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  ^ fc ^^^^""^ — ^^ ^^^^ ^»^^*^^ F ^* ^ B ^ P M ^ J ¦ AH ^ JVhj ^ bA •^ INDIA AND CHINA . r , i > i « intelligence from Lidi * . bjthe overtana bnt of » o importance . India wts generally J ^ a tie sta te of things at ; Canton wore a * sppM CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . n ^ ^ t i i ' ice 8 ? «* Capetothj JS er . The laitMMrata ( published in the J 2 £ CsbOTCw of the 28 tk Kotembet ) went gi 8 3 Sth of September . At that date Co . rcoaerset was expected to advance against the L j in » day or two . The Zotd-Aibicix , of ^ SO th . wmonncea that the troops had entered 1 irtjtol * ssountara ? , but the enemy had disap-Tand they were at a loss to conjecture In tion isanawi
  
  ¦^ direc . resultwas iiliranticipated . rheapprehensionthattheKafoa i morementof tte troops , * ou \ d again pour j iheeolouy . hMprcredbnttoo true . The ? man-. tie colonial boiraaanta in every q « aiter-the jh » s been igHited-dwelhngs hate been firedf { he inhabitants compelled to fly ia every diree' Inshort , the tragical scenes of the past year , be a ?« n expected m all their atrocities . jjtf N £ WS .-Intelligence from the Cape to the j , October , brings news that Sandilli , the chief 3 g Of the Kaffira , hmnrrendered on thesole con-• that his hfeshaU be spared . The Graham ' s -j Jonssii of Wednesday . October 20 th an--ss thisiraportantfact asfellows : ^
  
  fri ght a despatch wat teethed from theC « in . U , of the Forces , Li eutenant-General Sir 6 4 ** ^ . * ' Ja l ^ Potaat announcement , & prosenbea chief Sandilli , with eighty if his j ^ B , had snrrenaerea to the British troops Thi * piten «* brought in bj Captain Biss « n . C M . B ^ sith Ca ptain Hoeg . quittel the Amatola the game pisj , thns namga distance which is estimated at pttanin miles , swiaming several rapid streams Asttwdie hours . ¦ - * FRANCE .
  
  ^ Comm e rce nas calculated that dnrinR the last $ & ¦ & years n 9 lea than 1 , 129 prosecutions bad s feetad wutt the journals - in the name * g lxrais-Pbhppe , whalmd Uangnratediis accesstothethronebya formal promise that no pro jSsisheinldbe in future instituted against the f . Daring that period fitty-seven joarnals were ^ tos ospend their pnblicatiBn in consequenc ^ fSMtt ? the ¦ & * & >* . Tte writer ! were ***! ft . ' t l yea ? 1 and eI <* ' months' impruon-£ » ndthe Journals to 7 , 110 . 500 f . fine , r ^*^ « »*•«» tha « " *»«*> & headed « A dsess of M . GuizoP : —
  
  U Siegeneral meetiag of the Polish emi grants which jjJiM at Pari » in the evening of the 29 th nit ., It . ¦ gnaw , a Kasriaa refugee , pronounced a s ? a « ch gat the oppressor of their eommon country , the 53 or Nicholas . M . 6 nix . it has given ordexs toM ^ e , through the Prtrect of R > liw , to quit Paris jKntj . foor hoars , and France within the shortest t&delsj . We denonnae to the indignation of all jt men this inhospitable and inhuman act of U , ¦ jS , and this hate condescension of onr Ministry for saanjoftheTsar .
  
  Is reform banquet at Grenoble tookplacs on Sunj , A thousand guests are reported to haTe been g £ The basquet at HorKhan is speedflj ta follow ; abe attended by MSI . Odillon Barret , Laroche , -5 a , de Lamartine , Berrjer , Garnitr Pagei , Cr « - 3 , fcdru-Boffin , Jfctrie , Baroehe , Iherbttte . ana all ¦^ forming deputies . The reform banquet of Bouen ? bJ for the 23 A fast . Ea afiaira of Switzerland continued to perplex French Cabinet . Prussia , on account ot Nenf
  
  ¦ $ & , and Austria , en account of tV . e proxiraity of slaHan dominions , were both urging France to atiem in holding a conference on that question , s ahad refused to Eend a note to the Vorcrt , but ssed to acquiesce ia tha decision of the three s powers . The Germanic Diet had likewise been udied on the subject by Prussia and Austria , ijtj f peara that , at an extraordinary meeting , paked by the Vice-President en the lOtn , and at sh eleven members attended and six others were seated by delegates , the resolutions of the
  
  raj towards Switzerlasd were fully approved . stissemWy , moreeyer , decided that if Switzer-^ charged her constitution and adopted an' Uni > a form of gOTerntnent , the powers parties to iraty ef "Vienna had a right to deprive her of ¦ Kntrality they had gaaranteed to th » Helvetic cderatien . Ik Swi = 3 Chargg d Affaires has addressed a letter i > Jocbxil be * Debar , demanding that jonroal sr act and apologise for its lying calumnies sst Colonel Oehseabein , the President of the KsDiet .
  
  SWITZERLAND . Mm the accounts which we receive from S witierfeit would hardly be supposed that that country Kjcst emerged from a state of civil war . The refee seems to be unanimous , not only in its desire psae , but in the mode by which that desirable I j ^ t is to be secured . The energy and moderation I siytA by the Diet have worked like enchantdie dispelling the dangers which threatened the p Uie , aad the good sense of the people themfe sreatly aid in the good work . il b curious to remark how suddenly the divilaaf opinion on goTernisent , religioD , and the
  
  tenpsof thepeople , appear to have disappeared . p opelled Jesuits appear to have carried away all 1 * 3 hatred and division , which they themselves had iSahced into the confederation . The very can-IfewHch were supposed to be the most devoted to IsBuse of the Jesuits are the irsfc to show that a Ife ? eha 3 come over their spirit . Fribsurg and l | iHn ; e , baTea ! ready chosen representatives devoted Ilia liberal casse . and the other Catholic cantons I * preparing to fellow the example , and will no Ifriteiioose repreaentatrres ready to ccnenr with lf&iaj < rityinthe Diet in favour of Liberal meal » a . ' and of sneh a modificatisn of the federal
  
  com-Iga will prevent any further intervention , l ^ itr the pretext bs friendly or otherwise , on the I | k of foreign powers . If $ ? ^ nastien which was likely to create new . diSl § & ! , and which the French , government organs IKaronred to work up into a serious cause of em-Ifesraent . has happily been arranged . The ean-11 tf Nentchatel has been mulcted by the Diet in a Nptf SOO . OOOf . for having refused to contribute its Irebgentta the federal army , when about to march Iftet the Soaderbund . The Debits and other Ipcs ef M . Gn < zot cried ent shame against this in-| pi ? , bnt the legislative assembly of the canton of iF&iiatel ' has shown that rt feels itself to be in
  
  IPrnrnj ! , and notwithstanding the encouragement Ira pretended friends to resist , has expressed its iP&ea to expiate its offence . At its last meeting If tanimously adopted a resolution that the sum Ifesd upoa the canton by the Diet should be paid ^ resolution trill do away with a great deal of diffi-§ f . The Diet willnotbe under the necessity of ^ cbgita decree , and the Prussian government ^ mra have no pretext for inferfering . ^¦ 2 ele cti 9 ns for the Grand Council ef Lueerne * over ; the seventy-five members returned were paals . Dr Steiger was returned in tour districts . Sfeser Unterwald M . Michel had been elected as
  
  py to the Diet . He is a Liberal , but said to be a N ^ ate man . This half-canton has also s ent its « s of 14 , 000 f . towards the instalment demanded Ife Diet ( payable oa or before the 2 Qta inat . ) to-^ the expen £ es ofthe \ rar . . ' 5 s provisional government of the Valais have N » BBced deereea expelling the Jesuits from the * &n convoking a constituent grand coun « U . and Piain" a contribution of £ 8 , 000 on thepariies who N the chief instigators in the late war against ^ Federal government . Among these the most pra-^ sntare , the monks of the Great St Bernard , the {• % of St Maurice , and &e Bishop and Chapter of
  
