New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-03
LONDON GOSSIP.
NJ ENGLISHMANS NOTES ON ENGLISH
TOPICS.

Despite the recent rain London is I'M
usually cheerful for this time Of year And
1t has only raned within the last two or three days
Last Week there despite the attractions of Parlia
inent great deal OF alOver this Part
OF England Mr.. MOnagu Williams, busy as nc is with
the great Belt case had pleasant party down at his
shooting at DrOpmOre Saturday, and Mr.. Lawson, OF
Hau Barn Park had some OF the best shots In England
out with him on the day OF his woods close
TO the townlct from which Lord BcQcOnsfeld took mia
title.
by the way, the defunct Earl never pronounced his
own name properly THIS remark feel savors of what
called a Elton "ohoe" but t is true nnd exact never
theiesa "DiSzy" knew very few things accurately
well as he knew men and women. Consequently no
called the place In Buckinghamshirc BeaCouseld
written and as derived, some congcua idiot once
wrote, from the field IN which beacon
was set up, The old spelling "Beckonslcld" gives
the accurate and accepted pronunciation and IL
derived by good Ango-saNon scholars from tho
beech trees which abound in that particular spot
BeckOnsfeld or BeckcnsielI ancently written and
as preserved in local pronunciation to this day, points
distinctly TO Tho becchcs," not the beacon" These
observations appear rough the late peer but he
was very Gallo who cared for none Of these things
Moreover, know whose name is written DazIel
and who pronounces It spclt Instead OF Deeyell."
To return to our lOngtails: Mr.. Edward Lawson OF
The Ddly Telegraph fame has capital shooting aud can
always offer his guests hundred brace of
phcasants to kill without counting wood pigcons hares
and rabbits On Saturday the sun was bright the air
Keen and the birds flew high. But they did escape
the shooters assembled who would hardly give the pas
to Lords Wasingham and De Grey and the Maharajah
Dhniup sing, who with Lord BOwmont and Mr. "Arche"
Wortley-he who cited" DR.. Carver at pigeons
arc the best eameshot we have Mr. "Arclie" Wortley
ig the nephew OF Lord Whamclife and the cousin OF
Lord WenOck, and is therefore bred for sport And he
is very clever painter of portraits sporting
His "GrOuse Drive Is edmlrable aud he bas the
case Notwithstanding" He Is the coming artist
for the outdoor aud sporting subjects which bewilder
the cOckney artistic mind.
There Is at last end OF the Wellesley scandal. The
divorce is granted and the rising soldier and dromatist
is completely ruined socially gentleman very well
can be. "CeSt bon 0arcoE, mais NEST pas FORT"
Colonel Wellesley. sometime adede-camp to tho
Queen and military attach6 at Vienna, with ctvil
well military career open to him,
sinks into the hanger-on Of dancer pretty woman
and graceful dancer undoubtedly but with two children
of her own The qu0nddn brilliant ofcer aud atache,
who is also fairly good writer, last summer
ployed I'm trottDg round the country during Miss Kate
Vaughan tour, II he we're already mari dactrcs,
as they say he will be, holding her vraps during
the performance and taking her children out for walk
In tho morning. To this complexion has come the
man who once had beautiful wife and children Of his
we'll as n career
To be lust 10 him his inndees many; and was
only no carried tnc ulnumOTuU OF tnat famous
lady killer Captain D. and the said Captain chal-
lenged him, that IA ltcmOnIa row became imperative.
lie had thought he could run away for week to Paris
without creating excitement but the lady killer who had
cut out handsome Claude" did not things In the
same light and called him out. Now TO call man out
| in London is great matter The law allows Of no
such things duels. But in Paris it Is another affair
and sht can easily be brought OF Hence the dancers
present young is under suspicion OF cowardicc,
| and 10 spcaketh unto him.
The stanhope scandal is lesser matter inasmuch as
| Il is only the case OF young man making q foolish
match and nding 1t In the long run even worse bar
gain than Ills friends anticipated Some Ave years
Mr. Wyndham Stanhopo, youngest brother OF the Earl
| Of Harrington married Miss Camille Dubois, daughter
of Mr. ReylOf, most respectable musician at Brighton
The young lady, who has figured on the stage, is hand
some brunette with that slight down the upper ip
| which s esteemed q special charm OF the feSmes d.
MIDI According tho husbands case, she was often
too oen-caed home to attend the bedside OF her
sick father At last this perpetual and too tender nurs
ing aroused Mr. Stanhopes suspicious ana he discovered
that Mr Reylod not the robust invalid whom Mrs
slanhooe went to soohc The lady was followed,
watched and the case will shortly come into court
II would seem IL not play could be produced
without a scandal You have heard By this time all
about the ridiculous failure OF M Tenny sous Promise
| of May" and probably Of tho Marquis Of
! Qncensberry's equally absurd protest against the
Arguments put into the mouth Of Mr. Tonnyson's
very nabby -mindcd freethinker It is something new
for peer IN his stall at the theatre and protest
against play Lord Queensberry is an eccentric peer
who threw up in the Lords not long ago on ao
coupt OF conscientious scruples the subject OF faith
A ponted out some time since, his father died in an
unorunnte kind OF way. ana his sister is Lady Flor
epce Dixie who by her writings has become wellknown
TO the reading public. Lord Queensberry Is frequently
seen on first nights the box of conspicuous beauty
| H. f,t4a y fFirul %
| CANT Miss Leighton.
| The specuatiOn in Mr. Tennyson's play and its pro
duction at the Globe Theatre is generally assigned to
Miss Drew, a handsome and wealthy lady constantly
seen in company with Mrs Bernard Beere. Miss Drew
affects slightly aesthetic style OF costume andis the OBJ
| served OF oil observers on hrstnights.
There IA unfortunately longer any doubt TO the
sepaIaton Of SIT Cous and Lady Lindsay OF Bacarrcs
This event has caused great in the artistic world
where both have been exceedingly popular.
| What will become Of the Grosvenor Gallery, the
| " Oreeuory.galIery "-clad damozels and the "long-
! haired lean and not very clean" young men who
stood gaping at Mr. BurneJones's bilious saints ana Ian
ternjawed nymphsl Where, oh where are the tea nnd
toast the mullins and chocoatecoyered cake that the
Princessea big aud te OF our Royal family enjoyed so
much on Sunday aiternoonsl All. Ike Hans Brett
nann's lager-beer, Away In do Ewigket"
Another eccentrciy in high and low life, in which the
Oueensberry family again iguresl twill be recoleced
that Lord Archibald Douglas the younger brother of tho
| MARQUIS OF Quaensberry IA not Ike the head OF the
| family, an aggressive agnostc, but Roman catholic
and in Holy Orders Lord Archibald has founded schools
| and done much clerical work Among other things he
converted or perverted tho reader peases, his sister,
the Lady Gertrude Douglas by some years the elder OF
Lady Florence Dixie Lady Gertrude helped her brother
with hs schools fell in love with one OF tho Students
! a bakers young man about half her own age she has
married that bakers young man aud Mustered society not
anite The present DOugases of the House oil Queens
berry are not descended from old q" That Onlived,
but by no means venerable nobleman, died unmarried