The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-08-09 00:00:00

FUNERAL OF MR. ROTHSCHILD.

The residence of the above celebrated individual was through-
out the whole of yesterday kept quite secluded, and an officer of
the city police was stationed at the gates (which were shut) of
the house, New Court, St. Swithues-lane, to prevent the admit-
tance of persons who applied out of curiosity, on which account
a great many persons called. Some private friends of Mr.
Rothschild have put on mourning, and many gentlemen who
transacted business at his establishment, out of deep respect for
his memory, have also done the same. The remains of the
eminent deceased are deposited in a leaded coffin, which is en-
cased in another, fanned of oak, carved and moulded in a very
superior manner, and having silver handles. There is no in-
scription on the outer coffin, but there is a breast-plate of oak of
a finer quality than the coffin, on which is engraved the coat of
arms and crest of the family.
Mr. Aaron Hendrick, Castle.street, Whitechapel, who has
received an appointment by the great German synagogue, for
the pu rpo.9e of conducting the funeral ceremonies connected with
the Hebrew church, will undertake the obsequies, which will be
performed in as plain a manner as possible. In consequence of
the depth of the coffin, a hearse is being prepared for the nourn-
fill occasion, which will be drawn by four horses. At present 24
mourning coaches and pairs are ordered to follow; there are
more expected. The four sonsof the deceased as chief mourners
will be in the first coach. In those following will be fist, the
Rev. Dr. Solomon Herschell High Rabbi of the synagogue,
with the chief reader and wardens of the synagogue, followed,
in the other coaches, by readers from the different synagogues
of the metropolis, and the officers attached to them, the most
intimate relations and friends being in the remainder. '!'here
will he no feathers on the mourning coaches, nor are hat-bands
allowed, except with the domestics of those of a different per-
suasion, who will wear what is the'custom of their church On
each side the hearse and mourning coaches ten children from
the different charitable institutions of which he was patron will
walk in. procession.
In the absence of the second son of the deceased, who is
hourly expected from the Continent, no definite arrangements
as try the time of 'the funeral-have yet been come to, nor is it
decided where the commencement of it shall take place. As it
is expected that an immense number of private carriages will
follow it has been proposed that the procession shall start from
Piccadilly; hut, from whatever place it may go, the whole will
pass deign Duke's-place. in front of the Jewish synagogue, along
Whitechapel, to the Jewish burial-ground, N ortli-street,lWhite-
ecrhapcehliewrheireieTte. service The
remainswlllbe performed by the High Rabbi,
will be deposited in a grave
bricked as a vault, which will be eight feet deep. The grave
will contain no other body, as it is the custom of the Jews in no
instance, whether poor or rich, to have more than one body in
will
a grave. A monument will be laid ove r the
be placed at the tom, b. An extra
number of watchtnen, after the interment,
grave for a length of time, to prevent any sacrilegious act to-
wards the deceased.—Obsercer.

Two WIVES IN A WEEK.—On Tuesday last, George Watson
(a grocer of Kendal, in a good line of business) was committed
to Appleby gaol to take his trial on a charge of bigamy. About
a month ago, the accused was married at Kendal church to a
Miss Heaps, and on the following day he set off with a friend
to the neighbourhood of Kirby Lansdale, where he met with a
young woman of the name of Allen, with whom he had previous-
ly been upon terms of intimacy. To this young woman, on the
day succeeding, it is said, he was married at Halton church by
the Rev. Mr. Mackareth—thus fastening himself in wedlock's
chains twice in three days. With his second wife he journeyed
to Liverpool. and ii. two days left her, when she returned home.
Watson came to Kendal on Friday last; on Saturday he was
apprehended at his mother's house by the police; and on Tues-
day committed for trial at the ensuing assizes, as stated above.
—kendal Mercury.
TEmpIiIIATUREOF THE INTERIon OF TUE EA ETH.—AI.Arago, i
on Wednesday, n delivering a lecture on the theory of the
central heat of the earth, related an operation at this time carry-
ing on in Paris, which may be of the highest importance not
only to science but to public economy. I'he municipality have
ordered an Artesian well to be pierced near the Barritire des
Martyrs; but the men employed, after getting to a depth of
900 feet without finding water, came to a stratum of chalk, so
thick that the undertaking would have been given up but for
the interferenceof men of science, who wished it to be continued,
with a view to the elucidation of the above theory. According
to observations made by means of a thermometer, no doubt re-
mains as to a fact which hitherto it has not been possible to
verily with any degree of precision—namely, that the tempera.
ture of the earth rises in regular proportion towards the centre;
so that at the tenth degree front the surface all known matter
must be in a state of fusion. At the point to which the perfora-
tion in question has reached, M. Arago expects a spring of water
will arise-.of a sufficient degree of heat to warm public establish-
ments,. supply baths, and serve for other purposes. We cannot
help thinking this expectation of M. Arago a very fanciful one.
—Gulignaner ilessenger.