Two more society scandals have come on to the carpet within the: Inst: week, or so, The Countess of Shrewsbury and Talbot is suing the Premier Earl of Eng-the descendant of the groat Est] of Shrewsbury, for breach of an agreement by which, upon thei tion by mutual consent, she was to be allowed a certain income and the use of certain properties; and the consequence is the washing of a good deal of dirty linen in publ It is all the more to be regretted because the Earl, who is by no means wealthy' for " man of his rank, seems to have been inclined to behave with a reasonable amount of generosity, and the matters in dispute might, one could think, have been easily settled by pr vote arbitration. The other is an Irish onse, in which " man named Swifte claims to be the legitimate son of the Into head of the old and wealthy Irish family of which Dean Swift was a member, and as such entitled to share the family properties with hi mother and half-brother, who ar to be entitled to the ancient Viscounty. of Carlingford, though he never proseoutlaird well kuovsn ju his own this claim before the House of Lords. Mr. A ho earned the hone sur by his no dispute about the paternity Scottish valsing and equip, ring Seotonly question is as for the Soutl 1 African his father and mother wore ix Baronets po, chaps the legally married. A good deal of sympathy Biddulph Mert in, MP. is felt for him, because whether hit husband Victoria {claim is good or bad he certainly seems Cooke, {to have boon hardly dealt with by the ate for th © pro-[family.
He and his elder brother and Pry fessor pest years in the -sidoney of the Lia a rot of 80! belief that they wore H. Darwin, lamer on the the legitimate children of "Lord Carlingford and then, when their mother the British Associ was dead and their father remarried, the "world-famous naturalist: 8°! then young Iads—seom to sao tort Windsor, the are two given s few pounds each and bract seer of Works, joroping ally told to shift for t vos. Shortly afterwards the father died and the 8 Viscounty and #0 taking earldom, and Lord poverty to which the sons were reduced the head of his family, ioo Winsor, itis expecta B voriee aay be judged by the fact that the elder "ed in the workhouse at Dublin. Of
the onrldom Of family. Lord Tvongh of Plymouth, urge the public do not even now, after the evidence has been heard, know ly existed jour that can b the facts of the case, or what faults! Tags denaryed oar may have been on either! given him for widowed from the proceeds but on the facts as stated Siiich he has there are Com possible not to sympathise with "OF Guinnese's stout. That the list is due paratively for politi "iti and to hope that the judges, ty of the General taken time to consider their doubt, to the praxiaity of Tlecticn; when we Are CUES to a have|* cision, n '8F Pronounce in favour of the validity of L'8 parents' marriage.
big shower of honours.
phe Princess Royal. othe whole the meet inten, 'Thre ations!' memorial to Mr. Glad-Statue. in the hoaote "tlatont—Br. Hapt0 Thornyoroft's bronze statue of the statesman in his robes as Chancellor of the Exchequer—with four allegorical figures ut the base of the ped.os tal, was unveiled ex Saturday in the wide open space wher" the eastern end of hawych opens ino the Strand, just in front of St. Ole.nent Dane's Church. Unfortunately, Lord Spencer, who was to have performed the ceremony, is still suffering from the effects of the recent paralytic stroke, and could not attend but Mr. John Morley pronounced splendid eulogy of the great statesman, and among those present were the Duke of Devonshire and ViscountPee!, colleagues of Gladstone who split fom him on the Home Rale question. Many, however, must have reéchoed the wish expressed by the Duke that tome of those had succeeded Lord Salisbury in the adership of the party opposed to Mr. Gladstone had been present. In default of that, however, our Conservative Pross has, almost unanimously devoted sympathetic leading articles to the subject of the monument. As a work of art, the will have to submit to the critioiem which all our public statues undergo; but the figure of Gladstone is dignified and impressive, and is @ speaking likeness, 17th November.
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