Wilmington journal., 1875-08-13

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At that date QS42) fancy drinks
were almost unknown in the clubs.
taverns and gin palaces of London.
Hittinger conceived the idea of intro
ducing these to show to what extent
ice was used in "the States for this
purpose. He therefore secured the
services OF several bar-keepers, whom
he had intimated into the mysteries of
mixing juleps, smashes, cocktails, and
other drinks known only in Yankee
land. His experience, as he relates it
| himself, is very amusing. went out
into the steamer SO as to make arrange
ments for the arrival of the bark and
cargo, delivered my letters, talked
with parties. and felt tolerably sure
that l had struck vein. In due time
the Sharon, having made a good pas
sage, arrived in the Thames. The
thing had been talked over so much
that the cargo of Boston ice was as
we'll advertised as it could have been
i'll the columns of the Times. But.
after all, it appeared to them strange
fish that 10 one dared to touch NV
foel1ng were Just about the temperature
OF my ice, and wasting as rapidly. at
last L was introduced to the Chairman
or President of the FishmoDgers' AS
sOc1atiOn. an association winch | was
not long i'll discovering had the merit
of wealth, If not of social position. He
Was sOclable, and seemed to c0mpre-
hend my position if L didn't his. Mat
ters were SO arranged; q magnificent
hail or saloon had been secured; | as
certained that my bar-keepers, through
constant drill, had attained the correct
slight of hand in mixing the drinks.
The hour arrived. The ball was long
and brilliantly lighted. After the
company was seated the Chairman in
troduced me and the subject matter of
the evenings = discussion. Now, Thought
|, [ am All right. At a given signal
the we'll trained walters appeared, la
den with the different drinks. The
effect was gorgeous, and [ expected an
ovation that no Yankee had ever had.
But, alas the first sounds that broke
the silence were: II say, aw, waitaw,
a little 'ot wataw, if you please; 1 pre-
fer it 'alf n 'alf' l made, dead rush
for the door, next day settled my bills
in London, took the train for Liver
pool and the steamer for Boston, and
counted up loss OF 81 200.
THE PRINCE OF WALES, DEBT.
The Mystery of the Indebtedness of
the Greatest SpendLhrIEt in Europe.
ILondon Correspondence of the Cincinnati
Commercial.l
There is general impression that
under this Indian visit there turks a
scheme for putting about 91OO 600 at
the very least into the Princes pocket.
The Prince, notwithstanding an an
nual income of 9l2O,OOO, cannot keep
out of debt. How he manages to
spend SO much money is mysterious as
to amount to a scandal. His residences
and estates are provided for him, and
are untaxed: and were he to give
dinner party every day in the year to
twenty princes. at twice the price per
head of a Lord Mayors banquet, it
would not costs third Of his income.
The report was circulated that he
was burdened with expenses by the
the Queen's withdrawal from Court; but
Queen has taken pains to have it reach
the public that the Prince has suffered
no pecunlary loss on her account.
Some time ago repeated efforts were
made to feel the pulse of the country
to find if it would be safe to ask the
House OF Commons to pay the Princes
debts without showing the vouchers.
These efforts were successful; the pulse
of the country was felt, and revealed
plainly that it would not be safe.
Efforts to raise his income were equally
fruitless.
1t is plain we are separated by con-
siderable moral interval, however
brief i'll time, from the days when Par
lament was SO generous in paying
Princes of Whales debt with the pub
lie money. 1t seems like ancient his
tory, rather than plain Parliamentary
proceedings of sixty years ago, to read
that when Troutbeck, the Mapping
tradesman, died bequeathing large
sum for schools for the poor, the Prime
Minister stated to the House that he
was happy to inform them that al
though the Prince of Wales debt ex-
ceeded his income by quarter of a mil
lion, the nation would not be called
| upon to pay the whole, for a tradesman
of Mapping, named Troutbeck, had
died, leaving sum of money for the
building Of some schools, and further
sum, considerably exceeding 9iOO,
| 900 to til e maintenance and education
of poor boys In the parish; and he the
(Minister) was authorized by the
| Lord Chancellor (Eldon) to state
! that, inasmuch as the said Troutbeck
had no relations, the whole of the
property was an escheat to the crown.
1t was only in 1916 that the money
left by the tradesmsn to educate the
poor from among whom he sprang, was
brazenly divided among the blacklegs,
tiddlers, jewellers, tailors, opera dan
GERS, and some less creditable credi-
tors. Such things cannot now be
done in the old open-handed way.
| The Prince of Whales debts are to be
paid partially under cover of presents
to Indian Princes. Sixty thousand
pounds have been voted him for this
purpose.