There were, as usual, many cases in which the Palestinian Jews needed the official aid of the British Consulate, and numerous documents refer to the instances in which active official intervention with the Turkish Government was exercised on their behalf. Notwithstanding the just jealousy of the Turkish Government, says Finn,¹ there were many individual ways of ameliorating the condition of Jewish Ottoman subjects, as well as of the Jews under British protection. ¹ _Ibid._, vol. ii., _pp._ 55‒56. During the first case mentioned above no other Consul took part in the business, except that the Sardinian Consul assured Finn in private conversation that there could be no doubt about Jews using Christian blood in the Passover rites whenever they could get it, or, at any rate, they did in the Middle Ages. CHAPTER XXX. BRITISH INTEREST AND WORK IN PALESTINE Mr. Rogers――Mr. Finzi――Agricultural work in Palestine under the auspices of the British Consul――W. Holman Hunt――Thomas Seddon――A New Appeal――Prof. D. Brown――Rev. John Fry――Rev. Capel Molyneux――Prof. C. A. Auberlen――Dr. W. Urwick――Dr. E. Henderson――Prof. Joseph A. Alexander――Dr. Patrick Fairbairn ――Dr. Thomas Arnold. “THE greatest advantages had resulted to the Jews from this indirect protection, and as a natural consequence Jews of all kinds continually resorted to the British Consulate at all times for advice when in distress, and they received every kind of help which could be properly afforded them. They were no longer outwardly persecuted, being well known to be under British protection.... The Russian Jews, now since 1850 British protégés, enjoyed, especially in _Safed_ and _Tiberias_, a tranquillity to which they had long been strangers, and the Consulate was well seconded in regard to them by Mr. [Edward Thomas] Rogers (1830(1)‒1884), the new Vice-Consul at _Haifa_, besides whom we had had from long previous years, as British Consular Agent, at Acre, Mr. Finzi, who was a Jew.”¹ ¹ _Ibid._, vol. ii., _pp._ 56‒57. The British Consul also started works of philanthropy which seemed to be the beginning of an experiment in Jewish agriculture. “A plot of ground of about eight to twelve English acres had been purchased in 1852, on which as soon as money could be obtained for supplying wages some of the poor had been set to work. That land was set apart for ever under the name of ‘the Industrial Plantation for employment of Jews of _Jerusalem_,’ and it was in due time placed under the security of three trustees. “The design was not so much to constitute a rural colony of farmers on this spot, as to afford daily employment _to residents of the city_, returning from work every evening to their families.