Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-19
A CABLE LETTER.
A Glance at English Politics-A Week q
Stirring Events-Gossin etc

A Glance at English Politics-A Week of
Stirring Events-GOssip, etc.
Specially cdbIed to the World at great esDease.
This has been a week of falling weather
In the worlds metropolis. A man fell off
an omnibus this morning, passing through
Cheapside, and l learn from the HYDRO
graphic Bureau that the rainfall for the
week is fifteen gallons more than it was
for the corresponding week of last wear.
1t is not known what effect this
will have upon Conservative noli-
tics, but learn from Mr.. Childers. the
liberal member of Hartlepool. that
the Radicals are counting upon heavy
gains upon the strength of it, and unless
Mr.. Gladstone and the Ministry accent
the clause in the limited appropriation
budget which provides for rubber over
shoes for each minister of the Established
Church there will be crisis or something
approaching it. American newspaper
readers may not understand fully the
bearing that these things have unon in
tricate English politics, but the wisest
men here are really apprehensiye. Sir
Stafford NOrthcOte assured me no later
than yesterday that the outlook for the
British Constitution and Cookies pills
was 50 gloomy that he was only able to
eat three meals day. This, of course.
exclusive of lunch.
The worlds metropolis is filling up quite
rapidly with Americans, and borrowing
is, to say the least, active. By the way.
new American game has been intro
duced at the Tea-and-TOast Club. an Or
ganlZatlon made up chiefly of younger
sons and cashiered army officers. 1t is
called mumble-the-peg, and it has almost
superseded baccarat and ecarte. | learn
that few nights ago the husband of one
OF our hardest working and most popular
OF actresses, who was guest of the club,
lost TO rs. at the game. He stands to
wear his pongee coat all of next winter.
There is no mistake greater than that
which popularity assigns to the Prince of
Wales lah-de-dah sinecure. Next to N.Y.
self and Mr.. MarwOOd / really consider
him the most severely put upon and over
worked man IN the United Kingdom.
What with going to the races, attending
receptions, officiating at public ceremO-
nies, etc., he really has no time for free
handed personal enjoyment. But the Prince
stands it all remarkably well.
l met him last night at the Pavilion
Concert Hall at the head of the Hay
market, and he told me that during
the day he mad laid a cornerstone for a
new church at BriXtOn, had umpircd
game of cricket at Lords, had presided
over the deliberations of the Anthropo-
logical and PomolOgical Society, of which
he is a member, and had just at that
moment returned from a rattle for an
eight-day washing machine at Bayswater.
He looked bright and CHEEKY, and after
listening to the music awhile and drink
ing glass of beer, he got into a cab and
drove of towards st. Johns Wood.
Mr.. Donald McIVer, a private in the
SiXty-ninth, who was wounded at the bat.
tie of Tel ell Kebir By being run over by a
stampeding camel, commenced sweeping
the Crossing at the Regents Circus this
week. He picked up something like eight
shlllIngs, and is very much encouraged.
N. B.-Ihis is exclusive. No other cor
respondent will have this item.l
A new comedy in five acts. entitled "a
Burning Shame," was produced at the
Imperial Theatre last night. The fact that
its author is the Hon. BERTHE Johnson
Smith, and that the Earl of Grandwick-
ham, Lord Joseph Patterson and Count
de Monte Carlos, three young nOblemen
with more ambition than income, take
part in it, guaranteed its immediate sue
cess. l noticed among the many distin-
guished Americans in the audience DR..
HOratiO Ruggles, the celebrated NeWnort
dentist, Hon. Samuel Ward, in company
with distinguished member of the Hay-
tien nobility, and others.
An odd illustration of the accidental in
fiuences of fashion is quoted lust now in
all the clubs. 1t seems that Lord Rose
Dery ue DuSenDery, coming home from the
banquet of the Converted Cabmen's SO.
ciety, put on his Norfolk Jacket hind
before and buttoned it up in that manner.
The effect was most charming, and all
LondOn-Or to be more accurate. all that
portion of London which wear Norfolk
jackets-wears them buttoned behind.
Another curious and interesting sign of
the times is to be found in the eXtraordi-
nary number of piebald mules now exhi-
bited under the saddle in ROtton Row.
The rage for cream-colored private ham
som cabs has been displaced by this new
fancy. The crushed-straWberry roam
mule, imported at great expense by the
Duke of Mount Chestnut, is coveted by
all our prominent ''mashers,''
Speaking of 'EmaGhers," the whole club
community is eager to receive your Miss
Lillian Russell when she arrives. No for
eign artist will have been so thoroughly
clubbed as she will be by the time our
fashionable critics have finished with her,
En- pdSSGnt, have the best of reasons
for announcing that Mr.. Jos0phat Small
talkey, the well known American Jour-
nalist and literateur, will spend the sum
mer with the "Paddington Chickenv at
his patatlal house, or call on the Edge
ware road.