OUR DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1137, 20 March 1872, Page 4

OUR DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION.

[LONDON FIGARO. 1 Those who attack the British Monarchy with their tongues, babble and rave about the privileges of the aristocracy and the monopoly of the capitalist class. At all events there is no such thing as caste in England, for every career and every class is open to all comers. Belgravia is full of men who began the world with a shilling. Three-fourths of the English nobility cannot claim a noble descent of four generations. - The late Premier, Mr Disraeli, is the son of a Jew, who had a very moderate fortune, and became known as the author of a very curious book. The Archbishop, of Canterbury is the son of a minister who was never known to fame, and who was never anything like rich. The present Premier is the son of a Liver pool merchant. The Lord Chancellor is the son of a London shopkeeper. Mr Lowe, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has been an Oxford tutor and and Australian emigrant. Mr Goschenj the Fint Lord of the Admiralty, was, six years, ago, a city merchant. The Ris;ht Hon. J. Stansfield, a Cabinet Minister, was,|three years ago, a brewer— not a big brewer, but a family brewer. Is it not surprising how demagogues can be bo stupid aB to talk about talent being kept down by rnonarchial institutions? Mr Jessel, Q. 0., who has just been made Solicitor-General, is a Jew, the son of a Jewish dealer in diamonds., and is married to the daughter of Mr Moses, the noted clothier. Mr Jessel is a man of rare ability, and of the highest character. Some day lie will be Lord Chancellor, the keeper of the Sovereign's conscience, and the patron of Church livings. We are sure that Mr Jessol will be as discreet and. as just in the distribution of his Church patronage as any Christian Lord Chancellor.