THE ENGLISH NOBILITY ON SUNDAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XV, Issue 5335, 21 December 1878, Page 7

THE ENGLISH NOBILITY ON SUNDAY.

-lilVate citizen, viewing the world abroad, "'■Mo a friend in ew York City "The liberal movement in the direction of recreation gains strength and goes on 'amingly iu Loudon. To-day is a bank aiiy holiday, and the Thames yesterday K23t its coming. The river all the way up ficrks and Oxfordshire was alive with cockneys. And these of all degrees,

I Ae costerraoriger in his penny steamer •f peer of the realm in his punt. Moss irds, the ' crack,' at this present, of the wa3 ont between Tablow and Cheveden J eight-oar, with a scratch crew, who ilheless pulled exceedingly well under jcand hand. Heaven forbid I should ( into the merits of his controversy now with our own estimable countryman ; is certainly an admirable oarsman, a clean-built, athletic fellow-creature, and 5 clothed and in mind on dry land a most courteous, prepossessing person. _ On ■ame stretch of the river three of the little steam launches, just now so glided up aDd down with merry '*3 on hoard, one belonging to Mr. I'-d----i Liwaon, the fortunate and energetic *gtr of the Daily Telegraph; one to i Otho Fitzgerald, and one to Mr. Web—this latter vessel, by-the-way, attracttemark by the absolute noiselessnoss _ "Wcii ii wag driven about by its new invention, I believe of its owner, oce certainly worth looking after by ■-i«j ?.'Lo ralne peace and quiet when they 'Pouring. As for the people in punts, ~"j s y a y of them as the minstrel does of 5 ladies in Goethe's ballad, name them Yonder comes Mr. --•-it p.jDtjng y le LmcheEa of Manchester, - 1 tarty ot drolly gotten-up ycung wo•1 I a °d landing them close.by u n ' s -' s little riverside villa, where l.\! : 'gton—the leader, mind you of "-•ajei-ty'a Opposition in Parliament—is "J; r' lawn-tennis v.' til a good deal trore he threw into his tirst attack on ■'"'"cnoficld's Eastern policy. There p'.mt with a lady Mr. V'V-?-"' "• iO . kindly lent his neigh--15 - o.- Windsor to his honey- ' t.::-.:, : . <: i.-:npv husband of Mies ; 'S'ev. i •. , xdi come into it again - ■ . - '.-5u i'.? newly married pai v_ioao behind comes tho Lord Chaiies Berrsford with -l.'iC' ifdiy, punting must be conhappiness, for tlieie is -- 1 ■■ -' K ' -.r ■- v. el!-kno T .vn in New "he U—out. of his pnnt, '','■' l' '• ' •- > mfortifftly under his arm up . 1,,,- ,'U tiisT, it is certainly a UlH ' cr c '>e sun ti> see the British , .'..t'". >"i .1 F "=°S ~n r * :<; Thames of a Sun- ~: world 'tiki Paris on the