The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-01

de Sagan. afterwards Duchess OF
Talleyrand- Perigord. who went by the
name of "Canaillette." owing ito the
Tact that her birth. las we'll AS many
OF her ways and utterances savored,
In the eyes of her blue blooded friends.
rather of the masses than OF the
classes Nine. de Gallifet was indebted
for her peculiar sobriQuet to her hus-
pand, the famous cavalry general and
Minister of War, who was never tired
of deriding her dread lest soap and
water should injure her exquisite COM
pleXion.
No unkind word has ever been ut
tered about "Chifonnette," to whose
wise and tactful counsel Queen Alex
&nura, II very much younger woman.
Is Indebted for her marvellous taste
and elegance in dress. The countess
Is one of the most intimate friends OF
Queen Alexandra, and was of the late
Ning Edward, who never dreamt OF
passing through Paris without paying
her visit at her beautiful home in
! the Rue Tronchet. She Is on equally
good terms withs the members OF the
| relgning houses of Russia. Denmark,
Austria, and remains to this day one
of the most loyal friends OF Empress
EuBenfe, who is Indebted to her in
huence with Theirs, when President
of the republic, for the restoration to
herself, to her consort, Napoleon Ill,
and to her son, the Inflated Prince
Imperial, Of all their private property
and personal belongings. which they
had left behind In France in 1870.
The countess remains ms intimate as
ever with Princess Pauline Meter
mich, who, on the occasion Of her an
nual visits to Paris, always stays with
her. They are both now quite old wo-
men. But STILL when one sees them
together. 1t is easy to realize that in
the palmy days of the empire they
formed, with the MarQuise de Gallifet.
the all-powcrful trinity governing
Partisan fashion.
In the qualified official denial given
to the story of Sir Fairfax Cart
wright's immediate resignation of the
British Enthusiastically at Vienna,
which he has held for the past five
years, it is stated that he will, lat any
rate. remain on until the end OF the
year." the inference being that he Will
then vacate the office Sir Francis
Berthe. who will then have attained
his SEVENTEEN year. will also at that
time put Into execution his frequently
rnmored retirement from the British
embassy at Paris. and ii is generally
understood that Sir WILLIAM Goschen.
who has not been very successful at
Berlin, a post which has been more
distasteful to him than ever since the
death OF his American wife, will also
apply for his pension and withdraw
into private life. This taken in con-
junction with the cabled news OF Sir
Gerard Lowthers resignation of the
mbassadorship at COnstantinople,
means many changes in the higher
ranks of the British diplomatic ser
vice.
They will probably result in the
transfer of Sin George Buchanan from
st. Petersburg to Vienna. where his
father, the late Sir Andrew Buchanan.
who was ambassador there for many
years Is held in most kindly memory
by the imperial family and the great
world. Sir Rcnnell Rodd Will UNI
doubleday be transferred from Rome TO
Berlin: while Sir Maurice Runscn Will
probably be sent from Madrid either
to Constantinople to Rome, OF to st.
Petersburg; one of the vacant embas-
sizes falling TO the share of Sir \lan
TOMBSTONE now minister at The Hague,
and married to the sister of Clifford
Pinchot, of Washington and New
York. 1t is said that the Paris en-
bassy Will go to no one in the diplo-
matte service. but to some member or
the present Asauith administration
| if 1t is then still in Office.
Sir Fairfax Cartwright comes of an
old Roman Catholic family. and has
strong strain of German blood in his
veins. His grandfather, Sir Thomas
Cartwright. who died as British min
lister plenipotentiary at Stockholm. In
1850. was married TO Countess Marie
Won Sandizcll, daughter of the grand
master of the court OF King MaXimil-
ian IL. OF Bavaria. Sir FairfaN's own
mother was also a German, n iraulcin
Clementine Gaul, who had been tho
companion of the first wife Of his
father. William CORVALLIS Cartwright
of Aynho Banbury. The CartwriEhts
have been seated AT Aynho ever since
the days OF Richard Cartwright. a sue
ccssful lawyer, who bought the prop
erty early in the seventeenth century.
anW whose son married the daughter
OF the famous Parliamentary general
the second Lord Fairfax, who com
mandcd at Marston Moor. 1t IS from
this general that Sir Fairfax derives
his Christian name.
When he was stationed at Rome he
married there the youngest daughter
of the Marchese Chigi. member OF
that historic and princcly house OF
the old Roman patriciate, and the head
of which is hereditary marshal of the
Holy Roman Church, and guardian OF
the Papal Conclavc, responsible
such for all the arrangements for tho
election of popes. Through his wife
and through his grandmother. Sir
Fairfax is thus related not only TO
most of the great patrician houses OF
Rome. but likewise to many OF the
old families of the Austrian and GER
man nobility, such as Sayn- Wittgen-
stein. Thurn-and Taxis, etc.
While minister at Munich, Sir Fair
fax became a great favorite with the
Bavarian royal family. especially with
Prince and Princess Leopold, and or
their sons and daughters, Princess
Leopold being the eldest daughter Of
Emperor Francis Joseph. 1t was the
interest which Princess Leopold eXcr-
cised in his behalf at Vienna that led
her father. the Emperor, to ask King
Edward to have Sir Fairfax appointed
as ambassador TO his court He Is
very popular at the court Of Vienna
ana In snciclX. lhOuHh lnsA SO In Alls-