The New York herald., 1879-11-09
Fashion Flocking to the Town or
to the Hunting Field.
THROUGH GORSE AND SPINNEY.
Prince Leopold as an Orator Cetywayo
as Professional Beauty.
ROSTRUM, STAGE AND STUDIO
LONDON, Oct. 2S, 1879,

horn Of the hunter is heard on the hill. That is
concise summary OF the state of the country just
now. There is talk OF coming trouble. OF . convul
sve general election. of complications with Russia
(that. indeed. is standard topic the weather.
aud even of troops--horse foot and artiery-being
held in readiness to pass over into Ireland at mo-
ments notice But all this is talk. the
other things facts. The long. unlovely
streets getting to be crowded; we have
unmistakable evidence of the arrival of King Fog
in the increased percentage of deaths from bron-
chitis and lastly. in the newspapers we see once
more the familiar MISUNDERSTANDING appoint
ments. staghounds. foxhounds. barriers. with their
respective lists Of packs and the place OF the meet.
About the commencement Of the hunting season
there is nothing unusual. Year in, year OUT Octo-
Der brings it, inevitable sunrise. changeess as law
of Mede and Persian The sporting papers are full
of the prospects of the coming season. Foxes will
be plentiful horse sales the order of the day and
buyers are eager. Melton Mowbray Market Har-
borough and Oakham are receiving their annual ten
Ants-the very cream Of hunting society in Eng
land-and
Uprouse yo then. my merry merry men,
1t is our opening day.
Is the burden of their song.
BLOWING THE KLECrIoNEERING HORN.
But the return, partial return, Of society to
London thu early is rather phenomenal. Some say
it is because Ut the depression trade which has
brought back from the seaside the middle class farl
lilies who generally stay later others that the pros
pect of general election accounts for the presence
in town of many of those whose business lies in
finding brains for the nation. and they seem to an
tlcpate unusually hard time in the search. All
over the country the trumpet of politics is being
sounded the hosts are being summoned to the ban
ner OF whig and tory. to the camp of liberal and
conservative John Bright. the horse Of the
radicals has smelled the battle and heard the thun
der of the captains and the shouting Sir Stafford
Northcote has been bold to bang the conservative
drum in Ireland Lord Salisbury has almost his
Lord Harrington. the liberal leader (after Gladstone
has talked himself hoarse that when now he
opens his mouth there ensues vast silence. But
johh Bright the iron-throated Quaker. has flung
himself into the thick of the fight and his voice
gives no uncertain sound He is down upon the
conservatives in that trenchant and powerful style
of which he is master. Before him all other Eng
lish orators dun and prosy. In all his great
Speeches. recently delivered Mr. Bright has referred
to the United States in terms eulogstic that the
conservative journals condemn him as a man who
likes other countries better than his own. They
think he might better have been "a Proosian
French Turk Roosian, even
Rn Italian" and that. having yielded to
temptations to belong to other nations, he Is not
Engiishman. Mr.. Brghts audience at Manchester
thought differently, for when the well known
sturdy figure came forward on the platform. the
band struck up the Fine Old English Gentleman" :"
and the immense throng joined in the refrain. This
hearty greeting inspired the nne old English gentle
man to use some fine old English language. "There
are" he said .crmn nails ut headq uarters fools and
inbeciles among the people. baseness among the
proprietors and writer's of some newspapers" Upon
his tavorte topic. the United States. Mr.. Bright
said: -
Some of those foolish the couservatvesl blame Mr..
Gladstone and Lord Granville because they did keep
Of the dcpedations of the Alabama Why have heard
member the tn HOUSE of
built IT, and have heard nearly Al the conservative who
made that boast have heard my friend Mr. Golden
Snd San "a % in m %a % when you
there single farthng of damage that the ship does
United states that you, the government Of England
"S he ssS p % Of s ne
mons Sir stafford Northcote was himself one Of the com
under which the whole Of that subject submitted
WAS IN to 9 ."o Of what mr
have been awarded yet the award was and believe
spirited foreign policy you might before this
CiIer side of the A,ianeS war which would have left
misery and wounds gsneratons might not have healed
Russia, whom are determined to Keep long
ran-but an enemy NO less formidable in the West.
PRINCE LEOPOLD.
The recent speech OF Prince Leopold, at Shof-
field where he inspected the museum or Mr.. Rus
kin. has brought him well to the front. and loyal
English people are congratuating themselves on
the possession OF such promising blood royal
Ruskin. who is judge. surely. OF good language
and not too much of courtier expressed his adnii
ration for the young Princes oratory and sentl-
ffs raj the OF Msr,n
even by prince. Leopold is evidently becoming
favorite with the masses. The aristocracy.
they say, think he Is u little too clerical
priggish suppose. the ill-natured word would be-
tor prince. More than any OF his brothers he takes
after his father and he seems to have tho same faci
ty in public speaking. Still. IN his speech ut Shef-
field did not the royal orator fail into q strange
error? He said ii have lately been reading book
about Sheffield Sheffield more than genera
tion ago, written by great master OF style and lam
guage, and giving startling picture OF things as
then they were. The book was Sybil, or the Two
Nations, by Benjamin Disraeli, aud the two nations
Of which the title spoke were the nation OF the rich
and the nation the poor. The wide gulf that has
existed between class and class has trust. been in
great measure bridged over now Throughout all
England thanks tc the efforts of statesmen of all
parties alike. and not least, to the ilustrious
author of that very book" But while on
the subject of royalty i should mention that
Of photographs in the West End shop windows.
Hitherto We have hai professional and umprofes-
sional beauties, actresses, the Queen and Princess
Beatrice under all umbrella and naked Zulu women.
Now we have Cetywayo himself, seated arrayed in
the famous seven-and-sixpcnny tablecloth (it
made Tor small tablet. and with the broadcast OF
broad grins on his face. He looks the midest man
ncred man that ever cut throat. Mrs. Langtry is
side OF him (of course / am speaking Of sep
nrate photography and Mrs. CORVALLIS West on the
other. and he seems to be particularly happy
In such company. The display is really comic. You
may men III the crowd which is always staring
In ut the windows of these shops laugh with
hearty guffaw, and women. who will just take ono
glance. and then turn gigglng away. l have said
that the tablecloth was made tor small table. and
the thought occurs to the dispassIonate observer
tina. were this the photograph OF u white man-say
an artists nodel-the Society for the Publication OF
the Main Sewer would certainly have something to
Ray about it. Poor Cetywayo! To lose his throne,
to be hun;oi down like wild beast, and now to
have his portrait scattered as broadcast that of
professional beauty Insult has been added injury
However the fat aud now much-trousered monarch Is
blissfuly UNCONSCIOUS on his lonely rock Il have
doubt IL Is a rock and lonely OF the fate r fame to
which the camera has doomed him. May he possess
his soul land his pants) in patience and never know
POSES PHoTooEAPHIQUEs.
OF society gossip includes that great topic
made still more absorbing the trial of the luck
less editor of Toicn 7dL-the grandes danes Of high
life and their photographers II Is said that society
has suddenly made up its mind that the practice OF
being photographed Ike this and photographed like
that is rcprehensiblc. not to say immoral but do