The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-14
MIXING OUT IN LONDON.

The following s from tho grncefuI pen of Mr..
TuoMN IIuGuEs who is writing lottcrs from Lon
don to The Now York Tribune:
Now, week tho NIichacmas Inv term begins, tho
,,n, vocoiion finally Closes and commercial and
nrnEf,ss;"nal London settles down to tho regular
pp,lI t,r the royt nine months. All official person.
apes too get back to their departments, and only
* porlin;ncntary aud fashionable worlds arc
abscnt. This is the timc for Americans to enjoy
london. if they would only bolioyo it, and could
stond occasional (or shall I say frequently fogs.
Rmt ihcy will come here only when Parliament III
sitting, and thon grumblo, naturally enough, !!
own, ut tho cxhausting droarincss OF society, if
fhey get into tho whir OF it, or at its codnoss and
oxcIusycncss if they don't. Toward the end of last
session heard very fascinating countrywoman
of Yours, who had boon going tho round of all the
tS' tady that almost ali her English acquantancos
seemed to look upon society as business, and to be
only anxious to got through with parties instead of
can YOU wonder at it2 just consider tho facts of
the case for moment. Here, in this little island,
about tho szo Of ono of your average States,
that of tho Union. The centre of this hive is Lon
don, increasing at new-world rate year by year,
and as large already as New York, Philadelphia,
Boston and Chicago all run into one {unless Ihaye
forgotten my tigures). The number Of rich people
living within four miles Of Charing Cross is at oil
times almost conceivable-unhappy rich people,
Even in this comfortable, jog-trot, quiet time Of
year you might dine out every night if you did not
carefully guard yourself against tho commence
mont Of hoste? in - any fyom new Quarter 70 Imagine
when all the great folk of tho country are thrown
into the already bcwildering cauldron.
Every one of the dnner-Sivng people is more or
less anxious to entertain and be entertained by
those who are on tho round of the ladder just above
them. Professional mon, and merchants, and men
of moderate fortunes, desire to visit Knights and
Baronets, or to learn from ocular inspection how
nj P.'s sustain tho fesh M. P.s and Knights
and Baroncts don Q, why they shouldn't bo
asked to tho houses of the Cabinet, and those of
such Earls and other potentates as come from
their own county, and arc known to lhom ut quar-
ter sessions. The potcntates themselves, with the
exception of tho dozen or two whose position is
about invitations to Marlborough House, or any
royal fcstiv.ty, provided it be exclusive. In
short, there is perpetual upward pressure
is after Nil, limited, those who aro pressing
up arc compelled by tho laws Of self-pros rva-
ton to keep keen lookout, lest their own visit
ing books should got nconvenently crowded. But
watch rs keonly as they may it is impossible to
prevent tho natural accrotons years go on. A
certain number of new names will and must get
rns opS
with those who once get into the shafts. So many
feeding debts to DC paid within certain limited
number Of weeks; Send out your invitations in
the sincere hope that previous engagements may
prevent tho acceptance of half Of them, so that
you may get more names ticked off your list, moro
dcbts paid: Crowd in IS wheu thero is comforta-
bio room for II only and then, having secured
your victims send for tho French cook and tho
walters; do the regulation business, and thank
Heaven when it is oror, and YOU have such rest as
other peoples houses till next week. Then, in
tho season when people get to dinner, there
is follow to Be S%nd
London dinners er begin before o'clock now,
and last at least two hours so that by the time you
get up to the drawing there are the carriages
at the door full of girls who want to got on to balls
and drums. II you have no girls and 10 carriages
ton to ono your host and hostess want to bo off
themselves to evening parties, which must not be
altogether neglected. Such, mt least, is tho re-
@ coiyed theory 80 far as IS can Judge in tho going
serted, in dcfonco OF tho tearing about from one
house to another i'll the middle of the night, and
just showing yourself to the hostess that society
is like practice at the bar, you must take it
get the reputation Of not showing you will
be coon dropped, out. So much the better
for you, you will say: agree. But 1 am
only showing What tho society is in which Ameri-
cans with good introductons find themselves.
They havo mono Of tho trouble of it, no debtor
and creditor books to keep, and can't, therefore,
ofton, for the life OF thein, make out why tho vic
tins can't enjoy tho business as much as they do.
Except i'll raro cases, worry much doubt whether
ono person in q hundred docs enjoy it after thirty
Two high church fashionable girls aro said to have
of being able Ito do everything" in the next world
without fatigue, when tho matron interrupted with
sigh, Woll, girls, if Heaven isn't dull it will be
no Heaven to mo-" or course, there arc yet left
number of sensible people who love quiet and their
own homos, and don't want to know any ono moro
fashionable than themselves, but with these we
need not concern ourselves; and oven they, neces-
sarily in this world in nutshell, have more ao-
to have Ill the season on the powers OF entertain
ing and assisting ut entertainments.
Profits OF Literature I'm England.