The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-03-26
Mrs. l. Mrs. Benefits Letters from Europe.

PARIS, February a, l847.
The Bourse.of Paris-ytock Jobbing-Roth-
chIids Capitalists - Fashion - Royalty -
Dislike OF Americans In Europe.
Yesterday sailed out, about o'clock, in fine
bracing air, from the rue de Ripoli and wendell
my way along succession of short, crooked, mar
row streets, leading directly north towards the
Bo~ievards entered that gay promenade,
which looks for all the world like Broadway,
nearly opposite rue LATTE, where the Rothchilds
have their splendid hotel and banking-h house. 1t
is rather dark, narrow street, slightly descend
ing to the north from the BosRepards, and then
rising towards the Place St. Georges Along side
ofrws LATTE is the celebrated street called the
Chauss<e d. Amtim. Both streets, and the imme-
dae neighborhooi form the banking district of
PaIis-thoss new lords, leaders, and sovereigns
in modern society, which the beggary and bsr-
rowing propensity of European governments
have created per fas aM nefas. Rothchld's
house, or hotel, is most splendid palace the fur
niture alone costing nearly half million of dol
lars. Their clearinghouse is contiguous, and
consists Of number of Offices, or bureaux, English
French, German, sc. The chief of the house
is Baron de Rothchild, who hclds his title from
some stray German potentate. There are several
Il
male and female, who not only hold distin-
guished position in the fashionable world OF Paris,
but the elders priests, kings, and lords of the
remnant of Israeli throughout Europe. The
Baroness de Rothchld gives the most splendid
parties and routes in Paris; and has private box
at both the Italian and French opera, next door
10 the Kings box, and within smelling distance of
royalty. They my bankers in Paris, and I.
hAv ,k,,ta
the state and grandeur of the modern kingdom
of Israel. Accordingly, l mounted the white
stone steps, wound my way round the Offices,
got into the English bureau, and procured fresh
supply of few thousand francs, from the polite,
benevolent Englishman, with the short face and
agreeable aspect, who presides in that depart
ment, and who always puts nae in mind of Add
sons description of himself in the Spectator 1
also purchased couple of tickets for lottery
gwen for the benefit of the poor children OF Israel
in Paris, who are yet waiting patiently the COM
ing of the Messiah.
The air and incidents, in the palace of the great
banker and chief Of modern Israel, filed my ina
gnation with stocks, premiums, difFe rences, con.
soils, rentes, exchanges, gold, silver, brokers,
bankers. cheats, shavers, swindlers, rogues,
tailors, and all sorts OF things which cengregate in
he exchange or Bourse, ancieny called by the
our holy evangelists, the stemple of Mammon."
accordingly, under the influence of the ether or
nitrous oxide gas Of money-making, directed my
way to the Bo1rss, or Change of Paris, where the
siock-jobbers csngrcgate in thousands every day
passed along the BoMlepards as far as rue Yin.
snn<, then to the Place de Ia Bourne, where stands
one Of the most beautiful temples ever erected to
Mammon, or to any other ancient or modern god
/ mounted the steps, entered the vestibule,
penetrated the interior. Here found nearly, if
not over, five thousand men, all erowdnQ round n
circular enclosure in the centre of the great hall
This enclosure contains about fifty or sixty bro
kers or agents de change, who are all haooing and
iransacting business at the top of their VOICES in
q style somewhat similar to that in the Exchange
Of New York, but with far more energetic
and vociferous energy of manner. Besides the
crowd of thousands Of stock. jobbers in the great
hall below, the galleries above contained MANY
hundred spectators who did not minge in the frav
speculating, jobbing, getting rich, or losing every
thing, but merely looked on the fun below IL
looked like magnificent gambling house, where
every face seemed to be concentrated on one pur-
pose, and utterly reckless OF every other thing
Under the Cornthian columns to the left. stood
the great bankers, fnanciers, capitalists. and
gamblers ofthe age. Every second man in the
crowd seemed to have small memorandum
book in his hand, in which he noted down the
ideas as they occurred, or the contracts he had
made. The fifty brokers, enclosed in their circle
IN the centre, and guarded by the police, were
talking shouting, gesticulating at the top of their
voice and height. 1t was one, single, unadulter-
ated, eternal buzz, almost rising to uproar, and
very much resembling the noise made in the tow
or of Babel, when the great confusion of tongues
look place, and the stockholders were first scat