Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-04-16


DEBEErr AND TIE ENGLISH AIIsroCrACy.
From our own Correspondent
LONDON, England, March 81, 1880.
To the Editor of the Free Press aud Times
During my voyage from New York to
Liverpool have had opportunity to examine
with considerable care Debrett's ''PceraGe
Barone'age and knghtage of the United
Kingdom" for the year 1879 a massive, gilt
edged volume, richly bound in calf, which
is unhesiaiingly placed among the three
6ooks by ninc-tcnths of the English aristoc-
racy. Those books are advScdly said to be
Debrctt the Bible and Shakespeare, and We
may add they are estimated respectively in
the order named. For Il half-day's reading
| am not inrlncl to deny that the dry rou-
tine of facts about great unknowns is even
more unnteresiing than the genealogical
tables of the Old Testament but the book
does, nevertheless, contain some things that
venture TO think will be of general interest.
The head of the peeragc is, of course, the
Queen, Alexandria Victoria, the only child
born May "a, 1919, and consequently is now
sixty years old and she has rcigned forty
one years. Eight of her nine children, four
sons and four daughters, are living, two Of
whom are unmarried, the Prince Leopold,
who is tweniy-six years old, and the Princess
Beatrice, the ''baby of the family" who
(excuse our mentioning it , is twenty-five
years old. The Queen and most Of her chill
dren keep up the reputation of the
Georges for large families; already she
has thirty three lineal descendants living
With one exception, those of her children
who are married have married very honora-
bly, Her oldest child, a daughter, was mar
ried TO the only son of Emperor William of
Germany, and the Duke of Edinburgh mar
Russia. 1t was not considered at all be-
meath the dignity of royalty TO consent to the
marriage of the Princess Louise with 50 old
and wealthy family as the Argyles but
the Queen is even now severely blamed for
giving her consent, in virtue of her Partially
for the Germans, to the marriage of the
Princess Alice to the pauper prince of Schcs-
wig and IIolsten. who, it is said, already
had an acknowledged wite anu TWO chilureh
in his own country.
The Prince oil Wales, who VIII succeed 10
the throne on the deccase of his mother, was
educated at both Christ Church, Oxford. and
n, n. ii ..,f. Al
Trinity College, Cambridge, with The pur-
pose, apparently, Oh winning ior himself 'ne
good Will oil the constant centres oil 'onser-
Va'ism anu Lioera''s'i'' Tic Has fo' iei. VI
nina h'h' at ei'her Phice Il reputation i"'
haru readihs pu' lit WIS caiieu very
clever ieiiow' ana having oeeh porn WISE
anu iearheu' H. l. LIS anu Li-Ds "erc
showered upon MN from all quarters oi inc
United hinsuom not long al'er ne went up
10 hohuoh 10 set i s''ii''cii's vi ia"' IN
stead Oh sehaihs MS TWO oiueSt soiiS u 'N-
ioru OF 10 'amoriuSc 10 prepare iof 'he 10y Ill
ou''es 'in' VIII Piooaois sohe "''s i'S' upo"
oie vi 'n'"' II. ''''' p'a''u ''''". at '''0 ~
'he naval sei,'oe' "'nou'' '' 10 .''i'"'o"
win 'he n'''''i.s' ~ NUT" '' p'''''''' ID,
literary euuca'ioh AT Zion or iiarro"- Inc
Queen was allowed 10 educate the Duke oil
Edinburgh Wherever sue chose' anu accoru-
insly lie was sent 10 the herman University
vi Dunn anu 'iie '''o''h "'''iS''f vi i'''n-
ouisn' Inc i'uNe vi No'iii''isi' 'ooN sun
aho'her course anu was Piepaieu i''
'nc amy l" '"' ''"''aiS '
at "ooi"ich- Irihce i'eopo'u WIS he'ei' 80
lar rs l can iearh' appoih'eu 10 s'rIc'
course oi CLASSICAL OF o'i'er TRAINING Ills
constitution Is 100 lraii 10 bear severe applic;-
ton, and he IS IN other respects, Liberals
tell me Win sign Oh pity ior Inc ia'e nell
picked husoand' remarkably ike his ia'her.
Besides the honorS conferred Dy Inc uhiVer-
sites on these scions oil royal biood' thcy
have been honored by Inc orders oil Inc 'iack
Eagle oil PRUSSIA, the Elephant oil denmark
the Tower and sword OF Portugal anu a
hali-dozen other orders oil hiissia' frussia,
Austria, Belgium, SPAN ana 3reece-
The information that makes up the larger
part OF this holy book OF books consists OF
(a) the full name OF the nobleman, 90 the
date OF his birth, (c) the place or places
where he was educated, I'D whom he married.
| 10, tho family c,o, of o-ns (f, tho c,,hs tn
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