26 JUNE 1880, Page 1
Mr. Bright, in a very eloquent speech, in which he
re• marked on the hollowness with which the oath was often taken, made a passionate appeal for liberty of conscience, and declaring that the working-classes attached as little value to the dogmas of Christianity as "the upper classes did to the practice of that religion," protested against the attempt to create a new religious test which would be no help to religion ; and Mr. Stanhope closed the debate by an indignant protest against Mr. Bright's want of charity and Christianity in charging hollow practices on Members of the House, and indifference to practical Christianity on the upper classes of England.
