Show BLOODY AS A BRITISH el EPITHET M f D conway wi ites front from london 1 I heal d mr bri bright 11 lit say tile the other day that in ills his opinion tile british people had been demoralized by the ci amean aarand war and that lie he had no doubt that they could be cal cabied lied into a war wal twice as easily as beffie bedol 0 tile the position was eagel eagerly t ly denied by some good r judges adges 0 who were pi ese nt whether or not the ill batal cital vein of the english people has been exasperated by all the taste of russian blood I 1 am convinced that it has a very decided existence and I 1 cannot help thinking that thele is some significance in that universal expletive of tile the lower classes which vall calls i everybody bloody I 1 can call give no impression of the fic quency with which this ugliest of wolds occurs in any ci crowd A man mail offers boners to bet a bloody shilling 11 that chete will be a bloody rain to morion al another lother wish vs cs to know when this bloody steamer is ia a going 6 to start and in fact mr clr Dick enss account of an baity blood was discussed so fo earnestly that it might inight 0 have been taken for a party of ogi es cs would be ti tic no of the party also so iauch sanguinary I 1 never headd to show liow how confirmed this slang i ia I 1 am ain told that on oil one occasion at the loid Ilay ois cout bonit t a niall m m giving in his testimony said when I 1 told toni tom that lie anut give me that bloody luck back tic he squared off and just then a bloody policeman came and bi ought ns to your bloody honor 1 |