RETURN OE THE JEWS TO PALESTINE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 931, 22 October 1879, Page 2

RETURN OE THE JEWS TO PALESTINE.

It has not perhaps been generally, known that of late years there has, been an indiscribable yearning amongst many sections b£ the Jewish people to return to the cradle of their race, and such a stream of emigration has set m that some of the Jews were proposing to arrest it by assisting the pauper emigrants to return to their own countries. The Jewish Chrotride, while lamenting the influx, said they might as well attempt to turn the course of the Atlantic as to stem this irrisistible tide. In the total population of 36,000, the Jews m Jerusalem were reckoned two years ago to have increased to 13,000, and now they were numbered, at 18,000, and the contributions foi their support from the Jews of other countries were estimated at £60,000 a year. A very remarkable statement was recently made by one of the Jewish organs, namely*:— "lf it is the good will of Providence . that there should arise out of the accumulated ashes of desolation which cover Palestine an era of glory which shall unite the Jews m the cradle of their race and their religion, that consummation could not take place under happier auspices than those of England. ' r A South German paper affirms "that the Holy Land has fallen out of the hands of the Turk into those of the Jew !" It says " that the great banking house of the Rothchilds has lent Turkey the sum of two thousand million franca, . and has received m return a deed of mortgage upon the entire land of Palestine. ~ observes further that as it is quite impossible for a bankrupt and declining State like Turkey to pay back the money, the Israelites may now count upon their return to the Land of. Promise as a certainty."