New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-30
LONDON GOSSIP.
vcIJsHMAN's NOTES on ENGLISH

1,natoo bv cOurtesy and Lady EustOh Sp"a'" ~
courtesy will come before Easter. inc i"c,s VI '
,,i, ooso have already been laid before the read
O. 81 ,rnr TpIB,,NF 1t will he recollooted that hr.
IYzroy before his father succeeded 10 the DuAo'",
Grafton and be became Thy courtesy Earl ~ hus'on %
- . woman Of dsreputablc life who was or had
hoen n dancer in Midland music hals anu sue" INV
-, n will he recallccted that shortly after marry
;g Kate Cook the young husband went away with an
other woman and left his wife TO shift Tor herself %
she did so well that she accumulated several thousu
of mounds in very few years Strangely enough Uo
,r,see in whose hands this money was placed proven
,ertiou 70 the adventurous character OF everybody
uixea mn IN this most romantic One Froggat te
trustee in question solicitor In poloe-cour' Pro
flee sort Of thieves attorney like Dickehss MI jag
gers The man Froggatt found guilty OF comphclV
with the detective conspiTators who brought ooo'ahu
Yard into bad odor and together with them SEN
fenced 20 n term OF imprisonment No sooner was
Iroggat safely locked up than Lady Euston theh MIS-
Fitzrov alias Kate Cook, Mrs Manley smith, ana so oI'
ceased to receive her dividends from her precious
trustee who up to that time had paid them with hghy
commendable punctuality Inquiry was made with inc
,,sual rcsn II was the old old story The reSpectape
trustee had acted up his character, and had gone on
paying dividends regularly for years AFTER ne h"u SOU
her securities aud applied the proceeds 10 MS p'"o
expenditure. Hence Froggatt was tried second Time at
the expiration Of his first sentence was heavily pun
,hea and e now believe in prison somewhere under
some number or other. -,
So unlucky Kate EustOn lost her money pu' she nAu
one curious compensation. When she went INTO court
che nrsdng Alderman having been told that she would
f one day Duchess Of Grafton offered her seat on the
bench And she had "lady-friend" ctusdan' Jar'n@
with her singularIy bea Itful person once known as
.Baby Thornh1. but then married to Mr. SHERIDAN
descendant Of the great Richard Brndsley sheridan ana
brother 10 the Mr. Sheridan who espoused another ana
more notorious Baby" 1t n very doubtful whether
two such "damozes as Lady EustOn and her lady
friend ever before accommodated with seat
gu the'bench."
wife had a husband. Maney Smith, living when ne
married her hear that this same Smith will be placed
IN that box" before the jury having been found IN
Kew Zealand by Mr. George Lewis after being supposed
10 be Lost in the London along with Gustavus Brooke the
famous actor of Oheo. Sir Giles orerre1ch, E"gn'"S
nnd other characters of tragedy in the Bay of Bscay
As iutim0ted long ago. Lady customs lawyers VIII
countercheck the husband by producing reraSable
evidence of his being already married when he espoused
Kate Cook. which If made out will re-estabhsh her AS
Lady EustOn and II She lives Duchess OF Grafton IN
her,rN the honors conferred on the child OF Barbara
Palmer. Duchess of Cleveland, and his sacred Majesty
The Merry Monarch.
The disposition of the late Duke of Marlborough's
Garter 4, not yet definitely made Lord sydney as l
announced long since is the first fayorite Of the Queen
aud Court unless Mr. Gladstone stands firm and insists
on hi, rights $ Premier Mr.. Canning ana Lord Met-
bourne held strong views such subjects, but IL is a
piece OF Radical aectaton that the Government Of the
country can DO carried without the distribution OF re-
wards From what little know of human nature
doubt h, very much II there were no stars rioands
and gatcrS might get on very we'll but Whlle these
things exist they should not be made ridiculous by being
given TO military failures and court servants IKE LOid
Chelmsford who Is equally decorated with Lord WolSe-
lev and Lord sydney who is equally decorated with
Lord Granville and Lord Spencer compared with whom
he Is a bit of tinsel Lord NorthbroOk is candidate
whose claims will be most strongly pushed by the Cabl-
net Lord Duherin ia considered to have at least
Alclai On VIII
"Thc Old Obadiah and the Young OBADIAH" Sir Robert
Peel famous and the present Sir Robert Peel the re-
,narkohc are both likely TO prominently before the
pulIc A notice Of the former by Professor Goodwin
Smith will appear in the Encyclopedia Britannica
and the latter is about TO contest Huntingdon The pres
Cnt Is Of hearty welcome IN the House OF
Commons should he re-enter It, When he left il by
signing his seat for Tamworth the sympathy Of all sides
was excited HIS fine presence, voice and manner always
secured the ear Of the House. And he has speciality
He IS the Banshee of Cabinets. As M the game OF
fcent ei quuran with which he Is not unfamiliar he is
mt NJ changing sides and his speech against Govern
Inent has almost invariabl; proved its death-knen.
Whether he got his information from the Mem
Der for Northampton l cannot decide. but he was
ALWAYS n trustworthy jeremiah in politics. That he
should attack the Cabinet AT this moment cannot help
regarding as unfortunate for Mr.. Gladstone As Mr..
yiiers the Member for WOverhampton the original In
ventor The Cabinet Of All the Trades so often cap
tured and quoted IS the best prophet Of the result OF
stormy petrol Of the political He is dashing
sneaker and wears very curly brimmcd hat. Mr. f.
W Robinson. his de courses was once brilliant III
ninary of the turf but not lucky one He had good
horses like Anton but they always met something little
better He was once asked at Newmarket by an in
ourng Young sportsman, "why he. barOnet, with his
own well-cstahlshed seat in Parliament, charming
woman. the daughter of Marquis and sister OF
Duchess for wife, certain and distinguished political
career before him. and thirty thousand pounds year,
ID Tfap of
St." The answer Il ,nub but characteristic one;
"Because ] like the fun of it. my lad" The young
SPORTSMAN WAS abashed but he was right nevertheless
For man position to risk the fortune and rank
which ne has against the wes OF lot OF scoundels
on the make" and who have everything TO get Is oh
vously downright folly. Yet nobody would call Sir
Peel fool and would write himself down one who
did So
IT would seem that Baker Pacha. otherwise General
Valentine Baker Is in a fair way Of rehabilitation
Punch The Daily telegraph and The Morning Post have
warmly taken up his The strong argument In his
favor Is the legal one OF locus penie'he. that man
having paid the penalty OF his crime should be punished
10 longer II is contended that Valentine Baker has
heen punished over and again. lie was imprisoned
for his offence gross offence for which he might have
been shot the United States Moreover he was dis
missed from his position, very important one In the
English army. Again he only the other day. IN
foreign service that of Egypt set aside in favor OF Sir
EVELYN Wood that persecution has followed him out
English pale Now ths Is contrary TO our theory,
which that If feloD his time he Is then no
longer elon and that 1t libellous TO call him
The with the Queen who is
said have been over to Bakers cause. Her Ma
jesty distinct in her condemnation or him ut the time
OF his offence; but hear that her Indignation has been
much softencd down Stl the advocacy Of newspapers
never set did any soldier good with his superors and
should not be surprised to ind the hopes OF Valentine
Baker, friends deceived Where the Court concerned
very disadvantageous TO have the press and public
opinion fl What Is very curious Is the num-
her Of letters written 10 newspapers In Valentine Bakers