The London Scandals.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 399, 4 January 1890, Page 3

The London Scandals.

The London correspondent of the South Australian Advertiser writes Now that notices in the Gazette and elsewhere have made the names of noblemen and gentlemen connected with the abominable and indescribable Cleveland street scandal, practically public property, there can be no harm in stating that your old acquaintance, Lord Euston, is alleged to be one of those moat seriously involved. Lord Ejenry Arthur Somerset escaped from the country. His brother officers in tbe “Blues” telegraphed, when they heard the shocking story, offering to stand by their comrade if he would but assure them of bis ipnoqfinpe, They received no reply, and since then his retirement from the army has been notified, and bis name withdrawn from the list of the Prince of Wales' equerries. The police, it seems, at once suspected the house in Cleveland street of being a gambling hell, and placed a opposite to identify, and, when possible, photograph all habitues. The discoveries which resulted were of a nameless description, and led to a carefully planed raid, the instructions of the Home Secretary being to arre|t a]l concerned- Thia was done, but on examining the parties trapped, tbe police inspector was well nigh paralysed with horror, as he recognised, to his dismay, a most exalted personage. It is not suggested save by malevolent nobodies that this young man visited the house for any improper purpose. His bearleader, Mr H., was, however, undoubtedly a habitud, and the idea is that; half suspecting 'espionage, he took his charge with him, as a safeguard, and a safeguard of course the personage proved, for the whole affair tad to be hushed up. The keeper of the house and his assistant were, however, arretted, and charged before a magistrate, with closed doors, At the Central Criminal Court, three weeks later, the pair were brought up after court, and pleading guilty were sentenced to comparatively brief terms of penal servitude. ' The whole business scarcely occupied five minutes and was B eased unnoticed eave by the North London ress, and cue or two other Radical papers. Fortunately, or unfortunately, a*' a scandal of such magnitude cannqt be altogether burked, and though the gentlemen concerned escaped imprisonment, they are terribly fianished. Lord H. A. Somerset is a major n the Horse Guards B'ue, and the most popular of the present Duke Of Beaufort’s sons. The old duke is bowed down with shame, and scarcely dares to enjoy his favorite bunting. The qqlprits, I may medt|on, mad* for Peru, where they will have to lie perdue for a long time to come. The “ personage's ” parent, on being made acquainted with the story, is said to have broken down completely; and it may be safely Inferred that the scandal had mor* to do w|th this illustrious being's Illness than anything else. These facta, which have been In my possession ,qmf> time now, reached me' through person* concerned fa getting up the oats,

Beterring to the libel action against Mt Berks, of the North London Press, a contemporary remarks s—Mr Parke, in hie p*pef, asserted that the noble Earl of Easton was one of-tbe beauties obnn**ted with the recent London scandal; The prosecutor, who is the eldest son and heir of the Duke of Grafton, admitted in h<s aroM-examination in Court that he visited the den, but on learning the d-justing and scandalous nature of the proceedings carried on, he became enraged and withdrew his patronage. His fairy tale may be true, or it may be false, but a jury will have to decide that. There are other London editors, if they had tbe pluck of Mr Parke, who would be placed in a similar petition ; pqt of course , they are not built that way. Their paper* ar* hot run to expose-the dirtv deeds of th* British aristocracy, bat to cloak them end make it considerably warm for tha lower order* when t hey offend against decency,