The story of the outrages upon the Jews of Kisheneff,
which seemed too ghastly to be true, has been fully confirmed. Mr. D. L. Alexander and Mr. Claude G. Montefiore have sent to the Times a narrative based upon Christian evidence which is worse even than the rumours. Upon two successive days, the 19th and 20th ult., the Russian mob, previously organised for the purpose, attacked the Jewish quarter, wrecking houses, outraging women, flinging children from the balconies on to the stones below, and braining all men who resisted. Four thousand families are without shelter, thirteen hundred shops and houses were pillaged, and the killed and wounded number four hundred and sixty-seven, of whom forty-eight died on the spot. The mob was so drunk with fury that it resorted even to torture and mutilation, nails were driven into one man's head, and bodies were found which had been disembowelled. The wretched survivors, aware that they may be again attacked, have fled to the neighbouring Southern towns, and as yet there has been no punishment for the guilty. Awed by the cry of horror which has risen from all Europe and America, the Czar has removed the Governor, who did not call out the troops to protect his citizens; but of regular justice upon the guilty we hear no word. The secret feeling of the authorities seems to be that if the Jews fly from Russia, Russia is well rid of them, and that though the means adopted may be detestable, the result is good.
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