The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-06-25
ma ,or,ty in every county of Ulster.

| q majority In every county VI
| and have always had' ,, al
"a now that / am challenging eai-
| torial omnisclence. ] am emDoideheu u
| 80, further. Your last SUNDAY contain
"a rhackerays poem, THE Age OF WIS
a., " hut IL my memory serves, you
| ~,,,tted IFS most amusing stanza. lhere
g. not y copy OF Thackeray WITHIN a
thousand miles Of me. and speak WIN
| inc consequent reserve, as nav ~
| 80, the lines for ten years or more
| But ] think you VIII hHu "i'0i ''
| which you printed:
"rortv wears let Michaelmas pass. &c,
the following. which you omitted;
..r,,ventv wears more let Michaelmas fleet,
,-,,',, Won will be of a different cheer;
Tben you'll 30 falling in love In the
rben you'll propose to the first girl you
meet,
| oncs YOU have come to sixty years"
Ask Judge Crump II II Is not SOL
,,oan the lines and the fact, for he is
rorennIallv young and never will come
- eIxty years" hope and believe.
That was a droil sale in London the
other day Of upwards Of 2GO pieces OF
old worcester Porcelain" being the din
nor service presented by the nation 10
nortrait OF his mistress" my dearest,
beloved Emma" as he was wont TO call
her the fascinating Lady Hamilton.
Fancy q public testimonial in the land OF
Queen Victoria. say 20 Lord Wolselcy, or
the India hero, Lord Roberts. with the por-
trait OF another mans wife, VIGOROUSLY
the donee's mistress, as the decoration.
oddly enough Just about that time we
were having a Hamilton scandal In our
country. with the difference that the
Hamilton in our case was masculine,
the brilliant Secretary OF the Treasury
under Washington. Hamilton wrote
pamphlet about II. now long since out
OF print" which perhaps contains the
oldest formula Of confession ever en-
ployed in such case.
Lord Nelson's Lady Hamilton was
remarkable woman. Daughter Of ser
want, and herself a bar maid in hotel,
who succeeded In marrying an English
ambassador and captivating the most
famous captain in English naval history
and who as recent publications prove
shaped Nelson's fighting in the Mediter-
ranean more effectively than the English
admiralty. must have been an eXtrlor-
binary person. When French cruiser
captured dispatches and letters addressed
TO him. many from his beloved Emma,
find out? That I love you most dearly
and hate the French most d-nably."
The tendresses Of his great countryman
and contemporary, Wellington. are now
again to the fore You remember that
last year a great number OF very gushing
letters from the IrOl Duke TO a young
lady were published. whose authenticity
no one has so far dared challenge but
the death Of the Marchioness Of Allies
bury has brought u the surface several
stories Of the "firtations" Wellesley.
some amusing, one sad.
Speaking Of Engiah matrimonial mat
tors, you saw, doubtless, that the Queen
had given her consent to the marriage
Of her grandson, the Duke Of York. with
the easily cOnsoled Princess Mary Of
Teck. and, perhaps you know that ibis
is I'm virtue Of an act framed. ! think,
in George lis time, visiting with the pains
Of praemunire any one who partici-
pated in, or was Involuntary present al
the marriage Of any member Of the royal
family who should marry without the
sovereign's consent, and declaring the
void. But what is not so gen
orally known is that the Duke Of Cam
bridge thus married without the royal
lpproval-the present Duke.
I see our French friends having had oil
ilIff competitors LOT MT. 1dllot > pace
swept away, either by death. as Ferry
pr by Panama, as all "The Less" and
being a little ashamed of the hystcria
which made them placard Cavaignacs
speech, which no one read all over
France. are now talking OF VI. Challe-
mel LacOur. the new academician and
president Of the Senate, as the coming
man. l am curious to know how the
domestic question will be settled should
he succeed. When Grevy. who had mar
ried his housekeeper-I could have for
given. even applauded, had II been his
,oOk-was elected. he sent for his wife.
from whom he had long been separated.
and installed her at the Elysee, where
she conducted herself with so much iig-
lily and good sense that even scandal
aeld It's peace. But, unhappHy, NJ Chal-
omel Lacour has completely neglected
even the civil ceremony. But the world
S charitable and may forget Just as all
he biographers OF the Earl Of Derby,
who died the other day. seem TO have
forgotten or agreed 10 ignore that curious
ipoon-theft. which elouded his earlier
lays and which II IL did not invent, cor
ainly popularized the word "klep,o-
mania" A. NJ. K.