“The plan here proposed may be recommended by the consideration that large results are promised to the application of very small means; that no pecuniary outlay is demanded of the engaging parties; that while disappointment would bring no ill-effects except to those who declined the offer, the benefit to be derived from it would belong impartially to the whole civilised world.... “I have the honour to be, my Lord, “Your Lordship’s most obedient, humble servant, “ASHLEY. “THE VISCOUNT PALMERSTON, M.P. Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.”¹ ¹ The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G., by Edwin Hodder, 1866, vol. i., _pp._ 313‒315. LIV. RESTORATION OF THE JEWS [The annexed documents have just appeared in a periodical entitled _Memorials concerning God’s Ancient People of Israel_, and are probably as yet but little known to the world at large:――] MEMORANDUM. To the Protestant Powers of the North of Europe and America――Victoria, by the grace of God, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland; Frederick (William) III. King of Prussia; William (Frederick), King of Netherlands; Charles (John) XIV., King of Sweden and Norway; Frederick VI., King of Denmark; Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover; William, King of Wurtemberg; The Sovereign Princes and Electors of Germany; The Cantons of the Swiss Confederation professing the Reformed Religion; and the States of North America, zealous for the Glory of God; grace, mercy and peace from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ! “High and Mighty Ones,