Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-12
Facts Connected With the Early
Pauncefote Family.
ONE A COMPLIANT OF THE PROTECTOR
Questions Which Agitate the
Protestant Episcopal Church.
HIGH-TON MERICANS
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.


! LONDON, August 2, 1S99
Some interesting facts connected with
! the ancestry of Sir Julian Pauncefote and
| also with his career may well be recalled
on the occasion of his elevation to the
peerage. He is descendant of a Glouces-
| tershire family, whose head had been the
| squire of Preston court for many centuries
past. His maternal ancestors are the
| Cubitts of Norfolk, a family which has
often taken its share in matters of ma
| tional Importance, and many members of
which have been noted for just that per-
severing resoluteness, self-possession, COM
posture and tact which have served Sir
| Julian to such good purpose. 1t was to a
representative of his family, member of
| the long parliament to whom Cromwell
confided his intention, if the grand remon
| STRANGE had gone against him, to emigrate
to America.
THE protector" Sir Julian Pauncefote
has remarked with reference to this Incl
dent, might have found some of my rela-
tons even then established in New Eng
land, for in Norfolk a Cubitt Is believed
to have been among the passengers by the
Mayflower to New Plymouth. One of the
family of Norfolk Cubitts was some CEN
| turtles later to be my mother"
1t was partly owing to this fact that
America gave him so hearty q welcome
when he first became ambassador to the
United States, though many of our lead
ing men had met him in Hong Kong and
been charmed by that combined courtesy
and astuteness which have made him so
valuable a servant to the empire.
There are still old practitioners in the
temple who speak of young Julian Paunce-
fote endeavoring to establish a practice
after his call to the bar by the Middle Tenn
pie in 1852. The cadetshp he had received
| at the hands of the old East India Com
pany had been abandoned at the wish of
his parents; Briefs were by no means
plentiful, although he diligently Travelled
the old Oxford circuit. At the end of three
years he got appointed private secretary to
Sir William Wordsworth, the colonial sec
rotary, and afterward went to Hong Kong,
where he made large practice and was
appointed attorney general. This expert
ence was invaluable imparting that
knowledge of International law in actual
practice which be learned in few
schools. His services were afterward requi-
sitioned at the colonial office, although the
advent of under secretary who had not
been trained in the Office itself was re-
garded a dangerous innovation.
There have been comparatively few
British diplomatists whose training has
not been exclusively within the London
for eign office or at one of the embassies in
the European capitals. but the late Sir Will
liam White, Sir r. Morier and Sir Julian
Pauncefote are proofs that success as am
bassadors does not necessarily depend on
training of that description. kilograms
faction felt there at the elevation of the
popular minister.
Question of Church Practice.
The decision of the archbishops in the
case of incense and professional lights has
caused some surprise and no little conster-
| nation in the high church party. On both
| points the decision of DR.. Temple and DR..
| Maclagan is hostile to the extreme view.
| They declare that the use of incense as part
| of the service is not legal, and ought to be
discontinued, and that the use of lights in
professions in church is also not authorized
| by the prayer book. The question at once
arises, will the ritualistic party accept this
decision? 1t has, of course, obligatory
force. 1T is not the determination of
court of law, and whatever weight it pos
sesses is derived solely from the Episcopal
position of those who have given ii. Legal
| ly it is Il" more than opinion, and none
| of the Gle. gy can be compelled to obev it or
| forego the practices that it condemns.
DR.. Cobb, whose ritualistic practices here
| in London have attracted considerable at
| tenton, makes interesting suggestion.
| His view is that the persons primarily af
fected by the archbishops judgment are
| the three or four clergy who spontaneously
| appealed to the court. and that the adop-
| ton of the Lambeth findings becomes so
| far as the general body of the clergy are
concerned, matter of individual discre-
| ton, subject more or less to the commands
| of the several bishops. This is very dex-
| ferrous. The extremists, apparently, may
go on defying the law laid down by the
privy council and the archbshops until they
are pulled up by their own diocesans, to
whose godly counsel and advice they may
or may not be amenable. If any conSidera-
| BILE number of Clergy take this view of their
position, it does not appear that eccesias-
teal unity will have been brought much
nearer by the labors of DR.. Temple and DR.
Maclagan There is, however, something
| in the idea that the bishops should be got
to agree among themselves before the cler-
gy are assailed for contumacy and 1t will
To HOY for thnir
/ will take them
| Where Milton Was Baptized
For several days past more or less disquiet-
| ing rumors have been afioat with reference
| to the condition of st. Mary-Ie- Bow This
| is the famous church on Cheapside of
| which it is said that all who are born
| within sound of its bells are cockneys
| Americans know it chiefly as the church
| where Milton was baptized and on whose
| walls is a memorial to the poet Some in
qu1rleS show that there is only too much
! foundation for these rumors, although the
| actual state of affairs has been exag-
gerated. Some rather alarming cracks have
| appeared in the porchway. on two sides of
which there is an ominOuS crevice running
| from floor to ceiling. On the We side of
| the church there is another crack, and the
| base of the lower has lurched several inch
| es. hastily summoned conference of the
| church fabric committee and other local
| authorities, with Archdeacon Sinclair. has
decided that the opinion of an expert en-
| gineer shall be Immediately taken and fu-
| ture action will be guided by his report. 1t
| is believed that the settling is due to the
| Central London railway tunnel, which runs
| under the church A church has stood upon
| this site, it is believed, from a time before
| the city had its beginning. The old church
| was destroyed in the fire of London, and
| the present structure was one of those
| erected by Sir Christopher Wren.
| Geographical Congress.
have received some information regard
| ing the program of the international geo
| graphical congress which is to be held in
Berlin during the last days of September
and the early days of October. 1t may
safely be said that the Berlin Geographical
| Society has spared no pains to make the
| congress a success. l understand that the
| German geographers are anxious to make
| practical results the keynote of the meet
| ing, and they have decided not to squander
| any of their energies an exhibition such
| as that which was a marked feature of the
| London congress four years ago. The social
| side of congress life will not, of course, be
| neglected among such hospitable people
| as the Germans, and for foreign visitors a
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