Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1858-12-04
Travelling in England.

Rev. F. A. Mood, in a letter to tn
Charleston AdUOcate March 4th, detail.
some Of bis experience in English travels
As free as England is, an American
that is an ordinary American traveller, one
who is not called to position by govern.
mental appointment, or by some other &C.
cidental elevatiou--feels constantly hammer
ed and breathes an atmosphere of res r int
wherever you go, with whomsoever Won
m'ngle, be it even Methodist preacher,
yon can see even if you are not made to
feet that the Hindoo idea of caste has ua-
conquerable domination in English hearts.
Unquestionably we have in America as
full-grown-mY pen almost made it foil
grown-snobs, as are to be found elsewhere
the wcrld over-but then they immediate
ly become conspicuous, and consequently
contemplate because the large, generous,
republican sentiment of America will not
tolerate it-but it is otherwise in England
You see that, so far from its being disre-
garded or despised, it is courted and ad-
mired, and he only is any thing who claims
to be great deal. Tue consequence is,
that not one ont of City of any Engiishmpn
you meet, but will, after a few minutes
conversation, seek to impress you with the
idea that ne is either directly related, or. if
not related, at least very intimate-the bo-
som frieud-of Lord Thingumhob, or Earl
What-you-may-call-it. Even the laborinp
peasantry inherit the same proclivity and
when their own good sense shows them the
impropriety of claiming intimacy or rela-
tionship with his lordsbip he will be ant
to inform you that he or his father was nv
lords favorite servant Something on the
principle OF the Irishman, who boasted TO
his fellow that he had seen the king, who
had spoken to him.
"And what did he say ?" eagerly asked
his Rdairing companion.
"Why he sBid-'get out of the way, you
yagaboDd r."
So | have thought that some of the |
nation teel it an honor to be eursed-by roy
atty. 1t is not for an American to sit in |
Judgment upon this peculiar ambition of
Englishmen-t may be politically health
ful-to an American it often appears in
tensely stupid and disgusting.
That do not exaggerate this sentiment
will appear in little circumstance that
took place with me in London. A card is
an indispensable travelling companion
abroad-p particularly where you meet your
own countrymen. One of the first move
ments of an American abroad, when he
discovers that you are fellow-citizen, is to
thrust his card into your hand, containing
his name and address.
was at the house of Rev. DR.. Boyce
President Of the Wesleyan conference of
Australia. The matter of cards, as con.
Venent method Of introduction, came NO,
and be kindly offered to have a plate en-,
graVed Tor me, etc Upon giving him NV
address, he looked at me in some surprise
and said
Did ! not not understand Won TO saw
that you had been to College ?D
''Yes SIR"
"Well, it must go on your card.n
I objected very strenuously, and told him
that Americans would regard it as a stupid
piece of vanity.
20. but" said be, "you are not in Amer
ea--EnrOpeans cannot understand how
man can be respectable at all without some
sort Of title !" aud as / was ambitious to
% be respectable, the "A. NJ" was forthwith
recorded