The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-12-16
A CRY FRnM GIRRAI.rAp

AS with all national conflicts, the present war
existing between Spain and Morocco seriously af
fects some who are interested on neither side and
whose misforunes only the result of the chance
location of their homes. In the present instance it
is the Jews of Morocco who are such sufferers by
the Spanish war with that hafsavage empire. In
Morocco, as elsewhere, the Jews preserve their
distinct Individuality, and though among the peo-
pie of the empire, not of them. They reside
principally in the commercial towns, and are the
sole dealers in bullion and holders of capital. At
Tangiers, town situated on the Atlantic coast just
outside of the Straits of Gibraltar, and but few
miles distant from that celebrated fortress the Jews
were particularly numerous, and this is one of the
many towns of Barbary that they have deserted.
The few Christians in these towns have also been
obliged to leave.
1t is not much fear of the Spanish invasion
that induces the people to desert their homes as it
is the dread of the inroads of the interior Kabyles or
tribes Of Morocco, who in war would hasten to the
coast aud massacre without discrimination all white
men they might suppose to be Spaniards. It's to
escape this peril that the remarkable exodus of
Jews and Christians has just taken place from the
North African coast.
Being so Gibraltar, and having no other
place to go to, the refugees at once directed their
course to that famous port, and placed themselves
under the protection of the British flag. The Je1u
sh Messenger of n New Y ork publishes this week an
interesting letter from Gibraltar giving particulars
to the sad condition of the refugees who number
altogether about three thousand five hundred
chiefly Jews. About half of this number are in alb
solute want, and though the English Liutenant-
General, the people of Gibraltar, and even the Ro.
man Catholic priests on the mainland, have exert
| ed themselves to furnish the new comers with ne
cessaries to sustain life, their condition is yet de-
| scribed as being most deplorahle The presence Of
large fleet at the port, and the stoppage of trade
with the Barbary coast, have vastly Increased the
| price of provisions at Gibraltar, and the people
with the kindest intentions, will be quite una
BILE to provide this sudden increase of their popuIa
tion with food Starvation thus stares them in thu
face, and their lives depend upon the efforts of th
benevolent people in other countries. At the lates
dates from Gibraltar (November 5th) subscrip
tions had been opened at Lisbon, Madrid and Lon
| don.
A subscription list has also been opened in New
| York which is in the hands of Rev. S. NJ Isaacs
No. 654 Houston street.
SHAKESPEARE AND lNsANIrY.-Dr Brigham, tn
late eminent physician to the insane, said tha
Shakespeare was, in himself, as great psychology
cal curiosity any of insanity he had eve
met; and he declared that in the Asylum at Utic
he had seen all OF Shakespeare's insane characters
"We confess almost with shame" he says, "tha
although near two centuries and half have passe
since Shakespeare wrote King Lear. we have yer
little to add to his method of treating the insane
there pointed out.'