New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-31
LONDON GOSSIP.
Az rNGLIs HMAN's NOTES ON ENGLISH
-

This is an odd season at WHICH I" 0'
nethr out on We owls, nothing but songs OF uoA"
49,, the veterans are dropping of rapidly Inc name VI
Frn,amin Webster awskes host OF reoo 90
srhr cuita voungster went with dear old feVer Nn
,,shan, 70 see the Dead Heart" IL was on the u"y
of the Liverpool Cup, when Meg Merilhos "' g
Peter suggested to the "horsey section OF Tue yum
pany that the Dead Heat " would nave sul'eo oui '
-.+,or het,er .. Ben Webster " was a famous name
a., ,hosa davs A horse named after him, belonging 10
Rarber won the Chester Cup, then great race pa
,e- was n remarkable man. BE looked Ike IorASnie
Quaker and wore swallOw-taied coat Ike "e
subbs a famous, rather notorious ehar"0
that time-iust about twenty years ago I'D" - "a
min Webster some three years ago lie WI" ~
man with white beard of three GA! s-,r,o,
7,,.d An a +rnhr-own house al the rear OF Nm e.
Church and wore a seedy oressing-so"". - narghtsr
,.sa within a few years young woman ~ -.
q, the cod-sncd round the corner nc ""o -
...h,s min bnt his mary slOus voice seeheu "a -
-, a.,,,,t "A ever. never met a man WIN sue"
.,o vf,rotion in his voice. have not seen nun io
!. ,ounIs OF years but when we last met ne was LUZ -
~, He belonged { some little cinD near INC 0u
,b,rk the Green Room. and came there occaslon"iS "
an afternoon-never 81 highland IL was io"e
AGAINST a post in the strand that he I'lu lho 'a' 49,
p,a,cb4 tho funny story about his supposed DEATH
On, saturday night when famous comedian CANT in'o
his climb and said. 60 old Ben webster - ue""'
eoraIv famous artist retorted WITH " " nat Again
ard evervbodv laughed for Webster has been reported
dead pNe
say been no hing fraudulent In the Ola ac''rs num-,
os deatls which differed entirely from those OF "ei-
known hanger-on 70 the literary World WI" uIo" ~ -
Ten to enable his TO cOuecJ snbscrlp ohs lha' "
q, last he was happily, drowned nobody "Ouiu oono
n The s.ory OF Websters dying and beng lau ou' ~
n great euccess whenever either MI PIlnche OF dI' a.
grave sinp.on told it. As Webster tod II 10 me- he zen
tn,o q kind of svucope and supposed ceao ny nls
IT. and servant who covered his face and BODY Win
sheet and awaited the arrival OF Two VI MS uo"ieS
@riendsI think Chattert0n was one OF them "nch INC
rrIar callers during his illness came, they also &c
clared him dead esoonced Themselves III MS parlor,
,nres out some whiskey and water, aud sad Poor Od
Rem He is gone NJ last" " Not yet Numbered "eH
known strdent voice, ana there stood webster "nlHs
sheet and al. / the doorway. 81 Aao COME TO-
said the old man NE adding, with intense soolH
and found them drinking, and-and, daIme my NIAS
key"
shortly after this conversation there was great
muster OF known persons Brompton Cemetery AZ 'r
fun eral OF Mr. blanche. was talking TO MI. '" > Ni-
bsr, and hammered 10 observe that Inclsve wit that
many Of the people present were laughing ana taking
and seemed altogether too joyful for he OCCASION
do not know what they have got TO rejoice over re-
piled Gilbert this poor old gentleman dd moi stand u
the way of any body
ouautiv OF geneology, descent from officer in The
Army relation to Captain Cook, the famous voyaser'
and SO forth has been supplied for Ben webster DHl
IT is not believed in his own profession tradition ha'
II that he was first dancing -maser, and then played
the fiddle in the band OF trumpey theatre before He
appeared on the stage. Perhaps bOA stories are true
He was the last OF that dramatic quadrilseraI when
resisted death for many years, and lie was much
older than his compe ers, Charles Mathews, Samuel
Phelps and J. BALDWIN Blackstone All are now gone
and old play coers shaking in their own gouy shoes
Another man who had completely survived hs repuia-
tson was Phiz," otherwise Nj Habiot Knight Browne
the illustrator Of Dickens's most famous works For
the last twenty years hardly been heard Of while
Ban DON famous French caricatuIls qute as ou dc
PHI was at work only the other day.
