The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-11-21 00:00:00

THE LATE BARON JAMES DE
ROTHSCHILD.

Baron James de Rothschild. whose malady, it was
thought, had taken in favourable turn, died on Sunday
morning last, in Paris
The Baron was born on the 15th of May, 1792, and
was the youngest and last surviving of the five sons of
Meyer Anselm Rothschild, a native of Frankfort, the
founder of the great commercial house which bears
Ids name. The father at his death in 1812 left to his
sons, not only the inheritance of an immefise fortune
and boundless credit, but the still more precious
legacy of wise and prudent and united counsels. He
especially recommended them, if they would preserve
the position he had gained for them, always to act
together ; and it is well known that his eons and his
grandehddren also have for more than half a century
religiously followed that advice. Taking part in most
of the great financial affairs of Austria, France,
and England, they formed in the last generation an
invincible phalanx ; for, while the third son. Na has
Meyer, settled in London. Ansehn tmik up his resi-
dence at Frankfort, Solcmon at Vienna, Charles at
Naples, and James at Paris. A writer, 30 years ago,

bayd
By themselves, or by their agents, the Rothschildi have
exercised a powerful control over the principal cities of
Europe, awl faithful to their habit never to undertake any-
thing separately, and to concert all their operations, they
have followed one unvaried and identical system to such
good purpose that they were at one time free to make
either peace or war. . . Their llve houses were con-
ducted nearly in common, excepting so far as that the house
Is London was almost wholly under the control of its nomi-
nal chief."
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This was written in 1836, but the words are as appli-
cable to the present year. The Meyer Anslem Roths-
child, whom we mentioned above, was born in the city
of Frankfort. He was intended for the Jewish minis-
try, but being placed by his father in a &stinting-house
at Hanover, I,e showed si great an aptitude fore ins
mereial pursuits that, having experienced his honesty
and integrity in lesser matters, the Landgrave of Hesse
in 1801 appointed him banker to himself and his Court.
Nor was his confidence misplaced. History tells us
that during the sway of the great Napoleon in Ger-
many the Landgrave's private fortune was saved by
the devotedness 0, his banker, whose name iii the course
of ten years hail grown to be a tower of commercial
strength over central Europe. His aims and successors
did their best to complete the gent work which their
father had begun. On the breaking out of the war in
Spain in 1808 Nathan Meyer Rothschild displayed ex-
traordinary energy and ability in supplying the pecu-
niary remittances which were necessary for carrying on
the operations of our amine abroad, and for remitting the
aubsidi s by which the armies of our Continental
allies were put in motion. In this manlier he was
enabled to render important services to the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Vansittart, who pro-
bably learnt ninny a lesein in tinance and the practice
of exchanges from Ida young ass ielate. At the same
time he acted as his father's agcnt in the purchase of
Manchester goods for the supply of the Continent, and
through the agency of his father he had large sums id
money intrusted to his disposal for the Elector of
Hesse-Caasel and other German Princes, which he em-
pleyed with extraordinary judgment. About the year
1812 the youngest of the five brothers, the subject id'
this memoir, went to reside at Paris, where he has ever
since carried on financial operations on the largest
scale in concert anti correspondence with his
other brothers and nephews. It is impossible here
to enumerate the greet transactions in which the
house of Rothsehild has been engaged, but in all their
financial operations the Baron just deceased had a
leading share. All the brothers were men unrivalled
in their knowledge of business ; but, with the single
exception of Nathan Meyer, the head of the London
house, there was not sine to whose judgment the
others more entirely deferred in great undertakings,
especially in France mid Western Europe, than the
brother just di ceased. Like the rest of his family,
Baron James de Rothschild was distitigusheil by his
private and personal charities, which he dispensed
with a none than princely liberality. His handsome ,
house in thn Rue Latlite attract ell the best FL wiety lit
Paris. and his tbetsaii at Ferriiires was, perhaps, the
most magnificent Sl.Cilddll of the "country house"
extant in France. He had a " tha.:ge" such as is
seldom seen out of England, and had the honour of cm
teitailling the Emperer at a &Woe in which the
slaughter was on a truly Imperial scale.
The Baron had received the Grand Cordons of
almost all the Contineetal Orders, and was invested
last year, during the visit of Qs Emperor of Austria
to Paris, by the two Archdukes with the first class of
the Order iif the Iron Crown. He has left a widow,
who presolA gracefully over his splendid hospitalities,
and whioe 'Mon has been fur ninny years the /el/di:Toe.,
of M. This-is mid the chiefs •if the Orlsanist party.
He has also left several children. His eldest son,
Baron Alphonse, married in 1857 his cousin, Leonora,
el lest d ingliter of Baron Lionel de Rothschild, who
has 80 long represented the eii Vof London In Parlia-
ment. Sir Anthony Rothschild, who was created a
baronet in 1846, and Baron Meyer, M.P. for HN the,
are nephews of the Baron just deceased. It may in-
terest tins readers to learn that Nathan Meyer
Rothschild, the founder of the fortunes of the family,
received letters of " denivenation " in the yeas 1804 ;
and that by Imperial Patent, fated at Vienna in Sep-
tember, 1822, lie was advanced to the dignity of a
Baron of the Austrian Empire.

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INCREASE OP POPULATION IN INDIA.—In what-
ever part of India we number the people the popula-
tion is found so have greatly increased under our rule.
There has been an sddition of two millions in twelve
years in the Putijaub. A census of the districts of
ilderar, taken in November, 1867, shows an increase in
the population of 700,000, making the whole number
2,231,565. Mr. Lyall's report has some intere ting
statements on the disintegration of Ilindooism a pro-
cess which is going on slowly all over India.

Ex Fomo DAsE LUCEM.—One ot the Swiss
cantons has just forbidden young men under elghteen '
to smoke, whilst in one of the American states it is pro-
posed to give them the suffrage at that age. B Ith are
Republican ideas, and seem to have something in cow-
man. We quite understand that a man should net
be Ahmed to smoke until he Ims a vote; for then he
can put the latter in his pipe and smoke A. It would
puzzle a gmsl many people to know what else to do
with it.—Tomahawk.