§ LORD JOHN RUSSELLI may take this opportunity to state the course which I propose to take in reference to the Oaths 443 Bill, which stands for consideration on Monday next. My right hon. Friend the Secretary for the Home Department (Mr. Walpole) asked me a few days ago whether I meant to introduce any Amendments upon the bringing up of the Report, and I then said I should move the insertion of some additional words in the preamble of the Bill. I have not, however, been enabled to come to any satisfactory conclusion with respect to those words, and I shall therefore abstain from making in the preamble the alteration to which I adverted. The only Amendment, I may add, which I intend to submit to the notice of the House is, that at the end of the oath, page 2 line 10, the words "directly or indirectly" should be omitted.
§ Mr. COGANwas understood to say that it was the intention of an hon. and learned Friend of his (Mr. Deasy) to move an Amendment to the Bill similar to that which he had brought forward last year, embodying the principle that a uniform oath should be taken by Members of the Roman Catholic as well as of other religious persuasions.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ House at rising to adjourn till Monday next.