Tagjoui the most famous OF all dancers, Essler her
self not excepted, also lived till the other day III
Connaught Square a teacher Of dancing and deport
ment to few daughters OF the noblty, III the curious
condition II having survived er public II Is not uat
the public grateful and foTgets II uleS HA' - AZ
and artist forgets TO do So .
Nothing - better ascertaned than the profound dis
belief generation for the the theatrical ceo"i
ties Of the past. AT the most fogy cluD DeOhg u
find old gentlemen who babble OF hean'
actually the elder Kean, o. Rachel, OF the
Dos de q1aa.re with TushonL Lucille Calm, Certo'
and CsriolIa Grsi; who worry one about the pas de
ro1bre the G1lgndaSe and all such things, concerning
winch am only sceptcal but the very young men con
temptuouA Did very well them say these young
philosophers, and 90 20 see " Nellie and hAtle ana
"Agge," Connie" at the Gaety, or to these and
Other huffy-headed da1nsels Is their faith limited
Lord Rosslyn Of whom I wrote week has eIceled
himself ia his last effort al turnone nclaIure de
90 Disguised with two-year-od Ill named after Long
fellows heroine, MnBehaha that he determined to
change her name the hope tia, she might then run
frst instead OF second. so he named her Esa
who and what was Esa Why sucn impos-
sible name there end TO the questioning. "It is
Mi very simple" said Lord Rosslyn; she Is such bad
one cannot back her, ana aIn not allowed 20 stop
her 80 ease her il al can say" AID Esa ran second
again a Windsor Races.
wonder somebody does no; find nickname for Lord
Rossiyn they did for Lord Vivian. The lasI-named
nOb~uan remarkable for his prominent aud eye
glass is called A" Hook-and-Eye." Lord Honghton
once The Cool Of the Evening" but Of ate years has
been generally called The Bird Of Paradox" The
latter cognomen well earned, for his afterduner
speeches the widest 1gnts Of the genius Of mai
GpropoS A very nne specimen delivered at the
Lyceu Theatre at the famous dinner given Ia honor OF
the Tooth representation Of The Merchant of Vence"
A stranger nickname than any of these is enjoyed by
Admiral Beauchamp Seymour, commanding the fee;
al Alexandria sir Beauchamp from his youth upward
such a tremendous dandy * 90 earn the conlcal
sobT1quet OF " The swell Of the Ocean"
Lord Berkeley, who was kled-In type-very freely
fortnight ago has been entertaining Lord FitzhardiDge
Colonel Guuter and a bevy Of sA0It-horn al
Crawford during the great Agricultural Show at
Reading.
There appears To be desire among club gossips to
ascribe the death OF General skObeef TO poison admin
istere By himself There always plenty OF
why man should WISH hlmseu ueAd. buL lhh IL quite
thing from committing suicide, very few people
being AZ lO1cal phi osopner who wrote card
Tired Of IL" and himself through the heart One
socaled society" paper has made Itself especially
rdoGlous by assuming that the supposed heart disease
o. when skobeef died caused by one grain Of
cg1tas" which, iufsrns It's readers, is sufficient 20
cause death" One does expect accurate iniorn.
ton society" paper but this absolute ignorance
The digtahs. common FOX glove has the curious
property Of aresng the action VI the nsed
In cases paipitation, II is the aIkalod base