonh
brook, Vatican, Siting, Bacchanalian, Plr:; 1131,41
berry, Heroine, Beebee Bunnoo, oltP#
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Saddler, a two years old by Pantaloon v"
flower, &c,
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turday morning, steamer on
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in ballast, bound to the- north, aboirhetser'sk-lfag.tria:,:joarpft;
Gray's-pier, where her wreck now
crew of the Union was thrown from
the collision upon the deck of the Royal ivi .1641,41 g
The Earl of Enniskillen, Sir jiitesatilje;
Martin and family, Sir John ppGregar, I,orti 00 le
Lieutenant-Colonel Fogo, Captain Fergas°l3't,ty t° elk°
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