The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-08

AristOcracy i'm England and America.
From the World.
Lord Archibald Campbell, the second son of
the Duke of Argyll, has made up his mind to go
into business as wine merchant, and the Lon.
don journals are full of commentaries favor
able and untavorable upon this portentous fact.
Nobody, of course, is astonished that a young
Scotchman should desire to make money; aud
although the blood of Argyll, the ''Mac Callum
More" the head OF all the Campbells, is as blue
as the sapphire which was let fall from the
window of Richmond Palace in sign of the
death of the Virgin Queen, England has seen
too many of herp peers sitting on railway boards
aud Exiting" at the Stock Exchange, to be
amazed Rt mercantile venture on the part of
peers younger son. The thing which startles
Tories from their p1opr1ety, and hutters rad-
cal hears with Joy, in this particular case is
not that Lord Archibald means to turn penny,
but that he tells all the world that he means to
turn penny honestly, and that his father and
mother stand by him in the premises, and that
he frankly asserts the compatibility OF a pros.
porous career as a wine merchant with the
social claims and pretensions of a WeIl-behayed
! young lord by courtesy.
| Tnere have been British mobiles who took TO
! business IN despair, and when the turf or.the
! green table or the curls OF Circe had brought
| them, in the expressive slang OF their order
| TO grlef" There was Dukes son not many
| 1CulS uBo NuO run W 10 Australia ana opened
| a ship-chandery; and the son of a MARQUIS
| earns now or not very long ago earned, a
| decent living as produce dealer in q town Ia
/ Wisconsin. England abhors pennIless noble
men as much as she admTes nOblemen who
keep up the credit of their order" even at the
| expense OF other people When the excellent
| Sir Morton Peto was try ing the other day 10
| persuade the stockholders of athe. London,
| Chatham, and Dover Railway that the
accounts of the company were as satisfactory as
| they were incOmprehensibe, the uncIviI crea-
! lures Missed and hoOted at him, and even
| suggested the "Old BaileyD as the place from
! which poor Sir Morton ought hereafter to
| date his letters. But couple OF otnoblemen who
had invested the splendor OF their titles in the
concern IN return Tor much stock at favorable
| rates, arose and spake, and, though both of
| them canoidly declared they knew nothing
| about the matter, the paci6ed shareholders
| says sarcastic London journalist received
| the announcement OF their ruin from the lips of
| Lords Sondes and Harris with loud cheers !"
| -Four centuries ago an English duke was for
mally degraded by his peers in Parliament for
the atrocious crime OF lot having slXpence
aud when the English peers in the last century
| began to be gradually pauperZed, their order
Ysibly fell into sort OF disrepute the signs of
| which we can trace to-day throughout the
| dramatic literature of that time and which
%a6ed ever worse until the great wars with
| Napoleon came, bringing high prices for
wheat aud debased currency, when the terri
torlal anslocracy lifted up their heads once
more, and shone even as the "shOddy" OF our
own lime and country, until the eighteenth
century proyerb, "As rich as nabob," has
gradually given place to the more modern
saying, ''As rich as lord.D That a lord, there
fore, should be rich 10 a country which so
earnestly insists upon his being rich, and that
II he happens to be poor he should seize any
one OF the opportunities commonly open to
lords OF freeing himself from that stigma, is in
the ancient and established order of things.
LoIo Afen,pald might have sold himself in
marrage TO the accomplished granddaughter of
an opulenl cheesemoDger with much private