  : iewrespon ^ ent ef ia Presie , writing from Berne fise Utb ^ ays : — . WJa troops are returning by degrees to thair homes , r"Ioaeresnjn « hiBTisual avwations , tha paWic minu FTen its wonted calm ; trade re-appeari , and justice is P « to re-opeaatr sanctuary . The menace of an infcr-Fkn in the midst of such perfect tranquillity is seme-P ? so very ridicnlous , that the most simple shrug their r ^ fcri when the journals mentien it . This is » ot a Pi picture , hut a faithful representation of tho actual fstfjoa of the country .
  
  | t SWEDEN . I iNera from Stockholm state that almost tha s ? fenebUity have withdrawn from taking part in $ fcbatesoftheDiet ; seeing that the ascendancy Zfa Tun Etat and ot the peasants' i 3 so over' ^ min p . that the aristoeraUc party had not the ' r&est tope of carrying any of its measurea . L GERMANY . ^ i ^ eUKivEESiL Gazbot of Pbbssii , of the Kih , t ** that the eight Poles condemned to dea ! h have ^ fiidr sentence commut ed to perpetual imprisoni
  
  ITALY . r ^ MDular demonstration took place in L eghorn on t * M , on the arrival of the intelligence of the Ffcssofthe Diet agatetthe Sonderbund , sunilar ? M whieh ocenrred at Rome and which we have r ^ y reported . The affair was conducted with the P * perfect order , and no interruption of the trang ^ tyofthetowa took place . Meorrespondeat writes from Genoa under date of |* 5 l 0 tb- — L ? e have had to-day a glorious festival to celetratethe tifrs gsined by the Geaoese over the AustriaM in 1746 . ^• toata as I am to popular demonstratims , I never
  
  Pov aqfUigto lurpanthe ttKting * hicklnave r «« i tBei « a . At an early hour thii nJomins theslmost ^ e Po ptsla tio n of the dry went in proeesuon to the ^* ffOngina , whena « olemn TeDem was snug , « ae E ^ dtmnaJninf nncoTirea entiide . It was va . w-^ 8 thb g to sea there , on the battle-field won by their friers , so manj thousands raisinj their hands ana £ *• Js thanksgiving , and praying Dirin * Providence to ! * * ' ** M 1 ™ ! ftoB \ fortign domination . When f ^* * sniee was cosduaed , the muldtuae again formed I'J ? Proceeded m excellent order through the principal l * k !* the ° ^ ' KotMn 5 * onla eicsea tie perfect | T * and ebedience to their chiefs obsetvedby all daises . 1 iHUiy , no polise were present , A number of well-
  
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  dresteaiadleifo rmtdpartoftheprocesrion « a ^ T C * ' sssiraas ^ S £ sas wSTJstflrWS JTf ^ Pdenno , all the popular M ^ LiLS-i ! tr n n ¦ n Mr
  
  i oS £ 5 LT ^? tionha ?^^^ SSSu * 2 ? « « en » plary moderation which ja s the character of this movement / The neoDle S ^ * v i ^* jnsl ¥ ta 'J' 9 P arenOy . acting in = a a tsis . « ras n ^ fSurr ^ Ti di 8 ? elIed meeting the ad-^ ce of addifaonal Aus Wap troo ps to tie Italian frsnfaer . ^ Field Marshal General Radetay , com . manner in enief of the Austrian forces In LombaVdy SlSifr ? W aaauional p ° were ' « 3 ? h e army under his orders ia to be increW immedS M ^ to etXOOOmeB . Six bat talion s of artille ry £ e already on their way . Twelve battalions of infant
  
  sraaoEea along the frontier , have been ordered to be ready to march at a moment ' s notice .
  
  INSURRECTI GNIN GREECE . Swit ^ ' ' ofthe date of & * 15 th , waieh says &at fee ateamer FJamerhad just arrived « w ? ° ^ ' ^^ intelligence that anSrS ^^ nVi * *^ * ^ P * ^ S that the gover . norwas taken prisoner by the insurgents ; and the garrison , too weak-to resirttha numbers of , the peoDla , had feeea obliged to seek shelter in the fortresses , where supplies of food could scarcely reach them . TheFlamer . on reaching Zante , sent the Spitfireateamer toPatras , to render all the assistance m her power to the English residents there . Ixrms was reported to be the leader of the insurgents , who had already killed and wounded saveral . . INSURRECTION IN TRIPOLI : ttat the
  
  .. . -JSSTiS ^ r WB ^ Whole «***< w . ^ lr 'P !?; ° ^ rebenion , and the Pacha Had been compelled to apply to tte Sultan , for immediate reinforcement of troops ( his ewa having eone out and . been beaten back ) to put dowa theiuMrgente , ashehadno force at his command equal to the task . " The Yarious tribes , principally composed of wild Arabs , had thrown off their subjection , refusing not oBly to pay tribute , but to supply the Pacha with the amount of troeps which they formerly had granteaforthe defence and protection of thegarrison .
  
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  THE POLISH PATRIOTS . Ror . ii , Joshcb a Prussia . —Lonis Mieroalawski and seven " of Bis noble-hearted compatriots have been sentenced to be beheaded ! The remaiederto perpetual imprisonment , or to periods of various lengths . On the day on which thededsion was madeknown , numerous gensdannes on foot and on horseback , and a company of the guards , were stationed all the morning in front of the prison . The court waaopened at nine o clock , and immediately all the public seats were filled to overflowing . 186 prisoners responded to their names when called out . The president then proceeded to pass judgment as follows : — First Class : —Sentenced to be dtcapitated , alter thelosa of his patent of nobility , confiscation . of his property , aad being deprived of the national c ? ebade .
  
  Weadislas-EusubiusdeKraswiski , Stanislas-Felix de Sadowski , Severin de Ebanowaki , Joseph . Alberetb , SUn « as Labodski . Stanilas Flerian Ceynawa , Joseph Pattkanimer . Klegzcsynski , and Apollonios deKarowsM are sentenced to the same punishment . The following are sentenced to imprisonment in fortresses , either for life , or for periods of from twenty to twenty-five Jyears , with confiscation of all theiifproperty aadjariousdegreesof additionl punishment—in most instances of a great cruelty : —Adol . de Malczewski , Hippolyte deTrapizynski , CharlesF . laebelt , Maximilien Ogrodowies , Ant . Ogrodowics , Yincent de Chaehnlski , Louis-Antoine-Stanislas de Poliski , Stanislas de Radldewicz , Albert WaycieeaowBki , Henri dePoninski , Jnda Ssoldrski , Tran-§ ois Antoniewicz , Casimir Blociszswski , Francois de Kobylingki , Joseph de Zurvewski . Constantin-Sta .
  
  nbla 3-Valentin de Waleszynaki , Michel Garoslaw Torz 3 wski , Gnillaame Wysocki , Jean-Edouard Mazarowski , Staniias Elias de Jenta-Lipinski , Antoine Switalla . Jean Danowski , Alex , do Neymann , XaviwOkulick , Severyn Nawrocki , Alexis Strzyzewski , Jean Gleboeki , Leopold de Mieczkowski , Al phonse-ClementdeBialkowski ,, Lucien Plawenski , Romual Gozanirski , Jos . Szrayber , Fraoooi 3 deGsdmirski , Joseph Elatt , Joa . de Malinowaki , Jean-Nepomucene do Tomicki , Erasme-Ch . de Niesiolowski , Nicholas-Thade de Smalenskl , MarieU de ChraszrZiwski , Constantin Milewski , Wawrz / n Deregowfki , Jos . Essmann , Louis Bnrchard , Ignatz de Lebinski , Thadee Laejewski . H . Lewangowki , Thomas Stankiewict , Michel Biaodski , Jean Fra 3 t , Theopbfle Ludke , Jean Ciesielski , Frangoia Dobry , Waycieck Golebiewski , Wadisla 3 Jos . Spiller , Nor . b ^ rt Szamann . Guillaume Teeth .
  
