The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-11 00:00:00

MASTERS AND IatiVANTS.

(From Pam-h.)
The plain English of the matter is that servants
are as a class what masters and misnames have made them.
It is true, that as one black sheep will scab a flock, so one
rogue in livery will taint the whole servants' hall, hut the
virus, in nine cases out of ten, comes from up-stairs. Think,
my worthy fir Apricius de Tablev—when you are blowing-
up your stately twelve feet of pnk., white choker, canary
cloth, cotton lace, and orange plush. because they turn up
their noses at cold mutton, and End eve) the "plain jints"
of the second table monotonous— of the dinner tented up to
you day, and the hits you make about it. Think of
the position Y. Béchamel, your unequalled she,; holds in
your household, your affec:ions, and your wagezmorourit.
Think of the conversation, the 1,16118. the "walks
and ways" ai your own table, and then honestly
ask yourself whether, when master is doing such daily
devotmn to Saint Belly, you have any right to
scold John Thomas for bowing b:-.70m the same altar, and
making his humble offerMg in the se-wants' hall, to the saint
whom has master is on hi, knees to, two good hours daily,
in the costly rites r: the dining.room?
Ard you, Meet Noble Grace o: Fitz-Plantagenet, rho
stand aghast at the in. °lent* of that creature--your maid,
Ilinnikin ! Can't you guess where she got that trick of car-
rying her nose so high' Do you suppose her perquisites
are confined to your (rice's castoff gowns and laces—that
she can wear these without ca !thing, in a serond-hand way,
the ailments of the ori7.inal proprietor? If you look on
yourself as the Share, of society, whs. right have you to be
savage when she emu mee to be its Worcester or best Staff'ord
shire stoneware! U she isn't Pm room she has lived too
near to the rose not to catch a faint reflection of it. sum-
fine scent and aristocratic oolorr. You ought to know that
sneering is as contagious as mall-poi, and that scornfulness
andeself-love can so more be kept to oneself than scald-head.
Instead of discharging then- vials of wrath against the
servants' hall, suppii.e people set to work diligently to dis-
infect their dining and drawing-rooms? How, I ask, is
James to respect the dignity of labour, when my Lord
Lolliogton, behind whose chariot he clings with his twin
colossus, shaking awfully as to calves, glories in being the
laziest of human beings? When young Cibberwright is
groaning over the crumpled raided which that abandoned
housemaid has left in his mattrems, hes he any right to lift
his eyebrows because young Cibberwright's own man is indig-
nant at being put into a bed without curtains ?

Bo you suppa e theca glorious armies of flunkey' which
mamervre round dioner•tabfei can be trained to stop their
ears, as easily as they can to keep down their grins and
gutiavra—.ha: trey don't hear and ponder what the people
whom, plates they are cba-r,inl pram and believe in, and
Isuth at, and are interrited about. Remember that master
and misses think nodiinl of ben seen en deshabille by the
butler or the housekeeper. As mar, and woman too, is an
imitative aninal, can we wonder the:, the face should be
exasiovally mimicked instead of the mark—the red master
or minus instead of the company one' Remember, too,
that Mr. Butler or Mrs. Housekeeper is bound to you by no
legal tie but sages. If there is to be any other bond between
up stairs aad down, it must be one of master's or minus's
making.
The sum and substance of the matter, in Mr. Pelota's
potion, comes to this—Tell me what the marten are, and I
will give a shrewd guess at the servants. Show me a pie-
ture of the drawing-room, and I will tied you a faithful re-
flection of it in the servants' hall—meatia niviandin.. of
course, but with the balance 14 light and shade very, very
much the mime. 'When luxuriousneio, show, parade, pro-
tontion, selfishness, worldliness, and veneer, in all falbions,
rule above stairs, what right have we to expect that fru-
gality, simplicity, diligence, humility, faithfulness. and
" the genuine article," should be the staple commodities of
the area level?

PLYMOUTH ELE,TION.-Mr. Morrison lino issued
the following address to the electors : -" To the Flee-
toes of Plynouth.—Gentlemen,—A vacancy having
occurred in the representation of your borough by the
elevation of Lord Valletort to the peerage, consequent
upon the lamented death of the late Earl of Mount:Edg•
combo, I have ventured to offer myself as a candidate for
the vacant neat and to solicit your suffrages. By biz sh, by
connexion, by conviction. I am proud to reckon myself a
sincere member of the great liberal party. As such I would
give my hearty support to any practical scheme which
:night he submitted to parliament, calculated to reform the
anomalies in our present system of representation, and which
would admit such a proportion of the working clawes to the
enjoyment of the franchise as would give a fair and equitable
weight to their claims and rights in the councils of state.
In order to secure electors from undue pressure being put
upon them in the exercise of their high duty and privilege
as electors I would vote for the ballot, in the belief that
such a measure would afford effectual protection, without
nrolucing those, evil consequences which some fear will fol.
I.w upon it^ introduction. On the questioned church-rates
beios again brought before parliament I would vote for the
abolition of the impost. Any meteore which, by promoting
the spread of education, by ream .ng COMM of crime, or
by effecting improvements in our civil or criminal
law, would tend to advance the motol, social, and moto-
rist progress of the nation should receive my earnest sup-
port. Pr ogle, as a frestrader, I would a tiniest. no
sion in that policy which has opened our porta to 78=
ping and mirchaodiee of (mei,' nations, I should consider
yrdproinen•nas.otn.Lattihmkr oeafh fruwevairerumelswhftscuitoch :ow% rfi
rlioreoliehaveri
esiitatortinishemun7rdtutobut
nations, for our own shippitrg, some recompense for the
advantages freely granfgd to their ships when visiting orr
home ports. The evenly baleen( Mat, of pasties at
home, as well as the unsettled condition of affairs among
for. i3n nations, render it, in my opinion, a matter of
esprcirl impoi lance that every effort should be
made to retain in power the present liberal
folminivtration tinder the guidance of Lord Palmerston.
On any miner Val& might affect the stability of the
liberal goverment at the present juncture I should con-
sider it to beedviratis bemire minor considerations in order
to IDSODD the 001/011111011 In power of the statesmen who
have se walsedy the cause of civil, religioF%
std 111111111MIIIN its ty at home and abresd. Expecting
eltertly be ban the homer al admen' you more fully in
nun, I leg le the hinds to subscribe myself, your most
ohedirsit senaet. pangs, 110111 DION. Royal Hotel,
Pl) month, ant. 7,1861."