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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 40, 27 March 1863, Page 6 (Supplement)

Tur, Brf.at>albanf. Family.— ln 1758, the thirl eat I Jia-'l nn English visitor at Taylrnuth. who, in exploring ab.mt, fell in with a fine looking lad in the Highland garb, at-temir-fl hy a Highland man. The stranger frOcc-d who the i'ov was, and was told, it was (ho y-'Uni: Bre-ulalb.'irir*. Afrer flintier, when t)ir> Earl and his pucsts were sitting cosily together, the. latter i elated the circumstance. »ith t ho ret'iv, and asked, '-Now. who cou' i the bey he?' "Oh !" replied Lord Breadalbaiv\ "I know whn that would be— that was tl-.o vainer GUnfa!lo'jh," r i ava</e 1 y adding, ">n ji" called him thi' ymins: Biead-tlbane, did he!" -And he continue I the whole evenirifria n fi 1 f>f al).srr.T?!ion. repeating occasion- | filly, " .^n he called him the young Breadal- | lir,:!e.'' Ni.xt mornini', at break of day, a : j!K's-en::er was sent to summon Campbell of I Onvwhyn, the retired man of business, from /Minburgh, who. as an old bachelor, h<°d | lately settled m his own place to end his days I in price. "When he arrive 1. and was wol- , corned. Lord Rioa/ialbatie said to him, "Now, ! C'.rwhyn, you can't euess.why I rent for yon?"' ' : Oo! onything to pleasure your I lo>.u>hip." " Wei!, I'll toll you what it is, I | want you to marry." " Memory! Breadal- * b re. I hne. naething t> marry on." "I'll make th it c^y for yon, Carwhyn." " Weed, but if I were ever sac weel inclried, I dinna ken onybtidy that Avad tak me." " Well. ; Oiirwhyn, I've n remedy for that Too. You'll jgo lo lnverary, vlvvie the circuit court ! meets snon ; get introduced to Miss , | The daughter of Lord - — , one of the ' v;d-res vrho is to be there, I'll warrant she'll x ;»i! y--)'.i " "Wei, lire idalbr.ne onything to pie .isurc your lordship." Off lie yet in his licit trim, got i:i:rodu-. Ed to the young j ?- - •:\'y, '1 1'.u ' with her, t-ok her to supper, land (.roptised. He v.-ns, however, refused: j and, much disco'ico red, he applied to a j bo-om fiiend, and explained the ea^e. V.-.a i f, ic.Kl ,<p;id, "Jf all yr;u want i.< to pleasure Broa'l.'tlbf>ne. try Betty Sumcileid. Isa war- { rant s!n>'li no lefuse ymi." This wo.s a maidon ! i-ister of Lord Stonpfield, the >h r j ulge on the circtiir, who wa* n C.mv.b :: . but ith'.T I young nor handsrinie. Cavwlv.n n-.ik \h j advice, went thumgh the- «ime f inn, and was : acf-'p'iv] ; n.n:l the «im ant lu'ir of this cuj rioa*l.v planned marriage was no mher than John O impbc!l. of Canvhvn, who succeeded evenlua !y, to the exclusion of young Glenfalloch, as f. ; ;r,fth Eail of Breadalbane. But events arc noc ' ■ be controlled ; this fourth Karl's only s>n, John, fifth Earl and s°cond Ma-q ■'<" of Breadaibane, has just died childless, nuU young Gienfall^ch's gr t grandson is, after all, despite the jealousy of the old I Ean, nnd the eannie courtship of Canvhin, now ""'irl of B rcr. dnl bane. One day in the I November of this veiy year, ISs'.', saw that same L"-e:it grandson residing Jn London on his moderate patrimony of a few hundreds a year, and the next day found him possessor of" one (if Scotland's famous Earldoms, and of a rent-roll of fsjll forty thousand a year. — Vicissitudes of Families.. ! The Turf Scandals. — Tho court, of inquiry upon the ■ ::>?rs of Uic Grenadier Guards impli(•nterl in ihe lurf scanrliils lms innrle its report, iiut it is licit hpv as clear in its conclusions or in airy wti\ ns ssit-isfactory as could be wished. Vii-tuallv i(. kaves (lie who c dec-issien of tiio fate of Col I RurnHby in the hands of H. 11. H. the Field. M.u-shiii Communding-in-Ghiof ; and up.m the chnrgeof slm'pingat Mamlicad a kind ■ f ijucstionable verdict nronounced, leaving mnttcrs in tnueli tli« same suite as \hf pfewanls of the Jockey Clul: lei t the Turriigona affair nt Newmarket. '1 bis c;m FCHi-cely be cotisiile' - eil sutisf ictorv to Col. Bui'nnby or the i-efji ment whise In. nor is more or lessmixe<! up with liis name. We lmpe that the DuU o: Cam bridge will act D"t. only with jiistic, but \vi r fearless firmness in the matter, and take care o: the fair fame of the service.— Army and Navi Gazette*

