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Baron Lionel de Rothschild has rallied his City friends to the standard of Jewish emancipation. Ile called a meeting, which took place at the London Tavern on Thursday, to consider svhat should be done. Twenty Members-of Parliament assembled round him on the platform. The hero of the hour, Alderman Salomons, was by his side. Baron de Rothschild made a speech in -proposing a chairman. The practical point of his speech was an offer to resign if his constituents approved of that course ; but he was met by loud cries of " No, no ! " He asked what course he should pursue in furtherance of the cause ? Mr. Raikes Currie was voted to the chair. The speechmaking was courageous and decided—no one sparing the House of Lords. Nobody doubted the law of the case, or ventured to hint that, without an express act providing for the same, the admission of a Jew Member would be illegal. On all hands it seemed agreed that re- ligious opinions should not be made a bar to the enjoyment of civil or political rights. For instance, "loud cheers" greeted the following sen- tence from Mr. Osborne's speech- Baron Lionel de Rothschild has rallied his City friends to the standard of Jewish emancipation. Ile called a meeting, which took place at the London Tavern on Thursday, to consider svhat should be done. Twenty Members-of Parliament assembled round him on the platform. The hero of the hour, Alderman Salomons, was by his side. Baron de Rothschild made a speech in -proposing a chairman. The practical point of his speech was an offer to resign if his constituents approved of that course ; but he was met by loud cries of " No, no ! " He asked what course he should pursue in furtherance of the cause ? Mr. Raikes Currie was voted to the chair. The speechmaking was courageous and decided—no one sparing the House of Lords. Nobody doubted the law of the case, or ventured to hint that, without an express act providing for the same, the admission of a Jew Member would be illegal. On all hands it seemed agreed that re- ligious opinions should not be made a bar to the enjoyment of civil or political rights. For instance, "loud cheers" greeted the following sen- tence from Mr. Osborne's speech-

" I am of opinion, that whatever may be a man's religious tenets, be he Mohamedini or Made°, or anything else, so long as he is a good subject and pays the Queen's taxes, and so long as electors send him to Parliament, he is as much entitled to take a scat in that House as the most professed Chris- tian."

The way in which Lord John Russell's name was received showed that he had not improved his position in the City by the legislation of the last five years. The chief speakers were Mr. John Dillon, Mr. Ingram Travers, Mr. Osborne, M.P., Mr. Samuel Morley, Mr. F. Bennoch, Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P., Sir Henry Bateman, Mr. Anstey, M.P., and Alderman Salomons, M.P.

Apropos to a suggestion that Baron de Rothschild also should "take his seat," Mr. Salomons pointed out how different his own case was from that of the Baron. He had no one but himself to look to ; but the Baron was engaged in business, and had the care of the property of others as well as his own.

"Since 1848, I have not been engaged in business, and consequently any steps that I might undertake involving personal consequences or penal lia- bilities would attach them only to myself. It was therefore my good for- tune, when I came forward for Greenwich, to be able to make up my mind to a course that many persons may consider exceedingly reckless. I was de- termined, as far us I could, to withstand party law in the House of Com- mons, and throw myself on the legal tribunals of the country, from which I knew I could expect justice in the event of my election. Having come to that determination, and aided by the countenance of many Liberal Members, I determined to go down and take my seat, and to vote. I determined to do nothing unbecoming a gentleman, but everything becoming an Englishman, not only to maintain my own rights and the rights of my constituents, but the rights of every constituency in the empire to choose whom they please, who is under no legal disability to represent their interests in the Commons House of Parliament. I did so ; you know the re- sult, and I am proud of it. I have now pending against Inc two actions at law. I have been served by two separate parties with notice of action for the penalties I have incurred in sitting and voting in the House of Commons. I believe very few persons in this kingdom know the danger in which I stand. I have given three votes. I went out on three separate divisions, and re- corded my vote on each of those divisions. For that imprudence I an, liable to an action at law ; and should a verdict be recorded against me, I shall be in this position—I shall forfeit the sum of 5001. either in the aggregate or for each vote, and I care very little which. (Loud cheers.) But that is not the whole of the penalty. If am found guilty, I become Popish recusant convict.' (Laughter.) Now just hear what the law of the country is, as laid down by some lawyers in the House of Commons. If I become a Popish recusant convict,' I cannot take a legacy, I cannot sue, I cannot be the guar- dian of any child, I dare not vote at any election for a Member of Parlia- ment ; every office I bold I shall be stripped of, I must lay down may Alder- manic gown, be struck out of the commission of the peace, and become a sort of political Cain, wandering throughout the land, a vagabond and fugitive." (Cheers and laughter.)

