orced to reside chiefly in towns that reek and
overflow with every form of poverty and wretchedness; forbidden all
free movement; hedged in every enterprise by restrictive laws;
forbidden tenure of land, or all concern in land, their means of
livelihood have become so cramped as to render life for them
well-nigh impossible.

Nor are they cramped alone in space and action. The higher education
is denied them, except in limits far below the due proportion of
their needs and aspirations. They may not freely exercise
professions, like other subjects of your Majesty, nor may they gain
promotion in the Army, however great their merit and their
valour....

Sire! we who have learnt to tolerate all creeds, deeming it a
principle of true religion to permit religious liberty, we beseech
your Majesty to repeal those laws that afflict these Israelites.
Give them the blessing of equality! In every land where Jews have
equal rights, the nation prospers. We pray you, then, annul those
special laws and disabilities that crush and cow your Hebrew
subjects....

Sire! your Royal Sister, our Empress Queen (whom God preserve!)
bases her throne upon her people's love, making their happiness her
own. So may your Majesty gain from your subjects' love all strength
and happiness, making your mighty empire mightier still, rendering
your Throne firm and impregnable, reaping new blessings for your
House and Home.

The memorial was signed by Savory, who was Lord Mayor at that time, and
forwarded by him to St. Petersburg. It was accompanied by a letter,
dated December 24, from the Lord Mayor to Lieutenant-General de Richter,
aide-de-camp of the Tzar for the reception of petitions, with the
request to transmit the document to the emperor.

It is almost unnecessary to add that this touching appeal for justice by
the citizens of London failed to receive a direct reply. There were
rumors that the London petition threw the Tzar into a fury, and the
future court annalist of Russia will probably tell of the scene that
took place in the imperial palace when this document was read. An
indirect reply came through the cringing official press. The mouthpiece
of the Russian Government abroad, the newspaper _Le Nord_ in Brussels,
which was especially engaged in the task of whitewashing the black
politics of its employers, published an article under the heading "A
Last Word concerning Semitism," in which the ran