The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-22


 and shamrock are grafted onto 1t, and at last 1t envelopes the star of the h. dian empire, and is surmounted by the lowest of the imperial crowns which cover the rest of the train. Among the roots of the tree sprout the fieurs-de-lis of France.
 The great stems of this piece are em- hroidered in plate gold, Chinese and other kinds. with the thorns of very sparkling gold thread; the leaves of the rose and the shamrock are of .'purl,'' the leaves of the thistle of bullion with great veins of plate, and its flowers are very beautl- fully shaded with purple silk. The star of India Is of silver with golden rays, whose brilliance is expressed by golden studs gradually diminishing in size to mere points of gold.
 It is now stated that King George and Queen Mary will leave England for India early in November, which will be month sooner than the date originally fixed for their departure for the east. It is now proposed to hold the coronation. Dubar at Delhi during the first fortnight of December. as January is an unsuita- ble date for important reasons. Tho King and Queen would afterwards pay a short visit to Calcutta, and would be present at the military parade on New Years day. Their majesties would get 1 tack to England by the end of January, 1912, and would be in London in time for the opening of parliament.
 Though it is not dynastically important, the announcement that a birth is expect ed in the royal family before the corona tion is interesting. For 1t Is 127 years since King of England has had a child born to him during his reign The last was the Princess Amelia. the young est child of George III, who was born in 17S3. George Tvs only daughter, the princess Charlotte, was born and died during the reign of her grandfather while William TVS two daughters, both Of whom died in infancy. were respectively born In the reigns of George III and George ".
 The death of Mrs. Leigh recently at the Deanery, Hereford, removes a noteh hie figure in the society of that cathedral city, and the deepest sympathy is felt throughout the country for Dean Leigh in the great loss he has sustained. Mrs. Leigh was the daughter of the late MT. Pierce Butler of Philadelphia by his wife, Fanny Kemble, daughter of Charles Kam- hle. and niece of John Kemble and Mrs. Siddons, and she was married in 1871 to the then pr. James Wentworth Leigh, vicar of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, a younger brother of the late Lord Leigh. Dean and Mrs. Leigh had an only son. who died when few months old, and a daughter who is the wife Of Sir Richard Butler of Ballin temple. County Carlow. MT. Pierce Butler was one of the fam fly of Ballin temple being descended from Maj. Pierce Butler of the Twenty ninth regiment, a younger son of the fifth Nc c~f.r, r,at xx-1.r a1, IL. eighteenth century emigrated to America and founded the family of Butler of But ler's island, Georgia. There they had plantations and slaves prior to the aboli- ton of slavery In North America and Mrs. Leigh was greatly attached to her old homo in the rice swamps of Georgia, and she often used to speak of life among the negroes. whose ancestors had been on the place in the time of her great-grand- father. Maj. Pierce Butler. Some IS or II years ago Mrs. Leigh was on a visit 10 Buffers island, and while there she en- tertained all the older negroes who had been slaves, and the love they had for her shows how well the wealthy planter and cultured Christian man treated his slaves in the prosperous times of the southern states. Mrs. Leigh's foreman on the plantation was the grandson of slave who had been trusted servant of her. great-grandfather. For his prompt ness in acting during a hurricane and preventing. number of slaves entering q boat which would inevitably have been swamped. her foreman's grandfather was offered his freedom; but he refused 1t, and instead the owner of Buffers island gave him a silver cup with an in- scription recording the circumstances. This cup Mrs. Leigh offered to pur- chase from the recipients grandson. but he would not sell it, though he told his mistress she should have 1t when he was gone.