The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-08 00:00:00

TIIE SCA.NDAL IN lIIGII LIFE.

Our correspondent rnently told the story of a
now roe tidal—of a peer who ha 1 t:. ice gone through a
mir,r;.age ceremony, on one occasion, as he thought, ficti:
tiously, and on the other with more solemnity ; the fint
wif,! now reasserting her claims. The Ed ,o says that by a
curious fatality, abont the time at which we alluded to the
in titter, the individual whose peace of mind these
rumours would most concern, passed away from this
world of sorrow and crime. We do not know, says the
E luo, that the litigation referred to is pending, or
indeed, is likely to expose another scandal affecting the
aristocracy, until the coronet of which the possession is
said to bo contested shall become vacant. The question
is, whether a marriage in the eye of the queer Scotch law
was effected, and whether there was issue of the connec-
tion alleged to have existed. No voice, or pro-
test, we believe, was raised against the un-
doubted marriage which was solemnised in England,
and of which the validity has for so many years remaina
unquestioned. It is said that the mother of the
alleged intending litigant never presented her claim,
and that she died some six or seven years ago. Some
time back it is reported that counsel were engaged to
dispute the. point of legitimacy before the House of
L.irds, but the matter dropped. and now it is said to be
revived because a rich Australian has areed to find funds
for the trial. The claimant is said tote in possession of
proofs of his mother'S marriage, and of his own birth as
her son. We have heard that the claim is not new to the
family so seriously affected, the claimant having given
some sort of notice of his claims every year to certain
members of the family.

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