" An Englishman is quite astonished to see a foreign
nobleman or gentleman treet an old servant as a friend. This social estrangement has greatly increased within our recollection. In the ell.s of the High !:chool of Edinburgh, to which the present Earl of Lauderdale belonged, the Dot- was the son of the widow of a poor tnechanie, who kfter passing with honour through his course, distancinF all his competitors, was hanged for stealing linen fiosn a bleachtield in Fife. \%e doubt whether, in the present day, an Earl's son is ever taught in the same school with the sou of a mechanic. Rut there is no doubt that this social approximation was of advantage to both."—Moraing Chronicle.
In this case it would seem that the nobleman derived most benefit from the "social approximation." What the positive amount of that might be, is not exactly apparent ; but it is manifest that the Dux derived the propensity of appropriation from Lord Lauderdale, who but for the process of transfusion, alluded to by the Cloonide, might have been hanged instead of his schoolfellow.
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