The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-28
DUKE GEORGES WIFE
is FORMER ACTRESS

Mt; Justice StarcIeigh.,. who prcsid.n}
~ me ce!eorated breach OF promise
ar n Of %Bardell versus, plckwick.@HT1e
i,eigh and Gasclce would be more rrnaj-
npi.HFent u the latter name wera
ssnpnninnd as j. Is pronounced, with a W
stead of an IS" t :"
Sir Alfred, who saw Ills nrst service
IN the campaign against the Jowakis,
r no inria, more than fifty years ago. had
hcld marshal, the iate Count WaIdnrscn
who had plenty Of occasion 10 observe
nm, during the march 10 Pekin ana
,nno expressed at the time his surprise
MT SO Hood n man. and 30 capable an
o,nseF' should have had no higher com
mand than that OF a mere brigade. lie
erol have been high up on The Gen.
sec; had he been n German.
y rights Sir Alfred should have
saGGeeded Lord Kitchener ms general
anankS to the jcalonsica. the intrigues
ana the inconccivablc ineptitude that
nave characterized the Board Of Selec-
non tor commands. since the retire
hausnt. his name was passed over. and
me present commnnier-in-chief. Sir
pMoore Creagh. was appointed in his
stead. greatly To the dfsappointmen OF
most OF the officers n men who hnvc
seen service in India: first and fore
most among them being Lord Kitchener
80. a IlITI HUH Hhtl ""I " MH| NNHLHN"" 70 EHA
The mention above OF Charles Dick
ens's cause celebre. "BnrdelI versus
Pickwick.'' recalls the fact that5therc
Is n nona-Hde lawsuit on record. OF
defendant was the well known coach
proprietor OF Bath. Mr.. Pickwick. from
whom the novelist avowediy took the
name Of his immortal hero. The ac-
Ion, however. was not one for breach
81 promise but to recover damages
Tor the loss OF II trunk. and the presid-
Ing judge was. oddly enough. Judge
fred Gaseice: The latter was cducat-
cd at Felstel school, which dates back
10 the time OF the Reformation, and
10 which Oliver Cromwell sent his son
Richard to be educated. The great
Protector must himself have often been
In the quaint old Essex village. where
me school has been located for many
hundred years. as his father-in-law 's
nome was only a short distance away.
Honors are crowding thick and fast
upon EEgland's Secretary OF state for
War, Richard Haldane. Recently he
was raised to the pecrage as VIscount
lialdnne. And. now he is to be an
n mie q memhs OF the Judicial Com
the final court of appeal. not merely
or the United Kingdom, but OF the en-
t,re british Empirc, This carries with
Lords, theoretically, all peers are
entitled to be in the House of Lords
when It is sitting as a Court of APP
poal. But they arc debarrcd from TAX
Ing any part in the actual deIibera-
tons, unless they have held high judi
cial Office. '
Tho only instance OF n peer sit.ine
as q Lord of Appeal In the House OF
Lords who has not previously held Of
flee rs eithor Lord High Chancellor or
as a Judge is that Of Lord James OF
Hereford, who had, however. been nj.
torney.general. Lord Haldane has
never held any legal omce before be-
coming Secretary Of State for War,
having up 10 that time been an ord.-
nary member Of the senior bar. with
the Iltular rank of Kings Counsel. ii
Is by making him a momber- of the
Judicial Committee OF The Privy Coun-l
as q Lord of Appeal In the House OF
Lords.
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