The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-15
AROUSED OVER
TRAFFIC IN TITLES OF NOBILITY

orders which he himself desires to
bestow, and q deadlock would ensue.
Ii is pretty generally known that
there have been many lights between
Crown and Government on this very
matter. that the great Prime NJ mister
William Pitt repeatedly forced in this
connection the hand of George I'LL,
who savageiy remarked on one occa-
sion. when he had been compelled by
Pitt to accord a pecrage to man ut
terry unworthy of the honor, that while
he could make tie fellow Lord he
could never make him gentleman.
The late Lord Sallsbury's retirement
from the Premiership and from public
life was FASTENED by a dispute with
Edward VII, owing to his stern refusal
to give the consent OF the Administra-
ton to the grant Of q peerage which
the King particularly wished to bestow
upon one OF his friends.
King Edward found In the end. as
George V. has realized since his Access
sion to the throne. that the only thing
to do in the matter Ii to compromise
and to agree to grant the honors de-
manded OF the Crown by the Govern
ment on the understanding that the
Cabinet gives It's sanction and coopera-
ton to the distinctions which the mon
arch himself personally wishes to be-
stow.
Everywhere else In Europe the ten
denoy on the part OF the Crown and OF
the Government is to restrict rather
than to increase the number OF nobiliary
honors. In Rumania, Greece. Servia
and bulgaria they have been abolished
altogether and their use Is forbidden by
the terms OF the constitution. Thus.
the Rumanian Ghlkas, the Greek
Ypsila ntls and the ServIan Alexis Kara
georgevitches and I.azarovitches have
no legal right to the prince.y titles
which they make use OF abroad but
with watch they do not venture to
adorn themselves in their native land.
King william OF wurtemberg. who IL
veteran OF the war OF 1870. and the
only German ruler, except the reign
ing Grand Duke of Meck'enburg- Sire
litz. to wear the Iron Cross. won In
that conflict on the battlefield as a sub
altern cavalry officer. announced last fall
hat theme eforth he would create no
more mob es, thus renouncng an an
Client prerogatlve OF the monarchy. He
declared that those OF his subjects
who already possessed nob!.iary titles
either by grant or by inheritance. were
welcome To keep them. and that II was
mp to them to see that the ar!stOcracy
~ the kingdom as now constituted did
not become extinct, since no further
additions would be made thereto 10y the
throne.
Emperor Nicholas FOR some time pas,
has declined to grant the rank Of Baron
Count or Prince To any one who has
male heirs. thus lnsuring the lapse of
the .gnity on the dealt OF the grantee.
He created SerEius White, former
Premier an. penipotent!ary at the
Peace Congress at Portsmouth, y H. a
Count because he has no son. but only
a daughter. married to one ~ the
NarlsChk.nes He has recently con-
ferred similar titr on Vladimir
kokovtzof on the lattci's retirement
from the Premiership nut kokoviz1T
is also without male issue. The Car
| however has reso'utelv declined to
grant any title to his Foreign Minis
| ter. Sazonoff because the latter happens
| To have several so1s
The Kaiser IN comforting the THE OF
p Count. Prince or Duke now invariably
| makes the honor "ai prrsoY7m." th1'
IS to say. for l.fe On y--hs object being
/ that he may be free eth r to revive
/ the dignity IN the person ~ vouno".
son % the o~ig.nai grantee. In the event
Of the e.der son proving himself un.