, 1876-03-05
How Is Noble Swells - in London Live
John Pauts London letter to Nf7o lvrk Tribune.

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John Pauts London letter to Nf.p l-ork Tribune
| As for the noble swells themselves, from what
| I've seen Of them though perhaps one can very
little judge Of what people actually are by sim.
| ply meeting them in Court circles and glare oi
fashionable drawing -roomsl, should cay they
are not hard lot, generally speaking. and that
in the main they arc well-behayed less given to
putting on fris than one would suppose, con-
Biderng all the fuss made over them. Their
honscs as a rule, are not all the palaces which
an ardent republican imagination pictures. Tho
Duke Of s[arlboroughs doesn't begin with tho
house / had in Brooklyn. The Bishop Of
Drook1yn's residence w.'uid put the Bishop
of Loudon's 10 tie blush. we're the brick
OF the latter not 30 dingy that it's red is invisible
! brown. The Duke Of Norfolk's town house you
would inventory as but cheap boarding house
in passing it casually by. Apsley House, famous
for the Waterloo bauquets given there in the
Duke OF Nellinston's time (bloody good dinners
they ought to lave beeu) is q sort Of sarcophn~
GUS externally, and would about as soon think
Of trying to be jolly in the British alqsenm
iugham Palace, Whero the blessed Queen eats her
royal mutton has no point Of architectural beau-
ty to hang recollection on. Marlborough
House, Wales' wigwntn (what you can see of it,.
has rather jo'lier face; and passing by it the
gate. Supposns that this meant that the
Prince was ut dinner, I didn't SO in to dis
t11rb him: but have since learned (the news-
papers let it out in 3 whitley that ha waR
and is in India Wales. by tue .sn, way
Notwithstanding that he owes something more
than half million pounds, Ho il . good fell
low. and spends lis money freely, they soy. And
there is not one of his specially appointed wig
makers or pandowdy bakers probably, who would
refuse even now to trust him. But the Duke
Of Edinburg, who had supposed had anchored
deeply in tie popular hoart has no hold there
at all. As 'tthe Sailor Prince. majestic tar
I,e was once ia excellent odor but noW that
they have him on shore, the SAVIOR is less sweet
iu tie nostrils of his commona1ty, and they ac-
cuse him OF being '+mean,"- in
his mode Of life Certainly he comes Of thrifty
pareutage enough, the private fortune OF the
Queen mother, accumulated BY SAVING, helng
estimated ut eome millions Of pounds s,-four or
five, think. Viii, this money on hand, and
employing very little Of it in business, ono
would think the good lady might dover of her
daughters as occasion makes necessary, without
calling On the nation to DO It,
Hu, rere,.p,4s nos 11,oiuons, ,-tha town~honses
of my noble friends. the Dukes, MaEqulses.
them erect coat-of-arns over their doors, but
tha majority 70 on and keep shop without hang
ipo ont auy sort Of q Eigu. just Is we'll, no
dnnbt: they probably get all the custom they
cara for without sticking out 8 shiDgte. But you
must not infer that these reSideneea afe az pau
ahoes in wide and stately halls, and the height
and breadth of the drawing 6-roons> the eHect OF
tha great diuing-rooms when at the Iequess W
lie Duke, who insists thas you shaA stay 70
dinner you hand the Duchess !nMtns enee. ~ n oa
your republican hair curl. The o1pRiness o.
exterior, the absence Of door-piates y AZ a1ecs
ed oId families leave thst sort Of thiog 20 sne
new, preferripg that house shali !ook % tuonso
grandfather once n'eo IL w.