In the desultory debate which ensued, Baron H. de Worms,
who appeared to triumph in the success won by the Liberals for his own faith, the Jewish, insolently suggested to Mr. Gladstone to start a new Midlothian campaign, of which the war-cry should be " Bradlaugh and blasphemy." Sir Walter Barttelot warned the Prime Minister that he had misled the country, and that the country would not forgive him ; while Mr. Baxter and Mr. Illingworth made very vigorous speeches in favour of the Bill, Mr. Baxter declaring that the ecclesiastical bodies in Scot- land were favourable to it; 'while on Thursday, Sir H. Drummond- Wolff resumed the debate, with a very dry and rather personal attack on Lord Selborne for sitting in judgment on the recent appeal case, though he was responsible for the Oaths Act of 1866, and had at least some share of responsibility for the opinion given by the present Solicitor-General that the common informer could proceed against Mr. Bradlangh for the fines imposed on any one who lad sat and voted in the House of Commons in contravention of the Oaths Act.
