MR BRADLAUGH'S EXCLUSION FROM PARLIAMENT.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4469, 2 May 1883, Page 2

MR BRADLAUGH'S EXCLUSION FROM PARLIAMENT.

A recent Home paper, treating of Mr Bradlaugh's exclusion from the House of Commons, remarks:—" On Thursday next Mr Bradiaugh will present himself at the House of Commons and claim to take his seat as the duly elected and properly qualified member for Northampton. In all likelihood hia claims will again be rejected, and that on the ground of hia being a disbeliever. There is no imputation whatever on Mr Bradlaugh's moral character. He jias never figured in the divorce Court He has not run away with his friend's wife. He did not abandon his own, and commit an adultery with the first woman he picked up in the streets. Had he been guilty of all these offences it would not have constituted a barrier to his sitting in the House of Commons. The fact of having avowedly declared his disbelief in religious dogmas, to which pro* bably, nine-tenths of the members in that assembly dissent. Not does Mr Bradlaugh refuse to comply with the rules and forms ancient and modern,'however stupid and meaningless they may be, that are preliminary to becoming a member of parliament. But may be at the very moment Mr Bradlaugh in denied admission to the House of Commons on the score of disbelief, men of evil repute, to whose names unenviable notoriety is attached— those who have openly outraged the law and ordinances of that religion, they profess to believe in, of the God they profess to worship—are admitted without one word of objection to the House of Peers !".