The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-29
Luxembourg Claimant.

LuNcHDurE Claimant.
Count George Merenberg after hay
ing been defeated in all the lower
courts OF Germany. in his suit against
lhe siNteen-year-old Crown Princess OF
LaauNeInburg. in which fortune of some
SSS..ogo,oo9 was at stake, has finally
every pretension. either to the proper
Y OF the house of Nassau or to the
throne of Luxembourg, in consideration
OF OF Receiving an annuity from the house
TO himself for life. and after him 10
ms eldest son. and the Iatter's de-
| seendants in the male line, in order
~ ~ prlnogeniture, in perpetuity. He
- also renewed OF all the enormous
stituted -
Inasmuch as he is married to the
clder of the two iilegitimate dauEh-
e eefs OF Emperor Alexander H. of Rus.
STA and of Princess Yourieffska, and
az his wife is destined to Inherit a
thlrd of the colossal fortune whIcI,
me murdered Car invested abroad for
me sake of the princess and her chill
aren. II may be questioned whether
the annuity of $4,000 a year is not
sorry return for the mud which the
count has succeeded in stirring I'm
u, y, ms own family; for the proceedings
had the result OF laying bare. and
OF proclaiming far and wide, the fact.
until then almost universally ignored.
that the counts elder sister, Countess
Lorpy, norganatic consort OF Grand
Duke Michael of Russia was born
parents by morganatic marriage.
Even the Aimanach de Gotha, general.
MY regarded as an absolutely authentic.
.and official source of information had
been under a MISREPRESENTATION about
the circumstances of the Countess Tor
by's birth, and it was only after the
counts legal proceedings had brought
the true facts TO light that the Al
inanach for 1908 printed, on page SIS.
an eNtraordinarv foot note. in which
the editors charged the m<ther of
Count George Nuremberg and of Count
css Torby with having lied to them
IN writing about the date OF her mar
| riage.
The counts mother. thus held UP to
condemnation through the greed and
toolish ambition of her son, Is the
Eoungcst child of Russa's most cele-
prated poet Pushkin: was married, en-
premieres noces to General DoubeIt.
Chief of the Russian Police, and after
belng divorced by him, contracted a
morsanatic alliance with the late
Prince Nicholas of Nassau, only broth
Ter of the late sovereign Grand Duke
Adolf of Luxembourg.
me. present grand duke is paretls
ana has no son. but number OF
daughters. The regency of the grand
duchy Is vested in the grand dukes
wife. Count Nuremberg had. in spite
OF his morganatic birth, claimed as
next male relative of the paretio
grand duke. the regency, the right to
succession and the control OF the i'm
mense fortune of the house Of Mas
sau, OF which the Grand Duke of Lux
emburg is the head. the property being
almost wholly situated in Germany
| The LuXemburg legislature and courts
decided against his claims to the re-
SSency and to the succession TO the
throne, by reason of his norganatic
birth. and declared the succession vest
bur
the statutes of the reigning house in
me eldest daughter of the grand duke
Nurse to Indians.
Colonel Sir James Dunlop Smith has
Just been appointed to the office Of
political aided e-camp to the Secretary
or state Tor India. Whitehall, in the
place Of {, the late Colonel Sit. William
spring by a young Indian student, in
| London, while attending an entertain.
ment at the Imperial Institute, organ
lied for the benefit of young natives
! a great sensation at the time, as Sir
William Wyllle was shot down liter.
Tally at his wlfes side dying almost
Instantly.
| The title of the office OF political,
aide de-camp to the Secretary of State
| Is rather misleading, for his duties are
OF most multifarious and RESPONSE.
hle character. He has not only to
| totNC SilttI iOlEcNClS aolIc VI tlle
Indian rulers and princes who come to
London to provide for their cntertain-
ment, to see that they are treated With
proper distinction at court, in society
and by the public, and that they re,
ceiyc their full share of honors. but
! he Is also accountable for their safety
1 and for their good conduct While they
are In the United Kingdom and In
deed: anywhere west of suez lie Is
/ required to see that they do not get
INTO, contact with any people, either
n England or on the continent, likely
/ to impair their loyalty and friendship
| towards Great Britain. All this has to
~, :, done one - the most delicate fashion.
| without giving the slightest offense to
Ithese most susceptible of Orientals.
Then too, the political aide-d de- camp
! Is expected to exercise a species OF
supervision over the two or three
Thousand natives of india who are now
In England and on the continent, some
Of them as. LAWYERS, some OF them as
merchants and some as students. II
Twas because a student objected to this
superys.i,s ". y, q, and resented II that lie
shot slr liam Wyllie last year.
u must he. remembered that these
'na,syes nf India in Great Britain rep