SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 228, 2 August 1879, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

(From the Spectator, June 7.) The death, on Tuesday, June 3rd, of Baron Lionel Nathan Rothschild, the last of the four sons of the founder of the firm, and the ultimate head of the house —which is believed to bo governed like an Eastern family, by a family council, with a veto reserved for the eldest male is a considerable event' even in politics. All great measures require money, and the Rothschild take the initiative in finding money for all great Government except that of Russia, The head of the house is therefore necessarily consulted in large affairs, and has an influence whit h ma/ be best weighed when we remember the Jewish clauses of the Treaty of Berlin. This influence is believed to have been specially great with Lord Beaconsfield, a life-long personal friend, and may well be imagined to have been exerted in favor of the Turkish interests, which the Jews of Europe have, in the late struggle, steadily upheld. Influenco of that kind is only partly transmissible, and the Baron'd death will, be severely felt in Constantinople. The deceased financier was a man of considerable ability aud great btownledgc of affairs, though wo have heard ho was uttorly taken by suprise by the revelation of Prussian strength in 1860, and the universal voice of his people pronounces hinrto have been munificently charitable. It is certain that the ladies of the house have been so for two generations, giving immense labor, as well as money, to good works; and they must have had the full approbation of,, their chief, who, like most millionaires, dreaded to appear aa he was, lest he should be drowned in applications.