Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-20
This makes heaven Of earth for this is Low,
The New v1ceroy OF ireland.

This makes heaven Of earth; for this is Love.
The New vIceroy of Ireland.
The Irish gentry are very much
pleased at the Duke of Abercorn's hav-
ing once more accepted the Viceroyalty
of Ireland, and all the more so as he
fuIfills the double function of great
landed proprietor and Viceroy. In ex-
tent, his possessions are among the
largest in the country, but in value they
are inferior to those of Lords Pembroke.
Downshire, Waterford and Sir Richard
Wallace. Lord Pembroke's is the most
valuable, comprising as it does the most
fashionable part of Dublin, and land be-
tween the city and Kingstown. The
rental is now 10000 year. The Duke
Of Abercorn has always been conspicu-
GUS for his fine person and noble bear
ing and is, perhaps, the beau ideal OF an
faristocrat. His daughters are remarka-
BILE for their beauty and their splendid
alliances They have respectively mar.
ried the Earl of Dalkeith, eldest son of
the Duke of Buccleuch; the Mar
quis of Blandford, eldest son of
the Duke of Marlborough, the Earls
of Durham, Litchfeld and Mount
Edgecombe, and the Marquis Of
Lansdowne. No family in England has
such prestige at the present time. The
Duke has three sons in Parliament.
The eldest is Lord in Waiting to the
Prince of Wales, the third Under Secre-
tary for India. The closest intimacy
has existed from childhood between this
family and Queen Victoris's. The
Duchess, half sister to Earl Russell, is
celebrated for the charm and graceful
ness of her manner. Her mother was
one of the daughters of the famous
Duchess of Gordon, known as the
Duke catcher" as she martied her three
daughters to dukes. 1t is a fact that her
grace at one time had her eye on the
first Emperor Napoleon as a son-in-law;
and spent much of her time in Paris
with that end in view. 1t was, however,
from bail at the house of her daugh-
ter, the Duchess of Richmond, that Well
lington was summoned to conquer, at
Waterloo, her contemplated son-in-law.
The Duchess OF Abercorn was traveller
in the train to which that awful accident
happened, in 1868, by petroleum wagon
running down an incline and coming In
contact with the engine of the Irish
mail Her marvelously cool and calm
behavior on that occasion excited pro-
found admiration. The Duke Of Aber-
corn succeeded his grandfather as first
Marquis, when boy. The first Marquis
was great celebrity in his day, and
plays large part in contemporary me-
moirs. In the north Of Ireland he was
quite prince, and the Duke of Yelling
ton refers in his dispatches to the trouble
he has in satisfying. the two great north
ern Lords" Abercorn and Conyngham.
From his seat, Stanmore, Lady Morgan
writes: "This house looks like little
town. One hundred and twenty people
slept under its roof at Christmas, not
including the under servants The
Queens Chamberlain told me there was
! nothing like the whole establishment in
England, and perhaps for a subject IN
Europe" and Lockhart tells how Sir
Walter Scott delighted to record his
meeting with Lord Abercorn; travelling
between Carlisle and Longtown, as, per
hans. the last relic of style of manners
now passed away, and never likely to be
revived. THE ladies of the family oc.
cupied four or FIVE carriages, all drawn
by the Marquis own horses, while the
noble Lord himself brought up the rear,
mounted on horseback and decorated
with the Ribbon of the Garter. On
meeting the cavalcade, Scott turned with
them. and was not little amused when
they reached the village Of Longtown,
which be had ridden through an hour
before, with the preparations made for
the dinner of the party. The Marquis
major domo and cook had arrived
here at an early hour Of the
morning, and everything was now
arranged for his reception in the paltry
little public house as nearly as possible
in the style of his own lordly mansions.
The ducks and geese that three hours
ago had been dabbling in the village
pond we're now ready to make their ap'
pearance under numberless DISCUSSES as
entrees. A regular bill Of fare fanked
the Marquis cover. Every towel had
been pressed to do service as napkin,
and, that nothing might be wanting to
this mimicry Of splendor, the landladys
crockery and pewter had been furnished
up and mustered in solemn form on
crazy old buffet, which was to represent
a sideboard worthy of Lucullus. In his
former Vice-royalty the Dukes house
hold and equipage arrangements we're on
a superb scale, and their splendor will
now doubtless be repeated.
a-o-E
Ithas been decided that when a woman