Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-10-02

invalid intellects, the mental decrepudes of your
Rents, Storys, and Marshalls ! In Physic, any
young graduate, before yet he has ever breathed a
vein, is quite able and safe in comparison with old
Hippocrates or Galen, or Hunter or Abenethy, or
Ashley Cooper; while, among authors, the blind
old man of Sco's rocky isle," the dotard that writ
the Divina Comedia, the driveler who penned Para
disc Lost when he was ffty-nne; Sir Walter Scott,
who did not begin to write until age had made him
incapable; one Mr.. Patrick Henry, who went to
the bar about the time to quit it, and made his great
revolutionary speeches when he should have been
making his will or his grave, are with thousands
more whom, out of the mercifulness of our temper,
we will not at present cite) instances to carry to
every mans mind conviction of the solidity of the
d'lsraelian principle which we began by mention
/ ing, but for what purpose or apropos of what we
will take bet that the ingenious Of our read
ers has not yet been able TO shape to himself any
conjecture. We proceed, then, with all due Dispatch
to disclose, to expound; our most serious design
being only TO bring before our readers new per-
sonal immunity which Paris paper is suggesting
to Great Britain, and to let them the gracious
style in which the Palmerston organ welcomes the
suggestion that England shall initiate, in regard to
the Hebrews, the infidel tolerance and atheisc i'm
Partially of Revolutionary France towards all reli-
gions. 1t as follows that the Debafs (the French
ministerial paper offers its example, and that the
Chronicle accepts it. The public will find not only
some amusement, but some statistical facts of interest
in the advice and reply:
ssThe city of London, [says the Journal des Deba by
eectng NJ de Rothschd to be of its representatives, OBJ
ges the Parliament at its very opening pass dec
ve sentence on the great question Of religious liberty Will
the modern principle Of independence and the mparaly of
the State towards the different modes of worship, be extended
in England, it is in France, to the IsIaeles Will the
emancipation of the Jews be the consequence of the election
of NJ de Rothschd, and the intelligence of his electors
the emancipation of the Catholics rewarded the boness with
which Mr. OConnell forced upon the House of Commons
NJ de Rohschd has been returned contrary to law will the
legislative body abrogate maintain the law thus expressly
violated by the electoral body The most manifest proof of
this saluary revolution, which, since 1889, has altered the
foundation of public law in all civilized nations, the
sion OF from the Jews forming portion the peo
pe As the progress of sounder ideas aces the maedcon
with which the Jews struck in the middle ages the Jews
have become and COMPOUNDED with the different
European families to which they have hitherto been attached
subjects, but in which they have not been incorporated
citizens The time fast approaching when they will be-
in all countries what they in France-one church
the more in the Stae and nation apart within nation.
Human reason will have gained finer triumph If
reflect upon this universal tendency cannot help forming
favorable prognostc of the resolution which the British Par
lament will come this important event. II
main inferior to the Prussian Parliament, which, though
scarcely instituted, has given proof of lis liberal spirit the
in which it has discussed the question of the emanci
patton of the Jews. At the time be io,got-
ten that while England eckons only Jew every 2o76
inhabitants Prussia reckons in "a aud in part
Prussia the province Of Posen, there every L.
must also be remembered that the average of the social posi-
ton of the German Jews is far below that which for
tunae circumstances have in general raised the English Israeli
ties No is ignorant of the sad debasemen in which the
great majority of the Jews Posen vegea notwithstand
ing the recent efforts made TO raise them out of it, The
Prussan Deputies therefore, could not be without apprehen
for the when they should introduce into the
ona body such class of citizens many Of whom
prepared to receive this fraternity SUCH however,
has been the empire of philosophical principle in the Prussan
Diet that has constantly all the objections OF fact
and detail and the difficulties of execution have not prevent
ed immense majority Of the second order from declaring
itself in favor of the most complete reimbursement Of the
Jews 1t required only the first session of
this Parliament To have granted the sraetes the i'm
mediate privilege Of taking upon its benches Where
would be the benefit Of the wisdom of the honor OF
long of political life if this single voice which want
ing Berlin TO complete great and reasonable work, should
be wanting also for its contamination in London
To this rejoins the Londoner in the following
expressive terms of national respect and thankful
ness
"The Journal des Debats makes some sensible remarks in
favor of the emancipation Of the Jews from the civil hradom
under which they labor in Christian countries and eN
presses hope that England will take the opportunity of NJ
de Rothschlds ele,on for London follow the example of
France placing the Isaetes equal footing as to their
civil rights with the other classes Of the community We
sincerely join the De6ats in its hope in this respect and we
think that promise contemporary that the opinions
of the British Parliament about will be found sufi
GENTLY enlightened to eacc this blot from statuebook
We cannot however, help thinking that the Db assumes
for France superiority England in respect to religious
ceeds which does not altogether deserve We have 10
mind the Dt6dfs that previous to the revolution the French
Jews were kept in complete hraldom those OF England,
rid nj wle
iyed to get rid of religion altogether. is true that when
became question whether religion should be acknowledg
ed in France, and when the question carried in the af
native the letters to which Jews had been previously subject
ed not replaced but that the consequences not of
iberay but of indifference religion. For the Frenchen
who declared that France acknowledged the existence of
Divine Being, it Of great Indifference what the
religion was provided could be made Of engine
Of Government"
TO CONTINUED.
The Two SISTERS OF SrRyEr.-The following beautiful
passage the advantages Of those wonderful the
Microscope and Telescope, is by that eloquent writer DIR.