The upshot of the whole meeting was a resolution to the effect that Ministers can only entitle themselves to the confidence of Reformers by being prepared to stand or fall by such measures as the Jew Bill ; and the meeting called upon the Prime Minister, as Member for London, forthwith to introduce into the House of Lords, as a Cabinet measure, a bill for the total abolition of the present oath of abjuration.

A petition was also agreed to, based on the resolution. Alderman Salomons afterwards met the electors of Greenwich ; by- whom he was enthusiastically received, and the petition which Sir Ben- jamin Hall has presented was agreed to.

Exeter Hall has been chosen by the friends of universal peace as their meeting-place this year. Sir David Brewster occupied the chair, and delivered an eloquent inaugural address. The arguments in favour of peace have been so often urged that novelty in substance is something not to be expected ; but Sir David contrived to find novel illustrations of his views. He made a felicitous allusion to the Great Exposition of Industry.

"The grand truth, indeed, which this lesson involves, is recorded in bronze, on the prize medal by which the genius of the exhibitors is to be rewarded. Round the head of Prince Albert, to whose talent and moral courage we owe the Exposition of 1851, and addressed to us in his name, is the noble sentiment., 'Dissociate in locis eoncordi pace ligavi—Whut space has separated, I have united in harmonious peace.' This is to be our motto, and to realize it is to be our work. It will indeed be the noblest result of the Prince's labours, if they shall effect among nations what they have al- ready'done among individuals—the removal of jealousies that are temporary and the establishment of friendships that are enduring." Sir David went so far as to assert, that "those who had embraced each other in social inter- -Course, who had united inadmiring each other's genius and varied mane- Una, would hewn again barely:course to the 411tr4arhitn of war." A letter was read from Mr. Thomas Carlyle, expressing regret at being obliged to be absent A resolution which we believe is new in the move- ment was carried on the motion of the Reverend Angell James—

"That it is the special and solemn duty of all ministers of religion, in- structors of youth, and conductors of the public press, to employ their great influence in the diffusion of pacific principles and sentiments, and in eradi-

cating from the minds of men those hereditary animosities and political and commercial jealousies which have been so often the cause of disastrous wars." Four foreigners supported this resolution ; among them, the Reverend Athanase Coquerel junior, and M. Jules Delbruek, editor of the Revue d'Edueation Nouvelle : the latter dilated on the folly of giving children mimic instruments of war as playthings.

Mr. Cobden was the hero of the second day's sitting. He moved his customary motion against "standing armaments," and enforced his views by arguments not new to those accustomed to read the debates on his ar- bitration motion. Standing armies, he said, had never achieved liberty for any country. He contended that all international disputes ought to be settled by arbitration ;

and ventured to renew his prophecy that the great Continental nations would not go to war. He made a great point of the "aggressive attitude" of England : she has a chain of forts round the globe, which would require one large army specially to defend, while another fought our battles.

Mr. Henry 'Vincent moved a resolution affirming nonintervention as a principle, and asserting the right of every nation to manage its own af- fairs.

