The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, ISURSDAY EVENING, TUNE 18, 1868.

Minister of Finance, Count °ARNIM. the son of a
Lithuanian Jew. From Russia he repaired to
Spain, and saw at Madrid, in the Spanish Minister,
Senor Mxtrnimeat, the son of a Nuevo Chris-
tiano, a Jew of Arragon. Fraiii Madrid Rs
sped to Paris, and in Marshal Bout?,
the President of the Council, he recognised
the eon of a French Jew. Thence to Berlin,
and when the Prussian Minister entered the
Cabinet, lo and behold ! Count ARNIM, a Prussian
Jew. To be able to add MR name to the list of
the intellectual triumphs of a higher over a lower
organisation—of a pure race of the Caucasus over
the mongrel breeds of the North—bas been his
aspiration through life.
In prophetic vision, Mr. DISRAELI doubtless
beholds the day when some future historian
of his people shall narrate how, in 1868, the
PRIME MINISTER of England was Nuevo Chris-
tiano, the son of a Jewish man of letters; and
how, by the force of Eastern suppleness axd
keenness, he led the fat and stagnant-wittod
squires of England. Wo believe that Mr.
DISRAELI'S patriotism is sincere, but it is the
patriotism of • Jew rather than an Englishman.
The home of his affections is in Palestine.
The assumption by him of the political
Protestantism of the old English type is a gro-.
torque incongruity. Mr. DISRAELI narrates in
" Coningsby " how during the persecution of the
Jews in Spain, many Hebrews conformed to Roman
Catholicism. The Sidonias became Nuevos Chris-
linnet, ; and their family gave several prelates,
an Archbishop of Toledo, and a Grand In-
quisitor to the Church—all of whom, as
Mr. DURUAEu remarks, with evident pride, secretly
adhered to the ancient faith and ceremonies of
their race--a belief in the unity of Gon of Tetuan,
and the rites and observances of the laws of Moses.
" No sooner," says the author of " Coningsby,"
" was Sidonia established, than ho professed
" Judaism, which TOIMIIRMADA flattered him-
" self that he had drained out of the veins of his
" family more than throe centuries ago. He sent
" over, also, for several of his brethren, who
" were as good Catholics in Spain as Fee-
" DINAND and IsAnELLA could have desired, but who
" made an offering in the synagogue for their
" safe voyageon their arrival in England." Doubt-
less, if the Sidonias bad boon English. and not
Spanish Jews, they would have been Archbishops
of Canterbury and Prime Ministers of the purest
Protestant type. The Marrano inn-keeper of
" The Spanish Gipsy," the Jew by birth but
Catholic by profession,

Warranted Christian, else how kocp an inn,
Which calling asks true faith?
is a proof that there were Crypto-Hebrews in the
taverns as well as in the cathedrals and palaces of
Spain.
It may be an improper scepticism, but we have
been unable to read Mr. DISRAELI'S Protestant
manifesto to the Merchant Taylors without think-
ing of the Marrano inn-keeper in Geosos Emox's
poem, and of the Sidonias who were Arch-
bishops of Toledo and Grand Inquisitors. We
picture to ourselves some future offering in
the Synagogue. Mr. DISRAELI'S protestantism is
too protestant. Like the lady in hamlet he
protests too much. We feel that it would be as
easy for the accomplished actor to use, in appro-
priate scenery and costume, language which would
admirably suit the Archbishop of Toledo or the
Grand Inquisitor of Spain if PaoviDzatca had
cast that part to Mr. DISRAELI in the drama of
history. Regarded in any other light than
that of an histrionic display, Mr. Dutaxem's per-
formance of yesterday evening does not seem to
us to deserve the applause which in that view it is
certainly entitled. He appears to have absorbed, in
his own person, the spirits and character of the
late Lord BUTE, the late Lord GEORGE GORDON,
and the late Faaaous O'Cortiroa. His speech was
pure MURPHYD3II, translated into the language and
adapted to the tastes of the upper classes. Mr.
GATHORNE HARDY ought to look after the Pro-
t, scant lecturer of the Merchant Taylors' Hall
with as much care as after the Protestant lecturer
of B!rmingham and Preston. There is no doubt
which of the two is the more dangerous incendiary.
The destruction of the Supremacy of the Crown,
the abolition of religious liberty, the dis-
couragement of Protestantism over Europe, the
subversion of property, beginning with the pro-
perty of the Merchant Taylors, for which Mr. Dts-
%%ELT, should Mr. GLADSTONE take office, would
not give more than a year's purchase—these are a
few of the calamities which Mr. DISRAEL/ sees
pending over the world. Against them there are
three safe-guards ! PRovmmes, Mr. DISRAELI,
and the residuum. The now constituencies will be
required, as their first political act, to decide
whether they will subvert or whether they will
sustain the constitution of their country—by which
Mr. DISRAELI means the Irish Established Church.
" I confess (says the PRIME MINISTER) that
" I cannot resist recognising the hand of
" PRovthntres in this awful dispensation. I
" cannot believe that it is through mere chance
" and the casual concurrence of every-day affairs
" that England, with its increased franchisee, is
" called upon to decide whether it will destroy or
" uphold its venerable constitution." Well done,
VIVIAN GREY t. The Marrano PREMIER exceeds
himself in this electioneering outburst of faith in
Pnovrroncez and the residuum. Mr. DISRAELI beats
Mr. PERCIVAL hollow. Absorbed in admiration,
we :have no words left in which to follow Mr.
Dmanzu in his eulogy of the administrative ef-
ficiency of a government which has borrowed its
Reform Bills from Mr. Mawr, its finance from
Mr. GLADSTONE, and its foreign policy from Mr.
COBDEN, and which in short, lives on the leavings
of its predecessors.

