The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-19 00:00:00

THE REPLY OF THE JEWS.

Brothers,—Our common foe having exhausted all the
means to crush the nation, has again recourse to the old
device of Muscovite-Austrian policy, " divide and impsra,"
divide and govern, and what bayonets, musket balls, the
profanation of temples, what the dungeons, Siberia, and the
rope could not accomplish, he expects to attain by provoking
Gallician massacres and a crusade against the Jews. And
behold the wolf puts on the lamb's skin, the tyrant pro-
claims himself a protector of the oppressed. But whoever
can fail to perceive the claw under the treacherous dis-
guise, whoever does not anticipate treason lurking be-
hind it.
The Muscovite Government who do not admit the Jews
even now into their dominions, who at a not more remote
period than the reign of Nicholas, were baptizing children
forcibly torn away from their parents, this Governmen
rests now their appeal to us (published in No. 202, of their
official organ the Dziennik Powszechny), upon the wrongs
perpetrated upon us in Poland, in the country which
pressed us to her bosom at the time when everywhere else
we were persecuted by fire and sword. They dole out to
us some immunities, but these are not conceived in the
noble spirit of Casimir the Great, whose purpose it was to
alleviate our fate and incorporate us in mind and feeling
into the Polish nation, but they are merely intended to
attach us to them to separate us from the rest of the nation
and again evoke against us hate and persecution, The
Muscovite Government hope by these means to shake the
brotherly feeling which puts them into such awe and fury,
and to sow between us mutual mistrust, of which they
would not fail to take advantage. But their efforts are of
no avail.

Cur stay of eight centuries on the soil of Poland turned
us into her children. Her history is our history, her fate
is our fate, and her foe our foe. The esteem and affection
of our fellow-brethren is dearer to us than any material ad-
vantages soever. We prefer a clear conscience and an un-
blemished character, which enable us to look boldly into
every fellow-countryman's face, to all the comforts of life.
The base temptations of the Muscovite shall never deafen
into us the mighty voice of the prophet Jeremiah calling to
the Jews carried away captives from Palestine : " Seek the
peace of the city-whither I have caused you to be carried
away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it, for in the
peace thereof shall ye have peace."—Jerem, xxix, 7.
Do not withdraw therefore from us your hand brethren ;
strengthen the holy knot of brotherho.d tied on the graves
of the victims of the 28th of February and the 8(h of April,
and this last act of despair of the foe will be like all the
former ones, of no avail.

THE POLES or .JEWISH PERSUASION.

STANDARD THEATBE.

The late Mr. Sheridan Knowles's chef d'ceuvre, the clas-
sical play of "Virginius," was produced at this theatre last
evening, for the purpose of introducing to the metropolitan
public Mr. Henry V,:ndenhoff (son of the late eminent
tragedian, Mr. John Vandenhoft), in the character of the
noble Roman father. Mr. H. Vandenhoff's conception and
impersonation of this difficult part was characterised
throughout by that well-studied and delicately-classic style
which so pre-eminently distinguished his lamented pro-
genitor. Totally avoiding "clap-trap" and servile imita-
,
tlr.tio v afi gave, in a ,
n, foarns.dvehnihchn part like Virginius affords ample scope
artistic, and elocu-
tionary point of view, a masterly delineation, and one which
ought to elevate him to a high position on the London stage.
energetic; ansdulNileri, Norman, as
Mr. Drayton was a wane and passionate Icilius, albeit
somewhat overweeningly
athi,ea.roulihissani‘dianrudigegteedreDs was -fl' 'ently impres-
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The other characters were sustained
with average ability. The house was well attended,