A FUGITIVE NOBLEMAN.

Patea Mail, 26 April 1882, Page 4

A FUGITIVE NOBLEMAN.

A sad business is the issue of a warrant for the apprehension ot the Marquis of Huntly. Two years ago, few public men in Great Britain appeared to have before (hem a more bright or more promising career. The premier Marquis of Scotland, in the early prime of life, with good abilities and charming manners, and married to the amiable daughter of Mr Cunliffe Brooks, the wealthy banker, who settled upon the bride a sum of £B,OOO a-year, his position and prospects might well have excited the envy of the great majority even of his own fiiends. When the present Government was formed, he was appointed to one of the most coveted of the Court sinecures which arc at the disposal of the Prime Minister, and good fortune seemed to shine radiantly upon him. Suddenly his affairs were found to be in the most hopeless disorder, and in consequence his creditors became so exigent that he found it expedient to retire to Eastern Europe. Some of his friends have all along expected that his father-in-law would interfere to settle his affairs, hut it is said that Mr Brooks has already done so more than once, and that on the last occasion he put his hands into his pockets to the tune of £BO,OOO. An example of how history constantly repents itself may he seen in the fact that Lord Hnnlly’s father was also a spendthrift, and that the embarassed state of his affairs was one of the scandals of the last generation.—London cor. Since the above was written, the missing Marquis has returned to London, and the writ , for his apprehension is withdrawn. Apparently another attempt has been made to arrange his affairs.