YOUNG ENGLAND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2269, 13 April 1886, Page 2

YOUNG ENGLAND.

The following extract from the London correspondent of the Dunedin '• Evening Star" gives a lively idea of tho eccentricities of certain noble lordlings:—There is no more fruitful and edifying topic of conversation at the Clubs and in tho coulisses nowadays than tho latest doilies of the notorious sot of "young bloods" of whom Lords Savernake, Grey de Wilton, and Cairns are leaders, Almost every day they afford gossipers some new sensation. Savernake alone ii delightful—a host in himself. Not a man about town, not a policeman, not a cabby, not a ballet girl, not a nigger minstrel but knows him as well as they know St. Paul's Cathedral or Mr Gladstone. He is the general of a noble brigade of " chappies" who spend the majority of their evenings at tho •'Pavvy" (Pavilion Music Hall) and who talk the mysterious slang in which that instructive journal the 'Pink 'Un' (Sporting Times) is mostly written. Thus a pretty girl may be either "a tart," "a totkie," or" a mash," according to varying degrees of disrespect " Oof" is the new synonim.for money, and the parent or guardfehof a-"chappie" has consequai.tly'come to be familiarly known as the ",oof bird." No well-conducted member of the .brigade would ever dream of being "tight" or" squiffy," or "a little on," as in times.gone by. Nowadays ofle gets." hoodnmij" (blind drailt). I might

