(Jealt,

t/t Chronicle)

We Bre still near the days when, even m England, the Jew was denied the full rights of citizenship. It is only thirty years sinco the battle for Jewish Hborties, m whjoh the City of London rangod itnelf early by tfio side of Baron Lionel de Bothechild, was finally won. And yet how rapid ere the strides which Jewish progress has mado m that brief interval ! The more fact that the election of a Jew to tho Mayoralty ie liardly regarded as anything more than an ordinary incident, show how quickly events havo marohed. Tho coincidences whirh hare been pointed out m connection with tho event heighten its figniQcnnco. It ia just seven hiiudrcd years since the terriblo massacre took place ut tho coronation of Richard 1., which served as fbo preljidp to the total oipiileiun of thp Jews a century Inter. The 'niassaero " cornmoncc3 almost on tho very spot whero, a fortnight ago, the Lord Chancellor received the Lord Mayor Blecr, and conveyed to him tho Sovereign's approval of hi' election. Tho year 1600, iv which the grpitcr part of Sjr ifenpy Ij^ao'e mayoralty will fall, will corpplefo th,o sn|,h century which has clapsad ainco the jews were hounded out of England, bag and boggage-., Tlio imnQinatisn must be dull indeed that is not stirred by tho contrast. Modern justice and morality hare triumphed oyor modiroval bigotry ; and tho indoßtruc tiblo onorgy of thn Jowish race has renewed its youth. Yesterday roviled and accursed, to-day feted and honoured by tho greatest m tho land. Yoslerday pariahs, driven out of England with contumely ; today sitting m tho scat of England's rulers, and meeting out justice to lier people! Lot us thank God foi it on our knees — us who aro reaping the bright harvest which our fathere aowod it) tears'.'

Biit if tlio lot of f.ho Jews >nth,o day of Sir Henry Isaacs, of London, is favoured indeed as compared with Hint depicted under tho nijinp of Idsidd of York, it js bocaugo tho world has progressed. Xbero aro tbo.op wl)o nt^rl buto tho dccljno of persecution to thp m: diffureuco to religion which is tho character istic of our ago. Wo cannot subscribe to this cynical view. 