Navy Officers

Navy Officers Navy Officers of the St. Lawrence, the usual civility given to foreign officers, of having the run of the Club during their stay. The reason assigned for this is, that the officers of the St. Lawrence have been engaged in mercantile service ! The taking part in anything industrialcontributing to Production and Wealth, opposed to War, Murder and Robbery, is j deemed by theso journeymen butchers as dishonorable, and a slight is accordingly put upon the Tory Burch Shoesofficers so degrading themselves."Now, as our readers know, there is no authority like a London Club, for a decision as to who is a gentleman. A movement like the above is the most authentic and grave expression of England's opinion. The American Navy officers who took charge of the United States ship which the Government lent to American Industry to convey its goods to the World's Fair, did thereby forfeit, according to the English Club standard their admissibility to the hospitalities reserved for gentlemen. Tory Burch OutletAs to the correctness of the standard itself, we repeat, we have nothing to say. England may decide Industry to be beneath a gentleman, if she like. But, we repeat secondly, it is nationally discourteous to subject Americans nto the same standardAmericans, whose best claim to highposition and consideration at home, is the very power to make money which they thus vote to be vulgar.That this expression of opinion, by England, is not from ignorance, but from a longentertained dislike to our national vehemence of pursuit for the almighty dollar, and our forgettings of some other respectable values meantime, let us show by a little extract from an article by Leigh Tory Burch FlatsHunt. This able writer has abundant reason for complaining as ho does, but it is in the general assertions he makes as to our national character, that he shows the common feeling wo refer to. Speaking of the pirated editions of his own works by American publishers, he says:" A few years ago I received a copy of another Boston edi. tion, the publisher of which was so good as to say that he had heard of a new one from my pen, which he would be very happy to print also, if I would send it to him.

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