MANY enthusiastic persons have seen in Dr. Herzl’s plan of purchasing Palestine from the sultan and colonizing it with Jews, a fulfilment of their interpretations of prophecy that there will be a literal return of the Jews to Palestine and a reinstatement of their worship there. It is worth while to learn how the Jews regard it. The Independent tells us that Dr. Grünhut, “the enthusiastic and self-denying head of the technical school for Jewish children in Jerusalem,” “has no faith in the proposition, as appears from an interview with him published in a Buda-Pesth journal. He says the rich Jews will not live in Palestine, and of the paupers they have quite enough there already. Of the 50,000 population of Jerusalem 30,000 are Jews, all living on alms except 700 families. The Germans and the Russians have the monopoly of settlements in Palestine, and we may be sure that Russia, at least, would never allow the establishment of a Jewish State in a land which she expects to occupy, and where she claims the special right to protect the Holy Sepulcher. The leading Jews of Vienna look on the proposition with little less than anger. They have won their civil rights too lately to begin to talk of leaving their native land and go to one which is to them foreign. The attempt to excite their enthusiasm is like that which Bishop Turner makes to induce our American negroes to emigrate to Africa, and it is likely to be equally opposed by the sentiment of patriotism and the consideration of comfort where they are.”