The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-14 00:00:00

The Mission of Sir Moses Montefiore.

A large and influential meeting was held at the London
Tavern yesterday, at 1 o'clock, for the purpose of expressing
its sense of the great services which had been rendered to
the cause of civilisation and humanity by the mission which
Sir Moses Montefiore had recently undertaken to Morocco.
The chair was taken by Mr Alderman Salomons, and among
those present were Mr G. J. Goschen, M.P., Mr Samuel
Gurney, M.P., Sir A. de Rothschild, Sir F. H. Goldsmid,
Rev. Dr N. M. Adair, Sir M. Farquhar,Bart., M.P., Messrs
John Abel Smith, M.P., W. Wm. Gladstone, B. Hankey,
Thomas Masterman, Wolverley Attwood, G. Barnett,
Joseph M. Monteflore, Jacob Waley, M.A., Rev. H. Marks,
Richard Hoare, Charles Barnett, Hugh Smith, W. J. Hall,
Horatio Montefiore, Aaron Goldsmid, John Irving, Lau-
rence Levy, Alfred. Goldsmid, Sampson Lucas, Julian
Goldsmid, Saul Isaac, Ernest Hart, Louis Cohen, Eliot
Macnaughten, W. John Hall, John Pearce, Alfred Davie,
J. Q. Henriques, Sol. Schloss, S, H. Gedefroi, the Rev. A.
L. Green, D. S. Sasson, Abraham Mocatta, D. Q. Hen-
riques, L, Gideon, Samuel Isaac, J. Sebag, J. J. Solo-
mon, &C.

Letters of apology were received from Sir James Duke,
M.P., Mr Crawford, M.P., Mr Alderman Phillips, tco..
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, expressed
his pleasure in presiding on such an occasion, when they
were met to do honour to so good and benevolent a man.
Sir A. DE ROTHSCHILD proposed " That Sir Moses Mon-
teilore, by his voluntary zeal in undertaking, at an advanced
age, a laborious journey for the purpose of remonstrating
agsinat the cruelties inflicted on the Jews at Tangiers and
Slifil, and by his successful representations to the Emperor
of Morocco on behalf of all the non-Mahometan subjects of
the Emperor, has rendered an important service to the cause
of humanity, and that Sir Moses Monteflore has thus added
to the many claims he has already established ou the grati-
tude and admiration of theJ °wish communityand of his fellow-
citizens tut largo." As he was so nearly related to Sir Moses
Montefioro, it gave him the very greatest pleasure to propose
this resolution.
Mr. GLADSTONII seconded it.

Sir F. GOLDSMID moved—" That an address expressive
of these sentiments be presented on behalf of this meeting
to Sir Moses Montefiore." (Hear, hear.) He would ask
the meeting to look at the matter which had been accom-
plished by Sir Moses Montefiore in comparison with a some-
what similar object which was accomplished two centuries
ago. He referred to a remarkable intervention which was
undertaken in the 17th century by Oliver Cromwell, on be-
half of the persecuted Protestants in Piedmont. Milton,
the Latin Secretary to Cromwell, thus addressed the Duke
of Savoy—" Linked together with its distant brethren, not
only by the same type of humanity, but by joint communion
of the same religion." Milton went on to say—" What-
over had been decreed to their disturbance on account of
religion should be abrogated, and that an end should be put
to their oppressions. That such a multitude of our inno-
cent brethren may not miserably perish for want of succour
and assistance. A free pardon, and also such privileges
and graces as cannot but give a sufficient evidence of the
great respect borne both to his person and mediation." Buc
there was another point in Cromwell's letter. While it
was perfectly " rovectful," ho did mention that if the
intercession were not granted, there might be seine " pos-
sible recourse to other measures." (A. laugh.) It was a
striking characteristic of the present day that no possible
force could be employed is backing up the prayer of Sir
Hosea Montefiore. He would direct their attention to
what the Chancellor of the Exchequer had said respecting
"moral support." "Now, I grant that what is called moral
support, as between country and country, is in no inconsider-
able degree a modern idea ; but it is one of those modern
ideas to which, as it appears to me, we ought to attach the
greatest price and the greatest value. Moral support is a
real power in Europe." He (Sir F. Goldsmid) thought
that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose brother
they had the pleasure of seeing present, might now say it
was a real power not only in Europe, but in Africa also.
(Cheers.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer went on to ob-
serve : " Genuine public opinion—not the opinion of any
one State—is a real power in Europe, and it is a true sign of
advancing civilisation and of progress in the affairs of men
—not a visionary but a real and substantial progress—when
you find that you have passed beyond lhe region in which
no real influence was known, except that of sword clashing
against sword, and entered into that domain in which the