A LETTER FROM THE LORD DUNDREARY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 318, 26 December 1862, Page 6

A LETTER FROM THE LORD DUNDREARY.

fehfe Be|^i';t<j l^gh^wimfe'iiaoitolyi and"tdld ?m£;pZprit^he Htytgi qtajetfy ;ia itsjpl&ej'ahli then would come baiikj ':;WMeh I hop 6 theTlittie begzaLr did. MAttheJop of the long! iwMfc'jat'i:^oekmgtiatri therfe ; s 3$ !ik t ithot^lrwhvso^lhjdjjE-doji'fr kfiow,* for 4w;eii downthere%ffi^ii^t^^^3i^W\l:%l^ i^Wjuli "t^ s£ine thitil' Hbwever,^^tliis^ammer-hbuse.uAjuilt upof twuQks'qf twees inVhat they ca!l*twellis "work^— all twisted itbbe'fefer/^ou;'; $;'nawyiti■•' a sor'rof vewy perplextbing wavi and lined Mtlrbark:'; Now I thiiik of it~l tliihk; it's call'e/l: *' wbstic" work—-I sbose becnu^e 7 it's': only fourid* riear: gentleman's houses. However, it's a jojly'sArt of place with a lot of ferns and tilings about,, and behind th^reare a lot of shrubs I arid bushes and pwickly plants- which give a sort:of rural or ' wiirwat) which is it ?—blest if I know -look to the place? And as it was vewy warm, I thought ifl'in ever to inake'an ath of mythelf by proposing to (liis girl-—I wont doii; out in the eye of the sun-it's so' pweeious hot; \ So I proposed we should walk ib arid.sit down, and so ;we did, and then I-began1: — "' Mi« Uhaffingh imy how, <«on't y oil think ■' it doosid qool I'1 " CopU Lord D.," she said, " why Tthought you were comp'aimng of the heat." *'I beg your pardon'," Isa:d, "I I—-can't speak vewy fast Uhe fact is, that a beafchly wasthp was butlithinj? about me at the mrment,) and I hadn't quite finished my thentence. I wasaoing to say, don't you think it's doosid cool of Wagsby to go on Inujrhing—at—at a fellah a 4 be does?" "Well, my lord," she said; ** I think so too;; and I wonder you stand it. You—h&ve'your remedy, you know." "What weraedy V I said, " \ rou—you dou't mean to say I ought to thwash him, Mi*s Charlotte?" Hex-e she—she Kotnehow began to lau'^h, but in such a I peculiar way that I—l couldn't think what she j meant r .'" A ' vewy good idea," I snid. *'I've a rewy gocd mind to twy it. I had on the gloves once with, a lay figure in a painter's studio —and gave it an awful licking. It's true it—it didn't hit back, you know— l—l did all the hitting then. And pwaps— pwaps(Wagsby wou ld~h.lt back. But if—if he did anything so uhgentlemanly as that, J could always— always »—" Always what, my lord?" said Lotty, whowas goin^ oh' laughing in the most hysterical manner. "Why 1 could always say it was a mistake, and and it should'nt happen again you know." "' Admirable policy, upon my word," she said, and began tittering again. But what the. dooth amused her so I -rever could make out, Just then we heard a sort of.Tustling in the leaves behind, and I confcth I fflt rather nervouth. " It's only a bird," Lotty sail; and then we began talking of that little wob ii well.weast,'and what a wonderful thing Nature is —and how doosid pretty it was to see her laws obeyed. And I said, "Oh! Miss Chaffint-ham." I saitl, " If I was a wobbiu-2— "■' "Yes, Dundreary," she anthered—-vewy soft and sweet. And I thought to mythelf—" Now?s the time to ask her*— now's the time to— ". I—l was beginning to wuminate again^ biit'she bwought me to my thenses by saving—'' Yes !"- intewoggatively. "If J was a wobbin, Lotty—and --and you were a wobbin— — __.» I—exclaimed — with a voice full of emotion. " Well, my lord ?" «« Would'nt it be—rjolly to hatch one's own eggs for bweakfast ?" The above wasn't quite whit I was going to say, but just at that moment there was another rusting behii.d the summer-house, and I thought I heard a tli xt of thtifled laugh. I started to my feet— for haven't wobberiei often been : committed in these kind of places? I thought.of Wush Burk, Manning, and a lot of other athathins, and thnatching up the only weapon at hand —my umbwella (a jolly little gweeti si!k one, without which f never go out,) I wush d behind into the shwubbewy. By Jove! I never did fuch a thing before ; and I'll take vewy good care it's the last time. The beathley bwambles caught me in alldiwectliuns—aboutmy