Star.
London, England, 1830-04-12 00:00:00

THE JEWS.

Mr. Goldamid estimates the number of the Jews in London to be
about eighteen thousand, and in the rest of England about nine
thousand ; and they have several Synagogues in the metropolis and
other parts of the kingdom. The two principal sects are German
and Portuguese.
As the terms of the Edict under which Napoleon Buoriamrte
elevated the Jews to the rank of citizens in France may probably be
reterred to in the coming discussions, we insert them for the infor-
mation of our readers. This Edict interdicted Jews from lending
money to minors without the consent of their guardians, to wives
without the consent of their husbands, and to soldiers without the
conset of their officers. It annulled all bills for which " value re-
ceived" could not be proved. All Jews engaged In commerce were
obliged to take out a patent : all strangers to invest some property
in land and agriculture. It may also be well to give the twelve qUes.
tions proposed by the Emperor to the banhedrin, in 1806, together
with the answers returned ; because they will tend to show what are
the opinions of the better claws of the Jews on the Continent, al.
though they do not express the authoritative sentence of the nation, '
nor, indeed, of the multitude here. The questions were, I. Is poly.
gamy allowed among the Jews ? 11. Is divorce recognised by the
Jewish law ? 111. Can Jews intermarry with Christians ? IV.
Will the French people be esteemed by the Jews as strangers or as
brethren ? V. In what relation, according to the JeWish law,
would the Jews stand towards the French ? VI. Do Jews born in
France consider it their native country ? Are they bound to obey
the laws and customs of the land ? VII. Who elect the Robbins
VIII. What are the legal powers of the Robbins ? IX. Is the
election and authority of the Robbins grounded on law or custom ?
X. Is there any kind of business in which Jews may not be en.
gaged ? XL Is usury to their brethren forbidden by the law ?
XII. Is it permitted or forbidden to practice usury with strangers?
The answers were :—I. Polygamy is forbidden according to a De-
cree of the Synod of Worms in 1030. 11. Divorce is allowed, but in
this rospoet Jows recognize the tinthnsity nf th..;.41 law of the land
In which they live. 111. intermarriages with Christians are not
forbidden, though difficulties arise from the different forms of mar-
riage. IV. The Jews of France recognize in the fullest sense the
•French people as their brethren. V. The relation of the Jew to the
Frenchman is the same as Jew to Jew. The only distinction Is in
'their religion. VI. The Jews acknowledged France as their coun-
try
when oppressed—how much more must they when admitted to
civil rights ? VIII. The election of the Robbins is neither defined
oor uniform. It usually rests with the heads of each family in the
communi.y. The Robbins have no judicial power; the Sanhedrin
is the only legal tribunal. The Jews of France and Italy being sub.
jest to the equal laws of the land, whatever power they might other.
wise exercise is annulled. IX. The election and power of the Rob-
bins rest solely on usage. X. All business is permitted to the Jews.
The Talmud enjoins that every Jew be taught some trade. XI.
and XII. The Mosaic institution forbids unlawful interest, but this
was the law of an agricultural people. The Talmud allows interest
to be taken from brethren and stranger—it forbids usury.

