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THE EXAMINER.-----
for example, a lady of noble birth, who marries a man not of that caste, at
once loses all title and distinction, and becomes simple Madam Schmidt or
Madam Schneider; but in England, where foreign nobility is not legally
recognized, a Captain Smith or a Rev. Mr. Tomlinson, who has married
a countess or baroness abroad, announces his wife by the title she had lost
in her own country! Englishwomen of late years have been frequently
guilty of (and almost as frequently punished for) a worse practice, to
gratify the passion for title—I mean sinfully giving away of their
pretty faces and handsome fortunes in marriage, in order to become
marchesas, comtesses, etc. An old Irish gentleman, in allusion to this
anti-national propensity, assured me, with tears in his eyes, that he had
witnessed twenty-six instances of it, and that the united fortunes of the
brides (£10,000 being the minimum in any case) might be computed at
half a million sterling—all lost to the country and gone or going for the
most part to the gaming table, old debts, and opera dancers. S.
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NOTABILIA.
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The Duke of Wellington's Last Fall.—The Duke of Wellington
has a great talent for falling. We question whether any man, more
accustomed to riding than John Gilpin, has had so many equestrian reverses.
On Saturday, the 19th, the newspapers announced his Grace's last tumble.
The Duke varies these casualties; sometimes he falls, and sometimes the
horse comes down under him, which last mishap occurs surprisingly often
to a person who rides good horses, and implies marvelous lack of skill.
Burning in Surrey.—A short time since, a barn upon the farm in the
occupation of Mr. Maynard, at Reigate, was totally destroyed by fire. Mr.
Maynard filled some parochial office, and had been applied to by a pauper
for money on the evening of the conflagration. This had been refused;
and in little more than an hour afterwards the barn was discovered to be in
flames, which consumed the building, as well as the stock of grain which it
contained. The latter only was insured. The pauper was taken up and
examined, but no proof was obtained that he had bee the destroyer of the
property. If, as there is every reason to believe, the mischief was
produced designedly from a feeling of disappointment, it affords a most striking
example of the operation of the blind spirit of vengeance by which the
ignorant peasantry have of late been guided. The property destroyed
does not belong to the farmer, who, as it is supposed, was the individual
marked out to be the sufferer, but to Dr. Fellowes, who will thus be
subjected to an outlay of several hundred pounds for the rebuilding of the
barn.—[The highly respectable Country Paper from which we have copied
this account proceeds in a strain of praise of Dr. Fellowes, which gives the
finishing stroke to the vexatious circumstance it recounts. The destruction
of the property is a trifle compared to the annoyance of the incense
that has smoked upon the occasion of it. To one of the character of the
party concerned, the burning of the barn was hardly felt to be a misfortune
till the paragraphing of his virtues followed upon it.]
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