Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-06-29

THE Country INVADED BY THREE LIVE LORDS,
ALI. THE WAY PROM H'ENGLAND.-They've got o.
sensation now in New. York city, sure enough;
nothing less than three live English Lords, be-
side a sprig ofnobility that ranges as high as an
Honorable. Two of these Lords came over IN
the Persia and tho other in the Africa The
two imported by the Persia are describedastWo
Of the Younger members Of the richest noble
houses in Great Britain--Lord R. Grosyenor
and Lord IL. F. Cayendish- one representing
the wealthy family of WestminsterS and the
other that of the hardly less worthy house of
Deyonshire. For fear these two Lords might
take notion to come out here to Wheeling,
we deem It expedient to copy fuller intrOduc'
ton, so that oiw ton may rest assured that
they are the genuine article:
/ Lord Richard dc Aqnila Grosvenor is the
third son Of the present Marquis Of Westminster,
the richest nobieman in England. His income
lis said to be equal to $4,000 day. The Mar
ouis married the youngest daughter OF the first
Ilnke of Sutherland, and had several children,
of whom our present visitor Is the third l'oru
Richard Grosvenor is quite a young man, having
only arrived at his majority in january last,
The Grosvenors trace their descent in the male
| line from a family of Normandy, century and
a half before the conquest OF England. Inc
fo,,nfer of the English branch Of the family
was Sir Gilbert Lie Grosvenor, who came over
to England with William the Conqueror, and IN
1.-THE wear 1851 one Of his successors was created
Baron Grosvenor, of Eaton, IN the county Of
Chester, title still borne, we believe, by the
MARQUIS of Westminster.
Lord Henry Frederick Cayendish Is, II we
mistake not, a younger son OF the present Duke
of Devonshire, who has recently become en-
TITLED to the coronet and estates ofthe late Duke
around the history of whose birth gossip has
threw 80 much romance. lie was said to have
beengthe child of some dependent Of the former
Duke who. was substituted at nurse for the real
heir. but having obtained possession, which is
nine noints in the law, and moreover money to
contest a suit. the members of the family con-
cuded 10 permit him to enjoy the inheritance
of his reunited father during his ifetime-he
cotisenting not TO marry This We believe is
the story, and as the late Duke Is alleged to have
kept his compact, though some tales have been
set up of a legalmarriRge, a real CaVendlsh once
moro claims the dulSedOm of Devnnshire, with
| its immense wealth, and its magnificent seats oil
Chatworth, Chiscik, Lisinore, and the rest
The Cavendishes are very ancient hniiy' a
Sir John Cavendish was the body esquire OF
King Richard the Second, and is reported to
| have been the knight who killed Wat Tyler at
Rloclheath when Mayor Walworth struck the
gallant rebel down with his mace. The CaVen-
dish family laid the foundation OF their fortunes
in the time Of Henry the Eighth, when the alb
hay and monastery lands were disposed OF to
The friends of the reforming monarch. Sir
William Cavendish had been gentleman usher
to the unfortunate Cardinal Wolsey; but he does
not seem to have shared either the disgrace or
the poverty of his master, Tor no small share oil
the conhscated lands of the church, whose TEN
poralities were so libcrally bestowed upon the
friends of the rising establishment at that time,
fell into his hands.
ftt1I fitIil
matrimonial market for this long while back,
the importation of the above parties ought to
cause considerable Shaking of the dry bones"
whale bones we mean, Of course)
His 'totber highuess, the third lord, amt any
,ss,nsn potatoes" in his line, either He ought
to be able to provoke a great many languishing
signs from the bare necked bellies, who will no
doubt swarm about him as he goes from city to
city. His name is Lord Baron Riblesdale lord
Riblesdale for short) and we arc told that he
Is the third baron of that title, to which he
succeeded in December, 1882 His family name
is Thomas Lister, very ancient Pantronymc
in the locality where the Gisburne estates lie,
and which, have been held by the Listers tor
full five centuries His lordship, we believe, IS
n peer OF the realm. He is a little over thirty
years of age and no doubt intends to Improve
his sporting experience by studying now we run
our yatchs and horses, and hunt our deer and
nrairie chickens in this country. His mother.
the dowager Baroness Riblesdale. married Lord
John Russell in 1885; but she died soon AFTER
in 1918. and made one Of the three widows
With whom that astute little statesman welded,
which won for him the title by which he has
been so often styled-the widows mite"
A HoRR1RLR SroRY-A Woman 2arred and
tsathere5 and Nurdefed,--The Detroit Free