The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-08-08 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

FUNERAL OF SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE. The funeral of Sir M.,ses Montefiore has taken pleas in the mausoleum, next to the Jewish Synagogue, at Ramsgate, which ie the facsimile of the tomb of Rachel, at Bethlehem. The ceremony was observed amid many tokens of the deep veneraticn in which Sir Moires was held, the shops icing closed from noon, while crowds of 7eople lined the entire route of the pr. cession. Representatives attended from Hebrew communities in all parts of the country. Of the floral tributes receive-if one of the most handsome was horn "La Communaut6 Israelite d'Alexandrie, Egypt;" ofh vs 011110 from the institutions with which Sir Mows vi as associated, and from numerous is hat'. 0.4 and friends, including 1.410 horn Mr. Henry Irving, of the Lyceum. The coffin, guarded by the readers from the college and prominent m, inhere of the London community, including Dr. Hermann Adler, Delegate Chief Rabbi, was preceded by Rev. Dr. Pisa, senior minister of the Spearieh and Portiieuese Synagogue, London, of which Sir Mime s V 4 as the oldest member, together with two r. aders bearing lighted candles. The chief mourners were Mr. Joseph Sebag, Lord Rothschild, Mr. H. Guedalla, and the Earl of Rose bery. These were foliowrd by Sherd G. Feudal Phillips, Lieutenant Col, net Cowan, bearing ereatdis ; Councillors M'Grah and L. H. l'hillips, representing the City of London. The may ors of Itainegate, Sandwich, Deal, and Margate were also in the procession. At the door of Lady Montctiore's Theological College a halt was made, while Dr. Loewe offered special prayer. The cortege then moved on and made a c rcuit of the Synagogue, which building it a'terwards entered. The body was placed in front of the Ark during the chants of the Psalm. This over, the remains were taken into the mausoleum, where the rest of the service was gone through, and the body lowered to its last resting place, after which a quantity of dust from the tomb of Rachel, in the Holy Land, was scattered on the coffin by the relatives. The followers were then permitted to view the interior of the mausoleum, a in.ll domed ,builhing, scarcely capable of holding a dozen persons. In the grave, un ler the head i.f the coffin, WAS I)4v:els stone given to Sir Moses by the inhabitants of Jerusalem during one of his later visits, roi in-cription thereon tr stifying to the love and este, In which they, the Israelites of Palest'ne, felt for th 3 Holy Land. The remains of the baronet and his wife Ile side by side, and the memorial stones are exactly alike, being cut out of a piece of red Aberd en granite. The Jerusalem lamp in the dome of the building was lighted, and will continue burning during the 30 days of the mourning. Shortly afterwards the grave was filled in, and th mowds in due course dispersed.  Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, it is stated, is to be Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, vice Genetal Sir Thomas Steele, whose time has expired. A daring safe tobnery has been committed in Leicester. Burglars having gaint-d entrance to the office of Messrs. Simeon and Son, engineers, broke open the safe, and carried off cash and papers of the value of £4OO. Of the total amount £25 was in gold, and the remainder in notes and cheques. The governor of the Stra-tgeways gaol, Manches• ter, has received from the H me Offica au intimation that Elizabeth Lan., matchbox maker, of liarpurhey, who was sentenced to death at the !scent Manche-ter assizes for the murder by drowning of her infant, has been respited during her Majesty's pleaaare.