The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-11
IMMORTALITY oFLONDON.

"Cockaigne" Explains Why the Recent
tocracy and Nobility.
London Letter to San Francisco Argonaut.
Instead of applauding the nobility
of purpose and independence of
character shown by the Pail Mall
Gazette in fearlessly publishing to the
world the existence of this great wrong;
instead of upholding by word and
deed the publishers and editors of the
brave journal, no stone seems to be
left unturned by the squeamish Phari-
sees and prigs with which ssociety"
abounds, to injure and ruin the paper
and it's owners. What / especially
desired to point out, and what 1 be-
gan by referring to, was the utter in
consistency of high society, not only
IN ignoring as much as it can theprev-
alence in a grade beneath it of i'm
moral practices, but in being incensed
las it isl at the fact that an effort has
been made to suppress the evil
Still, one is not SO very much sur
prised when one comes to think it well
over. Whatever this selfishly good
bringing up of young girls in high life
may be, be it strict or be it loose, GER
tainly the present condition of high So
ciety in a moral sense is sadly deplor-
able. Let me give a, few instances OF
highest society that England can
boast. AS a first illustration I don't
know that / can cite better instance
than that of the Duke of Beaufort.
And it is one, as well, which seems
peculiarly apropos of the subject we
have just been considering. Several
years ago his grace, with a few other
jovial spirits like himself among
whom, it is said, was the Prince Of
Wales), was dining at the Orleans
Club. The enlivening influences of I'M
limited Pommery Sec had reached far
beyond the mellowing point, when it
was suggested that the party seek
what the Germans call bakfsche. l
can't begin to follow the subsequent
careers of all the youthful fish
that came to the nets of the entire
party of licentious ibertines on the
occasion, but is pretty generally
known that the one who fell to
the lot of his grace of Beaufort has ever
since remained under his immediate
protection, and at the present time is
a favorite actress of the London
board. 1t is quite needless to say
that the duke is still in society"
The peculiar intimacy which exists
between the Marquis of Harrington
and the Duchess of Manchester is one
that in any decent, consistent and
well ordered society would result in the
ostrac1sing of both, The two are al
ways invited to meet each other. If
you want Lord Harrington to come
you must ask the Duchess ofManches-
ter, and vice versa OF course, on the
surface there is nothing to cavil at in
their conduct The affairs are quietly
and judiciously managed. But peo-
pie know pretty well what is going on.
1t is often wondered why Lord Hart
ington, heir as he is to a dukedom and
some of the most magnificent estates
in England, doesn't marry. The fact
fact is, the Duchess of Manchester
won't let him. To the credit of
English women in high life-let
US give them all the credit we can,
they need 1.-THE duchess is French
woman. But, all the same, she is an
Englishman' s wife, and the disgrace of
the. thing attaches to him. How, as a
man, let alone duke, he stands it, is
past comprehension. But he doesn't
seem to mind it a straw, and laughs
and grows fat over what most men
would regard as humiliation and de-
graduation.
One of the favored 'set" to meet the
Prince of Wales at Goodwood this
year, invited by the Duke of Richmond
as he is for every Goodwood week
was Mr.. w. G. Craven This gentle
mans only son has just been up as CO.
in the divorce court in a
suit brought by a gentleman named
Bosville, for seducing and eloping with
his wife. Mrs. Bosville is the daughter
of General Willis. Another correspond
ent was the lady's trustee under her
settlements, a colonel in the
army, and son of Lord Sidmouth-
namely, the Hon. Charles Addington.
The letters which this "honorable''
We're read in court, were those of an
simple and out-and-out scoundrel and
The verdict was against
young Craven, and the divorce
was granted, Craven paying the
costs. Then there is Lord
brother, Colonel Ma.
pier Sturt. An officer in the Grenadier
he ran away with the pretty
wife of a clergyman named Sparkle. |
The clergyman got a divorce, and Sturt |
married the lady. The two go every !
where, and were at the receptions of !
the Duchess of Westminster and the |
of Salisbury a few nights. |
ago. Again, there is the Earl of Eus- !
ton. Do you suppose he is left out of !
any swell entertainment because /
he is married to a prostitute? I
should fancy not. His sister, too. |
She ran away from an invalid hus-
band with Lord Suffield's brother, the
Hon. Walter Harbord, when he was
aeeing to the continent after hav-
ng been caught cheating at cards. The
5wo are back in England again, ''mar-
led and settled and, as Lady Flea
1or Harbord and daughter of the Duke
Of Grafton, society doors swing open
20 her. Harbord's offense, however,
till keens him nIlt You see in the