The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-15
Social and cIuh I,f. fnT...,

Hon. George W. Hillinrd writes ,ha fo,tow.
Ing pleasant account Of social. married ana
club life In London.
am at No. 81 ST. James street. give Won
the street and number because | wish to ra-
commend the house. / have sitting.raa,n
Ded-room and dressi ng ROOM for which I nav
guinea and a half week. They are In M.
Iourtn story; the rate of payment lessons as
you y,h 90 UP, and the same accommodations on
s .ue second story. on first floor. would be more
Ihan double. Besides the above amount nav
sniiilng day for attendance. Breakfastand
yea are furnished when desire; very good at
reasonable rates.
=. IN the same street Horace walpole once
.seo. and Byron, before his marriage. once
iooged. Out of my window can see the house
III Whlcn Gibbon died. A few rods off is St
1aihes square, in which George I'LL was born.
anu anu Where the Duke of Roxhurg lived. and
eolected that memorable library the rnemorv
u Thicn Is so precious to every bibliomaniac
str al hing street, which leads from St James
Eeo se. 20 ot. James Square, the Emperor of the
rrench lodged when an exile in England
cans s'tna Is before the door, a post-oftice is
..Use oY, the Wellington, one of the hest res
that All ,ha ,, london, is nearly opposite; so
'"s man are easily supplied
san,s sy VI lie Is that of hundreds and thou.
iomrnsrs -, t o.ners in London, not merely So
fi.,is, nut residents many oe them nsan "a
@ oaIan ana breeding, but not r;ossessad nf u
M sa.icient to enable them to marry-fsr
thinr ., neTe upon small income is a solemn
- ,h; nave no homes, or rather housas
VI their own, and pass their tiyas l., -, i, iuscs,
Apiuoii, varied by excursions tpon the Gov, ~
hent VI visits " a friends house n is a. n,an
heI oi ne not without its dangers and nc,
very conducive 10 the growth of the highor
duaiiIes OF the character; its Isolation ,nd
Sne custom OF living for and by ones self are
APT to eugehuef habits of hardness and selfish
ness. But there is one element in The life Of
such Il man which l have not stated He
~oulu, almost invariably, be a member of some
one OF the many clubs in Loudou which are
such characteristic features OF modern Lon.
don life. In his club he would find ali the
| material comforts of the most luxnriant home
III very moderate expense a we'll chosen H.
brary, all the leading reviews magazines
and news papers, foreign and domestic; pen
tnk and paper; the attendance OF we'll .rained
servants; and besides these. he may take ali
| ms meals at the club, and upon any scale
| ot expense that he chooses. These clubs are
successful applications of that principle of
aggregation or combination which lies al
| The bottom of many of the sociaiistic
schemes OF the present day; the principle is
right, and the only question is, how lar ii
| be carried any FAR her than it has been done III
| the London clubs The principle is that
which Is done can be done more cheaply, IN
proportion TO the numbers than what done
| ior "nei yon cas- feed and warm a hundred for
a sum less Than hundred times what IL takes
| 10 warm Que. thousand persons club to-
| sether and pay seventy five dollars each; this
viii erect and furnish a large, handsome build
ing, and then each of these persons Will pay
thirty dollars year, which will supply an in
come TO carry it on. Though II thousand per
sons have right to use the club, yet not more
than fifty or a hundred nc tualiy using it at
one time.