The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-07-07
A Ruined Dtrfxe.-.SaIe OF the Duke of
Neweastle's Effects i'm Carlton House

From the London Daily News, June "a.

From the London Daily News, June "a. s
Members Of both Houses, some looking
grave and sad a; others, whose air seemed to
say, 81 told you so"; sporting men, who
seemed exclusively bored at the whole pro-
ceedings; and faShionables of both sexes,
whose great care was to edge away from the
brokers who tried to fasten on them, were
welded together in strange medley in
the dining-room of is Carlton House
Terrace yesterday. The policemen who
kept guard at the foot Of the great staircase
aud at the entrances to cellars and rooms had
no sinecure, for the applications to wander
freely through the mansion were both nu-
merouS and persistent; the man who stood
in the hall with catalogues had disposed of
his stock at shilling each soon after p.
NJ, and even such things as japanned water
cans, housemaidS boxes and baskets, hand
broOms and dust-panS, gave rise to anima-
ted bidding. This increased when more in
teresting articles came to be offered, and
between 1 ?. NJ. and 5 z. NJ, when hand
work and gilded chairs and tables were put
up, what may be termed clancy prices T"
were obtained.
The house in which this scene is taking
place is one of the largest in Carlton House
Terrace, and stands at the Spring Gardens
end, with offices which cross the road, form
inc cul de sac, and communicating appa-
rently with house on the other side. The
auctioneers' bills tell their story directly
the corner by the Duke Of York's Column
is passed, making the Dukes ruin manifest
on both sides of the road. The words " Heir
loom-Clumber" on large case Of stuffed
birds meet the visitors eye directly he is in
the hall, and they are repeated upon marble
busts and other articles which stand be-
tween him and the dining-room door. The
vast place seems to be in many respects as
its unfortunate holders left it. The fine oil
paintings are hanging in the accustomed
places, some with "heirloom" OH the label
attached, others, and those the most hume
rous. numbered as lots. The dining-table is
Just where it would be if a party We're to be
given 1t needs no great stretch of fancy to
people the noble room with host, hostess,
and guests, where Mr.. Lumley now does
the spiriting at the head Of the table, round
which keen-faced men are ticking off the
prices in their catalogues.
1t is seldom that anything so disastrous as
a sale by auction takes place in Carlton
House Terrace, and the idlers assembled
there yesterday might be suspected OF de-
irving a gloomy relish from the knowledge
of this fact. That a Duke should be sold out
"just as you OF me might be to-morrer, my
dear" was an unfailing source OF trlte
moralizing on the part Of one stout lady,
who bought nothing but prosed much; and
that the sale was taking place within halt
dozen doors of the residence of the Premier
of England, the Dukes fathers friend, was
given out quite frequently as an item OF news
by an old gentleman who took possession Oh
Il snug corner early in the day, and never once
looked at the allctioneer. Now and then anec-
dotes would fly round of real or Imaginary
accidents which had taken place when 1t
was thought the crash could be STAYED OIL !;
and minute details of personal history were
freely given, just as if those inyenting and
retailing them had had the Duke in their
possession like tame animal. 1t is, OF
course, not to be expected that sympathy
for reyerses, even when due to unavoidable
misfortune, should be found in an auction
room; but its utter absence was never more
marked than Yesterday. Had those present
been stern Pharisees, whose consciousness
of virtue impelled them to be hard upon
the weak and falling, their tone could not
have been more didactically severe. How
ever. everybody present who touched on
the subject at all seemed to consider them
selves entitled to have fling at the absent
prodigal: and men and women who, II
is to be trusted, We're not
eyempIars Of all the Christian virtues
might be heard inveighing against the short
comings which had led to ruin with BIT
terness which could hardly have been
caused by pecuniary loss. Inc soTToWlul
indienation of silent and solitary old man
in drab, who was said to have been aservant
To fine present Duchess since infancy, cul-
minated when certain articles of furniture
We're offered up; but his panied look did
not stop the gossip or the covert sneering !;
and for the next two days the household
gods of the Duke of Newcastle Will con-
Time ia be distributed to just such run
ming fire of cynical crltl stsn as generous