New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-12-11

is neither, and lives neither for his own
good nor for the good of his fellow creatures,
bad example to high and low, to rich anu
poor, his titular hOnors even in England are
now held to be of little account. Tommy
dearly loves Lord" said Byron, in bilious
mood, of his friend Moore. SO he did, but TO
his credit it must be said that he liked his
Lord to be at least q respectable man. Tuft-
hunter as he was, he would not have thought
the tuft of tho Marquis of Hartford worth
hunting John Bull dearly loves q Lord, but
he does not forget that certain degree of
decorum and dignity Is demanded by an ele-
waited station. Moreover, his passion for Lord
who is out at the elbows, and has played at
ducks and brakes with his fortune. is by no
means of an unlimited description. He prefers
the untitled Briton with a handsome balance
at his bankers He puts the plum before the
peeiage; and really we do not see why ne
should not. A fortune inherited represents no.
thing A fortune acquired representa- great deal.
The wealth of Stevenson or of an Arkwrght
is the result of energy, industry, and enterprise
In the benefits of which the whole country
shares. The wealth of Marquis of Hastings
represents nothing done by himself, nothing
by his immediate ancestry, nothing OK service
to the living generation, perhaps nothing OF
service to generations gone by; and when it is
sauandered uselessly and recklessly, nobody
being the better aud many much the worse
for its prohigate disposition, It Is hardly to be
supposed that commercial people will look on
approvingly Nor is q prOhgate nobleman sure
of the support of the most respectable OF bis
own order. They feel, and feel justly, that IN
day Of democratic tendencies. it is his duty
to give to rank that moral support which can
only be afforded by good breeding, by decorous
conduct and by O life either of public or OF
private usefulness The story of the French
Revolution is too recent to be forgotten. The
frightful prohigacy which smeared the
annals of France from the days or the he
gency to the days Of the general overturn can
hardly be repeated in England; but something
like it, by lessening the personal dignity oil
the aristocracy, might effect changes even
there which peers OF the realm have little rea-
son for desiring. To be a public creature,
with hereditary hOnors and an entailed estate,
is to be by birth the servant of the whole
country. Duties as we'll as dignities may he
hereditary; and when Duke turns ont
BLACKBOARD, O swindler, and spendthrift,
DlHlu UtOplt Will DC uohluS why bhNAS "NN'N
DO Dukes and entailed estates at all. In mod
ern England, especially, a pauper peer is not
regarded with any excessive indulgence. The
rent-roll Gas We have said) is of more im-
portance there than the pedigree. There is no
contempt moro profound than that in which
prosperous English merchant OF manu-
facturer holds Continental nobleman,
with no end Of quarterings and without
penny in his pocket. His Serene Highness the
Duke of Pumpcrnickel is not thought TO be
the most reverend person In the universe. And
this is a feeling which is becoming more
and more common in Great Britain and which
must to great extent modify the politics of
that nation in days which are close at hand
Shop keeping is more respectable there than
ever, and beggar has but poor chance OF
more than decently respectful treatment how
ever pretty may be the figure which he cuts
in Burke OF in Debrett. No wonder the conserva-
tive newspapers call upon the House Of Lords
to be virtuousl No wonder, either, that the
House OF Lords finds it extremely difficult to
be virtuous! Perhaps the day is not distant
when the attempt to make legislators by
swaddling. and rocking, and handling will be
abandoned forever.