THE LORD, THE DOG, AND THE RADICAL.
"Lon me, love my dog," is an old saying: "insult my dog, insult me," appears to be a lordly motto; and it will become all "Radical scoundrels" to take notice, that for insulting a lord's dog the penalty is a "good hiding." At Marylebone Police-otlice, on Tuesday, Lord Viscount GLENTWORTH, grandson and heir of old Lord LIMERICK, was charged with assaulting "JAMES REED, a performer, living at Portland-town." JAMES REED said— "On Sunday night last, about ten o'clock, as he was proceeding towards Bel. grave Square with his sister, he passed the house of Lord Glentworth ; when, at the same moment, the door was opened, and a little dog ran under his feet. He kicked it gently from him ; when his Lordship ran down the steps, and after exclaiming You damned Radical scoundrel ! how dare you insult my dog?' struck him a violent blow over the head with a stick."
According to the witness, Lord GLENTWORTH abused him fur- ther, in language too filthy to be quoted ; but as the young noble- man denied having uttered the words, it is to be hoped that the presumed Radical's recollection was faulty. The assault, however, was not denied ; and Lord GLENTWORTH was condemned to pay a couple of sovereigns and the cost of the warrant. Thus, noble lords are instructed that even Radicals are not to be "hided" for nothing. It is amusing to note the very natural concatenation of ideas in the aristocratic understanding of Lord Viscount GLENTWORTH. To kick a dog running under your feet, seems almost inevitable ; but then, Lord GLENTWORTH'S dog was evidently an oligarchical puppy, for be issued from the ball of a mansion in Montague Place—not a stockbroker's residence in Russell Square, or any such vulgar purlieu. No plebeian, having a due respect for rank, could possibly object to be tumbled in the kennel or on the pave- ment by the sweet pretty puppy, especially when the dignified figure of my lord himself was visible on the steps. Manifestly, then, the sulky fellow who kicked the dog must have been a "low Radical " 1ona that fact the inference was irresistible, that be was also a scoundrel ; and that the kick was intended as an "insult" to the dog, and to the dog's owner. To "hide" Radical scoundrels who insult noblemen's dogs, is a duty which no lord of spirit ought to shirk : and it is proof of a leaning to Radicalism in Mr. R AWL INSON, the Magistrate at the Maryle-
bone Office, that he did not decide the case differently, and decree that the complainant ought to think himself let off on easy terms with a simple "hiding," for " insulting " a lord's puppy.
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