A deputation from the Jews of the United Kingdom con-
gratulated Cardinal Manning on Thursday, on having attained the twenty-fifth anniversary of his espiscopal consecration. Dr. Adler, who presented the address, spoke with great feeling of the services Cardinal Manning had rendered to the Jewish refugees of the Russian persecution in 1881-82. Cardinal Manning replied in a stately speech. "I should not be true," he said, " to my own faith, if I did not venerate yours. There are, I believe, only three indestructible elements in the history of man,—the people and faith of Israel : the Catholic Church sprung from it : and the world which has persecuted both." Yes ; but was not the world a good deal sparred on to the persecution of the Jews, by the Church which insisted that the Jews had remained Jews only through obstinate self-will? To Cardinal Manning, Christianity means Catholicism. But to some who certainly cannot be said to have belonged to the world which persecuted either Israel or Catholicism, it appears perfectly impossible to maintain that Catholicism has always meant Christianity.
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