The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-26 00:00:00

THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD.

Henceforth, says our contemporary the Globe,
there are to be but four kings of the house of Roths-
child, with secure thrones at London, Paris, Vienna,
and Frankfort. It is now exactly a hundred years
ago since a poor Jew, called Mayer Anselm, made
his appearance at the city of Hanover ; barefooted,
with a sack on his shoulders, and a bundle of rags
on his back. Successful in trade, like most of his
co•religionists, he returned to Frankfort at the end
of a few years, and set up a shop in the " Jew
Lane," over wh;ch hung the signboard of a red
shield, called in German rothschild. As a dealer in
old and rare coins, he mane the acquaintance of the
Serene Elector of Hesse Cassel, who, happening to
b in want of a confidential agent for various open
and secret purposes, appointed the shrewd-looking
Mayer Anselm to the post. The Serene Elector,
being compelled soon after to fly his country,
Mayer Anselm took charge of his cash, amounting
to several millions of florins. With the instinct of
his race, Anselm did not forget to put the money
out on good interest, so that, before Napoleon was
gone to Elba, and the illustrious Elector had re-
turned to Cassel, the capital had more than doubled.
The ruler of Hesse-Cassel thought it almost a mar-
vel to get his money safely returned from the Jew
Lane of Frankfort, and at the Congress of Vienna
was never tired of singing the praise of his Hilsrew
agent to all the Princes of Earope. The dwellers
under the sign of the lied Shie'd laughed in their
sleeves; keeping carefully to themselves the great
fact that the electoral two million florins had
brought them four millions of their own. Never
was honesty a better policy.

.V..ayer Anselm died in 1812, without having the
supreme satisfaction of hearing his honesty extolled
by kings and princes. He left five sans, who suc-
ceeded him in the banking and money-lending busi-
ness, and who, conscious of their social value,
dropped the name of Anselm, and adopted the higher
sounding one of Rothschild, taken from the sign-
board over the paternal house. On his deathbed
their father had taken a solemn oath from all of
them to hold his four millions well together, and
they have faithfully kept the injunction. But the
old city of Frankfort clearly was too narrow a realm
for the fruitful sowing of four millions ; and, in con-
sequence, the five were determined after a while to
extend their sphere of operations by establishing
branch banks at the chief cities of Europe. The
eldest son, Anselm, born 1773, remained at Frank-
fort ; the second, Salomon, born in 1774, settled at
Vienna ; the third, Nathan, born in 1777, went to
London ; the fourth, Charles, the enfant terrible of
the family, established himself in the soft climate of
Naples ; and the fifth and youngest, James, born
1792, took up his residence at Paris. Strictly
united, the wealth and power of the five Rothschilds
was vested in the eldest born ; nevertheless, the
shrewdest of the sons of Mayer Anselm, and the heir
of his genius, Nathan, the third son, soon took the
reins of government into his own hands. By his faith
in Wellington and the flesh and muscle of British
soldiers, he nearly doubled the fortune of the
family, gaining more than a million sterling by the
sole battle of Waterloo, the news of which he car-
ried to England two days earlier than the mail.
The weight of the solid millions gradually trans-
ferred the ascendancy in the family from Germany
to England, making London the metropolis of the
reigning dynasty of Rothschild. Like the royal
families of Europe, the members of the house of
Rothschild only intermarry with each other. James
Rothschild married the daughter of his brother
Salomon ; his son Edmond, heir-apparent of the
French line, was united to his first cousin, the
daughter of Lionel, and grand-daughter of Nathan
Rothschild ; and Lionel again—M.P. for London—
gave his hand in 1836, to nis first cousi❑ Charlotte,
the daughter of Charles Rothschild, of Naples. It
is unnecessary to say that, though these matrimo-
nial alliances have kept the millions wonderfully
together, they have not improved the race of old
Mayer Anselm of the Red Shield. Already signs
of physical weakness are becoming visible in the
great family. So at least hint the French papers
in their meagre notices about the Rothschild con-
gress at Paris. From all that can be gathered out
of a wilderness of canards, thin faces and thick fic-
tion, it appears that the sovereigns of the Stock
Exchange met in conference for the double purpose
of centralising their money power and widening their
matrimonial realm. In other words the five reign-
ing kings, descendants, according to the law of
primogeniture, of the five sons of Mayer Anselm,
came to the decision to reduce their number to four,
by cutting off the Neapolitan branch of Charles
Rothschild, while it was likewise decided that per-
mission should be given to the younger members of
the family to marry, for the benefit of the race, be-
yond the range of first cousinship. What has led
to the exclusion of the Neapolitan line of Roths-
child seems to have been the constant exercise of a
highly blameable liberality unheard of in the annals
of the family. Charles, the prodigal son of Mayer
Anselm,actually presented, in the year 1846, 10,000
ducats to the orphan asylum of St. Carlo, at Naples,
and the sou and heir of Charles, Gustavus, has
given repeated signs of his inclination to follow in
the footsteps of his father. Such conduct, utterly
unbecoming of the policy of the house of Roths-
child, could not be allowed to pass unnoticed, and
accordingly—we quote the rumour of Paris jour-
nalism—the decheance of the Neapolitan lino
has been pronounced. However, Baron Gustavus
de Rothschild is not to retire into private life, like
famous Charles V. with only a cassock on his shoul-
ders and a prayer book i❑ his hand; but is allowed
to take with him a small fortune of 150,000,000
francs, or about six millions sterling—a mere
crumb from the table of the descendants of poor
Mayor Anselm, who wandered shoeless through
the electorate of good King George 111. It is cer-
tain that no romance of royalty is equal to the ro-
mance of the house of Rothschild.

