St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-15
As England Views II.

Nor is English society any less fOrgiv-
ing or less tolerant than that of st.
Petersburg, Paris and Rome. The din
ner parties and entertainments of Lady
Agnes Cooper in CaYendiSh square are
just as we'll attended as in the days
when she figured as the wife of Wis
count Dupplin, from whom she elOped
with handsome Herbert Flower. And
although the features of the divorce
trial which followed her sensational
flight were particularly unpleasant, yet
the people who thr0ng her salons today
differ only from those who crowded
about Lady Dupplin III days of yOre
IN that they are more respectable and
more straItlaced. The Prince of Wales
has recently, before leaving London,
effected reconciliation with the Duke
of Sutherland, and the new duchess,
who lived with him and travelled with
him in this country as Mrs. Blair while
his first wife was still alive, is gradually
and surely making her way into London
society. Her receptions at Stafford
house are beginning to be extremely
well attended. and although at first the
male element was in the majority, yet
the wives are now following in their
husbands footsteps and beginning to
accept the hospitality of the duchess.
Lady Miles.
In the same way Lady Miles. who
figured in such peculiar light in the
Colin Campbell divorce case, is received
almost everywhere, and her house par
ties at Leigh Court and her yachting
parties at CoweS are well attended. Yet
the fine Steam-yacht on which she re-
ceiveS her guests was beQueathed to her
by the late Duke of Rutland, whose re-
lations with her were of the most fla
grant character, and who likewise left
her at his death his superb collection of
plate, decorated with the ducal arms of
Rutland. He had likewise presented
her during his lifetime with the famous
Rutland jewels. But these being heir
looms and entailed, she was forced,
under the menace of legal proceedings,
to surrender them to the present Ouch
ess of Rutland.
Mrs. Scott Stevenson still flourishes
in society, and is permitted to destroy,
by her particularly evil tongue, the rep
utations of hosts of pure and innocent
women, although it is not so many years
ago that her husband, the general of
that name, had occasion to publicly
horsewhip the Duke of Edinburgh's
eQuerry, Capt. Debonaire Monson, at
Malta, Tor being too attentive to her.
The Countess of Shrewsbury and Tai
bot, who, as Mrs. Mundy, elOped with
the young earl and was married to him
only four days before the birth of her
son, is likewise recovering her social
rank and commencing to figure once
more in society, both in London and in
her husbands county. Scores more of
similar instances could be cited.
Leniency Towards Cheating.
Nor does society confine its leniency
to erring women of station and rank.
1t likewise extends it to men who have
been caught cheating at cards and who
have been branded with even still more
lOathSOme disgrace. Both George Rus.
sell and Walter Hartford are at the
present moment floating once more
upon the current of English society,
receiving the latter and being received
thereby, while public banquets, as well
as county and municipal addresses, are
being rendered to Sir William Gordon
Cumming in his native Elginshire. in
honor of the recent birth of his first
child. Yet all these men were dis
missed the queens service for cheat
ing at cards.