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of Morocco.

STA IT PED'....5d.

To this letter I have received a most gracious
reply, and, as it evidences the good feeling of the
Moorish Government, and its desire and intectior
to uphold the Imperial Edict, I believe its public& -
tion would be gratifying to the public.—l have tb e
honour to remain. Sir, yours respectfully,

MOSES I.MONTEFIORE.

PEAISE BE TO THE ONLY GOD.
There is no strength and no power but in.
God the Most High.

From him who is the servant of God, the Secretary of

State, and the noble Commander whose name from.

God is
SID SAID EL YINIING,
To the beloved, the wise, and most benevolent
Sir Moses Montefiore, Bert.

After rendering praise to God the Most High, we beg to
inform you that we have received your letter describing the
gracious reception accorded to you by the different
Monarchs, their appreciation of the object which had been
accomplished, and the advantages derived therefrom.
All mankind will give thanks to you for the readiness
and devotion to the good cause, which you manifested by
bringing the present under the special notice of the Great
Powers.

With regard to your statement respecting the affairs of
the Jewish subjects of our Lord, whom God may preserve
in strength, we have to observe that they are his subjects,
and he, may God preserve him and perpetrate his glory
and greatness, does not like that they should be pursued by
acts of injustice and torment in their unfortunate position,
because God, the Most High, forbids injustice towards
people professing our religion, and he likewise forbids in-
justice towards people professing any other religion.
Our Lord, may God grant him support, has already
commanded the inhabitant 3 of all the ether provinces of
his empire, that the Jewish subjects should be treated wit,a
kindness and strict justice, so that no wrong whatever be
done to any of them. He also rebuked them (the inhabi-
tant of all the other provinces in his empire) by the power
and strength of God, for the injustice they have done.
We have not forgotten your polite attention, and the
kindness evinced in your letter; we shall never fail to
watch rigorously the proceedings of the officials of the pro-
vinces of our Lord whom God may preserve.

Completed in the month of Moharam, in the
year 12S1 of the Hidjrah.

Newspaper Press Fund,

A general meeting of the members and subscribers to
this institution was held on Saturday at the Freemasons'
Tavern, to receive a report and balance-sheet from the com-
mittee of management. Lord Houghton, president cf fae
society, occupied the chair.

Lard HOUGHTON, in opening the proceedings, said the: re
was a good deal of misapprehension and unnecessary fea rs
as to the society exercising any improper influence, eitl: cr
politically or socially. The fund was not meant in any <le.
gree to apply merely to Parliamentary reporters, or even to
reporters of any kind. Of course those gentlemen would
be an element in the composition of the society, but they
only took their due share in it; therefore it seemed that any
fear that through the means of the Parliamentary reporters
any partiality or injustice should ensue was a perfectly,-
chimerical supposition.
Mr. H. G. WARREN, hon. sec,, then read the report and
the balance sheet. They were both of an exceedingly sa,tis -
factory and encouraging character. The balance tshe,3t
showed that the total receipts of subscriptions and donations
since June of last year amounted to £1,566 13s, the whole
of which has been received without deduction for collectors'
commission, and that after paying every expense conse-
quent on the festival and the ordinary office outlay, there
remained to the credit of the fund a balance of £1,346 12a
Bd, of which sum £l,OOO is on deposit with the bankers of
the fund at 5 per cent.

Resolutions thanking the noble president, the vice-pre-
sidents, the committee, and Mr Warren, hon. sec., for their
several good services, were carried with acclamation, and
the meeting separated.

LORD CARLISLE.—It is very:widely rumoured in
London that the Earl of Carlisle is likely to yield
to the opinion of his medical advisers, by withdrawing for a
time from the fatigues of public life. In that case it is said
that the Duke of Devonshire will probably be his SUCCOSSC r
in the viceroyalty. In the contingency of his grace declinir g
the Marquis of Lansdowne and Earl of BeKiborough a re
talked of as probable aspirants for the office.—Dublin Eva a.
ing Mail.

SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday.—Tho folio win g steat a-
ships will sail hence during the ensuing week :
The Tasmania, Capt. T. W. Sawyer, on Tuesday, with the
West India, Pacific, and Mexican snails ; the Hansa, Capt.
H. J. von Santen, on Wednesday, with mails for New York
—the Poonah, Captain J. S. Field, on Thursday, with thes
Calcutta and China mails—and the Cambrian, k;aptain
Ladds, on Friday, for Ase,nsion, St. Helena, and the Cn.po
of Good Hope, calling at Plymouth for the mails. The Ge,:-
mania, Capt. H. Ehlers, is expected to arrive on Wedn( s-
day, with the mails of the 29d July from New York-4 he
Magdalena, Capt. R. Woodward, on Thursday, with the
Brazil and River Plate Mails—the Delhi, Captain J. R.
Kellock, on Friday evening, with the Calcutta and China
mails—and the Massilia, Capt. J. C. A:mond, on the Bth
inst., with the Bombay mails.
How NOT TO Do IT.—We are told that the troops
just arrived from Madras on board the Hornet—a
wing of the 74th Highlanders, and detachments of invalids
and discharged soldiers—ran short of provisions, and were
actually on half rations for the latter part of the voyage.
We are also told that, although the ship was at Spithead,
and Netley Hospital, for which, the invalids were destined,
almost within sight, they were obliged to be sent round to
the Thames, and back again by railway from Gravesend,
owing to the terms upon which the Hornet was chartered.
The voyage was undoubtedly protracted—nearly four months
and a half from Madras to England, but not to au extant
which can excuse such a short supply of provisions as in-
volves the placing of men on half rations. The blunder re-
specting the poor invalds was cruel in its consequences and
inexcusable tha origin. Parliament is no longer sitting, but
surely it is not too much to expect that some steps will be
taken to punish those who are in fault, and prevent the re-
currence of blunders that may have a fatal, as they in the
present instance have had a cruel, influence upon the health
of her Majesty's troops.—Army and Navy Gazette.

ASSESSED TAXES.—The assessed taxes continue
more or less to increase in productiveness. The
house-tax produced £841,679 in the financial year ending
with March 1863, and 898,274 in the financial year ending
with March, 1864. The tax on servants rose from £203,893
to £208,830; on carriages from £340,106 to £350,833; on
dogs from £199,965 to £205,329 ; on armorial bearings from
£58,359 to £60,182. The tax on hair-powder unfortunately
brings in less and less every year, and has now fallen to
1,000 guineas,

A Smr's CREW POISONED.—On Saturday ins
telligence was received that the officers and crew of
the bark Ouse, cf Sunderland, which lately sailed from the
Tyne, bound to Alexandria, had been maliciously poisoned
by the cook. The particulars which have arrived are very
scanty, but it appears that the vessel had a crew of 10 sea-
men. A west countryman, who acted as cook, from a feel-
ing of revenge for some grievance, conceived the idea of
poisoning the entire crew, He raised poison among the
men's daily rations, and shortly after partaking of them all
hands became ill. The mate, a seaman named Alder,
Burton Brown, a young man pilot, and another sailor
named James Doyle, died from the effects of the poison.
The remainder of the crew sufficiently recovered to navigate
the vessel to San Roque, near Gibraltar, whence the master
has telegraphed to the owner of the vessel, Mr Thurlbeck,
ith given
murder.
intorder .
the
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of Sunderland, informing him of the occurrence. Upon
sel arriving
and charged
theort
todytheveosf theauthorities,
are investigating the affair. In the meantime the vessel is
detained.
fiNOVEL DUEL.—A couple of miners at Washee
fought a duel recently with pickaxes for weapons. They
were placed a rod apart, and advanced at a given signal.
One hurled his pick at his antagonist and buried it in his
eye. The wounded man lingered some days in horrid agony.
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THE FENS OF LINCOLNSHIRE.—The harvest has
commenced. The wheat crops are generally good ; oats thin;
beans and peas are an average crop ; carrots, potatoes, and
turnips failing from the continued dry weather, Hay crops
thin, grass keeping very scarce. There appears to be a
great quantity of carrots and potatoes planted this year; no
blight or disease as yet appears.
AlivSesNAinKßl\l—ercle'rh,
states that tOhEerewoman
West,o?t
ecan.Laodcaki;
who has for four years past been afflicted with a singular
difficulty in her stomach. The compleint commenced about
four years since with a tickling and uneasy sensation about
the pit of the stomach. The sensation has continued to in-
crease in severity. A few months since it became the opinion
of the physicians that the increasing difficulty had been the
growth of a snake in the stomach. It has grown so large
now that it distends the stomach as to produce a bunch upon
the outside no large as a quart bowl, Upcn pressing this
bunch with the hand the reptile recoils and produces great
distress in the stomach. When fish or meat is being cooked
in the room, if the snake is not satisfied with food it rises
up in the throat, producing strangulation. When desiring
food, it manifests it by rising up in the throat. Physicians
can see no way in which the snake can be removed without
certain death to the woman. She is about 35 years of age.
DOG FISH.—On Thursday night upwards of
16,000 dog fish were caught by the men belonging to the
Victoria, of Plymouth, not far fret the psat.