Vacancies, Promotions, and Appointments
in the Civil Service.

(From the Civil Service Gazette.)
Home Office—The office of Lord Lieutenant of the county
of Aberdeen has become vacant by the death of the Marquis
of Huntley.
R Iral Mint—Mr Charles L. Davies has been appointed
an extra temporary clerk, London.
Board of Trade—Mr Frederick William Lewis has been
appointed a clerk in the Registrar of Joint-Stock Companies
Office.

The Post Office—Mr Victor Shepherd has been appointed
a temporary clerk, London.
The Admiralty—Captain George Henry Richards, R.N.,
has been appointed hydrographer, in the room of Rear-Ad-
miral John Washington, deceased. Mr J. Albert Edwards
has been appointed a temporary writer in the Accountant's
Office, Devonport Dockyard.
Customs—Mr John Foster has been appointed an outdoor
officer, Shields. Mr John Owen has been appointed an out-
door officer, Swansea. Mr George William Shreeve has
been appointed an outdoor officer, Grimsby.
Inland Revenue—Excise Branch—Mr Robert Moffat,
surveying general examiner, third class, has been appointed
to be surveying general examiner, second class. Mr Thos.
Oliver, dropped first class assistant, Linlithgow colleotion,
has been appointed to be first class assistant, Queeneferry,
second division, Linlithgow collection. Mr Win. Thomas
Ashall, second class assistant, Ayr collection, has been ap-
pointed to be second class assistant, Linlithgow collection.
Mr. George Ferguson has been appointed second class as-
sistant, Linlithgow collection.
The East Indies—Mr H. L. Harrison has bean appointed
to officiate as joint magistrate and deputy collector of Nod-
dea. Mr G. L. T. Harris has been appointed to officiate as
magistrate and collector of Backergunge. Mr E. G. Glacier
has been appointed to officiate as joint magistrate and deputy
collector of Backergunge. Mr A. Cadell has been appointed
to be an assistant in the Allahabad division, and is invested
with the powers of a sub-magistrate of the second class.
Mr E. W. Barron, assistant in the Allahabad division, has
been transferred in the same capacity to the Rehilcund
division. Mr F. 1). Melville has been appointed to act as
assistant judge and session judge of Poona. Mr W. H.
Newnham bas been appointed to act as assistant judge and
session judge of Tannah. Mr J. Marriott has been appointed
to be deputy clerk of the Crown, Bombay, in succession to
A. Sangster, deceased, Mr C. R. Ovens has been reappointed
acting first assistant to the collector and magistrate of
Poona. Mr Assistant-Surgeon R. Haines has been appointed
to be acting registrar of the University of Bombay. The
Rev. T. Horstall has been appointed to act as chaplain of
Aden.

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