useful in accumulating reservoirs of capital, should be perse- cuted
because they are exclusive, intellectually arrogant, and as a rule Theists. If any Sovereign might be expected to dislike them it is the Emperor of Austria, who is ultramon- tane in his sympathies, if not in his personal convictions; bat according to the Vienna correspondent of the Daily News, Francis Joseph recently gave an audience to the Chief Rabbi, listened with respect to a Hebrew blessing, and requested bim to state everywhere that the Emperor felt "indignant at the brutality " with which the Jews in Bohemia have been treated. That sentence will greatly annoy the Clericals, but as Lord Beaconsfield once told the House of Commons. "the Jews have seen, and have survived, the Pharaohs." The house of Rothschild, it is said, has always a certain devotion to the Hapsburgs, and in the deadly struggle of 1860 made its feeling very effective in support of the dynasty.
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