TAX ON NEWSPAPERS.—Nobody can look back on
the period when this disgraceful tax had its origin, without per.
ceiving that the crime of newspapers was, that they treated of' all
knowable things. The Georgian statesman summarily makes it
capital for his Black to read the British Legislator only visited
his White with a fine of four-pence-halfpenny for each offence.
Compare, in the two cases, the certainty, the promptitude, and the
profitableness of the punishment ; and it will give the measure of
the comparative ability with which the two statesmen went about to
compass their design.— Westminster Review.
LINUTENANT LAJUIRECHT....OII Friday night, at half-past
ten o'clock, Lieut Lambrecht, late of the Ceylon regt. who was
recently tried and acquitted at Kingston Anises for having killed
Mr. Oliver Clayton, In a duel, at Battersea-fieida, went to the police
station of letter M. division, Southwark Bridge.road, and assured
the inspector that be was completely destitute, having neither house
nor home of any kind, and without the means of procuring the
common necessaries of life. Since his acquittal all his former
friends had turned their backs upon hint, and for the want of
means he had been compelled to wander about the town day and
night, not knowing whither to go or what to do. He implored the
inspector to permit him to lie down and rest himself, as he was so
exhausted from fatigue and want that even that accommodation
would be an indulgence for which he should be most ggranteful The
unfortunate gentleman was an object of real comm ; hie
dd.:is bespoke the poverty with which he contended, and, not having
been shaved for several days, his whole appearance was wretched in
the extreme. The inspector tendered him all the service In his
power, by consoling him and procuring him refreshment. He al.
lowed Mr. L. to remain in the station until he had rested himself,
and then furnished him with the means of procuring a bed, when
he took his leave, after having returned thanks.
LADY Ihraoli.—This strange matter has, as we no-
ticed in our last, assumed another and a darker shade, from the
interference of Mr. Campbell, who, assuming to be the personal
champion of Lady Byron, basstepped forward to throw the most
odious imputations upon the character of Lord Byron which can
possibly be left to the worst imaginations to conceive. Against
this course we protest, in the name of all that is honourable in
human nature. We were the undeviating censurers of the poet's
injurious productions during his lifetime; but we cannot do
otherwise than condemn, in far stronger terms, any attempt, after
he is laid in his grave, to blast hint for ever by mysterious and
voiceless whisperings. Of what monstrous crime was he
guilty ?—for unless he was guilty of some monstrous crime
a foul wrong is done to hie memory. His accusers are bound,
by every moral and sacred tie, to be definite in their charge:
against such there is a possibility of defence ; but there can
be no shield against the horrible vague denunciation which
has been so intemperately hurled at the unprotected and :man-
eirering dead. And what called this forth ? A very slight
surmise by Mr. Moore against the parents of Lady Byron
.....to repel which she camel rashly out with a statement that
damns the husband of her bosotn ; and, as if this were not enough,
the zeal of Mr. Campbell advances to pour additional suspicion and
ignominy upon his mouldering althea The fame of a Byron is
public property ; and; after what has passed, it is imperative upon
his aciver..aries either to fix some eternal brand upon it, such as can
justify their language,—or confess that they have used expressions
which no conduct of his could authorise. And we are persuaded
that they most do the latter; for it is incredible that any woman of
the spirit and honour of Lady Byron could have lived an hour with
a man whom she knew to be a detested criminal ; and far less that
she should have corresponded with him in 'playful and soothing let.
tees. The plea of insanity itself cannot reconcile this with any thing
Ake the atrocious guilt now by circumstance imputed ; and we do
earnestly trust that an explanation will yet be vouchsafed, which
shall set this paintuf chicussion to rest in a manner more satisfactory
to the woad. Having, in these few remarks, grappled with the
mein point at issue, we abstain saying a tyllaNe on minor affairs
and we do not deem ourselves in a condition to blame any one of the
partite we have been obliged to Dame..—Literary Gazelle.

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, April 10.
IMPORTANT APPEALS.

Punic*its' Licxxcza.—The Court was occupied for sane,
time in hearing appeals from the decision' of certain Licensing Ma.
gistrates, who had refused to renew the licenses of several publicans
without giving any reason for so doing ; and as these were the first
decisions under the new Act of Parliament, which gives power of
appeal from Licensing Justices to the Quarter Sessions, they ex.
cited much interest.
Peter Kenny appellant v. the Conviction of Messrs. Byng, Hamp.
son, Patterson, Bowles, and Fitigerald, respondents.—Mr. ALLEY
appeared on the part of the appellant, Mr. Kenny, the landlord of
the public-house known by the sign of the liodney's Head, in Ro-
bert-street, St. George's, Hanover.equare, whose licence had been
stopped by the respondents in March last, without any reason what.
ever being assigned.
The Climax*/ said that he did not see what power the Court
had to interfere, as it could not compel tile Licensing Justices to
give a reason for refusing to renew a license. He (the Chairman)
must take it for granted that they had just and sufficient grounds
for what they had done.
Mr. ALLEY said, that the Act gave power of appeal to that
Court, and he had witnesses in Court to prove that the appellant's
house had always been most respectably conducted, and his property
ought not to be destroyed at the caprice, or by the exercise of arbi-
trary and vindictive power, of those who did not think proper to
appear and show to the Courtl the grounds upon which they had de-
prived the appellant of his license. He (Mr. Alley) had witnesses
in attendance, who would prove to the Court the injustice of de.
priving the appellant of his license, and satisfy every Magistrate
upon the bench that no house could possibly be conducted with more
order, regularity, and respectability, than the Rodney's Head.
The CHAIRMAN said that the Court certainly was bound to hear'
the witnesses.

