The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-27
by IA M,nauIsE DE roNrENoy

have just issued an extraordi.
L. nary official announcement at
Dublin, to the effect that their
e%cellcncies are graciously prepared I,
promote a set of charity balls. of which
! the guests would pay The cost" They
| further EXPRESS the wish that Others,
in the interest of the trade of Dublin,
would give entertainments
| Now there has never been any Irish
viecroy, at any rate during the last
| eighty or a hundred years. who has
/ done so little entertaining at Dublin
as the Earl of Aberdeen The yiceroy
and Lady Aberdeen are the most phi
lanthropic of people and ready to ac-
I cord tneIr official encouragement TO
any charitable scheme that is sub
| mitted to them. But within human
memory there has never been a lori
lieutenant at Dublin Castle who has
been so extremely thrifty as Lord
Aberdeen. Under one pretext or an
other the viceregal hospitaIitles have.
ever since the earl entered the Of
ice, been cut down TO the narrowest
possible limit, and the entire viceregal
court conducted upon a scale of un-
prccedented economy, II there Is one
virtue which the irish people do not
admire in those who are placed in au.
thorlty over them, it is economy. Lord
Aberdeen receives a salary of 500 oO0.
a year-that is TO say. considerably
more than the President of the ITnited
states Ills allowances amount to as
mueA more, besides which the govern
nent maintains whole army O. Off
eials of one kind and another at lis
expense to attend upon him
Some former viceroys have lived I'M
10 tne last penny OF their salaries ana
allowances, They were men of small
Cadogan. Lord Spencer and Lord Crewe, |
nave spent double as much as they re.
ceiVed in maintaining with BETTING
sPiehaor and magnificent hospitality :
u IN once OF representative of the sove-
reign. in Ireland. But Lord Aberdeen, j
VINO is a rich man and one OF the larg-
est iand owners In Scotland not only I
does not contribute anything out OF HIS
own resources, but has conducted his
NlcefeSal establishment In such a man /
her as 10 effect considerable saving
on his salary and allowances.
, Ihat with q record Of this kind be-
n nth nm he should now. call upon
benefit Of Dublin trade. and that he
should express his most gracious read!-
ness to promote baAs at which the
guests would pay the cost. seems in
the eyes of the irish to be adding in
their sense of humor, but In the wrong
way.
When Lord Dudley was viceroy he
closed his various country seats In
to Ireland, spent all his time there
'entins one of the finest country seats
N Erin for the term OF his office. More
over, he toured the island In every d.
'ection with his wife, leaving largessu
\ their train, and they Interested
themselves, actively in the Improves
nent of the material welfare OF the
people in the more novertystricken
districts.
Lord and Lady Aberdeen spend MS
dublin season Is cut down to the mar
,owest limits, and during the remain
Ter or their time they are away In
tlla In one word, the Yiiceroyalty
# their thrifty disposition. been q
snal failure. and despite their home
ule sSmpathies, has in no sense OF
he word been success Moreover,
zen married by, one OF the most un-
leasaut scandals that have ever dis
urbcd the vicereSal court Of Dublin.
amely, the theft of the Jewels OF the
IiSll tClheT pl 81. afatTlCR from ~
'astle, and all the lnsavory incidents
4 connection Herewith, Including the
ismissal of Sir Arthur Vlckers, Ulster
Arms. and the members of his
cradle staff at the castle, the Jewels
aving' been recovered quite as mys-
eriously as they had disappeared.
Lord Bathurst has Just been sum :
loned TO Germany, in order to inspect
ONE human remains which have been
,und at some distance below the sur
ice Of the ground, in wood in the
OF Perleburg, and which
rs believed to be those Of BENJAMIN
athrrst, the British envoy at the
,urt of Vienna, who. on his journey
, England in 1900, SO mvstertously
sappeared,
1t Was this BENJAMIN Bathurst who
duced Austria to resume war with
rance, and having accomplished his
ission. he left Vienna to return to
ngland. Aware OF the fierce ant
osity with which he was viewed by t'
apoleon, he considered II more pru-
MT to travel under an assumed name ~
that az ''lSoch, He got us far on =
$ way5to Hamburg as the little town IN
Perlehurs, where, as elseWhere, the -
,,issian authorities ware SO convinced mi
NJ mel me- n 1aO al rms. hands EH