The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-23 00:00:00

THE PERSECUTED JEWS IN

THE EAST.

The Lord Mayor, who 5o promptly cAlli.!a, and so
warmly promoted the objects of the great meeting at
the Mansion-house, on the subject of the persecution
of the Jews at Damascus, has received the foltoWing
communication in answer to the letters 4ti's Lordship
addressed to the several Ambassadors 1:a London con-
taining copies of the resolution. passed at that meet-.
mg

" The Hanoverian Minister presents his compliments
to the Right 'Honourable the Lord Mayor of the o.ty
of Lend-,,,, and will forward without delay- 'nis
verr.ment the important and highly praiseworthy reso-
.utions passed at the meeting of the merchants, bank-
ers, and traders of the City of London of the V:
inst., on the subject of the persecution of 11,9 JciA.,s• in
the East, the Lord Mayor had sent to him in -July 8."
"44, Grosvenor-place, July 9,184 Q„"
Foreign-ofEce, July 9, 1840.
My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your Lordship'', letter of yesterday't date,
enclosing a copy of certain resolutions passed at a
meeting of the merchants, hankers, traders, and others
of the City of Lyndon, held in the Egyptian Hall, in
the Mansion-liouse, on the 3d instant, upon the sub-
ject of the persecution to which the Jews have recently
been exposed in the East, and I beg leave to return
to your Lordship my thanks for this communication,
and to say how much gratified I feel at the manner in
whicoa my name is mentioned in the 4th resolution.
I have the honour to be, my Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant,

PALMERSTON.
To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor.
79, South Audley-street.
The undersigned, his Saxon Majesty's Minister resi
dent, has the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the
note dated July 8, by which the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor has done him the honour to transmit to him a
copy of the resolutions passed at the great public meet-
ing of the merchants, bankers, and traders of the city of
London, held on the 3d day of Jtkly, on the subject of
the persecution of the Jews in the East.

In submitting to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor his
best thanks for this interesting communication, the un-
dersigned begs to assure his Lordship that he will have
great pleasure in forwarding it to his Government as
desired.

The undersigned avails himself of this opportunity to
have the honour to offer to the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor the assurances of his highest esteem and consi-
deration.

R. DE GERSDORFF.
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor.
?-ortuguese Legation, July 11, 1840.
My L.srd—l received yesterday the letter which your
Lordship did me the honour to address, enclosing a
copy of resolutions unanimously passed at a great public
meeting of the merchants, bankers, and traders of the
City of London, presided over by your Lordship, on
the subject of the, persecution of the Jews in the East.
Complying with particular pleasure to the wishes
contained in your Lordship's letter, I will lose no time in
forwarding by this day's post to my Government the said
resolutions, and at the same time I do not hesitate in
assuring your Lordship that the Government of her
Most Faithful Majesty will view with the deepest in-
terest the appeal that is made to it, and will not fail, as
far as it is able, in joining the other Powers to obtain
)ustice and protection for the persecuted Jews in the
East.

With sentiments of the greatest respect, and of the
highest consideration, I have the honour to be, my
Lord, your Lordship's most obedient and humble
servant,

MONCORVO.
The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, &c.
32, Upper Grosvenor-street, July 13, 1840.
. _

My Lord-1 have the honour to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your letter of the Bth inst., enclosing to me for
the purpose of transmission to my Government, the re-
solutions adopted at the meeting of the merchants,
bankers, traders, and others of the City of London,
held at the Egyptian Hall on the 3d of July, in
relation to the cruelties practised towards the Jews in
the East.

I beg to assure your Lordship that I will take an
early opportunity of transmitting those resolutions to the
United States ; and I cannot better do justice to my
own feelings, or those which I feel confident will be en-
tertained by the President and people of the United
States, in relation to the subject of these resolutions,
than to seize the occasion of expressing my deep sym-
pathy in favour of these oppressed people.
I have the honour to be,
Your Lordship's obedient servant,
A. STEVENSON.
General Alava presents his compliments to the Lord
Mayor of London, and has the honour to inform him
that he will lose no time in transmitting to the Spanish
Government a copy of the resolutions unanimously
passed at the great public meeting on the subjet of the
persecution of the Jews in the East.
General Alava is persuaded that they will not fail to
excite the sympathy and the deepest interest of her
Catholic Majesty's Government.
81, Harley-street, 13th July, 1840.
1, Bryanstone-square, 16th July, 1840.
My Lord-1 have received your Lordship's letter of
the Bth instant, inclosing a copy of the resolutions
passed at a meeting held in the city of London, on the
subject of the persecution of the Jews in Syria.
In accordance to your Lordship's wishes, 1 shall
transmit the said document to the Sublime Porte.—l
have the honour to be, _

Your Lordship's most obedient servant,
CHEKID.

