The Times' Berlin correspondent states that the anti-Jewish agitation has
become serious in Germany. The Germans declare that the profits of commerce all go to Jews, who mono- polise the control of the Liberal Press, enter Parliament in too great numbers, and, as they think, pervert the course of German politics. They, therefore, earnestly entreat the Chancellor to pre- vent further Jewish immigration, to keep Jews out of office, and to prevent them from becoming Professors. They ask, in fact, for a revival of disabilities. Meanwhile, the Jews are excluded by aristocratic feeling from becoming officers, and are the objects of frequent insult in cafés and public places. So serious is the commotion, that the subject is to be brought forward in Parlia meat in a formal debate, the Jews evidently suspecting the Emperor—who many years ago complained of their influence at the elections—of favouring their assailants. It does not appear that any definite charge is levelled against the Jews, except that of being too successful ; but the indefinite feeling is that they are governed by views of interest and by the desire for luxury alone, and have neither patriotism nor Christian principle. They are not likely to be patriotic while they are thus treated, and they are quite as Christian as the sceptics, but the angry suspicion of the populace has this much justification. The Jews in every country form a State within the State, intent, first of all, on advancing their own interests, and with sympathies often opposed to those of the Gentile community. They form a cor- poration like the Catholic clergy, and in places and on certain subjects—as, for instance, their hatred of Rome and their love for Turkey—they act as one.
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