,: _._T6taJ..3Ybeck of the _Barqub Vie- . touia. — We have to announce the loss k of t this beautiful vessfl. She was chartered ' -by Turnhull, Howden and Co. to convey '■ a cargo of stock to New Zeal-md, enmpris- '. inj? sixty fat cattle, ten working bullocks . and ten horses. She had been laying at ! anchor inside the Heads, in company with • the Kate Watera, since the Bth instant, [ detained hy the prevailing east and south east jjfiles. On Wednesday morning the ; wind had somewhat lulled, and was round nt west south- west when the pilot went on ' board at about four o'clock a.m. The anchor was at once hove short, and at 1 five o'clock am. weighed finchor and made for the swash way entrance. The discolored st-ite of the water, consequent • upon the f esh from the rivtrs, together • with thfl absence of all buoys indioritinj; the channel (which had been washed ; awtiy) rendered ihe pilot's duly very difficult anrl uncertain. To remedy this in 1 some measure, he look his boat out and ■ moored ht*r as a beacon, leaving one of the " Harbor Master's men on board the Victoria to follow. When about a cable ■ length from ihe pilot boat, she .struck on the bank, and a heavy swell coming in at the time, she continued to pound very hard. In about fifteen minutes the p'linps were sounded, and one foot of wat^r found, in a further fifteen minutes ' eighteen inches of water. Both pumps were then viji}rer) and set to work, but in 1 spite of every exertion, in about forty minutes four feet of water was in ihe hold. At eight o'clock a.m. the water in the hold was itp to ihe bellies of the bullocks and the tide ebbing. With the returning- tide it was found impossible to remain longer on hoard, every sea making a clean breach over (be vessel, earsyin<j away all before it. At about five o'clock p.m. n.ll hope of saving her was abandoned. Ail bead ropes of the horses on deck were cut to let the animals lon.-e, and the crew left ihe ship by parsing from the jib bourn end. My this time it was impossible to take a boat near her. Ii is reported that one of tbe horses made its way safely to , ihe 1 lonmel Islam), »nd anothrr to the Sundy Island. Vv'e believe all the c<ir»o u;is insured, with ihe exception of ten working bull 'dc*;. the property of Mr. Grllion —Gipps Land Guardian. The D;:ckess of Maulbouougjt. — The conversation turned upon the famous Duchess of Marlhor;r.»]i ; among others, one striking anecrtfUC, tl.at, t!..0-.i«ii she pppenredaffecttrd in tbe ni^htest degree at the death of her grand daughter, ihe J)ui-hoss of Bedford, she sent the day after she diod for the jewels she had given her, saying, ''she h^d only lent them." 'I he answer was that she '* had said she would never demand these jewels again except she danced ac Court," &c. bhe'behaved in the most extravagant manner, her jrrief notwithstanding being most violent in appearance. She wis found one day lyino; prostrate -upon the ground, and a laily who (rent to see her (who told this to the Duchess of Portland) had like to have fallen over her, '. the road being dark. The Duke of MarJborough said she was praj-mg, and that she Jay thus upon the srround, being too wicked to ) kneel. When her son died, who was a fine | promising youth, at the University, her grief was unbounded ; the future hope of an ambitious mind was destroyed. She used, by way of mortification, and a mark of affliction, to dress herself like a beggar, and sit with pome miserable wretches in the cloisters at Westminster Abbey. '1 he Duchess of Portland said that tht? Duke (her husband) had often seen her during ibis niodnu-. gof hers when he was a hoy at Westminster School. 1 She used to say that she was very certain she would go to heaven; and as her ambition went even beyond ihe grave, that she knew she should have one f tfie highest seats. : Many other anecdotes were told and the duchess showed us some original letters to her grandfather, Mr Harlcy, in the reign of : Queen Anne, by the t.miuus Lord B-;ing- . broke a-iri the Dm bess of M'arJbwou^h. , Th ).