those of the general public' and the poor are
those to whose discretion sanitary improvements
are left ; that the Metropolitan Board of Works
is " e clumsy creation," whose constitution muse
be modified ; and that the 4,000 peewee at
Omani engaged the locak gostenniC
London, involve It in vssit osponse,.
enormous litigation, remained, praotidelp,
unoballer.god by the opponents of the B
su al.
the talk ended as it began, sad was pri
useful in eliciting the opinions of
members. By " passing the Reform Bin," com-
menced Mr. MILL, " the House has given • gage
" that it will inquire into and revise MI keit MO-
" tutions ;" and to those eager for sustropsiallan
reform, this will seem the most encouraging pas-
sage in the debate.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

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TATUM BANQUET.
lON it almost incredible it even the
Xercliant Upton slwia be deceived by asetrtiemt such as
lir. Newell made ki them last night. his wtiolly an-
tru tba eitibbsece of the Irish Chumb,, as an
a*ablisbtncnt, mageota authority with We principle of
religion ; that WOW legislation will be. made im-
possible if dieestabliehment be accomplished, and

the supremacy of the Crown be destroyed. Mr.
think bee onocated imaginary evils and threatens
Kind, a And of inoligion on the one hand, and the ca-
giest of unrestrained religious fanaticism on the other, as
the oostemporary results of an act of justice which has
bon performed elsewhere without retailing any such eon-
41st=be should magnify hie colleagues may be
; but there ate some things which compel our
cearrimporary to Mk "oar Catalina" how far he arca
abase our pelisses. Mr. Disraeli said last night that
Shan Lord MOW' administration seconded to office
they found England regarded with suspicion and
distrust in every foreign court and eabinet. Now,
a it, or is it not, true that when Lord Del* was forming
his government he asked Lord Clarendon to retain the
seals of the Foreign-office? Lord Derby made some such
Aitemeet at the time, and it may be accepted as certain,
that the offer was not made without Mr. Disraeli's con-

eurrence, yet Mr. Disraeli would now have the *mid
ham that Load Atwood= mai* us an object of sus-
picion and distrusiabroad. Th
_is_something in state-
ments like this as odious bo the Imolai sense as otteasive to
weary Principle at Mite and *gement. They are not
rarely disrogarded—they emits ressabasat and indi3-
asttioo.

rat CRUNCH HAIM.

The report of the annual meeting of the Church Union
shows, says the Deily Newe, that the " noble swelling
spirits of this isle," are not all absorbed in the fortunes of
Lady Elizabeth and The Earl, end that young liberals and
young tories of high degree are disporting themselves in a
new field of volunteer ecclesiastical warfare. Nothing can
be more innocent or more worthy of respect than
this emulation of the clerical party in Prance.
It seems, indeed; that "the party of catholic truth" is
not quite at unity with itself. The Rev. Dr. Lee objected
to a paragraph in the report which repudiated lay politics,
and being interrupted in reading it to the mooting, ho
iemarked that "if it were after dinnerhe could understand
the gentleman's interruption." The speech of Dr. Fumy
seems to justify in some degree Dr. Lee's honest objection
to the repudiation of all 'political motives by the Church
Union, although it dealt with the political question of the
Irish Church in characteristic ecclesiastical fashion, as one
merely of the disposal of so much surplus revenue. There
is nothing in all this that is not as innocuous as a game of
clerical croquet. It hurts nobody ; it promotes universal
flirtation. And we heartily acknowledge that it is far
better that young laymen of distinction shook' amuse their
leisure with this dilettante erueading than, like the young
French nobles of 1832, in revenging themselves on a liberal
age by inventing the cancan.

FOREIGN NEWS.

(TIIIB DAY.k
THB ASIIIASSINATION OF PRINCE •
MICHAEL.
Tie Newt Free Press of Vienna publishes the fol-
lowing dr4sils oonnooted with the assassination of
Prince lib/had :
The attack on the life of the Prinoe degenerated into a
complete butchery. Whilst the Prince, struck by throe
balls, win; lying lifeless on the ground. one of the assas-
sins throw himself on the body and plunged
a knife into it several times. It was mutilated
and hacked, and the nose was literally cut off. The
body has three gaping wounds, the arm and leg are
pierced, and the artioulations of the hand so injured that
the glove which be wore had to be cut from end to end
to draw it off. The wounds in the face produced a
frightful picture. What gives a more terrible aspect to
the murder is the report that the poignards and knives
were poisoned. The murderers fired sixteen shots.

(ig/OVOU mersz's kozercrr.)
PRINCE NAPOLEON IN HUNGARY.
PREITH, Jinni IT, Bvserixo.

In to-days silting of the Lower House, the
bills on indirect taxes were adopted in principle.
Prince Napoleon was preeent,at the sitting.
The Prince dines to-day with Count Andrew.
He leaves on Friday for Mesoe-Hegyes, and from
thence proceeds to Constantinople.
The recruiting this year talus place on the old
syatem.