ld in the result be confirmed by their strict fulfilment.

_June 28th._--Sir Robert conveyed to Sir Moses, in a letter dated from
Osborne, Isle of Wight, the gratifying news that Her Majesty had
conferred on him the dignity of Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland.

"I have the satisfaction of acquainting you," he writes, "that the
Queen has been graciously pleased to confer on you the dignity of a
baronet. This mark of Royal favour is bestowed upon you in
consideration of your high character and eminent position in the ranks
of a loyal and estimable class of Her Majesty's subjects agreeing with
you in religious profession, and in the hope that it may aid your
truly benevolent efforts to improve the social condition of the Jews
in other countries by temperate appeals to the justice and humanity of
their rulers."

The honour thereby conferred on Sir Moses by Her Majesty was not
only a cause of great happiness to himself, individually, but
also a source of the highest gratification to all his brethren in
the British Empire and on the continent, inasmuch as it
undoubtedly manifested Her Majesty's solicitude for the welfare
of all the Jews in other parts of the world.

A deputation from the elders of the Spanish and Portuguese
Jews Synagogue, headed by their President, Mr Hananel de
Castro, waited on Sir Moses to request, in the name of their
co-religionists, that he would sit for his portrait, to be
placed in the Vestry-room, to which he consented.

Sir George Hamilton, whom he had requested, when at Berlin, to
present a petition to the King of Prussia in favour of the Jews
at Krakau, informs him (June 12th) that, when dining with his
Majesty at Sans Souci, he had an opportunity of speaking to him
on the subject which Sir Moses had entreated him to explain to
His Majesty. "The King," he wrote, "was very gracious on the
occasion;" and he sent to His Majesty the petition prepared by
Sir Moses. The King regretted very much not to have seen him at
Berlin, and wished Sir Moses could have remained there until his
return.

The good offices rendered by Sir George in engaging His Majesty's
favourable consideration on the subject became a cause of much
happiness to Sir Moses.

_July 11th._--He attended the Lord Mayor's grand entertainment
given to His Highness Ibrahim Pasha. His Lordship introduced him
to the latter before dinner, and proposed his health to the
company, which was extremely well receiv