-•? of Lord Boiingbroke were witty and ' impious, and lull of ihe most flatterirp enc.oniium-% &c. Mn Deiancy said she remembered Lord Boliiigi'roke's person ; that he was hiincl.onie, had a fine address, hut he was , a «reat drinker, and sworj terrib y. She re-me.nberi.-d his coming to her unch 1 , Sir John : Stanley's, at Moithend, his beinc very drunk, and going (c t :e gieenhouse, where lie tiirew himself upon a couch. A messa^y arrived to ■a\ he was wuhed for at the Council ; be imus d himself, snatched up )ih gr en bag of paper, an ! flew to buti.iess. — Mrs Dslaney, edited by Ij.'ich/ Llanover.. Djxa'd's Story.-- "I ken it -weel," he said, " and quid richt I haye — nnne belter iioo. I wa< a wen at tbe time, and she was a bit iassie hersel — a bonnie last-e, wi' bri«ht ec-n, and curiy red hair, that happed roun'her like a hood. It was in the bard time afore the war, when the haill country was fairly wicked wi' h.iie and hunger. Her feyther was vcrra chief wi' the yerl —a gtrnnostout chisl. that spoke his mind freely. But bo was hard on the starvin' folk, and 'the boys' swore that he should not live past Marymns. Sue it c-h.inceil tint a mirk nicht in the fa' a baud 0' them came to his hoose — lie was a fearless man, and wadno sfeek the door for a' dcevils oot o' heell, ho wad say — and into the room where he w.-?s sirtin' wi' his wife Jlarion, and little E-s. : <? upon her laj), beside ihi rirc. There was a dull lieht, fur the peats weie low, and they dragged him oor, and never a word spoken, for man and wife kent what was come upon them, and that it behoved not to pray to them that sh"d innocent blind. They etiekit him like a stirk at his am door! Weei, tha wife jaloused tliat they wad finish wi' her (for she had ever backed iier man vp — he was aye richt, the rest were aye wrant:) ; and when they were away shs tnpi'it littic Ebb; and steak it her into a closet in the wa'. There wa? <■ chink in die biih'tl. and she says to her, 'Noo, lass, they are kiHm' j'.jiu* feythi»r ootsiie, and \ when tlify hae kilt iurn. tlioy will come back and kill me. Look woel to them who, they come, «aiv.l miad 3 r ou swear to them when J you see the mm court. I'll cast a peaton the ; (ire the last thing to raise a Ideeze, andstrus- | gle hard that y..>u may iak« a quid iook.' Marion Gray w,is a ke^n spi ittd wife Bhe was ane o' the auhl Leslie oia«i, and narried ■ 1 her man for hive, but the was noo cieai daft, j • and her last thocht on e-.rth was to hma; the loons. AuM Elspit had a picture of her inither, that was painted by" a foreign? when she was a lass— a lnrchin face, s.ifi'r-hkc than Elspit's. The bnirn keeked thn' the , chink, and saw them mu.der her inithr. It's a terrible but true story," said Donal, wip- ' ing his brow, over which the sweat wp mn ' nig. " But she had marked them wti, and j swore to them afoie the loids Iwa there myself and wcel I mind it, tho'l wa.' but a I wean at the time— it's sixty year Us very I fa. There were the twa lords, sittingcackin' in their red g.iwns, like twa howdiej and a ] wheen glib lads wi' liorsehair wigs, ?d the prisonurs ahint them. There was unp little a.canst them, iliou»h ; and the writeHJody — a fat man wi' a red roun' face like ajbaerst ' woon — was cock sure they wad wun>ff, till I the lass was fetched in. Her /ace was]eadiy white, but her een burned like livejpeats. '1 he writer bodies were no for letli' her speak at first; but sn3 wis sac quij, and f douco, and keen, that the lords pat hem the ' box, and speert at her aH,«ut the CaUhism, 1 and the Testament, and the Ten Coaiand--1 nun's, and she answered every wordreely 1 and fairly. Then she looked Jang at thmen, and says quite q^iet, pointing to an and c anithero' them, 'You. were there, un\ you - were there, and you were theie.' Itwajike 1 a- if she had spoken in a dawn, or off a;uik; J ih.re was nae dauntin' her. The three >ons 1 were bangit, a»d Elspie gaed hanicwi' ■ Whitey, ibat was sib to her feyther'a uid 1 britlK-r. She grew Jang and bony, and Sidy 5 Gr iy courted her ; but they say she nier |r leuch again. And, indeed, Sir," he (p. \. eluded, "it were a burnin' trouble for ayo^g bairn," — Frascr's Magazine for December