New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-03
LONDON GOSSIP.
AN ENGLISHMAN'S NOTES ON ENGLISH
TOPICS.

Liberal London has been greatly exercised
during last few days by the piling as II is caeo'
of Mr. Chamhcrains two brothers at the REFORM 'lno
and is probable this outbreak Of spleen against
birmingham aud all Its works Will nave 'he
efec, Of abolishing the democratic system
Of election by the whole body OF the club. Mr. Cham
berlans brothers personally as unoblectonaoe az
anybody who, being born Cockney" and having
subsequently settled in birmingham could possiD! pc
1t must he admitted that with the genuine high and
weborn old Wings either of these disabilities would
be considered fatal Now that they ont OF Office the
Tories far democratic than the Wings, ana are
prepared to take up sefmade man who ready 10
hght either borough or county eecuon nus
humility ia. / apprehend. mainly brought
nbout nv the want Of Office the decline
Of rents and large number Of farms unle The oo
wings arr off, and. hating the Radicals more
than Tories delighted TO have fair opportunity
of snubbng any Of their representatives. one Oh he e
iected brothers Chamberlain has been Mayor OF BrmnS
ham has behaved literally in the endowment OF local In
stutons and is saving the disqualihcatiOns already
bined at fitting member for the Reform Ciuo'
This is not high praise, for some OF the queereSt
people Of this supposed Liberal pouy'
Shabby members of Parliament and poor
anxious their specuations pushed haunt
the influential members every turn 1t Is explained
that seedy members got in long ago. have become
seedy since admission, and cannot now be turned
out.
Tie late Lord wilton still subject Of conversation
Mt every club dinner-table in London HIS long en-
joymcnt of his title, his curious double character hall
saint and have Lovelace and his renown as racing
hunting and yachting supply fund of talk to hard
lvers old and young. Society journalists and others
have, with chaerboxes generally been betrrlng their
wits TO find why he called the wicked Earl Inc
real has been very naturally suppressed by his
friendly biographers. They all had kind of dim notion
that his "wickedness " had something to do with
his yacht. II in fact There Is
CHASTITY story OF two young girls taken on
the Zarfa by their guardian, and of advantage
being taken of their innocence They were sisters "hch
the crime light relative of the girls called the
wicked Earl out and there dnel; but nothing came
Of the champion Of the young ladies got into
trouble himself aferward. and was also called out ana
duly shot at and missed after the pleasant
manner OF that period. II was essentially
n lively epoch that Of D'Orsay, " Chessy" aud Lord
Wilton in his prime.
There has gossip enough and TO spare about the
Prince OF waless dinner to the actors. Steady severe
everyday England stands aghas at the spectacle OF the
Heir Apparent revelling with "mimcs and
bufoons" during evening church hours on
Sunday. 1t is hardly necessary to point
out that if the Prince had not invited his theatrical
friends Sunday it would have been useless to invite
them all; but piOus and respectable England does
not see the matter in that light. To make the matter
worse the news has got abroad that an actor, whose
general demeanOr is quite within the pale OF thc
strictest proprety, and who is an excellent
husband and father sang Ut the unhalowed
banquet a song of the kind which should neither be
said sung by any person who respects either himself
or his audience The Prince of Wales is said to have
turned his back upon the indscrcet singer, and other
much displeasure as host conveniently
could toward his guest a of fact the
Of the worst type of the 0ddr'oe not broader, In
fact, than the songs of Mesdames Chaumont and
Theresa aud rather long and dull than highlyspiccd
and wicked. am assured too, that the Prince who
rather bored than amused it, instead OF display
ing any annoyance merely damned with faint praise
the uckess, ill-timed, and tasteess exhibition Alto
gether the Prince must be disgued with his expert
ment of revealing with the mime" as the mime >
himself with nearly cold dinner This is a com
mon defect at Marlborough House. and is not to be won
dered at when the distance between the Kitchen and
dining room is taken into consideration.
1t curious to note the change which taken place
sn this country comic singing within twenty-five or
thirty years In the ginning of my London life was
taken. as Give Newcome was taken to the " Back
Kitchen" the late singing rooms then in vogue-to
wit the Cider Cellars the Coal Hole and EvaDs's. Tie
former two already the decline, and was only
Just born in time to hear Ross sing a glastly and
baspheinous dirty called "Sam Hail. purporug TO be the
death-song OF chimney sweep about 10 be hanged The
scene in the Cider Cellars caricatured in Punch in
Richard DOyle's series OF Illustrations to MI
Pips his Diary" "Sam Han" hideousy dramatic
rs it was. could hardly be described as the most
degrading performance at the Cider Cellars.
There songs such as Cosugan had begun
10 sing when Colonel Newcome in his wrath and
staked from the room with his stick raised while every
man i'm the room "fclt the COOncPs stick across his
shoulders" At all the places indicated sickeiug nth
and rbaldry were endured, if not enjoyed,
after the opera and the theatres were over,
with stout and oysters, chops, steaks and delicious
baked potatoes. After few years absence l came
again 10 London find the Coal Hole and the Cider Gel
lars shut up and Evans's marvellousy transformed.
The old lowroofed in which poor miserable sam"
Cowe sang with infinite hunOr the filthy trash once il
unlimited demand, had become mere anteroom to
huge music-I oom welbui wellghted, and thoroughly
well conducted. Paddy" Green with his eternal snu
box and Boy were there, and Herr Van joel was
still retained In the establishments but all the proceedings
were scrupuiously correct There was admirable glee
singing, agreeable variety entertainments and when
the Oxford and Cambridge boat race came on the room
was crowded. with undergraduates, who drank much
beer and shouted Justify for Dark and Light Blue Then
Evans's seemed vanish out of ones life for while.
"sam" Cowen, paddy" Green, Ross Cave and the
gee-singeIs forgotten All that one recoleced was
the pleasant gossip with Peter Cunningham Albert
smith the brothers Dickens, "young Charles" MORT
mer Collins ana other literary celebrities ia what might
be called the Early Reformed period Then there were
rumors among the very young men who come to the
most juvenile club belong to that ladies' not only oc-
cuped the private boxes at Eyanss, but the old gossip
ing room OF the literary folk 1t had become supper
room for noh secs the RScg ,dn S s e
entertainments -, -. - -
CoveDt Garden one Of the famous coffee houses OF the
Queen Anne period Is stu ham ana beef shop tue
10 the fore. aud Evanss has bad a "avatar" as
cub. The old house built out of the wood OF hs
fa.ship by Admiral Russell after the victory
of la IIOgue, the dwelling Of the Falsaf Club an
institution launched In avOwed imitation OF the Partisan
"NrltOns" On Tuesday last there was grand enter
tainnent given, al which the Duke OF Edinburgh was
present Some capital aud singing heraded the
delivery OF brilliant inaugural address written
by George Augustus Sala and spoken by
Mr.. Br.ndram, OF reciting fame. Al midnight
those out fifteen hundred present who had taken
up comm positions the staircase secured
supper. | into the supper room at / O'Clock and
was vas ly amused find the Duke Of Edinburgh still
of Tho hos