DEATH OF THE DUKE OF ATHOLE, K.T.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 118, 30 March 1864, Page 4

DEATH OF THE DUKE OF ATHOLE, K.T.

Tin: Duke of Athole expired on the lGth, at Ulair Cas le, Perthshire. From thf protracted illness of the Duke, .'iml the nature of his disease—cancer in the throat — hi-, friends have lor some months past been prepared iov thi.-i event. The hie Hhrht. Hon. George Au-ustns Frederick .1.-lin Muiwv. Duke of Atholo, Mjiripiis ofTuliibineand Athole. F.arl ofTullobarrlim', Athole, Slralhtav, and Strathardio, Viscount of Bclipihidar, Viscount Gleuahnond and Gbnlvon, P.aron Murray ofTiulihardino, l'.alvetiie, and Cask, in the peerage of Scotland; Karl Stranirc, liaron Strange mid Murray, and l'aron Gleiivmi, county Perth, ill in ih.-peci-.V'i of Groat i'.ritain.'was thoildor of the two miiimi! General lionl Glcnlvon. second son of John, fourth Kiikeof Athole, by' Lady Kuiily Percy, tii'th liaiitrhti-r of Ilu-h. second Duke of Northumberlaiid. lie ,vas Lorn September'2o, ISM. so that he w,i» in his .'lOth year. The lament .-J Duke married, October 21), lSH'j. Anne, only daughter ef Mr. Homo Drummoiid, of ISlair Drnm'.uor.-l. Perthshire, by whom lie |i-;.ms :,n viilv son, .loim .lames Husk 11-iirv, the Mar.piis if Tullibardine. The late Duke was h.rmcily in the -2nd Dragoon Guards, from which he retired in ISU). On tin; death of his father, in IS:>7, betook his seat in the House of Lords as Ilnpm (Jleiilyon, and suci ceded to the dukedom on the demise of his untie John, | fifth Duke ~f Athole, in .September, IS Hi. The lute I nobleman was H.-reditary Shei itf of Perthshire and : a Deputv-Ueiite.iciit •'! the eountv. In 15.53 ho was made a k»i-:ht ol -)i-. Most Ancient and Most Noble I irili-r of t';ie Thistle. }Ie had held for many years, since the resiunauon of the late General Lord Frederick l-'ilzclaivnee tl Hie.; of Grand Master of the Freemasons in Scotland. As Lord Gh-nlvon he p.'irtiei]iated as one of the knii/Ms at a memorable Kglinlon Tournament in August, !S,'j:>, attended be a band of upwards of KM) Atboie men fuilv equipped". When le-r Maje.-ty first visited Scotland, in September 1842, tiie Duke, as Lord Glenlyon, and heir presumptive to tin; honours of Die familv, e,avc a splendid reception to tie- Queen and her Lit,., illustrious Consort at Dimkelil, on the Koval progress from Scone Palace to Taymoiith f'astle. The present Duke, born on the Ctli of August, 1S!0, is a lieutenant in the Scot.-. Fusileer Guards, and only returned from servinjr with his battalion in Canada la.-t autumn. Ho married on tla-2'.ith of October last Louisa, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas and Lady Louisa Moucriolfo, of Moncried'c, Perthshire.--/■>,-„,„„„ Ti,ii<-«.

Tiik Di'Ki: as .1 ]mii:i:ji,iso.v.—Twice did his attachment to tin.' craft mil.' jealousy for their honour and interest briui£ him into {•lisagivable collision with royalty itself. I'irsl, when i i ISO L, on Prince Albert's being invited to Isiv the foundation stone of the Fine Arts Gallery ereeted on tin' Mound ; mid again in when his Royal Highness otlieated in a similar capacity at the commencement of the new lidinburgh Post olllee and Industrial Museum. Having on the lirst oeeasion exhausted a!! his personal inlluence in vainly endeavouring to pers.iade tlie Prince Consort to join the Orde- which, had the Prince done, would have been fo,.owed by his temporary investiture with the grand gave 1. the Grand Master declined to countenance the proceedings which, in consequence, were rendered less imposing than had the grand lodge with their gorgeous paraphernalia and train of daughter lodges joined in the ceremony. Again, acting o.i the conviction that the part Prince Albert took in the all'air of the I'.ew post-office was a i're.-li encroachment upon the province of the Grand Master .Mason of Scotland, the duke tendered to his lioyal Highness a protest against his further interference with the duties of the grand master, whose light it was, coii.'irmed by ancient royal ordinance, to lay tlu- foundation stones of all public buildings erected within the Scottish realm. This act excited the wannc-d adininirioii of the .Scottish brotherhood, who rccogni.-c.l in it their grand master's determination to uphold the dignity aiid detend the rights and privileges of the time-honoured institution.— Sorth Jlntixh Mull. 4 ■ SoMKTHtM? fob AiiVEitTisKHs. —In a case tried at the Lord Mayor's Court, on Saturday se'nni'dit, Treloar v. the London, Chatham, and Dover Kailway Company, the plaint ill', who is the well-known cocoa-nut fibre mat manufacturer, recovered £9305 compensation for the loss of his house and business at -1-2 Ludgate Hill. One part of pl.imtiff's claim was a sum of Jt.loo, put as " loss of profit on advertising." Jn support of that claim the plaintiff was called on. and he said, " I look upon money expended in a Ivertising as capital invested ; it will, of course, be some time before a benefit is felt, and an advertiser must not expe.t it too lapidly. In somo cases it will be years before a benefit is felt, and it all depends upon the nature of the business. In my case, 1 have expended £5,000 in advertising the business which I was the tirst to introduce. 1 did not expect a return for three year.-, but it came surely, and tbo older the advertisement the more surely comes the. return, it was only the oilier day that it gentleman from Canada brougiit me an advertisement, which he had cut. out of a paper seven years old ; he had kept it. and found my .-hop by its means." To ausvrer this, it was urged for the company that an advertisement might die out from staleness, and that, it was a very good opportunity for plainlilf to issue a fresh ..■.lvci'tiscment, with the words "Prize medal holder " inserted. His Lordship remarked that, no doubt, advertising: was of the very highest importance to peculiar businesses, and the plaintiff was evidently of opinion that he had derived considerable benefit from following ji up. [{ waS) indeed, stated in the evidence that plaintiff considered lie had made 10 ■per cent, pmlit per annum on the .L'fiOOO expended ; liiirt meant that plaintiti had put .CGOO of his present profits as a -ising out of the consequences of his advertising ; so that it was, as would be seen, of considerable importance to trades generally that persons should consider well the whole mode to be adopted, for the plainlilf in this case had evidently reduced tile matter to a science.— Grm-cr, H'iue ami Oil Trade Jiivitir. Murmur at nothing; if our ills be reparable, it is foolish; if tviihout. remedy, it is vain. Die phrase ' lie goes on his own nook' is now refined into ' lie progresses on his own personal curve.' ' I say' Hill, why does ycr call lire a dewottring element ?— Why, Use it/i<•i'i/.v everything, to be sure.' 1 1 is saiil that the pig ran away from the butcher because it bad heard that pievention was better than Snooks thinks it strange that if you knock a street lamp oil' a lamp-post the said la np-post instantly becomes a fauip./iy/ii,-,: Mrs. Partington wants to know why captains don't have their ships properly nailed in port instead of waiting to tack them at sea.