The Maryport Advertiser March 10, 1882 Aggressive Sir S. NORTHCOTE

Aggressive Sir S. NORTHCOTE

The Maryport Advertiser - March 10, 1882

AGGRESSIVE SIR S. NORTHCOTE.    The increasingly aggressive action of Sir S.  NORTHCOTE in the BRADLAUGH matter, and the support which, by a narrow majority,  the house of Commons has been so ill advised as to accord to him, have inspired  Lord REDESDALE with the desire for adventure. The result is that he has actually  brought in a bill to the Upper House, the object of which is to render  it  incumbent upon every member of either House of Parliament before taking the oath  of allegiance to make a solemn declaration of belief in the Deity.    We may fairly doubt whether, even after the  exhibitions of their temper lately afforded by Lord SALISBURY and Lord CAIRNS,  those peers will be willing to back up the noble Chairman of Committees in  establishing the inquisition which he has had the hardihood to propose. Even  they cannot forget entirely that we are living in the nineteenth century, and  yet Lord REDESDALE's bill is, after all, nothing but the perfectly logical  outcome of the proceedings of the majority of the House of Commons.    Lord REDESDALE merely proposes to embody in a  general statute the principle on which they have illegally acted in a particular  case. His proposal, although so hopless that its introduction is almost an act  of profanity, throws a not very encouraging light on the prospects of an  Affirmation Bill in the House of Lords.

 

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