The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-19

4 The following is a partial list only of the
donors TO which Ward attained Baron OF the
Duchy OF Lucca, and OF the Grand Duchy OF
| Tuscany; Knight of the FIRST Glass of the Order
| of st. Louis oil Lucca; Knight Grand Cross of
| the Order of ST. Joseph OF TUSCANY; Knight
Senator Grand Cross OF the Order oi ST. George
Constantnano OF Parma; and Noble, with the
title of Baron, In Tuscany; Honorary Councillor
OF State to his Imperial Hiehness the Grand
Duke Of Tuscany; Minister and Councillor of
State to H. r. II. Charles Duke Of Parma, etc.
COSTLY HoUsE-wARMING.
Fifty years ago there lived in Edward street,
Portman Square, one Parmentier, conlectioner
to the Prince Regent. From his emporium, and
that of Romuado in Duke street, the rotts
given in the neighboring squares were sump.
tuously supplied. In this quarter lived keepers
of china and glass shops who undertook, at a
few hours notice, to furnish all the movables
and ornaments for large rots as chars. tables,
china and glass, knives and forks. extra plate,
looking-glasses, mirrors, girandoles chandeliers,
wax lights, candelabra lamps Aurelian shades,
transparencies, vases, and otner decorative items
TOT complete suite OF rooms; together with
exotics and green home plants ami a corps OF
artists to chalk the Aoors. 1t was by this almost
magical aid that the Earl OF Shire wsbury gave
his magnificent house-warming to the haul ton
ut his new mansion in Bryanstone Square,
winch was then in so unfinished state that
the walls in many of the apartments were not
even plastered. To the astonishment and de-
| light OF the guests, the whole mansion was
thrown open, and every room was furnished and
decorated in The most superb style. The prin-
| c1pal drawing room, with it's numerous lamps
ana large lookngglasses, appeared one blaze of
| hight; in contrast to which, another room, In
sombre gloom, resembled an Arcadan grove OF
orange AID lemon trees and myrtles, part natu-
raj and part artificial The anusements con.
sisted OIL dramatic representation, a concert, a
dressDall, masquerade, and a sumptuous sup
per OF three hundred covers. These elegant
| pounds.
In the same neighborhood, at the corner of
George street, Mohammed, a native OF Asia,
opened house Tor giving dinners in the Hin
dustanee style. All the dishes were dressed
with currie-powder, rice, cayenne, and the
nnest spices OF Arabia. room was set
apart Tor smoking from hookahs with Ori.
| entail herbs. The rooms were furnished
with chairs and sofas made of bamboo canes;
| and the walls were hung with Chinese pic.
lures and other Asatic embellishments. Either
Sidi Mohammed's capital was not sufficient to
stand the slow test of public announcement, or
the scheme tailed at once for Sldi became
bankrupt and the undertaking was relin.
| quished. .H..
DICK ENGLAND, THE GAMBLER.
Towards the close of the last century one of
the most noted gamblers and blacklegs in the
metropolis was Dick England: his usual haunt
was the Golden Cross, Charing Cross, where he
| coming to town by the coaches, whom he
almost invariably plucked. His success
| soon enabled him to keep an elegant
| house in st. Alban's street, where he
| engaged masters to teach him accomplishments
| to MT him for polite life. In 1879 and 1888, he
kept good table, sported his ois-d-ots, and was
remarkably choice in the hackneys he rode,
giving eighty or ninety guineas for horse a
| sum nearly equal to 200 guineas in the present
| day.: Another of his haunts was Munday's Cot.
| lee House, In Maiden lane, where he generally
| presided at tdote dhOte and by his inesse and
| agreeable conversation won hun many friends
| Being at times the hero OF his own story he
unguardedly exposed somelot his own character
lstlc traits, which his selt-possession generally
enabled him to conceal. HIS conduct among
men OF family was, however, generally guarded;
| and he was resoiute in enforcing payment OF the
sums he won.
One evening he met a Young tradesman at a
house in Leicester Fields TO have an hours play,
Tor which he gave a bankers draft but re-
quested to have his revenge in few more
throws, when he soon regained what he had
lost and as much in addition. 1t now being
past three in the morning. England proposed
that they should retire; but the tradesman, sus.
what he had lost.
England then tTipped up his heels, rolled him
In the carpet, took a case-knite from the slue-
ooard, hourlshed II over the Young man, and at
last cut OIL his long hair close to tue SCALP
Dreadlng worse he gave a cheque for the
amount and wished England good morning
england fought duel at Crawford Bridge in
l7e4, with MIR. LIE Roule, brewer, from King
ston, from whom England had won large sum; ;
for this bond mad been given, and which moi
being paid, led to the duel in which LIE Roule
was Killed. England fled to Paris and was out
laWed; but IL is reported that eally in the Reyo-
luton he furnished some useful intelligence to
our army in the campaign in Flanders for which
he was remunerated by the British Cabinet.
While in France he was several times jmpri-
soned, ana once ordered to tue guillotine, but
pardoned through the eXertion and influence OF
one OF the Convention, who also procured for
CT twelve years, he was tried for the Crawford
Bridge duel, tound guilty OF manslaughter
hned one shilling, and sentenced 10 one years
imprisonment. After his release he passed the
remainder of his lite at his house in Leicester
Square, where he lived to the age of eighty.
HIS end was an awful one: ON being called 10
dinner he was found lying dead on his sofa.
MRS. GARRIcK.
In the autumn OF 1922, we well remember the
appearance in the prnt-shops of small
whoe-length etching of Mrs. Garrick, who had
died three or four days previously, having
outliyed her celebrated husband three-and-
forty years.
John Thomas Smith notes:-''1S22. In October
this year the venerable Mrs. Garrick departed this
life when seated in her armchair in the front
Terrace. She had ordered her maid.servants to
place two or three gowns upon chairs to deter
mine in which she would appear at Drury Lane
Theatre that evening, 1t being private view of
Mr.. ElIlslon's improvements for the season.
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