§ MR. LAYARDsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he has felt it is duty to make any remonstrances to the Government of the Danubian Principalities on the subject of the gross ill treatment to which the Jews in that country have been subjected; and whether the persecution of them has been stopped?
LORD STANLEYA report from many members of the Jewish community in this country having been received as to gross outrages and acts of persecution endured by their nation in the Principalities, and these communications being, as I have reason to believe, in the main well founded, I have thought it my duty to telegraph to the British Consul at Bucharest, instructing him—the matter being one not of policy, but of simple humanity—to make 1498 a representation in strong, but friendly terms, on the subject. This, I understand, he has done, and I hope the result may be beneficial to those in whose behalf we have interfered.