  Ia addition one prisoner was sentenced to ten years imprisonment with banishment oa the expiration of his sentence ; twenty-five were condemned , for . not having revealed the conspiracy , viz ., twentyone to eight years'imprisonment in a fortress ; two t > sight \ ears' do . in a house ofcorrection ; one to tea years' ditto , and one to be detained eight years in a penal section ; one has been sentenced to six years ' imprisonment in a fortress for participating in a secret conspiracy ; and-onctotwo years' ditto , for treason ef the second class . Ten prisoners were sentenced to the following terms of imprisonment for attempting , by violence to liberate prisoners ; one to one year's imprisonment in a fortress ; seven to one year ' s imprisonment ; one to one anda half year in a house of correction ; and one to one year ' s detention in a penal division . Toe expenses of the trial will be borne by the prisoners .
  
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  BBHGVAL OF JEWISH DISABILITIES ' sSppieSSS gpSSSS markablepomts contained in some of the speech . " ana therefore givean abstract of them . ] pe 8 MlM ' «* troS th ^ -n " / 11 ' O 0 YlnB for Ieava *» i ° - 5 £ f 5 i . ?? 5 " ferred to ^ e clrcutnstaucBs under ?^ S- « " . ot * " **<>»* cta wererepealea , and C ^ tholw Emancipation carried . The arguments then used dliwtappl , in . a * case . But he Intended to
  
  argue th * question , not on the ground of any peculiar circumstances in the c » se , but on broad constitutional principles . One danger was pointed out aslifcely to arisefrom Its adoption , many years ngb , by my hon . friend ( Sir E . Inglis ) who intends to oppose me on the present occasion , bnt he is not in a position to repeat his WBraing now ' . In 1880 my hon . frienft took upon himself the character Of a prophet , * nd » aid , You maj depend np- > n it that if you admit the Jews to civil offices and seats in Palliament , it will fellow that in less than seven years you will have a reform » f Parliament . ' (« Hear , ' and laughter . ) But , without tho admission of Jews to Parliament , as the precursor of the so much dreaded event , within two
  
  years of the time when my hon . friend used those words I have referred to thereform of Parliament was effected . ( Hear , hear . ) Therefore , there is , at least , one danger which it will be unnecessary t » take into consideration in discussingthis question . ( 'Hear , 'and laughter . ) I place the question upon this simple , but . I think , solid ground —that every Englishman is entitled to the honours and advantages which . the British constitution gives bin ) . ( Cheers : ) I state farther , that religious opinion of itseH ought to fea no disqualification for the enjoyment of those rights . ( Renewed cheers . ) Ifound mjstlf on a decla * ration in one of the statutes of the law of England— 'It is a birthright of the people to enjoy the privileges com * mon to all . ' I fOHnd mystlf on a declaratiea made in
  
  the House of Lords daring the discussions on the Confortuity Bill : — ' The Lords think that an Engliataman cannst bareducsd to a more uahsppy condition than to be put hy law under an incapacity of serving hit prince and coantry ; an ? tharefare nothing but a crime of the most detestable nature ought to put him under sach a disability . ' I say , then , that on this ground , unless something shall be proved to disqualify Jews , they stand in the position of personshornin tbis country , bearing all the burdenB which are imposed on them , and ready to serve their prince and their country iaany capacity In which they may be called upon , and that , therefore , they are entitled to all tha rights and privilege ' s enjoyed by their fellow subjects . I state tbis irith confidence , and I will not attempt to 8 sfcyour favour by anything which
  
  I might urge in behalf of the merits of the Jews . I think this is not a matter of fayourtowards the Jews , but that , unless seme ground of disqualification be proved against them , it is a matter of right . ( Cheers . ) I , there , fore , will net urge that even those who have opposed tha Claims of the Jews have admitted their peaceable conduct and their moral character as subjects—that they are governed hy that moral law which is adopted by aad is binding oh us—that there are among them many persons distinguished fer eminent * talents—that in tha offices to which they have been admitted they hate shown themselves as capable of discharging their duty as any of their competitors ; and that in various . oth « capacities , as well as in tha pursuit of scltnce and art , they have shown themselves eompBteat by their
  
  intelligence , ts undertake the duties of any position to which an Englishman may aspire . ( Cheers . ) I will not urge these circumstances , because , hy doing so , I might ge ^ m to make this a matter of favour and indulgence . Ko ' . I ask the Legislature to reaove tha disabilities under which the Jens labour , not oa account of any peculiar merits belonging to Her Majesty ' s Jewish subjects , but because , being subject to the burdens of the state , being born in this country , being compelled to fulfil those duties which the state imposes on them , I maintain that they have a just claim to be admitted to its honours and rewards . ( Prolonged cheering . ) I ceme , then , without pressing any peculiar merits appertaining to the Jews , to consider the objections which are urged in bar of the recognition of the fights which I claim for
  
  them . In the front of thosa objections tht 3 ii put—that it is proposed to un-Cbristianiae tbe country—that it is proposed to taka away th « Christian character , of the conutry by admitting not only Jews , but every kind of infidel , into Parliament and the offices of sta : e . ( Hear , hear . ) The bon . member by tkat cheer seems to admit that I am correctly stating tbe objections which are urged to the measure I am advocating . I will not say in answer to such objections that the religion of man is a thing apart from the business of man . ( Hear , hear . ) I certainly will aot say otherwise than that I think that in our private concerns—in our daily occupations—in all those trades and professions which men exerciso , religion should have influence and control . ( Hear , hear . ) Still more , therefore , when I am speaking of the Legis *
  
  latnre which hss to dispose of all the various interests of tha country , should I ba disposed to say that religion ought to influence and control its decisions . ( Hear , hear , ) I do not , therefore , argue this question on the ground that civil offices and seats in Parliament are totally separate and apart from nligion ; but what I do contend for 13 that it is entirely a mistake to suppose that by the words of an Act of Parliament , by the postscript of an oath or the fag-end of a declaration , you can iasure religiouamotives and religious obligations . ( Cheers . ) I be . lieve , and I think I can preve , that by tboso declarations you do not obtain the security which you pretend to ob . tain—that you do by these means shot , out men who are conscientious and deserving—men who would execute tbe duties of civil offices , and exercisa the
  
  functions of legislators with due regard to religious Obligations—and that you do net abut out those whom yon profes 3 yourselves afraid of admitting , I mean , that class of persons who , having thrown off altogether tbe obligations of religion , do not conceive taemsvlres bound to fulfil any of its duties . ( Chsen . ) I say that it must depend upon the general opinion of the coantry—it must depend on tbe state of things therein existing—it must depend ob the state of education—it must depend on the religion existing in tbe country , whether or not you have a Christian Parliament . Let me , for the sake of illustration , refer , to two very dtfietent times . . In tbe reign of James I . and Charles I . strong rtligious feelings existed in this country . M : a were * divided iato diff < r ut stcts , but nothing was morartaisrkable than the deep religious
  
  fervour which prevailed , sometimes burning more fiercely in one sect , sometimes in another ; but all believed themselves hound hy Christian obligations . Imagine that you have before you the assembly ia which Falkland , Hollis . and Tane mat—men differing from each other in religious views , but all sincerely religions , and professing thedoetrines of Christianity;— . would the Chrutianfoith have been better secured in that Parliament if no man had been permitted to enter it without binding his conduct by a declaration ' on the true faith of a Christian V ( Cheers . ) Would it have added in the slightest degree to the Eecnrity of Parliament , and would you have believed more strongly than you do bow that tiose men were Christians , because they had stated the fact at tbe end of a declaration ? Let us take another period and
  
  another coantry . Let us imagine a Parliament assembled in France towards the end of the last csntury , at a tima when many among the aristocracy were tho disciples of Voltaire , and among the democracy of Ronsseau —let us suppose Mirabiau , Condoreet , Robespierre , and other men of that description , returned to that assembly ; can you believe that aay ceourity would have beta obtained by coakpeUiag eicrj one of thtra to jjcdg * himself to observe ihe oafe which he took' on the true faith of a Christian ! ' ( Cheers . ) I will refer to another illustration , which our own country furnishes me with . The complaint against the J 6 ws is that they arerevilera of Christianity—that they make a mockery of the Christian religion—that they hold up Christ as an impaator ; yet was there ever a man who more sneered at
  
