The Sun. — 1864-12-06 (London, England)

HUNT CUP.  BANKRUPTS, That portion of the Gazette containing the Bankrup'cs had. not arrived when we went to press.  Course of Exehange,—This Day,  Amsterdam Ditto nu t tenni m — 11 19 12 19} Autwerp — 25 57f 25 65 Brussels _ 25 57f 25 65 Hamburg — 13 8 13 gt Paris . . Ditto Marseilles — 25 60 25 65 Frankfort on Maine —120 i Vienna 'Trieste Petereburgh .. —30 i Berlin — — _ _ . _ _  Madrid —46 i  , Cadiz — 1 47- 471 Leghorn — 26 70 25 771 Milan.... — 25 70 25 77k Genoa Naples Palermo —. 26 75 25 80 Messina — 26 75 25 80 Lisbon Oporto Foreign Gold in Bare (Standard)......per oz., £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars ...  The German Legal Protection Society.  The following letter has been addressed to the editor of the Manchester Courier : Sir,—Tho German Legal Protection Society in London, which took up the case of the unfortunate Muller with so much earnestness and magnanimity, has introduced the following passage in the memorial to the Queen " If Muller were one of the two men seen in the railway carriage—though Mr Lee declares that he was not—it is  hard to conceive how ho could have been found in possession of the whole of the property, as he would have to share it with his confederate. It is more probable that he purchased it all from one of these men or from a Jew accomplice of theirs afterwards, under circumstances that when he came to reflect upon them, excited his own suspicions." Vide Times, November 11. Tho undersigned abstains for the present from all comment on this astounding passage. lie confines himself to the reproduction of the words in  columns of the Courier; and in doing so he begs to ask  the 'elerman Legal Protection Society, "by the support of what arguments the society assumes the right to express a presumption which, under all aspects, involves the most mortifying accusation to all the adherents of the Jewish petsuasion P What entitles the society to suppose that the imagined accomplice could be no other than a Jew l'" The Legal Protection Society cannot and must not leave this question without an answer. It owes an explanation, not merely to Jews, but also to public opinion, which it has irritated through its assertion. It owes besides an explanation to the sublime principle of equality and toleration that rules in this free country; and finally it owes that explanation to the great Fatherland in whose name and interest the society has stepped forward—to that very Fatherland, which with a sentiment of noble indignation, has blotted out from her statutes and usages the difference between Jew and Christian. The undersigned is a member of the religious body which, according to the purport of the above passage is in danger of being charged with participation in the foul crime of murder. But at the same time he is a German, and is keenly alive to all that concerns his native land—and on both these circumstances he founds a right to make the following earnest demand to the society. It may be that the society or the reader will ask why precisely the undersigned, and nobody else, has ventured to urge the grievance he mentions, No doubt the opprobrious expression the Legal Protection Society has made use of in the above passage awakens at this time in many a Jewish and Christian mind a burning indignation. But in concerns that speak eo much for themselves, I think any person has the right to be heard who first feels the impulse to give utterance to the complaint. Manchester, Nov, liO, 1861.  11.