, 1876-11-19
EUROPEAN GOSSIP.
More About "Limmer's" and Its
Frequenters.
4 Marriage in Italian High L1te-"-
Theirs and MacMahon.
The Jennings Estate-..That st" cy7
Cadet--.Dog-Thieses in Paris.


we could collect together, even q frois Teprlses
ere likely to be exhaustive or satisfactory to thu
elderly freouenters Of the extinct hotel. But at
any rate what VIC have written may haply pro.
roEc others to take up the wondrous tale Of
which we have, as it were, but skirted the
edges. With this view let us proceed to give
the true version Of Billy Duf's frafas with the
post-boy, which, as recently narrated by US, re-
sembled the adventure of the Bear and Fiddle,
Becun and broke off in the middle.' 1t Would
seem, then, that when William ". was on the
throne be invited a couple OF officers belonging
to the Tenth Hussars, then quartered at
Hounslow, to be present at a party which
he gave at Windsor Castle The two officers
upon whom the lot fell were the present Lord
Chcsham, we'll known In those days as Billy
Cayendish, aud the celebrated Billy Duff. The
Court uniform Of the Tenth Hussars, which was
a1yays the regiment selected for the honor Of
haying the Prince Of Wales for its Colonel, was
tights and Hcssians; nor did two officers ever set
out more q. qTdrde te1tut to attend birthday
or 4 lcvee than the two famous 'Billies' upon
the day in question. They journeyed, like DR..
johnson and Boswell, in post-chalse; buthere,
unhappily, the resemblance ceased. The pace
was soon found to be too slow for the
taste Of the fast-going and izreprcssible Billy
Duff, Who demonstrated through the lowered
front window with the apathetic post-boy. An
other mile was traversed, and the pace was not
fng accents, the irascihle Captain, / spoke to
yon once before about going so slow;
If you persist in it shall feel
Obliged to have recourse to more severe
measures Again no alteration Was made in
the rate Of progress, and for the third time the
front window went down, when Billy Duff fired
pistol at the back Of the delinquent, whom he
struck exactly in the spot where the hiatus was
revealed which so shocked the nerves Of Mrs.
Tabitha Bralnhle. The shot was well aimed, and
with loud cry OF pain and surprise the post
boy fell from bis saddle and rolled bleeding up
on the ground. The blood flowed SO fast that
Billy Duff thought it necessary to disarm his
companions fears BY the assurance that the pls-
to1 was loaded with bullet Of rock-salt. Ncv-
ertheless, the wounded postcboy lay in the road
shouting Murder and firmly believing thathis
last hour had come. Leaving him to his fate,
Billy Duff. tights, Hesslans, hussar- jacket, and
all, jumped into the saddle, and urging the
horses to speed Of which they had little pre-
vious experience, drove his brother officer to
Windsor Castle, where the pair were received
with blank astonishmcnt BY the royal servants.
OF course the matter did not end here, III
asmuch as a formal complaint was made to
the Horse Guards, and Billy Duff was summoned
to answer for his sins to Lord Fitz-Roy Soner-
set, then Military Secretary. Forty years ago
it was pro;crbia1 saying in the army that Lord
FitzRoy will always get fellow out Of 4 scrape
il he can; aud animated BY this kindly spirit
the Military Secretary proceeded to search the
articles OF War aud &utinv for any clause pro-
yidinE for the punishment of an officer or SOL
dcr who shot q post-boy with rcck-sa1t- Find
ing that the trainers Of the military code had
MOI contemplated the possibility of such an
cnormity being pcrlwtrated By any one wearing.
His Majcstys uniform, Lord FitzRoy dismissed
the pec;ant officer with severe reprimand and
with strong 1junct1oIs never to do it again.
To what do you attribute the harmony which,
in moro senses than one, prevails at Eyans:' i'll
quircd Ihackcray OF the nery-cyed Paddy
Green, with whose rnbieuud countenaucc the
{requenters of Co1cnt Gardens brown
tayerns' were aurin. the last generation
SO familiar. ITO the 1act,' he replied,
that We never admit woman. One female,
even the tnest Of her sex, would socn set US all
in a lame Not dissimilarly it was tradition
OF Limmcr's, in its sanded floor days. that none
but the male sex were admissible guests, and
there was = story that when an 0xonian once |
lay Ut the point OF death in one ol THE upper
chambers the gravest objections were made at
the bar to the admission oi his mother and sis
te:. OF 4 truth it <1nno. be denied that between
1925 and 1876 thu colIcc-room and passages were
no Tt places for ladies. An atmosphere Of the
Ir:zc-ring G;ni the stable perradcd the whole
encourage, 1nG .jcln Burn, not unaeIGnpanicd by
one or more OF his bulldogs, was 4 frequent ami
h,Eore1 visitor to The Eaccr' and Ills coil
radcs- In later days poor Wcaty DUs7i1lc was
wont to welcome certain men learned in tie
LAW to his bed-chambcr, where he signed some |
documents disposing OF his life interest in the
this way, Wcn;y,' exclaimed his uncle, Jenny
stacdolald, YOU will not have as much land !
left as there is in tl1sfaower-pot-' It was, |
indeed the boast Of each successive hcad-yyaiter
that more money had been written for' on
stamped paper within that little recess and OH |
tbat cE:,nly brown table than upon any other |
epo: III London OF like dimensions. The names /
OF the signatar1cs might bc extended until thcy |
reached the length OF the Honcric catalogue Of |
tf"s. AND many fair estate still feels the ci- |
1cct OF the p nnlarship, not always Of the most !
scholarly kinG, executed under that dangerous |
be as murti forgotten as the Savior Fivre Club
Ut Cnar..s Fox, which allowed pension OF $50 |
j year to each ct its members ruined By GAM
bling, the condition that they never meddleG
more with the dcc-oox sud devils pictures, lest
the club SHOULD b. playing. against its own |
run the :sa1nut from tho Prince Reyeut dow1l to |
Peter Wilkinson is not al everyday l1fair, and, |
parodying Prince Halls cp:taph npou the tat !
kn .Ent, there will be many to excla;m that they
could have butter spured better institution
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.
4 Rome letter to the New York 1'orsd saws:
IL 4 marriage OF much importance has just taken
p1ace in North Italy, at the old ncdinyal ctr |
If hundred towers, Asti, the birthplace cf Al |
1cr;, the poet; aud the pretty bride is OF the |
same Alficri family. The Marcllese Viscouti |
Fenos.s, former Minister OF Foreign AfEairs in |
he Scl;a-Sauza aud Minsheth ministries, we'd !
led yesterday the daughter Of Senator Marchcse |
Alfcri d Sostcngo. This is match that has
been 'on hand Tor some time, Visconti Venos- |
u is no longer in his premiere jeunesse, but is in
he fYarfrnc af fffes 9s ffe world eays Df f1is-