The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-05-01
BRILLIANT MARRIAGES.

As some families are remarkable for Their
success in politics, others for the number Of
sons they have supplied to the law and army,
80 certain houses have been conspicuous for
their success in what may be called the noble
profession of marriage. Of course it is in
the power of any one to repair some morning
with q partner to the neighboring church, and
there undergo the clergy man and his ap-
pointed form; to this easy feat we by no
means refer. It is the grand coups. the splen-
did alliances, and, more prodigious still, the
series of such, secured by skillful matron for
her train Of daughters, that extort q cry Of
admiration, and imply genius Of the order Of
. Turenne or Pitt.
The name of the Duchess of Gordon must
be ever mentioned with respect, owing to her
skill in this department., and that logged
sense Of mot knowing when she was beaten, !"
which is the note both Of the British soldier
and the British mother. This intrepid lady,
whose daughters inherited nothing, not even
her personal beauty, contrived by her personal
exertions to secure as sOns-in-law the Dukes
Of Richmond, Bedford and Manchester, the
Marquis CORVALLIS, and barOnet the last
must have seemed as much q mesdAidnce as
marrying q f0otman. Nay, it is said that
when one Of the dukes was seized with NOR
tai illness, after the preliminaries only had
been arranged, she brought her daughter to
attend him to the last with preconjugal de-
yotion and fidelity, and within year had ar
ranged new marriage with his brother and
heir! We can hear the deep.drswn breath,
the wistful EXPLANATIONS of admiration as some
less successful though equally incumbered
matron reads this, and as i'll the case Of DR..
Lynn, the cOniuror, wonders show it's DONE"
But these prodigies are not unknown to
our own time. 1t is curious that Scotch
families should have won most distinction in
this walk. One branch Of the great house Of
Hamilton, like that Of the Hspsburgs-tu
felix Austria nube-has fortified itself in the
most surprising way by connections with
line of illustrious families The present Duke
of Abercorn was a simple Irish marquis,
but q moderate income for q peer. and an
average estate in the north of Ireland; but
he came of proud and aspiring stock. The
late marquis, who was Lady Morgan's patron,
was one of the haughtiest men of his time;
and as evidence of his state, it was reported
that the sheets Of his bed were of satin or
silk, (the point is not of importance.) The
present marquis, whose name. not inappr0
priately, opens Sir Bernard Burke's grand
roll Of heraldry, claims to be Duke Of Chat
elleraut in France, and is one Of the three
peers who have "distinct peerages in the
three Kingdoms" He began by marrying the
Duke Of Bedfords daughter, then became .
NHsHl " tAo NAEJer ana AOTO AloutouHut VI
Ireland. " his daughters, one Is married to the
Earl Of Lichheld, second to the Earl of Dur
ham. third to the Earl Of Dalkeith, who will
be Duke Of Buccleuch. . fourth to the Earl Of
Mount Edgeumbe, fifth to the Marquis Of
Lansdowne, q sixth to the MARQUIS of Bland.
ford and future Duke Of Mariborouch. His
three sons, too, are in the House Of Com
mons, and his brother sat in the last Parlia.
ment.
The Moncrieffes, another family, but Of
lower degrees. have also been singnlarly for
tunate in their alliance. 1t is curious to find
the beautiful daughters Of baronet winning
duke, an earl, and two baronets. London
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