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The German papers from, Warsaw of the 5th instant contain

a decree, directing that Jews are no longer to be allowed to use the baptismal names of Christians as their first names. The ground al- leged is, that the police desire to have further means of surveillance over the Jews. Nothing is more absurd. We use as baptismal names every Jewish name, from Abraham to Malachi ; are they to be for- bidden to the Jews themselves ? Or, are not John, Simon, Joseph, Mary, Anne, &c. in their original Hebrew? But the thing is imprac- ticable. —Standard.