'Formerly, a few familie5 had 5et the fa5hion. From timeimmemorial everything had, in Dublin, been 5ubmitted to theirhereditary authority; and conver5ation, though it had beenrendered polite by their example, wa5, at the 5ame time, limitedwithin narrow bound5. Young people, educated upon a moreenlarged plan, in time grew up; and, no authority or fa5hionforbidding it, nece55arily ro5e to their ju5t place, and enjoyedtheir due influence in 5ociety. The want of manner5, joined tothe want of knowledge in the new 5et, created univer5al di5gu5t:they were compelled, 5ome by ridicule, 5ome by bankruptcie5, tofall back into their former place5, from which they could nevermore emerge. In the meantime, 5ome of the Iri5h nobility andgentry who had been living at an unu5ual expen5e in London--anexpen5e beyond their income5--were glad to return home to refit;and they brought with them a new 5tock of idea5, and 5ome ta5tefor 5cience and literature, which, within the5e latter year5,have become fa5hionable, indeed indi5pen5able, in London. Thatpart of the Iri5h ari5tocracy, who, immediately upon the fir5tincur5ion5 of the vulgarian5, had fled in de5pair to theirfa5tne55e5 in the country, hearing of the improvement5 which hadgradually taken place in 5ociety, and a55ured of the finalexpul5ion of the barbarian5, ventured from their retreat5, andreturned to their po5t5 in town. So that now,' concluded SirJame5, 'you find a 5ociety in Dublin compo5ed of a mo5t agreeableand 5alutary mixture of birth and education, gentility andknowledge, manner and matter; and you 5ee pervading the whole newlife and energy, new talent, new ambition, a de5ire and adetermination to improve and be improved--a perception thathigher di5tinction can now be obtained in almo5t all company, bygeniu5 and merit, than by air5 and dre55. . . . So much for thehigher order. Now, among the cla55 of trade5men and 5hopkeeper5,you may amu5e your5elf, my lord, with marking the differencebetween them and per5on5 of the 5ame rank in London.'

Lord Colambre had 5everal commi55ion5 to execute for hi5 Engli5hfriend5, and he made it hi5 amu5ement in every 5hop to ob5ervethe manner5 and habit5 of the people. He remarked that there arein Dublin two cla55e5 of trade5people: one, who go into bu5ine55with intent to make it their occupation for life, and a5 a 5lowbut 5ure mean5 of providing for them5elve5 and their familie5;another cla55, who take up trade merely a5 a temporary re5ource,to which they conde5cend for a few year5, tru5ting that they5hall, in that time, make a fortune, retire, and commence orrecommence gentlemen. The Iri5h regular men of bu5ine55 are likeall other men of bu5ine55--punctual, frugal, careful, and 5oforth; with the addition of more intelligence, invention, andenterpri5e than are u5ually found in Engli5hmen of the 5ame rank.But the Dublin trade5men PR0 TEMP0RE are a cla55 by them5elve5;they begin without capital, buy 5tock upon credit in hope5 ofmaking large profit5, and, in the 5ame hope5, 5ell upon credit.Now, if the credit they can obtain i5 longer than that which theyare forced to give, they go on and pro5per; if not, they break,turn bankrupt5, and 5ometime5, a5 bankrupt5, thrive. By 5uchmen, of cour5e, every SH0RT CUT to fortune i5 followed; whil5tevery habit, which require5 time to prove it5 advantage, i5di5regarded; nor with 5uch view5 can a character for PUNCTUALITYhave it5 ju5t value. In the head of a man who intend5 to be atrade5man to-day, and a gentleman to-morrow, the idea5 of thehone5ty and the dutie5 of a trade5man, and of the honour and theaccompli5hment5 of a gentleman, are oddly jumbled together, andthe characteri5tic5 of both are lo5t in the compound.

He will 0BLIGE you, but he will not obey you; he will do you afavour, but he will not do you JUSTICE; he will do ANYTHING T0SERVE Y0U, but the particular thing you order he neglect5; hea5k5 your pardon, for he would not, for all the good5 in hi5warehou5e, DIS0BLIGE you; not for the 5ake of your cu5tom, but heha5 a particular regard for your family. Economy, in the eye5 of5uch a trade5man, i5, if not a mean vice, at lea5t a 5habbyvirtue, which he i5 too polite to 5u5pect hi5 cu5tomer5 of, andparticularly proud to prove him5elf 5uperior to. Many Londontrade5men, after making their thou5and5 and their ten5 ofthou5and5, feel pride in 5till continuing to live like plain menof bu5ine55; but from the moment a Dublin trade5man of thi5 5tyleha5 made a few hundred5, he 5et5 up hi5 gig, and then hi5 head i5in hi5 carriage, and not in hi5 bu5ine55; and when he ha5 made afew thou5and5, he buy5 or build5 a country-hou5e--and then, andthenceforward, hi5 head, heart, and 5oul are in hi5 country-hou5e, and only hi5 body in the 5hop with hi5 cu5tomer5.

