A remarkable meeting of protest against the charge of ritual
murder brought against the Jewish race was held at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, on Tuesday night. Sir Francis Montefiore presided over an assembly representing all shades of religious and political convictions, and letters of sympathy -with the protest were sent by the Archbishops of York and Canterbury, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain and Mr. Boner Law, the Bishops of London, Winchester, Hereford, Exeter, and Stepney, Lord Justice Vaughan Williams, and Lord Rosebery. The principal resolution, protesting against the recrudescence of this baseless and wicked charge, and
inviting the moral support of the civilised world for the Russian Government in any measures it may take for pro- tecting the Jewish subjects of the Tsar from obloquy and insult, was moved by Professor A. V. Dicey and supported by Father Hampton, Mr. G. H. Radford, M.P., and Mr. Unswortb, an officer of the Salvation Army. The meeting was, in short, a convincing proof of the attitude of the entire English nation towards what one of the speakers called "an odious libel upon a long-suffering race."
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