Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-07-16
THE HOuSE DOLORES

AAAS AoAlo"IllS 1uulCTOuS, anu CeTIalH-
~ very republican description of one branch
of the British parliament. has been contribu.
ted to the New York Journal of Commerce
by an American traveller. After some tarry
IN Great Britain, the writer seems aggrieved as
a spectator to see few men raised TO wealth
and power IN church and state, whilst the
masses of the wide kingdom are left TO count
less deprivations. "Tell everybody" he saws,
g to guard our institutions as they would their
lives He then continues:
| The House of Lords, who has not heard
of the House of Lords those men made up of
porcelain, while you and are made of COM
mon clay. Well / went to see them few
days before they moved into their new house
Just as the. clock struck FIVE, the Duke of
| Wellington arrived on his horse, and dismoun-
ted with great agility for an old man bent with
years. He is a venerable looking man, and
in his old age has become quite reformer.-.
The next person | saw was the Marquis of
Lansdowne,-a dark eomplexioned man, well
! looking, carelessly dressed, on foot with an
umbrella. Next came was Lord Ashburton,
who walked very infrm, andappeared in poor
health A short man leaned on his arm, very
old, who could scarce walk. | did not learn
who he was But it was time for me to go
up stairs. As arrived at the landing and
back from the passage, for the Lord Chancel-
lor was coming | thought that reason
why should step forward as wished to see
his lordship. AT that moment a fellow came
trudging along with hall-club in his two
hands, gilt at the top, (the mace,) another one
with cushion (the wool sack,) another with
a long, Unlocking sword, the Sword of State,)
then the Lord Chancellor himself and such
a wig My! only think of having two or
three sheep on your head, and the feeces
hanging down far below your shoulders -
And then his petticoats! gown A man
came after him to hold up his tail (trail) to-
keep it from dragging He had to pull pretty
hard. l could not help laughing. 1t looked
like a farce,-a raree show. So they march
ed in, with slow and solemn tread, up the
aisle, to the Chancellor's chair and the fell
low hold of his long tail gave it swing 10
the right to enable his Lordshp to sit down;
This he did with all the dignity of grand
Mogul. thought it was pity to dress up
such good looking man as the Chancellor,
in women's clothes, with such quantity of
wool about his head. And then those ''b au-
bles,' as old Cromwell called them, suitable
piaythngs for children; but for full grown men
it did look ridiculous to me. entered the stran-
gers Gallery, and lound perhaps fifty or sixty
from the prints had seen of them. | saw an
old chap sitting on the very seat on my left
hand, apparently asleep, his hat down well
over his eyes, (they all wear their hats,) gold
spectacles on, very red face, his feet up on
the next bench before him, and an old grey
tweed coat on. The door-keeper told me it
was Earl Suffolk. AT that moment the door
opened, and queer specimen OF humanity
entered, and, after stopping moment, passed
through to the next room. AS he was close
by me, had a good chance to see him; and
such figure and face you don't often see
He was of immense size around, hair nearly
all off his head, a very doll shaped head indeed;
face appeared sealing wax red, white eye
brows, &c. He breathed pretty hard from the
exercise of walking. This was the Duke of
Cambridge. He has got, not merely noble
blood, but blood royal | could not testify as
10 the quality of his blood, but could as to
its Color
There was good deal of angry discussion
about Ireland, between Lord Brougham and
the Irish Lords. They came as near telling
each other they lied, as they could and not do
it. | noticed very little of that dignity and
courtesy that you see between our Senator's
And then the appearance of the men, as COM
pared with our Senators, felt more proud
than ever of our Senate. In our Senate each
Senator has his seat and sits with his hat of.
In the English House of Lords they keep their
hats on, and walk about, here and there talk
} ing, and apparently doing everything else ex-
, cept attending to their business.
As looked about me, thought, We'll, a
few hundred of these men own perhaps two
thirds of the soil of England They have the
entree to the Palace, exempt from arrest They
and theirs monopoize great proportion OF the
wealth earned by the Sueating millions. They
!; have for themselves and their families nearly
all the good places in the Church, Army and
Navy. What have they done to entitle them
TO so unequal a share of this worlds goods;
while thousands perish with hunger? DR.,
FTanklin's notion of titles was, that they should
ascend to ancestry, and not descend 10 posie-
rity; because if a man performed a great deed,
> the probability was he had been taught by his
father, and prepared by paternal training to
: serve the state.
Cromwell turned these Lords adrift, and
called from all parts of the kingdom men of
; various occupations to answer him this ques-
-, ton, 6" what shall do to make trade prospe-
rous at home and abroad p And these prac-
teal men sat in this very room before occupied
4 I by the Lords.
| The fact is, left the House with far less
" respect for Lords than ever before.
(WELsH TRnDs.-Three things that never
n become rusty-The money of the benevolent,