DIFFUSION OF GENTILITY.
-OBSTINATE sceptics -may occasionally be met with who -doubt -whether the mass of society is more intelligent and moral in this generation than in the generations which preceded it ; -but no one can dezrythat it is vastly more gente,e1. Acquaintances are out with whom our fathers-would-not have scrupledto associate ; on- cupationsare shunned in which 'they engaged without scruple— and all on the score of gentility. There is indeed some danger of all the world -becoming :too fine for the ordinary purposes of life. No further gone than Tuesdaylast, an elderly -Frenchman gravely 'assured the sitting Magistrate at Marylebone, that "the Queen ought to be ashamed of having such an acquaintance as Louis 'Philippe"; and on the same day, a Juryman patronizingly as- 4nred.Mr. Justice Coleridge, in the sittings at Prius—"So So . long as your Lordship sits there as Judge, I shall have no objection .to.sit here as Juryman :ibut I assure your Lordship that many -persons 'think it very-lose."
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