The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-07 00:00:00

Persecution of Jews in Moldavia.

Some further correspondence laid before Parlia-
ment gives an account of an interview which Consul
St. Clair had with Prince Charles at Jassy on the
27th of June. The Prince assured the Consul
that he was determined to put a stop to all persecu-

tions against the Jews, and that persons guilty of
such acts should be severely punished. The Consul
represented to his highness that on the evening of
his arrival in Jassy (the 24th) more than 200 Jews
were beaten and ill-treated, and some of them bad
their beards and hair burnt and torn by
the torch - bearers who ran alongside his
Highness's carriage. More than thirty of these
had called at her Majesty's Consulate, and

iad evidently been roughly handled. A Jewess,
n the family way, the Consul also saw who had

received a bayonet wound in her arm because
she. tried to prevent some soldiers from beating
her husband. The Consul, writing on the 28th,
the day after this interview, is able to add that the
officers who ill-treated the Jews had been arrested,
and would be punished; but he writes that he ex-
pressed to the Prince his fear that on his Highness's
departure abuses would recommence, as the authori-
ties were either weak or unwilling to do their duty,
and the people unfit for a European constitution and
laws, which are foreign importations, and not the
result of the habits and customs gf the Rouman na-
tion. In regard to the outrage at Galatz, the British
Consul at that place reports that on the 12th July a
batch of ten Jews, brought from Jassy,represented to
be " vagrants" who had come from Turkey, were de-
ported by soldiers across the Danube and forced on
shore opposite Galatz, on a marshy island, where
the soldiers left them, telling them to make their
way to the mainland by a ford which they would
find further on. No such ford exists. It searching
for it through mud and water one of them disap-
peared. The others were observed by the Turkish
guard at Zatoga, who sent a boat to rescue thew, fed
them, and took them back next morning to Galatz.
From this place they were on the same day carried
back to another part of the same island. Here they
were again taken charge cf by another Turkish
guard, and a second time sent back to Galatz. 1:11i3
time the Moldo-Wallachian guard refused to receive
them. The Turkish guard drew their boat close to
the shore, and compelled the Jews to land. The
Moldo-Wallachian soldiers drove them into the
water with their bayonets and the butt-ends of their
muskets. The Turks shoved off. The Jews clung
to the boat to save themselves from the soldiers on
shore. The Turks forced them to let go their hold,
and no attempt being made by anybody on shore
to save them they were both drowned. One °f
them was a very old man, so weak that, when taken
over to the Turkish side of the river the second tirue
he had to be supported by two Moldo-Wallachian
soldiers. When the Turkish boat was clear off, the
surviving Jews were allowed to get out of the water,
and were put under arrest, and ultimately sent to
the Jewish Hospital in a pitiable condition. This
affair excited much indignation, and the foreign COw
suls met, and sent to the Prefect a joint protest/
declaring that they held him and the superior au-
thorities responsible for these acts of barbarity 1';
the face of the civilised world. The British Consuls
also made known to the Jews at Galatz that he Wit
prepared to afford a refuge at the consulate to any
of them who might require it. The Bucharest
Monitorul tries to throw the blame on the Tut*,
but the Roumanians were clearly the cause of this
lamentable occurrence. Their Government has
appointed a commission to inquire into it. 91:hies
British Consul at Bucharest writes that he feels
certain that Prince Charles would lay down his
rather than wittingly be a party to a Jewish Perse_
cution, but that it is so profitable that official un
derlings will not abandon it if they can help it.

THE ELECTORS IN SCOTLAND tIND'
THE NEW REFORM BILL•

jsiFrom a joint return moved for by Sir E. Colebrook an
tsunreff.nrcaMieLa. ran, just printed, the effect of the rater:l3l3g
upon the numbers of the Scottish borough COo6'
as
regaersaissvery deafly set forth. We subjoin the resultS
the different boroughs and groups of boroughs : ---'
No. of Male Ocoty
piers who 1ia.v?..,.
paid rates an.„.o s:
No. of Electors entitled to V t).:iii
on Roll. by. Reform ..-:.
(exclusive (A
lodge")*
Edinburgh
Glasgow 17,348 .. 5,912
Aberdeen
3,811
Paisley
Dundee
Perthlvnr
vie eeekur
Inverness
District
trict
3 2,781
,335
1,7
Elgin District
Forfar District 1,840 6.6144
St. Andrew's District. 857 1' 68-
Kirkcaldy District ... 851 ****** 2,001
Stirling District
'9l.
Kilmarnock District 1,725 ******
":- 41
Haddington District 717 ****** 1,45--
Leith District
Falkirk District
Ayr District 1,366 '''-o4'o
Dumfries District - -
838
Wigtown District
* Poor rates levied on income.
A ~.1
it's ten
THE SALE OF BREAD.—A prett-3;—general
Lieu has recently been given to police stiFerib.iltellt;
dents to enforce the law, which compels evorY bncer,ileS
sell by weight, and to furnish with weights and ',,-'ook
every cart feir the delivery of bread. During tho Fist ;.).,03.
many bakers in West Surrey and North Rants 110° 1 iu
summoned before the local magistrates, and
offleece 0,,t
amounts varying from 15s. to Xl, in consequene° , iu-
conforming with the above regulations. In numerou '
~ca
stances the deficiency iu weight iu a quartern loaf has pv,,
as much as half a pound, and even newly-baked 1°30).%)
have teen found several ounces deficient. 31`)st °f
ial-
- pleaded ignorance of the law, while
gluiestsouto
eged that loaves lose weight in the baking. It is th
needlesslute deals
to say that the magistrates pointed out thaotvev,
with the loaf in the scale and not in the i_
and that proper weight must henceforth be givcn °r penal-
and
ties would be incurred. Some of the bakers of Guildf° •
who had been fined have revenged themselves outorr
lcustomers by raising the price of bread a halfpc,n,igeu
loaf, and by adopting a process of " slack baking, ',.tod,
•enders the bread heavy and indigestible. It iS exP(:.,ctivot
however, that the inhabitants will devise means to a
themselves from dictation of this kind. the
TILE DUIsTDEIZBERG.—The iron steam-rain 1
Dunde,rberg, purchased by the French afterGovernmetloa
the United States, has arrived at ClierbeUrg, , the
passage of 14 days and 17 hours. Notwithstandin.,oos
unfavourable weather, this vessel showed perfect sca-g
qualities.

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