Mr. ALLEY called a number of respectable tradespeople and
neighbours of the appellant, and their evidence was conclusive as to
the respectability with which the house has been carried on by the
landlord.

The CHAIRMAN observed, that as there was no cause shown on
the part of the respondents, he was bound to believe that there were
no grounds for refusing the licence, and therefore the Court ordered
it to be granted.
A license was also granted, under similar circumstances, to Mr.
Millar, the landlord of the Duke of York, Union-street, Bond.
street ; and also to Mr. Barron, the landlord of the Pelham Arms,
St. George's, Hanover-square. A number of tavern-keepers were In
attendance, anxious to hear' the decisions which relieve them, in
some measure, from the authority of the Licensing Justices.
Ellen Sweeney, a well-looking little girl, thirteen years of age,
was charged upon two indictments with having fradulently obtained
a quantity of silk mercer; goods from Messrs. Flint and Co. of
Grafton House, Soho ; and Mary Burke, an elderly female, was
charged with having received the property. It appeared in evidence,
that the younger prisoner was occasionally employed by a French
milliner, named , residing in Seymour-place, &yanston-
square, and during the temporary absence of the latter from town, on
the 25th of March, she obtained possession of Madame Candall's
account-book, with which she proceeded to Grafton House, and the
shopwounin, under the imprerlion that she was authorised to receive
the goods, entered a variety of articles in the book; and on two sub.
sequent occasions she defrauded them in a similar manner. The
goods were discovered at the apartments of Burke, who is aunt to the
other prisoner. The prisoners, who were defended by Mr. ADOL-
PHUS, were found Guilty, and sentenced to two months' Imprison-
ment--The Grand Jury returned true bills against several of the
Hyde-park gang, for misdemeanors.

It might be well for England if a large Properly Tax
were levied, and even all the Excise duties, as well as the Assessed
Taxes, abolished ; for the House of Commons would then become
interested in reducing the expenditure, as Its pressure would not fail
to be fell by themselves.
TUE BACK-BONE.—To those who are ac-
quainted with the walks round Oxford, it may be satisfactory
know that " the Devil's back-bone" has been macadam
Cheltenham Journal.

EPIGRAM*
Since Adam, who aided our grandmother Eve,
In bringing Sin, Death, and the Devil on earth,
Was the first of road-makers, if legends we believe,
And mended his ways when from Eden sent forth ;
How cheering for mortals Mac Adam to see,
Son, worthy such sire--has old Satan o'erthrown,
And at Oxford has nwisikd their ways, all agree,
By pounding to atoms " the Devil's baek-bome."—Age.
THE HOUSE or Cos:No/la.—That branch of the
legislature ought to emanate from the five and equal, the frequent
anef onshiesamel •••froop.• nf aft. I...jebs4.y of ha *moan
ben are the nominees of peers and commoners, who, it appears,
make the seats in that assembly a subject of traffic and intrigue.
Many of' the members, too, are placemen and pensioners, depend.
ants on the minister, and the slaves of his mandate. A House of
Commons so formed, can have no identity of feeling and interest—
no common participation in the wants anti grievances of the people
at large. This is proved by their habitual conduct. The great
majority of the House are influenced by distinct and partial inte.
rests. Of those who sit by a more extended suffrage, and who hold
their constituents in respect, some are mere partisans ; others are
fettered by factions and connections hostile to the people ; and the
few whaare truly independent, find their best intentions frusttated—.
their honest exeettons neutralized. A House of Commons so con-
stituted, can be no check against a bad minister, except when his
measures may be averse to their special individual interest. Such
a House of Commons can form no balance against the aristocracy—
no barrier against the ambitious monarch. These are solemn and
indisputable truths, which all who have impartially observed must
acknowledge. This is our settled conviction, and the sooner It
becomes the Incentive to general association, the sooner we may
expect and obtain effective relief.—Address of the Nottingham
Political Union.

