CHBONT CLE. 
_ judged, and your fate decided by a 
Christian Prince. It is his majesty’s 
wish that youshould become French; 
it is your duty to accept this title, 
and to consider that you, in fact, re- 
nounce it, whemever you shew your- 
selves unworthy of it.’—The fol- 
lowing questions, proposed by his 
majesty, were then read by the se- 
cretary of the meeting ; and a time 
appointed for receiving the answers: 
—* 1. Is the Jew permitted to 
marry more thau one wife ? — 2. 
Is divorce permitted by the Jewish 
religion 7—3. Can a Jewess inter- 
marry witha Christian, or aChristi- 
an female with a Jew; or does the 
law prescribe alone that Jews should 
intermarry ?—4, Are the French, in 
the eyes of the Jews, brothers or 
aliens ?—5. What in all cases are the 
eonnections which their law permits 
them to maintain with the French 
who are not of their religion ?—6. 
Do the Jews who were born in 
France and have been treated as 
French citizens by the laws, consi- 
der France as their native country ? 
Are they bound to defend it ? Are 
they under any obligation to obey 
the laws, and to follow all the regu- 
lations of the civil code ?— 7. Who 
are they whoare called rabbins ?>— 
8. What civil jurisdiction do the 
rabbins exercise among the Jews? 
What power of punishment do they 
possess ?—g. Are the mode of chu- 
sing the rabbins, and the system of 
punishment, regulated by the Jew- 
ish laws ;_ or are they only render- 
ed sacred by custom?—-10. Were the 
Jews forbidden by theirlaws to take 
usury of their brethren? Are they 
permitted or forbidden to do this of 
Strangers?—-11. Are those things 
proclaimed which are forbidden to 
the Jews by their laws 2” 
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The Jewish assembly at Paris 
has answered three of the questions 
proposed to it, respecting Jewish 
marriages, as follows : that the Jew- 
ish law, in the strictest sense, per- 
mits polygamy, divoree, and mixed 
marriages, but that these are limited 
by practice and usage. To the 
question which relates to the duties 
of French citizens, the assembly is 
said to have answered im the fullest 
manner. 
24th. As James Dixon, a letter- 
carrier of the town of Windsor, was 
delivering his letiers, he was struck 
blind with the lightning. 
The metropolis was this day again 
visited by a most awful and tre- 
mendous storm. It commenced 
about two, o'clock, and continued, 
with undiminished violence, until 
three. ‘The clouds descended to the 
very house-tops, and the city was 
enveloped in darkness. The rain 
fell in such torrents, as to resemble, 
in a great degree, those periodical 
descents of the deluge so common in 
the West Indies. The flashes of 
lightning were uncommonly vivid in 
the neighbourhood of the Strand.— 
A man was struck by the lightning 
in Drury-laze, but did mot sustain 
any material injury. A ball of fire 
struck one of the poles, near London 
Bridge, for mooring the barges, and 
shivered it to pieces. The clouds 
charged with the electric matter came 
from the S. W. The reports were 
first heard from a considerable dis- 
tance, but gradually approached the 
capital ; as, in the latter part of the 
time, there was not an interval of 
half a second between the flash and 
the explosion. ‘The rain and hail 
were incessant, ‘The water rose so 
high in the lower parts of the city, 
as to fill the kitchens and cellars of 
the 