  Christianity—was there any Jew of the last century waousad such language with the view of depreciating the doctrine ef Christianity and destroying tbe belief in it in the mluds of the people as Gibbon 1 ( Cheers . ) Yet Gibbon took yonr declaration . ( Loud cbeerp . ) Ilecamo to the table and swore ' on the true faith of : a Christian . ' ( Cheers and laughter . ) He held office under George III . —ha sat on tbe Treasury bench , under a government which was more of a high ctmich gevernnnnt—which was more disposed to rsisa the cry of' Church and King , ' than perhaps any government which ever existed dutieg the reign of that monarch . ( Loud cheers . ) Take the case of Mr Hume . ( Hear , hear . ) He did not , it is true , have a seat lu Parliament ; but he held an office under government , and I believe that he held office
  
  for a short time at the Court of Paris . Th « Tight hon . gentleman , the member for the University of Oxford , isust well know tbat there was no man in the last century who wrote essays s » much calculated to uBdeimias religion as Mr Hume ; and yet , if he had been returned to Puriia . ment , and had to make the declaration ' on tbe true faith of a Christian , ' he would have taken the oath with a smile or a sigh , as the case might be , but he would have tektnit , and tha cobweb would have been Bweptaway . I hold that it is not by a declaration of this kind that you can obtain security . You say tbat the Legislature ought to be a Christian Legislature , that the Parliament ought to be a Christian rarlianent ; but do you not say that the nation is a Cbrittain nation , and that tbe British people are a Christain peeple , though there may be 80 , 000 Jews among them , you might say that tbe Parliamentwas a Christain Parliament , although among the 656 members of tbe House of Commons there might be
  
  six persons professing the Jewish religion . He next proceeded to show , at some length , that we should not impair the principle that Christianity was part and parcel of the law of the lacd by admitting Jews into Parliament . The 4 th chapter of the act of the 34 of Jamas I . was the first act in which the words ' on the trua faith of a Christain were usei , and they were repeated In another act of the seveath year of the Bame monarch for the purpsse of distinguishing those Roman CaUwUcs who bore true allegiance to the Ccown of England from those who held tbe power of thePcpa to depose heretical monarebs . The introduction of those words was founded , not on religieus , but on political reasons , and thty were intended not to exclude Jews , but a ctrtaiB class of Roman Catholics from Parliament . Iu the rt ign of Charles II . the same reasons prevailed , which induced tha legislature to exelade the Protestant Dissenters fronncertain offices by an oathia which the same words were used , Now , in 1823 we had repealod all
  
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  * e » e acU , ib hx as thsy regarded ' both Bbmim ' datho " ics and DUseuUrs ; £ * that being tbe case ; k 9 gubmU ' tod that this which was called ;! ' Christian oharacter o f oufCOnsytu « oa , ifl tevrthadany w ' atenceat all , had no exigtense We from th » year 1829 . He int adverted to the objection ftat tht Jaws wm * a separate SMloa—a position which » h « / ew » thsmialves at present denied . If they were aliens , to what country did they belong 1 Whin you excluded a man as nn alien it was because there was another country to which ha belonged , and another Sovereign to whom he owed allegi . ance . Bat no SUch rea »< m exited in tht cats or the Jew born in England ; for his Attachment was w Bnglana , and to no foreira counts whatever
  
  . Hut » h « n we are told , though it is rather An in . nlt than an argument , that , as the late Mr Cobbett u «« J < J to aay , we do not see the Jews following the trade , wliich oft . ^ persons f 0 n . l 8 , here not ft Mfflfl | e for this m your own laws 1 You disqualif y ftBm from holding land , and in many cities , from practising retail rades ; and what righl have you to turn round and say totne Jews— You have no taste for the cultivation of land or fortra ^ e . whichothsr EaglWhmenfollow ? Is that jostice ? l 8 that argument ? ( Chvers . ) I believe that iuFrancB the Jews enj » y allthelhonouM and emolu ments which the state has to bestow ;> d M . Dupia and some other eminen t persons who hate been elected to teats m the Legislature , areof that persuasion . Donot ' therefore , I be Sofyou , rest their disqualification
  
  upon your forner proscription , ana do not argue that , if you take n away , you whl not find the Jews fulfiiiin- tll 0 obl . gations of citizens like ether men in similar circumstances . But we have been told also , that thsre is a very solemn denunciation in the prophecies , which would prevest oar granting to the Jews the rights which they claim . Itisobvioua . tbatif sach b » the meaniag of the prophecies , it is not for us to decide what should be done , but th 3 t Providence will accomplish by its own means its own purposej . But I would ask where it is tbat those who use this argument would draw the line ? I have told you tbat in France they , hold airofficei to whichFrenchmen are admitted , and tbat ' more than ens member of the Chambers has be ~ en of the Jewish persuasion . Even in thU country we have much relaxed the
  
  rigour of our enactments respecting them . A Jew ' has been a magistrate , a Jew has been a . sheriff . By a late iatnie , which wob introduced by the right honourable member for Tamworth , Jews may hold offices in corporations , and it wa » but . the other day that a Jew was ad . mlttfd to toe offioa of alderman in the corperation of tbe City of London . ( Hear , hear . ) I ask you what right or business have you to interpret a prophecy to as ' to draw the line between an alderman and a commissioner of customs—between a justice of the peaee and , a person having aright to sit ihParliament ? ( Hear , hear . ) What enabled you or authorised you to s » y where the lino in . tended by the prophecies should bo drawn , and how can you take upon yourselves to draw the limits of the line the Almighty intended to mark ont ? ( Cheer . * . )
  
  It would be , in respect to the Almi ghty belug , to Strike from his bandthe balance and the rod , Rf-judgehfo justlaa—lie the Godof God . ' I trust that no such presumption will fall to our lotthat we shall flo that which we think our duty to our Mlow-countrynun . and the best for the coun'ry according to our imperfect reason , and rest inpiombut humble confidence that the Almighty will accomplish his purposes by means beBt known to his wisdom . ( Cheers . ) But , Sir , there is that which lean hardl y call an argu . ment , but which operates more againBt those whose cauie . I have undertaken perhaps than any other thing . There is a pepulnr prejudice rgainst the name of tbe Jew founded upon ' various circumstances to which 1 need not allude—founded upon what I think a mis .
  
