Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-04

beauty broken off. that of young Sir Robert Peel to Miss Lane-FOx (who has since become the Countess of Powis) having been among the number It is Mrs. Lantry, too, who contributed more than any one else to the financial and domestic difficulties of the young Earl Rosslyn, who commenced by being her racing partner, and ended by being com pelled to turn over his entire stable to her, as well as to sell by auction a num- Der of family treasures, etc. The young Countess of Rosslyn is a particularly charming and popular woman, and so much sympathy was felt for her that probably none of the infatuations with which Mrs. Langtry has inspired the members of the English aristocracy did her more harm than this particular one. Today Lord Rosslyn is about to go on the stage, to adopt a professional career, not so much on the ground of a passionate love of the drama as from the fact that ms past extraVaganceS render It 1ndfS- pensable that he should work for liv- ing, and he believes that the theatrical profession is the only one in which he can ever hope to earn any money.
 No sympathy will be felt for the Count ess of Shrewsbury by society. She Is considerably older than her husband, in- duced him to elope with her from her peer being at the time a mere boy), and Is a woman possessing a most ungov- ernable temper. Completely ostracized by society, and even by the members of her husbands family, who refuse to have anything whatever to do with her, she leads life so unpleasant that it Is impossible to understand why she should not leave England and take up her resi- dence abroad. Her husband goes every where in society without her, and leads the life of a gay bachelor. his wife never under any circumstances being seen with him.
 He Is by all odds far and away the most wideawake of the many titled ad- mirers of the Lily" more so even than old Sir Albert Sasoon, who was at one time so devoted to her For, before he had attained his majority, he appeared before one of the London police magis- trates In connection with a rather unsav- ory horse-trading transaction, in which, in spite of his youth, he had got the bet ter of men much older and experienced than himself, that they determined to air their grievances in the police court. Moreover, while he denies himself noth- ing, he has known how to add to, instead of to diminish, the family shekels, by all kinds of enterprises, his hack cab busi- ness in London having been so success full that he found no difficulty in con Verting it into joint stock company at big advantage to himself.
 The suit of Mrs. Langtry against the bank for the recovery of the value of her
  bre'' of the coming season, and she has already managed to secure "Dedo's" hus- band, the late secretary of state. for the home department, as one of her counsel. Sir Edward Clarke, as usual, has the un- popular side of the case to look after, his clients being the Union bank. It is needless to say that popular sympathy is all with the actress, and against the bank, not on the ground of equity, but merely because there is a beautiful wo- man on one side and corporation on the other the lovely woman naturally in- spires a greater degree of interest. So the jury will probably decide in her favor, although from a strictly legal point of view, it appears that, inasmuch as the bank received no remuneration for stor- ing the jewels, had no knowledge of the value of the contents of the casket, and merely kept them as matter of accom- modation to the owner it cannot be le- gally held responsible for their loss.