The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-26

ment that those who honor their par ents shall be long lived was borne out in the case of the Berkeleys. William lived to be II, Maurice was 79 when he died. Augustus was s, Francis 76. Thomas. as said. was s6. Grantley lived to be 80. and only Craven, the youngest, 1 died under the age of 60.
 Grantley Berkeley was a great sports man of the Regency type. He was ! great buck, the last man in London to wear chapeau bras. noted for his sat- ! in waist coats and gorgeous neekcloths, and to the last was proud of the fact 1 that the same boxing master had taught him and Lord BryOn. William Berkeley. having received the unentailed estates by his fathers will, was very wealthy. and in 1841 was cre- ated Earl Fitzhardinge. When he died, his property went to his brother, Ad- miral Sir Maurice Berkeley, who was made Baron Fitzhardinge in 1861. ] The present earl is the great grandson of younger brother of the earl whose marriage made the trouble. He is a childless widower. and if he dies with out a son the legitimate male line will expire, and the illigitimate line will be left in possession of the estates and the chief Berkeley title.
 Thelwall against Yelverton is the title of a once famous case, in which the defendant appeared like one of the villains of Miss Austen's novels. 1 Before the Crimean war Major Will l liam Yelverton, son of Lord Avon more, met Miss Theresa Longworth, the daughter of a Manchester merchant. They met in the Crimea, where Miss Longworth was a nurse, wearing the garb of a Sister of Charity. but not a member of the order.
 After the war Yelverton followed her to Edinburgh and on her agreeing to Scotch marriage, read the Anglican ser vice and announced that she was his wife. A few weeks later they went to Ireland and were married in a Catholic chapel by a priest, on Aug. 15, 1857. In June, 1858, Yelverton married Mrs. Forbes, widow of Professor Forbes of Edinburgh. This lady is still living.
 The case came up in the Scots courts, where Mrs. Longworth- -Yelverton sued for maintenance and won on Yelver- tons default. Then MT. ThelwaIl sued | ISlNGI lOH III lIlG lIlSI AUliIl Ol SOlll- mon Pleas to recover money advanced to his wife. This case was fought by the major and was a case celeber, the trial lasting from Feb. 21 to March 4, 1S61.'
 In his defence, Yelverton testified that from the beginning he had the idea of making Miss Longworth his | mistress in law and said that it was not wrong for a gentleman to seduce woman unless she was of gentle blood. Miss Longworth he said, was not gentlewoman, as her father was only Manchester merchant.
 The jury found for Mir Thelwall,thu declaring that the marriage with Miss Longworth was legal; but on Yelver- 1 tons appeal the Scottish Court of Ses- sions annuled the marriage with that I lady, The House of Lords upheld the annulment and Miss Longworth was unable to get any other decision, though I she made several attempts.
 She died in Pietermaritzburg in 1880, while Yelverton who succeeded as Wis count Avonmore in 1870, lived until 1885. He was removed from his army com mand in 1861, however, and placed on half pay, and spent the rest of his days abroad.
 In 1869 the Wicklow peerage case came before the House of Lords, prov ing to be one of the most remarkable cases on record. In March of that year the Earl of Wicklow died, and Charles Francis Howard, the son of his young CT brother by second marriage, was recognized officially as the fifth earl. Then appeared. the widow of MT. How ards older F1alf-brother, with a child which she said was hers, and therefore the rightful earl,
 She testified that the child was born during her husbands absence and was kept secret, though it's existence was known to several persons, MT. and Mrs. Bloor and the latter's sister, and MT. Baudenave. No physician attended Mrs. Howard when the child was born, and several persons, among others her dressmaker, testified against her.
 The case was summed up on Aug. 4, 1869, but was reopened in February l1S70. In March 1 of that year the de- fence, Lord Wicklow, produced three nurses and an inmate of the Liverpool workhouse, who identified Mrs. How ard as the purchaser of the last wit ness child.
 At the next session or the House of Lords as a court, evidence was offered from Boulogne as to the real purchaser of Mary. Rests child; but latter the Best woman told another story, mixing matters up still further; the child was not hers really, but had been given to her, and had died.
 On March 1 Mrs. Howard had refused to be sworn and examined until the nurses and the Best woman had given Itheir testimony under oath. She was at once committed for contempt. Later she was ordered to pay certain fees and be set free, but she again refused and was recommitted.
 Not long afterward, however, she was released without payment of any fees. This was the only point she won, for the House of Lords decided that she had not proved her case, and sustained Charles Francis Howard in his earl dom, which he enjoyed until his death in 1S91 Why Mrs. Howard and some, at least, of her witnesses were not held on charge of perjury is not clear but they were not, and the matter ended with the decisions against her on the peerage question.-New York Sun. 
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