Arizona republican., 1900-07-16
FOREIGN NOTES
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 forces in China, give a correct impress sion of the gallant admiral. He is a very remarkable looking man, with exceedingly clean-cut features. very dark, and with a black, CT rather gray, pointed beard. His portrait was exhib- ited at the royal academy a few years ago, and called forth much comment and admiration owing to its looking so much like one of Van Dykes cavaliers. Sir Edward is very tall, with rather stately manner, devoid, howev-r, of all pomposity, and characterized by ex- treme courtesy; essentially a British naval officer of the old school. He has q long list of feats of bravery to his record. and wears on his right breast a medal received for plunging into a shark infested sea to save a man from drowning.
 A good deal of quiet negotiation is In progress to avVrt the law suit which is threatened between the present Duke oe Argyll and the widow of his fathlsr or the subject of the Iatt-r's extraordinary will. It is realized both at court and 11 official circles that any such legal pro- ceedings would entail . most unpleGs- amt scandal. into which the queens daughter Louise, the present Duchess of Argyll. would inevitably be dragged as one of the principal parties to the suit. The widowed duchess, a woman so much younger than her husband that she was considered to have taken advantage of the old dukes senility and waning intellectual faculties to in- veigle him into marriage, was form erly q lady-in- waiting and lectrfce of the queen, and it is evident from the terms of the late dukes will, now pub lishcd, that she wielded her influence over her aged husband, mt merely to estrange him from his children, but likewise to induce him to Unduly favor her in his tet5tamentary dispositions. Not only did he bequtath to her every stick of property not strictly entailed, such as, for instance, all the valuable paintings Exclusive of the family DOT traits), but he likewise saddled the Cn- tailed estates with annuities in her fa- vor that are altogether out of propor- tiOn to the revenucs of the property. In fact, the new dukes lawyers hold that they are so excessive as to virtually re- Eeve him of the necessity of paying | them, the widowed duchess, of course, ! taking a contrary view.
 The situation, already terribly ] strained between the widowed duchess | and her stepson, the new duke, is still | further e1lvenomed by the profound | aversion of Primes ss Louise, the new | duchess, fer hor father-in-law's widow | AyI6ka she can only regard in the light | former dcrA2s,der>t- of her mother, the quetn, and as having occupI5d an | altogether subordinate position.
 
 The races. at Royal Ascot the other ! day served to call attention to the pc culiar methods of dispensing justice that are employed there. Ascot being situared in the county of Berkshire. of lenses perpetratcd in the district ought, | under ordinary circUmei,anc3z, to ! be dealt with by the county magistrates and justices of the peace. Ascot, how ever, constitutes part and parcel of the 1 Windsor castle domain, and according | to ancient laws. dating back six or seven centuries, all offenses perpetrated ! within the precincts of the sover5ign's palace or grornds are tried by the lord | steward of the royal household. who may or may not be assisted by what is known as the ''Roard of Green Cloth and who has authority to impose all sorts of pains and penalties, ranging from fine and imprisonment to death.
 In modern times it has been the practice of the lord steward to turn over offenders to the magistrates of the district in which the palace is situated. and thefts or similar felonies perpe- tlated at Windsor castle are, as a. rule, tried by the Berkshire justices, where as crimes taking place at Buckingham l or St. James palace are handled by ! London police magistrates. The only l exception thereto is the case of of- l f. nses occurring on the Ascot race | course. It seems that about 100 years ago a particularly disgraceful assault l upon one of the the members of the | royal family took place at the Ascot l races. Neither the prince regent nor l the lord steward of the day had any confidence in the unpaid justices of the | peace of Berkshire, and, accordingly, | the lord steward brought down from | London the senior of the police magis- 1 trates of the metropolis to try the case, | deputing to him all his own rights and prerogatives in the matter. So satisfied l Wire the prince regent and the lord | steward at the manner in which the af- fair was handled that it was then and there arranged that throughout the As cot races the senior police magistrate of London should always be in a,tt nd ance for tEe purpose of administering summary justice to all thieves and wrong-doers generally, arrested for the peIpetration of Off5nsee on the course. The court is held in a small room ad- joining the royal stand. and the prison CT usually finds himself duly sentenced and on his way to the peritentiary within half an hour after his arrest.
 
 Cruel indeed is the disapu1irtn1ent Of Lord Huntly. the premier marquis of Scotland, and still more acute is the dlsmay Of his myriad of creditors at the contents If the will of his immense ly wealthy father-iH-law. the late Sir William Cu1liff- Brooks The old banker haronet having no son, but only two daughters to inherit his colossal 1