Dublin Evening Telegraph - Friday, May 24, 1895

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

[...] OUR London Correspondent writes — "Marquis of Queensberry has received many unexpected tokens approval of his recent proceedings which is rather a new sensation for him, as he usually has found himself in opposition to popular feeling hitherto. He is an object of general observation in the West End, where he takes his walks abroad, and he is often the recipient of kindly intimation of sympathy. The Marquis if by no means a wealthy man. In London he lives in Carter’s Hotel, Albemarle street, where he has a suite of three rooms and bathroom on the ground floor. These rooms are very plainly furnished, and the Marquis lives a quiet and regular life in them. After lunch every day he goes up for a ride on his bicycle in Regent’s Park, and on Wednesday, after his appearance in the Police Court, he was to be seen as usual making his way through Bond street to Regents Park on his machine. He is a small man, but very muscular, and is not yet fifty."

BY the way (continues our Correspondent when Mr. Oscar Wilde was let out on bail and was supposed to be staying at Babbacombe in Devonshire, he was really staying at Lord Douglas of Hawick’s house at Long Ditton, near Surbiton-on-the-Thames. Lord Queensberry fancied that his son, Lord Alfred, was also there, and made an unexpected visit to Charlton Lodge, producing a rather stormy scene. Lord Alfred, however, is still abroad, and Lord Queenbserry has no desire to interfere with Wilde so long as they keep apart. Lord Douglas still quite believes in Wilde, and stands by him as a way of standing by his brother. Lord Queensberry said that though he felt somewhat bitterly to Lord Douglas before, he has not softened towards him since he had the pluck to go for him. "A little bloodletting," said the Marquis, "is, I think, always a very good thing in family feuds. It clears the air, and often softens ill-feeling," which is more a sporting than a paternal view to take of the fracas of Tuesday.