coat - aboutmy wethcut— about my—in thort, evewy where—and one of those confwouuded fungus things- a thort of imitathun rauthroom, called a puff-ball exploded und»r me when I fell, an 1 covered me with powder. I was ia an awful thtate. The worth of it was, I might have just as well stopped where I was. There was no fellah behind the summeriiout,; but, confound it ailwhen I looked in ar the window thei'p thaw tlrnt bwute Watrsby in his leather overalls, with that beathly fishing rod of hi-, talking to Lot y. "What's the wow, Dundeaiy ! Paiu he, gwinni'ig a f. me out of the little window, What's the wow!" I said, " Why, that the vewy tiling 1 wanted to know. I heard a sort of —sort of wustliug behind here,, and I washed into -cc what it was, but I can't find anything at all except a lot of b—beathly pwickly plants and a mushroom that—soes oft with a bang by thpontmeous combustion." "Haw haw, ha ha," said Wagsby, and began Jauahing again in a dwea<ifully idiotic sort of way—" hee hee !— what a stunning lark ?" " I tell yon what,'' 1 said, "if that was a lurk, it must have been a stunning one to make all that wow." Upon this he began to wo:ir again and said—"No, old fellah (I—i haLe a man who calk me old fellah it's so heathly familiar) —>f All right," he said, ''it was only Tow, Sir." "And what the dooth is Tow, sir," said I. "Towser—my dog-he ran on. before nu; after a rabbit, and chased it into a shrubbery—and here he is lie down i'owzer— lie down, sir !" And then t heard a great yelping and bow-wowing and a howwU gweaft JNewfoundlrsnd monthter ruslied upon tha scene. It's v^wy lucky I had my gween urabwella with jne, fir the moment I came out of the shrubbery this disgusting: quadruped—this Towzer— jumped upon me, and I had the gnatest difficu'ty in maintaining' my efjuilibaum. '.' Id—it's only his play, mv Lord-i-dowu Tovvzer, dowu !" cried Wagsby, gwinning like a baboon. " Hang his play, sir, said —'•'coiithidev my wai-tcoat."

(From London Society.y . Dear Mr Editor,—Any fellah feelth nervouth when he knowth he'th going to make an ath of hiintbelf. That's vewy twue -I tiled so the other night you know—and I—l've often thed tho before. But the fact ith—evewy fellah dothnt make an ath of himthelf, at leafh not quite such an ath as I've done in my time. I—don't mind telling you, Mr Editor, but pon my word now—I—I've made an awful ath of mythelf on thoine oecathions. You don't believe it now—dQ you? I-—thought you would'at^-but I have now — wcally. Particularly with wegard to women. To say the twuththatith'my wfakneth—l spose I'm what they ca'l a ladies'man. The pwetty cweacbaws like me—l know, they do—though they pwetend not to do. so. It—it's the way with some fellahs—There was hith late Majesty George the Fourth. 5?. I never thaw him mythelf you know, but I've heard he had a sort of way with him that—that wo woman could wesist. They used to call him a cam —what is it % a camelia—no camel leopard, no • chameleon isn't it1? that attwacts people with its eyes- no, by the way that —that's the bwute that changes color —it couldn't have been thnt you know. Georgiu-i Wex—never changed color— he—he'd got beyond blushing—he.ouly blushed once—early—vewy early in life, and then it was by mistake—no • am —chaine leon's not the word—What the dooth is it? Oh, sop, it begins with aB. JBy the way, its 'stonishing how many words beijin with aB. Oh, an awful lot. No no wonder I)r Watts talked about the the busy H. Why, he's more work than all the west of the alphabet—However, the word beams with a B. and it's Ban Basiloose—yes, that.'s it—stop, I'd better look it out in the Dictionary, to make certain. I—l hat" to make mistakts i <to —especially about:* thimple matter like this. Oh, here we are—B. basilica No it—that can't be the word you knowGeorge wa=s kimr, and if—if Basilica means a myal p a i ace _they—they might have been—welations—but tfn't a I—no1 —no it isn't Basilic i— it—it's Basilisk- -yes, I've got it now- it's '■athiJith. That's whnt his Majesty was-a Bathilith, and fascinated fair cweachaws with hi-? < ye. Let me see where was I ?