Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-05-28
THE NOBLE LORDS.
"a Few OF the Unsavory Gases IN which
They Figure Msanly. 5.5#s

They Figure Msanly.
From the London Cor. New York World. Il
In these degenerate days, when the
House OF Lords is beginningto be look
ed upon as the great popular obstruc.
ton to progress, the members OF the
pesrage would do well to avoid COM
ing SO prominently, as they have been
doing latterly, before the public in
connection with disagreeable matters.
One of their number, Lord st. Leon.
ards, has just undergone 4 sentence OF
imprisonment for indecently assault
ing a servant girl. Another, Lord
Graves, is out on bail on q
charge of fraud. Lord Hinton,
circus clown and husband OF
q ballet dancer, has been SEN
fenced to u years hard labor for
swlndling tradesmen. Another noble
Marquis, formerly in command of the
Queens body-guard, is under a cloud
in connection with some very disrepu-
table bill transactions which were only
compounded after the matter had
been made public. Lord Durham is
regarded with disgust by all respecta-
Die people IN consequence of the un-
lustifiable charges which he brought
in a court of law against his invalid
wife. Mr.. Townsend, next heir but
one to the Marquis of Townsend, and
the Hon. Mr.. Sandys, known to New
Workers as the Earthquake" have
just passed not very creditably
through the Bankruptcy Court. The
future Duchess of Grafton, formerly a
notorious character, we'll known to the
S O'Clock habitues of the Bur-
lington Arcade, is at present
disporting herself at Mica as
the Countess of Euston. Lord
Cowley's brother, Colonel the Hon.
Fred. Wellesley, ex-aide:de-camp to
the Queen, ex-Charge d'Affairs and OK.
husband of the charming daughter of
Lord Augustus LOTUS, is living OPEN
ly with Kate Vaughan, the well-known
burlesque actress, for whose sake ne
deserted both wife and children. This
is the gentleman who had to leave the
diplomatic service for having, while
Charge d. Affaires at Vienna, brought
a notorious character into the En-
bassy box at the opera on the night
when the Empress and the court were
present. His departure from the army
was rendered necessary on account Of
having been guilty of cowardice.
Another noble Lord, whose name it
is needless to mention, but who is al
most as we'll known here as in Lon
don, appears periodically before the
magistrates charged with unclean
scrapes of the same kind which Undue
ed another Lord some years ago
to get a conclave of family doc.
tors and lawyers to declare him as
dead in order to avoid facing q
court of justice. The latter is flour
ishing in this country at the present
moment, coffin full of fagots having
been buried in his stead Had not
the proprietor of the Pail Mall Ca
zette interfered in the matter, Editor
Stead's unsavory revelation on this
subject would have caused q still
greater commotion than did his
Maiden Tribute"
The disgraceful state of things re-
vealed by the Aylesford and Bland
ford trials are too we'll known to be
referred to here.
The prestige which has hitherto
hedged in the artist ocracy of Great
Britain is fast disappearing in the
OF these repeated offenses against the
innate notions OF responsibility and
decency of the Britain middle classes,
and were it not that section of
society still maintains the fine old
traditions OF Anglo.Saxon purity and
honor we should yet live to see the
day when it will no longer be true
that ''every Englishman dearly loves
q lord"