A sensation was caused by the entrance of M. Emile de Girardin late on the second day. He was called forward. Though he was no soldier, M. de Girardin said, he was liable to the appli- cation of an epithet sometimes applied to soldiers : he was a "deserter" from the National Assembly of France without leave. Afterwards in speaking to a resolution expressing abhorrence of the system practised towards aboriginal and uncivilized tribes by civilized nations, he proposed to alter the two words "civilized" and "uncivilized," and to say "strong" nations and "weaker" tribes ; and he grounded the suggestion on his belief that the uncivilized party was that which made the attack upon the other—the civilized, that which was unotiending. He said he considered no power or nation uncivi- lized that was not warlike, and that, therefore, they had affixed the wrong terms to the wrong sides. This proposition was supported by Mr. Cobden, and generally approved ; but ultimately referred to the Committee. The proceedings on the third and last day were of varied and unequal interest. The first thing that strikes one is the reception of a deputation of fifteen working men, delegates of the same number of trades, from France. War-loans were condemned, in a strong resolution proposed by Mr. Charles Gilpin, seconded by Mr. Edward Miall, and supported by Mr. Samuel Gurney. M. de Cormenin proposed that the members of the Congress should do their best to influence their respective Parliaments; and Mr. Elihu Burritt, that they should prepare public opinion in their respective countries for the adoption of an authoritative code of interna- tional law. With a vote approving of the Crystal Palace, and votes of thanks, the Peace Congress of 1851 terminated.

The uncertain weather has produced some curious changes in the num- ber of visitors to the Exposition. On Saturday it fell short of 10,000. The excursion-trains and the sunshine raised the muster on Monday to 70,640; on Thursday it sank to 44,458. The novelty in the interior is the stuffed elephant which Mr. Belshaw discovered in the museum at Saffron Walden : it hiss arrived, and the howdah presented to the Queen by the Newab Nazim is fixed upon its back.

The inhabitants of the united parishes of St. Andrew by the Wardrobe and St. Ann Blackfriars met on Thursday to nominate a Rector, in the place of the Reverend John Harding, appointed Bishop of Bombay. Eighteen gentlemen sent in their names as candidates, but only five were duly proposed to the meeting. The votes were equal for the Reverend W. Webster and the Reverend W. Wilkinson ; the Chairman gave his casting-vote for Mr. Wilkinson ; a poll was then demanded for the other candidates. The stipend is 233/.

The Grocers Company, at the solicitation of the parishioners, have con- sented to present a stained glass window to be erected in St. Stephen's Walbrook. The centre compartment will represent the stoning and en- throuization of St. Stephen, supported on each side by the four Evan- gelists, and surmounted by the Ascension.

The ratepayers of St. George the Martyr, Southwark, appear generally anxious to establish baths and washhouses ; but a Mr. Archer, who has not been very favourably spoken of at a parish meeting, has appealed to the Home Secretary against proceedings in favour of forming baths, de- claring that they were illegal. A subsequent meeting of ratepayers shows that they are resolute to carry out their laudable object; to which end a public vestry is to be called.

In consequence of a continued subsidence of one of the piers of Blackfriars Bridge, it is the intention of the committee who have the control of the works shortly to stop the carriage-way for a brief period, in order either to lessen the superincumbent weight, or afterwards, if the pier still continue to move, to load it so as to drive the foundation-timbers and stone-work down to the bed of clay a short distance below. The strong wooden centering, lately put up under the two arches which spring from this pier, are to enable it to settle without danger, in the event of the foundation sinking until it areach the clay.

At Lambeth Police Office, on Monday, Sergeant Quinnear and Mrs. Feu- cett, wife of a mechanic living in the Old Kent Road, attended to make some statements. Mrs. Faucett believed that the human fragments found at Norwich were those of her sister, and that she had been murdered by a man who had either married or seduced her, having a wife living when he became acquainted with the young woman. Ann Bailey lived as housemaid at the Baron de Goldsmid's at Tunbridge ; Simon Richard Creech, a painter from London, was employed at the Baron's house as a workman ; to Ann Bailey he passed himself off as a single man, and induced her to leave her situation to marry him. Geach wrote to Ann's father at New- castle, that he had married his daughter. It was discovered that he already had a wife ; and information was given to the wife of what had taken place. This woman went to the Hampstead Road, where Gee& was living with Ann Bailey ; high words were heard ; Geach told the landlady that he must leave the lodgings on account of the death of an uncle ; and he went away with the two women in a cab. They all went to Mrs. Geach's lodgings at Walworth ; a broker wascalled in, the goods were sold, and then the three disappeared from the neighbourhood. Geach's father is a Baptist minister living at Norwich, and Mrs. Geach is a native of the same place : on hearing of the discovery of the human remains there, Ann Bailey's