  taken view of Sacred Writ , and the dislike and tbe ' dis . trust there is on tho part of men of a different religion . Bat that popular prejudice which induced tbo Administration of 1751 , aft » r pasting an act for the naturalization of the Jews , to eome down in a hurry , in the next year , for the purpose of repealing it , has , I believe , very grea'ly died away —( hear , hear )—that \\ has subsided in this metropolis 'I have with mv own eyes a proof , because a gentleman in the city of London , well known in that citybyMs extensive transactions , by his wealth , his charity and liberality , was elected for that city by nearly 7 , 009 votes at the last general election . ( Hear , hear . ) I quate that as a proof tbat tbis house would not be ' safe iu ssying— 'Such is our opinion ; we are liberal ; we intend well te bur Jewish
  
  fellow-3 utjectB , tut there is auch a prejudice amongst the people againEt thtm tbat it would sot be safe to legislate in their favour . ' ( Hear , hear . ) I warn hon . gentlemen not to rely upon that fesling . I believe that the people are to the foil ns enlightened as the mimber * of thU house . ( Hear . ) I believe that the general opinion , and tha right and true opinion , as I conctivo it to be , is thatrel ' gions opinions ought not to bring with them any penalty or punishment . ( Hear , hear . ) I believe that that is the right and truo opinion , overbearing aay prejudice that may have existed against the Jews . ( Hear , hear . ) I havo now , sir , stated to you > ho reasons why I think tha : the objections which have been mads against the admission of Jews are futile and unfounded , If I am asked what are the prevailing reasons for the
  
  motion that I propose , I appeal in the first place to iba constitution of thesa realms ; I appeal to that constitution which is intendad to give to evtrjr man those rewards , that honour , that estimation to which his cba . racter and talents may entitle him . ( Hear , htar . ) I appeal to that constitution which lathe enemy of restriction or disqualification ( hear ) ; to that constitution which by the abrogation of the laws ' existing a few years ago , has put an end even to thoss cases . of exception which our ancesten thought , upon the ground of imminent danger to the State and Church , they were justified in imposing . I ask you in the name of that constitution to take away this last remnant of reli gious p-rstcutien , to show that you are not irji-iencod b y the numbers or terrors thnt might mako that , which was an act of
  
  political Justice , an act of political necessit y . ( Cheers . ) ' I ask you in the name of that constitution , to admit the Jews to all the privileges , to all the ri ghts , ef which thosu who are not esslmJed fr > im them , are so justly proud ( che-rB ) - ; and , let me t .-ll you , that you csmiot judne of the feelings of those who are excluded by the number of those who might wish for seats in parliament , or who might aspiro to hold office under theCrewn . Many a man who would not seek for either , would be content to pa ' s * M » days in obscurity , nnd would wish for no other advantages than those of private life ; but he feels the galling degradation , the brand that is imposed upon him , when he is told that men of all other classes , m . n of the Established Church , Protestant Blssentei s , and Roman Catholics , may all enter within tbeso wa'ls / inay
  
  ail enjoy thosa advantages , but that he belongs to a a ^ ct which by the law and constitution is proscribed and degraded . ( CUeers ) But I nould make a still higher ap » peal . I would make on appeal to the principles of that Christianity , which has solon- ; been the law of the land . ( Cheers . ) I appeal to you , then ; in the name of that re iiglon , which is a religion cf charity and love , 'to do unto others ai you would they should do unto you . * ( Cheers . ) I ask you why it is , tbat when we aro taught by examples and parables that we ought to love our neighbours , it U not priests or Levitea who ar <« singled oat a « instances for onr approbation end admiration ; bat it is one ef a proscribed eect—one who belonged to what was then the refuge of all nations ? I ask why it
  
  is that we are taught that all men are brothers—that there is no part of the human rnce , however divided from us by feelings or colour , that ought to be separated from us ; but that all belong to tUe family ofman , and ought to be loved as brothers ? ( Cheers . ) I ask you , therefore , in the name of tbat constitution which is the constitution of freedom , of liberty , and of justice—I ask you in the name of that religion , which is the religion of peace and goodwill towards men—to &gn e to the motiuB which I have now the honour ' to make . ' t Thenbblo ! ord then moved , 'That the houao should resolve itself into a committee on the removal of tha civil and political disabilities affecting her Majesty's Jewish subjects , ' and resumed his seat amid loud and long-continued cheers . *
  
  Sir U . Isatis said be had never been so much nlarmed at the introduction of this measure as he was now , when itwaaiuttodncedbj tha First MfoUitt of tVe Ctown . He did not dispute the merit of the Jews , but be was not inclined to place them in Parliament merel y because they were aimablo and respectable citizens . Mr Hacaulay insisted that privation was punishment . He denied i t ; for would any nr » n say that the Legislature punished those who enjoyed sot tho elective frunrh se , or those who were not qualified to sit In Parliament ? The qu-stionwas not oneuetween Christians ruid Jews , but between Christians nuil uon Christians . Now . Bug . land for years past had not only had a constitution , bnt also a Christian constitution , " and he defied Lord J . Russell to produce a single instance in which tho oath
  
  of office had no t always betn taken upau some Christian symbol . It mi ;* tbe tnwtimt David Hume and Edward Gibbon aa inS- !« : U would nut have scrupled to tsik » at the table the declaration now required b y law ; but was that a sufficient argument for blotting out of our statute book a solemn declaration thai out first Cuty as legislators was to discharge ourduties as Christian men ! A Jew could not listen to our form of prayer , in which we called upon Christ to have mtrey up »» us , without either committing onawful bhsphemy , or going through a deliberate mocktry of religion . He would not withhold these concessions from the J « ws on account of the stsallnesB of their numbers If he couid believe tbem just ; but as he did rot think them so , ha thought he had u right to ask whather it was either right or expedient to
  
  make them to 20 , 000 or 30 , 000 or 40 , 000 persons , at tbe ri » kof exasperating 3 , 000 , 000 or 4 , 000 , 000 ! He had called the last bill introduced on this subject a bill to enable Mr Sjlomons to bwcome an alderman of London , and he calKd this MU a bill to enable the Baron Ii . de Rathfchild to become a member ef Parliament , He ihen proceeded to show tbat the Jews were a separate nation , with a separate creo : l . and for that purpose read a Jeittr frera a Jewish rabbi , and an extract from the speech of John Duke of Bedford , against the Jew Bill of 17 S 3 . He called upon the house by ev « y consider " ation of interest and duty to pause before it changed the Christian constitution of the Legislature , and before it hazarded the confidence of tha people lu the Christian institutions cf the empire ,
  
  Mr W . J . Fox saisl that this country had been called a Christian and an txpiusivo country , but those words conveyed to his miud a contradiction , and he conld not conceive , tbat either Christianity , or tbv constitution of the cor . utry was marked by exclusiveneKB as i ts , characteristic , feature . That which in Christianrty mas mo&t capable of amalgamation with Christian soc ' . ety was not opinion , wtich might be exclusive , but t \ ie great m ^ ral principles of scvion , nhjch were more
  
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  ™ Do unto Ji " Bm *» *««•**¦ the hon . barone ^ was a"l ^ v ? ° , WOUldthCj ' ^ n lddounto you , UoVht ' « f I exelu 9 iT * » b « oomprehensiva . I » taught us to boar in mind the cirtl duties' which we re K ^?^^ ^ - ' ^" " ^ f iS n S 1 W 01 . mP ° Jefl « P » n our Jewish faiowl subjects ; the to . QperatieH whioh we required of th » m in works fpesee and charity ; and , as weour . ei ™ , Sup-Posing us to bain the minority , would most certainly 8 oektoobta » n for ourselves rl , M 9 oommcugurate with ourdutiN , so we were taught by that great Christian law to deal wuh » hem in vhe same manner , and to grant them rights , while we impose upon tkem the peribrmaneeofdattes . Ner did he see in the constitution of this country any feature of exclusivencss What
  
