The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-04
FIRST PARLIAMENT
FOR SOUTH AFRICA

course he did not inherit the old Bas.
saraba dignity of Prince of the Holy
Roman Empire. and 1t lis now extinct
Gregory made his home entirely in
France, where he died In 1886. leaving
a son. Constantine, who has assumed
the name OF Bassaraba In addition to
that of Bibesco and of Brancovan. and
who last year married the coiossaily
rich daughter of old Sir John Anto-
hides. whose gardens on the banks of
the Mahmoudieh Canal. on the out
celebrity and are familiar to almost
every tourist who has visited Egypt
One of Prince Constantine's sisters Is
married TO Count Matthew de Noailles
novelist. while the other. Helen. is
the wife of Prince Alexander de Cara
man Chimay.
Lord Monteagie. who has been writ
Ing to the London Times and to other
newspapers. urging that Edward wills
! death should be made the occasion for
a truce In the bitter conflicts which
have been raging between the LIBERAL
| Unionists and the Liberals in connec-
ton with the House OF Lords. is in
noWise descended ftoiu the peer of the
same name who PLAYED so important
a role in the Gunpowder Plot. for.
| whereas that Lord Monteagie was a
Stanley the patronymic OF the present
| Lord Monteagle is Spring Rice. and
his peerage was one of the frs created
| by Queen Victoria after her accession
| to the thrcn" in favor of the Hon.
Thomas Spring Kice, whv was Cham
cellor of the Excheduer and Secretary
of State for the Colonies during the
| third decade of the last century. Lord
| Monteagle Is comparatively unknown
to the general public. though ia
milar figure at the Athenaeum Club in
| London, of which he Is one of the pill
liars, being a student rather than a
politician. He owns an estate of some
10000 acres, along with country seat
known as Mount Trenchard. in COUNTY
limerick is representative peer Of
| Ireland and a knight of the Order OF
St Patrick. His eldest son and heir
/ is the Hon. Thomas Spring-Ric at
/ tache of the British embassy al St Pc
tersburg. Another member OF the fam
lily. but whose prospects of success
sion to the Monteagle peerage arc
much more remote. IS Sir Cecil Spring
| Rice, British minister at Stockholm.
formerly attached to the English en-
bassy at Washington. where he be-
came one Of the close chums and
cronies of Theodore Roosevelt, at the
was by reason of this intimacy that
he was chosen in February. 1905. ior a
mission of a rather mysterious char
acter. 1t was lust when the powers
view to bringing the war between
Japan and Russia to close. Sir Cecil
was sent from Berlin. where he was
/ then stationed as councillor by ms
celles now his father-in- law). to Eng
LAND on reaching London, Sir Cecil.
. after a prolonged Interview. first With
Lord Lansdownc and then with Ed
ward VII, vanished, to turn up a
:. week later, on Sunday evening, In
. Washington, where he called with Sir
lMortimer Durand, the British ambassar
dor at the White House, near mid
night. remaining with President Roose-
welt until 2 or 3 o'clock in the morn
Ing He left Washington by an carly
train, was back in London eight DAYS
later and then returned to his post at
Berlin 1t was understood that his
trip to America was in connection will
the project of friendly intervention by
Germany. Great Britain and the United
States between the two bclligerents II
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