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Show GRANT'S LONDON SEASON The New York World obtains the following information from an American gentleman .recently in London: I was present at the reception in Cavendish equare; there was really nothing very bad about it exept the crowd. Grant bebaveu very well, but he looked to me like a man who had been dissipating, eating and drinking too much and too well, until he wait pulty, and on that occasion he was undoubtedly about 'half over the bay', but although he had evident'y been drinking much more than was good for him he did nothing out of the way. Pierrepuut, on the contrary, no matter how sober, CAii'tlrelp being always ofLiisive; be is a man who oils bii hair and curlu it under at the ends, ayes his whiskers and then hits to stand the consequences. It would be impossible to give you a detailed account of Grant's stay in London. That he drank too much at a number of dinners was well known, but that is nothing very uncommon in Lon-den, Lon-den, and I think the Englishmen rather liked him the better for it. Grant himself, I repeat, if let alone would have got along very well, 1 think, and made a good impression, but Pierrepont's snobbery was painful pain-ful to Americans ami amusing and disgusting in about an equal degree to everybody. Pieirepout laid down the law that General and .Mrs. Grant were entitled to take precedence on occasions of ceremony over every olb but the royal family. Of course the diplomatic corps toi'k issue on the matter, aud reluied to acknowledge any such chum, so that Pierrepont had to avoid a meeting between the diplomatic corps and I he general, which look any amount of manoeuvring manoeuvr-ing on his part. Geneiul Badeau also made himself ridiculous by distributing dis-tributing visiting caids containing the words, 'aide de cuiiip' in waiting oti General Grant;' for of course eveiy-body eveiy-body in London immediately d e-covered e-covered that there was no t-udi petition peti-tion or title in existence lor any one to hold. The brilliant scheme in vented by Pierrepont, of leaving the. General's aud Mrs. Grant's cards upon about two thousand people after iheir departure wi.s all well enough if they had executed it properly; but as it was, all London was convulsed with laughter over the absurdity of Mrs. Grant'B card adorning tho tables ol half the bachelors in London society! I could tell you ol many equally and even more absurd things," Baid our informant., "hut it is such a disgrace to us lo have been so represented that perhapB the lees there is said or written about it the better." |