New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-17
THE MARQUIS OF Butte.

The marriage of the Marquis of Butte has,
for time occupied the attention Of the fashionable
world in England. The Marquis, whose family name ia
Stuart, Is descended from a noble English house which
represented in the peerage before Columbus had
crossed the Atlantic. He is the only Of the second
Marquis and Lady Hastings, daughter OF the first
Marquis of Hastings, and succeeded TO his fathers
title and estates while an infant When
in his eleventh year his mother died, but
his education received the most careful attention from
his guardians. About four ago considerable sur
prise was caused by the that he had
nounced the creed his fathers and joined the Roman
Catholic Church. He adopted this unOstenta
tiousy that stating that he had returned 70 his
former belief found ready credence until formally de-
MED.
The secession OF the Marquis had ceased 20 excite
comment, when, in May, 1870 Mr.. DisraePs Lothalr
recalled the young peer to the public mind In that
work. novelist, it will be recalled, intro
duces Lothair as a young English nobeman Of vast
wealth and exalted position. Left orphan in his IN
fancy, he is brought up under the charge OF two
guardans-one q grim Scotch lord, the other an En-
glish clergyman, who, having gone over TO Rome
became Cardinal Grandson, and the mainstay OF the
Papacy the British Isles The young peer introduced
In the just as he Is On the eve OF MS MAJOR
ity and making his entry into society; The story -
chiefly occupied with the efforts OF Cardinal Grandson
10 empt his ward into Church OF Rome and the ef
forts his other friends TO keep him out The parallel
went over but Lothian remained behind
The alliance OF the Houses OF Norfolk or AruDIel ana
Butte, however, snguarly confirms what could have
ony been conjecture with the moalis One part OF the
strategy of the introduction OF the young MIR
quis To Catholic family, Lord and Lady Ct Jerome and
their daughter Clare Arundel who nearly
his first love, and him dreaming Of the unity
OF Christendom, and planning great cathedral.
The conquest would have been speedy strongly
the charms Clare Arundel seconded by the artihces
of more experienced heads. But Theodore II made Ia
unreasonable youth. who il finally won by
Lady Corisande. Taking into account the 4sk- tonal
deviation Disrae desires 10 make between the real
and imaginary character, the parallel seems now cou
pete. go.
He inherited princey property, and during Ms mi
nority, the Accommodations were very great he owns
four magnificent residences: Mount stuart, roman
tically situated the Island OF Butte Card
Castle built in the eleventh century, wherein Robert
Duke OF Normandy, died, after being prisoner In IL for
% years; Dumfries House, Ayr, and Lodoun Castle,
property, are 65 in area, and cost upward OF
Is 100000 He also most OF the island OF Butte aud
other landed property OF great extent and value Inc
title Marquis OF Butte gives him precedence OF all
but princes and dukes. The family motto IL, Ar0 rtTct
hOnore "He ourishes in an honorable ancestry IL has
been arranged that the Marquis Is to repair witt Dis
bride immediately after the marriage ceremony % Car
diff Castle travelling by special train from London
Lord Howard whose daughter the Marquis has
housed member of the Catholic house OF Norfolk the
oldest in the peerage OF England He Is uncle OF the
present Duke OF Norfolk, and has been In the British
House Commons. He Is in his 54h and married
twice his second marriage taking place one year after
the death Of his first wife. The bride Is in her 10Th year