New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-10
LONDON GOSSIP.
AN ENGLIsHMAN's NOTES ON ENGLISH
TOPICS.

clans composing English society have been thrown into
mourning. and arrangements almost nnumerable have
been scattered 10 the winds by the death OF Earl eros
venOr and OF the Marquis Of HEREFORD. General sorrow Is
felt for the former for the perfectly sound and legitimate
English that he has lost 10y dying than al
most any other man In England ,could. have done.
dukedom and half million sterling per annum from
which one is only separated by father OF hfty-eiSht
who has just married young second wife, Is great In
hcritaucc miss Poor Lord GrosvenOr not in very
vigorous health and made any kind of figure In the
world. But he might have made a moderate duke as
dukes CO. His mother the first Duchess OF Westminster
was a very remarkable woman She was the beautiful
girl painted by Sir Edwin Landseer while deco
rating the head OF fawn with wreath OF flowers
The picture hangs In the morning-room at STAFFORD
House and is greatly priced as one of the finest Land
seers in existence. As the Lady Constance LcycSon-
Cover pronounced LewsOn Gore. pain OF sociald eath
she enjoyed the advantage OF being in the very first
hight OF k gdnd monde. Her father the late Duke
of Sutherland the head Of Clan Chatan, whose famous
totem f. the wild cat with the motto Toch not cat
bot glove" The Duke OF Sutherland IS also the head
of his branch OF the eyeson Covers, Lord Granville be
Ing chief of the other The Lady COnstances mother was
the celebrated beauty who was the favore Mistress OF
the Robes to the Queen She magnificent
creature and good and kind ms she was beautiful
was quite boy when first met her. and recollect see
ing her once ut Buckingham Palaco wearing tram
which 10 the best OF my recollection and beer was maze
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of such a woman Constance was a beauty when there
were fashionable and no professional beauties. Her
portrait engraved not photographed was In every shop
window She was in fact the sensational beauty or the
day as Lady Cementina Yillier' the sister OF dear od
Frank" and Miss Lane Fox had been before her. But
er position was far lOfter than that enjoyed by either
of these She was Tapped in Royalty Like her brother
Lord Ronald Cover, whose "Reminiscences" have prob
ably read with much interest I'm New-iork as In
London she had the privilege Of starting In the world ut
the point which very few people ever dream OF leaving
off, Rocked In the purple, she lived In its atmosphere
brilliant II JruyaR existence Extremely beautiful IN
youth she developed in later life into that type of the
British matron upon whom Nathaniel Hawthorne ex
pcnded some bitter sarcasm. Her connections with
Royalty, which became 0s scandal mongers nsnuatet'
more intimate she grew older gave her free and
easy bearing with other people, more especially actors
to which her phlOsophic spouse took no objection.
There Is, however, story OF letter or letters when
nearly touches the Blood Royal Of England
But dead and the littlo child Lord Bclgravc
will succeed II he lives long enough, TO property 80
vast AS TO count in the first rank among Russian
Hungarian and American mliOnnares II LORD Belgravc
live till he is forty-ive fifty years of age the enor-
nous number of building leases the Westminster es-
tates will then fall In These let about fifty years
ago on the English system OF letting land for building
purposes. The grOundrcnt runs for ninety ycare
and then the land and all upon it, revert to the land
owner and hs descendants heirs administrators
or assigns Nearly all Begraya and South Belsrayla
belong TO the great Grosycnor estate which requires an
office like banking- ose and manager with stan OF
clerks This town property, which my grandfather
saw prlzc-nghtS and which nobody burst cross after
dark is now a very valuable part Of London lts part
Of the marsh-and gradually reclaimed from the formerly
spreading Thames and extending from Hyde PARK
corner to the river 1t became outlying district OF st.
Georges Parish because the latter buried dead man
who found in the deserted Five Fields one Monday
morning.
Now all is houses from ST. Georges Hospital to Lupus
ST. and Claverton- ST.. including Belgrave and Eaton
Squares Eburyst ana forth At the present rate oil
bouse-rent which IL increasing all over this great estate
the rental forty years hence should exceed seven millions
sterling Poor Lord GroSvenor had only to live 90 be
seventy to be by the richest man in the world enper
ors kings railway kings and bOnanzists all being
thrown in.
II needless to add that the Duke OF Westminster has
n fine new in the country, called Eaton Han, near
Chester in which may be many fine paintings by
Mr. H. Stacy Marks, RIA, and the superb Artemis" IN
marble by Mr.. HamO ThOrncycron A. L. n. In the
town establishment GIosven0r House, GT0SVenOr-st.,
are some superb Claude Lorraines and Gansborougfs
Rue Bow" The popularity OF Eaton Hall IL that II has
recently boon rebuilt When first saw IT, 1t was kind OF
long castclIated structure OF the "strawbcTy Hin
Gothic order Anything dabOical to the archi-
tectural eye cannot be imagined The Duke had the
eycsorc pulled and built the present superb edce
clever thing was done in connection with this rebuild
Before
new family house." as It was called was bnilt. This
I'm itself handsome mansion, communicated by means
Of long covered corridor with the greater mansion sub
scauently built, which contained the entertainment
rooms and the dwelling rooms set apart for guests.
Everything at Eaton Hall is perfect OF It's Kind, the
houses the stables the paintings and staary the chapel
and its wonderful peal OF bells the workshops for the
men who do all the building work the estate the serv
ants and the horses But nobody seems 10 have any idea
when the famous Royal Academiclan. Mr. Watts Will
comete his mighty statue OF that Hugh Lurus who came
over with the Conqueror and founded the family OF eros
venor-otherwise eros VeRelT or Grand liuntsman TO
King William.
Lord Hartford died last night from the effects of fa
which happened it is true, while he was hunting but
not I'm crashing through bullnch topping stone wall
or flying a gate. When his horse fell he was bowling
easily along over nice bit of pasture apparently much
safer and better going than Rotten Row But the horse
fell and rolled over his RIDER who was completely
crmped up with conclusion Of ihe biain rs well rs
spinal injuries Lord Hartford was the head Of one
branch OF the great family OF Seymour. the Duke OF
Somerset being the head of tho other These seymours
are n remarkable race for good and for evil. The de
ceased Marquis amabe and popular peer. as
pleasant as that other seymour the swell OF the ocean,
recently raised to the peerage as Lord Acesler Lord
HEREFORD OF cOurty as well as Wallke race ana
figured by turns cquerry. Groom of the Robes. and
Lord Chamberlain The latter very important official
Of the Court and Is distinctly political appointment.
Lord Hartford enjoyed It during the administration of
Lord Beaconsed and discharged his duties to the salts
faction OF everybody On very grand occasions the L0d
Chamberlain ushers the Sovereign and there popular
belief that he walks backward like crab, bowling to the
monarch while he trips his own robe and hs sword
gets between his legs This is like other popular beliefs
sheer nonsense. The Lord Chamberlain ushcIs tho
Sovereign AZ docs the President of the Royal Academy OF
any other graceful aud we-bred gentleman on the oc-
sion Of Royal visit. The common faacy about this
"a like that concerning presentation at Court When
person is presented, he she or 1t is told that on no
count must tho back Of the presentee BIO exposed to tho
ROYAL eye How. then asks the pdiTeau, can you get
ont of the room The is simple. We never turn