THE LONG-WORTH AND YELVERTON FAMILIES.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 70, 9 November 1864, Page 3

THE LONG-WORTH AND YELVERTON FAMILIES.

Has Mr. 80lt 'ever read the Peerage, for whose members lie professes so much reverence?. Does he know that Lord . Lyndhurst'a Smother '.."was', the daughter of an American tax collector in the .' : employ of the East India, Company, and his father ' a distinguished, artist? '.Does' he. khow.thatLthe * mother of Lords "S to well and EKlon was wife to a coal merchant ? Does he know that the Earl of Derby married. Miss Eliza Farren, of Cork, a rioted actress ? That Earl Craven wedded If i'ss Bruhton, ah actress, and mother of the late Countess of Wilton? That: the Alarquis Wellesley was married to the widow of an American merchant, and the Duke of Leeds to her sister? Is he aware that the Earl of Westmoreland (father of tke Dowager Courifcsss of Jersey), selected successively for the .;. honor of Ins hand, the . daughtev of a doctor ? and the daughter of a banker? Has he never heard, of the wit and social attractions of the late Countess of Morley, who was the daughter of a professional geiitieman; and does he not know that the most brilliant ' salon' of the present day — frequented by Royalty, and by all the leading aristocracy of the land — is the one presided over by the Countess: ; of Waldegrave, the, daughter of Mr . Braham, the famous public smg;r? Finally, has Mr. Rolfc": never heard it observed that fco this great; diversity of. unions, not; fettered .as in some countries, by the necessity of making a choice among certain ' quarter ings ' and ' coats of arms,' may- be attri-': buted the" superior beauty and; stateliness of the English aristocracy? Never dwindling away like tlie° Spanish grandees, nor losing health by perpetual intei'marriages, by , presenting as varied a picture as nature , can furnish of the perfection, not of caste, but of race? . If, however, we were .: to meet Mr. Bolt on his own ground, we might yet dispute his position as uttterly untenable. There is not as we formerly showed, "a pin to choose" between the conditions of birth; of any. of . the parties concerned. Mrs. Forbes, the widow of a Scofcc-2x professor, — or Miss- Longwortli, the ; daughter of a Manchester manufacturer,— mighfc eauh fairly hold herself as a competent match, tor the needy son of one of ;the-< neediest of- the Irish aristocracy; a younger son/^at the time of hi* disputed marriage, -^with an income of £300 ayear, encumbered with debt, and a married. elder : brother : and, since Mr. Bolt has so strangely opened up this question, it may interest bur readers to be reminded of the exact slatys » of the^: family -vrliose affairs are tlxiis- broa^hbs;i>3i'ore thi-pu.blic.-v Lord Avonmore, has or had a small^ very small,;, property — J3elloisle— not entailed. ' In tho last generation, the then lord's brother, Augustus I telverton, made a marriage less iiivorable even -; than the one so bitterly discussed, and livpd prin.' cipally on tho Isle of Alan. Tha widow of this : member of the family which Mr. Kolt^^ vaunts, was > found dead in Barrack-stree^ (a > back slum in the town of Douglas, Isle of; Man). :: Sheihad led a : dissolute and depraved .life,: according to ; the Liverpool Mercury, which reported the inquest on her body ; her husband, too, was dissolute, both having been repeatedly committed to prison for being drunk and disorderly ; and spending 'all they had in drinking. They lived the greater part of their time either in. the streets or, in the prison. All the clothing she ha-1 on when she was found cold and 'stiff, the foul half frozen water of the "■utter flowing over and around her, was an old gauze frock which did not reaoh to her knees, an ' old pair of socks, that just reached above her ancles, and a pair of fcMn slippers. The jury gave a verdict of " Death from exposure." This "one more unfortunate— gone to her death," was Major Yelvei'ton's aunt ;' and surely a Manchester manufacturer's daughter might think such iamily ties anything^ bufe an object of am bition ! •- ; : Tlio daughter of this unhappy couple held a subordinato , position iri the family of Mr. Severn, at Jfarbe^thi ' Ca^rmarthensMre. The sisters of Major Yelvertoh : are respectably, but by no means brilh'antly .'mat!; ried. One, a Mrs! (Coring, is in Nevr Zealand ; one is the wife of a Captain' Hawes ; another, of James: Walker, an advocate in Edmburgh. ; a third : is Mrs". Lyons.- — Examiner. \