A NOTABLE MARRIAGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1369, 9 April 1881, Page 3

A NOTABLE MARRIAGE.

English society haa lately been much exercised over the marriage of Mr Leopold Rothschild to Miss Maria Perugia, and the following comments by Mr. Labouchere M.P., in the London Truth, may interest our lady readers : " The presence of the Prince of Wales at the marriage of Mr. Leopold Rothschild has caused much satisfaction in Jewish circles ; as following close on the speeches of the Crown Prince of Germany, it is regarded as a sign that there is no Royal sympathy with the Judenhetze. No English Prince has visited a synagogue since 1809, when three of the Royal Dukes attended a service at one. Though marriages take place all the year round, xt is not every day that a Rothschild is in the market. The excitement, therefore, on Wednefaday last, at the union of Mr. Leopold Rothschild with Miss Maria Perugia wfis to be expected, and formed a good opening to the fashionable season of 1881. Regardless of the combination of the elements to interfere with the. ceremony it passed off most satisfactorily. As a spectacle, it wa j , I fear, a little disappointing to ordinary lookers-on, as members of the Semitic race do not regard marriage as an occasion for displaying the whole of their jewelry; in fact, with the exception of the bracelets presented by the bridegroom to the bridesmaids, none of the actual bridal party indulged in any jewelry whatever. But to those who had never seen the Jewish ritual, the ceremony must have been highly interesting, though somewhat unintelligible. The bride patronized the now favorite ivory colored satin for her dress, made, as a lady friend informed me, with a square train trimmed with Mechlin lace, the front of the skirt being artistically supplemented with what I presume to have been orange blossoms, but which look, to me more like snow-drops. Instead, however, of indulging in the ordinary bridal wreath, Mdlle/ Perugia had a pretty arrangement of orange blossoms at the back of her head, .with, of course, the stereotyped veil. The bridesmaids, four in number, were dressed in two shades of pale blue satin, and their costumes were more neat than attractive. But why did one have a different shaped and trimmed hat to the other three? If, however, there was nothing exceptionally attractive in the, dresses of the bride and bridesmaids, those of the general company more than supplied the deficiency. One lady in Royal blue satin, and a most charming Oriental velvet cape, with a wonderful mixture of blue satin feathers, and lace, made into what was understood to be a bonnet, but which seemed rather to be A tetting for the handsome diamond stars with whioh it was studded, vied' with, Mrs Sassoon, who was attired in a pretty combination of brown satin, plush and jet, with a mixture of pink. Another pretty dress, consisting entirely of red satin, which was supplemented by a bonnet of the same color, about the size, of! a! threepenny piece, was most becoming to the brunette complexion of the wearer/- A lady in black' velvet from head to 'foot, with a black bonnet, out of the centre of whioh sprung a series of enormous ,pjnk feathers, rather reminded one' of a horse' at a funeral. But she acted as a foil, for a lady near her attired in fawn-coloured velvet and satin." ■' ,

Feancis Carter, 49, a dairyman, and formerly a member of the City' of London police force, has been sentenced at the Qld Bailey to' penal servitude 1 fer life for kh) outrage upon his, daughter,- a child- barely 12 years of age. The circumstances were revolting 1 in the extreme, and it ,was stated 'that the 1 prisoner had also outraged four other of his daughters, one of whom hod had a child by him. ,j „ ; .. : ,j , Two suicides are reported from Monte Carlo. Some days^agoXman rushed out of the gamiug : room exclaiming,, /sj am ddnefor; Ihave ( l6iit a 2O0 f OOpf: J ' 1 - 'Oh. the staircase he dve^'/a.; r&vVjlver- from his, toqcket and Qej/r his,C| t^ins'ogt.j ! , ; n^an'^wa&iOTng 6tt' f thg :i^oXBj/^a^2^een| Qn'Kis'hanaf., 'A'ln'iuufcs aiteß a^etona^',