relatives had a feeling that she had been butchered by Geaeh. The inqui- ries of the Police gave some slight ground for thinking that Bailey went by rail to Norwich. Geach's father declared that he has not seen him for a long time. The Magistrate, Mr. Norton admitted that the case was one of strong suspicion ; and if the crime imputed had been committed, publicity given tix the statement by the press would be the best means of bringing it to light The affair was cleared up satisfactorily, so far as respects the supposed murder, on Thursday, by the appearance before the Magifitrate of Mrs- Geach and Ann Bailey. It appeared that Ann had been deceived by Geach, and that the marriage ceremony was not performed : she said she was now living under Mrs. Geach's protection, and appealed to her that she behaved_ properly : the wife assented, but said the sooner she took herself off the better. Eventually, the young woman's brother-in-law took charge of her till she can get a situation.

At Clerkenwell Police Office, on Wednesday, William Weale, priest and schoolmaster of an establishment connected with the Romish Church in Dun- can Terrace' Islington, was charged with cruelty to John Ferrell, a child six years old. The child went to the school; and was chastised by the defend- ant in such a manner that blood issued from cuts caused by the gutta percha whip. The sufferer's cries brought some neighbouring tradesmen to the place; the child was rescued, and Weale given into custody. Mr. Hinchley said he had very often heard groans, cries, and blows in defendant's school, where a discipline most harsh and cruel was practised. The complainant's mother stood forward, and said she had no desire to have the defendant fined or otherwise injured. Mr. Combo had the poor child's person examined ; and asked the mother if she sanctioned a beating to that extent. She re- plied, "I see he has been very much beat ; but I don't want to punish the gentleman, because he had my authority." Mr. Combe--" Very motherly, certainly, to permit such barbarity ! " Defendant said, the boy had stolen a paint-brush, had told lies, and had absented himself on Sunday from his catechism class. He admitted that the punishment was too severe, and regretted it : he was in a bad temper at the time. Mr. Combo ordered the matter to stand over for some hours, that the child's father might attend, and any witnesses the defendant chose to call. When the father arrived, the Magistrate asked him if he objected to the punishment ? Father—"An' faith an' sure I don't wish to hurt the good gentleman." Mr. Combe—" Then I can tell you and 3'our wife, that you are both brutes !" Handing him the whip, a very large one, with a brass ferule in the middle—" How should you like a blow over the face with this ? " Father—" Oh, not at all, your worship." Mr. Combe--" I should think not; yet you are inhuman enough to sanction it upon the body of your child. A donkey's hide is as hard nearly as that of any animal, still it would be cruel to beat one with such a weapon." Two youths who saw the flagellation, were called by the accused as wit- nesses. As they were cross-examined by the Magistrate, their testimony by no means favoured the priest. Mr. Combe was at a loss how to adjudicate in such an affair, as the parents, who seemed devoid of all natural feeling, swore that they gave the prisoner an authority to act as lie had done ; con- sequently it would be useless for him to send the case to the Sessions, as they would not prosecute it. Mr. Hinchley hoped the Magistrate would hold the defendant to bail, for he was determined the affair should not end there : he and many others living in the vicinity of the school were often painfully annoyed by the cries of defendant's pupils. Mr. Combo considered it a case of that public importance that it should be taken up by the parochial author- ities. It would be too much for one disinterested and humane person to take upon himself that responsibility. Eventually, Weale was held to bail to. answer any charge at the Sessions ; Mr. Hinchley intending to apply to the Islington Guardians to take up the matter.

An act of Irish savagery came to light at Marlborough Street Police Office on Wednesday. John Dempsey was committed for trial for cutting and wounding Catherine Dempsey. The woman said she was no relation to the accused ; he had a quarrel with her husband, but, fearing to meet him, he attacked her : he flung her down stairs, jumped and danced on her body, kicked her with his heavy shoes, got a razor, attempted to cut through her clothes, and finished by seizing hold of her head and gashing her on tho forehead.