Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-02
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The Young EngIinhman with an
Income Of $4,000 = Day.
From the Boston Post.l
The young Marquis Of Butte has just
been delivering lecture, In a London
Catholic schoolroom, on the Holy Land
through which he recently made pioui
pilgrimage. The event is a noteworthy
one for several reasons. Had the canny
old Scot, John Stuart, the odious Earl
Of Butte Of George lIls time, been told
that descendant Of his would not
only turn Papist." bot would condo
scend 70 give Gpopular lecture, thus
putting himself on a level with novel
lists, actors and newspaper scribblers,
the stifI.necked favorite Of the Prin'
cess Augusta would have been
shocked out OF his Caledonian pro.
.priety, and might have cut OF his next
heir with a shilling. The change which
has taken place in the habits of the no.
bility within a century is certainly aston
ishing. Sons Of the proud house Of
Argyll have actually gone into trade
Duchessss have sung in public concerts
at Exeter Hall; the Countess Of bud.
ley, few years ago the acknowledged
belle and beauty OF the aristocracy, and
the wife OF an Earl with an income OF a
millien a year, has played in theatrlcals,
for charitable objects, to which admis-
sion was had at so many shillings a
head; the heir OF the Cecils has
become the President of a rail-
way company, the Duke Of Sutherland
runs steam engines for amusement,
and crowd Of bankers, manufacturers
and merchants have invaded the heredit'
airy house. 1t lis refreshing, too, TO see
a young man who has entered not only
upon an ancient title, but the possession
OF estates which yield him an income Of
more than a thousand pounds sterling
a day, who is personally handsome and
seemingly gifted with all that man can
covet devoting himself earnestly TO
serious affairs of life. His conversion
10 Catholicism was an event which
stirred English society to its depths; it
was the sensation of year. It was
signal triumph to the sect which won
him, an unmistakable blow to that
which lost him. And this fact shows
what power a wealthy noble, with little
regard to his personal traits, still yields
in England. That the marquis has de.
voted many thousands from his splendid
income to the service of the church,
that he has travelled far from the luxu-
ries of his home to ponder at Nazareth,
to gaze at Bethlehem on the tomb OF
Rachel, and approach with awe-subdued
emotion the altar of the gorgeous Church
of the Nativity, and to wander among
the holy places of Jerusalem and the
Mount of Olives, the Hosannah road
and the Judgment gate; and that he has
fastened, on his return, TO describe in
glowing words the spots wonderful in sa-
cred tradition But not in external beauty,
are ample evidences that his conversion
was sincere. When it is considered
what Lord Butte, early left an orphan,
obtaining unrestricted control of mil
lions as soon as he came of age, sur
rounded by every dazzling temptation
which besets an English youth, especi-
ally if he be rich and titled, might have
drilted into riotous living; how his for
tune, like that of the Newcastles, Ham
iltons, Courtenays, might have melted
on the turf; how he might have held
ruinous revels in town and country, the
spectacle of his earnestness and religious
zeal is a pregnant one. Were all Eng
lish mobiles like Lord Butte, England
might, perhaps, be kindled into terrible
religious wars; but the aristocracy would
rot, as it seems to be doing now, crum-
BILE soon to decay.