To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, &c.
My Lord Mayor,—l have the honour to acknowledge
the receipt of your Lordship's letter of the Bth instant,
accompanied with a copy of the resolutions passed at a
public meeting of the merchants, bankers, and traders
of the city of London, on the subject of the persecu-
tion of the Jews in the East ; and I beg leave to as-
sure your Lordship, that I have transmitted these re-
solutions without a moment's delay to my Government,
who, 1 confidently expect, will warmly respond to the
sympathy and deep interest which has been evinced in
this country, in consequence of those melancholy oc.

currences.
I beg to request your Lordship will accept my apology
for the delay which has occurred in this communication,
and that you will be pleased to attribute the same to
causes over which I had in a great measure no con-
trol.—l have the honour to be, my Lord Mayor, your
Lordship's most obedient servant,

BULOW.

Lower Berkeley-street, July 18, 1840.
To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor.
It may be proper to state that several of the Am-
bassadors are out of town.

SCOTLAND.

JUBILEE DINNER TO THE REV. DR. RUS-

SELL.

On Tuesday last, the 14th current, the Presbytery
of Selkirk entertained the Rev. Dr. Russell, minister
of Yarrow, on occasion of his completing the fiftieth
year of his ministry. The chair was ably filled by the
Rev. John Campbell, minister of Selkirk, and, besides
a few of Dr. Russell's nearest relatives, the Presbytery
were honoured with the presence of Lord Napier,
whose grandfather Dr. Russell had for many years ac-
companied as Chaplain, while the Representative of
Royalty in the General Assembly of the Church of
Scotland. After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts,
The CHAIRMAN, in a neat, appropriate, and affec-
tionate speech, proposed the toast of the evening.
He did not mean to detain the company by any leng-
thened and elaborate eulogium on the public use-
fulness and private worth of their reverend guest, as
fifty years spent in the faithful and acceptable discharge
of his duties had a voice which spoke more loudly in
his praise than any studied panegyric could possibly do.
Dr. Russell had been his father's friend before he be-
came his own, and the intimacy which was commenced
in his boyhood, when he used to accompany his father
on his visits to Yarrow, to assist in dispensing the Sa-
crament, had continued since he was able to take his
father's place, without a moment's interruption. During
all that time he had never heard an angry word from
his venerable friend, and the feeling of esteem and re-
spect with which the Doctor was invariably regarded by
his clerical brethren was matched by the sincere and
cordial veneration uniformly testified towards him by the
population of the district in which he lived—equally by
the inhabitants of the towns and villages, of the hamlets,
the glens, and the lone shiclings of the mountains.
Dr. RUSSaLL replied in a very affecting speech, al-
luding with much feeling to the painful recollections
called up by the present occasion. Not a single face
did he sec around the festive board, of all those that
had welcomed him when first he took his seat at the
Presbytery table. He felt the honour done him the
more deeply', as, during his connexion with the Pres-
bytery, none of its members had received a similar
mark of respect, nor, so far cs he knew, at any former
period. He dwelt with feeling on the friendly inter-
course that bad so well been preserved among the
members of the Presbytery of Selkirk, notwithstanding
their differences in the views they severally took of
public business ; and expressed his firmest desire that
this spirit migmhtigiliotnaglicolinvteintuoerteocerieviegninatmheoinrgtutrhnetv
with which he had been honoured
sandlt
same
et htaotk tehney
of
respect
that day.
When the health of the Presbytery's Noble Guest
was proposed,
Lord NAPIER said he rejoiced to be invited to join
such a party, as it brought him into more immediate
contact with the ministers of a Church to which he was
warmly attached, and to whose ritual he gave the
preference over that of any other with which be was
acquainted. He had long enjoyed the friendship and
the counsel of various respected ministers of the Church
of Scotland, and he was glad to take this opportunity
of testifying the high opinion lie held of the piety, the
purity, and the industry of the clergy of Scotland.

ItATk;S OF POSTAGE.

