New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-12-12

"A volume has Just appeared in England entitled
T HafdWlckes Titles Of Courtesy containing aI
alphabetical List Of all those Members of Titled
Families whose name do not fall within the scope
~ $he Peefsge, Baronetage and Knightage.n The
\ author remarks that Of the titles belonging to q
Y fhthef ri Great Britain, subordinate one is some
= times assumed TO distinguish or, adorn the eldes
son; but the latter only wears it by courtesy, and
aall his others who prefix "the honorable Mr.
etc., 70 their names, assume courtesy toward
themselves, but are nothing more than ssesquires
tho eyes q the law and Herald's College. These
parties do honor to themselves but matter-of-fact
6tiquetta gives the name of the player as well as
Qf f6e part5played. In other cases, the courtesy
(. canning from the f0untain-lead of honor, the re-
clpients Of IT become substantially what royalty
3deciafes they shall henceforward be taken for,
Fhns, tie married son Of q peer dies before his ia.
Their leaving children, another son succeeds to the
6t2es but royal courtesy often permits those child
reH ia question to take snch presidency and as
sumo such titles as il their father had lived to move
Forward IN the Peefage. Many titles are but cour-
tesy titles framed in this fashion.
sa' y reviewer Of this work truly remarks
The desire to be something more than is war.
rantsd BY actual position and truth has been strong
IN m0rtals OF every grade. Our own kings called
themselves kings Of France till they dropped The
: Title out OF very shame. Iii another manner the
Kings Of France called themselves the Kings Of
Navarro but with little consistency; not dropping
Athe title, however, till phase in the revolution
not yet terminated, changed the King Of France
Y INTO King Of the French. Another European cour
{ tesy-ttle worn By courtesy, was 9 King Of Jerusa
lem s. and the Dukes Of Atlol, till very recen,
period, were often courteously spoken of as Kings
Of Man, At this very day Belfast is presided oyel
by Sovereign and that courtesy potentate has
= far more agreeable life of il than half his rega
brothers who have Inherited Or flehed 4 crown
and are uneasy under that terrible and eitterine
Durthen. The Sovereign of Belfast is the head Q
fhe municipality there: the Soyereigns, whose Irsl
fities have been more akin to c0urtesy-right were
I such men as Martin, King Of Connaught, and tia
1spsy and trustworthy King Gorny, whose chroni
cies have been exquisitely written by the pen Of
Helen Maria Edgeworth IN
Barbarian monarchs are rendered doubly splen
aid BY real diamonds and sham titles The court
cons loyalty Of the Chinese acknowledges in th,
Emperor Of China brother Of the Sun and Moon
Lney are quite acute enough to know that the re
iationship will not bear examination at the hand
On genealogist; but since the Emperor has though
~, ~ his wisdom, to declare il, the courtesy an
plefy OF the Chinese accept ii as a fact. They ar
semt people, it is true but then they an
likely the less to cayil, If they should ever rea
English history, at the stringent courtesy Of par
nlent, which compelled all Englishmen to saw Anne
70 the assertion that let our monarch be Mat
might, he was in the church to be endowed Wi
the courtesy title Of most religious aud graco,
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