New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-07

swer that he was q bad Judge OF painting. Last
year, q Partisan vandevilllste produced, under the
title Les Fcmmes pentcs par ellesmemes," q
witty satire, which grave great ofeDsc ~ the demi
monde aud even to the grand monde. Nowadays,
one of our English dramatic imtatcrs would do
well 10 translate the vaudeville or to adapt il, IA
these gentlemen say. Il is very pleasing indeed a.
meet none but blooming cheeks; but, if what a
Frenchman said Of books is also true OF faces
Ole vrai ,cul beau. l. vra seul e', aimaLle,"
we are inclined to prefer the natural complexion.
However that may be- actresses have no longer the
monopoly Of rouge; they are compelled to share 1t
with the highest ladies' in the Kingdom. There Is
on that subject an anecdoe current in aristOcratic
circles. which has already found its way into the
ieuilet0ns Of Continental newspapers. Lady r.,
whom nature, not art, has endowed with rosy
carnation, perceived suddenly that her hitherto
privileged cheeks were ecpscd by the formerly wan
faces Of her most intimate friends. Every lady Of
her acquaintance appeared now cherry-cheeked;
but the warm Spring and the joyful " season. could
not alone have produced the wonder, SINCE strange
TO say the red cOloring always maintained the same
dimensions, and neither increased by excitement nor
diminished by terror. The prina donna in " Don
Pasquale' sings that woman has at all times VEN
geance ready; and accordingly, Lady T. had recourse
to an abOmnabe revenge. Among other luxuries,
she possessed a very nice King Charles, charming
pets and, in order TO court her. her friends INDUCED
in earessing and kissing most tenderly that dear
Lore or rather Miss Lore as they used to call the
little dog Our ingenious beauty taught in secret
her.avorite to return fondy all the kisses which
were lavished it, and when she thought that her
lessons had been successful enough she invited all
her beloved friends to party at her delicious
villa in the neighborhOod OF Strawberry
Hill. All the ladies', whose complexion had
been 80 nicely benefited by the floral month of
May, honored the company with their presence;
and after lunch the pretty little creature was
introduced and took its usual place on
theR lap of its fair mistress The guests
wanted naturally to show their gratitude and good
breeding by kissing Miss Lore, which, to their de-
light, licked in return their ruddy cheeks with a
charming eagerness. But alas they had forgotten
the rouge, and suddenly the magnificent looking
glass in the drawing-rOOm exhibited none but pale
and CHASTITY faces; the coral of the lips was gone,
and fresh application of the painting brush and
the powder-puf was needed. Lady H. had her
revenge, but poor Miss Lore had swallowed so
much carmine and yermiOn that it died the next
day. We wonder why the Society for the PrOtec-
tiOn of Animals has not taken up the case. An
English LAWYER of yOre said that it was safer in En-
gland to kill man than hare, and certainly
a.days it is less dangerous to beat woman than
dog. But then the dOg-killng Lady u. belongs to
the aristOcracy. and, as jenkins said in Mrs. Rams
bottoms case, "POlce Courts are not made for
respectable people,"
The proud upper ten thousand" of Britain seem,
indeed, to have become in days utterly fOrgetul
of the first NapOleOn's wise maxim that men
% ought to wash their dirty linen en- famiAe." Not
only did the noble House of Lords hear some very
curious and interesting details about rather
disgraceful circumstances in the household affairs
of several eminent Peers but ladies of the highest
rank in the United Kingdom have deemed it ex-
pedient to make the world acquainted with the
sundry frsilties Of their lords and masters
The honorable Lady Buwer l. yttOn opened the way;
the spicy pamphlet, which she has published, can
be procured by sending thirteen penny.stamps to
her Ladyshp, at Taunton Somerset. The price is
very moderate indeed, for the aristocratc libel
demonstrates in victorious manner what the pen
of ones better half is able tOwrte, when that
pen has been dipped during the space of twenty
years in the gall Of real or imaginary wrongs. But
be it truth fancy, the story is horrible, and be-
comes the more 50 by its grOtesque details; it is as
little to be laughed at as the mOnrnful madness OF
King Lear. If originality is proof of genius, Lady
BuWer has obtained high standing in literature,
for never has pen hurled many poisoned shots
against one individual this fair lady aimed at her
noble husband. Good old Molere already put the
question:
"Tsnt d, feel entreti ii dan, Fame de. devot. %
Besides, this connubia ,indicatiOn has offered the
learned Lord Lyndhurst an opportunity for vindi-
eating bis own gallantry, and declaring solemnly
before the most noble House that he was incapable
of behaving impolitely toward lady as to sleep
u
Their LOrdships in rapures at this exquisitey
gentce carriage which revolts at the mere idea of
being Overtaken by sumber at the ripe age of eighty.
four. But there is now precedent, the most hon
ored Of all privileges in conservative England; and
since Lord Lyndhurst has been allowed to maintain
bis pOlteness, we do not see a reason why noble
peers should or could be prevented from asserting in
the House the genuineness of their Port wine or
the breed Of their horses.
The scandal of Lady Bulwer's libel has even been
surpassed by the pamphlet published by Lady West
meath against her husband the Marquis, who took
occasion of the Divorce Bill to entertain the House
with bis private affairs, and to threaten The Globe
newspaper with lawsuit. 1t is charming PAN
Drama of high life." Listen, e. g., to the follow
lug extract: One night, while Lord and Lady Wes-
meath lived as visitors at the Duke Of Leinster's
castle in IrelaDd, my lady's maid awakened by
her mistress who screamed for help and sought
refuge in her bedroom, being actually pursued by
the Marquis. The wife told the servant that she
had been beaten by her husband. The latter CON-
nbnded her at first to return into her own room but
she refused to obey. Then his Lordshp had re-
course to entreaes promising to be less brutal, and
at last the poor lady complied but she was SO fright
ened that she wanted the girl to accompany her,
And thus the maid was allowed to see the room in
the utmost confusion, the blankets the carpet the
chairs thrown down, etc, etc. And this disgusting
scene happened while the noble couple were still in
their honeymoon. But the pamphlet contains other
details such as one would hardly expect to find in
Reynolds "Mysteres of London" or Eugene Sues
delineations of Partisan life. Lady Westmeath
asserts that her mOthern.law induced her to play
the part of Potiphar's wife with the late Duke
of wellington in order to advance her sons
interest. When the unhappy wife told her I'M
worthy husband Of the shameful proposal, she