The Washington times., 1902-10-07
COURTS AND CAPITALS
OF THE OLD WORLD

King Victor Emmanuel has given d.
rections that Cardinal Ferrari, Arch-
bishop of Milan, who is about to conduct
an Italian pilgrimage to the Holy Land
and to Jerusalem. shall be treated ps
the Italian consuls in Palestine and by
the Ottoman authorities there as an
Italian prince of the blood.
This announcement has given great
satisfaction at the Vatican. The men,
bers OF the Sacred College have all along
laid claim to rank as princes OF the
blood. and as such address each Christ
mas letters of ceremonial greeting and
good wishes to the reigning Catholic
sovereigns. 1t may be remembered.
also, that the objections which were
raised 10 the action CT Cardinal Waugh
an in bending his knee to King Edward.
when, shortly after the latter's Access
sion. he in great state PRESENTED an ad-
dress of allegiance and loyalty TO the
sovereign in behalf of the Catholics OF
the United Kingdom, led to the asser-
tion that cardinal ranking as prince
of the blood is not called upon to bend
his knee to a monarch.
| showed at the time in these letters
that the present Prince of Wales. the
Duke of Connaught, the Duke Of Cam
bridge, and all the other members Of the
English royal family. had bent their
knee before King Edward in Offering
him their homage on his accession, while
the crown prince of Germany and other
foreign royal princes have also paid
him this same form Of obeisance when
being invested with the English orders
of knighthood, so that Cardinal Waugh
an, in bending the knee to the King. had
done nothing calculated to impair his
prestige and his status as prince Of the
church.
Incidentally, l may mention that En-
peror William has within the past few
weeks assigned to cardinals a definite
rank in the table of precedence. Ac-
cording to the new regulations, they are
conceded the pas" Of princes and
dukes, no matter whether ordinary no.
bles OF mediatized. and come immedi-
ately after the princes Of the blood and
field marshals. In fact, the latter are
the only dignitaries not members of the
reigning house who enjoy precedence
of cardinals at the court OF Berlin.
Archbishops, whether of the Catholic or
of the Protestant church. rank with
commanding generals. that is to say,
with generals commanding army corps.
In England Cardinal Vaughan has no
statutory place in the table of prece-
dence but by courtesy is conceded the
pas Of all bishops of the Church Of
England as well as of dukes, marquises
and earls. But he has to follow in the
wake of the Archbishops of Canterbury
and of York. Roman Catholic bishops,
although they, too, have no place on the
table of precedence, are, at any rate in
the British colonies. accorded the hon.
ors and the precedence of generals of
the army This is notably the case at
Malta.
There is no nationality in the world
which lives so much away from home
as the Roumanians. One finds rich
Roumanian families established in al.
most every capital in Europe, display
ing a good deal of ostentatious luxury,
and adjoining themselves with nobiliary
titles, which, owing to the laws and to
the constitution of Roumania, they are
unable to use when in their own country.
1t is necessary to point out this In
order to explain the character of the
cutlery raised in Europe against the note
of the United States Government on the
subject of the treatment of the Jews
in Roumania.
certain impression has been created
here by the fact that the leading papers
in nearly all the big European cities
were reported to contain denunciations
OF Secretary of State Hay in connection
with the matter. But these denuncia-
lions were in nearly every instance con-
tanned. not in editorial articles repre-
senting the views of the paper itself,
but in letters addressed TO the editor,
and signed by Roumanian names such
as those of "Ghika," "Brancovan. "Bi-
besco," "Cantacuzene, etc. This, of
course, serves to diminish to consid-
cradle degree the Importance OF the OBJ
jections which are said to have been
raised in Europe against the action OF
Secretary Hay in calling the attention
oil the various great powers by means of
a circular note to the ill-treatment of
the Jews in Roumania.
When the cables announced the other
day that the Marquis de Castellane had
allowed his property to be seized rather
than to pay taxes to government guilty
of such persecution of the religieuse. and
of the nuns, and of Sisters of Mercy
| engaged in charitable work as that OF
which the Combes administration has
rendered itself guilty. it was generally
| assumed that the marquis in question
was the father of that Count Boni de
| Castellane who is married to George
| Gould's sister. This. however. turns
| out not to be the case. In fact. with
| Boni's father processing radicalism oil
| the deepest dye, it stood to reason that
he was not altogether prepared to go to
i the length OF sacrificing his by no means
| extensive possessions for the sake OF
expressing his disapproval of the gov
eminent.
The Marquis de Castellane who has