New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-26
THE MODERN CHARLES SURFACE
Ft.on me LonAon Eprld.


The death Of the Earl Of Tousdae at Tho carly ago
Of twen'y-siX, is the natural end of melancAoly ca
reer. Lord LOnsdae the head If great leudal
house. his ancestors had unrivaled influence in tho
old borough-rn ngering days; he might hiinselr
have been, had he known how To make use OF tDo
position 20 which he was born, real power IA the
State Bnt he deliberately elected 10 tTample tho
purple under his feet H. besmirched his name and
his family with the mire Of worthless associates ana
coarse practices. Boy though he wa,, there was
comparatively little in lie worth living Tor leit.
His entire ex stence was ~ much tragedy az tho
play Of ". Zolas which sent thrill of horror anl
disgust through London audiences two years ago;
and few people regret, either IN the interest OF
the protagonist bmself of his friends, tEat tAo
curtain has now fallen.
OF the fourth Earl of Lonsdale there is an end,
and nothing more need be said about hun. Let Us
tun attention 10 or two of his brother peers
who are still alive. and whose names are Just now
somewhat prominently before the PuDne. Iho
Duke of Hamilton has determined TO follow The exs
ample OF Charles Surface. and TO put up the ar5
treasures of his great Scotch mansion ham ii,
Palace, for sale by auction. The Duke, some lttio
time ago, decided upon disperslng his library. 10
was not particularly honorable, oreyen eredltaDl9
step to take; but It could be sufficiently accounted
for on the twofold hypothesis that his Grace was
exceptionally in want of money, and has enter
tanned throughout has life rooted antpathy 70
books of any sort he Duke Of Hamilton comes OF
a stock wild as the Earls of Lonsdae but there
a certain air Of coartliness and breeding about
the follies and eXtrayagances OF his ances@
tors unknown ~ the present head Of the house.
Few people ever ascend the pollshed-Dak starr
of the Manson Doree in Paris, without picture
twenty years ago, when the then Duke OF Iiamit>
ton, having previously drunk q bottle OF brandy,
made false step and fell down the whole hight.
He was picked almost dead, and when his shirt was
torn open IN or,er that he might breath tle more
freely and the ducal coronet was seen mbiazoned
on his inner vest, the attendants Of the place re-
marked apropos Of his patrician bearing and man
ners, that he of Natures noblemen. Only
very lively. as well as very conyentlonaiy re-
specful, Imagination could ever discover IL MS
present Grace of Hamilton an ideal Duke. Edu-
Gated in France up to the age of eighteen, he came
to England and went to oxford with an astohlsa l
ingly thin of Gallo polish. His tastes indeed,
those of the typical English nobleinan, as ne Is
depicted by Partisan satirists. he was devoted To-
ratkllIng. dogfghting, badger-baitlng and pngli-
ism He had a kind and gracious manner aud he
persisenty advanced along the road TO ruin In the
most cheerful OF tcmpers, aud ia the DeSthatureh
way. He was of course, beset by toades anu para
sites of every degree, and II is suggestive clrcun-
stance that Oxford tradesman, since dead, pur-
chased a pure act Of patrlclan devotion neer'
schaum cigar-Jube, which his Grace hai con-
descended to color, for flOO III with the emu Oh hs
premiere jeuAesse the Duke of Hamilton wayward-
ness had come to close, there would be no PARTICLE
lar reason to lament il. The worst of a seed-tlme of
wildcats. extended beyond the limits OF the iegti-
mate season for sowing them, Is that they develop
That the Duke Of Hamilton should now
be about to clear out Hamilton falace.
as completely if 1t was Quilted by the brokers
men, is not a matter which concerns hlhseb alone.
It will produce profound and painful IMPRESSION
upon the publc and it Will react with mischIev9us
0liect upon the order to which he belongs Mgn
who are the possessOrs of great wealth or OF historic
houses cannot escape from the responsibility Oi fus
teeshlp to the public Hamilton Palace, adorned
with the pictures, the furniture, aud the countless
works OF which grace It's INTERIOR, ls history
present. ted TO ms in the most attractive ana h,mO-
bic shape Botticelli's altar-pece, Vandy ke- por-
traits Rubens's Daniel in the Lions Den lWhich
belongs to the collection of Charles ms Loves
of Centaurs' David's Portrait OF Napoleon thu
Great the sofas and chairs, the ebony caDinets th9
| iron coolers which came from Milan three hundred
years ago. chseed aud damascened VI u araDe slu"j
| in gold, the canvases of Andrea Manl"gna, OK
HolOeln, of Titan. OF Leonardo da tIhci, ana
many other masters-a these are to be eAhe1
long and are to be knocked down TO the highest
bidder because their ownes wants fresh supplies Oh
cash to squander, TO replace those which ne mas
gtstive commentary upon the announcement thae
the art-Tcasures of Hamilton Palace are To DO pau
up tn public competition that their proprietor ~
engaged in a lawsuit with the widow OF "A sporting
money lender whose acquaintance he made III tho
course of his pursuits on the Turf