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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 43, 7 April 1863, Page 2

Tjte Jews m tjtk Papal States. — The flag of France, as Kurope is continually informed by the semi official journals of the Second Empire, is ever, above all other flags, the banner of civilization, the pillar of fire m the van of the march of mankind. This is the text from which our contemporaries over the water, with one or two honest exceptions, are never tired of appealing to the pride ami glory of their readers. England, of course, is a gross, mercantile, shopkeeping nation, immersed m selfish interests, and never rising to the height of a generous idea. Let us see what sort of civilization it is that the flag of France harbors and protects m the fatter half of tbe 19th century. Only the other flay, at Valletri, m the Papal States, a Cardinal vicar m his capacity of Minister of Police, issued an ordinance for the expulsion of the Israelites from his diocese. In pursuance of this ordinance men, women and children were forthwith driven out from their homes and forced to take shelter wherever they could find it beyond the frontier. Ihis wholsale eviction was carried out m the presence and under the protection "'' i Vance. So difficult is it for your grande naH> ■■< iv be at the same time the soldat de Dieu aint soldat duPape. This incident of the French occupation is related by the Opinion Nationaio, a .journal whose testimony m a case which concerns the honor of the French flag cannot be suspected. — Daily News,