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pointed words with his aunt. the Duch- ess of Coburg. but likewise arranged that the new duke. with his mother and sister. should leave the city without de- lay and return to Potsdam. where they occupy a beautiful little palace in the royal park in the immediate vicinity of the kaisers residence. There the little duke will remain under the personal supervision of the kaiser until he at tains his majority. d couple of years hence
 It may be remembered that when the young duke was first proclaimed he apparent. after the suicide of his cou- sin. Prince Alfred. and came to Coburg. the widowed duchess refused to receive him. declined to place any palace at bis disposal or that of his mother. and ren- dered his position so intolerabe that he was forced to leave the duchy. and seek the hospitality of his mothers kinsman, the king of Wurtemhurg. at Stuttgart, until the kaiser arranged to make home for the lad and for his royal mother and sister at Potsdam.
 For the next two years. until the young duke attains his majority. the regency of the duchy will be vested in the hands of the late dukes son-in-law Prince Hohenlohe.
 
 A good deal of salt must be taken with the stories concerning the fantas- tic sums of money paid by the various English newspapers to peers and mem bers os the aristocracy for the services of the latter as war correspondents in n who has just returned home. and who is staying at Stafford house in London as the guest of his brother-in-law. the Duke of Somerland, declares that the salary which he received from Mir Harnsworth for acting as war core spondent to the London Daily Mail did not exceed $50 d week. Lord Rosslyn by the by has been making some re- markable admissions concerning the various English commanders to the London correspondents of the Pa is Temps and of other equally reliable newspapers. Thus, he declares that at the battle of Peters Hill. on the banks of the River Tugela. General Sir Red Vers Butler, who was in supreme com mand. knew so little that was going on that on sending. toward dusk. orders to Generals Barton and Hart to retreat. they replied that it was unnecessary, as the BOers had themselves retreated five hours previously. Lord Rosslyn cites this and d number of similar epi- sodes in illustration of what he de- scribes as the stupidity of General Sir Redvers Butler. who. he declares. con temptuously declined to honor or rec ognize a pass made out in the earrs name by Lord Roberts, declaring that he did not care a d-n about the field marshal; that he had no orders to re- ceiVe from him, as he got his instruc- tions direct from the minister of War.
 Lord Rosslyns s future movements ara undecided. He is hesitIting between accepting a theatrical engagement at the Garrick tneater in London and an offer to go out to China as a war cor respondent.
 Lord Mowbray, who has just present. ed to the house of lords his claims to the earldom of Norfolk, likewise claims to be premier baron of England, d tit.e now conceded to Lord de ROs. ard the consequence is that no English hOstss; would ever make the mistake of invit- ing the two peers to dinner on the same evening, since otherwise a dispute fo' precedence would undoubtedly talk, place. The riGths and wrongs Cf tha dispute between Lords MOWbfay and de ROs are very complicated and some what remote. since the entire question turns upon documents and deeds dating back to the reign of King Henry H. that is to say. about seven centuries.
 Lord Mowbray. who is the twenty fourth of his line, and who derives his that Roger de Moubrey who figures in history as one of the commanders of the Norman army which conquered England in l066, is likewise Lord Stour- ton. and Stourton is not only his pat O. nymic but likewise the name of the family seat. near Knaresborough in Yorkshire. StourtOn was once famous as the ThornVille Royal of the Well known sporting Colonel Thornton whose wife used to ride races dress as jockey and who kept all Yorkshire talking by his eXtravagance. Ruinsd by the latter, he sold the place early n the present century to a predeces sor of the present Lord Mowbray.
 The Stourtons trace their origin t1 Botolph Stourton, who married Lady Ann. daughter of the famous Earl Goodwin. and a sister. therefore of King Harold. of England. The present Lord Mowbray is the twenty-ninth in direct line of male succession from Bo- iolph Stourton and Lady Ann Goodwin. -MarGuise de Fontenoy in Washing. on Post