New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-01
TITLES LOST BY DIVORCE
dominion Militia Noe Commanded
bv a Canadian Peer

well
foreign l:.,a he title or the name Of tAeif
L. husband in the case "a 80 80 49, - do
- e Granted in Their I"'' .ai,s = ,noiatv
decree J. tc,ord however retains iiioie'S
mard. The husp"s .r,c-ican wife that is to say.
- ,he fortune Of E!s ann 80.
- .,,ore Is anything zen % - j.. not -t-;ct1.
wren theIe :" where this rule IS hol 3ttc'I'
ne ons &. england. where there Is 20 -eSd! C'-
hPA'I roman continuing 20 h1h '7 " e
STAGE 70 a az a husband from Whoil she mas
tee H am True. sire has no !eSai -!s"' Inc. Z
been 4,,sl,aD nd has been peer OF ne reaim
TO- eng - - enjoy TIE preo negatives OF d poeres'
see - very moment that the decree u ui'o'I'
IT." - absolute Some women even coi'"l"E ~
- Nc titles Of Their divorce" museums ~ -
use '-e i.5 again two cases in point being those
nave a,-,~..d Countess Of Cowley. who persists
OF ~ -, herself Lady CowlTH. although she Is
tre wife of Mr.. Bidcrl2h. and Lady scout
I,h,er y,rho continues to describe hersei as
$500 pussen although she has married and
c''..-, , second husband since her union with
- zos dissolved by tile courts. In Ital!
-. l. No divorce merely iI@cial sep2ratio1
w.. ,arr against the by women a me names
,,.Ies az husbands from whom vhcE have been
Co-,ef nas existed for some tine III Germany AUS
.-to md elsewhere on the Continent. oIt mas Only
-, ,do,.ed !n the last year two III France. Il
-, y,re.,ent Levi p MOrtOn's daughter Helen from
.-i,or herself either Countess Is TalleErand or
T,nctess de Ealencay- II has forced the second OF
he American wives oF the Duo de DINO TO resume
her wl
ard NAY arYeat otter women who have been com
.r.s 10 divorce -heir French husbands years ago,
IN The event u the statue being retroactive,
question which has yet 20 lie decided by he courts
Tghle society and .l~ general public i'm England
side with Lord Dundonald ia his controversy with
sra Ca-,a=sa-. Government. and unanimous IN
rbe,- Genu4cialions Of his treatment. ny the Do
rninion Prer,ier YET The Governor General had no
alternative but 10 give his sanction 20 tic removal
7 1-T IL \ Sc "
ard ~ taste a soldieC. and ne realized full we'll
.ba. htE friend and oldti-ne comrad", LORD Dun
donald had been guilty. Tot Dry Of breach OF
Official deco.uln. bu< !iiovise OF gross infracton
Of military -uies and regulations, n delivering the
srte- dinner speech ass0ing ne Acting Minister
re Public Defence for which M dismissed
from his command Of the militia. Il there is one
quality mere than another 70 be desired in : sol
der II IS that ~ silence. no matter Under Tnat
u-ovocation aud the practice Of airing oUes griev
eraes aid Of taxing the public into ones conf
dence about the matter is contrary 20 all the prin
c:2es Of discipline The habit OF 'groUsng" has
Become in recent years very prevalent IN he
higher ranks Of England's army. and likewise IN
that Of Fra9ce among the most notable Offenders
IN this respect having Eeen Field Marshal Lord
Woise.ey General Sir Redvers Butler, Sir Henry
Coly1ls Sir Charles Warren and others, who, al
though the victims 81 injustce> did Tot benefit
their cases IN any WI by airing their wrongs.
General Lord Methuen, on the other hand, Of
fered q STRIKING contrast TO the commanders just
mentioned in the South African war. He sub.
3ected throughout that campaign 70 criticism, ter
rfby severe, sometimes unjust and more often
stln positively untruthtul Yet he never opened his
lips N seif-6efence permitted any Of his staff
10 take up tho crdgJss for him. and he is
oeiv1ng his reward for spite Of the misfortunes
by which he was pursued n South Africa he is
regarded By the military authorities in England
and the Continent the finest type of British
sodier NAny horors have been conferred upon
hin within the last twelve months.
Lord Aylmer, who has been appointed TO take
command OF the Canadian militia in the place OF
tho Earl OF DundoEald, has been adjutant general
Of that force for many years. and Is indeed. be-
neve, its senior officer. Like his father the late
Lord Ay,ner. who died about three years go at the
age Of nearly ninety he was born IA Canada and
has spent his entire life in the Dominion. where
he owns landed property 10 the extent Of some
sixteen thousand acres. It was 1he present lords
grandfather q captain Of the Royal Navy, who
first took up HIS residence in Canada not long after
the American war Of Independence and married
there, leaving a very large number Of descendants
The first lord was raised 10 the pesraRe by Queen
Anne for his services as admiral. and died as
Governor Of Greenwich Hospital The third lord
married q Miss Ann Pierce. a daughter Of William
Pierce, OF Richmond Va. and while there are no
descendants Of this peer in the male line, Yet there
are still living in Virginia some descendants Of his
only daughter who died a Mrs Tencke.
Ayimer, who Lord Chief Justice Of ireland in
the reign Of Queen Elizabeth. who was likewise the
founder Of the family Of Sir Arthur Aylmer of
Donsdea Castle. in County Kildare. The last named
married daughter Of J. Douglas Reid Of New
York the union being however dissolved some
ton IT fifteen Years ago.
n Ireland which tho Aylnlers regard as the land
OF their origin, they are considered as pursued bv
81 luck, and IN County kildare the cradle of The
race. grim whispers stiI to he heard about
fate not yet having dore Ste worst one Of the most
Shocking tragedies In the annals OF this house was
t;e death ~ John Harrison Ayirner with his wife
ms eldest son. Arthur. his niece and several ser
wants while on their way from London n TreIar1
some years ago. The express train on which thew
We-H travelling 70 Hoyhead into number Of
trGcSs containing barrels Of parafne left On the
NAN ire near Aoergee. a small station in North
N2'cs No one quite knows OF will eyer know: its+
what happened The force Of the explosion killed
al in the front carriages Of the expresr and the
cohaagrat-or which followed obliterated every evil
oence o. the terrible destruction Not one Of the
@s-ner party escaped. and the only trace ever
fo1nd ~ Them or Of thera was a small drers,ne,
o'1-. with Yong Arthur Aylniers MONOGRAM, dis
covered IN thu EreckaEe Of the luggage van Two
ho.s' who had been left At home escaped the dis
Asier one %, them killed in South Africa: the
otnfr now owner % WaIworth Castle near Oar
Nle'oh' s@r>ed under LORD DurGonald In The relief
OF La3ysm.rh.
'olnt Louis de Gontaut- Pi-oa who ca Tuesday
- harIied ut Paris Miss Leishman daughter
% Ire United States Minister AT Consta,t,ponla
Is son CT Count Anthony de Ciontaut- Bjron ana a
H-1ScA OF the Marquis de Gontaut-St Blan-
c D"s q his ancestors was that prohigate
ee.%4 &c BiTon. Duke Of Lauzur.. who serted
" --a'aseue under She American flag in the
,os. VI VI independence, II this country and who
ctlar -. "'4 me scafIoid along with so many
., sooHs Q: the french aristocracv at the time
Louis e EaI revolution in 17s2 The uncle Of Count