THE SUN, LONDON, TIIURsDAY, JtTLY 23 1840,

•
o ciucstionS “i. her .Mtkiesty's Government touching an
iassurance that had heeh gi?Ot in consequence
of a motion made by him in the course f.vf lest
',-, • - -
pcsoop, lie might rather say that the assurance
'.i.cl heett given to the Christian nubli6 of that
country, that measures woti:2. be :Olen by the
Government to put an end to that crying abuse. ilti
begged now to state, that -on Tuesday next it was his
intention to ask whether her Majesty's Government in-
tended to take any steps in fulfilment of that pledge.
It was his intention to move for copies of any dispatches
and statements of any orders issued by the Governor-
General of India to the Presidencies of Bengal and
Madras on the subject of the attendance of British
troops at idolatrous worship in India.
Lord MELBOURNE had not known that the pe-
tition would be presented, or he should have prepared
himself to give the information required by the Noble
Earl. As far as he was at present informed, he believed
the Government had done every thing that could be
expended upon the subject.
Petitions to the same effect from Devonport, by Lord
Mount Edgecumbe ; and from Bristol and Lancaster, by
the Earl of Chichester.

The Earl of POWIS presented a petition (as we
understood) from Carnarvon, against any grant to the
Chester and Holyhead Railway.
Lor STANLEY (of Aldersley) thought it right on
that occasion to call their Lordships' attention to a cir-
cumstance which almost amounted a breach of privilege.
Two gentlemen, whose names were attached to the pre-
sent petition, had some time ago sent a petition to the
House in which they stated that he being a landowner
in the island of Anglesey, procured through his son, who
was a secretary to the Treasury, the selection of the
persons employed by the Government to survey the
two lines for the Rsilwaylin question. The petitioners
made a charge of a similar nature against his other son.
He assured their Lordships that their was no founda-
tion whatever for the imputation.
The Earl of PO WIS said there was no allegation in
the petition against the Noble Lord.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the
county of Durham against the Ecclesiastical Duties
and Revenues Bill, and praying that the case of that
diocese might be taken into consideration.
The Earl of DEVON presented a similar petition
from Glastonbury, in the diocese of Bath and Wales.
The Earl of WARWICK presented a petition
from the Licensed Victuallers of Birmingham against
the Beer Bill.

Lord PORTMAN presented a similar petition from
the Licensed Victuallers of Liverpool.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE brought up the Report
of the Select Committee on the Weaver Churches
Bill, which had not been altered by the Committee.
After some discussion the Report was received, and it
was agreed to take a discussion on the third reading, of
which due notice will be given.
(LEFT SITTING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Cloek.
NEW MEMBER.

Mr. CHARLES HOWARD, the new Member
for Cumb2rland, in the room of the late Major Aglionby,
was introduced by Lord Morpeth and Lord Seymour,
and took the oaths and his seat.
MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.

The Usher of the Black Rod then entered the
House, and summoned the Speaker to attend the House
of Lords for the purpose of hearinc, the Royal Assent
given to certain Bills, for which see Lords' Report.
On his return, the SPEAKER informed the House
of the Bills to which the Royal Assent had been given
by Commission.
On the motion of Sir H. PARNELL, the Shrews-
bury and Holyhead Road Bill was read a third time
and passed.
Mr. FRESHFIELD brought up the Report of the
Committee on Trafford's Divorce Bill ; also, of the Com-
mittee on Cloze's Divorce Bill, which, after a short dis-
cussion on Reader's Divorce Bills, was read a third time
and passed.
On the motion of Mr. FRESHFIELD Grant's
Divorce Bill was read a third time and passed.
Mr. E. J. STANLEY brought up the Report on
the Metropolis Improvement Bill. It was ordered to
be re-considered to-morrow, in a Committee of the
whole House. _ _ _ _ _

On the Order of the Day being moved for the third
reading of the Farnham Rectory Bill,
Sir R. H. INGLIS moved that the third reading
should be postponed till Monday next.
I `Captain PECHELL wished that the Hon. Barc•
net should assign some reason for the postponement.
Mr. HUME said as the motion was not immediately
proceeded with be would move that the Bill should be
read a third time that day six months.
Sir R. H. INGLIS would appeal to ILim. Members
on both sides whether the course taken by the Hon
Member for Kilkenny on the motion for postponing the
third reading of a private Bill was not unprecedented ?
He would leave the Hon. Member the grace of setting
such a precedent.

