LATE LONDON LIFE. Gossip About the Upper Ten-Thousand in the Great Metropolis.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 91, 28 February 1885, Page 5

LATE LONDON LIFE. Gossip About the Upper Ten-Thousand in the Great Metropolis.

Canon Liddon preached to an immense congregation on a recent Sunday afternoon in St. Paul's Cathedral on the fear of men He told a story of the late Sir Robert Peel with quiet dignity ordering his carriage when at a dinner-party Christianity was denied, saying that he wa« sorry to retire, but that he w»s still Christian ; whil**, without approving of the truncated creed or singular methods of th • Salvation Army, the canon praised its followers for their not being ashamed of what they professed. • adiea of rank and fashion, members of Pa 1 .itnent lawyers not a few, distinguished medical men, agriculturists up in advance for the Cattle Show, und the usual number of American" were present. Qu tkerisiu has been startled by the announcement of the intended marriage of one of its members to a viscount. JMi.^b Beatdco IVuse, the lady in question is the daughter of a late minister in the body, is a member of one ot the wealthiest of the Quaker families, and is also related to the Stiurge* of Birmingham ihose who knew the tt iends of a generation ago will at once mavk the ;jreame.>s of the chancre. Loid Sydney was down at Windsor Castle last week on one of his pedodical visits to the Queen, rince the death of the Ptince Cun-ort, Lord Sydney has acred as Her Majesty's principal confidential adviser concerning her money matters and he always audits her private accounts. the other day, says "Truth," a curious case came bcrore Mr Justice Chitty. A gentleman named Pound left a will by which he beque ithed his entire pioperry to hix wife, Mrs Pound. A j-'entlemun called Jackson also left a will by which the lady who was Known as Mrs Jackson became his t-ole legatee. Pound and Jackson eventually tmneii out to be one and the same person, and the question arose as to who was entitled to his propei ty. It seems a most extraoidmaiy thing that a man could not only lead a eompiefc ly dual existence undetected, but should almost deceive himself into believing that he was two different pet sonrf. If a family likes to put before the name of its head ihe word duke, marquis, earl or baron, there is no reason why anyone should interfere with this harmless fad The only difference between " lord " and "sir" in a word of four letters and "sr" of three letters, and weie anyone to wish to be habitually adu reused by his dependents by a word ot a dozen letters, no harm would be done by gratifying him. For my part, I should be perfectly willing to address a shoeblack as " your royal highness," if I thought that it would add to Ins happiness It appears that the Duke of Cumberland has come into another goodly fortune, in a singularly unexpected manner. The Duke of Brunswick left to him his villa at Heitzinor, w ith all its contents, and on opening a certain iron safe on the premises, coins, notes and stocks were found to the value of ,E100,OuO.— " The World."