attainments in theology is competent to receive this distinction, and any
university to bestow it upon him.

EYE-SNUFF.


_Emancipation of the Jews_ (Vol. i. p. 479.).--The following extract from
Tovey's _Anglia Judaica_, p. 259., may be acceptable in connection with
this subject:--

"As soon as King Charles was murther'd, the Jews petitioned the
Council of War to endeavour a repeal of that act of parliament
which had been made against them; promising, in return, to make
them a present of five hundred thousand pounds: Provided that
they could likewise procure the cathedral of St. Paul to be
procured them for a synagogue, and the Bodleian Library at Oxford
to begin their traffic with, which piece of service it seems was
undertaken by those _honest men_, at the solicitation of Hugh
Peters and Henry Masters, whom the Jews employed as their brokers
but without any success."

Afterwards, however, the Jews of Holland sent a deputation, consisting of
the famous Rabbi Manasseh ben Israel, and several wealthy Jewish merchants.
When Cromwell came into full power their hopes were raised, for he was
known to be favourable to their re-admission; but after much discussion,
the popular feeling, and the voices of many influential preachers, were
found to be so much against the measure that nothing was eventually done;
and Charles II. must be regarded as the restorer of the Jews to this
country. Tovey says that the Rabbi Netto, "the governor of the synagogue"
in his time, had searched the Jewish registers at his request, and had