The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-03-25

MARRIAGE OF A GREAT GOLDFISH ARIsT0CRAT-
GRAND PARADE OF THE RoTHscHuDs-While Mr..
Buchanan was preparing to take the oath OF
Office as President Of the United States, or per
haps while he was eating his last breakfast un-
molested by office beggars, an interesting cere-
mony was going on at Gunnersbury Park the
suburban retreat of the branch Of the Rothschild
family located at London. One Of the younger
scions of the house was married, after the Hebrew
rite, to his cousin, and a tremendous fuss was
made about it. AS we are frequently called upon
to read graphic accounts of marriages among the
Goldfish aristocracy here, we think it more than
fair that the leading representatives of the Illus
trious body en- the other side Of the Atlantic
should be similarly mmOrtalized, and we publish
elsewhere description, oriental, ornate and Off
cial Of all the ceremonies upon the occasion
when the Baron Alphonse de Rothschild led his
cousin Leonora to the hymeneal altar.
The Rothschilds are now the leading European
bankers, and the effect of their gold is felt alike
on the London Stock Exchange, the Bourse Of
Paris, our own paradise Of Wall street at San
Francisco, at the Cape Of Good Hope, at Calcutta
and Canton. We doubt not that they would
have sent an agent with Sir John Franklin TO
the arctic region were IL not for the fact that the
Esquimaux are wretchedly off for collateral
The Rothschilds are the emperors of the stock
gambling world; the nagnates Of the money
market; the original founders of the Goldfish arts
tocracy. As the De Aornys and Persignys Of
the Faubourg St. Honore jostle the Bourbons of
the Faubourg St. German; as the stock gam
blers Of the Fifth avenue eclipse the an
cient Kniokerbockers, 70 do the Bedfords,
the Russe,ls, the wriothsleys, the Wellin, I
tons, the Airlies and the LyDdhurss dance
attendance at the ban9uets Of the Roths-
childs, and hobnob with the Cohens, the Solo
mons and, to cap the climax, the Morning Post
the organ Of the aristocrscy-tells its readers
that the lineage Of Jewish pawnbroker is more
noble than the blood of all We Towards Really,
Money is King.
The house Of Rothschild was founded by a
Hebrew pawnbroker Of Fraakfori-onth the Main
We have seen his house, where fast young men
and distressed working girls Of biz day came to
pledge their wardrobes, and pay seventy-fve or a
hundred per cent Interest. A small two story
mean looking affair it is, in the Juden Strasse-
a narrow dirty lane, like Thames street in this
city. Within ten years we saw the old house,
with its yellow shutters, and its proprierese the
grandmother of the present brood, who chung to
the old place, while the street traders roasted
chestnuts znder her nose.
The original pawnbroker, when he commenced
his snug little trade eo1ld never have dreamed
that his descendants-enly two generations re-
moved-wouh carry Baron and ode" on
their cards and that when they saw ft
to marry or be given in marriage, Ducheses
should cit Of their boards, ex-Premiers Right
Honoral.es and Rnvoys Extrsordinaries propose
their heaiths, and that the descendants OF the
English MOBILES who robbed tortured imprisoned
his ancestors, would be only too glad to sit at
Jews table, as we'll AZ borrow his money. This
Rothschild marriage is great proof Of the vast
inroads made by the money power upon the old
landed aristocracy, and in this light every par
ticular OF the report is interesting. Our Goldfish
aristocrscy should study itclosely. and learn how
TO do the thing correctly.