2.] The most powerful speech was delivered by Cardinal Manning, the great Catholic divine.

He pointed to the fact that the Russian Jews were not only the object of temporary pogroms but that they constantly groaned under the yoke of a degrading legislation which says to the Jew: "You may not pass beyond that boundary; you must not go within eighteen miles of that frontier; you must not dwell in that town; you must live only in that province." He caused laughter in the audience by quoting from Ignatyev's famous circular concerning the appointment of the gubernatorial commissions, in which, commenting upon the terrible atrocities recently perpetrated upon the _Jews_, the Minister lamented "the sad condition of the _Christian_ inhabitants of the southern provinces." Cardinal Manning concluded his eloquent address with the following words marked by a lofty, prophetic strain: There is a book which is common to the race of Israel and to us Christians.

That book is the bond between us, and in that book I read that the people of Israel are the eldest people upon the earth.
Russia and Austria and England are of yesterday, compared with the imperishable people, which, with an inextinguishable life and immutable traditions, and faith in God and in the laws of God, scattered, as it is, all over the world, passed through the fires unscathed, trampled into the dust, and yet never combining with the dust into which it is trampled, lives still, a witness and a warning to us.

[1] [Footnote 1: In reproducing the quotations I have followed in the main the account of the Mansion House Meeting contained in the pamphlet published In New York under the title _Proceedings of Meetings held February 1, 1882, at New York and London, to Express Sympathy with the Oppressed Jews in Russia_.

The account of the _Jewish Chronicle of_ February 8, 1882, offers a number of variations.] After several more speeches by Canon Farrar, Professor Bryce,[1] and others, the following resolutions were adopted: [Footnote 1: James Bryce, the famous writer and statesman, subsequently British ambassador at Washington.] 1.