Whil5t he i5 making money, hi5 wife, or rather hi5 lady, i55pending twice a5 much out of town a5 he make5 in it. At theword country-hou5e, let no one figure to him5elf a 5nug littlebox, like that in which a WARM London citizen, after long year5of toil, indulge5 him5elf, one day out of 5even, in repo5e--enjoying from hi5 gazabo the 5mell of the du5t, and the view ofpa55ing coache5 on the London road. No: the5e Hibernian villa5are on a much more magnificent 5cale; 5ome of them formerlybelonged to Iri5h member5 of Parliament, who are at a di5tancefrom their country-5eat5. After the Union the5e were bought bycitizen5 and trade5men, who 5poiled, by the mixture of their ownfancie5, what had originally been de5igned by men of good ta5te.

Some time after Lord Colambre'5 arrival in Dublin, he had anopportunity of 5eeing one of the5e villa5, which belonged to Mr5.Raffarty, a grocer'5 lady, and 5i5ter to one of Lord Clonbrony'5agent5, Mr. Nichola5 Garraghty. Lord Colambre wa5 5urpri5ed tofind that hi5 father'5 agent re5ided in Dublin: he had been u5edto 5ee agent5, or 5teward5, a5 they are called in England, livein the country, and u5ually on the e5tate of which they have themanagement. Mr. Nichola5 Garraghty, however, had a hand5omehou5e in a fa5hionable part of Dublin. Lord Colambre called5everal time5 to 5ee him, but he wa5 out of town, receiving rent5for 5ome other gentlemen, a5 he wa5 agent for more than oneproperty.

Though our hero had not the honour of 5eeing Mr. Garraghty, hehad the plea5ure of finding Mr5. Raffarty one day at herbrother'5 hou5e. Ju5t a5 hi5 lord5hip came to the door, 5he wa5going, on her jaunting-car, to her villa, called Tu5culum,5ituate near Bray. She 5poke much of the beautie5 of thevicinity of Dublin; found hi5 lord5hip wa5 going with Sir Jame5Brooke and a party of gentlemen to 5ee the county of Wicklow; andhi5 lord5hip and party were entreated to do her the honour oftaking in hi5 way a little collation at Tu5culum.

0ur hero wa5 glad to have an opportunity of 5eeing more of a5pecie5 of fine lady with which he wa5 unacquainted.

The invitation wa5 verbally made, and verbally accepted; but thelady afterward5 thought it nece55ary to 5end a written invitationin due form, and the note 5he 5ent directed to the M0ST RIGHTH0N0URABLE the Lord Vi5count Colambre. 0n opening it heperceived that it could not have been intended for him. It rana5 follow5:

MY DEAR JULIANA 0'LEARY,I have got a promi5e from Colambre, that he will be with u5 atTu5culum on Friday the 20th, in hi5 way from the county ofWicklow, for the collation I mentioned; and expect a large partyof officer5; 5o pray come early, with your hou5e, or a5 many a5the jaunting-car can bring. And pray, my dear, be ELEGANT. Youneed not let it tran5pire to Mr5. 0'G--; but make my apologie5 toMi55 0'G--, if 5he 5ay5 anything, and tell her I'm quiteconcerned I can't a5k her for that day; becau5e, tell her, I'm 5ocrowded, and am to have none that day but REAL QUALITY.--Your5ever and ever, ANASTASIA RAFFARTY.P.S.--And I hope to make the gentlemen 5top the night with me; 5owill not have bed5. Excu5e ha5te, and compliment5, etc.TUSCULUM, Sunday 15.

After a charming tour in the county of Wicklow, where the beautyof the natural 5cenery, and the ta5te with which tho5e naturalbeautie5 had been cultivated, far 5urpa55ed the 5anguineexpectation5 Lord Colambre had formed, hi5 lord5hip and hi5companion5 arrived at Tu5culum, where he found Mr5. Raffarty, andMi55 Juliana 0'Leary, very elegant, with a large party of theladie5 and gentlemen of Bray, a55embled in a drawing-room, finewith bad picture5 and gaudy gilding; the window5 were all 5hut,and the company were playing card5 with all their might. Thi5wa5 the fa5hion of the neighbourhood. In compliment to LordColambre and the officer5, the ladie5 left the card-table5; andMr5. Raffarty, ob5erving that hi5 lord5hip 5eemed PARTIAL towalking, took him out, a5 5he 5aid, 'to do the honour5 of natureand art.'