Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-05-02 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THE EXPULSION OF RUSSIAN JEWS. Eight hundred Jewish families, numbering in all more than 4,000 souls, are under orders to leave Kieff immediately. From a trustworthy correspondent in that city a Daily News correspondent learns t hat the contemplated expulsion of Jews from the city and Government of Kieff will affect altogether at least 15,000 of their number. Those who have the means are emigrating, but unfortunately there is a large residuum of poor artisans and their families who find themselves in cruel straits on reaching the Austrian frontier without money. The Austrian authorities are also refusing domicile to Jewish pauper immigrants. The police authorities are prosecuting raids among the Jews with great severity. Unfortunately, it is the poorest class of artisans, who as a rule live from hand to mouth, who are compelled to leave the city under the most cruel circumstances, whilst the usurers and others of nondescript occupations appear to find means of evading for a time the laws of expulsion. The number of those now dully expelled from the city of Moscow averages from 100 to 150 persons of both sexes. On Sunday week, as the result of an extraordinary police raid, 690 Jews were expelled. A night raid made in the suburb of Sarjadje caused the expulsion of 160 Jews alleged to have no residential passports. The rigour with which the new edict is beinc, carried out by the police is causing a voluntary exodus of Jews from the region of Moscow who have legitimate claims to permanent residence, but are afraid of the penalties now indiscriminately inflicted. The great Jewish centre of Odessa is within the pale, but distrust in the execution of the new edict is now so widely felt that the ordinary Jewish emigration has grown fourfold during the past few weeks. Several foreign Jewish houses in South Russia are making arrangements for placing their businesses in the hands of Russian agents and quitting the country. The new edicts will be put into more rigorous operation after the Jewish Passover.  Mr. Justice Kekewich decided on Tuesday an application made by the Attorney-General, at the instance of the Earl of Lichfield, to sequestrate the property of the Corporation of Lichfield for having di,olieyed a perpetual injunction granted agenst thtm in 1878. This injunction restrained them from allowing the sewage of the city to pass into two brooks without first being purified.—His lordThip, after an elaborate review of the evidence Df the case, said it was clear that the brook was polluted by the sewage, and that Lord Lichfield's cattle were injured. He gave leave to issue a writ Df sequestration i;g,airtst the Corporation but Erected that the writ should be in the offiCe for ',liree months. _  A shocking murder was committed at Hordle, Mar Lymington, on Monday morning, a young man named Elwes, in a fit of passion, shooting his mother dead with-a revolver.  At one of the sittings of the Federal Convention Sir H. Parkes stated "that in point of private wealth, which was a most subtle and most convincing test of a nation's happiness, New South Wales stood ahead of the civilised world, her private wealth awounting to over £400,000,000, which would give for every inhabitant £368. Victoria, the next colony, had not nearly that sum." The accuracy of this statement has been challenged by Victorian Ministers, and the Government Statist has calculated that taking the five years ended with 1889, the private wealth of the people of Victoria amounted to L 416,492,559 or £399 per head; whereas that of New South Wales amounted only to £332,445,850, or £319 per head.  mesoliminomimimismimmommommoommiumimmommommmommomiNlMllll