New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-24

which they would prefer to DESTROY eItorethsr
The Conservatives are perfectly content to let
matters remain as they are since having a per-
manent and overwhelming majority in the lords.
the latter always work harmonouslv with the
Commons when there is a Tory-I 'nionist ~ binet
in office. The people who really wish for a reform
OF the House of Lords are certain number of the
lords themselves. and also what Lord Roseberv de-
scribed as the thinking part of the nation who
having a deep interest in the stability OF the ma
tonal institutions, desire an upper chamber more
efficient and more logically defensbIe
Inasmuch. however. as the two principal political
parties in English politics-namey the Conserv,
-Cnionists and the Liberals-are for different
reasons opposed the question of the reform of
the House of Lords and dsinclined to defer 10
popular sentiment in the matter. may regard ii
certain that the upper and older house of Eng
lands Imperial Parliament is destined to continue
as 1t is for many years 10 come in an unrefornred
condition.
LORD DUNsANDLB ONCE JIM. DAILY.
The London Throne" makes n mistake IN de-
scribng, in one of its recent issues the present
Lord Dunsandle as very Old man. and must evil
IDENTIFY have confused him with some of his uncles
for he is only about ffty-six years old and as
Jim DAILY one of the assistant private sec
retaries of Lord Beaconsfeld was celebrated as \
whip. the bosom friend and fdus achates Of the
present Duke Of Rutland. and altogether one Of the
most popular men in London society. He is like
wise very good looking which IS not astonishing,
Illness and are among the oldest families in Scot
land tracing their descent from King Mall of the
Nine Hostages, who iourished before the time of
St Patrick.
Jim Daily would not be to-day Lord Dunsandle
had il not been for n flaw in the marriage of his
uncle. the second peer. The latter had remained
bachelor until well toward sixty, when. strolling
one day his estates in Galway. he encountered
pretty peasant girl IN tears. on stopping to In
Quire the cause Of her woe, she informed him that
Sl,a Of hot ed tn m
whom she detested. and whom she being forced
case of love at first sight. and Lord Dunssndle
impulsively exclaimed, viii you take me for
husband instead?' The girl dried her tears and
accepted the offer. They married immed-
ately afterward by a Catholic priest. but owing to
legal informalities their marriage invalid IN
the eyes of the lava fact which they did not
ascertain until after the birth of named
William. The flaw thereupon right by an
other marriage in due form and it after this
that their daughter, the Hon Anne DAILY. was born.
Her alone figures issue OF the second Lord
Dunsandles marriage with Mary Frederick, the
peasant girl. William DAILY could not according
English Irish law, be legitmiZed, and was
therefore debarred from the title. which passed at
the death of his father the latters brother the
late and third Lord Dunsande, who, dying unmar-
RED, left II the OF his younger brother Rob
ert the present peer. William Daily however, IN
herited good deal of his fathers property. in
Guiding the beautiful old Castle of Thomastown. in
Tipperary,-and likewise Dunsande. in County Gal
way. Unless much mistaken Dunsandle has.
however. passed through purchase to Lord
Dunsande. MARQUISE DE FONTENOY.