New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-26
NOTES FROM LONDON.
PERSONAL, LEGAL AND SOCIAL.

Later private accounts though hopeful In tohe are
10 the effect that he is speochless. There is every
mason 10 believe he will rally, tut he can hardly
.xpect again to put strain upon his vigorous con-
stitution. lie has always been hard worker. vi
late years when, If he had not been the victim OF
his confidence in Others he nj light have been rest
ing he has toiled more necessarily than ever. lie
a. mast sixty he has made q considerable change III
and before that giving up hunting to which he had
been dey oted; altogether ne has taken Liberties
with himself which have proved too much even LOT
his robust and seemingly inexhaustible strength.
He has the anxious and afectionate good wishes OF
innumerable friends for his recovery. NO man Is
more popular; no man better deserves his popu-
larity no man ever more staunch TO DIS
friends. more helpful. sincere and honorable IN
Every step of his distinguished career and every ac'
OF his private life.
The Belt libel case has been dragging It's $40"
length along for a week. but nobody seems 10 'aho
much interest in it. With the exception Vi M,
George Augustus Sala and the Duchess Do"aeer VI
Cleveland no Witnesses of much celeprity Vi s'"'
social position have lately been called nor has the
Testimony been of very spicy kind. IL Is inono''
mons and the repetition of the same set or SORT Oh
.oots il endless John NTH swears that he SAT 10
NJ Relt for his bust, saw him work in the actuai
Low with his own hands. believes NOBODY else
worked on the bust, and considers 1t captai ike
ri q work of high art. Thomas Jones and
wJuon, Pohinson depose to similar experiences and
ho,i.fs and opinions, each for himself The prop
.biItv "a that Smith. Jones and Robinson know as
Duch of art in general and the modelling OF Dusts I'D
na,ticnlar as they do of astrology or Egyptian
olit,cs But when once Judge has ruled that tes-
,imonv of this nature is admissible for the purpose
If nroy1ng that Mr. Belt is ARTIST there is no END
to IT, The busts are in court the jury stare aV
,bom Mr. Baron Huddleston makes heavy jokes on
ham and ont OF such materials the twelve goOd
man and true are presumed to arrive at an intell-
cont Judgment on Mr.. Belts capacity as scup'
tor. Mr.. Belt may lie competent artist as ne
claims to be, OF a rank impostor as MT LaWes' the
defendant AYERS, and will presently try TO prove
xhen his turn comes. TIE only thing certain In the
matter is that the opinion of the jury Will not DO
worth farthing ito anybody but plaintlh OF de-
fendant If "a strong judge were trying the cause IL
might have been finished last suIsnei' WIN
Baron Huddleston on the bench it may last another
Month.
Not the least remarkable incident of the trial is
Cha ARRANGEMENT between counsel that each juror
shall receive guinea day fer his attendance
The usual fee is "a guinea for the whole trial. anu
the ndee has no power to order any greater sum 10
be paid 1t must be presumed that the parties 20 the
action are parties to this interesting niue agree
ment which bids fair to add cool many hundreds
of pounds to the costs. AIr. Lawcs, the defendant
is a son of the distinguished farmer, Sir }. Is.
Lawes knigbted not long since for series OF sue
cessful experiments with manures Mr. Belt Is so
far IRON being rich man that a lawyer concerned
IN the case has been known to express an opinion
that this action would ruin him whether he won OF
lost it, The expenses must be good deal more
than $500 a day, not counting the extra jury lees
7 doubt whether the services of Mr. Charles Rus
sell who leads for the defence, be had for less
than fifty guneas day as refTesher.' The Zee
marked on his brief was perhaps i've times that
sum- but il is not deemed consistent with the mig
uity of the English Bar that one of its cher oTna-
uents should enter upon a fresh days work VIII hout
fresh remuneration. And this is bat one item OF the
costs in the cause
A libel suit of a much more stirring nature IS
likely to be heard of presently. The painth Is the
son Of wealthy Irish peer and son'ln'law 10 lauy
who bears one of the highest titles and greatest Ms
torlc names in another division OF tire ElngdOm'
The defendants are none other than TINS LADY ana
her husband. The lady is said to amnse hor leisure
by spreading reports to the effect that her sohlh-
law has been obtaining goods from tradespeope by
using the name of her husband Names, dates the
things bought, the house to which they were seht'
the way in which the plaintiff got hold of them, the
refnsal of the husband to pay the fact that neither
NV him nor by the plaintiff were the goods paid Tor
these and other interesting particulars are re-
counted with plausible mnuteness. Inc lady Is d
woman who sets slight store by popular opinion
and still less by the tOO-hackneyed Napoleonlc
maxim about the family washing. The answer OF
the Irish peers son to all these caumnles. Tor as
,ucb ne deuounces them, is to bring an action lot
libel against the author of them-his mother-lnaw,
In short Should 1t ever come to trial IL VIII De
boon 10 what our French friends call the beautiful
oh WI w
beautiful but loves to concern itself with the 40
ings of IFS betters But the chances are as Ill all
such cases that IT will not come to trial The re-
snlt of washing dirty linen of this sort Iii pubic IS
only to make 1t dirtier; and there are too many
grea, people mixed up in this matter 10 allow II to
get into court.
Society scandal. il must be said is more than
nsually rife at this season; possibly because Para
ment is in session. and people are in town, and
time hangs heavy on their hands AS Tor going
down to the House and sitting through the debates
that remarked an ingenious legislator yester-
dav is what We never do" The latest rumor Is
a peculiarly painful one. longthreatehed
separation between husband and wife is said to DO
an accomplished fact. The husband aid wife are
both people out of the common run; not merely
wealthy and well born. of high position and sur
rounded by friends. but both remarkaOle Tor
artistic accomplishments and interests The nus
band is living abroad. The wife, under what she
thinks intoleraDie provOcation has left his house
in London and gone to a hotel Friends are dong
their best but the wife reported resolute not to
return. You are likely enough to hear the names
mentioned before many days are past, but THUG lar
they have been kept out of print.
Nine. de Novikofi is again in London. and as
usual with new enterprise in hama This time it
ia not political She is writing life of Skobeeh,
whom she knew WELL and whom she saw only two
or three weeks before his death. To a question
what Was the real cause of SkOJeletl's death.-an