  . had beea-thawhelft curren t of hgislntioa in this coun . » ry-what had been its Rroat and leading c ? aract « i « tic in nbicnce to that diversity of religion sectiwhiyh had SO Jon * exiated ? Sur . ly it had been to extend the pale of tha constitution . ' ( Hear ) . There ' wnn scarcely an instance during tha last century and a . halt of anything like exclusion being tho immediate nnd contemplated result ef . any legislative msasurs . ( Hear , hear . ) On the contrary , the stream of legislation h-d been in the opposite direDtion . Toleration and not eicla 8 ivene 3 s had be * n admitted to ba thopriHciplo by which the govtrnment of Great Britain must be regulated . The Toleration Act out an end even to the profession of absolute unity among the peopl » . of this caua . try in religious matters ; tha prrs ^ verance of the . Society
  
  of Friends in the matter of their marriages gained jis object ; gradually the Dissenters wtre freed from tbe various restrictions that had been imposed upon them ; tho penal . " code against the . Catholics was from time to time relaxed ' ; ' at hat the Unitarians were brought within ^ . the bounoarles of that toSe ' ratibn from which th fy had been aolong excluded;—b y the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts the bnrr ? er » neife thrown down -nWchhBdkoptout the Dissenters from the varidas corpratlpneffines ; 'h * n that great tticssurt ! was passed by which tha Roman Catholic body w , i » admitted to share In the representation of this counft-y ; and from ¦ h af . time , In various miDute . polnts . the aame principle of relaxation had pravalh * . ¦ Where wore we to find the conitltution of Great Britain if not in the characteristic
  
  features of a succession of . Legislative enactments con . tiaueu through several generations' Ours was not : a paper eoastltution ; it was not to be found in a set of cut- « nd dried propositions ; it must besought in those groat prmoiples which bad gradually but Jurftly-iiiterwoven themselves : with ; the system of our . legislation . Some of tbe arguments of the hon . baronet appeared to he based upon that sJtftnition of the constitution reported to havo been mad « b y a great legal authority , — that the constitution of the country was , whatever was constituted , ( . neer ^ hear ) If that were fte dsfinition , then the constitution was a most fluctuating thin ? , ami contained nothing to which appeal could be made with any thin ? like moral certainty . But , if we looked to tbe constitution as . something which grew nnd expanded ,
  
  nnd developed itself with the growth of ioc » ty , then in the history of the laws of this country , the principle of rellglouB freedom and equality was to bs seen gradually bnt progressively developing itself as one of the tenden . pies , of government in t- > is counlry , and as one of the principles of our constitution , ( Cheors . ) It bad been argued by . the hon . baronet ,, that exclusion was not punishment ; and 'hero might be circumstances under which that argument would hold ; bnt it was scarcely applicable to any cIsbs which bad intelligence enough to perceive , and moral feeling mough to appreoloto tho ri'htg and privileges of citizinBhip . ( Hear , hear . ) Whensoever a class exi « tfld in a state , that chss felt wronged if their position was such that they xrete esteemed to have nothing to do with the law *
  
  but te obey thtm j ' and thay would never cease to protest ajainat that Wreng . ( Hear , hear . ) The question really before tV . e house at that moment was the partial disfrnnchiBenunt of the city of London , for by the present state of the law it was deprived of ; its due share in tbo representation , and was undergoing a punishment in not having its due Bhare in . the formafon of those lawa In whosa propsr administration it was so much interested . It was , therefore . In tbe aamo position in which it would be had a bill of pahu and penaltics be- > n brought : in ajjaihst it for selecting Baron ae Rothschild as its representative . Ho asked whether it was likely that the city of London , whieh hod made such a choicv , would retract it . The city would do no such thing , and he believed that if the house
  
  pernlstcd in that form of oath by whieh the oxclusion of theBArcnde Rothschild was effected , it would stir up a most formidable agitation . The electors might be told that a system of checks ran' throughout our repra . pontative syBtom ; but the oxclusion of a Jew was'different from aay other exclusion that operated in the return of members to parliament . Thtre were the oaths , What was contained in the oath of allegiance , for example , which an honest man and a good auhject would not feel equally binding on his coascltnce if he hnd not taken tbe oath ? "What was there in the oaths whioh a raan would hot f qually feel to be his soehl and poli . tical duty if they did not exist 3 There was no exclusion in them . "But tho exclusion here was one of rellition and . race ; an Indelible , brand was tiffhsd upon
  
  the Jaw . As to a profession of Christianity , if be made i \ his niir , d was not changed by his external pliancy . He was & Jaw by raw , ana a , Jjb ha must continue : be cannot ub . Jew himself in order to gat rid of his disability for sitting in that house of Ugislature . Ho might as well attempt to uncircumciso the corpses of his fore , fathers . ( Much latiphtcr . ) If society were now com . mcnciiig instead of tidv ' ancing towards tbo conip ' . etion of a great experiment , —if there were now but one faith and one worship over the land , and we wore disposed to try whether a different and more comprehensive srs . tern might not bo advantageously adopted , he knew * of no class of men with whom it would be bo safe to begin that experiment as with th « Jews . ( Hear , hear . ) They wero essentially a non-proselytising people , and they
  
  could not , like thriloman Cathotfcn and other sects , come into collision with the established religion of tho conntry . They wajed no warfare , like many sacts of protossing C ristians—they were menjofpeace , studjisg and pursuing tho arts of peace . They had no secret societies , no religious orders , who might be supposed to disturb the neighbourhood of those amongst whom the > dwelt . They were simplj tha representatives of those whose nobili y—if illustrious character con ? ttiu > ed nobility—boasteda his ; her origin of antiquity than those Normans or those Italian nobles who found their anceators in the Catos and Csmrs—who were in compa . rlson but things of yesterday . ( Hear , hear . ) Their Bible was our B-fele . ( Hear , hear . ) Their ancestral saints nnd patrons were ours aUo ; and if we were nthed
  
  where was the Jewish law of n : orals , wo should find it not ' in the temples and synagogues merely , but we . houldread them in tha tables cf the law which ¦ wtre placed over the altars of our Christian churehis . ( Hoar . ) Suroly , then , of all people those might fairly be allowed to come first , instsaa * of last , within the bounilariea of the British constitution . He felt thnt instead of hazarding our Christian charactor by autlna movement we should be asserting our Christian character ; for the form in which our religion bad hitherto boen blench d with tha glories of our country hail not teen in the snforceraent of opinions , — -not inputting down heresies—not in the magnificent tfforts { or its extension and propagationbmt in knocking the fetters from the slaves , and in respecting the rights of poverty and industry ; it hnd been iu the measures bv which we bad stimulated free
  
  intercourse between different natioss , binding tkem together in the bORda of pcaee—it bad bees , not in exclusivchess , but in expansion , or to ubo the words of a great ' pert , ' in teaching the nations how to live '—it had heen in the * national carear which we had consistently pursued hbO he was sure that by removing the stigma and abolishing the penalties which attached to men ci honour , patriotism !; and ambition , and which prevented the choice of the constituency of London from taking his place between those walls ; by declaring that tho Christian spirit in which we asked oihets to deal with us we should deal will ) them;—wo should do more towards & nohUr identification of Christianity with tbe coottUu-Uon and tfie law than could be obtained by the stern edicts and the flereo prosecution of tbe dork ones , however much these might succeed or not , in en / orcingan apparent uniformity . ( Hear , hear . )
  
  Lord Abbix * . observed ; tbat on this question ttura was no intermediate ftoliu ? in the countr / , for it was cither a feeling of ind ^ rence or of the deepost interest . The predicts of the present day against the Jews hiui no connexi-u . with the personal hatred oece directed agninet them ou uccount of 'heir crucifixion of our Saviour , » or even with ^ hose pr ejudices which existed in 1758 . The Jew beM a higher place now in the opinion nf society ; and the objections Against his admission into Parliament did not rest on such half . forgotten rccoUections . buton tho adherence of the people of England ton principle which he hoped they would nd 7 cr mrrender , his opposition to this measure was not founded on any selfish or persecuting niotivu , but on a principle cf religious truth . He coofpndeil that religion had e great deal
  
  to do with polities—that the ; house knew thtt faef—and that it proved it by every one of its daily actions . Mr Macaulay , in an elaborate ess » y , had declared that government by its essential character was interdicted from csnt « mplating nnd accomplishing Christian ends ; but ho well recollected that that distinguished writer had in nnetber speech dccUred that 'everything whichlowtrod Christianity in public estimation washigh treason ngaiust the civilisation of mankind . He thea controverted Mr Macnulay ' s doctrine , ' tbat to talk of Christian government wns as absurd as te talk of Christian cookery or CuristaiB cobblery , and passed a heavy censure upon him for having confounded , for tbe sake of a witticism , the lowest operation * of the mind with the operation of the highest influence of the soul . It was true that Gibbon and Hume might &s infidels have sat in that house ; but
  
  they could only have done -o by professing that in their opinion Christianity , was pan aud parcel of the lnwof tae l « i < J , Ttw Ikhks vias noit eallud upon 1 o break down all the barriers which prevented Jews from titling in Parliament . No advantage would bo gained by such nn enactment—no compensation would be afforded for the great sbeck which U would occasion to thousands of honest and conscientious Christians . j the present was altogether a question of principle — it was a legislative declaration thnt for all tbo purposes of public government , of making laws , and of administering public affairs , Christianity was altogether needless . I To suah a doetrlne h » could not assent « ven for d single hour . If the Jews had beeu already in Parliament , be would not have proposed to turn them out , but it nas a j widely different question to propose to bring them in and to repeal for their iutroduvtioa un oath which was a Jc >
  
