in whose absence, all their "honor, love, obedience, troops of friends," disappear like snow under sunshine; the edifice of pomp, luxury, and magnificence that "rose like an exhalation," so disappears-- "And, like an insubstantial pageant faded, Leaves not a rack behind." _Take away money_, and that which raised its delicate and pampered possessors above the common condition of mankind--that of privation and incessant labor and anxiety--into one entirely artificial, engendering totally new wants and desires, is gone, all gone; and its occupants suddenly fall, as it were, through a highly rarefied atmosphere, breathless and dismayed, into contact with the chilling exigencies of life, of which till then they had only heard and read, sometimes with a kind of morbid sympathy; as we hear and read of a foreign country, not stirring the while from our snug homes, by whose comfortable and luxurious firesides we read of the frightful palsying cold of the polar regions, and for a moment sigh over and shudder at the condition of their miserable inhabitants, as vividly pictured to us by adventurous travellers. If the reader had reverently cast his eye over the pages of that glittering centre of aristocratic literature, and inexhaustible solace against the _ennui_ of a wet day--I mean _Debrett's Peerage_, his attention could not have failed to be riveted, among a galaxy of brilliant but minor stars, by the radiance of one transcendent constellation. Behold; hush; tremble! "AUGUSTUS MORTIMER PLANTAGENET FITZ-URSE, EARL OF DREDDLINGTON, VISCOUNT FITZ-URSE, AND BARON DRELINCOURT; KNIGHT OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE; G. C. B., D. C. L., F. C. S., F. P. S., &c., &c., &c.; Lieutenant-General in the army, Colonel of the 37th regiment of light dragoons; Lord Lieutenant of ----shire; elder brother of the Trinity House; formerly Lord Steward of the Household; born the 31st of March, 17--; succeeded his father, PERCY CONSTANTINE FITZ-URSE, as fifth Earl, and twentieth in the Barony, January 10th, 17--; married, April 1, 17--, the Right Hon. Lady Philippa Emmeline Blanche Macspleuchan, daughter of Archibald, ninth Duke of Tantallan, K. T., and has issue an only child, "CECILIA PHILIPPA LEOPOLDINA PLANTAGENET, born June 10, 17--. "Town residence, Grosvenor Square. "Seats, Gruneaghoolaghan Castle, Galway; Tre-ardevoraeor Manor, Cornwall; Llmryllwcrwpllglly Abbey, N. Wales; Tully-clachanach Palace, N. Britain; Poppleton Hall, Hertfordshire. "Earldom, by patent, 1667; ---- Barony, by writ of summons, 12th Hen. II."