Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-01
A Few Sensational English Law
Suits.
The Kohinoor and Other Coronation
levels.
Cermany's New Code of Civil and
Criminal Law.


terest for American readers, is the
breach of promise suit of Miss Knight.
of footlight celebrity. against the
Duke % Manchester, which is to be
tried by special jury. There is no
truth in the report that the affair has
been compromised. He WIZ likewise
appear in two bankruptcy motions
brought against him attributable, it
would appear. to his efforts to add
number of new debts to those for the
settlement of which the official receiver
and his friends were in negotiation
with his creditors.
Sir Robert Peel, the precious author
of that species Of autobiograph "A
Bit of a Fool" and those financial
short comings have repeatedly brought
him into the bankruptcy court, and
likewise into the prisoners dock, is
likewise the defendant in a new bank
suptcy suit. He Is apparently de-
termined to maintain undiminished
the uneviable notoriety with which he
has embellished the honorod name of
his illustrious grandfather. Sir Robert
Peel, the most famous of all the pre-
miers of Queen Victoria's reign.
There is a suit in the Kings Bench
Division, brought by Miss Corelli, the
authoress, against De Beck, in which
the plaintiff is represented by Sir
George Lewis, and there are number
of civil suits against the Earl of Ions
dale, against the Earls Of Carnarvon
and Langford against the Earl of
Harrowby, and last, but not least.
against the Duke of Newcastle, the
plaintiff being Charles Pelham Clin-
ton. married to Miss Zerega, of New
York, and who was formerly employed
as a reporter on some of the New
York evening papers. The legal pro-
ceedngs which he has brought against
the duke have been pending for some
time and relate to the disposition of
some property which Charles Pelham
Clinton believes should have come to
him, but which, instead thereof, went
to the duke.
These are only a few of the numer-
Gus cause celebres which figure on the
list of cases to be tried by the various
divisions OF the English high court OF
justice during the present legal term
The cabled announcement that the
King had given orders that the kohl-
moor diamond should be used for the
adornment of the crown with Whlch
Queen Alexandra will be crowned by
the Archbishop of York Immediately
after the coronation Of her husband by
the Archbishop of Canterbury in West
minister Abbey. next June, does not. as
some people seem to imagine. involve
the omission of any portion or the
historic gems, forming part OF the
regalia of the Kings of England. The
Kohinoor is Il jewel which has come
into the possession of the Engllsh
monarch since the accession of Queen
Victoria. and consequently it has
never before figured at any of the
coronations in Westminster Abbey.
Indeed. there is no place for it in the
existing crowns of the King, and it is
consequently only just and right that
it should go to adorn the crown OF the
Queen Consort, which compared with
those of the King, is lamentably deh-
cient in celebrated stones.
There are many reasons why the
Kohinoor should find a place at the
coronation. and to those princes of
Hindoostan and vassal rulers Of semi
independent states, comprised In the
Oriental empire OF King Edward. who
attend the coronation, the presence or
the stone among the regalia will mean
superstition. the possession of this
stone carries with il the supreme con-
troll of the whole of India, and so
great il the Importance attached by all
orientals to the stone that its acquisi-
ton by Great Britain at the time of
the annexation of the Punjaub was the
subject of a special treaty with Eng
land.
The crown with which Queen Alex
andra will be crowned is known as that
of st. Edith. so named in remembrance
of Edward the Confessor'si wife, but
was in reality made for Queen Mary
of Modena, the consort of King James
IL Subsequently il was altered for
his daughter and successor. Queen
Mary IL. wife of William III, sur
named "of Orange" and the last Queen
TO be crowned Herewith was Queen
Adelaide. the consort of King William
". who was the uncle of Queen Nicto-
ria and her immediate predecessor on
the throne The ST Ediths crown is
of much the same form as the Kings
crown. being of two arches on a cap or
purple velvet. turned up with ermine
and ornamented with diamonds.
Queen Alexandra will likewise be
invested at her coronation Win
scepter. about three feet long. 1t is
of gold set with diamonds, and is sur
mounted by cross issuing from fieur
de lis This she will carry in her right
hand while in her left she will bear
what is known as the rod or "Nirge OF
the Queen" which is about the same
length as the scepter. but made OF
ivory. and tipped with dove of white
enamel.
IL must thoroughly be understood
that all the regalia. with the exception
urytwo articles, dates from the reign OF
King Charles H.. the original regalia
having beer broken up. melted. and
sold by Oliver .Cromwell's Roundheads
during the great revolution. The two
exceptions are the ampulla, in which
the holy oil for the anointment of the
King and Queen Consort is contained.
and the spoon which is used for the
anointment The spoon dates back to
the eleventh century, while the ampula,
which is in the form of an eagle with
expanded wings, is on record as hav-
ing figured for the first time at the
coronation Of King Henry Nv. in 1899.
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