The organ-grinder claimant to the Earl-just Leen visiting the family estates. People hal begun to wonder whether he had been induced by some means to abandon his claim; but it s evident that he intends to yo on with it, and that before very long we shall have most interesting cause célébre in the Law Courts. The story of t of the dispute is told succinctly in the new edi ion of Whittaker's Peeraye—how the then young heir to the earldom made a het that he would marry the first he met in the street, how he carried out his het, and how, some six months later his wife presented him with a son—tho present elder claimant, who, however, contends that his father and mother had lived as man and wife for some time befo the marriage. There are two other interesting eases of disputed peerages which are likely to come before the Courts sooner or later, The ' black" claimant of the Gardner Barony died a few months ago, though Whittaker, accurate as he usually is, has failed to record the fact; but he has left son who has even a larger share of native Indian blood' than his father, since his mother, like his grandmother and great grandmother, was of unmixed native blood. 1 The who have investigated his claim regard it as indisputable, and we may therefore have a black man " sitting in the House of Lords. The third ease is that of the Viscounty of Bolinghvke and. St. John. The recently deceased Lord Bol iyrake left the world in considerable to the validity of if not two marti which he seems to ave contracted at lo intervals; and the consequence that there are likely to be three claims nts for the title.
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