Miscellaneous Misalliances.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 262, 6 October 1874, Page 7

Miscellaneous Misalliances.

The London correspondent of the New York Times writes“ The numerous family of the Duke of Argyle will soon be so composed as to include within its widely extending limits members of every grade of English society. His eldest son, the Marquis of Lome, is married to a daughter of the Queen of England. His second son is a wine merchant, an, occupation always held in considerable honour among the Scotch, in memory, no doubt, of the time when only families of some importance could stock their cellars with wine, and when the wine merchant was often the proprietor of vineyards in France and Spain. That, however, does not alter the fact that the Duke’s second son is in the wine trade. His third son is a tea dealer, a merchant—not a grocer selling tea retail across the counter, but-a dealer in tea all the same. One of the commercial mem bers of the family, Lord Walter Campbell —whether the tea dealer or the wine merchant I forget—is about to marry Miss Milne, a daughter of a very rich manufacturer, who began life as a workman, and whose literary education- has been sadly neglected. The Duke will thus find himself in the interesting position of being allied to the the Royal Family on the one hand, to the labouring classes on the other ; and he is already connected, through both his younger sons, with the wholesale commerce of the country. To put the matter in yet another and more striking light, the mother of his eldest daughter-in-law will be the Queen; the mother of his other daughter a sort of Mrs Malaprop, accustomed to commit the unpardonable offence of ‘ murdering the Queen’s English.’ Will Queen Victoria and the lady who habitually defaces her Majesty’s word-coinage meet! And how, in any case, will the two daughters-in-law get on together 1 Miss Milne will suddenly find herself connected very closely with the Royal Family of England, and not very remotely with those of Prussia and Denmark, and Russia. Her future husband is brother to the Marquis of Lome, who is brother-in-law of the Princess of Prussia, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of Edinburgh, whose wife is sister-in-law of the Princess of Wales and the Duchess of Edinburgh. What, it has been asked, will Russia, Prussia, and Denmark say tt) this marriage ? It is difficult to answer the question all at once. When, however, the Vicar of Wakefield’s son published his volume of paradoxes, and was afterwards asked by his father, ‘ what the world said to his paradoxes 1’ ‘ The world,’ replied, the candid young man, ‘ said nothing to my paradoxes.’ And that, I fancy, is the sort of answer, ‘Russia, Prussia, and Denmark’ would give, if consulted on the subject of Lord Walter Campbell’s marriage.”