The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-07
GENERAL GRANT.
The Magnificent Reception at
Minister Pisrrspent's.
A BRILLIANT GATHERING.
Piquant' Descriptions BY Kate Field
and Olive Logan.
LOHDORS Wit, WORTH AND BEAUTY.
Glirnpees Of Great Men and
Lovely Women.
Ex-PREMIER AND EX-PRESIDENT.
Statesmen, Diplomats, Soldiers
Peers and Litterateurs.
A PALACE OF FLORA.
4 Long List Of Distinguished Americans
and Europeans.
CORDIAL GREETINGS FROM ALL
A Career for Ex-Presidents at
Last Discovered.
Statesmen, Diplomats, Soldiers
Peers and Litterateurs.
A PALACE OF FLORA.
4 Long list Of Distinguished Americans
and Europeans
CORDIAL GREETINGS FROM ALL
A Career for Ex-Presidents at
Last Discovered.


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IDx cAB1E TO THE EERALp.1
LONDON, June G. 1877.
Last night the Hon. Edwards Pierrepont,
United States Minister at the Court Of st.
James, entertained General Grant and suite
At the official residence, Cavendish square,
the heart of the Faubourg st. German Of
London. The American embassy is fine
old English mansion of capacious interior
and sombre appearance, situated near the
gloomy castellated residence Of the Duke Of
Portland, from which Thackeray draws his
description of the home Of the Marquis OF
steyne. Cavendish square is the centre
Of the homes Of the Bentincks and
the great earis Of the Harcourt FAM
ily, and was the resting place Of
the aristocracy when driven from their
palatial houses in Soho square by the mob
in l740 In it's neighborhood is what Ton
nyson calls ''she long. unlovely street"
where young i B. Halism lived. for whom whom
he wrote his sIn Memoriam." 1t is now
given over to dukes, ministers, noblemen
and high class physicians.
SPLENDID GATHERING.
The mansion Of the American Minister
was decorated profusely with flowers and
bunting and illuminated with glaring
lights, under which glittered and flashed,
on the breasts of high officials, jewelled
stars and orders, war decorations and rib
bons, making dazzling coup doil as the
variegated throng moved through the spa
cious salons and corridors.
NOTABLE ABSENCES.
Lord Beaconsfield sent his regrets on &c
count of illness. The royal family were
also absent, because the Court is in mourn
ing for the Queen of the Netherlands, lately
deceased.
WHO WE'RE THERE.
In addition to the foreign ambassadors
present your correspondent noted the Lord
Chancellor, the Dukes of Leeds and Bed
ford, the Marquises Of Salisbury and Hert-
ford, the Earls of Derby, Belmore, Long
ford, Dunraven, Ducie, Caithness and
Shaftesbury, with peers and peeresses in
Vulnerable.
NOTED SOLDIERS.
There was the famous Lord Airoy, Rag
lan's chief qhaftermastsr IN tia Criniesii
campaign; Major General Dighton Mac
naghten Probyn, who did such wonderful
things in India, and many others Of equal
note.
JOURNALISTS, POETS AND PHILOSOPHERS.
known in America, and now member of
Parliament Mr.. J. R. Robinson, manager
Of the Daily Nesos, and Mr.. Frank 81. Hill,
the editor, representing journal 30 loyal
to America during the civil war, and now
appropriately paying their respects to the
chief of tho Union armies. Then there
were tho poet Browning, the celebrated
Professor Huxley and his family and Tom
Hughes, author Of TON Browns School
Days." Mr.. G. W. Smalley, the distin-
guished correspondent of the New York
Tribune; Mr.. Justin Mccarthy, tho novelist,
and many other representatives of the jour-
ualism Of England and America.
THE AMERICAN COLONY.
The American colonies in Europe were
largely represented. Among the multitude
your correspondent observed the follow
ing Mr. ]. s. Morgan, Chief Justice Shea
of the Marine Court, New York General
Clinton B. Fisk, Sir Curtis Sampson, Mr..
Cryder, Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Bergholz,
Rev. Newman Hall, Mr.. Louis J. Jennings,
formerly Of the New York Times, and wife
Mr. Osgood Field, Mr. John G. Meiggs, Mrs.
Philip Van Rensselaer,, Mr.. William p.
Wright. Mr.. Peabody wetmore, Colonel
L. Morton Montgomery, Governor and Mrs,