New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-10-28
ION me country without the consent Of the govern

ment.
-Ne.suer me Castellanes the Gontaud- BirOns
or the ozes' nor yet the Noailles condescended 20
s.ae"u the marriage OF their young kinswomsn.
Miie- de turenne. 90 Arthur Meyer Editor OF
me Sauiois, in the Church OF St CIotilde at
FAIls' me other day. IN fact, the only member
OF her family besides her parents who was pres
emu was her maternal grandfather the Due de
rtS'aines' ineai descendant in the male line
uHec'' OF King James III OF England and OF Ara
oelia churchill sister OF the first Duke of MARI
borough The other of the brides witnesses was
tne Nicomte de Ia Panouse who was so heavily hit
az the time OF the collapse OF the Union Generate.
The witnesses for the bridegroom. who is forty
years the senior OF his bride. NJ. Mezieres.
president OF the Union OF Paris Journalists and
FRANCOIS Coppee. the poet and member Of the
Academy.
Ihere were only dozen people. at the very most,
present al the ceremony which has aroused the
utmost indignation among all the older houses Of
the French aristocracy by reason of the ante
ceoents OF the bridegroom, their Ill will being main
ly directed against the brides near relatives. who
by assuring a small annuity 10 the unfortunate
GIRL could have saved her from what was avowedy
not love match. but merely means Of providing
for her material future
Another Partisan marriage. at which however
All the great world present. that which
united the young Marquis of Albufera to Mile
Anna Massena d Essling de Rivo. The bride
groom is the only and heir of the Duke OF
Albufera, grandson of that Field Marshal Suchet
who was the Duke Of Wellingtons principal an
tagonst during the Peninsular War. and who
created by the first Napoleon French Duke OF
Abufera for his services in Spain. As the Duchess
OF Albufera is a daughter of Count Cambaceres
I and Of Princess Mathilde Bonaparte, a grand
daughter of Lucien Bonaparte, the bridegroom may
De said to have BOnaparte blood in his veins and
TO be nearly related to the former imperial house
OF france The Duke OF Albuferas mother was
Prussan. having been born at Berlin as the daugh-
Ter OF the head Of the great mercantile firm OF
Schickler Brothers Her brothers. Barons
Ferdinand and Arthur Schieker who were Gre
ated barOns 10y the late Emperor William a year
before the outbreak OF the war between France
and Germany, completely ParisianIzed.
make their homes altogether in the French capital
and are among the most important members of the
French turf both one and the other being valued
and popular members of the French Jockey Club
The bride is the great grandniece of the famous
French Marshal Massena, and her mother, who was
a great favorite Of the late Queen Victoria, was
the adopted daughter and heiress of Nine FurtadO
Heine. so celebrated as a philanthropist and lost
her first husband. General Michael Ney. Duke OF
Elchingen in the most shocking and tragcal fash
ion. the crime having remained enveloped in a
kindly mystery to this very day.
In describing the other day in these letters the
strange title OF Prince of the Captivity" con-
ferred upon the late Hahn Guedalla by the senior
rabbis at Jerusalem. omitted to mention that the
principal reason for the OF this ancient honor
rarely accorded during the last twenty-three CEN
turtles. was that he had secured from the Spanish
government the final revocation of the edict Of
Punishment Of the Jews from the kingdom. issued
in 1892.
1t is difficult to realize that this decree. which
exercised such disastrous effect upon the pros
perity and welfare of Spain during the sixteenth
seventeenth eighteenth ard nineteenth cnturies,
, still in existence a quarter Of century ago
and that it was not finally repealed and the Jews
readmitted into Spain until 1881.
The late Mr. Guedala first approached Marshal
Prm on the subject in 1868. after the downfall Of
Queen Isabella. and obtained from him promise
that the Jews should be allowed to re-enter Spain
But the dictator assassinated before he could
fulfil his promises and II was left for the late
King Alfonso XII to finally revoke the edict OF
exclusion of the Jews. To-day they number many
thousands in Spain. and they have hundreds Of
synagogres. which are tolerated and protected by
the Spanish government.
MARQUISE DE FONTENOY.