People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 36, 7 September 1905, Page 10

People We Hear About

It is rumored that Mr. Labauchere will shortly retire from the editorship of ' Truth.' The newly-married Lord Bute traces his descent right liack in unbtoken male line to King Robert 11. of Scotlaud, the present "generation being the seventeenth in succession to the Stuart King. The Duike of Norfolk si-arois in very miuoh tthe same relation to Sheffield that his cousin, the Marquis, of Bute, do^si to Cardiff. They inherited these respective estates through female ancestry, the Duke ooming|byhis Vast property in South Yorkshire through descent from tho gjramd daughter and heiress of George (TallfK), sixth Earl of S'hrewsb/ury, the custodian for fourteen years of Maiy Queen of Scots, at Sheffield Castle. The Earl was one of the judges who sat on tho trial of the l^uecn, at whose execution he presided. Loid Justice Mat hew has entered on his 76th year. He is the senior Judge on the English Bench, and has the reputation of feting the ablest. A man of modest manner, he ne\ er made the Bench a platform for the display cither of "witticism or pomposity. In commercial cases he is the special joy of litigants because of his faculty of getting to tho heart of a case at once, without anj r unnecessary circumlocution or ceremony. An Irishman and a Catholic, Sir James is the nephew of the famous FathorMathew ami the father-iu-iaw of Mr. John Dillon, M.P. Old 1 lace, Mochrum, where Lord and Lady Bute sjent their honeymoon, is ay til situated on the Wigtownshire uplands, jLptween Luce Bay and Wig/town Bay. The sui rounding country is wild and lonely, and consists of hills, moors, a/nd lochs. Old Place, which was originally built during the latter part of the lKeonth coitiuy by Sir John Dunbar, as as thoroughly an/d carclnlly restored by tho late Lord Bute about twenty years ago, and it is now one of the best examples of a mediaeval house in Great Britain. The Avindows command beautiful Mews o\er Mochrum Loch and Castle Loch, eaoli of which contains soseral pretty islands. Two hundred women writers met as comrades at d.nucr tho other day (reports the London ' Tablet '), and thieeof their number weie (loa\ non the programme tor speeches— Mrs. Mejncll (who piesidod o\er t<he pretty I)MK|'kl, made gay with Uoweis and musical with tho vail|iC of leumunr \oices), Mis. KatliCLine Tynan IhnK--on, and Mrs. Ciaiga-e. r I lie last note to be suggested hv s!>ch a tes'tivvi) js a polemical one. Yet the fact- that the time spakesYvoinen of the A\omeu writers happen all to In- Catholics is something moie than a lucky lluke It, represents the ACiy generally predominating aeluitirs of Carbolic woine-n in nearly all the departments of literature aud journalism. r lho literary exeurtois of the late Cardinal Nowman ha\o on trusted, to Mr. Wilfrid Waid the task of willing? I*he Cardinal's biography. The. selection is happy, since Mr. Wilfrid Ward's father, Mr. William (ieorire Ward, was one of the leaders of the Tractanan mow mint, who 'came over' with Newman '"Irs. Wiltnd Waid, too, is a daughter of Mr. J. R. Hope Scott, another college friend of Newman's. Among the cherished possessions of their library at Dorking is ' The (-laminar oi Assent,' inscribed ' 1o Wilfrid Ward, with tl c afie tionxte regards of John 11. Caidinal Newman, .'jlf.li Jan., 1885..' As the author already of the life of Cardinal Wiseman, Mr. WaiM is steeped in the 'history of tho English Catholic revn;il of the 19th century. Sir Timothy Carcw O'Brien, who has recently been showing- at Lords that, Ins bat has not, lost its cunning, (iioAs -a btironetcy which Avas conferred on his grandf.iirer by Queen Victoria ay lion she entered Diublin in lM'i 'I he lust Sir Timothy O'Brien Avas a prominent meicliant) of Dublin, and hr« ayms specially united to accc.it tho Lonrl Mayoralty in Older to Yvelcomc the yoiung Qi'een. As< Lord Ma\<r he presented the keys of DubJin t.> Queen Viecrria, who on that occasion described Dublin as ' the tecco'iid city of my Emmre '—a distinction now claimed by other citicv Sir Timothy C. O'Brien who, by 1-ha way, is nuiind to the sister of Mr. de TialToid, thy noted Leicestershire ctieketer — succeeded bis i nclc, Sir Patuck, in the baionclcv a lit tie over ton years &j|t Sir Patrick O'Brien i; s'fi'l Avell romemI'ered by many members of the House of Commons, in ay Inch he sat coiniinuo'isly for King's County from 1852 to 188.i A Li! *ral like his father, he did not favor Ibe Parnellite mo\emeni, and was in strong antagonism to Mr. Parnell's party during his last year in Parliament.