The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-26 00:00:00

JEWS IN PRUSSIA.

Count de Lowenjelm, the Swedish Ambassador at
Vienna, says a letter from that, city, May 11, has
definitively quitted his post, having been recalled at
his own request. The same letter states that Akif
Effendi, the new Ottoman Ambassador, is accom-
panied by a Dervish, who attracts much attention by
his original habits.
A letter from Berlin, May 9, in the Augsburg Ga-
zette, states that the heads of almost all the Israelite
communities in Prussia, having presented addresses
to the King, praying him not to allow the Bill to
be made law, which separates them from the
other inhabitants of the kingdom, giving them
particular political corporations, and granting
them, in consequence, certain privileges, and
exempting them from military service, they have re-
ceived a letter from M. De ROchow, the Prussian
Minister of the Intarior, dated May 5, and in which,
in the name of the King, the Minister says :—" It is
the intention of his Majesty to take measures, by means
of which the restrictions pressing upon Jews shall be
taken off. Those measures shall secure their interests on
the same basis as those of Christians, and shall give them
greater independence and influence with regard to their
own affairs, byestablishing corporations, and by offerino•
a wider opportunity of employing their talents and
their capacities in their own favour, as well as in
favour of the Christians amongst whom they live.
But his Majesty considers it to be necessary that the
realisation of these prerogatives should be ac-
companied by the conditions which form the
basis of a Christian State, 2..nd according to
which it is not admissable for Jews to exercise
the duties of magistrates over Christians, and he pos-
sessed of privileges which might compromise the inte-
rests of the Christian community. As to the suppres-
sion of military duties now imposed upon Jews, this
Measure cannot do them any injury, since it leaves
• them at full liberty to enter the service as volunteers.
But, under all circumstances, the Jews ought to wait
for the result of the deliberations ordered on this sub-
ject, and to be convinced that all the reforms necessary
for the amelioration of their situation, and compati-
ble with the general interest, shall be accorded them."

At the sitting on the- 18th instant of the Court of
Assizes for the Lor-et-Cher, a woman was convicted of the
murder of her husband, Sylvian Leloup, of Mouthon-sur•
Bievre. They had for several years lived upon bad terms, and
frequently had desperate quarrels ending in blows, in which the
husband from weakness, caused by having had one of his arms
broken, always got the worst. On April 23th one of these do-
mestic feuds arose, and with ,such violence that the whole
neighbourhood was alarmed, and assembled round the house of
strife; but no one darecrenter, though some of them described
the blows as sounding like those of a butcher felling an ox. At
length all was silent, and then they called in the garde cham-
petre and the Mayor, who made their way in and found Leloup
lying in a pool of blond on the floor, in the last agonies of death.
His wife confessed her crime, but attributed the provocation to
Leloup, sah s she said quarrelled with her because she opposed
his going out in the night., and beat her with a wooden prong.
She then in het rage took an iron bar from the tire-place, and
did the deed. The Mayor, who was examined with the other
witnesses, stated the facts which had come to his kn ,wledge,
but at the same titre, in all respects, except as to he: quarrels
with her husband, gave the prisoner an excellent character for
her charitable ann kind disposition, adding that she was the
only person of the place who would undertake the nursing of a
patient dismissed from the hospital as incurable. She was
found guilty with extenuatino, circumstances, and condemned
to be imprisoned with hard labour for ten years.
Rio DE JANEIRO, MARCII I.—By the search made
by the police in the house of Isidore Joaquim Pereira, house-pro-
prietor at the bar of Tejuca, the discovery of five interred bodies
was made—of blacks, ,laves of his own, whom he assassinated
by flogging at different periods. The criminal is arrested.
LTpon this, a correspondent observes :—" Yes, arrested for a
day or two ; but a bet may safely be laid of 50 to 1, that no more
will be heard about this matter, and that. after a couple of
months Senor Isidore will be again quietly in his house, chas-
tising his blacks worse than ever." Bars de Tejuca is only five
miles from the city of Rio, and that in fact belongs to the city.
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