heir safe return from Scotland. During the
rest of the year Mr Montefiore resumed his usual occupations, always
combining the work of finance with that intended for the welfare of
his community and charitable institutions of all classes of society,
while Mrs Montefiore devoted herself to responding to every appeal for
help commensurately with the merit of the case, comforting every
sufferer by her kind acts of sympathy, and promoting peace and harmony
among those whose friendship seemed likely to be interrupted.

An incident which, at the time, afforded Mr Montefiore special
gratification, he refers to as follows:--

"I was present, on the Feast of Haunkah (the anniversary of the
victory of the Maccabees), at a discourse delivered by the spiritual
head of the congregation, in the College of the Spanish and Portuguese
Hebrew Community. The interest was greatly enhanced by the completion
of the study of one of their theological books in the presence of all
the students. The latter evinced great love for their study, and
appeared well acquainted with the subject to which the lecturer
referred."

Mrs Montefiore presented each student with a generous gift, as an
encouragement to continued zeal in their work.

1822 (5582 A.M.).--He agrees to rent East Cliff Lodge for one year
from the 15th of April, for L550 clear, and signs the agreement on
12th February.

On the eve of the Day of Atonement, in the presence of his assembled
friends, he completes, by adding the last verse in his own
handwriting, a scroll of the Pentateuch, for the use of the Synagogue,
offering on the following day L140 for the benefit of various
charitable institutions of his community as a token of his
appreciation of the Synagogue Service.

The depressed state of trade in this and the preceding year, owing to
serious apprehensions of war, had caused a great diminution in the
importation and manufacture of goods, so that much anxiety prevailed.
Referring to this subject, Mr Montefiore makes an entry to the effect
that a statement had been made in high quarters by the Duke of
Wellington, that peace would be maintained, in consequence of which,
says Mr Montefiore, all the public funds rose.

1823 (5583 A.M.).--Opens with a joyous event in the family. His
brother Horatio, on the first of January, marries a daughter of David
Mocatta, thus allying more closely the two most prominent families in
the Hebrew community.

_August 20th._--Mr and Mrs Montefi