i | _ f | | secondary. e | | (Russell-square group.) | | People who keep a carriage, but are silent |_ | respecting their grandfathers. _ | People who give dinners to the superior series. | | People who talk of the four per cents, and are | | suspected of being mixed up in a grocery concern M | Transition_| in the City. i | Class. | d | | (Clapham group.) d | | People who “confess the Cape,” and say, that though l | | Pa amuses himself in the dry-salter line in e | | Fenchurch-street, he needn’t do it if he didn’t -| | like.  L | | People who keep a shop “concern” and a one-horse i | | shay, and go to Ramsgate for three weeks in the f | |_ dog-days. e | _ | | People who keep a “concern,” but no shay, do the | | genteel with the light porter in livery on solemn | | occasions. | | People, known as “shabby-genteels,” who prefer |Metamorphic | walking to riding, and study Kidd’s “How to live |_ class. __| on a hundred a-year.” _ | L | | inferior series. o | | (Whitechapel group.) w | | People who dine at one o’clock, and drink stout out | |_ of the pewter, at the White Conduit Gardens.  L-| _ i | | People who think Bluchers fashionable, and ride in f | Primitive__| pleasure “wans” to Richmond on Sundays in summer. e | Formation. | | | (St. Giles’s group.) |_ |_Tag-rag and bob-tail in varieties.

It will be seen, by a glance at the above table, that the three great divisions of society, namely, High Life, Low Life, and Middle Life, are subdivided, or more properly, sub-classed, into the Superior, Transition, and Metamorphic classes.  Lower still than these in the social scale is the Primitive Formation—­which may be described as the basis and support of all the other classes.  The individuals comprising it may be distinguished by their ragged surface, and shocking bad hats; they effervesce strongly with gin or Irish whiskey.  This class comprehends the St. Giles’s Group—­(which is the lowest of all the others, and is found only in the great London basin)—­and that portion of the Whitechapel group whose individuals wear Bluchers and ride in pleasure ‘wans’ to Richmond on Sundays.  In man’s economy the St. Giles’s Group are exceedingly important, being usually employed in the erection of buildings, where their great durability and hod-bearing qualities are conspicuous.  Next in order is the Metamorphic class—­so called, because of the singular metamorphoses that once a week takes place amongst its individuals; their common every-day