The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-18
ny la MAnau1sr DE roNrENoY.

4 announcement In tho London
| N Times" In connection with the
as the Old Catholics, shows that
| Arm I'd Harris Iathew ha eing failed In
his attempt to secure. through the
lComnittee of Privileges of tho House
as the lrightfnl claimant to the ex.
t!nct Irish Earldom and Viscoullty OF
Landau. owned 100 years ago by the
Mathews OF 'rhomastoWn, Kilkenny. has
l'consoled himself by securing conse-
ton
1t Is a sect witch processes the saine
doctrines as the so-cailed Janscntsts,
who were cut off from the Roman
Gathoric Church during the reign Z. oi
sists on. electing its own archb.shcps
and bishops. rejects the doctrine OF
infallibility, permits the marriage OF
the clergy, and services In the verhaeu-
Gladstones friend, DIR. Dollingeir, and
1t Is represented In Holland by an
archbishop of the name of Gul, at
Utrecht: by two bishops, by about
three score priests. md about 2o,Joo
Street, Canonbury, North LONDON: and
II the rite has come into prominence
lately. 1t Is through the exconmunica-
ton of two Roman Catholic priests
Father Beaie. of ST. Ed.nund's. Not
tingham and Father Howarth, OF
'Corby Grantham, and suspension from
ecclesiastical powers and faculties, on
account OF their recent conversion to
the Old Catholic sect. and TO. their &C
ceptance of conservation as bishops by
the lain ant to Il 0 Ear.dom of Landau
Their diocesan who excommunlcated
them Is the Right Reverend DR.. Brin-
die, Roman Catholic Bishop OF Not
tinghanl, who wears the Distinguished
Service order for conspicuous bravery
under fire. while chaplain to the forces
under Lord Kitchener. during his SOU
dan ca,npaign; who was one of the
most popular tsures in the army, and
who was entrusted with the religious
instruction of the young, Queen of
Spain at the time OF her conversion.
Although his cluim has been re-
jected by the Committee OF Privileges
the House q Lords and y old
Harris Mathew. Lord Bishop and Metro
politan of the Old Catholic Church in
England" and who ahxes the letters
ID. d." standing for Doctor OF Di-
yinity, to his name although ne hoids
no English or American university de-
gree, continues to use the title OF Earl
of Landau, while his son. with SIM
liar disregard of all authority. has
adopted the title OF Vtscount Landau,
the English Who's Who" of the cur
rent year. which might lead people TO
believe that their nobiliary titles were
authentic and valid In the eyes of the
law.
Tho earldom and yiseounty were
created at the close Of the eighteenth
century In favor OF Francis Mathew,
of Thomastown, Kilkenny member
for Tipperary in the irish Parliament.
as reward for his having voted in
favor OF the union of England and
Ireland Indeed he was one OF the
Hyg isrl, URIC N gGt n
peers chosen at the union: and at his
death in 1906, his title and his estates
passed to Francis James Niscount
Landau, famous buck and blood
George ~. as Prince Of Wales. and who
was believed to be eldest and only
surviving son of the first earl
According to the story OF the present
claimant, Francis James was not the
eldest surviving son of the first earl,
ed to the honors and TO the property;
which latter he entirely dissipated
through his Insane cxtrayag ance. be-
fore his childless death in 1893, 1t
,ess had a st.ll older son. Arnold by
name, who had been brought up III
France, and of whose existence they
seldom spoke. owing 10 the aws"a:d
fact of his having been born three
months after their marriage. Arnold
was sent at the age OF siSteenSto India.
as a cadet in the Bengal Artillery, and
on growing up married at Calcutta
daughter Oh papal marquis.
Dominica Pevoleri. register of the
marriage being in existence in St
Iohn's old Cathedral Church at Cal
cutta. He never returned TO England.
and his failure to assume the title
on the death of his father was due
partly TO the fact that his time was SO
much taken up With the continual wars
in which England was then involved in
India and elsewhere in the Orient
and parity too. because any legal pro-
ceedings would have affected his par
ents' honor by revealing the date of
his birth.
On the death in India OF this Arnold
Mathew. who attained the rank OF
major general his son Arnold Henry,
continued In the army. and fought
under Sir Charles Napier in the COM
quest of Scinde. He received numer-.
Gus letters from his fathers unmarried
sister Lady Elisha Mathew. who, adj
DRESSING. him as Lord Landau. and as
her nephew, declared In writing that
owing to the second earl that is to
say, her second brother. having