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  defy tho . 'orapetnionofthe most indefatigab SiSfn . ' Their litor Mars extended in an unbroken SS tho days ofour Lord down to the presonttimo fMr Dfe- » eM . ~ « Pwm ^ rb ^ ond that . ' ] Truo , Vor , h e h ™ . gentlom ' an meant , no i ouo . > * ° thtow inta their literal ' ' ! tare the whole range ot'"io bistorinns and the propheH ' of tbe Old Testament , ( . 'tfear , hear , 'from Mr Disraeli ) Bat he ( Lord Ashley ) was sp . ^ iDg , not of the old Jaws in their palmy days ; but of ' ti * Jews oppress ml and despised in their days of dispersion . ( Hear , hear . ) Evan thus , their literature embraced evesy sntjsct of scionca andharnmg . ofBecular and » U » iou » knowlefl ^ e . A 3 early as the ninth century they took theTtud in grammar , ana lexieogriphy , and towards the end * of the twelfth
  
  their labours in this respect formed the biraisof ^ vtrything that had sinee been dono by Christian doctors . They , had a moat abundant literature in Fronch md 6 « man , butespDclally id Hebrew : and the h * s presented , he believed , in onr day , iii proportion totheir HUabera , a far larger list of m < h of gonius and leWhing than tould bo exhibited by any 6 mtile coun ' ry . ijnsic , poetry , medicins , fistron » ir , y , occupied their attention , and in a » they wero more than a match for their competitors , ( flear ) But the most remarkable feature in tb 8 charter of tbJe « s in the presett day was this , —tbat they had Sheared very Many of Hict " extravagant » nd anti-social doitrines . Thoirhnircds anfi their suspicions wero subdued , and undoubtDilly they exhibited a greater desire and a greater ntrfes * to ' i-a-CBter the genoial
  
  family of riiankinai ( Hear . ) Ha sliiould be asked their why , with all tbis belief of tkoir merit , ho he .-itatod to adopt the present measurer . He was fnlly . pnpared to makp . every ^ concession thai eo ttld ' ointributa' to their honour and comfort ; be offered no o ^ positioa to their being admitted to corporate officisj but when fce was summonod , in obedieuce to npifociplo which from hig soul he r « puuifttod ( the principle that reli gion bad nothing to do with poliths )) to strike out e ^ in words from the oath that aasertod the truth and maintained th » supremacy of the Po » peVhe » H 8 t at once declare that n « could not . give his vote for the ' admts-lin of any . body to tho high and most solemn funeHons of lesiOa ' . ting in the BHlWi Parliamtat uui . ss ha professed >\ « tru « faith of a Ohristiari . ' ( Hear hiivr . / . ¦ » - . *¦¦
  
  Mr \ r . B . Qii » ST 0 H B , commenced by alluding . tohis position ns a mi » mber . for tho University of Oxford and explanatory of tbe reasons why ha- intended to ' vote against the moHon of bis colleague , Sir B . Inglis ; I here represent a body , of whom . Ii » l » dly acknowledge that I mustloek upun the membtrs of . which it is compo 3 od as being in ability , in : kuowlertjse , in opportHnities of judgment , either superior , . of , at the least , . qual to . m ) self . But that will not absolve me — 1 am sure I 8 l . aU bo borne . out by . the . intelligence ofall who bear ma —that will not absolve me in stifling tliedictates of niy own judgment and conaciense , feeble as they may be , with regard to what the principles of tho constitution and the intereits of the . country may require . ( Hear , hear ) I must take ajlvantsge . of tbe position in which
  
  we aro placed a » members ot Parliament ,. 1 fed that here we havei opportunities of judgment and of learning in our own ; profession—for it is » professioji—which others cannot have ; and thutl should be-bttraying the interests of my constitutnts if I were tosuceumb to their ludgroonts In a case v . hero . 1 was consoientionsly convincsd that there was . a batter course to pursue . ( Hear . htor . ) With regard to tho positi » e arjjumente for the admission of Jews to Pdriianwnt , Isball be brief . The noble lcrl br . s stated , and in terms satisfactory to me , nearly all that I think rrquired to ba stated . His doctrine with regard to the fitness of the Jltw for reprfsentationhas isdted been contested by the asstirlion that to withhold political privilege dees not constitute n grievanc . That is a proposition which I apprvUi nd can
  
  neither be affirmed nor denied in univortali terms ; it must be judged by tho circumstances of the case . We are bound to itquire wteiher th . ro rrc strong . aauscs of disqualification , which oblige us to draw a distinction botweon onn class of citizens and another . Ktb « re are strong and adequate causes , incapacitating parties-fer the performance of ocrtain duties , then to withhold from them _ political privileges Aois not constitute a grievance ; but , if jo « can show no such stjong , and powerful , nnd substantive reasons , —if it is admitted that tho parties are competent for the duties which it is proposed that they should dbcbnrge . —then , I say , iu that case , His trus , and it must . be affirmed , aHd it must bs adhered to , that to withhold political privilege does constitute a-grievance . . Having shown that we had contended first for a
  
  Cnurch psrliament , and then for a Protestnntpsrliament , in both . of which couteitswehadb ! . en defeated by the course of events , or he should rather nay by the provi . dential superintendence of God over the world , he said that , according to Lord Ashley , we had now come to the stRgo in which we muat stand up for a Christian pnrlia . ment . "When ( said Mr Gladstone ) we speak of tho British laws and the British constitution , 1 really must hsk , with the bon . number for Oldliam- ( Mr W . J . Fox ) , thatrighi have . woto fixoosome particulflr period , nfty or one hundred or , two , hundred , jears ago ,. and to say , 1 I will take thehaus cf that particular period , at d » I will aay their begins , and there . ends , tho British constitution !• On the . contrary . I suy that the voiy same principle ) which makes mo regard JIagna Charta as a
  
  part of tho British constitution , the same principle which make 3 me regard -hi Bill of Rights us a-part of tb « British constitution , and tho Act o ( Uniformity , and other acts —I do not mean to say as all equally impor . tant , but all nuking parts of our constitutior . nl system , —by the sime princi ple , I think , in general justice , whether Hike them or no . quite independently efperaonal opinion , wo who meet here in 1847 nr « hound to recognise to a great extent , os facts , thoso laws which have fairly entered into the political sjssem of 'ho country , which hardly anyone desires to change , which no one attempts to supersede , which we all on coming hi-re pro . fesa to Hccip :, and which I think wa are bound therefore to apply and develope in the spirit of fairness tmi ju 3 . tice , ( Hear . ) Thtn we have now arrived at a stage ia ,
  
  which , after two er threo geatrations contended for a church' Parliament , anl two or three generations more contended for a Protestant Parliament , each being in suceession beaten , we are called upon to decide whether wa shall contend for a Christian Parliament , (© car . ) And hero I must say thai my nohlo friend ( L ; -rd Ashley ) has made assumptions which . if ho could establish I BhouW not be found voting against him ; and , I may say , not I alono ; but certainly , so far a « I understood the do . ble lord who opened this debate In a powerful address , I thought the a 35 umptious of my noble friend with regard to the views of the promoters of this measure entirely inconsistent with the statement of the noble lord—I meaa with regard to tho relation between reli gion and polities . My noble friend says , thai we are aske . l to make
  
