Latest London Gossip.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 6498, 28 April 1888, Page 2

Latest London Gossip.

The London correspondent of the BJ. Advertiter, in his "Table .Talk" Ba ys~The two most conceited men I have the honour of knowing— that is, noddinc to now and" again in the House of Conimons— are young Gladstone and yonng Bright. The former inherits most of Bfi fa^ns sires weaknesses, without any of his pohtical genius. Willie Bright ia a good- ' natured, stolid ass. Bofh. taSc fairly welL « land used at one time to be listened to, but now they rani amongst the semifailures. Willio ißright holds opposite news to his parent upon the Irish question, and Lies to chow his independence by eon* stoutly airing them. "I regret to differ with my dear old dad," he says loftily, 'bnfc a man must think for himself on thesß matters." The other day John Brieat wrote an angry letter to bis offspring^einonstrating with him on the position he had assumed. The son, Willie, Began his reply thus :— '• My dear father,— Tour letter hw surprised me exceedingly, and ifc certain!* was not an epistle that one statesman should rate to another." The latest issue oi Vanity Fair contains a capital caricaturo portrait of "Tippy- O'Connor, whok* become quite a personage since tha Starmade anoh a hit, and John Junior's letter, press description of the successful ionrnaHst and he winds up thus :-Juigingby his writings and his speeches, h& might well bo mistaken for a trucculent buuy,but his writings andhis speeohes calummatohim.fot r >B V^ a f^ aiyoreatu^ He am recent^ t-ken to horse exercise, and onioys tho patronage of Mr Labouch6re 5 he uses a and has brought a dress auit.Mr O Connor weighs about SOst; he is" nnng 41 years of age, and is kA ownas •ay Pay. It w rumoured that he has only started an evening newspaper." The - last especially^the word "rumoured," is too '