New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-11
LONDON GOSSIP.
AN ENGLIsHMANs NOTES on ENGLISH
TOPICS.

Death" the quotation which rises naturally 70 the lips
at the terrible list OF persons less dlstn shcd
who have departed this life since the Duke o. Albany
Tie sharp snap Of cold which ended March 9nd
dlres even until now slain 1h- and LETT thoss
who have fallen, Charles Reade and Henry J. Byron
we're By far the greatest but tie mourning list say
long
Before Diminishing the sorrowul subject o. the death ot
the Duke OF Albany may remind readers or TUE TRIB
fact connected with his marriage narrated
by me at the time lady OF title and fashOn-they do
always togetherexpresed 70 me her horror taC
the brides gown topped mp with vi0icts. What
could they have been thinking OF " said my iriend;
yiocts the garnitIrc 0i corpse not Of bride. 10
good viii come oft"
In a kind Of leit-handed way this lady's forebodngg
been fatally realized Il Is not yet years sine,
we saw Prince Leopold mp up the altar his violet
deced bride he Is with he dust and her ar Young
life is hopcessly married. How much those Innocent
flowers which the Ox-hunter ezaspera5ed 30 his hounds
being thrown OF the scent, called them id sinking
vilets" had do with the death OF the Duke o. AOany.
will not pretend sag It viii suffice 70 mote that such
condolences greatly trens hen the bonds % superstition
among The higher classes. There is. Tor instance DO
shaking Of the delusion about opals 40 eweeg ID. Lon
don would let a young buy opal for an en-
ment ring" any more than an emerald. Il my memory
rightly. there we're opals among the welding
presents OF the Duchess Of Albany
superstitons die very hard Tits country, especially
when connected With Old families or houses. IL book
il an account Oft OF Owlray" ASH called
Thls celebrated anathema Is Ike other things the
kind. When the monks turned out by Henry tho
Eighth they 10 have cursed the captors Of their
lands as matter OF duty and routine. favorite form
OF che widely distributed the doom ~ the
rst-OOrn. the heir should succeed to the IL
gotten domain. As IN the anecdOte related by Lord
Bacon concerning Diana and her temple where the
curse did take IL forgotten. In two or three
OF doubtless large number It did take effect.
or was favored by condolences, Cowdray, together
with other including Battle Abbey came under tho
ban and heir succeeds The Elrldom OF Fever
sham and the broad lands or the Duncombes in North
Yorkshire afford another instance ~ this appearing
have proved efectua, for tie heir never siceecs
The oldest thing both estates that they have
long passed out OF the family Of the original sp1i-
ers Battle Abbey belongs not 70 the Montague OF lie
POynzes but the Duke OF Cleveland, who las 10 s1n;
and the Duncombe estates were bought from George
Vlers Duke CHAM Charles the Seconds Buck
ngham. who died in the worst inns worst room y st
Kirkby Moorside by the DIncomAe 81 that day - tat
cursing would to be but bunderins nit or miss
kind 81 business best Nevertheless the fact that
the direct heir never succeeds to the Eardom
sham Is ths talk OF Yorkshire Now that his elder
brother Is dead only lives besides his fathers stand
between the Peerage and Mr. Hubert DuncomDe Who
married one of the sisters Leamar ami has settled il lie
+ ar West, ike Sir John Liste. Kaye,
grand old sportsman is lost To us in Mr. R'aeTs
GrImston, president OF the Marylebone Cricket cub
When this ano old English gentleman, whose curly
brnmod hat a sight see, began to be patron Of
cricket the aspect tho players very different rom
that OF to-day. No gentleman went into the cricSeted
without white stOyeppe hat very bcll-topPed
IN crown and curly in brim Flannel was very huio
worm white ducks" and" shlrtseeyes with suspenders
tied round the waist being the favore costume Of Ny
Alfred Mynn Fuller Plch. Lilywhite. Box and other
celebrated crcketers. Mr. Grlmston remained true %
good cricket through all the changes IN style from slow
to fast, from undetermined 70 round and 0verAanded
bowling He dehs httul old gentleman whose pies
looked Tor at eveFymporJaHt match ~ Lof'''
at the oval.
