The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-25

accorded by English society to Prince
Victor was the hostility displayed to Mr..
Dyce-Sombre when he became the son-in-
law of Lord -. Vincent. His father was
a scotchman named David Dyce, who
was the original of George Middlemas in
Sir Walter Scotts well-known novel, THE
Surgeons Daughter" David Dyce went
OUT to India in the service of the East
India Company, which, however, he speed
lily deserted for that of the King of Dude,
then at war with England. Suspected of
having taken part in the infamous Patna
massacre, he contriVed to escape after the
battle of Buxar and married the Begun,
or native queen of Sombre Sirdhana.
Both he and his wife then waged war
against Wellington, but subsequently
came to terms with him. Their only son
styled himself Mr.. Dyce-Sombre, and in
herited their immense wealth, though not
their sovereignty, which was absorbed by
the English, and his arrival in London at
the beginning of Queen Xictoria's reign
created a great sensation. His marriage
with the Honorable Miss Jervis did not
turn out happily, for his inordinate jeal-
ousy led him to commit such eccentrici-
ties, including a dispatch of a challenge
to the Archbishop of Canterbury with
whom he wished to fight a duel that steps
were taken by his wife's relatives to place
him under restraint as a lunatic. He was
judicially declared insane, and the Hon
orable Mrs. Dyce-Sombre's people were
appointed trustees for his property, which
remained In their hands. He managed to
effect his escape to the continent, where
he spent the remainder of his days travel
ing about from one place to another in
constant terror of being locked up as a
mailman. On his death his wife, who be-
came the sole possessor of all his vast
fortune, married the third Lord Forester
and died about three years ago
1t would seem as If former prejudices
against matrimonial alliances with what
may be described as colored races were
gradually disappearing in Europe. There
are at the present moment several men,
berS of the British and continental aris-
tocracy who have dusky connections. Thus
the widow of the late Earl Of Stamford is
a coal-black Hottentot, and had it not
been for an unfortunate little mistake in
the date of the arrival in this world of her
son it is a young mulatto who would be
at the present moment a full-fedged peer
of the realm as the Earl of Stamford and
Lord Grey of Groby. This in1iction, how
ever, did not descend upon the upper
chamber of the British legislature, and
the titles of the late earl, a parson who
had abandoned his sacred calling and
taken to "squatting" in the wilds of South
Africa, descended to his nephew, who at
that time was earning a living as usher
of a school in Trinidad.
The present Lord Gardner is the son of
Hindoo mother, and is himself married
to a woman of the same race while the
only son of the fifth Earl of Midtown
who is now in the act of establishing his
claim TO the Irish peerages of his father
and uncles, all Of whom are now dead, Is
/ likewise married to an Indian woman, at
Bombay, who is destined eventually to
become Countess Of Midtown, Vscount-
ess Russborough, etc. The reason for the
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ed TO the eardlom at his fathers death,
twenty years ago, in lieu of his uncles
was because the existence of the matri-
monial bonds which subsisted between his
lowly born mother and his father had re-
mained profound secret, which was only
brought to light a short time ago. No
actual marriage ceremony ever took place
between the claimants parents, but they
lived together as man and wife in Scot
land, which, according to Scotch law, was
sufficient to constitute a valid union. The
earl subsequently deserted his wife. who
Ignorant Of her legal rights, permitted her
self 10 be sept off with her boy to Aus
tralia, where she died. the lad eventually
drifting TO Bombay. where he was en-
ployed as a railroad conductor until made
aware of his parentage and of his incon.
testable rights to his father earldom.
Nor Is it only the English arlstOcracy
that has alliances OF this kind to its rec
oFhf ollt bfitlHn peer lflQeeu having con-
tracted a childless marriage with a Chi
nese woman. Thus Count Henry Couden-
hove who Is the head OF one of the grand
est houses of the Austrian aristocracy and
a chamberlain OF the emperor. married
while Austrian envoy to the court of the
Mlkado japanese maiden, one O-Mitsu-
San. or course the union compelled the
resignation of his diplomatic post for
wives OF ambassadors are official person
ages with strictly defined preprogatives
precedence and rank, and It was feared
that complications of an unpleasant ma
ture might arise from the fact that the
Austrian ambassadress at the japanese
court belonged % the same race and ma
tionality as the Mikado.
The German Baroness Won Rahden. who
Is related to many OF the leading houses
OF the old Prussian aristocracy. created
an Immense sensation some years ago by
marrying NJ. Aoki. who until last month
was the japanese minister plenlpotentlary
TO the court OF Berlin, while much OF the
wealth OF the French ducal house OF De
In Rochefoucauld and OF the italian his
torc and princcly family OF Borghese
comes to them through the late Countess
Frederic Dc Ia Rochefoucaud. whose pa
rentage resembled that OF Mr. Dyce-Som
bre. That ~ TO say. she was a Eurasian.
or hali-caste, the daughter OF an Indian
begun or princess. and OF French ad-
veniurer. Perron. who abtured Christiani-
~ In favor Of Mahomc tansm 10 become
a esmmander-in-ckief 10 the army Of the