The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-19 00:00:00

MIL DISRAELI AND JEWISH DI

Among other debts which the parliament, now on
its death-bed, leaves to be paid by its successor is
that of justice to our Jewish fellow-citizens who
retain their ancient faith. If we advert to the
relation in which the CHANCELLOR of the Ea
CHEQUER stands to the Jewish claimants for
justice, it is for a more worthy purpose than
merely giving utterance to smart and stinging sen-
tences. It is for the purpose of pointing out to the
young who may be entering on a political career the
inconceivable humiliations which all men of genius
must experience who stoop to be the instruments of a
Proud, bigoted, narrow'minded faction. Mr.
DISRAELI IS indispensable to his party ; both he
and they know it. Mr. Dlsasett prides himself
on his Jewish descent. If there is one opinion
in which we are entitled to believe Mr. DISRAELI
einem, it is that of the excellence of the Hebrew
race; he has obtruded this opinion in his biography
of Lord GEORGE BENTINCE, as well as in works of
fiction; he has voted for the admission of the Jews to
parliament. But Mr. DISRAELI must tamely endure
when his colleagues and his faction spit on the gabar-
dines of his race, showing by the gusto with which
they do it, how they would treat himself if they
iced. The faction make themselves amends for the
mortifying consciousness that to Mr. Dlsatam they
are mainly indebted for being where they were, by
treating his kinsmen contumeliously, looking at him
the while with a malicious side-long sneer.
The tenacity with which little minds cling to the
privilep of persecuting is wonderful. MOORE de-
scribes his ineffable Fadladeen as killing a kind of
'mill lizard when he could get no heretics to torture.
Di/Enters, catholic have in turn been rescued from
the persecuting propensities of the tories, and the
tories now vent upon the Jews, as far as they safely
may, the whole of their unextinguishable love of
persecution.
The length of time for which our bigots havo
been allowed to insult and tease the Jews, if not
seriously to harm them, is not creditable to the
nation. Two hundred years ago CROMWELL tried to
do justice to the Jews; he even attempted to bribe
their opponents to swallow this unpalatable act of
justice by dressing it with the sauce piguante of fana-
tical absurdity; but in vain. Soon after the begin-
ning of last century another attempt to eman-
cipate the Jews was defeated by aids of the same
mobs who cheered SACHEVERELL and High Church.
And even now, year after year, our INOLISES are
able to procrastinate the extirpation from our statute
book of the shabby laws which by a side-wind deny
all of Jewish descent, who adhere to the faith of their
fathers, their rights as British citizens.
Will matters be mended in the new parliament P
It may be doubted. The Jews are comparatively
i few n number, and it would be hopeless to try to
make their emancipation a hustings question. On
' this point members will be returned unpledged. In
the new parliament those who desire to see the Jews
righted will have nothing to rely upon but the com-
mon sense and equity of members, and perhaps the
chance of some complication of parties that may
make it worth the while of some leading politicians
to do for once in their lives a just and generous
action. 'rho cause is too good a one to be given
up in despair. But the Jews and their friends
have nothing for it but to keep their purpose steadily
in view, and to bo on the alert to seize every occasion
that ogees to promote it.

SUDDEN DEATH OF A MANUFACTURES.—It in with
feelings caingrot that we record the sudden death of Mr.
James Fielden, of the firm of Fielden, Brothers, of Water-
' side, brother of tho late Mr. }laden, M.P. On Sunday
night he went to bed in good health, but was found dead a
short time after by his wife. lie was much respected by
the workpeople, and his lose will be grimily Isoisotod.
He died from disease of the heart.—Mosicheekr Courier.