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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4516, 26 June 1883, Page 3

Thomas Carlyle (says iEgles) was not a philo*-anstocrat. As, for example, when he wrote, of the Scottish nobility :—lt is 'worthy of note that the nobles of the country.jbtye maintained a quiet de«pic- ' able bebftTiour from the timps of Wallace """" downwirds —a selfish, ftrocious, famishtWxg,, o,nprintip!<>d, set of bysenaa, from 'wh'Qm'at'no time and in no way has the .. c'ountryderiTed any benefit." But none ,;lo)re'd Icfis njf?b rcle. Froude says :— -"HMOarlylp) knew well enough thm the-,-welfare of the ntiitc. lilro the welfare ■»6f ■ everything else, required that the wise and Rood »honld govern, o'nd ibe • tinwise.and selfish.should be goremed ; -. that of all methods of discovering and -■* promoting your wise" men, the voice of a ! mob was the least promising; and that if reform. { meant only liberty and tbe abolition of all authority, just or unjost, ;w;e m.jlJht be worse off than we are. at . 'presient.'', Constituei>flie» might find ' worse advice than this at an election jdnetare. ,/i The..aristocrat is supported by hie ancestors, the pauper by his contemporaries, and tbe debtor by posterity. Iti» noticeable that thin women always talk the fastest. A. double chin cannot be wagged with celerity, even by a woman. W(\>er\ do flowers become highwaymen P —When they show their pistils (pistols) and atamro (staymen).