Mr- J. j. Astor, the "landlord of New York," appears
inclined to establish himself definitely as an English magnate. He has purchased Cliveden,. the lovely seat of the Duke of Westminster on the Thames, giving, it is surmised, at least its value. Mr. Astor, though the most conspicuous of American millionaires, partly because he is a man of here- ditary cultivation, is not the only one who is settling himself in England, which is for those who think in English a far pleasanter land than the United States or any of the Colonies. Its safety, its old society, and its freedom as yet from mob-rule, will, if these advantages continue, gradually attract the English wealthy from all the world, till England may come to be re- garded, as we prophesied twenty years ago, as the restful park of the English-speaking race. The odd fact, too, is that the Foreign or Colonial millionaires are left much more free than their rivals of British birth. They are supposed, we fancy, to be democrats, and are, at all events, not taunted with living in luxury out of the "hard-earned wages of the horny-handed" who vote. They may even give rich dinners without any journalist calculating the cost of the flowers, and the number of meals they would have provided to Stepney and Bother- lithe.
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