The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-25
DY La MARaU1sE DE roSTENoy.

III ORl1 RIDDEN, who succeeded laet
| year to the carldom OF his elder
IL brother. is charged with having
voted Mt tho two last General
Elections, as Colonel Robert Jocelyn
after he had become peer Tho mat
ter has been brought before tho Com
mittee of Privileges of the House of
Commons. and the case has been prov
cd against him, beyond any possibility
| or n doubt.
! or course. this Is wholly against the
law. and 1t Is demanded that Lord
ltoden should be punished by means OF
heavy fine. II is q question, how
ever. whether this will be done by the
House OF Lords. or By the House OF
Commons For Lord Roden's pecr
ages, namely. the Earldom OF Roden
/ The Niscount of Joceltn. and tho Bar
| ony OF Newport. are NIL Irish honors and
| DO not carry with them n scat In the
not/bcen elected by his fellow peers
/, OF ireland 10 he one OF their twenty
| eight representatives In the House OF
Lords al Westminster AS an Irish
| peer, without scat in the House OF
Lords. Lord Roden has right to SIT
for an English or Scotch constituents.
IN the House OF Commons. but not for
an Irish one. Lord Nalentia. and the
Earl OF Winterton. each OF them sit in
the House or Commons. for English
constituencies. They have therefore
lions In England. but in Ireland
Lord Roden argues his belief that bs-
ins at liherty, despite his Irish peer
ton in England he had the he same am right
| III ireland. But his plea to this effect
- rather impaired by the circum-
stances that he voted In ireland. not as
OF Colonel Jocelyn.
Now although Irish and Scotch peers
who have no seat in the House OF
ages Of their respective countries, have
| nevertheless all the other rights and
p pr, gar. OF peers OF the United
Jurisdiction of the ordinary courts, and
the right to trial by the House OF
Lords Moreover. they are all OF them
+ titnlar cousins OF tho sovereign. This
being the case. i Is doubtful in the ex-
IRENE whether the Committee of Privi-
leges OF the House OF Commons. or that
House a $ whole. has any authority to
before 1t. or to inflict fine. He has.
in fact, ignored Its summons. and its
proceedings, which have been carried
on In his absence. since he claims that
he Is amenablc only 10 the House of
Lords.
II this view Is adopted by the House
@ tn soma then noe all tha y saS do
of its Committee OF Privileges to the
Committee of Privileges of the House
or Lords, and to request the latter to
member, But IL is quite on the cards
,liat the House OF Lords may insist
that in this matter, mt any rate. Lord
Roden cannot be regarded as one of
Its members. since he has no seat in
the Upper House 1t may also suggest
that it has no means OF dealing with
comes member of the House of
Lords. through his election by the
! Peers or Ireland, as Representative
Peer of Ireland.
be settled. II is difficulty to sec. and 1t
F.! J I on the cards that owing TO the diff
Guilty OF determining the jurisdiction,
a stift upper lip, escape punishment
altogether, greatly 10 the disgust OF
the coh,mons. although he has un-
Gus breach OF the laws OF the realm.
| or course the entire ma tier Is calcu-
lsted to nroye fresh source Of bitter,
Houses OF Parliament r.
/ Lord Roden's eldest son was in New
! port. r. l., last summer. as Lord New
/ port, taking his title from Newport in
Ireland. Lady Roden has achieved
the name Of Ada Maria Joceiyn.""
Young Lord Vernon. who announces
| that owing to the fiscal emotions OF
| the present government he intends TO
dispose. of his Sudbury estates in
ing up Of one of the e inest landed pr pro
perties in the Nidlands, is half an
american, his mother being 9, daughter
| of Francis C.. Lawrence OF New York
His mother, the widowed Lady Vernon.
| has long been an invalid, and her two
| boys, Lord Vernon and his younger
brother as we'll as their sister, were
brought up to great extent under
the guardianship Of their uncle, the
| Hon William Frederick Vernon, who
also married an American girl, namely
! tile daughter of General Daniel NJ
| Frost of st. Louis.
The Vernons, can boast Of being
England being descended from that
| Richard de Vernon who accompanied
the Conqueror from Normandy to Eng
land, and was one of the seven bar
ons created by Hugh Lupus, the great
| dred years ago. and one OF them, Sir
] Henry Vernon. Lord of Haddon, was
| governor and treasurer OF Prince Ar
thur the elder brother of Henry VIII
time at Haddon Hall, and his gov
ernor, Sir Henry, was the grandfather
OF that Dorothy Vernon whose elope-
| ment furnished 80 picturesque a ro-
with Sir John Manners. carried Had
don Hall into the family of the Duke
| of Rutland. It's present owner.
But the principal homo OF the Ver-
has been sudbury Hall, which Lord
Vernon now wishes to sell. 1t is a
grand old place, which came into the
houae Of Vernon through the marriage
| Of Sir John Vernon to Helen, daughter
and and heires IS Of Sir John de Mentgom.
| house. with some magnificent oak cary
] inEa by GrinlinE- Gibbons, and Ia hllad