The Portland daily press., 1863-01-26
Monday Morning, January &c, 1863.
Baron Rothschild and the Emperor.

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On Tuesday, Dec. 16, the emperor paid
Baron Rothschild visit, which has created so
much sensation at court and in the fashionable
world as to demand few words OF notice.
The wealthy Baron had the honor ofreceiving
his majesty at the superb country seat of
Ferrieres, situated about an hour and halt
north Of Paris by railway. on the border Of
the forest at Cressy. 1t Is magnificent prop
erty, estimated to be worth twenty-five mil
lion francs, and kept in princely style. The
Baron begun his purchases in that neighbor-
hood more than thirty years ago, and has gone
on increasing his estates ever since. The
emperor left the Tuileries about nine o'clock,
dressed in velvet shooting jacket, breeches
and CATERS, ready for Ia chasse, the visit being
OF sporting character. A select party,
consisting of lord Cowler, prince Metternich,
prince de la Moskowa, NJ. Foud, and counts
Waiewski and Pcrsigny, were invited to meet
his majesty and shoot with him. On arriving,
the emperor was received by the Rothschild
family, and proceeded first to visit the chateau,
the nagnifcence and riches of which almost
exceed belief Some of the very finest mas
ter pieces of Van Dyck. Rubens, Velasqucz,
and other great masters, adorn the walls;
while the collections of antiquities and works
of art in the shape of majolica, precious stones,
antique vases, &c., &C., can be judged OF only
by those who have seen them, or the spec-
linens Of them recently displayed in the Roths-
child case Of the Kensington museum during
the late exhibition in London. The collection
of Greek and Roman antiquities, also, and of
the Renaissance, is TO be equalled only in the
galleries of the Louvre issclf The magnf-
cent salon Of Louis XIV, the guard room, the
immense dining hall, decorated in the Tudor
style. were especially admired by the emperor
and the other visitors. Afler having viewed
the interior Of the mansion and the grounds,
and planted a cedar in the latter with his own
hands as a sourenir of his visit, the emperor
sat down to breakfast at a table groaning with
luxuries, served on plate of unique elegance Of
design, mingled with service of porcelain OF
Sevres. painted by Boucher, and worth, as they
say. kings ransom.
After this entertainment the party proceed
ed to the great park and the shooting began.
Twenty game-keepcrs of the Baron and thir
ty beaters, all in appropriate costumes, prece-
ded the party to raise the game, which flew
and ran In bewildering abundance. The Em-
peror was followed by attendants, who kept
eight guns constantly loaded for his use; and
with these his majesty, who was a first rate
shot, with an uncommonlv cool head and trte
eye, did immense execution bringing down
his double shots Of cock pneasants In excel
lent good style. The shooting went on until
about dark, and ended in killing more than
thousand head Of game. When the party re-
turned they found the chateau brilliantly ilu-
minated, and the whole neighborhood, with
the mayors and cures at the head, assembled
to greet the Emperor A collation. was again
served, during which new "hunting chorus"
composed expressly for the occasion, by Ros-
SIM, was performed, of great beauty, written
in the style of William Tell. After this splen-
did and novel finale, the Emperor turning to
the ladies Of Baron Rothschild's household, ex-
pressed his warm thanks for the cordiality and
magnihcence Of his entertainment, and for the
pleasure his days visit had afforded him; after
which he took his leave, and was reconducted
to the railway station. amid blaze Of torcl,-
light from the keepers and watchers of the
park and forest, who lined the road. The same
evening, as though to show how little fatgued
he was by his days excursion and shooting,
the Emperor accompanied the Empress to the
one thousandth representation Of Boileau's
Dame Bianch at the Opera Comique.-[Paris
Cor. N. Y. Journal Of Commerce.