Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1877 — Snobbery in England. [ARTICLE]

Snobbery in England.

r IVy«mthtek flunkeyim in Engird died out under the Mrorem of “the Boob grievously, as Doglxniy bw*. educated at the City of London J was nominated to clerkship in the City of London docks. He passed a satiafijctory examination, but was informed that his services would not be required. Why? Because his father was a coachman! Yet Lord Beaconsfield was an attorney's clerk, and his wife a milliner; Mr. Adams, Queen’s counsel, who was Governor of Hour Kong, was a printer's reader,and his wife a seamstress, ft may well lie asked who are those snobs of the City of London docks, who disqualify a young fellow on grounds dial arc no bar io the learned professions, nor to Ute civil service. Borne years ago, I had the honor of a special engagement to attend a grand National ball at the dowager City of Bath, to describe the scene fbr the leading journal there. I was requested to go by a back staircase, into the orchestra, as it was impossible to gat a newspaper man an invitetian, for tlie committee had refused tickets to the daughters of tlie Mavor because their father was a linen-draper. I need hardly say that 1 described that ball, but not in the local paper, and I afterward learned that no tradesman was allowed to sit in Ute dress circle of thfe Bath theater. I once resided in a western county. For the time being the High Sheriff of a county is the direct representative of the Queen. It is an honorary office, and costs the man who holds it ten or fifteen thousand dollars at least. He meets the Judges of Assize in state, attended by his javelin men and retainers. The Judges are forbidden to receive his hospitality, for some old-world reason or another. They are therefore entertained at dinner once'at least during the assize by the Lord Lieutenant. I had the honor of an invitation to dine at one of these banquets by the Earl of 8., but he excluded the High Sheriff because he was a manufacturer. Not even the royal seal of Majesty protected the plebeian Sheriff from the aristocratic snub direct.—Loudon Cor. N. Y. Timet.