The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-04 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1640.

NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.
I OPENING OF THE LINE THROUGHOUT.
The Public is respectfully :..firmed that, en and after
WEDNESDAY, the Ist July 1840, the TRAINS of this COM-
PANY, in connexion with those of the Loudon and Birming-
ham, Birmingham and Derby, slidland Counties, York and
North Midland, and hull and Selby, will START and
ARRIVE according to di.) following Table, until further
notice :
DEPARTURE and ARRIVAL of TRAINS BETWEEN
HULL, YORK, LEEDS, and LONDON.
Departure from Arrival at
Hull. York. Leeds. Sheffield.' Derby. London.
---- 6 15* 645 8 0 10 45 ••• 6 0'
7 20* 8 0 915 12 0 ... 6 45t
7 30* 9 0 930 10 45 110 ... 7 Ot
10* 12 30 1 0 315 445 ...
est ern 1 30t
W Mail
4 301- 6 0 8 3Cl' ). to
rmingharn.
5 30*

5 ISt 645 715 830 11 0
SUNDAY TRAINS.
7 45' ii 15 930 12 13 ~. 7 30t
- 1 30 2 45 5 Ot --
Ares'ern Mail
..--. 430 6 0 830 to
Birmingham.
5 30

51u 645 715 83) 11 II

Departure from
Llndon. Derby.

Arrival at
She ff►eld. Leeds. Y( rk.
Western Mail
8 0 915 / from
Birmingham.

- 9 30
6 0 12 45
930 330
10 8 0
$3O 315 ... •

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COMMERCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND.
—The Directors of the Commercial Bank cf England
give Notice, that arrangements are now in progress by which
they can confidently assure the Public that this Bank and it,
branches will be able to RESUME PAYMENT and BUSI-
NESS as usual in the course of a very few day.
By 0140,
JA.,JES *EWELL, Manager.
Mosley-street, Manchester, July 3d, 1840.

FURTHER OPENING-GREAI
WESTERN RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that the-LINE will be OPENEL
to the FARRINGDON ROAD STATION, on AIONDAY,
the 20th inst. The distances from that station are—to Chel-
tenham, 33 miles ; to Gloucester, 41 miles ; to Bath, 43 miles
All the present Steventon trains will proceed to and from the
Farringdon Road Station. The up passenger trains will leave
that station a quarter of an hour, and the up goods train hal.
an hour, before the Steventon time. Bills of the trains, fares.
&c., will be published on end after the 13th instant.

CHARLES A:SAUNDERS,
THOMAS OSLER, Seeretat ics.

REAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
CALL for FIFTH INSTALMENT, TEN POUNDS
per HALF-SHARE.—The DIRECTORS of the GREAT
WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY hiving resolved at
Meeting held in London, this day, to CALL, under the provi-
sions of the Act of 2d Victoria, for an INSTALMENT of
TEN POUNDS per HALF-SHARE; notice is hereby given,
that the Proprietors of Half-Shares are requested to pay on or
before the 28th July next, to any of the under-mentioned
Bankers, the sum of 101. on each of their respective Half-
Shares, viz.

London.—Messrs. Glynn, Halifax, Mills, and Co , at the
Great Western Railway Office, Prince's-street, Bank.
Bristol.—Messrs. Miles, Harford, and Co.; Messrs. Elton,
Baillie, Ames, and Co. ; Stuckey's Banking Company ; thi.
West of England and South Wales District Bank.
Liverpool.—The Bank of Liverpool..
Cheltenham. —The County of Glouler Bank.
Reading.—Messrs. J. C: and U. Sid". ds.
By order of the Board'ofDitect
TCHIIOA 131ILAESS
OAS.LSEAU Secretaries.
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Offices—Princes-street, London ; and
Corn-street, Bristol, June 30, 1840.

WRECK OF THE ROYAL GEORGE.
PORTSMOUTH DOCK YARD, JULY 3, liil4o.
Notice is horeby given that the SALE of OLD FIRE
WOOD, which is to take place at this 3ard on WEDNESDAY,
tho 15th inst., will include Ten Lots of about three fathom,
each of wood, with iron attached thereto, recovered from the
wreck of the Royal George.

DOMESTIC EDUCATION.-
At BONN, on the RHINE.
The married Principal of a respectable Establishment,
formed in 1833 on purely domestic principles of education, is
now in London, and having a FEW VACANCIES, begs to
recommend it to the attention of Parents. It will be fully
confirmed, on inquiry, that his system possesses the great
advantage of his Pupils becoming intimately acquainted with
the German and French Languages, whilst they are acquiring
a sound Classical and Mathematical Education. There are
two resident Masters, a Graduate of Cambridge and a German
Graduate; and the number of Pupas is limited strictly to
Eighteen.
Prospectuses and full particulars to be had of Mr. Hook-
ham, Library, Old Bond-street, London.

PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS

A public meeting took place yesterday at the Egyptian
,fall, Mansion House, for the purpose of expressing the
ympathy of the citizens of London with the Jews of Da-
nascus, who had lately been subjected to the most cruel
iersecutloes iu that country, and their detestation of the
trocious calumnies which had circulated against them.
At two o'clock, the hour appointed for taking the chair,
he Hall was filled in every part, and among those present
crc a large number of ladies of respectability. On the
latform we observed Alderman Thompson, M.P., J. A
emith, Esq., M. P., W. Evans, Esq., Sir Denham Nor-
•ys, M. P., J emee Morrison, Esq , M. P., \V. Atwood,
Esq., M.P., Dr. Bowring, Martin Smith, Esq., M.P.,
V rook Eaq . Sir C. Forbes, Sir Jeremiah Bryant,
Thomas Campbell, Esq., the poet, Horsley Palmer, Esq.,
meet Salunions, Esq., Samuel Gurney, Esq., Dr.
urnbull, T. A. Curtis, Esq., John Master man, Esq ,
s. 11. Larpent, Esq., G. Prevost, Esq., Thos. Deal,
Zig., John Dillon, Esq., Capt. Sheppard, John rlowden,
Esq.. Lord Howden, Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, Rev.
el. Gilbert, Sir Bruges Carnac, John Cape!, Esq., John
('ravers, Esq., and several eminent bankers and merchants
of the City, whose names we did not learn.
After a few minutes past two o'clock,
Mrr Wree came forward and read a letter from the
Lord Mayor, suiting that he was detained by important
sublic business at the Court of Aldermen, arid deeply re-
;setting his inability to take the chair, tibial his friend
Alderman Thompson kindly consented to take in his ab-
senee.
Uir the motion of Mr. \VIM the chair was taken by
Alderman Thompson amidst loud cheers.
The CHAIILMAN said they had been already informed of
he cause of the absence of th s Lord Mayor having
argent public business at the Guildhall. He had
requested that he (Mr. Thompson) would take the
;hair in order that the meeting might not be detained, and
'heir valuable time wasted.—(Hear, hear.) He had
consented to take the chair on these terms, at the same
time he was perfectly conscious of the very feeble manner
in which he should discharge that duty in comparison with
his Lordship. He was also aware how much less effect a
meeting would have, presided over by an humble individual
iike himself, as compared with the Lord Mayor. There
was this peculiar satisfaction to him, in attending the
present meeting, and presiding over it, namely, that that
large, numerous, and most respectable meeting was net
sssembled fur the purpose of discussing any question on
which there was a probability of a difference of opinion.
—( Hear, and cheers.) They were not met for any
'arty or political purposes, but they were convened
for the purpose of expressing their sympathy at the suffer-
ings, the injustice, the cruelty, and the tyrannical perse-
cutions which had been exercised towards a most respect.
able portion of their fellow creatures ; and in the full hope
and expectation that the feeling of sympathy which might
ho expressed towards their sufferings and the acts of
tyranny exercised towards them, would produce an effect
on those distant countries, and thereby avert any further
cuffering from these unfortunate persons.—( Hear and
cheers.) It was not for him, but for those who were to
take a prominent part in the meeting by proposing the
various resolutions, to go into a detail of the horrors to
which he had alluded; but he would take the liberty
of saying that so far as his information enabled
him to judge that, in his opinion, the Jews of Da-
mascus had been as honourable, as praiseworthy, and as
respectable in their conduct as .the Jews who were domi-
ciled amongst them in England.--(Hear, bear.) He
would take leave to say for them, that there was no body
of their fellow-citizens who were more ready to come for-
ward on every occasion to ail the cause of humanity, to
relieve the wants of the poor and the destitute, to instruct
and protect the orphan, and to promote literature and
science.—(Cheers.) They did not confine their bounty
to those of their own persuasion, but were just as ready to
extend their hands to the cheistian, and all other sects.
In order to show the high estimation in which they were
held, he might state that one of that body, Mr. Salomons,
lately held one of the highest offices to which he could
be elected by the citizens of London—( Hear, hear)—and
he also held the same office irs one of the most wealthy
4n d influential counties in England—the county of Kent.
He might enumerate many others of the Jewish persua-
sion who had added to the renown and the wealth of the
City of London, and he need only remind them of Roths-
child, a name which would endure as long as the City of
London itself.—( Loud cheers.) He would not treepass
further upon their time, but before the resolution was
moved, he believed Mr. Wire had a short report to read,
which would more fully explain the objects of the present
meeting.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. Wiese said in introducing the statement of the c.s,se
he could not do better than quote the words of Sir R.
Peel %stile speaking of the case of the persecuted
Jews in the House of Co.r,mons. Ile said the
circumstances were shortly these :—" It appeared that a
native of Sardinia, of the name of Thomaso, a Roman
Catholic priest, he believed of the Capuchin order, who
had lived at Damascus since 1807, disappeared about the
beginning of February of the present year, together with
his servant, under what was certainly strong suspicion of
murder. Shortly afterwards echarge was preferred against
the Jews in that city, which was really in itself almost in-
credible—that this gentleman had been murdered in order
