All the late prelate's wives had fortunes, which the admirable man
increased by thrift, the judicious sale of leases which fell in during
his episcopacy, &c. He left three hundred thousand pounds--divided
between his nephew and niece--not a greater sum than has been left by
several deceased Irish prelates.
What Lord Southdown has done with his share we are not called upon to
state. He has composed an epitaph to the Martyr of Bullocksmithy, which
does him infinite credit. But we are happy to state that Lady Angelina
Silvertop presented five hundred pounds to her faithful and affectionate
servant, Mary Ann Hoggins, on her marriage with Mr. James Plush, to whom
her Ladyship also made a handsome present--namely, the lease, good-will,
and fixtures of the “Wheel of Fortune” public-house, near Shepherd's
Market, May Fair: a house greatly frequented by all the nobility's
footmen, doing a genteel stroke of business in the neighborhood, and
where, as we have heard, the “Butlers' Club” is held.
Here Mr. Plush lives happy in a blooming and interesting wife:
reconciled to a middle sphere of life, as he was to a humbler and a
higher one before. He has shaved off his whiskers, and accommodates
himself to an apron with perfect good humor. A gentleman connected with
this establishment dined at the “Wheel of Fortune” the other day, and
collected the above particulars. Mr. Plush blushed rather, as he brought
in the first dish, and told his story very modestly over a pint of
excellent port. He had only one thing in life to complain of, he
said--that a witless version of his adventures had been produced at
the Princess's theatre, “without with your leaf or by your leaf,” as
he expressed it. “Has for the rest,” the worthy fellow said, “I'm
appy--praps betwixt you and me I'm in my proper spear. I enjy my glass
of beer or port (with your elth & my suvvice to you, sir,) quite as much
as my clarrit in my prawsprus days. I've a good busniss, which is likely
to be better. If a man can't be appy with such a wife as my Mary Hann,
he's a beest: and when a christening takes place in our famly, will you
give my complments to MR. PUNCH, and ask him to be godfather.”
LETTERS OF JEAMES.
JEAMES ON TIME BARGINGS.
“Peraps at this present momink of Railway Hagetation and unsafety the
follying little istory of a young friend of mine may hact as an olesome
warning to hother week and hirresolute young gents.
“Young Frederick Timmins was the horphan son of a respectable cludgyman
in the West of Hengland. Hadopted by his uncle, Colonel T----, of the
Hoss-Mareens, and regardless of expence, this young man was sent to
Heaton Collidge, and subsiquintly to Hoxford, where he was very nearly
being Senior Rangler. He came to London to study for the lor. His
prospix was bright indead; and he lived in a secknd flore in Jerming
Street, having a ginteal inkum of two hundred lbs. per hannum.
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