LORD REDESALE.

Lord REDESALE means to preserve with his bill for preventing the admission of atheists to Parliament. We are heartily glad to hear it; and we sincerely trust that the measure will reach the House of Commons, where Mr. NEWDEGATE will doubtless be prepared to take charge of it.

We shall have an opportunity of testing the sincerity of the gentlemen who profess to have been animated simply by purely religious zeal in their opposition to Mr. BRADLAUGH. But at the same time it is a pity that Lord REDESALE, in his attempt to purge Parliament, should have confined himself to the exclusion of those who do not believe in the existence of the Divine Being.

It has, unhappily, been proved that men may yet entertain that belief and be liars, murderers, hypocrites, and profligates. Seeing that he proposes to set up a new theological censorship, we think that we are entitled to ask Lord REDESALE to go a little further, and to include in his list of those who are incapable of sitting in the House of Parliament all, let us say, who have led notoriously profligate lives, or who have figured in a discreditable capacity in the Divorce Court.

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