that his blood might be made use of in the feast of unlea-
vened bread. A Jew, following the trade of a barber, a'
young man of about 20, was apprehended, the monk having
been seen at his house posting up a paper on the walls ; and
he believed that was supposed at first to have been the last
time the monk was seen, and this person was therefore appre-
hended by the authorities of Damascus. The man denied
any knowledge of the murder, but he was subjected fur
tbree days to the moat cruel tortures. At last he could
bear theca rzci•langer longer, and when life was almost
extinct he charged seven of the most wealthy inhabit-
ants of Damascus, being Jews with the commission of
the murder. Those seven persons, who, he (S:r R.
Peel) believed were persons of high character in Da-
mascus, were immediately apprehended, and subjected to
to:ments which he would not shock the feeling of the
House by mentioning. Two of them at least, he believed,
died under the infliction of those tortures, arid the
consequence was, what might have been expected, that
some of them after enduring day after day, and hour after
hour the most excessive agony, wildly confessed that they
had themselves participated in the murder, in order that
they might apply the blood of the Christian to the purpose
mentioned. A great number of other Jews bad also been
taken up. The Egyptian authorities having countenanced
the charge, and some Christian authorities also, he was
sorry to say, having lent their sanction, the consequence
was, that the greatest prejudice against the Jews had been
excited among the whole population of Damascus and the
neighbouring country. This prejudice would affect the
entire body of the Jews throughout the world, unless
some effectual step were taken to appease it.''
The affecting statement of the sufferings of the Jews at
Damascus, contained in the representation by that body to
the congregation of the same faith at Constantinople, and
transmitted by thorn to influential persons in this country,
have already been brought before the public through the
ordinary channels of information. To this account of the
atrocities suffered by the Jews, may be added a very de-
tailed, but most painful statement of the case by the Rev.
Mr. Pieritz, a clergyman, attached to the Mission of Jerus
salem, of which the following is an extract of a report
from him to the Jews of Alexandria, under date 13th
May, signed " G. M. Pieritz :"
" \Vhen we, therefore, the Mission of Jerusalem, to
which I have the honour to belong, heard of the calum-
oious charge so often brought against our nation, espe-
cially in the 13th century, and even against Christians, by
the Heathens of the first three centuries, under which the
Jews of Damascus were now suffering, and considered
the baneful effects which this report at once produced
among an ignorant and bigoted population, it was im-
mediately resolved amongst the members of our Mission,
especially our worthy and reverend Superintendent, Mr.
John Nicola) son, that I should forthwith go to Damascus,
in order, if supported by the European Consuls there, I might
give my testimony that your religion, so far from requiring
murder and the use of blood expressly forbids both, and to this
first impression to repeat in my own name the famous oath
of your illustrious Manasseh Ben Israel. Whether the
Jews had committed murder or not we could not decide at
a distance, but what we wished to de was to prevent the
crime of one, or some, being made a national crime.
" I was fixed on for this mission, as I was born a Jew,
and was trained up for the Rabbinical profession, and,
therefore, best qualified; and as a Christian, Led by no
means a friend or advocate of Rabbinism, reasonably
accepted as a witness in such a case.
" I will not describe what my feelings were when at Da-
tnascus,-1 found the whole charge against the Jews there
a fabrication, and that all means and right of legal defence
was denied them, while the most cruel tortures were em-
ployed to extort from them false confessions of guilt, which
some were cowards enough to make. You are now in pos-
session of the result of my labours at Damascus, and know
also what steps I am now taking in Alexandria and intend
to take in the case."
" The following arc the tortures to which the persecuted
peosle were exposed .
" 1. Floggeig.
" 2. Soaking persons in large tanks of cold water in
their clothes.
" 3. The head machine, by which the eyes are pressed
out of their sockets.
"4. Tying up tender parts of the body, and ordering sol-
diers to twist and horribly to dispose them into such con-
tortion that the poor sullerers grow almost mad with pain.
" 5. Standing upright for three days without being
allowed any other posture, not even to lean against the
walls; and when they would fall down, arc aroused up by
the by- standing sentinels with their bayonets.
" 6. Being dragged about in a large court by the ears
until the blood gushed out.
" 7. Having thorns driven in between their nails to the
fl ,sh of fingers and toes.
8. Having fire set to their beards till their faces aro

singed.
9. Having candles held under their noses, so that the
flame arises t.p into the nostrils.
( Signed) " G. M. PaxiTz."
These cruelties a ere committed upon seven of the most
wealthy Jews in Damascus, and hundreds of children had
b.,en put into prison.
JOHN ABEL SMITH, Esq., M. P., said, in thing to pro-
pose the first resolution, he said no one could more sensibly
feel the honour which had been conferred uopn him in
being asked to do so, for he knew that in the community
among which they were there were thousands and tens
of thousands who were most anxious to raise their voices in
favour of the persecuted Jews. It «a= a high honour which
bad been conferred upon him in being allowed to take part