The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-20
LADY MANWARING'S NEWS
 AND GOSSIP FROM LONDON

| London, August 9.-(Special)-No more
 striking coincidence of the difference pe- tween the status of Ireland and scotland in the United Kingdoms could be nm agined than that shown in the personnel O the great officers of the courts held in Dublin and Edinburgh. In the Irish cap lital English and Scotch dignitarle5 falrlY outshone those of Irish extraction.
 In Edinburgh none but Scotsmen were on guard in the high official positions dur ling the visit of King George and Queen Mary during their visit to their ocotcn capital.
 They were received. in fact, as King | and Queen of Scotland rather than or Great Britain. Their maiesties were le- | ceived at Edinburgh by staff Of pnrely Scottish dignitares, who were in attend ance on them throughout their stay Tn IScotland by virtue of their offices, which are in most cases hereditary.
 First and foremost among the great dis- nitaries of state who were in attendance on the King during his stay in Scotiand was his eldest son, in his hereditary ca pacity as grand steward of Scotland, an office with which he became invested from | the very moment of his fathers accession l to the throne a little over a year ago. The heir apparent became at he same time and in the same manner Duke or
 Rothesay Lord of the Isles, and Prince | of Scotland. Indeed. the office of grand steward of Scotland, by reason or me vastness of the power and authority form
 erly vested in his hands, has always been identified with that of the Prince of Scot land in the eldest son of the sovereign.
 He was the only digntary not of lare | Scotch birth and descent.
 | The Prince of Wales had with him Lord Ralfour of Burleigh, who is keeper of the great seal of his principality of Scotland. | His Scotch peerage. which dates rom 1907, when it was created by James l., came to him from the distaff side of 'he |house-namely through the marriage of | Mary, daughter of the fourth Lord Bal
 four of Burleigh, to Gen. Alexander
 Bruce, cadet of the house of Bruce, of which King Robert Bruce was fnem- | ber and of which the Earl of Elgin is | the chief.
 l Next to the Prince of Scotland and Grand Steward of Seotland-that is, the heir apparent-comes the hereditary lord high constable of the Kingdom namely, the Earl of Erroll. The office has been hereditary in his family ever since it was on his devoted companion -in-arms, SIT Gilbert Hay of Erroll, along with Slains castle which was been the home Of the | Hays of Erroll ever since-that is to say, for near 500 years. The office of lord high constable invests Lord Erroll, E,f 18th | earl of his line, with precedence over | levery peer and dignitary of the Kingdom ' of Scotland who does not happen to De
 prince of the blood, and with the right
 of remaining covered in the Kings pres fence.
 l The most interesting relic preserved at
 his castle of Sains is the playing card | Ca nine of diamonds, known to this day
 as "the curse of ScotlandH on which the
 Duke of Cumberland wrote his memorable
 order that no quarter should be given or
 prisoners taken at the Battle of Culloden,
 fought on April 15, 17i6
 !, TEen there is the 18th Duke of Hamilton
 and of Brandon and. incidentally, pre-
 mer peer of Scotland, as well as chief of the historic house of Douglas, who Is hereditary keeper of Holyrood palace. On | the strength of this office the forner
 Dukes of Hamilton monopoized all the | best apartments, especially the resid antial
 ones at Holyrood, to the actual cxclus )n {, of the royal family, and 1t was only
 with the utmost difficulty that the crown
 managed to recover the premises which
 were occupied by the King and Queen.
 The Duke of Montrose is lord clerk
 register, and as such presides at the
 meetings of Scotch peers held at each par
 liamentary election, for. the selection ly
 the Scotch peers of the 16 of their num-
 Der who represent them in the house of
 lords. The Duke of Buccleuch and of
 Queensberry is the captain general 3f the i Kings royal bodyguard of ScotlanG, which is likewise known as the Royal lCompany of Archers, and the rank and ! file of which. composed of Scotchmen of
 gentle birth and blue blood, are armed cn | state. occasions with bows and arrows.
 Then there Is the Marquis of Breaial- lbane, who is keeper of the privy seal of the King of Scotland, and who is one of the largest landowners of the rortheC kingdom. being able to ride, in direct Iline for 100 miles from his castle of lay mouth in Perthshire. without ever leav- ing his own land,
 Lord Southesk was at Hoyrood as the hereditary cup bearer of the King of Scotland He Is the chieftain of the great Scottish clan of Carnegie. great grand :, father of the present Lord Southesk ma,- ried Miss Agnes Elliot, daughter of An-
 drew Elliott. lieutenant-governor of New