NOBLE (?) LORDS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1811, 10 April 1888, Page 3

NOBLE (?) LORDS

Some members of the nobility (remarks an exchange) occasionally Bhow up m an unfavorable light m the London Oourte. Within a week, qalte recently, no less thaa four Bprigs of nobility put m an appearance at the London Courts. The defendant m one oaae, indeed not only boasted blue blood, but royal blood, being no leas a person than the son ol? the Duke of Cambridge. Bot blue blood Is not a guarantee against meanness on the part of its possessor. At least it was not m the oaße of the Hon. Owen FilzGeorge. A wine merchant left a case of compalgne by mistake at the Hon. Owen's house. The latter thought the wine was a present, or said he did, and impounded and drank It. He wae asked to pay for it and refußed, and m oonaequbnoe o? his refusal had to put m an appearance m Oourt to show reason why he was entitled to consume another mana goods and not pay for them. Another "' nohlo lord," who from the evidence given m hla case never pays hlB creditors more tnan one shilling m the pound, waa adjudged a bankrupt, giving aa a reaeon for his insolvency that hia revenue did r.ot come n-t to his expenditure ; the latter always exceeding the former by 95 per cent. Thac peer muet be a treasure to hia trades-people. The third titled claimant to " < ffialal " notice waa the well-knosvnLord Lonsdale, and the cause of his appearance tho conjugal troubles of the equally wellknown Violet Oameron. The fourth and last of the quartette was Lord Howard de Walden, whose brutal conduct to his Bjck wife would disgrace the moat ruffianly denizen of St Giles. Two modlcal men i- had repeatedly to restrain him from forcing his way, roaring drunk, into his wife'B room, whilst she lay dangerously ill with perltonitia. On a recent evening Major Burrowes, Lady Howard's brother, found himself obliged to knock hia brother-in-law down to get him out of the house. Whatever we may think of Mr Ruskln's opinion that thq %gUBh people are ceasing to be English, wa think there can be little doubt but th»t a large sprinkling of England's nobility are oeaeing to be gentlemen.