SAN FRANSISCO MAIL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1200, 3 June 1872, Page 2

SAN FRANSISCO MAIL NEWS.

; THE MARQUIS OF BUTE. . : [NEW YORK TRIBUNE.] The marriage of fie Marquis of Bute has, for sometime, occupied the attention; of the fashionable world in England. The; Marquis, Whose family name is Stuart, is •descended from a noble English house, which was represented in. the Peerage before Columbus had crossed the Atlantic. He is the only son of the second Marquis and Lady Hastings, daughter of the first Marquis "of Hastings, and; succeeded, to. his father's title and estates, while an' infant. When in his eleventh year, his mother died, but his, education received; the most'cdreful attention i'frpm' Jus," giiar-! ! dians. 3l About four years ago, considerrv v able surprise was caused by the announcer: ment that he had renounced the creed of his fathersand joined the Roman Catholic Church. He adopted- thia bourse 1 so unostentatiously that rumors statingthatie" had returned to his .ioniser, belief found ready credence until formally denied. ' The secession of the Marquis had ceased to excite comment, when, ;in May, 1870, Mr Disraeli's " Lothair," recalled the young peer to the public mind. In that work, the veteran, novelist, it will be recalled, introduced ! Lothair as a young Englishman o£ vast wealth aiifl exalted position; Deft an orphan in his infancy/ he is brought up undeir the charge of^wo. j guardians— one a grim Scotch -Lord, • the other an English clergyman, "who, having- " gone over to Rome," became Cardinal Grandison, and the mainstay of the, Papacy in the British Isles. The young peer is introduced in : the romance jusjr as he: is oh the eve of his majority, and making his entry into society. ; The story is chiefly occupied with the efforts of Cardinal Gran dison to tempt" his ward into the Church of Rome, and the efforts' of his other friends to- keephim out. The parallel is not, how.ever,^' carried put : to th 6 end, for tlie'Marquis went over, but Ldth^ir.remairied behind. - , . The alliance of the Houses of Yorfolk or Arundel and Bute, however, singularly confirms what could have only. ,been conjecture with the' moralist.' One part" of the strategy of Rome :is the introduction of the young Marquis to a' Catholic family, Lord and Lady St. Jerome, and their daughter Clare Arundel,: who ' nearly effaces the impression of the Lady Cbrisande, his first-love, and sets Mm dreaming of the unity of Christendom, and planning a great Cathedral. Theconquest would have been 'speedy, so strongly are the charms of Clare Arun'deT seconded by the artifices of more experienced heads But Theodora is made to rescue the impressionable youth, who is finally won by Lady Corisaride. ; r -; "' : ; - The Marquis is one of the wealthiest Peers of England,- He inherited a princely property, and, during ; his. minority, -the accumulations were very great. He owns four magnificent residences: Mount Stuart, romantically situated on the Island of Bute ; Cardiff Castle, built in.the eleventh century, . wherein Robert, Dnke of Normandy,' die^j after- being a prisoner in it for twenty-eight years ; DHmfries House, Ayr, and Lodoun' Cistle, Kaimarnpch. The ...Bute Docks, at Cardiff, entirely; his property, are sixty-five acres in area, and coat upwards of 5,000,0Q0d0L- -He also owns most •of the ; . Jsland- of -Bute, and other landed property^of great extent and value.;.; The title of.the/Marquisi of < Bute gives him precedence of -all. but Princes and Dukes. The family motto is, Avito viret honore—" He flourishs in an honorable aicestry." It has been arranged that the Marquis is' to lepaiivwith his bride ? immediately after the marriage ceremony to Cardiff Oastle, tray.el ling ;b£ a' special train from Lon'don:^ V,L6rd :Hqward; whose daughter , the 'has espbyised, 'is a member;^the;CathoHc:hbuse of' Norfolk,, the oldest' in the i Peerage; of. England. .-He is uncle to the present Duke of -Norfolk,; and -has been in , the British. ;House of; Commons. He r is in his 54th year, and married twice, his second marriage taking place one year after the death of his first wife. The bride is in her 19th year.