—Oh I rtkomember — or wekolect—which is it1? Never mind, I was saying that I was a ladies' man. I wanted to tell you of one successful advenchaw I had—nt least when I say succ ssful, I mean it woull have been, as far as / was concerned but of course-when two people are engaged, or wather—when one of them wants to be engaged, one. fellah by himself c n't engage that he'll en^aice the aftt'ctions"that are otherwise engaged. By the way what a lot of 'gnges that was in one thentence, and yet—it seemed quite fruitless— Come, that's pretty smart,'that is,—forme.- Well, a^ I wa3 saying—r mean as I meant to bnve said—whe\ Iws stopping down at Wockingliam with the Widleys, last autumn, th"r>s was a monVous jolly eirl staying there too. I don't mean two girls \ou know only one girl—But stop a minute —Is that rigiit! liow could one girl be stopping1 tbera two \Vh-it. dooH'l queer expressions there areiu the English language. , . Stopping there two—lt's very odd—l -I'll swear there was only one girl—at least the one / mean was only one —If she'd .been- two, of course I should have known it—Lft me see now, one is singular and two is plural—well, you know, she ■icas a singular girl—ami she she was one too many forme. Ah I see no>v —that accounts for it— one two many—of course— llcnew there was a two somewhere. COLONEL DAVIDSON AN D THE NIZAM. She had a vewy queer name, Miss—mi-s—Alisoniss p , Standard x no, not Missmiss-I always miss the wrong ~I mean t*romtne atanaara.) the risjh't name, Miss Chatn-.ijrhara -that's it ■ C'>nr- The sp"ctac Te of a British officer crawling upon all lotte " Chaffingham. I weckomember Charlotte, fours before the throne of a hnif savage king, and because they called her Lotty—and one day making his obeisance in that form, is. not cheering, at bweakfast—l made a stunning widdle— It is depressing even, an I something more, when we I said "Why is Miss Charlotte like find that officer to be the representative of bet- Maa London cabman —?" Well none of jesty at the Court, and that his personal degredarion them could guess it. They twied an') twied, and at 'is accepted as a iribute pail by this country to a-i inlast my brothex- Sam, who was in England then,—he ferior power. The crawling attitude, in one acceptagave a most s'upid^anther—he sail, " I know," he tion of the term, is not unknown m diplomacy; but 8,-uM—" She's like a London cabman because she's got in the present case we speak m no metaphorical a fair back." Did you ever he^r of anything so wi- sense; and, to prevent mihtnkes, let us at once_d - dicultms ! Just as if her facewasn't much pwettier dare that we refer to Colonel Davidson, the British than her b:\ckl Why I couid s> c that, for I was sit Resident at the Court of the Nizam of the Dekhan, tine opposite her. Its twue Sam was just behind Hyderabad, East Indies, and hi< conduct upon a reh>r, dieting some muffins, but—you know he'd seen cenc occasion. The story, we are aware, sounds her face, and he weally ought to have known better, equally absurb and improbable; but that is the I told him so—l said, '-Tha-D, you ought to be story's fault, not ours. The dignity of history is a athamed of yourthtlf, that'th not the anthwer." difficult thing to maintain. It will go tripping and Well, of course then they alt wanted to know, and I making- itself amusing occasionally in the hands of —Itold 'em—ha, hi! my answer was good—wasn't the best regulated writer: and with regard to the it ? Oh. I forcot 1 havn'c told you—well—here it is I authenticity of the anecdote we can only say that we said—"MissCharlotte is like aLondon cabman bpcause have it on the authority of the lealing journal of she's a Lotty Chaffinghan," (of cour c i mem lot o' f niia. and that it retna-ns uncontradicted in. all chaff in him)— D'ye see? Doosid *>ood I cull it—but essential particulars, which are as follows:— , would you believe1?