by the Rothschild Family on behalf of the persecuted Jews had been also great. The Report proceeded to allude to the Meeting held on the 15th inst., at which it was resolve to call the present Assembly, with a view of shewing the Necessity of further Interference on the part of the Jews of Europe in favour of their persecuted Brethren of Damascus: and as the Consistoire central des Israelites of Paris had prevailed on M. Cremieux to proceed to Alexandria as their Delegate to advocate the Cause of the accused Jews in Damascus, it was expedient that some Gentlemen of Rank and Talent should be delegated by the Jews of London to accompany M. Cremieux, to co-operate with him; that Sir Moses Montefiore, for his high moral Character, his Influence and Zeal, is particularly fitted to defend the British Jews at the Court of the Pacha of Egypt, and that Sir Moses Montefiore be requested to accept such appointment."

The Fear was expressed by another Speaker, that the Persecution might not be stopped, unless by the exertion of this and similar Meetings. Sir Moses Montefiore, while receiving the Honour offered to him, acknowledged as the Intention of his Mission "to assert the claims of outraged Humanity, and to bring their Accusers to Shame and Contempt, and further to teach more humane Practices to the Governors of the East, and to make Justice triumph there over unbridled Power."

This Anxiety shown by the B.itish Jews for the wellbeing of their unhappy Brethren, and this Energy in the cause of suffering Humanity, even though the Cause was comparatively trifling and evanescent, does great Honour to the British Jews, and prepares us to expect from them a like Conduct on a like Occasion. That Occasion has recently presented itself in the North, and here it is not a temporary Outbreak of Rabble Fanaticism, against which they have to screen, or from which they have to rescue their Israelite Brethren,

here it is not Tens or even Hundreds, it is Thousands and Tens of Thousands, it is whole Populations who are assailed, it is Tens of Thousands that are doomed to Destruction, Hundreds of Thousands that are driven to Misery, and that by the Sovereign whom they obey and serve, and it is, by System that they are smitten.

This occurs, and there is no assembling in the Synagogues,-no Deputies from London or from Paris, not an Effort of any kind is made, not a Voice is raised! Is it then a fearful thing to persecute the Jews in the East, but nothing to exterminate them in the North? Is it worth while to save a few from suffering, but not so to save a great many? Have the Yearnings of the Jew for his Brethren died away in the course of three Years? Is the Scene so remote that it cannot be reached, or the Obstacles to affording Relief have they extinguished Consciousness and Sympathy? How can this Indifference of a Body so proverbially attached to each other, and which have recently manifested that Attachment in so signal a Manner be accounted for under this the heaviest Blow that for Centuries has fallen on their Head? This there is no Difficulty in accounting for. The Persecutor is Russia. That says all! Who dares to question, aye, or even to wince, when he knows that it is her Hand that applies the Lash? That Moment, those who were heard the loudest, and who looked the fiercest, are heard no more, and their Eye is on the Ground. It is all one, Jew or Gentile, Stock-broker or Field-Marshal, Clothesman or Sovereign, Montefiore or Gordon, Rothschild or Guelf, they are all Servants to the same Master, and Beasts of Burden,-there is Pasture for them in the same Valley, Harness for them in the Stall; they feed, and perform their Task!

I remain, Sir, an indignant

GOTH.

AT HOME AND ABROAD.

[We have received from a Correspondent a Letter, of which we subjoin the material Passages, and an Enclosure, which we publish entire.-ED. PORTF.]

"The accompanying Letter, signed "A Repealer," was addressed by me to a London Catholic Journal, which has lately espoused the Cause of the Repeal Association of Ireland. I will not trouble you with the Correspondence which followed. Suffice it to say, that my Letter was not expressly refused, but not inserted.

"The Fate of my Letter appeared to me, at the Time, to be an important Commentary upon the Character and Value of it. Therein I had brought Charges of Disloyalty against the Leaders of the Repeal Cause, and I had substantiated them by quoting their own Public Declarations. The Repeal Print suppressed them!

"Perhaps the following Passage may best explain, what were the Reflections of the Editor upon the Occasion. I find it in the very latest Number of his Paper. He may have had my Letter in his Mind when he wrote it. It is a most fatal Illustration of the destroying Influences which Faction can employ against the State.

"Does any Man suppose that we are to be such Block"heads as to go about to propagate Disaffection, weaken "Confidence, shake Discipline, check Enthusiasm, and dis"turb the Plan of Operations, on every slight and ima"ginary Ground? There is obviously too much at Stake "in this Contest of Agitation for any wise Man to adopt "such a Course !" &c.

"These being the Sentiments of a Paper which professes to speak for and to the Catholics of the Empire, I feel myself solemnly called upon, as a Catholic, to comę

forward, and indignantly to disclaim them. It is with this View that I seek the Insertion of these Lines in the "Portfolio." Making every Allowance for occasional theological Inaccuracies in Thought or Expression, I am bound to declare, that the "Portfolio" has seized the true View of a Catholic's Duty to his Church as well as to the State, and has represented it with wonderful Clearness and Correctness. It is awful to turn to the other Side of the Picture, and to contemplate the universal Abandonment of the same great Field of Duty by Journals professedly Catholic, that they may find Leisure to cultivate the ephemeral Interests of some political Faction, in its miserable Warfare with the State!

"One Word upon my Character of "Repealer." It is due to me that I shonld explicitly disavow the slightest Participation, either in Thought or Act, with those who are generally distinguished by that Name. I abominate the unprincipled Faction of "Conciliation Hall," as much as I abominate those of the Carlton and Reform Clubs; and, indeed, every other Species of sectarian Organisation so rife amongst us. I am a Repealer, not in their Sense, but in mine own; and, as I believe, in the Sense of the "Portfolio." I desire the Repeal of the Legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland; as I desire the Repeal of the Act which united England to Scotland; as I desire that of every other Act, whensoever passed, for extinguishing local Franchises to the Profit of Central Malversation. This View of Repeal, and that which the Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland" take of it, are essentially opposed to each other. But were our Views the same, I should still hold myself dishonoured and disgraced, were I to stoop to their factious Methods of promoting them. Sir Robert Peel indeed has done much. the same. He has afforded to the Repealers an Example

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which they scarcely required. The Union with him is what the Repeal is with his Opponents; a Party Watchword; and the one is but the Echo of the other.

"For my Part, I am on my Guard against both. If I call myself a Repealer, it is not in the Sense of Mr. O'Connell. If a Conservative, it is not in the Sense of Sir Robert Peel. In the modern Vocabularies of Faction, these Terms have opposite and contradictory Meanings. In the Language of the Constitution, they are identical!"

SIR,

Feast of the Epiphany, 1844.

One of your Correspondents lately drew your Attention to the Language habitually used by Mr. O'Connell when speaking of Foreign Affairs in their Connection with Repeal. You seemed to think that a Meaning had been set, by "Credat Judæus," upon the Liberator's Words which these did not warrant; and that Mr. O'Connell never meant to exult over the Crimes meditated or committed by France, America, and Russia, against the United Kingdom or her Foreign Allies, nor the Disgrace and Embarrassment brought upon the United Kingdom by her own Crimes ;-but only to point them out for the Warning of those opposed to Repeal. It appeared to me at the time that the Explanation was improbable, and even directly contrary to Evidence.

In the of this Day, I find a most scandalous Confirmation of my Surmises, in an Extract from Mr. O'Connell's own Organ, the Pilot; headed, "Ireland bides her Time." You will say that this is not conclusive against Anybody but the Writer. If you think so, I beg also to draw your Attention to the following Passage contained in