lished by the _Times_ decided a number of prominent Englishmen
to call the protest meeting which had been postponed half a year
previously. Eighty-three foremost representatives of English society
addressed a letter to the Lord Mayor of London calling upon him to
convene such a meeting. The office of Lord Mayor at that time was
occupied by Joseph Savory, a Christian, who did not share the
susceptibilities which had troubled his Jewish predecessor. Immediately
on assuming office, Savory gave his consent to the holding of the
meeting.

On December 10, 1890, the meeting was held in the magnificent Guildhall,
belonging to the City of London, and was attended by more than 2000
people. The Lord Mayor who presided over the gathering endeavored in his
introductory remarks to soften the bitterness of the protest for the
benefit of official Russia.

As I hear--he said--the Emperor of Russia is a good husband and a
tender father, and I cannot but think that such a man must
necessarily be kindly disposed to all his subjects. On his Majesty
the Emperor of Russia the hopes of the Russian Jews are at the
present moment fixed. He can by one stroke of his pen annul those
laws which now press so grievously upon them and he can thus give a
happy life to those Jewish subjects of his who now can hardly be
said to live at all.

In conclusion, the Lord Mayor expressed the wish that Alexander III. may
become the "emancipator" of the Russian Jews, just as his father
Alexander II. had been the emancipator of the Russian serfs.

Cardinal Manning, the warm-hearted champion of Jewish emancipation, who
was prevented by illness from being present, sent a long letter which
was read to the meeting. The argument against interfering with the inner
politics of a foreign country, the cardinal wrote, had found its first
expression in Cain's question, "Am I my brother's keeper?" There is a
united Jewish race scattered all over the world, and the pain inflicted
upon it in Russia is felt by the Jewish race in England. It is wrong to
keep silent when we see six million men reduced to the level of
criminals, particularly when they belong to a race "with a sacred
history of nearly four thousand years."

The speakers who followed the Lord Mayor pictured in vivid colors the
political and civil bondage of Russian Jewry.

The first speaker, the Duke of Westminster, after recounting the
sufferings of Russian Jewry, moved the adoption of the prot