Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-06

Mrs Miller-M -Mundy had sgiven the straight tip" to her relatives in order to bring about an explosion which would result in dive tce On the 10th of December last Mir. Miller Mundy obtained divorce In the interval sundry incidents kept the scandal alive, Mrs. Mundy's mother meeting the Earl at the railroad station at Wirksworth, for ex- ample savagely assaulting him with her um- brella like another Mrs. Camp. On another occasion the Earl artfully induced his broth erin law (now deceased) Lord Helmsley, who had been enjo;ued to keep an eye on him, to go and arrange preliminaries for duel with MT. Palmer Morewood, who was keeping watch over Mrs. Miller-Mundy
 While the two watch dogs were thus occu- pied, the Earl fitted out of reach and met l the lady. When in November last the Earl of Shrewsbury came of age, he took Mrs. Miller-Mundy down to Alton Towers, his | seat. introduced her ''the lady whom he intends hereafter to make his wife, to his tenants and kindly offered to drive with her ! through the town of Stafford to rally the party of church and State to the banners of the conservative candidate in the then pend | ing Parliamentary election offer which, strange to say, was promptly declined by the ! local committee. The Earl is we'll favored young man, and one of his sisters, Lady Castlereagh, reigning beauty in London. 1 He holds estates, s'rincipally in Stafordshire | and Cheshire, of nearly 35,OO0 acres, with l rent troll of 958, 335, and two splendid seats,
 
 residence is "a painters dream realized in 1 antique stone," built by the fifteenth earl, whose cenotaph bears the fitting inscription. l ''He made the desert smile.'' The first Earl of Shrewsbury was the Talbot of Shake speare the sixth was Queen Mary of Scot l lands jailer the fourth husband of the | famous ''Bess of Hardwick." The eleventh earl was killed in memorable duel with | Charles IFS favorite, George Villiers second Duke of Buckingham. The son of this eleventh earl became Duke of Shrewsbury and one of the foremost men of his time. l He took 8 leading part in bringing over Will 1 liam of Orange and securing the succession to George I. The dukedom died with him, l but the earldom went to his cousin, Catho- lie priest from whom it passed to the lat ] ter's nephew. This nephew, the fourteenth earl, died childless The title passed to his ! nephew, who also died chidless, leaving his ! great inheritance in turn to his nephew. l This sixteenth earl left no son. cousin who succeeded him, Bertram, the seventeenth and the last Catholic earl of Shrewsbury, died unmarried in 1856 He was the brother of two beautiful women. the Princess Bor- ghese and the Princess Doria of Rome. The present line then came in in the person of leading Protestant nobleman, the third earl and fifth Baron, Talbot, grandfather of the present peer. The last Roman Catholic earl l by will left the estates to Lord Edmund I Howard, brother of the present Duke of Norfolk, in defiance of the family act which 1 the Duke of Shrewsbury had obtained in the | last century, entailing the estates forever | with the Shrewsbury earldom, but Earl Tal- | bot brought his famous suit in 1857 and final | ly obtained both title and lands. On Christ
 mas day last winter four of the now Coun- ] tess of Shrewsbury's brothers set upon their 1 elder brother, Mr. Palmer -Morewood, after l dinner, when he refused to sign a deed con l veying certain property to them, and beat l him rightfully. leaving him for dead. They
 were held in 1000 bail to answer, but
 jumped their bonds" to join their amiable l sister who was then yachting with the Earl i in the Mediterranean. The Palmer More l wood estates were demanded by claimant"
 in 1841, and it is understood that one result l of the fracas in December may be the bring
 ing up of another s'long-lost heir" To com.
 plete this pleasing family tale, sister of the
 new Countess of Shrewsbury's late husband,
 Miss Miller Mundy, now no longer living,
 married in 1869 the Earl of Shrewsbury s
 uncle, the Hon. Walter Carpenter, who Is
 now the heir-presumptive of the Earldon of l Shrewsbury! Such romances in real life
 beautifully illustrate the proposition advanc-
 ed with much gravity by the Rev. MT. Froth-
 ingham in 8 recent magazine article, that the
 aristocracy of England pass their innocent
 lives in devotion to the public good.