Arizona republican., 1898-09-28
GOSSIP OF EUROPE.

plications should be addressed to Lord Salisbury" For the office Of Solicitor Of the Treasury" the title by which the official charged with the duty of prosecuting criminally on behalf of the state, has become vacant in Great Brit ain through the succession of the Hon. orable Sir Hamilton Cuffe to his el der brothers earIdcm Of DesaTt, writes Aiarculse De Fortenoy in the Washing ton Post.
 It is an office which demands alto gether exceptional qualifications, net so much O. legal character as Of tact, discretion, and, above all, elasticity or conscience. And 1t is likewise sine qua non that the holder Of the office in question should belong by birth to the aristocracy.
 The most difficult and delicate part of his official duties consists in hunting up and pigeon-hoiing the crimes eonl- mitted by men and women belonging to the nobility without attracting pub lie attention. or giving rise to the well justified outcry in the press to the effect that the law is altogether differ ent in it's attitude to the rich and to the veil born, to what 1t is to the pcOr.
 h fact, the new public presenter will be expected to look after the inter- est Of his cases in the same way that the new Lord Desart has done for number of years past, thereby earning the gratitude of court and aristccracy, as well as knighthoCd Of the Bath, ard several other distinctions
 It is the so-called solicitor Of the treasury" who is called upon to decide whether CT not the government slCuid undertake the prosecution of cri11i- nal. Where the offender belongs to rich and aristocratic family, the latter frequently compromises matters f12n- ciaily with the victims Of the crime. who thereupon are ready to abandon the prosecution, as far as they them selves are concerned. The matter then rests with the department Of the solicitor Of the treasury, and if he con veniently can, he helps to hush up the entire affair, his guiding motive being to avoid all scandal affecting the aris- tocracy.
 Perhaps the most notable case or this character is that Of Lord Haldon's son, a self-confessed fcrger, who, in spite Of his admission in a civil suit that he had been guilty Of forgery, has never been Elolested by the criminal authorities Lady Sykes, too, should nave been prosecuted, for in two civil suits the verdict of the jury was equiv alent to declaration that the charges Of forgery brought against her by her husband were justified.
 William Henry Huriburt and Lord Arthur Somerset, the enc an American citizen, possessed of many titled frisnds in England the ether son of the duke Of Beaufort, and member of the household Of the prince Of Wales, vera given time by the public prosecu- tors department to leave the country and place themselves in safety before criminal proceedings were inaugurated and warrants obtained against them, while Lord William Neville, in spite Of his having been branded as . forgeT by the lord chief justice in civil suit, would never have been mclested by the public prosecutor had he not had the impudeuce to return from abroad, and to show himself in his accustomed hsGlt5 in London just as if nothing had happened.
 The new Lord Desart Ea;.st regret rather than appreciate his elevation to the peeTage, for there is practically no property that gees with the title, which does not even carry with it 3. seat in the house Of lords, and yet which com pels him to surrender his present lucra- tive appointment for naturally It would never do to have an earl as public pros ecutcr.
 The late earl enjoyed the distinction Cf being the ugliest member Of the British peerage. He was likewise a pro fessional journalist, served for 8 time as editor of Vanity Fair, and has writ ten Q number Of readable novels. He was twice married. His first wife ran away from him with the actor Susden, whom she married as soon as the earl lad divorced her. She has since been divorced by her fcctlight husband On the ground, 1 believe, Of iateTn perance, and is now entirely dec!asse, and, understand, penniless, although she still retains her title Of countess Of Desart
 The record which the late Lord Dc sart left among the newspaper fTatern- ity in LoEdCn is not Of the best, and it is both reported and believed that he used journalism for something in the nature Of terrorism. At any rate he was forced to resign his membership e the Guards club. and of other sim Il3riy exclusive institutions along Pail Mall in order to avoid a worsa fate hc was in particular the "bete noir'- Of the prince of Wales, who deliberate ly cut the earl with the remark that ha must draw the line somewhere, and that he could not GtIite swallow Desart's gcings-On And yet the Brit ish heir apparent is scarcely what can De described as remarkably choice CT particular in the selection of the per sons whom he haDors with his acquain lance Lord DesaTt'5 second wife and HOW his widow is 8 daughter Of the wealthy AnglC-German banker, Bisch- Offsheim. He lived but little with her howeyer. and he was in particular con- sDicU0us by his absence from the en- tertainments which his mother-in-law the Fiennese-born Mrs. BischoGsheim has been ii the habit Of giving every