Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-07-07
From ouriRegular Correspondents
Our European Letter.

LONDON, Eng, Juhe TO- i0oV'
The London season is now at what is
known as its " height" point
Of elevation which it usually reaches be-
tween the EPSON and Ascot weeks. lie
hotels are full to OVERLOOKING, and under
the impression, not altogether unfounded'
that many visitor to London has not
where TO lay his head, Il new club Is De-
ing started for the purpose OF Proviuing
persons properly introduced balloted Tor
and elected. with sleeping accommodation
at so much night. So many middle
aged and elderly gentlemen sleep habitu-
allv in club-houses, that the notion OF
opening a club specially for sleeping pur-
noses has. at first, rather a satirical look.
The Dormier club, however, as the
new institution will be called. is being set
on foot in sober seriousness. 1t is proposed
to take a large house up the west end and
convert it into sort of private hotel, at
which all the rooms but one-reserved for
breakfast-will be bedrooms. The dor
mier" club or Doormouse club. ms it
is already caled-will be open only to the
select few. To enjoy the right of sleeping
10 one of its beds, it will be necessary to
be member of a leading west end club
and the management of the enterprise is to
he vested in a committee of club men, on
which each of the principal clubs will be
represented. 1t is interesting in this new
undertaking to see the associative princl
pie carried yet one step further than it hat
reached before. English gentlemen haW
long been in the habit of combining FOL
eating, drinking, smoking, card-playins
and reading purposes. They are nov
making arrangements for sleeping togeth
err.
The House of Commons has been ver1
lively over Bradlaugh and his oath. Ont
of the members, Mr.. Warrior, spoke OF The
M. P. for Northampton as "the Cerebus o
atheism, treason and filth" If Mr.. Brad
laugh succeeds in taking his seat he will
bear Mr.. Warton in mind. and if he eve
&" goes for him" l pity Warrior. | have
rarely seen so much excitement in The
House, and during the debate Gladstone
and Bright sat as mute us mice, wondering
how it would all end
The statue of Lord Byron is now un
yelled to the public gaze in Hyde Park
behind Apsley House, in what are know
as Hamilton Gardens. But very few were
present at the dwelling. The statue rep
resents the poet clad in a yachting dress
sitting in deep repose and with the manu-
script of Childe Harold" upon his knee
contemplating from the rock which sup
ports his colossal figure the ocean whc
was his delight. At his feet crouches hi
doc. Boatswain," whose epitaph h
wrote, and which embodies n fling at poo
humanity for its insincerity.
The Lambri-L abouchere libel case, latel
before the court Of queens bench, reveale
some curious phases of London society
Lady Seabright was to have been a Wi
ness, bat she is absent in the south {
Europe Had she been present we woul
, have learned more about those festiy
evenings at her ladyship's aristocrat
abode, and some of us would have bee
pleased 10 hear that Lambri Pasha
French bank notes. $1,000" paid to hi
: ladyship, according to his statement fC
two nights lodgings were all right an
square. 1t is rather startling though
hear that those innocent festivities wei
D kept up till 7 clock in the morning but v
e must assume that west end card parties {
!. not break up at bedtime. may exp'a
J., that Lady Seabright, the entertaining hoi
|, ess of "Lambri Pasha," is an amate
v actress of more than amateur ability. S
n is the wife of baronet, and her part
IS and assemblies, when she is in town, Il
, q" swellish " in the extreme. Now that |
!. trial has ended in favor of the dcfenda
IF - Labby" will be cock-a-whoop on t
d subject of gaming and gamesters.
n ALPHA