Tue indignation of all patriotic Englishmen at the cruel persecution of the Jewsin Russia will burns till more fiercely when it is realised that this persecution is really due to Lord Beaconsfield, as we learn from a writer in the Jewish Chronicle that it is. Lord Beaconsfield at Berlin tore up Count Iguatieff's treaty of San Stefano. "'lo any one but Iguatieff Lord Beaconsfield was an incarnation of all that was English and patriotic. Not so Ignatieff, to him Lord Beaconsfield was but a Jew. It was he that spoilt all his work, and as he could not have revenge on that particular Jew who was out of his reach, he decided to mete out his revenge to five million other Jews at hand in Russia, And five million Russian Jews were doomed." On the death of Alexander LI the present Czar made Ignatieff his Minister of the Interior. He offered the leading St. Petersburg Jews full emancipation for five million roubles. They refused the offer, for they had no confidence in the man who made it, and in May, 1881, a series of Anti-Jewish riots broke. out in Southern and South-Western Russia. The Czar was persuaded that the Nihilists in Russia were all Jews and, as. the Jews still refused to give Ignatieff the bribe he wanted, in May, 1882, the " May Laws," for regulating the position of the Jews in Russia were passed. These laws have been alternately put in force and relaxed; they are now being put in force with severity, and the suffering the Jews are now undergoing in Russia is the consequence.
The fall of Count Ignatieff occurred shortly after. the passing of these laws, and was brought about in a sufficiently remarkable manner. "One of the regulations forbids Jons to manage otto having invested all his capital honestly'
landed property. Count Ignatieff
made in Turkey, in landed property lying in South-Western Russia, he, on the eve of the promulgation of these regulations, telegraphed to his representatives to have all contracts with his Jewish managers or farmers renewed for another ten years.: The secret leaked out and reached the Czar's ears. Count Ignatieff was dismissed." But though he was dismissed, his malign influence remained, and he has been able to work through his brother, the present Governor-Geveral. of Kief. 'I'he endeavour is being made to expel from Russia three millions of men, whose chief fault is that they by their energy and ability—of which the State reaps the beaefit—make life too, hard for the less energetic and less able Russians. Emigration is their, only resource, and the writer in the Jewish Chronicle expects that Eugland will welcome to her shores those who have. been driven there by force and against their will: "she will make them doubly welcome as victims chosen by an offended political adventurer, as we know Count Ignatieff to be, to ex-plate what he considers a wrong action of England's greatest patriot—Lord Beaconsfield,"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.