"Jem Ward pug1list and ez champion o. England,
was amoug those who have Just Joined tie ma 0rity.
He was called the Black Diamond" because be- vas
originally cOal-hcaver. 10 smart and clever
boxer ard . fearfuIy heavy hitter. Having practsef
the noble arts OF sef-deience cla-helying and bar
kaeung he es.ayed another fine art that Of painting
oil-coiors. He became very fair amateur landscape
painter brit never such finished artist ne va, 20 Es
noble art OF adOrnng an adyersary's portrait
well-lmoygn face once prominent on the fTr-e Of
Journalism has Just disappeared 1r Rumsey Foster
was az one reporter NE fJT7iiHJ Posi- aud At
rended the parties Of the aritocrcy take down lists
Of those present standing behind screen and after
ward hob-uobbiue the butler From this i"vly 4
succucnt position ne raised 10 that OF KIND ~ cor
respondent aud when the Queen and Prince Alhers
went 70 France before any % MS We're born he managed
I'D
away Cnlaclzy he a little 100 quick IN emerging
from his hidng-pace He was al a object Of in
terss 10 equerres and such ike and ordered to 90
ashore snilngly pointed 70 the mile or 50 OF water
between the yacht and the coast But equerrydom was
memorable, and the unhappy s,owaway was pitched into
a boat and rowed a mud-bank on which he was IN
way "marO0ned " unit a passer-by took him ashore
From this rntOward exploit he got the OF rhe
9Iud.aTk. LIS later years Nere passed very comfort
ably collector rs Asssr Asopp he celebrated Drew
ers He was a very kindly man AID IN old Pauline.
Jack" Inaham the book maker. Is dead. HI made
large sum OF money by heavy betting az the post aud "
having keen scent FOR what racing folk call dead uns'
lie ought to nave had a good scent iOF MS TACO
was exactly Ike that Of fox" og.lyS as 3 !&1y
once remarked g9t Z pretty, he began ,, ne s, oy
the tGr did by selling pens in Pube-house bars Tho
late Mr.. Ingnam's LANGUAGE anu anecdotes 9 3
His very choice Italian startled even the betting riIs
used to say Ike sluils upon the .irtghtfu turpcntne
very pretty.ournastc quarrel It stands has been
py new story srg The Way Of the World the e BY
the way OF one OF COngreycs most famous comedies
which is devoted sclrifyng Eell-mown journalist
represented under thn!y eloaAed PERSONALITY IS
abomuabe and contemplate little seouirsl. - ING
person pointed is prominent writer III Fahch dr Wen
as IN G@ s1nRhy 70 SSse he Z easily on account
| OF his diminutve stature picked out by anybody who
knows the gallery or the House OF commons Ike Mr.
Payns GdoaL9 y, Wy ~ an me
of the kindest men the world, IN White Wng. this
grotesque misrepresentation merely spOis the story
without interesting any reader beyond the Bohemia Or
Fleet-st.
peace 70 all such" Pope has II, for have 10
write IN sadness ght- OF dranti, aa Oter
literature. Mr. Charles Reade and Mr. Henry j. Byron
eft this world on the same day each alter long and
painful illness, each leaving behind a brilliant rcUuta-
ton Saturdays and t0-daYs mail BRING y0u sucn alr-
danr biographical notices OF each OF them that c0nne
my remarks 10 limits Dir. Reie was re-
marka0le as literary OF late frtOn not 80 ats -
Mrs rrOOpe, who began to write novels at me age OF
hfty but still the mature age or thirty eght NBsh no
wrote his first stories. lie possessed rather diArcuo
tban creative mind aud confessed "a me three years
80 at his system OF collecting and ndexins facts was