New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-02
! p[NAF0RE ADMIRAL.
,..,d;toyw Dignity of a Tsco-Year-
oR Irish Marquis Nosc Here.

-. foreiFners or distinction who have
sa rived in America ana are now staying in
s'uv .rk is British lord high admiral, who. in
Nss .,slted naval rank. is still in pinRforcs
sre s.os,s being little more than two years
fsa t.-slv necessary TO say that his naval
&C. =, 6ue TO any seniority and that he has
fnk = ,,-y1ce his Office OF lord high admiral
~ - bir, by inheritance. The diminutive flag
g''A .,ssticn is che young Marquis OF Donegal.
o. = rived here with his mother, who. al
SIC :, Canadian birth, being daughter OF
hot T,rining. Of Halifax, IS an American by
H~. having received he- schooling al the
fslNu' ,srnsion School. Just outside Boston, and
CUM ,t wellesley College. She married the
f'e - donegal &c his third wife or December
~ A., beipc eighty years old and she twenty.
. ,rs following October she gave birth 10 the
SIC - 81 1905 succeeded 10 the many peersses
y 5,rniti.s OF the old marquis
~ os s,rnitjss include that OF Hereditary Lord
,sr,-sl Of Tough NcaEh. which is the largest
- -, merely OF ireland, hut also OF The United
-, covering an area Of los square miles and
~ ,oast line OF sixty-fve miles The title
W t.,k 10 tho sixteenth and seventeenth CELL
- u,hen the lake was the scene or many i'm
'1f laval battles. the last one fought on cts
80, having occurred in 1912. Recently a scheme
,,or under way for the draining or the lake
7. he object OF rendering the land which II
- available for agricultural purposes. AS its
- averages from thirty TO forty feet. and as IL
sout seventy feet above sea level, the mere
ING OF the River Bann would suffice TO
- he lake tire disappearance OF which would
!. end 10 dispose OF the popular legend 10
=. ,vs,suce Of IN ancient city buried beneath its
-.,.-. O, which the poet Thomas Moore wrote as
ha5ss
~ roush NsssA's banks the fisherman strays
Wien the ciesT, cold eyes declining
Il. les Re round towers OF other DAYS
n the wave beneath him shining.
7.-us-lv the estates OF the msrouesses Of Done
:, ,ba as entitled 10 wear at court and on state
80, the uniform OF q lord high admiral, were
!, .-msnss valve. comprising nearly all the land
mi I,,ueh Nesgh, as well as the greater part OF
i. ,fv o. Belfast Most OF the property was,
,,srsr alienateG by the third Marquis Of Done
n ,.bose sons predecessed him, and who there
- lsf, everything that he could 10 his daughter,
,--iss 10 the eighth Earl OF Shaftesbury, and
-. has been some talk IN recent years Of an at
-. 10 recover possession Of these estates The
...srt nsruuis's landed possessions are limited 10
=. Island q Maeee. in County Antrim, which ne
-, and his mother has some property OF her
apu
rno,s hv the wsy that the ''peerages' OF Burke
80 Tebrett refer 10 the late marquis having
,-r only twice married. This Is mistake Tie
,,s married three times. The dissolution OF his
-. marriage Of which no mention is MADE, fur
rsbed one Of ths causes oelebres' OF the early
as the evidence going 10 show that the respond
~ had been previously married 10 a William
N-rs, her union TO whom had been pronounced by
ne courts null and void on grounds Identical with
,soss upon which the marquis based his extraor-
dasry petition. The second wife Of the marquis
vas Miss Mary cobb. and equally impossible
regsonsge She was frequently Jailed for disordeTly
rorduct and disturbance, endeavored 20 brain her
husband with Ratchet, and died in q workhouse.
The Csnsdiaa born. American educated Mar
.hionsss of Donegal now in THIS country. va. the
late peers fhfrd wife