New-York tribune., 1906-07-23
GLEN QU0ICH.
Historic Highland Domain Leased
bY HENRI Phipps.

game, and yields average bag each season OF
nearly two hundred sfass For the last twenty
years Il has been rented from the Ellices by Lord
Burton OF brewing fame. who. after entertaining
there on several occasions King Edward and other
members OF the reigning house. surrendered his
tenancy thereof last fall.
The meaning OF Glen QuOich is 1.-THE glen OF the
crp," from the fact that the hills form sort Of
cllaich OF the place It IS due 70 this rampant OF
mountains that Il is one OF the wettest parts OF
Scotland. the average rainfall being about Al0
inches per annum.
Il was in the forest OF Glen QuOich that Prince
Charlie. the young Pretender, spent an anxious
6ay during his wanderings after the batue oA
Culloden On July 20 1876 ne and his companions
reached the head Of Loeb ouoich. when young
Glen Ailadale. who was reconnoitrlng IN lOii.' =
ported that the royalist troops were approach"s'
The fugitives clambered up Drum Caidh WheLce
they could see the camp Of their enemy CLOSE y.
Early next morning they crept through lhe me %
sentries IN Glen COsidh, and spent tle oes :" -
Fie ScOrodale covered with young heatnef ana
branches OF birch trees Queen Victoria Wneh she
visited the neghborhood in 1873, wrote reel
sort OF In going over these scenes n ms
most beautiful countryfor Stuart blood Is IN my
veins 7 am now their representative, and the
peopIe are as devoted and as loyal 10 me as they
were 20 that unhappy race
Fer centuries Il the home Of the MacDones,
Of Glengarry. the most powerful and the most
turbulent OF the great historic clans OF Scotland.
OF the many curses imposed upon It by those who
had suffered at its hands, that particular predic-
q
be found IN all the glen three cocks answering
one another, growing at dawn from houses owned
By the NacDonells. has been realized. Incredible
as the prophecy seemed when it uttered four
centuries ago. when the sway Of TIE chieftains of
the MacDOneIs extended over nearly half OF Scot
land II is to-day The last OF the great Chiefs
Alastair MacDonell. the friend and generous Mac
caenas Of Sir Walter Scott. to whom he presented
Mazda died overwhelmed with debts, having
wasted the remnants Of his fortune by striving TO
Vaxrizn ba glO Of old md
ancestral home, the ancient castle of the Mac
DoneIls. beside Loch Oich stands rOofess on its
rock. its crumbling walls held together by the ivy
with which Il is Overgrown. with nothing save his
tory TO recaR the fact that il there that the
great chieftains Of the Highlands assembled TO
sign with blood a bond that they would stand to-
gether until they had oyerthrown the House Of
Hanover and restored the Stuart Pretender
In 1888 the whole OF the Glen Quoich was bought
BY the Right Hon. Edward Ellice. popularity known
as Bear Ellice. through his having made vast
fortune by his ventures IN connection with the Hud-
son Bay Company, OF which he was one OF the
principal directors. He spent large sums of money
IN improving the property. and of the pillars
Of the Liberal party and as Cabinet Minister. en-
tertained all the famous statesmen OF his day
st Glen Quoich Lodge. OF the most interesting
features OF which Is the visitors book, the
pages OF which each guest has written his name,
usually with and epigram wish.
LORD coLERIDGE TO BE JUDGE.
Lord Coleridge's appointment as Commissioner
OF Assize for the Midland Circuit constitutes an
augUry OF his impending elevation to the bench
as of the $4,000 a year judges Of the High
Court Of Justice. Commissioner Of Assize is Writ
uaIIy a substitute for OF these puisne judges,
and so many of the present occupants of the bench
have acted as commissioners Just before their in
vestiture with the ermine that the appointment
is usually regarded as a species Of probation for
full-hedged Judgeship.
Lord Coleridge's nomination 20 a puisne judge
ship VIII serve to recall, at any rate to the MEM
bers OF the bar, the extraordinary attempt made
by HIS father the late Lord Coeridge, 10 exeort
that distinction for him from the government
thirteen or fourteen years ago, whea he was
barely forty years old The Liberal adm nd tration
then in Office was extremely anxious 20 bestow
the Lord Chief. Justiceship Of England upon Sir
Charles Russell (afterward Lord Russell OF XII
lowen), but could not succeed in inducing Lord
Coleridge who held the Office at the time, 20 re-
Iinquish It, IN spite OF his advanced age. That Is
10 say the conditions which he made 20 the gov
ernrnent for its surrender were considered unac-
oeptable. He demanded not merely the trans
formation of his barony into full-hedged eardOm
but likewise the appointment Of his eldest son 20
pusne judgeship with its stipend OF $4,000 year.
This stipulation in behalf Of HIS frstborn was
prompted not by any affection for the latter, but
by the idea Of reconcfling him 90 his young step
mothers inheritance Of all Of her husbands fortune
The old Chief Justices children knew this and it
led to their estrangement from their father during
the remainder Of his life None Of them were
present at his deathbed. and when his will was
opened Il was discovered that he had left every
penny Of his unentailed fortune amounting TO over
100000 TO his young widow. The present Lord
Coleridge and his brothers and father were on the
point Of instituting proceedings 20 upset the WILL
but finally decided 10 let il stand, prompted by a
very natural reluctance 10 expose themselves 70 all
the disagreeabe notoriety Of public family scan
daI such as had been aired some years previously
when the Lord Chief Justices only daughter, Mil
dFed was obliged 20 sue him for non-support. That
trial was of the most extraordinary character.
showed that he guilty Of avarice pushed al
most 70 the point Of insanity, and that he not only
kept her IN a state OF starJ&tion and beggaTyY de-
pendent on the charity Of her brothers and her
friends, but that he likewise subjected himself
% fare worthy OF a TniseE.
EDMUND YATES WAS GENEROUS
i was this trial. presenting the Lord Chief
Justice to the public IL most unenviable light
that afforded the late Edmund Yates fhe opper-
tunity to heap Goals OF re the great jurfst's
head. At the time OF the suit for libel brought by
LORD LonsdaIe against the proprietor of The
London World" for a paragraph which had ap-
peared in that paper without Yates's knowledge
but affecting the reputation Of the earl and OF
Lady Grace Fame Cnow Lady Londesborougil), the
Lord Chief Justice had delivered a scathing de-
nunctation OF Yates when passing an unusally
severe sentenee-it a years imprisonment
upon him. condemning him personally respon-
sibe all that most discreditable in society
Journalism When the Lord Chief Justice was ac-
cused by his daughter charges which he was
forced for very shame's sake 20 settle out OF
court before the trial completed Yates had
his chance for revenge But he held his hand and
generously foroore 70 avail himself OF the Oppor-
tunity Of getting even with Lord Coleridge. The
latter therzupon wrote to him, thanking him for ms
attitude and expressing his regret that he himself
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