LONDON GOSSIP.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3132, 12 July 1881, Page 4

LONDON GOSSIP.

(From the World.) It seems tint tne Queen's visit to the grave of the late Earl of BeaconsQeld at Hughenden has created much astonishment in foreign countries. It certainly was an exceptional mark of regret and esteem on behalf of a Sovereign to her subject; and the depth of this feeling was more clearly demonstrated by the fact that the entrance to the vault, by desire of Her Majesty, was not bricked up" until after her visit, in order that the Queen might, with her own hands, lay a porcelain wreath on the coffin of her devoted counsellor and servant. The few who were present agree in stating that this touching duty was performed by the Queen with evident emotion.

I hear there were some wonderful 1" getsup "at the List drawing room. One lady— not entirely < o royn] satisfaction, I faney — was emblazoned all over with her own coat of arms. Her dress was of a sort of lavender satin, with a tiain of the same lined with black velvet. All down her back were heraldic devices—coat, supporters, crest, motto, and nil. Across her breast she wore a sash, repeat ins the coats of arms smaller. The whole turn-out might be effective; but it was a trifle loud. Very different was Lady Delamere's plum-coloured velvet, train over white satin and old lace; or Mrs Arthur train, trimmed with a profusion of real pink roses. I was rather amused, when watching the scene in the Mall during the drawing room on Thnv3dav la»t. to see a lady and gentleman, the latter in uniform, in a brougham enjoying a gui< j t gamble. They went on with the same, quite impervious to the remarks of the U-okers-on, and probably only put up their cirds when they arrived at the door of th" Pace.

I suppose primroses now will become the emblem of Lord Beaonsfield and Conservatism, as are violets identified with Napoleon 111. and the Empire. Stranpe that these simple and beautiful flowers should be assoninted with what is neither simple nor beautiful —Imperialism ! I hear that the Empress Eugenic has definitely decided upon the final resting places of her late husband and son. She intends to build a church on the estate which she has. bought, some 14 miles from Chiselhurst ; and thither the two tombs are to be transferred from the little chapel over which Monsignor Goddard lias presided so imperialistically. The twelve lockets worn by Lady Brooke's (Miss Maynard) bridesmaids at the great wedding at Wpftminster Abbey the other day were exceptionally beautiful, being very costly works of art. Each was formed of diamonds and pearls, worked with the greatest skill into the most exquisite representation of the form and petals of a daisy —appropriate emblems of the youth and innocence of the bride and her bridesmaids, as well a* souvenirs of herself, the pet name by which she has been known to her family and friends s-inoe her birth being Daisy.

A. hundred and twenty-seven ladies riding in tho Row one day last, week in pot hats were counted. 'J his innovation may be more comfortable, but it certainly does not look so becoming and ladylike for town wear as a well-shaped chimneypot. The aesthetic people who have furnished London with such food for jest and laughter by their queer costumes, their affectation, their long hair, and their general tomfoolery, are now known as the " Dadocraey." At the general meeting of the members of the Conservative Club on Thursday last, a motion was put down for discussion at the nest meeting, to the effect that Irish members should in future pay two guineas as their annual subscription, instead of eight. The member who moved this could not find a seconder at the meeting, but announced that a gentleman was coming over from Ireland for that purpose. The bad boy was to have been sent abroad, and kept there until the remembrance of his naughtiness had passed away. But he refuses to go, and sets the Court of Chancery at. defiance. When the sentence of another court has been pronounced—for divorce is to be sued for, and counsel are already retained—the bad boy, who will be of age in November, purposes marrying the lady and settling the whole of the Ingestre property, worth £30,000 a year, on her. Nice creditable affair altogether!