THE CRUSADE AGAINST THE JEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2168, 5 February 1881, Page 3

THE CRUSADE AGAINST THE JEWS.

The Berlin correspondent of the " Times " telegraphing on December 2nd, says : —The Jewish question still continues to attract a large share of publio attention. The newspapers are debating it, polemical pamphlets on the subject are being poured forth, tumults on its acoounts are taking place among the aoademio youth, and an occasional fracas even still occurs in the public streets. Two members of the Prussian Parliament were walking home the other day when, overhearing a man with Hebrew features ostentatiously and with imperious oaths oalling out to his dog " Stoeoker " to come and get his muzzle put on, one asked the other what people would say if he called bis cur " Abraham," bailed a policeman, and gave the man in charge. Yesterday evening, too, aooording to the papers, a disgraceful soene oocurred in the University class-room of Professor Lesson, a gentleman of Jewish descent, though of Christian faith, who has protested all along against the persecution of his Semitio fellowsubjects. Attracted evidently by the sensation of a newspaper controversy, in wbioh the Professor had figured, the students crowded into his auditorium and raised such an uproar that the lecture had to be abandoned and the hall cleared. Yesterday evening, too, a large number of Jewish gentlemen, eminent in politics and literature, met to consider what steps should be taken to defend their race from the present agitation, when it was proposed to establish a journal in support of their cause. These are but a few examples to show you how the stream is still flowing. Meanwhile a writer in the new number of the " Grenzboten," an organ which is now and then privileged to reveal the secret mind and policy of Prinoe Bismarck, seeks to vindioate his Highness from the imputation of regarding the anti-Semitic movement with a certain degree of sympathy and even fanning it. The notorious Court obaplain, too, is judged in very severe terms by the writer, who, if not an inspired familiar of the Chancellor, may be at least supposed, from the character of his journal, to express little out of harmony with the Prince's views.