Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-05

bingham. st. James. the Turf. Whites. the
Travellers and the Marlborough-claim him
as a member. All the most distinguished
men of his time have been his guests at one
time or another at his charming seat at
Penshanger. In political life he was at one
time rather notable figure. He was lord
lieutenant of Ireland under what Is known
as the Forster regime. and all through that
treublous time he went about Dublin and
dispensed the usual hospitalities Of the cas-
uf without manifesting any concern for his
personal safety. He could not follow Mr.
Gladstone however, in his later Irish party.
and resigned when the negotiations with
Mr.. Parnell were set on foot.
Handsome as Vandyke portrait. rich
ana a lord of wide lands. the holder OF
many titles and the representative of more
than one great family, Lord Cowper was in
deed spoiled child Of fortune. Other peers
may have more titles, but II Is very rare for
a man to hold separate peerages In Eng
land. Scotland and Ireland. His Irish title
came to him in 1871 on the reversal of the
attainder of the Duke of Ormonde. In 1715
the second Lord Cowper of George lis
days married Butler. the daughter OF the
attainted duke. and she brought into the
family not only the Butler barony, but also
the Dingwall barony by right of her mother
and so gave both the separate peerages of
Scotland and Ireland.
AS If all this, with 81 .O0O acres and 100000
year. were not enough, Lord Cowper was
a prince of the Holy Roman Empire, and so
was one of the few peers who can carry
their arms on an imperial eagle. He repre-
scented the extinct De Greys, Dukes of Kent
as well as the Cowpers. From the former
he inherited Wrest, in Bedfordshire, with
its famous Italian gardens; from the latter
Penshanger in Hertfordshire. with its ia
nous pictures 1t was only natural that
the spoiled child of fortune should be hard
ly down from Oxford before he got his gar
ter and the lord lieutenancy of Bedford
shire. Mr.. "Bron' Herbert succeeds to the
baronies of Dingwall and Lucas.
1t will soon be possible to live in London
under almost rural conditions. The power
full committee consisting of Earl Grey. Lord
Crewe. the bishop of London, Sir John
Gorst and others formed for this purpose
some time ago. some time since purchased
for $5O0,OO $40 acres of land adjoining
Hampstead Heath, which Is being fast
turned into garden suburb. The land lies
within five miles of Charing Cross. and viii
be easily reached by tube railway. which
will have a station on the famous heath it
self 1t is the most rural and unspoiled
SPOT within easy reach of London. Wild
flowers grow on 1t in profuSion. and in Its
clustered lanes the nightingale may be
heard in the calm of the summer evening.
The landscape is diversified. and fine dis
tant views will be visible to the fortunate
inhabitants of this new suburb from the re-
treat of their own doorsteps.
But the suburb is not to be the preserve
of the well-to-do. Seventy acres have been
allotted to dwellings for artisans and work
ers These win be semi detached and sur
rounded by garden plots. They will not be
placed in dull geometrically correct lines,
but will be dotted with an eye to pictur-
esque effect around big green which will
be playground for the children. For those
who do not want house, but would like to
live in the suburb. there will be hotel.
The proposal is indeed altogether pleas
ing that the committee is already over
burdened with applications even before 1t
has acquired the land. There are already
over eighty cottages built in course of
construction. The maximum price per cot
tage is $50. and they will be sold on easy
conditions to artisans.
Notes
To the ranks of the diplomatic corps at
the court of st. James there has just been
added an interesting recruit This is Count
Mutsu. the newly appointed first secretary
of the Japanese legation. Count Mutsu.
whom you had once In Washington. was
born in diplomacy so to speak, being the
son of one of the greatest foreign ministers
that has ever served Japan. Count MutsuS
father was minister for foreign AFFAIRS IN
Japan during the war with China. and con-
Quoted the negotiations which led to the
Treaty of Shimonoseki.
The count himself conducted the nego-
tiatons which led to the recognition of the
Japanese courts of law tribunals for
causes in which British subjects in Japan
were parties thus acknowledging to the
world that Japan a member of the
comfy of civilized nations. The new Japa-
nese first secretary of legation has served
at Rome as web Washington. and re-
ceived his English education at Cambridge
University.
number of ladies from America, who
were gay in the brightest Of evening cos
tunes visited the houses of parliament last
night They are members of the Atlantic
Union. which was formed some time ago
ia Of ha ri n
circles of England and America to exchange
Inequalities when occasion served. and the
ladies who visited the house were taken
over the building by several lords who be-
long to the society. spent some time on the
terrace dined in the dining room and at
tended some portion of the debates in both
houses They We're greatly pleased with
the opp ortunity they had of seeing both
branches of the Legislature at work and or
examining the various matters of historical
and artistic interest with wEich the houses
abound.
BY acquiring for the nation Whistlers
beautiful "Nocturne in Blue and Silver for
$4,000 the National Art Collection Fund
has earned the gratitude of all who care
about pictures. In another way the act is
particularly important. The absence of
Whistler from the British national collec-
ton, where third and fourth-rate painters
have been honored, has long been an open
scandal the unhappy reasons for which
were sufficiently disclosed in the evidence
of the Chantrey beQuest inquiry. Now that
this reproach is removed, EngiiShmen can
show their foreign friends over their ma
tionai collection with less feeling of shame.
l.. II. MOORE.
USE OF BEES AS MESSENGERS.