28 DECEMBER 1867, Page 3

The Hungarian Diet has passed a Bill emancipating the Jews

by a vote of 64 to 4, a decision which, there as elsewhere, will add great strength to the Liberal party. Russia is now the only first-class power which imposes disabilities on Jews, but in all Con- tinental countries except France the conscription is a serious _grievance to the race. Service interferes with their rules as to food, ceremonial, and worship, and they are probably the only politicians on the Continent heartily opposed to the blood tax. They rise high in armies, nevertheless, the chief of the staff in Austria, for instance, having belonged to their community.