  a public declaration tbat for all purposes of government and the making of lawa Christianity is needless . Cer . tain ' . y such was not tho doctrine of tte noble lord ( Lord J . Russell . ) ( hoar , hear ;) andltnnst say , without , of course , impeaching tho candour of my noble friend , that I think h « has put an extrerao and n strained construction on the sense and spitit ai the measure itself . ( Hear , hear , ) I do not think it amounts to what my uobbirkitd has said of it ; I do not think it ( loos establish a severance between politics and religion , j think it amounts to this—it amounts to a tUclsr . uien- on our part ( if it . shall pass , ) founded on the whde circumstances of the case , and up . ' . n our view of the society Jq
  
  which we live , its composition , and it * temper , that there i 3 no nctesjity for our absolutely excluding tbe J « w , as soch , from an as 3 amb ! y , withregard . to which asuombJy every one of u » in his own conscience fsels perfectly sure —as sure as a man may venture , without piesnmption , to fetl upoa what is future^—that ths vast and over , wheiming majority will long , and I pruy always may , continue to ba Christian . ( Hear , hear . ) No ' w that question , whether , under given circumstances , under the circumstances in which we live , you may open your door to Jaws , whom you expect to enter hsre by ones and twos , is , 1 know , an important question ; and I freefy avow to myself , and I have no doubt to mnny , it is painful to partmn % lth tlio thleoo exclusive Chris .
  
  tianity , written o \ er this portals of the constitution . I coma ( faid Mr Gladstone ) back and close with the up . peal made to me by the noble lord at the hta ^ l of the government , feeling that in the measure which tbat noble lonl feaR proposed he is avpirlng " _ at If !\ vt t 0 fl 0 anaetof ju « tica The measuro w t- urge It one worthy of a Christian Lc ^ inlnture to enac ^ i tVr the arguments which support it are thosa which Christianity recsRnise » . Should wcr fusa it the wrong and iijmtiot ; on cMl . asd political giouuds nil ! speedily muniiVst tlumselvca * while , on tbe other hand , if wo miopt it , and admit the Jews , we shall have the consolation ot finding , that even if heir prejudices should for a tlmee xist , jet thrir good souse will not fall to allay thra . ' jWe shall have ttic conso . latlon of finding that we hiwt used the light that has been given us , and I think we need not dmpair of b ^ inj jjuidsd by it aright ; end under 8-ny cirouiiistoNCf 8 we " shall
  
  know that wa hare dono our duty by conceding civil and political cqualfcy to our fellow-subjcc t * , .. without any disparagement to the religion we profes ? . \ f a shaU have tbe satisfaction to rtflect tl ) at we l < S ! ve cot by doiuj ? aaactof civil aad-social jujtice , lowered Cbrbnanuy in tha pabho . Wmaiion , hut have AiehwRSu a duty sending rather to elevate Christianity in all reflective minds , tspecisll y if , when a few jearj thai ! bavo ebpsed , a-sd wb shall be enabled to read the debates of the prosent hour with the l ^ tos which aft-r events nay throw upon them , we finl that the Chriatlnn religion we professed enabled us to ( loan act of duty ia spite of prijudiu . s ' and prepossessions , app < a'ins to our tonderest feelings ; asd that , although wu duly re . respected those prujudiees and prepossessions , yet a fed-Ing of justice wuuld not allow hs for a moment to suflter those prejudices to coma in competition nith th « calls that w » ro mndeupon us to net upon tbo preciptaof our re »
  
  Iiglon , ( Tbe right hon . gentleman resumed his seat amiuat great c ! ie *» ing . ) HrDiaswu observed , tht > tboth Lord John Itussel and Lord Ash ?» y had considered thismoast . re as a question of principle . With the former it was a principle of religious liberty ; with the latter a princl plo ofrtll gious traih . Hhe former had adopted a principle whlou in thlt «« nntry waa cooiparaiWbl y » novel one , rnd upsa which his lordship , from bis decent and his own peft « on » l exertions in its behalf , must ever bo expectedto look with respeet . The Jewish race were men wh » acknowl « dg 4 d tte same God and admitted the earns rotation with ourselves , and to whom wo were indebted for much of our human civilisation and . almost nil out divine knowledge . Thoy prof « ssed n true , if not tha true , religion . If they did not bolieve all that Christians did , Cbrlatiims believed , all that they did , As far ,
  
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  Desadful Wsecss ato Loss of Lub . — Intelligence has beea commnnicated at Lloyd ' s of thedeplorableloaaof a fine ship , called the Henrietta Mary ( trading between Liverpool and Quebec ) within a hundred miles of the English coast , and the perishing of fourteen lives , including the captain , chief officers , and a lady passenger . The Caroline , of Cork , fall in with the illfated vessel on the 11 th insi ., in lai 50 N . long . 9 W . She had eteonntered most tempestHoas weather , and foundered speedily afterwards . She was water-logged , her rudder unshipped , and otherwise totally disabled . So great was the Burfwhea the Caroline fell in with the wreck , that no boat could approach it , and three poor fellows , perceiving that there was so chance of saving their lives hot by jumping overboard , leaped into the tea , and were providentially picked up . The unfortunate
  
  vessel was reported to be insured . On Saturday an account was received of a fearful collision takingplace ator near the entranoeof the English Channel , on the night of the 14 th instant . The Warrior , Mr Beynon , master from Lendon , to Gibraltar , and the * Emma , Mr Bertha , commander , reported to be from the Black Sea came in violent contact with each other , and the only matter of surprise is , that their destruction did not instantly eosne . Of the two , the Emma suffered the most , and she quickly went down , with five of her crtiv , who , of course , perished . The remainder succeeded in Teaching the Warrior . The serious damage the Warrior sustained , preventing her eontinning her voyage with any degree of safety , she ran into Falffiouth to make good her injury . To which vessel blame is attributable ha 3 not transpired . Tha authorities are now investigating the matter .
  
  Beuasb o ; Barber , ns late Cosncr . —Information has been received , by private letter , in the metropolisjtbat the late contict , Barber , who was banished from this conntrysome years since , has received a free and unconditional pardon , and that he left Sydney on the 16 th of August last . Barber , it will be remembered , was convicted of forgery in tbe celebrated will case , in which a man of the namepf Fletcher also appeared as a principal . Itis stated in the letter that it is not the intention « f Barber to come immediately to England ; he intends , it is said , to remain some time in Boulogne . No infermation is contained in this communication as to the reason why the pardon was granted .
  
  Akotheb Misterious Robbebt of Cabs at thb Pabdission Tebhiijcb of zhs Great Westers Railwat . —Iniqrraation -was circulated throughout the various divisions of the metropolitan police , relative to another Yer ^ mysterious robbery , which took place on the previous evening , at the Pad ; ington Bail way station . It appears tbat Mr Fryer , a part of whose doty it is to pay the men belonging to the locomotive department , left his office , adjacent to the entrance gates , at six o ' clock , to go to tea , and on quitting , locked , as usual , the outer door ; on his return , after an absence of not more that twelve minutes , he discovered tbat the office
  
  had bees entered , no doubt by means of a skeleton key , and that upwards of £ 82 , in geld and silver , had been stolen from * drawer , the lock of which bad been forced . Information of the robbery vas promptly commnnicated to Mr Collard , the superintendant of the company ' s police , who is using his utmo st endeavours to trace eut the guilty party . Sodthampior CoCTSDiBATE Cub—On Monday evening , December 20 cb , Mr Maguire in the chair , it was resolved , * That F . O'Connor , Esq .. M . P ., is entitled to the unqualified thanks of tbis club for introducing the question of Repeal of the Act of Union into the House of CofflEOES ,
  
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