The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-16

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| a tavern in Drury Lane, where, alter brlet
career Of success, she again became bankrupt
| To the regular stage she once more returned,
under her brother Theophilus, at the Haymar-
| ket; but the Lord Chamberlain closed the house,
| and Charlotte Clarke took to working the wires
OF Russelrs famous puppets, in the Great Room,
still existing in Brewer street. There was
CLEAN of good fortune for her; but it soon faded
| away; and then for nine wretched years, this
| clever but most wretched oil women struggled
irantcally for, bare existence, amongst the
| most Wretched of strollers, with whom she
endured unmitigated misery. And yet,
| Cibber's erring and hapless daughter contrived
TO reach London, where, in 1865, she pub
| lished her remarkable autobiography, the
"details Of which make the heart ache, in spite of
| the small sympathy of the reader for the half
mad creature. On the profits of this book, she
was enabled to open, as landlord, tavern at
Islington; but, OF course, ruin ensued; and n q
hut, amid the cinder heaps and worse refuse, in
the desoate fields, che found a refuge. and even
wrote novel, on pair OF bellows in her lap,
by way of desk Here she lived with squald
handmaiden, cat, dog, magpie, and monkey.
Humbled, dlscOnsolate, abandoned, she readily
accepted from publisher who visited her GlO
for her manuscript. This was at the close OF the
year 1865, and do not meet with her again till
1859, two years after her fathers death, when
she played 'Marplot.' in the Busybodu, for her
own benefit at the Haymarket with this adver-
tisement:-'As ! an entirely dependent on
chance for subsistence, and desirous OF getting
into business, / humbly hope the town will favor
me on the occasion, which, added to the rest OF
their indulgence, will be ever gratefully acknow-
ledged by their truly obliged and obedient
servant, Charlotte Charke.' She died on the
9th of April l760.
"She is said to have once given limitations of
her father on the STAGE; to have presented
pistol at, and robbed him on the highway, and
to have smacked his face with pair OF soles out
of her own basket
BUsBY's FOLLY. AND BULL FEATHER HALL.
At Busby's Folly, bowlnggreen and house
of public entertainment, upon the site of the
Belvedere Tavern, Pentonville, there met, on
the I'd of May, 1644, fraternity OF Odd Eel
lows, members of the Society of Bull Feathers
Hall, who claimed, among other things,
the toll OF all the gravel carried up High
gate Hill. In a rare tract entitled, :" Bull
Feather Hall, or the Antiquity of Horns amply
shown 1904, is related the manner of going
from Busby's Folly TO Highgate. ION Monday,
being the I'd day of May, some part of the frater.
nifty met at Busby's Folly, in Isington, where,
after they had set all things in order, they thus
marched out, OTdine qutSque suo-tr a set of
tTumpets, then controller or captain of the
pioneers, with thirty or forty following him
with pickaxes and spades to level the hill, and
baskets withal TO carry gravel. After them an
other set of trumpeters, and also four that did
wind the horn: alter them, the Standard alias
an exceeding large pair OF horns fixed on pole,
which three men carried, with pennantS on
each tip, the master OF the ceremonies attending
| it with other officers. Then followed the flag,
WIN the arms OF the society," Win nOrne1 beasts
| drawn thereon, and this motto:-
"'To have and not to use the same,
Is not their glory but teeir shame
| After this came the Mace Bearer, then the
| Herald-atArms, with the arms of the Society,"
| the coat cannot rightly blazon, but remember
| the supporters were on one side, woman with
| whip IN her hand, besides that OF her tongue,
| with menacing look, and underneath the
motto, Ut uoIo. sic ja.beo; on the other side, a
| man in wotul plight, and underneath him,
/ This order thpV marched
| attended by multitudes of people. This Club, as
| the tract informs us, used to meet in Chequer
| Yard, in Whltechapel their president being
| arrayed il a crimson satin gown and a furred
| cap, suTmounted by pair OF antlers; and on a
| cushion lay a corneteu sceptre and crown: the
| brethren drank out of horn cups, and we're
They met twice week, ITO solace themselves
| with harmless merriment, and promote good fel-
| lowship among their neighbors."
| Busby's Folly was afterwards called "Penny's
| Folly" Here Tucker, high German, who had
performed before their Maesties and the Royal
| Families, exhibited his Learned Little Horse
| from Lowland, who was TO be seen looking out
| OF the window, up two pair of stairs, every
| evening before the performance began. Curious
decephons, "Comuss philosophical perform
ancee, and the musical glasses, were also ex-
| hibited here.
ABRAHAM NEwLAND.
Abraham Newland, who was nearly sixty years
| in the service of the Bank of England, and
| whose name became synonym for bank-note,
was one OF a family of twenty-five children, and
| was born in Southwark in 1880. At the age of
| eighteen he entered the Bank service as junior
clerk. He was very fond of music, which led
him into much dissipation. Still, he was very
| attentive to business, and rose to be appointed
| in 1882, he was appointed chief cashier, with q
| suite of rooms for residence in the Bank and
for ive-aRd-tWenty years he never once SLEPT
out of the building. The pleasantest version ol
his Importance is contained in the famous song
in the WhlYns OF the Day.
| "Ihere ne'er was a name so handed by fame,
| 1hrO' air, thr0 ocean, and thro' land,
| AS one that is wrote upon every bank note,
| And you all must know Abraham Newland.
o, Abraham Newandi
| Notified Abraham Newland.
| have heard people say, sham Abraham you may,
| But you must nOt sham Abraham Newland.
"For fashion or arts should you seek foreign parts,
| 1t matters not wherever You land;
| jew, christian, or Greek, the same language the
that's the language OF Abraham Newland.
o, Abraham Newland!
Wonderful Abraham Newland,
Tho with compliments crammd, ou may die an
be id,
IT you haven't an Abraham Newland.
"The world is inclin'd to think Justice is blind,
Lawyers know very well Gney can view iand;
| But, lord what OF that she'll bunk IKE a bat,
at the sight of an Abraham Newland
., Abraham Newsnd!
Magical Abraham Newland!
| Tho Justice, tbs known, can see through q mil
, | She can't see though Abraham Newiand.
: | Your patriots who bawl tor the good of Us ALL
I KIND sOulsl here like mushrooms they strew land
THO loud as drum each proves .,nS GiatSr num-
a | o, Abraham New andl