DRINKING IN HIGH LIFE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 321, 3 May 1877, Page 4

DRINKING IN HIGH LIFE.

Prinking, it would seem, is not altogether confined to the lower classes. In a recent trial in London, for conspiracy to defraud Mr. Le Hunt Doyle, it came out that Mr. Doyle and three other gentlemen (one of them a bankrupt baronet, aince dead) were in the habit of drinking together from morning til night. Mr. Doyle himself admitted that Jie drank champagne-cup before he was up, and all day ; and had a carafe of brandy placed in hit room every night, which he usually emptied ; while the amounts of liquor consumed at lunch and dinner were so enormous that we do not give them, preferring to believe that the bottles were changed a great deal oftener than necessary. Mr. Doyle, a gentleman with large •states in three counties in Ireland, did not seem to think his drinking anything extraordinary, and told the jury at the moment he spoke he was "quite sober and very thirsty." We fear even the sharp lesson he has had (he had very nearly been constituted an unlimited partner in a wine business under a deed obtained from him when he was drunk) will be insufficient to cure that kind of "thirst" wLi;h prevails, the doctiri say, among the men of means much more friqusntly than it is just now the fathion to admit.— Spectator.