on indefinitely, but it would scarcely ity you. Savernake has done most - ings within the last few years. He. itiatcd a promising career by wedding las Dolly Tester, chorister, of the Royal )mcdy Theatre. Miss Tester, had no al expectation of becoming Lady Savertoo whou the'noble lord rondo his, Ivances; but before consenting'to. hj» irchasing the inevitable villa in St. jhn's Wood she took counsel with a iend. and resolved.to try ail experiment, or friend (a man) and herself got mtfSf\ »ke sway from all his nday night. By Tuesday morning Dolly as Lady Savernake. The story goes wt his lordship proposed when he was cunk, and that Miss Taster insisted on leir visiting the Registrar iat. once, fowever that may be, the Carriage rdved perfectly legal and unshakeable. iord Aileabury moved heavon and earth juite fruitlessly) to undo it. Savernake imself took very kindly to Dolly. Sho i a woman of tact and sense, < and now iretty well rules him. . .',;.'''"' Savornake made his'appearance at larlboroughstreetPoliceCourtlast'week. < t was the consequence of a tipsy frac&t t the " Pavvy" "(Pavilion Mubjc Hall). )ne of tlio" chappies," noisor than usual, ! ad been ejected. His Lordship, seeing i 'a pal" in the grip of a policeman, cam* ip from behind, and, exclaiming" LoaTe im alone, you—•," struck the active and ntelligent ono a Binart blow in the faca, , nstantly releasing "tho pal," the cpn. table ran in the peer; A terrific mat nsuod, several" humble followers'' (csb. aen and others), attempting to rejpJfc.liii ordship. Of course it was fruitlcP' A. ordon of police surrounded the crowdand irrcsted about a dozen indiscriminately. Savernake, of course, was allowed; to go lomo after entering into cognisance to ipptar next morning at the Police Office. Phe humble followers (cabmen and others) vere locked up, his lordship not ■: merely leclining to get thorn bailed -our-, .bus irying tipsily, " Curse the bally swine {os nterforing." What & man to love and lerve, eh! Mr Mansfield,, for,the,above 'estive proeedings, fined Viscount' 'Saver* sake—don't gasp I —forty shillings.,- ?' The severity of the sentence," observes the World, " created considerable • conaternation in court. It proved the majesty of, the law was not to be trifled with; it also settled the tariff at which back-handed blows in the face can bo administered to active members of the police force." Another Viscount—Lord Hilton—js,in a fair waj? to go to gaol for obtaining money, etc,under false pretences. ';He',and a number of hi 3 pals' being chronically' hard . up, hit outheexpedient of buying valuable goods on credit from gullible tradesmen easily affected by atifclo, and then at once pawning thorn. takes a serious view of such procpßßi, and the wholo gang—about fivefyoung sparks, including the viscount—'are likely to be committeed for trial. The test case refers to the purchase of certain puns, but there are not less than a hundred other instances, behind it. ' Where, meanwhile, is the great Oairni the erstwhile " Gumboil"—who not six months ago settled down to take life seriously as the Duke of Richmond's private secretary 1 Why, at Monte Carlo, if you please, with Lord Grey de Wilton; and thereby hanes a tale, 'Cairn's reformation was naturally short lived.; At first he used to amuse himself (and everyone else)by talking of the great tilings he meant to do in the House of Commons, but this oaydream soon palled, and then his lordship voted polities' "bally slow," and once more turned his great mind to the stage. A fascinating damsel attached to the music hall, who made a fleeting reputation warbling s tiresome ditty commencin ■• --. Oh you girls, you naughty young girlw, Why don't you try to be good, be good—whioh one hears eyorywhere ; just now, en slaved both Cairns and Grey do Wilton, They carried her off to Monte Carlo, loaded the little charmer with jf&elleiy, exploited her everywhere, andjfcsted that she was the prettiest girl ohlhe Revura. Alas, for the gratitude! #f women 1 also for her taste, ; After a forknight's philandering the charmer was iwn,«{. She had decamped to.Cannes with a greasy little Calmuck baron, .leaving the two English lordlings the laughing stock of the place. ' '■'■ A EUOAL DIVORCE CASE. .... A very " big" divorce tsdaridri" whioh, has been in the air for some months -past will probably afford the pious Pall Mall tasty "copy" shortly. The appellant is a Scotch Duke, whose lady, after,many years of matrimony, not long ago delighted him with a son and heir. Muoh ta was made about the baby marquis till its hair—which owjW to have been fiery red, like its father's, or auburn, like it mother's, but 'was coal-black—grow. Such a curious phenomenon' had, never been known in the X— family before. The Duke first took an aversion to the child and then instituted private inquiries. On the strength of Iflhat: he discovered (or thinks he discovered)'' His Grace is instituting divorce proceedings. The case, howevor, will be fought tWh and nail, and may very likely breakdown. Great diversity of opinion prevails as to whom the little lordling resembles. . : ,Disi interested paities, including several medical men, avow the child is verslfyg and will grow up to be the image of*.'Ap Duke; moreover, that its hair is not black, but a reddish-brown, and will bleach as the boy grows. On the other hand, a royal personage has pronounced against the infant. Altogether, a very pretty scandal is brewing, Th8..c0,-.res-pondent'B name has been kept secret' 'but the story goes that the man was ah'ugent's, clerk er bailiff or something of that sort on one of the Duke's estatos. I may know more next mail. A delicious story is going the "founds about Lord Ripon, who, it is well-known in the neighborhood of Studlßy,.R.oyal, has a weakness for keeping his' family name (Robinson) in the background. Some weeks ago a correspondent writing to the editor of the Manchester Examiner, asked whether Earl de Grey was' the son of the Marquis of Ripon., The editor', in his next ,( Answers to ' replied "Earl de Grey is thAiurjesy title of Lord Ripon'a eldest spi.'■'ln point of law ho is, of courso, only plain Mr Robinson." A few days later the editor received the following telegrarirV "From the Marquis of Ripon! Studlof • Royal. L»rd Ripon does not wish, the Manchester Examiner sent any mOrsV' The Queen grows more and' more capricious every year. The maids of honor have had a fearful' time:.[ since Princess Beatrice's marriage. They aro dftener in the Royal presence than they used to be, and the long hours of.- standing are very trying. But for' Lady Ely who exercises a most beneficial influence over the Queen, the atmosphere -ot the Court would, they say, be intolerable, Prince Henry of Battenburg shuts himself up with beer and tobacco, and is seldom seen .by the household, at most of whom he scowls indifferently. At firtt he used to shoot a good deal; but finding all the best coverts were reserved, for the Prince of Wales or Prince Christian,, he gave it upu People throw away: deal of pity on the young man!,' ■'■l/\ am assured it is wholly misplaced;, • He might take an interest in many things, but the ' truth is he is constitutionally idle,., .The Queen, active and energetic above everything, cannot understand her son-ih-iav' / II inert ways, and is continually admirii'sw «B ing moraJiprods, which :Prin6e«HenifM (still very much in love with' wl handsome German) resents,'' '■■r'tir.l