The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-01-30

themselves to the task of concocting q
coat OF arms for the new palace of play.
The blazon was vert for a card-table,
three paroles proper on "a chevron sable
for hazard table, two rOuleauX OF fifty
sovereigns each In saltire between two
dice proper on a canton sable, and a
white ball tor election argent. The sup
porters were an old and young knave OF
clubs, the crest an arm out OF an earPs
coronet shaking dice-bOX, and the mot
to, "Cogit amor nummi." At a later,
date the father of the present Lord Gran,
vile, when British Ambassador at Pari.,
entered the club in tue afternoon to
while away his time till midnight, when
his postchaise was TO be at the door to
convey him to Dover on his way back TO
France. He played the liyelong night
through, and lost sum at whist which
ramor estimates .variousN, but which
exceeded any Of the vast losses that we
have stated above. ---
In the morning the postbOy went back
to Newmdn's to get some fresh hors Is,
the first pair having been exhausted Dy
waiting through the night. 1t is proDa-
bile that the late Foreign Secretary and
the present member for Bodmin have
not yet forgotten the effects of that do
lorous nighps work, and perhaps "the
wnist-pIaying prUpensities OF the first
Earl Granville. What boots it to tell OF
the havoc wrought upon the health,
mind and pocket OF Charles Fox by
Whites and Brookes'I His father left
f154 900 in 1774 TO pay his debts, but 1T
was all bespoke, and, AS Horace Wal
pole said, "knew its way" Sheridan,
Dunning, Selwyn and Williams were
the wits who, together With Horace
Walpole, amused the youth OF ''the frs
gen. lemen in Europe;" and although
the town has changed infinitely for the
better within the last century, we doubt
il SO many good things and bon mOtS are
heard tC-l day i'll st. james stree !, as hew
about in the company OF the 6eda1esprttS
vi the past. ..,
When, in 1872, Whites became the
property OF RaggeTt it Threw out an off,
shoot, or SaCCurSdle, at the end OF the
L0ndUn season ana migrated, with its
proprietor, 10 the Steyne, at Brighton,
here the Iuxuries of 81. James street,
including dice and cards, awaited the
members OF Whites and Brookes' whom
Brighton and Lewes races, supported by
the Pavilion, attracted TO The sussex
coast. Whites is no longer the nightly
haunt of fast young Corinthians, indeed
low be it spoken-a new Dunciad
migat be written about the dutness and
YaUuity OF its present denizens. Fash.
ion has carried ardent youths away to
the Turf Club, or The Park CluD;
and, following the example of his
predecess or--who quaweled Wlth
Brooks for blaekballing Ban Tarleton,
the hero of the American war, and es-
tablished the Dover House Club on the
spot where Fenton's Hotel now stands,
tha Prtnna of Wales aViSeeratpQ White'R
by starting the Marlborough. Neverthe-
less, the famous and dreaded Day Will
aow--the theme OF Byron, Leigh Hunt
and Thackeray, no less than the haunt
OF Walpole and Seiwyn-stiu keeps
watch over the most fashi enable street
in the world. Upon the list Of "books
WHICH might be written" we know none
more worthy the pen Of oates SaCef
tnan o chronicle OF Whlte's Irum Lnt
days Of Lie witty Lord Chesterfield w
tue present houI--[ London Truth.