Punch: Punch (54.1868)

February 1, 1S68. ] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

“ PARTICULAR ! ”

Young Mumford (airily, having learnt that the Lady comes from his part of the country). “ Dessay you know the Cadgebys of

Bilchester ?—Awfully Jolly People ! I-”

Haughty Beauty. “ Oh no, we only Visit the County Families, and we Weed them! !”

[Her partner wishes this “ First Set ” was “ The Lancers.”

THE ARISTOCRACY OE TO-MORROW.

Some short-sighted people, observing that the landed property of
the kingdom is passing into the hands of modern money-makers, thence
predict the extinction of the British Aristocracy. But those who are
able to see into the future, discern that an Aristocracy will still exist
in these dominions, only it will be one which will have replaced
another, in the Morning Pest of hereafter, they have read the
following announcements:—

The Duke of Cotton, from his Grace’s Factory, at Manchester,
has arrived at the Clarendon.

The Earl of Gasworks has quitted the Plant, Victoria Park, for
his seat in Derbyshire.

The Marquis of Chimneys is entertaining a distinguished circle
at Falconbridge Hall, the venerable and once hereditary mansion of
the Mowbrays, lately purchased by the noble Marquis.

The coming of age of the Hon. Mr. Max, the eldest son of Lord
Juniper, was celebrated yesterday with great festivities at the great
Distillery of Max & Co., Lambeth, which establishment bears the
family name of the noble Lord who is the head of the firm. This
auspicious event afforded occasion for a reunion of the most distin-
guished members of the aristocracy.

A grand battue took place on the 29th instant at Ravenstone Castle,
the recently acquired property of Lord Viscount Fitz Guano, the
wealthy owner of the extensive Dry Earth Artificial Manure Manufac-
tory at Roseville. The company included several leading members of
the peerage, and they bagged, on an average, each 248 head of game.

The marriage which we some time ago had the honour of announc-
ing was on the tapis between Lord Fribbins, son and heir of the
Most Honourable the Marquis of Muslin (chief partner in the house
of Fribbins & Co.), and the Lady Adeliza Emmeline Pendragon,
eldest daughter of the Earl of Snowdon, was celebrated yesterday
at St. George’s, Hanover Square, by the Bishop of London, assisted

by the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Merlin, uncle of the bride. The wedding
breakfast was held at the extensive establishment in Regent Street,
and the happy pair left, town for Cairngorm Castle, the Highland
residence of Lord Inverbogie.

When the landed property of the United Kingdom shall have changed
hands, the new territorial proprietors, doubtless, will come to enjoy
the same honours as those which the old ones did. Worthiness to be
ennobled, heretofore deemed exclusively peculiar to distinction in
arms or statesmanship, will hereafter be considered to accrue from
success in commerce ; and the aristocracy which that will have created
will take a natural pride in being contradistinguished from their feudal
predecessors by having their titles derived from the mills, warehouses,
and other premises, or appurtenances to premises and places of busi-
ness where they made their money, or from commodities which they
grew rich by dealing in.

A Good Hearing for Erin.

The Standard says : —

“ A Dublin paper announces that the Prince of Wales is to visit Ireland
April next, to be present at the Punchestown races. ”

If this is true—and we hope it is—the Prince could not have deter-
mined on any excursion more gratifying to Ireland, or more compli-
mentary to Mr. Punch, who will make a point of visiting his ancestral
home at the time named, and receiving his Royal Highness with
appropriate splendour. He will also, as a sporting man, give a plate,
one of his best, in honour of the happy occasion.

a literary statesman.

An advertisement announces a letter from Earl Russell to the
Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue on the state of Ireland. Who
is England’s most notorious man of letters ? Surely Earl Russell.