MORAL SHOCKS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1278, 27 August 1886, Page 3

MORAL SHOCKS.

English society must be fretting pietty well risen to “ moral shocks.” They have occurred of late days with a frequency and regularity which have almost removed them from the list of sensational events. A professor in the modern “ School for Scandal” would hope to be gifted with a stiil]’more lively imagination than the Sneerwella and Backbites whom Sheridan draw, before ho could add the slightest improving touch to the sober facts n on which he would have to work. The case of Sir Charles Dilko has hardly been disposed of when another crops up, which gives promise of matter quite as “edifying.” Yet, on the whole, perhaps, that element of unexpectedness which mingled with the revelations in connection with the political baronet, and which so keenly whetted the curiosity of the public in respect of them, is wanting on this oo casion. The hero of the story is a man of fashion, and a peer, that he should have figured in the character of a Don Juan is not so very surprising after all. It is rather difficult, indeed, to understand why the circumstance should have caused such a commot on as, according to our cablegram, it nas in England. The nobleman referred to should have no lack ot that consolation proverbially afforded by companion in') in distress. However else the order to which ho belongs may have failed to give a ptactical answer to the query as to “ the uses of an aristocracy,” it must be confessed that, as far at least as providing employment for the Divorce Court has been concerned, it has left nothing to be desired,— * Town and Country.’