s trampled, lives still, a witness and a warning
to us. [1]

[Footnote 1: In reproducing the quotations I have followed in the
main the account of the Mansion House Meeting contained in the
pamphlet published In New York under the title _Proceedings of
Meetings held February 1, 1882, at New York and London, to Express
Sympathy with the Oppressed Jews in Russia_. The account of the
_Jewish Chronicle of_ February 8, 1882, offers a number of
variations.]

After several more speeches by Canon Farrar, Professor Bryce,[1] and
others, the following resolutions were adopted:

[Footnote 1: James Bryce, the famous writer and statesman, subsequently
British ambassador at Washington.]

1. That, in the opinion of this meeting, the persecution and the
outrages which the Jews in many parts of the Russian dominions have
for several months past suffered are an offence to Christian
civilization, and to be deeply deplored.

2. That this meeting, while disclaiming any right or desire to
interfere in the internal affairs of another country, and desiring
that the most amicable relations between England and Russia should
be preserved, feels it a duty to express its opinion that the laws
of Russia relating to Jews tend to degrade them in the eyes of the
Christian population, and expose Russian Jewish subjects to the
outbreaks of fanatical ignorance.

3. That the Lord Mayor be requested to forward a copy of these
resolutions to the Right Honourable W.B. Gladstone and the Right
Honourable Earl Granville, in the hope that Her Majesty's Government
may be able, when an opportunity arises, to exercise a friendly
influence with the Russian Government in accordance with the spirit
of the preceding resolutions.

Finally a resolution was adopted to open a relief fund for the sufferers
of the pogroms and for improving the condition of Russian Jewry by
emigration as well as by other means. The committee chosen by the
meeting for this purpose included the Lord Mayor, the Archbishop of
Canterbury, Cardinal Manning, the Bishop of London, Nathaniel de
Rothschild, and others.

A few days after the Mansion House Meeting the English Government
responded to the resolutions adopted on that occasion. The following
dispatch, dated London, February 9, appeared in the Russian papers:

In the House of Commons, Gladstone, replying to an interpellation of
Sir John Simon, stated that reports concerning the persecutions