New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-25
Plus X FAV0RS THE JEWS
Intimacy of the Nero Pontif zcith
Certain Members of Hebre1U Race.

brought into contact with the latter when a parish
priest at Tonbola where for three successive
Lners he was tutor to the boy OF Jewish banker
who had his country place in the neighborhood.
When transferred as rector to Salzano he became
the most intimate friend of Jewish manufacture,
homanin Jacur, and almost daily guest
at his house On taking up his residence at Man
tua bishop he was delighted to fnd his friend
Jacur esta bished there, and became once more an
haoitue OF his house, and when elected Pope last
summer 1t this Jewish friend. now Senator.
who drew up the message of congratulation dis
patched by the municipal authorities OF the city
OF Mantua to its former bishop.
A. Venice, too. when Patriarch there Plus min
gled freely with the Jews. associating many Oh
them in his numerous charitable undertakings.
while OF the leading Hebrew bankers OF the
city did hesitate intrust him the distribu-
ton Of that part OF their wealth which they de-
voted to good works.
The future Duchess OF Norfolk IS descended from
that fifth Earl Of Nithsdale who. having been con-
demned to death by the House of Lords IN the
eighteenth century OF the leaders OF the
Jacobite instruction, rescued in romantic
fashion by his wife from the Tower Of London on
the very eve of the day appointed for his execution
While she visiting him in his prison to bid
him last farewell, he changed clothes with her
and made his way out of the Tower, unmolested.
in the guise Of a woman He reached home IN
safety. and there Joined some weeks later by
his wife. whose brave resourcefulness In behalf OF
her husband had excited such widespread adInira-
ton throughout the United Kingdom that the gov
ernment did not dare TO subject her to any punish
ment for her offence.
By the sentence which had condemned
Lord NthsdaIe lose his head. his eardOm OF
Nithsdale and his barony were declared at
tainted-that is to say. annulled. He left at his
death only son, who in turn had only daugh-
ter. Winifred. The latter married William Con
stable. who thereupon assumed her family name
Of Maxwell in conjunction with his own 1t was
the grandson Of this William Constable Maxwell
who in 1853 obtained reversal OF the attander OF
the fifth Lord Nithsdales honors. The eardom
could be revived II heritable only In
the male line, and the fifth earl's only left
male issue. But with the barony of Herries it
different Created somewhere back in the
fourteenth century. it heritable through the
female as well as the male line, and consequently
the late William Constable-Maxwen, the
strength of being the grandson Of the Lady Wtn4-
fred Maxwell. recognized by the Crown SIS
owner Of the Herrtes barony. His son is the
present Lord Herries, who has son. but only
two girls 1t is the elder Of the two. the Hon
GwendoIyn Cersta BILE Maxwell, now engaged 70 be
married to the Duke of Norfolk, who will inherit
the barouy Should she have children by her
union with the Duke Of Norfolk, her peerage
would become merged In the many honors
Of his house. But the marriage
to remain without issue, then the barony Of Her
ries would pass her death to her younger sister
the Hon Angela Consta5le-Maxwen, who would
in that event become Scotch peerless in her own
right And If she in turn were die without leav-
Ing any descendants. the ancient barony Of Her
ries would to the present lords younger broth
ers OF these one is a confirmed bachelor. The
other frequent visitor to this country. Is the Hon
joseph nstabIe-Maxweu Scott. the owrer Of
Abbotsford, celebrated the home Of Sir Walter
Scott. Abbotsford. well as the name OF Scott
added to his own. comes to him through his wife,
who is a eat-granddaughter Of Sir Walter, her
mother, indeed Charlotte Lockhart having been
the favorite grandchild for whom the famous nov
elist wrote the TALES Of a Grandfather"
By marrying the Duke OF Norfolk the Hon.
CzwendoIyn Constable Maxwell will become premier
peeress OF the realm. position which since the
death Of the Duchess of Norfolk. has been held by
the Duchess OF Somerset. AS such ana as wife Of
the Earl Marshal Of the realm. she Is entitled to
precede all other women in the empire save those
Of royal rank 1t is not true than the duke will be
Obliged to obtain a dispensation from the Church
OF Rome IN order to marry her. For she is not. as
asserted first cousin, or even a second one. but
more remotely connected being great-grandchnd
through her mother of the thirteenth Duke Of Nor
folk who was grandfather of the present duke
OF course. the marriage Of the Duke OF Norfolk
cannot be entirely pleasing to his only brother,
Lord Edmund Talbot, who has until now always
been taught TO look upon himself the heir to the
dukedom, to the many other dignities and to the
vast estates. True. the duke had a by his first
marriage, who died few years ago. But the poor
bow was blind. deaf. dumb and imbecile from his
birth and as his affection beyond there
was no possibility of his marrying and having
children If he attained manhood. The duke is
quite likely TO have a son by the union
which he is about to contract, and it is this son
who would then inherit his houors and possessions
Lord Edmund. however is not to be ptled much.
for he IS very wealthy IN his right having
Inherited the immense fortune and unentailed
tates Of the seventeenth and last Roman Catholic
Earl of Shrewsbury The latter, dying unmarried,
left a will bequeathing everything not strictly
tailed to Lord Edmund Howard. that time q
mere child. only STIMULATING that he should adopt
the name Of Talbot. The terms Of the viii
contested by the eighteenth earl, very re-
mote kinsnan Of his predecessor. But Lord Ed
mund the case and the result Of the legal
proceedings was that he got all the immense
tailed property the pictures money, ETC.. Of the
seventeenth earl. The eighteenth earl had to con-
tent himself with merely the entailed lands and
with the dignity of premier earl of the realm
Arundel Castle, the ancestral home Of the Duke
Of Norfolk which is 10 have a
gracious young chatelaine, has often been de-
scribed and has visited by nearly every Amer
lean who travels in England Most people know
that Il was occupied for years by Alfred the Great
that King William Rufus. Of the Conqueror,
STAYED there that Empress Mathllde of Germany
found shelter within its walls and that its posses
sion carries with IL seat in the House OF Lords
and the earIdom OF Arundel But few people are
aware that il was for many years the prison the
late Cardinal Howard This prelate. who
Of the most magnificent figures OF the Church
Rome in the reign OF Plus TX and the early part
OF the Ponthcate of Leo XIII. and invested with
many dignites. including that Of Archpriest OF
St Peters, suddenly became violently insane. He
was q man of huge stature-he had in his youth
been an officer OF the Horse Guards in London-and
was possessed of great physical strength Some
means had be devised for placing him under
restraint especially az his pronounced I'M
curabie. Moreover. il was imperative that he
should be removed from Rome where mis- presence
might have become most embarrassing as there
was no precedent by which 10 go. Thereupon his
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