§ MR. SERJEANT SIMONasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether information has been received at the Foreign Office respecting the atrocities lately committed upon the Jews in Roumania, where, according to accounts through public and private channels, the Jews in the district of Darabina were attacked, and, without reference to age or sex, brutally ill-used, their houses sacked or pulled down, their property destroyed or plundered, and over a thousand persons, including women and children, wounded, many of whom have since died of their wounds; whether information has reached the Foreign Office of similar outrages in Jassy, where a synagogue and many of the houses of the Jews have been pulled down or burnt, their property plundered, and several hundred Jews reduced in consequence to a state of destitution; whether Her Majesty's Government will cause inquiry to be made respecting these alleged proceedings, and, if true, use their good offices to induce the Roumanian Government to punish the offenders and give redress to the injured Jews; and, whether they will at the same time endeavour to impress upon the Government of Roumania the importance and the duty of adopting a course of treatment towards the Jews in that Country more in harmony with the usages of civilised Government?
§ MR. BOURKEThe only Report that has reached Her Majesty's Government, with regard to the ill-treatment of Jews in Roumania, since the Reports that are on the Table of the House, is contained in a Report from the Vice Consul at Jassy, dated the 15th of April last, relative to an outrage on two Jews at Vashü by the police of that town. One of these was a Russian subject, and a representation was made by the Russian Consul to the Procureur Général upon the subject and redress was promised. With regard to the outrage said to have occurred at a place called Darabina, to which the first Question of the hon. and learned Gentleman refers, no account of that outrage has reached the Foreign Office; but the Consul General at Bucharest has been ordered to address inquiries to the authorities upon the subject, and if such an outrage has occurred representations will be made by the Consul General to the authorities upon the subject and the same remonstrances will be made by the Consul General as have been made in similar instances before.