Mr. HUME considered the Bill in reality a public
one.

Mr. AGLIONBY wished to ask whether a rumour
which had been afloat, were well founded, and whether
it was the intention of the Hon. Baronet, whenever the
third reading might come on, to attempt to introduce
such a clause as that which the House had rejected the
other evening. He could hardly persuade himself that
the `Hon. Member entertained that intention.
Sir, R. H. INGLIS said the postponement. was not
for that ?bject ; but he would not follow the extremely
inconvenient course of discussing the question on the
mere motion of the adjournment of the third reading of
a private Bill.

Mr. LAMBTON wished to know if it were the
Right Hon. Baronet's intention to rescind the decision of
the House on the question of the Compensation clause ?
Sir ROBERT INGLIS folded his arms, but gave
no answer to the question.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL wished to know whether
the Right Hon. Baronet would give notice to-morrow if
his object was to postpone the third reading for the
purpose of re-introducing the Compensation clause ; if
that were so, the House ought to be aware of his inten-
tion.

Captain PEC HELL said it was easy at once to set
the matter at rest by stating whether he intended to
repeal those clauses of the Bill. The answer of the
Right Hon. Baronet would materially influence his vote.
Mr. GOULBURN thought if his Right Hon.
Friend gave notice tomorrow, that would be sufficient.
Mr. EASTHOPE said the House must presume
that such was the Right Hon. Baronet's intention from
his silence.
The Earl of DARLINGTON said the course
adopted by the Hon. Member for Kilkenny was most
unjustifiable, but he would meet him with his own wea-
pons, and move that the debate be adjourned till Monday.
Mr. HUME understood that it was the Right
Hon. Baronet's intention to take advantage of the post-
ponement of the measure, in order to re-introduce these
clauses.

Sir ROBERT PEEL said it appeared to him
that if his Right Hon. Friend intended to re.
scind the decision to which the House had come the
other night, he should to-morrow give notice of his in-
tention. It appeared to him that the uniform course
was, when a day was fixed for bringing forward any
particular measure, not to take advantage of the motion
by moving an amendment. If the House establish that
precedent, it would be taken advantage of in future.
He was so far disinterested that he would give no vote
whatever on the subject.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw.
The House divided, when there appeared
For the adjournment to Monday 92
Against it 4B
Majority —44
On our re-admission to the Gallery we found
Mr. HUME on his legs, saying that he had been
given to understand that it was the intention to
move that the decision which the House had
come to respecting the compensation to the
lessees should be rescinded, and if some such intention
had not existed he should like to know why any post-
ponement was proposed ? who had ever heard of any
postponement of a private Bill being proposed, without
some reason being assigned ?
Sir ROBERT H. IN G LIS had stated distinctly in
moving the postponement that his object was not
to make any alteration in the Bill. But he would not
submit to be catechised on the subject—(Cheers)—and
when he had stated that he thought it was unworthy of
any Hon. Member to attempt to induce him to say
more. More, however, he would not say : but if it had
been necessary to remind one so conversant with the
rules of the House as the Hon. Member for Kilkenny,
he would refer him to page 11 of the Standing Orders,
where he would find that he (Sir R. Inglis) could not
move an amendment without giving notice to all the
parties concerned, and putting in a notice at the Pri-
vate Bill-office; so that,if he had had any such intention,
the Hon. Member must have been aware of it almost
as soon as himself.
Mr. LAMBTON said that he threw back the
epithet unworthy ; and he thought it was unworthy of
the Hon. Baronet to attempt to rescind an agreement
which had been entered into.
Mr. GOULBURN denied that any agreement had
been entered into to take only one division on each case ;
such an offer had been refused ; and if the division had
been the other way, he thought the conduct of Hon.
Members on the other side would have been very
different.
Mr. AGLIONBY asked what right the Right Hon.
Member had to say that if the division had been the
other way, the conduct of Members on that side of the
House would have been different.—(Loud cheers.) For
himself he could say that in whatever way the division
had been, he should have considered the agreement.
If the Right Hon. Gentleman must take distinctions,
he ought not to be so indiscriminate. He was also
most infelicitous as to his facts in saying that no agree-
ment had been entered into. He should have recoi-
-1 lected that when the Hon. Member for Leicester, in
presenting a petition, moved an adjournment, Hon.
Members on that side the House told the Hon. Mem-
ber for Leicester that during his absence on the pro-