Marquis Townshend seems inclined to do all he can to
make philanthropy ridiculous. A servant girl in the employ of a Mr. Pitt received letters addressed to her as " Miss So-and-So." Mr. Pitt (not being apparently a man of the age) objected, and actually opened the letter—if we mistake not, a punishable offence. The girl wished to leave, but Mr. Pitt objected, whereupon the Marquis, who had nothing to do with the matter, entered the house, forced his way to the kitchen, and took out the girl. There was a scuffle of some sort, and his Lordship had to apologize to Mr. Pitt, while Mr. Pitt had to pay 20s. for pushing the servant. We do not know who looks most absurd,—the servant who is so sensitive about a title ; the master who, to punish her notions of caste, violates a cardinal idea of his own caste ; or the Marquis who, from philanthropic motives, puts himself under the necessity of a formal apology.
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