and your Royal Highness was first led to know Him of whom Moses in the Law and Prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.

"The poem will be found to contain a description of the national and literary character of the English nation and its august Queen, your Royal Highness, the coronation of her Most Gracious Majesty, the auspicious marriage of the Queen to your Royal Highness, the happy birth of a Princess and Prince, and the Baptism of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, &c. &c."

CHAPTER XVI.

The efforts for the Removal of Jewish Disabilities-Mr. Grant-The Petitions from London and Liverpool in favour of Abolition-Lord Bexley-The Reform Bill impeded its progress-Extract from the late Dr. Howley's (Archbishop of Canterbury's) Speech--Dr. Whateley, Archbishop of Dublin, delivered a most magnificent Address on the same Question Sheriffs' Declaration Bill - David Salomons made Sheriff of London-Lord Monteagle's exertions to remove Jewish Disabilities-Their fruitless end-Moses Montefiore knighted--The Queen a Friend of Israel-A Royal Letter respecting Sir Moses Montefiore--Mr. Divett's Bill-A poetic Appeal--The Jews admitted to Municipal Rights--David Salomon's munificent Presentation to the City of London Schools -- His Letter- Documents appertaining to the Circumstance--Religious Opinion Relief Bill.

IT is time that we review the efforts which have been making, for the last twenty years, for

the removal of the civil disabilities under which the Anglo-Hebrews labour. Those efforts commenced in the year 1830, when a vast number of petitions in favour of the Jews were presented from different parts of the country. Mr. Grant, the Member for Inverness, brought in the bill, in which he was warmly supported by Mr. Alexander Baring, the late Lord Ashburton, and by the able and clear-headed statesman, Mr. Huskisson, then Member for Liverpool. The former presented a petition in favour of the bill, signed by fourteen thousand merchants, bankers, and traders of the City of London; and the latter presented another from Liverpool, signed by upwards of two thousand persons, comprising the mayor, many members of the corporation, several clergymen of the Church of England, every banker and every merchant of importance and influence. General Gascoyne, the other Member for Liverpool, and who followed Mr. Huskisson in order to oppose the bill, acknowledged that he "had not known, for many years, any petitions presented from Liverpool more numerously or respectably signed." However, the bill was lost at the second reading by a majority of 228 to 165. Lord Bexley made like

exertions, the same year, in the House of Lords, but the fall of the Wellington Government, and the introduction of the Reform Bill, impeded for a time any progress either in the Upper or Lower House. The Jews were, however, favoured with a ray of hope the following year, by having been admitted to the freedom of the City of London.

In 1833 Mr. Grant and Lord Bexley repeated their efforts. The former succeeded in carrying his point through the House of Commons; and the latter was ably supported by the Duke of Sussex, Lord Melbourne, Lord LyndhurstLord Chancellor-the Archbishop of Dublin, the Bishop of Chichester, and the Marquis of Westminster. The late Archbishop of Canterbury-Dr. Howley-though he did not vote for the bill, made a speech which should have induced all to support Lord Bexley's motion. The following is an extract of his Grace's address, and those who had the honour of knowing him, will at once discover that it is a correct index of his pious mind :-

"I do not feel harshly towards the Jewish nation. I look on the Jews as the most remarkable people on earth. Having been separated

in the beginning from the nations, they shone forth in ancient times like a light in the firmament, proclaiming the attributes of the Creator and the hope of a Redeemer to a benighted world. Even in their present state of depression, they retain their original character as vouchers of divine truth; they bear a testimony irrefutable, because it is involuntary, to the faith of the Gospel-attesting the truth of the prophecies which alone relate to the mission of Christ, by their own misfortunes. In this light, I cannot but view them with feelings of admiration and pity—admiration for the constancy with which, through all times, under every vicissitude, they have adhered to their faith, and pity for their errors and their sufferings. I trust, however, that the time will arrive when the veil will drop from their eyes, when they will see the delusion which has led them astray, and will fly into the arms of the Saviour, whom they have despised and rejected, but which are ever open to receive them. I regard them as brothers estranged for a while from the family, but eventually to be restored to the household of faith, under the protection of our common Father. In fact, my Lords, the moral and social code of the Jews, I