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occasion of the coronation of her son, Joseph. as titular- King of Rome. The order which is more especially a Hun garian one, is divided into three classes namely, Grand Cross, Commanders and Knights. The latter on receiving the cross becomes ipso flctO nobles and hereditary ritters or chevaliers. Those who receive the commanders cross be- come in the same way hereditary bar ons and members of the privy council with the prefix of ''eXcellency." The Grand crosses carry with them not merely a privy councilorship, but also the hereditary title of count. A subject of the Austro- Hungarian government is ineligible for the highest grade of the order, unless he can show that he has four generations of exclusively noble ancestors on the paternal as well as on the maternal side. The ribbon of the orGer is cherry red and green, while the full dress costume of the knights is old Hungarian, the mantle being of green velvet lined with purple silk and bor- dered with ermine, while the cap is adorned with a superb heron plume.
 
 
 tral estates in the British nobility has passed into the hands of the new rich through the sale by Lord Hampton of Westwood Park to the well-known pa per manufacturer, Edward Burlington Of Gl0ssop. II ia a lovely old place and has been in Lord Hampt0n's family for at least four centuries. The title of Lord Hampton is Of relatively modern origin, but the patronymic of Lord HamptOn's family is Pakington, Sir Herbert Pakington. who was the origi- nal of Addison,s Sir Roger de Cover ly,'' and Sir Rogers lordly country seat described by Addison Is none other than Westwood Park. The latter is in the EliZabethan style, and is one of the best specimens extant of the architeC- ture of that time. It contains q fine banqueting hall and private chapel, the latter having superb glass windows The grounds are magnifcently kept and comprise a lake fifty acres in ex- tent and stocked with trout
 The Pakingtons hourished already in the reign of King Henry I, and one If them, a Sir John Pakington, received a patent from King Henry VII. granting him and his successors the quaint right of keeping his hat on his head in the presence of the sovereingn. There are only two other people in England who possess a similar right, namely, Lord Kingsale, to whose ancestor the hered- itary prerogative was granted by King John, and the master of Trinity Col lege, Cambridge, for the time being.
 It is on record that on the occasion of one of the Queens visits to Cambridge in the early part of her reign, the mas ter of Trinity made use of his preroga- tive. much to the amazement and in dignatiOn of her majesty, who had been until then unaware of the preroga tive possessed by the master in the matter The master himself undertook to ex- plain the matter to her majesty. where upon she is stated to have pointed out to him with no little asperity, that all though the royal patent invested the head of Trinity College with authority to retain his hat upon his head/in the presence of the sovereign. it did not confer upon him the privilege of ce- maining covered in the presence of a lady.
 DIT William OlpheftS,5 who has just been invested by Queen Victoria with the grand cross of the Bath. is the cen tral figure of many stirring stories. He won the Victoria Cross by a wild act Of bravery that only a dare devil Irishman would think of tackling. and his escape was regarded as a miracle by his com rades. who invested him with the pie turesque nickname of Hell Fire Jack (which has stuck to him ever since.
 Sir William Gatacre, the general who was sent home by Lord Roberts on ac- count of his lack of success in theearly stages of the South African war, has won since he returned home the good will of everyone by his entire absence Of anything like grievance-mongerin -Marquise de Fontenoy in Washington