Polynesian., 1851-04-26

Cling with the cabmen to take him to STAN
hope street for shilling, (as your correspon3
dent has known him to do, yet he would
give couple of thousand pounds for few
dilapidated cottages, not worth two>Rundred,
in Surrey, for the pleasure Of pulling them
down, levelling the ground, and surroundDy-.-
it with brick wall. Brick walls, straight,
high, and in squares all around his estates,
were his hobby /; and in the pursuit of IT he
did incalculable mischief in the neIghborhood
of Diiton and Surbiton, where he was per-
petually buying property, levelling all the
fences, pulling up the trees, and enclosing
the land in brick walls. The son Of an Ar
menian Jew diamond merchant, he inherited
prodigious wealth, to which he added very
largely, not by trade and speculation so much
as by the accumulation of interest from his
wretched penurious habits, he is believed, By
those who knew his affairs pretty well, to
have been in the receipt of upwards of ESQ,
900 a year, though, from his extraordinary
eccentrcity in the mode of investing it, and
| his donations to the Catholic church, 1t IS
probable that his returns to the Income Com
missioners were comparatively trivial
What, with buildings and gifts, he must have
laid out not far short of f2OO 900 on the
church, if not more, from first to last. True,
there are stories, that he took care to have
good security, and that his generosity mere
ly consisted in advancing money one per
cent, or half per cent, below the market
rate of usance, as in the case Of Prior park;
but is nevertheless fact, within the writer's
knowledge, that he did make large donations
in money, land and buildings, without any
pecun;ary stipulation whatever.
| ,O'Connell, in the famous 6" say fl ,OOO''
transaction. in the Carlow election, hlt him
off to the life when he called bitn g that most
incomprehensibe vagabond, Raphael )" for
incomprehensible he was TO every one, though
nobody who had any dealings with him ever
questioned the propriety of the other epithet
applied by the Liberator. The squabble be-
Il tween the pan in 1885, was rendered addi-
tionally memorable in festive annals in cer-
tain circles in London, by giving rise to a
song of such uncommon humor that It drew
together the largest meetings in modern times
of the celebrated BeeEsteak Club, and its
merit must not have been trihing to have
done that This club, numbering many of
the first nohemen in the land for the last 100
years, and still including several, though the
reunions have lost nearly all their old spirit,
partakes of five O'Clock dinner of beef
steaks every Saturday, from November to the
end of June, behind the scenes of the Lyce-
um Theatre, the society having been estab-
4 lished by Rich the renowned lessee of Co
vent Garden They call themselves The
Steaks, I" says Cunningham, abhOr the notion
of being thought club, dedicate their hours
to " Beef and Liberty" and enjoy hearty
English dinner with hearty English appettes.
: The room they dine in, little Escurial in
ITSELF is most appropriately fitted up-the
doors. wainscot and roof of good old Eng
lish oak, ornamented with gridirons. Every
thing assumes the shape, or is distinguished
by the representation Of their favorite imple--
. ment, the gridron. The cook is seen at his:
office through the bars of spacious gridiron,,
, and the original gridron of the society (the,
; survivor of two terrific fres) holds conspic-
uous position in the centre of the ceiling
, The president wears gold gridiron. Every
: Imember is at liberty to bring friend-of
I course male one, though the famous Peg
I Wellington was member. One of the old
rules Of the society is, that no one is to speak
5 civily to another, nor is there to be the least
e recognition of rank, save what is conferred
] by the club itself.
strange story is told of the awkward
r ness this sometimes produces among straa-
: gers. The Mayor Of Liverpool during the
Reform year was introduced by Mr.. Steven
son, (sill one of the jovial oraces of the set,
and was told beforehand some of the pecu-
e liarities of the observances, such as to pay
a no Difference TO earls and marquises, and to-
o be as saucy and outspoken as those around
S him, so as to avoid betraying any gaucheris,
: The worshipful Dicky Sam happened 80 be
: placed between the Duke Of Leinsier and
5 Lord Saltoun but hearing the coaLheaver.
: style in which they were addressed, and ins
: which they addressed each other, he con-
ceved their titles were merely assumed for
: the occasion, and were part OF the revelry;
and accordingly he came out IN a fashion
which showed that the vernacular of the Mer-
' sey was quite as rich in adjectves OF . GER
r tain quality as that of the Thames ; and If he
was at first surprised at his companions they
: we're considerably astonished at him besore
: they parted company.
d Next day business took the functionary be-
t fore committee of the Lords, and there,
al sure enough, he beheld his uproarious boon
0 companions of the overnight transmitted into
: veritable peers of the realm, discharging
their duties as imperial legislators with the
d gravity Of Indian Brahmins. The conster-
: nation and modification OF the civic repre-
e sentative were excessive. OF course there
was no recognition, the worshPful having
/ tact enough to avoid making the Jackass of
4 himself that another beefsteak once did, as
s related by Hook, nameIy-the morning after
n similar entertainment, the late Duke of
Norfolk, walking down Whitehall, was sud-
denly shaken hands with by a person whom
he told he didn't know. . Not know me-.
your grace : why I'm Tins of the Treasury.
who dined with you at the Steak, last night
Then, Mr. Tins Of the Treasury, wish
: you very good morning, /" said the inherit
!, , or of SO all the blood of all Howards, turn
J. ing on his heel, and leaving Tins staked =
) to the ground with astonIshment.-En n