Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-03-17
LAST LONDON SCANDAL.
one Friend Of the Prince OF wales
EIoPe~ win AnO her Friends
Wife.
BLOOD VIII TeII-The Facts Of Fast Fan
cIss and Moral Failures.

New York World.
LONDON, March I3.-Much indigns-
ton has been excited in the West End
Of London to-day by 8 cable dispatch
received mere 10 having been published
in the New York Herald OF this morn
ing, in relation TO cOrjugal unpleasant
ness which hes Just OCCURRED 10 the cir
Gle Of the intimate friends of the Prince
OF Wales. The Marquis Of BlaudfoId,
the eldest son and heir Of the Duke ~
Marlborough, who, though but thirty
two years o' age, has earned for himself
a scaudalous reputation not unworthy q
veteran Of vice, and whose lovely wife,
Lady Alberths Hamilton, daughter Of
the Duke OF AbeTcorn, was recently
compelled by his misconduct TO leave
him ard return to her family, has just
ran away with the Countess of Ayles-
ford. This is bad enough, but it is by no
means unprecedented. What the West
End cannot endure is the assertion Of
your cOtemp0Tary that the Countess
CT Aylestord, with whom the mar
uuis hiss run away, is the ripe and
respectable mother of his friend And
boon companion, Lord Aylesford. That
a marquis OF ihirty-two should tramp,e
good taste under foot with the decalogue
BY clipping with countess Of fifty, is
such an imputation on the nobility Of
this realm that nothing but the absence
on urgent private business Of the Amer
lean minister, General SchencK, has
prevented Lord Derby from making the
ssseition Of the Herald a cduSus 6ettt at
once. The following is the Objectionable
statement to which I sllude:
"The Right Hon. Heneage Finch,
Earl OF Aylesford, is the eldest con of
the second earl OF that title by his wife,
Lady Augusta Sophia, daughter Of the
Earl of Warwick. The present peer YVES
born.in the year 1924, and succeeded to
the title in the year 1859. In the year
lS40 he married Jane, only daughter and
heiress Of the late John Wightwick
Knightley, Esq, Of Ofchurch, Bury, in
the county OF Oxford. He is descended
fCom common ancestor with The Earl
of Winchelsea. Lord and Lady Ayles'
ford have a SOD, the heir to the tile
Heneage Finch, Lord Guernsey-wbo
was born in 1919"
The facts are that this "Lord Guern.
say" born In 1919 is himself the present
earl of Aylesford, and the victim Of
misplaced confidence, whose private
mishsp has now become 9 public scan
dial. His father, the sixth (nOt the Sec
ond) earl of AylesfOrd, died in 1871, in
which year also his son and successor
married very charming girl, Mics Ed
ith Williams, the third daughter OF Col
onel Williams, OfTemple house in Buck
lnghsmsbiIe, a stout Tory OF Mr.. Dis
raeli's own county. Lady Aylesford,
who has not yet seen quarter Of cen
tury OF summers. is a charming young
woman OF fashion, who has long been
regarded as q femme iylconprise, her
husband, Lord Aylesford, being neither
mentslJy nor morally any better than
his companion, the Marquis Of Bland
fore. Lord AylesfOri, who inherited
estates In Wsrwickshire worth some
twenty-th0usand pounds steiling and
estates in Kent worth perhaps half as
much more, has eOntrived at the early
age OF tWenty-seVen SO far to bankrupt
himself in fortune and reputation that
the Prince OF Wales has provoked good
deal ssof scandal by his intimacy with
him, and especially by selecting him
SIS one of mis- suite in the expedition to
India. Lord Blaudford is the older
brother of Lord Randolph Churchill,
who Two or three years ago married
young American lady of New YORK.
None OF the parties directly interested
In this depIorsble affair are Of any par
ticular consequence individually, bit as
they have sll bean identified il the pub
lie mind with the Marlborough bouse
set' and the Prince Of Wales, their mis-
conduct will probably be improved to i'll
crease the already very considerable anK-
jety OF the more respectable classes in
Great Britain as TO the ways and the
works OF their future sovereign. For
John Ball, though the peerage is COIN
monty said to be his blole, Peruses that
work with a beatifed Inconsistencies
Of the scorching light its pages throw
upon his pretensions to be regarded asa
creature 0! exemplary domestic habits;
and is never weary OF thanking God that
in respect to the seventh commandment
he is not ia the least like other men
Frenchmen, for example, aud Germans,
q publican and sinner. -u