Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1843-10-27

eLT0tt6 OF Inc west Emu. Oh are IHVNcu
TO dine, we will say with his grace the Duke
of Devonshire. There are ten or twelve
guests, all noble except yourself; and when
you look round upon the five other gcntle-
men, it is possible that, without vanity, you
may come to the conclusion, that in dress.
address, spirit and natural gifts you are at
least the equal of those around you. Dinner
is late in being announced, and meantime,
as you know all the ladies, aud are partic-
ularly acquainted with the youngest and pref
test, you sit down by the latter, and promise
pourself the pleasure Of giving her an arm
when the doors are thrown open, and sitting
pearance at last, and the lady willingly takes
your arm-when in step my Lord Flumme-
~, who is a terrible spoon but undoubted-
y MY Lord takes the lady from you, and
makes his way TO the dinner table. Your
first thought is 10 follow and secure place
on the other side of her, but still another
couple or two are TO take precedence, and
you are left at last TO walk in alone, and
take the seat that is left-perhaps between
two men who have lady on the other side.
-Pleasant-is Mt it?
Agan. You are strolling in Regent
street or the Park with an Englishman,
els. He is man Of fortune, and indepen-
dent in his character as any man in England.
On the Continent he struck you as particu-
larly higll-minded and free from prejudice.
You are chatting with HIM very intimately
when young nobleman, not remarkable for
anything bu, his nobility, slips his arm into
your friends and joins the promenade.
From that moment, your friend gives you
about as much Of his attention as he does to
his walking-stick, lets your questions 60 I'M
answered, let them be ever SO clever, and
enjoys with the highest zest the most remote
spoony of my lord. You, perhaps,
as stranger, visi. in my lords circle of So
ciety, and your friend does not; but he
would as soon think Of picking my lords
pocket as of introducing yoG to him, and, it
you be gan 10 think you are 4l'onsiuer de
Irop and say good morning. your TREND,
who never parted from you before without
making an engagement to see you again,
gives you a nod without turning his head
from his lordship, and very dry echoes
your good morning. And this, we repeat,
the most independent man in England will
do, for he is brought mp to fear God and
honor lord land it is bred in his bone &brain.
| We could give thousand similar instan-
ces, but the reader can easily imagine them.
The life of a commoner in England is one Of
inevitable and daily eclipse and morlifca.
lion-nothing hut The force of early habits
and education making il tolerable to the En-
glishman himself,and nothing at all making it
in any way endurable to republican of any
pride or spirit. You naturally say, why
not associate with the middle classes, and
let the aristocracy 60 to the devil 2 but IN
diUidually sending people to the devil is of
no use, and the middle classes value your
self and each other only as your introduce
ton to them is aristocratc, or as their friends
are approvable by an aristocraiic eye. There
is no class free from this humiIiating weak
ness. The notice of lord will at any time
take the wind out Of your sails when lady
is in the case your tailor will leave you
half measured to run to my lords cob in the
street; your doctor will neglect your fever
for my lords cold; your friend will break
fast with my lord, though engaged particu.
larly to you; and the out-goings and in-com.
ings. the sayings and doings, the stupidties
Impudencies, manners, g.eetlngs, and conde.
sccnsions oflords and ladies', usurp the con.
versalion in all places, and to the interrup.
ton or exclusion of the most grave or per.
sonal topics.
F Understand us, we grudge no respect to
dignities or authorities. Even to wealth, as
power, we are willing to yield the wall. Blu,
we say again, that republican spirit mus
ball. % bo,n In l,,,,
Nth which it neuer can compete, and in thi.
lies the only distinction 1--WE iervently hope
which will ever hedge in an American arts.
tocracy. Let who will get to windward o.
US by superior sailing-the richer, the hand
somer, the cleverer, the stronger, the more
beloved and gifted-rhere was fair play a
the start. and we will pay Difference and du
ty with the promptest. But no lords and la
dies, Mr.. President, ifyou love US. NJ p. W.
"FIrrY YEARS SINcE."-The New Yorl
Mirror contains an essay on the manners ane
customs fifty years since, which is full Of ad
miration 10 the present generation. Fifty
, years make great change not only in thu
condition of an individual, but in the habits
and principles of society.
We make an extract for the benefit of our readers
male and female: The writer says; when Wash
ington was President his wife knit stockins in Phla
, delpha, and the mothers made doughnuts and cake
between Christmas and New Years; now tho mar
ried ladies are too proud TO make doughnuts beside
r they don't know how, they even send TO Madam
Pompadour or some other French cake maker. an,
buy sponge cake for three dollars pound. In thos
l days New York was full of substantial comforts =:
, now it is full of splendid misery then Their
, were no greyheaded spnslers unless they wer
very ugly indeed) for man could get married for
dollar and begin house keeping for twenty and wash
ing his clothes and in cooking his victuas the wifi
saved more money than it took 10 support her. Nov
, have known minister to get five hundred dollar
for buckling couples then wine cake and e, ceeTai
:, five hundred more; wedding clothes and jewels,
thousand six or seven hundred in driving to tn
springs or some deserted mountain then a hons
must be got for eight hundred per annum, and furnish
e ed al an expense Of two three thousands and whe
= all is done, his pretty wife can neither make cak
nor put an apple in a dumplin Then cook mus
be got for ten dollars per month chambermaid
laundress and seamsress at dollars each, an
MS the fashionable folly of the day has bani, he'd III
mistress from the kitchen, those blessed help afore
said reign supreme, and while master and mstres
are playing cards in the paror, servants are payin
: the devil in the kitchen thus lighting the candle
v both ends, it soon burns out. Poverty comes in
= the door drives love out Of the window. II is this stu
. pid and EXPENSIVE nonsense which deters SO man