-ail the party began woirwing The British Government, not long since, in purwith lau-'hter all wound. At first I thought, th-y suance ot its new policy of making friends instead, were laughing a» the widdle, and i laughed too, but of enemi- s <.f the Princes of India, desired to confer at l>>st Captain Wagsby said \hy the way I hate honors among those who had deserved best of this Wagsby- he's so doosi I familiar)—Captnin Wagshy country during the revolt. After making the cheersaid, " Mulled it asaip,' my lord." From this fulblunder, in the first instance, ot conferring ■he liw expwession—which I wecollect at Oxford, Christian Order of. the Bath upon the Pagan I thought that they thought I had made Mini ter of Nepaul, who is now a companion in a mifehtake,; and asked th»m what they meant clii/airy with men. whose shadows passing over his by : woarwing in that absurd manner. "Why, meal he considers would defile it, a nev? order was mdon't you see, Dundreary," some one said-" it veuted, of uo religion'in particular j and this is the won't do—you've forgotten the lady's sex—Miss Most Exalted Order of the btar of India., lhis stnr Charlotte can't, be said to have any chaff in him- It, was presented the other day to-the -Niz-im,; aft^r a. ought to he cbaff in her 1' and then they began to, great deal of : difiiculty on the-part of his Koyal woar again. Upon my wor.t now, it hadn't occurred Highnes", who was pleased to entertain the idea that to me certainly before, but I don't see now that it it was intended »3 a badge of servitude - a sort o» was such a mistake What's the use of beiner so license given him to govern his country, which he doosir! particular about the sense of a widdle as long would be required to show upon all occasions, like a as it is a good cne. Abthurd ! Well, after hweakfast cabman, upon pain of fine. It was upon this occasion we went out for a stroll upon the lawn, and somehow that Colonel Davidson, upon whom the presentation or other Miss Uh>.ffii)ghara pair ;d off with me. She devolved disported himself -in the extraordinary was a doosid stunning girl, you know. A fe-'lah often manner to which we have referred. _ The first mtitalkß about stunnina1 girls, and when you see them mation of the coming scandal was given at the Resithfy're hot so srunning, after all; but Lotty we ill dem-y. before setting out for the palace, where th* was a doosid stunning girl-fair eyes and beautifull Colonel told the members of his suite that they would blue ha—not blue hnir and fair—T (confound it, I be required t> remove their boots in "the presence." always make that mistake when there's more than The suite, which numbered about forty, and included one abjective in a thentence)-1 mean fair hair and officers of high rank, colonels of regiments, heads beautifully blue eyes, and she had away of looking at of departments, &c, did not relish the idea, oue, that—that weady almost took one's bweath but the mandate led to no more serious consequences away. I've often heard about a fellah's falling in than laughter. At the palace, however, it was aclove. I never did so mythrJf, you know—at least not tually put in force, and the party went in their I weckomember—l t»ean weckolect—before that stockings to the throne-room. Here it was that the morning. But weaUy she did look sojo'ly, bweak'mg scene was most humiliating. "Colonel. Davidson," her e"g at bweakfast -so bewitching when she we are told, lf takes oft his bopts, bends his shoulders, just smashed the shell all wound with bey thpoon and when within a fow paces of the Nizam goes down before she began to eat it—l, I weally began to on all fou/s arid crawls up to his left side m the most feel almost thpooney myself. Ha, ha / there cringing, abject manner conceivable, and there squats I aim at' it again ;. I weally mu>t bweak awaiting the iNizara's pleasure to speak. *;,,But this mythelf of thishabit.of jqking: It's very low, yo is not all.; The wannerm which the Nizam recaved know—like a beathly clown in a b-beatbly panto the m=ignia' of the Most Exalted Order ot the Har of raime^-I ouphth't to have said beathly twiff", I know, f India is descried as ; almost lnsultinK. His Highness. A lellali ori'. c toldime, that jf—if a man says the same tit is said, ; seized the: jewel from the tray on which it adjeciive twicean.one thentence he's taught ological.iwas presented, ..and','.!' shojed it^nder nissedt;'-; and but he's ■wrong—you know—fox* I ofien do, and I'm | the writer appeals to the forty omcers present.'to'con-: suie/Mveri w^ taught, am^ iQr ever Lbttyiwas a stunning girl, an^w? walked all *'deed, is uncobtrtdicted,"as weha,yesaid,..a writer who about the lawn—down into the .shwubbery t:>lookinto takes the pai^of Colonel Payidspn lieing only.