New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-12
LONDON GOSSIP.
AN ENGLIsHMANs NOTES ON ENGLISH
TOPICS.


TOPICS.
IFRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF TRIBuNE.l
LONDON July g.
The Gaming or thrashing of Mr.. Augustus
Hare is the subject which Just occupies houdoir and
smoking-room Mr.. Hare Is distinguished man In a
certain way He Is the author wholly Jointly OF books
which have made some noise the world. He is of
the weknown family of Hares and ribald persons hint
will henceforth be known the timd Hare" lie has
written slks in Rome" Waits IN London" and fun
ner by far remember at the present moment, Mem
oraIs Of Quiet Life" MT Hares life has Of been by
any means "qrie," for he Is social star Of the first
magnitude, and prctensions to being the crack
racoeur of period Like all professed story-teers
he Is admired by womsnknd who make little court for
him wherever he goes. Men prefer by far Mr.. Hay
wards stories which short and sharp at the point
but women, as Mr. Skies remarked like IL Heightened
out and Mr. Bares method suits them exactly He has
story fnlldress story, abodt President Lincoln and
his presentment that he would be assassinated This
he tells like many stories with tnge OF dramatic
effect but he makes 1t ipng story He tells any
thing except great length and when people speak of
Rene London, Florence and 30 he becomes species
OF q widelyknown genus the Typographical BORE The
mau who knows everything better and moro about IL
than anybody else What always trays for Is the
man who VIII in and contradict him TO facts
This irritates ~the tfmid Hare" most fearfuy. and
when he Is quite that the presence Of ladies protects
him from retaliation be is particularly insoeDt ana
offensive The abolition Of dueng in this country has
greatly the development Of this offensive type
who only when II IL quite safe TO do So
Mr. Augustus Hare, 10 the outspoken delight OF many
and the secret enjoyment OF many more. was soundy
trashed the other day Just outside the Atheneum Club
at the angie OF Pan Mall and wa,erlooplace. The man
who thrashed him Il q certain Count Kearney Whether
this gentleman IL collateral descendant OF Kate kear
uey know not but he Is foreigner. living In good
society and OF unquestonable Irish extraction The
la fAaf br. hing NJ Mr. -
appealed to the oce for protection Ia somewhat com
plIcafed Affair." 1t would that Mr. Hare and Count
Kearney were invited the house Of what the late Mr.
Dickens called mutual friend" TITS IA. r.. sswe
ay call him, invited the Count and Mr. Hare 70 Walt
him In the country, n which the Count for some
reason or other declined with thanks Hereet the NJ
r. wrote as fools WRITE letter TO the Count saying that
he had disappointed him. that be considered his MONACO
ceptance slight, and that he would show 10 other
mutual friends various aud sundry letters OF Count
Kearneys which would put bis character In IN unpeas
ant light Instead OF treating this piece of childish folly
as It deserved Count Kearnry wentto Mr. Hare showed
him the letter and asked his opinion. whereupon. as
he maintains, Mr. Hare said that such person as the
NJ r. ought to be shown up TO other mutual friends
Hereat Kearney proceeded to do So and meeting
two NJ rs whom will call x and Y, explained the
matter to them and repeated the verdict of Mr. Hare as
10 the original aud offended NJ r. The end OF this was
that Y repeated NJ f. what Count Ksarney had said
that Mr. Hare had said.
The next step might have been foreseen. NJ r. went
to Mr. Hare and asked him whether he said such and
such things about him. So far is possible 10 ascer
tain the exact TRUTH Mr. Hare denied that he had used
the words imputed TO him. Consequently Y. went to
Count Kearnsy and said that Mr. Hare had treated him
as liar and denied that he had spoken TO him In
the Language reported. Then Count Kearney, who
seems TO have behaved very well throughout the trans
action and little foreigner, wrote to MI Hare
asking what he meant bv giving him the Lie, and asking
moreo err cordially and courteousy enough whether he
would refer the matter to somebody TO settle and arrange
the difference which had unhappiy occurred To this
letter Mr. Hare quser kind OF reply and Count
Kesrney again summoned him to speak out or submit
the matter to arbitration To this appeal Mr. Hare did
not think IL worth while to reply and tho merry little
Count after waiting several days went and laid In wait
for him outside Of the AthenBum Club with cane. As
Mr. Hare came out simply tod him that "a he could
get no other satisfaction he should thrash him Aud he
beat him right we'll and then drove on In hanson cab
Literary folk and especially Journalists disguised ut
this incident as II shows mp their inferorty 10 the
Frenchmen Mr.. Augustus John Cuthbcrt Hare Ia not
vet fifty 30 that there IL for his acting In
manner which suegests that ne Is wanting In personal
courage II not in insolence. Harrow and Oxford are
diseusted with their degenerate who could not hold
his own against little foreign Count 1t IL feared that
what with Christianity and the ike We are
lo.pg our place1n world. National feeling and tone
as they are called, take the place of personal
courage. the foundation Of ali manhaod.s
Lord Louhs death at the age Of ffty-one years VIII
awake regrets in New-York well In London; for his
late lorshp was the hero Of memorable encounter Of
the New York Hotel In which Panama Joe acted as
mixer OF the cocktails Lord L0utb, then In his prime,
WINS challenged by the champion "drnkist" Of Buffalo
IA drink cocktail match in the bar OK the Hew-York
Hotel man TO man. foot TO foot and drink to drink 10
was not very merorous performance but was cele-
brated at the time the revenge of Bnnkers H Tor
Lord Louth won very easily, and the Buffalo man went
home and without getting quite sober again drank
himself into grave out Of pure chagrp LORD Lou'n
not only won but insisted drinking bottle OF cham
payne afterward to of cocktails out OF his
mouth But dead now, having undergone tbs fate
OF many ypcMs who have married for the second time
Late In LIE.
F.! A chorus lady heard the other day military and
elderly adorer speak Of Florence nightingale "oh
myr said the beautiful young creature How should
have liked 70 hear her sng Was her accent gerry swed-
ish I" Another chortslady lately presented with
wedrwood tea-equipage. Is not 1t lovelyT said the
intelligent dainsel and he calls 1t Edgware Road warcP
To turn to another kind of person, hear that tho
Duke OF Norfolk with ALI his immense wealth. obliged
to retrrnch He has Given much monsy for religious
and spent much ut Arundel and other places
that obliged TO dismiss 300 workpeople and
cut down his household expensss- He Is very insig-
nincant looking for premier duke. Imagine Sam
9erdge In Robsrtsons Caste" In his Sunday cloths'
Tho sale Of tho Maharajsh Dnlecp einsha jewels by
auction has caused ess uter In the great world than
might have been expected Il has been known for