New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-06
CAR EXCOMMUNlCATED.
Young Lord Botngbroke's Mys-
ferrous Birth.

bishop Mkirtitsch in the course of divine Service
TiHis against the Car is likely to have no
other result than the Punishment or imprisonment
of the prelate in question for melting disoyay to
The Crown and publicly assailing the monarch
The action Of the Armenian Archbishop was due
to the conhscaton by the Russian Government OF
some sSo0oO.000 worth of endowments and of prop
erty belonging to the Armenian Church. Perhaps
it is hardly correct TO use the word 'confscation
The fact of the matter is that the Minister of the
Interior, NJ. Plehve having discovered that this
money, beGueathed. given and collected for purely
ecclesiastical. scholastic and charitable purposes,
was not only being dissipated in the most dishon-
est manner by those intTusted with its care out
likewise being squandered in Armenian revolu-
uonary propaganda not alone in Turkey and In the
Balkans, but in Russia itself has taken
charge OF the administration Of the funds with the
idea OF subjectng them TO state control and honest
supervision and for the purpose of restricting their
application to the religious and charitable objects
for which they really destined. The Russian
Government will not permit the property OF the
Armenian Church in the Muscovite Empire to be
misused for political purposes, and has taken Ell
fective means to put a stop to the scandal.
The last occasion which monarch was pub
licy communicated with candle bell ana Dooh
was when Pope Plus VII communicated the first
Napoleon, on June 10, 1909. The bull OF excom-
munication, however expressly stipulated that 1t
to be considered wholly spiritual, and SOL
EMMY prohibited attacks on the sovereign against
whom it was issued For in olden times the
a sovereign not only relieved his subjects of
all their allegiance to him, but also encour-
eyed them to attack him as an enemy OF the
Church and as an outlaw in the sight OF God and
man The only possible harm that may result 10
the Car from the accommodation pronounced
against him by the Armenian Archbishop at Tihis is
that il may encourage some OF the prelates CO.
religionists to make attempt on the lie Oh the
Emperor. The experiences of the last Few weeks
have shown that Armenian revolutionists are utter
" without scruple when It comes to taking human
life and are easily stirred by fanatcism to the most
sanguinary outrages.
At the present moment there is another European
sovereign who is undergoing the ban of minor ex-
communication at the hands of the Roman Catholic
Church This is Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, who'
by order of the late Leo XIII, was barred from par
ticipation In any of the sacraments OF the Churcn
to which he belonged, in consequence of his con-
verting his little boy Boris from the Roman Catho-
lie faith. in which he had been baptized, to the
Greek Orthodox Rite Old King Victor Emmanuei
was likewise subjected throughout the last ten
years Of his life to sentence OF minor excornmuhl-
cation pronounced against him by Plus TX Tor MS
seizure of Papal States, and to this day CON
troversv RACES at Rome between the friends or the
Vatican and those of the Quirinal as TO WheIher
the burly old King really received the sacramento Oh
the Church before he died In spite OF all that mas
been said to the contrary. 1 am convinced that
neither the late King Humbert yet his son. the
present King has been subjected to the ban OF the
Church. for King Victor Emmanuel ATTENDS mass
regularly every Sunday, and he was not only mar
rie5 nv diRnitaries of the Roman Catholic Church
at Rome but likewise has had his children Chris
tened there
The birth the other day of a son and heir to the
MARQUIS of Donegal who is elghty-two years OF
ace is not without parallel in recent years. Two
or three years ago the late Viscount Bolingoroke
provided surprise of much the same KIND 10 MS
relatives Away back in 1859 he had married a
Miss Ellen Nedex. But that union was annulled by
+ba
tion had already had husband living when she
welded Lord Bolingbroke, and the two sons whom
she had borne Lord Bolingbroke were pronounced
illegitlmate
t, that time forth the viscounts cousin.
c.,pon CT John of Gloucester Cathedral, was uni
yersaly regarded heir TO the peerage and 10 the
entailed property, which extends over apou' Iou'
thousand acres The canon already being
hailed as the sixth Viscount Boingbroke at the
funeral of the fifth lord who had died at the age
Of eighty-one when suddenly the family lawyer
stepped forward and announced 10 the amazed
mourners that 1.-The late viscount married late IN
life leaving a widow and infant son. the Hon.
Vernon St. john who succeeds 10 'he u''e rs
Yiscount Bongbroke."
At first there disposition TO dlscfeot thls
assertion but investigation showed that six years
tefore his death the late Lord Bolingbroke. being
then at the age of seventy-fve had married one
of the madservants employed at Lydiard Park,
his country seat The womans name was Mary
Howard and she the daughter OF a game
kpeDpr
secretly before the register at Bath on January
& 1893 The first child girl. died few hours
otter birth and il not until March 10, 1890
that the present peer was born at Bath LORD
Bolinphroke's wife was known by his name,
hut merely as Miss Howard and only the lawyer.
+be doctor and two or three people were made
aware of the fact that Miss Howard was really
viscountess Bolngbroke and the little boy the her
10 the title and the of the old viscount.
Miss Howard and the little boy remained living
- ratb until the death OF the viscount. who fire.
ouent1v visited them there But the child had
never been to Bydard Park until the time Of his
accession TO the title, and the old viscounts rela-
ti,.es and neighbors, es well even the tenants
"a so-,-a-ts on the estate were absolutely gno-
rant Of the little fellows existence of the fact
that the former housemaid was Viscountess Boiling
broke.
abie he Is now with his mother in possession Of
che rz6;ara Park estate and. in due course, when
he grows up will take his seat in the House of
lords and Will perpetuate the name Of that cele-
brs+ea statesman Viscount Bolingbroke who
n1aveS so important role IN politics and in let
ters in the reigns OF Queen Anne. of King George
and OF King George IL
THE Right Hon Andrew Graham Murray who
hos become Secretary for Scotland in the
t,,r,od Cabinet Of Arthur Balfour, is married to
a sister of Sir Archibald Edmonstone and is there
fore q trother-in-law cf Mrs. George Keppcl, who
q. yell known on this side Of the Atlantic. where
,,o- husband lived for time one of the repre-
ortatives of Sir Thomas Upton Graham Muir
raw is very clever, tactfll and popular man. who.
n .nite of his independence of character is a
,icslar favorie at court, and who has been until
,,,v rnrd Advocate of Scotland, we'll a mem
\ of the household of the Prince of Wales. hold
TIC the position Of Keeper of the Great Seal OF
hts uhe princess principality of Scotland. The
+ufa of prince of Scotland, created by the King
and Parliament of Scotland dates from the hf-
tenth century and differs essentially from the title
g prince Of Wales and is OF the nature