^ible.tq some bush after a^^'wobiu wedbweast,' that she said had : tay ; that the' iriibobting" is a "custom at Hyderabad, built ai: "iifet there—aiidTSureenpugh, when ; we gptto^ and that he -did not, x)b&trye, ; ariything disrespectful it!; th^re was this little w.^din-wob—l mean ;woubiri- ?, in his, Highness'si. manner pf-.receiving the prftsentawedbeast 100 Wing out ot.a gweat lump; of jmossi, an^i as jtion.- The crawling'be, admitsi by: saying, nothing; it wfls Pitting there yevy'quiet,'l tlibuahttomys/lf-Tiaboiit it.;,/ ;'-'. ':,. V,V >-. -',] -; " .-...%,[ ~,r : ., [^■■^^"■■'. Jl—l'll Bave^iUi old cock-^C^ it wasiaheri~sb,'twas a.vevy good thing I didn't tho out aloud, you know), and thinking Lbtty would; but it m^bfe^q^tioned,whether; he did;not give ehbe pleaded if I caught it;l- thwust: my '. liantl' in | cpurajjenieiit to any'ainburit pf contempt by his own q'uickiasl'Couid.butyoWknbw ilibselfttlerw^ddinff--^ cringingsem^^ wobbih^-wesb—beasts are so dopsid sbarpVand Tin:: respet-f; may he customary at Hyderabad, but it is dashed it it^didn't fly putph the'ofher ddei" vCOjntrary to an^uleß>lse^he%and^here is noearthly tatupidmnn/^Lptty fwittenMthe p<wr lee^t thiriir awsy^ wather ■wild at first at/beiiig; called thtupid^ that's a :be«n laiddowh as a: rute, iaind, f ccepte«l ib 4 pur lintf rsort of:rthing-4ib fellat likes, butr-dashitj Vdl: course with aßilie eastern^tions, have ?tood anytiiing ironi LpttyT-I^ \V§ la aye carried jf;pf <lpfilhg |be.ljat is a Bufficientiec|uiy|leißt -and when herpwayeribook Wcliuwh—l'dhavepa^ on one side-^b^no^es-~J think-rdV hayfcveven ;the ptherj^ay^it is always iii: idCTen^ to how; tar thayed off my s jvhiskera: for h^ be excused the ceremony, conwdenbg little; wpjbbin,^ishe ?aid^r-'' It Sail iieveiv come '^foißS^will vthem to :ppp*ar .barer fmyiapreHl'ni a^aid you've dfe4eto^t~what*^id^she^meaa^tiba^3&lr-^ -you don't "S^b:%3Sey;m*te:^

Ww rtmss a cu^&ainQngJ :fe?ehia^?the^^apiti;^ nese, the Siamese, and^ie jpuripSeser "Itfour relations with; all; these -cojini ries, we have (refused to comply it; to&i^ : nearly'gone tp3 war on the rabject?-At tto Indian Court"•••»•• the ceremony observed, on our part, eicept; it seems,! at one; and -why the/ honor atid^'dignityC'of^ tH6^ Queen? : afe->to" bivafued<lesiii highest By*erabiuf thanlelsetfhere^' it is difficult to cohceive.v The question may-seema^ trifling one; :but in 'the' East trifles ir^of the highest import. Those who were .present when her Majesty received the Burmese ambassadors a'few years ago, and saw them crawling upito the throne on till fours, knocks ing their foreheads at • intervals upon the ground, know ipw difficult it was for'even Royalty itself to restrain its merriment. But infinitely more absurd must be the; appeaJance of an elderly British officer makiog a similar obeisance, especially when" we picture him without-his boots. . ; . Political feeling jus* now in India runs high' in reference to Hyderabad. j :'•■ ■■■■>■ ' '': ■ ■ ' : " :

On the one side we hear loud denunciations of the conduct of the British Resident,'who is said to be too weak to stein thel tide of disaffection which is supposed to be rising ■in that locality. Hyderabad, it ia aSrmed, has taken the place; of Delhi sis the centre of Mussulman intrigue; and, supported by 'he Mahratta Prince, a conspiracy is in course"of organisation which may one day take fatal effect. . . .Our representative there should be a man who, without any unnecessary dictation, shall be prepared to support.the honor and i terests of his country at any hazard. And these objects are most certainly not to be gained by crawling at the K'ng's feet, or by any officer who has consented to undergo that humiliation.