The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-31
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public contempt Tor the new Por-
tuguesc republic, 1t would be found
in the difficulty experienced by the
revolutionary junta in pcrsuading the
ships of the navy TO convey sorely
needed medicines and stores of various
kinds TO Madeira, where the cholera
is raging with such great intensity
tina. all communication with the main
land, otherwise than By wire, has been
interrupted Man of-war after man-o.-
war was in turn ordered and entreated
to carry the medicines and supplies TO
the stricken island; but the degenerate
descendants of Nasco da Cana were
too afraid OF the extremely slight
risk OF contasion, to undertake the
mission.
This is very natural result OF CON
verting vessels OF the national navy
into so many floating reformatories.
for IL has long been customary for the
Portuguese to get any Objectionable
character out OF the country. and out
of the way generally, by enrolling him
in the navy. The modern Portuguese
navy has an uuenviable reputation in
this connection, and furnishes a sorry
contrast TO It's navy OF olden times,
to which the country owed. not only
the most glorious episodes of Its his
tory, but also the whole OF it's Tlagni-
iicent colonial empire. There Is hardly
an officer of any foreign navy who
is not aware of this condition OF ar
fairs in Portugal. and who does not
light shy of men of the same rank
in the Portuguese service; and L can
cite at least two instances where for
eign royal princes closely related To
Queen Merie Alnelie. when offered
commissions in the Portuguese navy,
declined, on account of the character
of 10th officers and men, and sought
service instead under another flag.
Lord Mimic has been more fortunate
than his celebrated great grandfather.
the first earl. who preceded him in
the Governor GeneraIship of India, just
100 years ago. For whereas he has
succeeded, after several attempts at
assassination while in India, in reach
ing in safety his beloved Scottish
nome. Mimic Castle, in the county oil
RoNburgh, the first earl, after arriving
In England, caught a severe chill while
attending the funeral of his brother
| in-law. Lord Auckland, near London,
and cied at Sewerage en- route TO the
North, where the entire country
side around Hawick was in readiness
to welcome him with trinmphal arches
and huge bontires on the hills; while
Lady Mimic, who had been unable, on
account of her health. to accompany
him to India. and from whom he had
been parted for several years. was
awaiting him at the castle, the earl
and countess, who We're a singularly
devoted couple, having agreed that their
reunions after the long separation,
should take place, in that, Scottish
nome which they both loved so Well.
The present Lord and Lady Mimic
have spent many years abroad-first
OF all in Canada, where the earl was
Governor General, and then in India
where he was Viccroy, Lady Mlntos
health has suffered severely from the
corning his danger of assassination
and it is no secret that she would have
been unable to remain any longer in
the Orient, had her husbands term OF
ONCE been prolonged; while he comes
back to Scotland with snow-whito hair
and mustachc, his face marked with
many lines of care. and his features
charac.terized by n gravity in which one
mas dilnculty IN recognizing the one
time dare-devil narun- scarum "Rolley
who was In the Elton Eight, who al
Cambridge won the Third Trinity
mile, and who took his degree in the
most extraordinary costume ever seen
in the Senate House; for he entered the
latter with. his bachelors gown Gov
! ering highly unacademic costume
which ended In brooches and boots
and at the conclusion of the ceremony
he. mounted horse, gailoped ter
IN time to win the university steeple:
chase. He subsequently rode In the
Grand National five times, sustaining
many serious ,cropper. and if the
/
occasion broke his neck, recovering ir
a. manner nothing short of miraculous
he is the only British gentleman
rider, so far as | know, who won the
| French Grand Prix at Auteuil being
| the single amateur steeplechase ridei
IN a field of eighteen. He served as q
volunteer fireman at the close of the
Commune Instruction in Paris, taking
leading part in the extinction OF
The contagration started by the in.
| Surgents and Petroleuses. Afterwards
lshe went through the Carlist insurrec.
! ton In 1879 and 1878, as a volunteer
and towards the latter part of the
campaign acted as correspondent fol
the London Morning Post He served
the same paper in similar capacity
| Throughout the Serviun insurrection
against the Sultan, and was attached
| to the Ottoman army in the war With
| Russia which followed,
A soldier by profession lie spent
a number OF years at Simla and Cal.
cutta, on the staff of Lord Roberts
| when the latter was commander-in,
| chief of the forces in India, took par
under him in the Kurrum Valley ant
other frontier campaigns, and had h,
not been prevented by illness from
Joining the Afghan mission of Sir Louis
| Cavagnari, would have shared the fate
Of that unfortunate envoy, who 1T may
| he remembered, was, Inassacred al
C'abul, with his entire rctinue, Lore
Minto was military secretary of Lore