Mr. Leopold de Rothschild, who laid the first stone of the New West End Synagogue, is a Treasurer of the Board of Guardians, and takes great interest in many questions relating to the interests of his ce-religionists, is engaged to be married to Miss Perugia, daughter of a respected Jewish family of Trieste. Her elder sister is Mrs, Arthur Sassoon, one of the famous beauties of London society, whose portrait was the principal attraction of the Christmas number of the Whitehall Review. The marriage will, we are informed, be solemn nised on 19th January by a Choral Service, the celebrant being the Rev. A. L. Green, and the synagogue the Central Synagogue, of which Mr. Leopold de Rothschild is a member. The corner-stone "of this beautiful place of worship was laid by the Into Baron Lionel de Rothschild, the father of the bridegroom. On more recent occasion we have had to di fortunes of the leading Jewish house, a family which by the consideration and kindliness with which it uses great wealth, ired the public with so much interest that all its actions are eagerly followed and canvassed. No member of the family has been more popular than Mr. Leopold de Rothschild, and we are only expressing a general feeling of satisfaction in the community when we offer our congratulations upon the engagement. The name of Baron Lionel de Rothschild recalls the fact that our references to this justly beloved family have often been made after mournful events, and inspired by the distressing though inevitable occurtences of life. To the present happy circumstances there is absolutely no drawback. Mr. de Rothschild lead canopy in a great metropolitan synagogue the lady of his choice, and his marriage will be solemnized by a very revered rabbi, the Rey. A. L. Green, in the presence, we may expect, of other respected ministers and of those friends, among them distinguished personages of another faith, who may have the pleasure of witnessing the interesting ceremony. Some of the London community of Israelites have had the honour of making already the acquaintance of Miss Perugia, who has stayed with her sister, and an bl er in some of her most engaging qualities. She belongs toa Jewish family, and will form on the one hand another link between the English Rothschilds and the Austrian Empire with which they have so many associations honour: lo on both ides, and on the other hand will the alliance between the great house which facilitates the nomical projects of kings and bankers the West and the eminent mercantile establishment which has fostered, _b; caution, probity, and enterprise combined, the growing commerce of the East. The name of Sassoon is less known in Europe than that of Rothschild, but among Arab or Banyan traders, even with Chinese and Japanese merchants, in the Straits as on both sides of the Ganges, it is a name to conjure with; and the strange ignorance of these facts (true and romantic at the same time) which once prevailed in England has long since been dispelled. Between these two houses, each of which realises in a different sphere, the wildest dreams of Disraeli's early novels, a firm alliance la now to be cemented by marriage.
1 mansion in Hamilton Place to an assembly to meet the bride are out, the most illustrious personages in the world have been among those who have congratulated the family upon the engagement—and in six weeks from the public announcement of the betrothal the solemn strains of the Psalms and praises chosen for the ceremony will be sung by fresh boyish voices in the presence of a couple for whose happiness prayers will be said in one language but in many climates, wherever the world-spread charities of the Rothschilds and Sassoons have penetrated.—Jewish Chronicle.
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