Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-08-11
4 London Garden Party"


lish society, a garden party" recently
given at Holland House:
Garden parties are all the rage in Lon
don Just now. The Prince of Wales has
taken the beautiful villa formerly the prop
erty of the late Duke of Devonshire, at
Chiswick, and has been giving a series of
entertainments of this description. Lady
Holland has also begun similar festivities
at her famous mansion at Kensington,
which has for nearly two centuries been
the scene of some of the most brilliant So
cial reunions in Europe.
The first OF a series of four took place on
the 7th instant, when seven hundred
guests, including the cream of intellectual,
political, and fashionable London assem-
bled to enjoy a perfect summer afternoon
beneath the cscars where Addison and
Macaulay loved to hold forth.
There is really nothing in the London
season better worth the seeing than "a
breakfast" as some old fashioned folks still
term such a party, at Holland House. Sud
denly turning out of an ugly street lined
with grimy houses YOU find yourself driv-
ing up noble avenue of elms, and pres
entity 'the mansion itself, which is un-
luuestionably s'vast and venerable" stands
out before you, monument OF q stately
age. ~
Entering a spacious court yard. the guest
presently passes into n stately vestibule,
and finds himself in the presence of the
mistress of the mansion. who receives with
an ease aud grace rarely attained by Eng
lish ladies, unless they have had the bene-
fit of being in continental society. Pro-
ceeding onward, to make way for the re-
ception of some new arrival, the visitor
finds himself at the great garden entrance,
where he is delighted with an expanse OF
velvet lawn. such as we seldom see out OF
/ the British Isles, adorned with majestic &C.
dars
This, in the earlier part of the afternoon
is the rendezvous, and here, seated or stand
ing ia brilliant groups, are to be seen the
finest ladies and gentlemen in London IN
their bravest attire-for every one rs Gin
full feather" on these occasions.
After the first hour the vs<aors begin to
saunter through the flower garden, gay
with the exquisitely kept parterres, toward
anotherlawn beside great orangery. Here
are hundreds of seats, while in the orange
nv you find ices and confectionery, upon
which all the skill and science of an Italian
confectioner has been exhausted. If we
take a glance around We shall see many
men and women whose names are familiar
to u. The short keen-looking man. who
is Just slipping a diminutive glassfnl Of
champagne, is MIR. Hayward, of the Quar-
terly Review, who wrote 1.-The Art of Din.
ing" and is as critical about matters gas
tronomic as about matters literary; present
" you will see him talking TO Lady Clan
ricardo, one of the ablest women in London
only daughter of the celebrated Georgt
Canning. oe1 40
A brilliantly attired young lady, whose
appearance strikes you as ''out of COM
mon," is Lady Diana Beauclerk, who ha,
Nell Gwynne's blood in her veins, for she
is sister OF the Duke of st. Adams. JUS
beside her is Lady Mayo, wife of the popu
lar Viceroy of Iuuia. who is spending bel
summer in England instead of undergoing
the sweltering heat OF Bengal.
"How do you do, Mr.. Lowe" says some
body 10y us. and the Right Hon. Chancel
lor of the Exchecquer winks and bushes
for his eyes do not take kindly to the rays
of the sun, as he turns to reply to his &C
coster.
That is Mr.. Delane. the editor of the
Times, who is talking so confdentially to
Duchess, and that little man with SO ami
mated a manner is Count StrZelecki, VIII,
has had an extraordinary experience of lif,
from Australia to Ireland. for he was one o
the pioneers in Australian gold finding
and foremost relief distributor amid tn
horrors of the Irish famine in 1S47 He i
a famous diner-out, and has the ertree il
numberless good houses. Yet the Count
early antecedents are much OF mystery
There is grand muster of the Corps Di
plomatique; yonder is Madame d'Apponzi
the wife of the Austrian Minister, who
true to the traditions of the Uica cOltr o
Vienna, gives the selectest of select
balls. Mr. Motley is talking to
savant, and his daughter. Mrs
Ives, whom Englishmen admire so much
is chatting with a German diplomatist il
his own language, which she speaks yer,
well.
What is the future fate of this grand ole
place whose associations ere perhaps rich
err than any mansion in the county of Mid
dlesex? Lord Macaulay wrote of il thirt,
years sgo:
The wonderful city which, ancient ant
gigantic as ii is, still continues to grow a
fast as q young town of logwood by a waite
privilege in Michigan. May iron displac
those turrets and gardens which are asso
ciated with so much that is interesting an,
noble, with the courtly magnifcence o
Rich; with the loves of Ormond; with tn
councils of Cromwell; with tie death o
) Addison. The time is coming when, per
haps, a few old men, the last survivors o
, our generation, and in vain seek amids
new streets and squares and railway sta
tons for the site of that dwelling which
was in their youth the favorite resort O
wits and beauties. of painters and poets, o
scholars. philosophers. and statesmen"
Happily there seems at present no caus
to apprehend its destruction. Lady Hol
land, widow of the last Lord-the title
extinct who bequeathed it to her absolute
ly, has thorough appreciation of tn
charge entrusted to her. and is in ever
way qualified to sustain the social reputa
ton of her famous house. Rumor an
speculation are rife about who shall inheri
it from her; but report favors youn
Wing Marquis OF high character, VIII
bears name Intimately connected for tn
last half century with Holland House, an
whose grandfather was almost as notabl
for his graceful Inequalities as the lat
Lord Holland-the Marquis of Lansdowut