ANECDOTES OF LORD BYRON, BY M. BTENDHA L.—
Lord Byron was at once enthusiastic in favour of Napoleon, and
jealous of his fame. He used to say, " Napoleon and myself are
the only individuals who sign our names with the initials N. B."
(Noel Byron.) His lordship one evening broached rather a whim.
Wad idea—that, in a discussion which bad just been started, his
tide added weight to his opinion. On that occasion Dc Brame
retorted with the well-known anecdote of Marshal de Castries, who,
shocked at the deference once paid to D'Alembert's judgment, ex.
claimed, " A pretty reasoner truly ! a fellow not worth three thou-
sand francs &leer !" On another evening, Lord Byron afforded
an opening to ridicule, by the warmth with which he denied all
I resemblance between his own character and that of Jean Jacques
Rousseau, to whom he had been compared. His principal ob-
jection to the comparison, though he would not acknowledge the
fact, was, that Jean Jaques Rousseau had been a servant, and
the son of a watchmaker. Lord Byron always entertained a
great horror of corpulency. His antipathy to a full habit
of body might be called a fixed idea. M. Polidori, a young physi.
cian who travelled with him, assured us that his Lordship's mother
was of low stature and extremely fat. During at least a third part
of the day, Byron was a dandy, expressed a constant dread of aug.
menting the bulk of his outward man, concealed his right foot as
much as possible, and endeavoured to render himself agreeable in
female society..—Byron had one failing in common with all poets—
an extreme sensibility to praise or censure, especially when coining
from a brother bard. He seemed not to be aware, that judgments
of this nature are generally dictated by a spirit of affectation, and
that the most favourable can only be termed certificates of resent-
blanee...-Foretin Literary Gaiselle,—a periodical which, we are
sorry to learn from its number for March 31, is to be discontinued
for want of support. " Though we might suppose (observes the
Editor, in his manly and becoming notice of his intention to drop
the work), that a great outlay of capital and a long come of per-
severing Indusizy,,,would raise this Periodical to that degree of cir-
culation which should reward the Proprietors, we are not inclined to I
resort to the expedients which now seem so necessary to bring any
work into general notice. Our public is self-occupied, and nothing
but a system of extravagant puffing seems adequate to awaken at.
tendon to any literary performance ; and rather than resort to that
systems, we, thanking our friends for their many kindnesses, have
resolved to close our well-intended labours."—(The disgraceful sys-
tem, so properly denounced in this passage, has become a public
nuisance;—it is at present evidently on the increase, and has been
adaopted in quarters front whence better things were reasonably ex-
Itted. will, however, work its own cure ere long, or it will be
an exception to the general fate of such quackeries.]
Since the cause of emancipation has become so fa-
shionable in these days of liberalism, it is somewhat matter of asto-
nishment that our liberal Ministry have not expressed a wish to
emancipate the owners of copyhold estates from their present inabi-
lity to vote at county elections. It is certainly anomalous that the
owner of a cottage-house worth forty shillings a year should have
the right of elective franchise, whilst the owner of a copyhold estate
of 600 acres is nbt entitled to it. We know an instance where a
gentleman in this county, possessing a domain worth 60,0001. was
compelled, the other day, to buy a cottage in his neighbourhood, to
entitle hint to the same privilege which is enjoyed by hundreds of
cottage owners in this town. This is a subject really deserving of
the serious notice of the legislature.—Stockport Advertiser.
Three of the men who are supposed to have made the
first attack at blacken, were closely pursued by the Antey police
about ten days ago, on which occasien they were seen to enter a
house, but on the police making the strictest possible search, oo
trace of them could be discovered; bourn?, it has since been as.
certained that they hid themselves in the air-holesof • large turf-
stack in rear of the house, and a boy who was filling turf had time
to throw a quantity on the entrance of the holes before the police
came up, by which they escaped.—Feroartagh Reporter.

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